Upcoming 2010 Events
Buddhist Ritual Performance of The Sevenfold Supreme Offering
Dr. Naresh Man Bajracharya, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, VCU Art History
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Pace Center for Campus and Community Ministry
700 W. Franklin Street
Read More Saturday, March 6th
Bonds Colloquium on 20th and 21st Century Art
Speakers include:
Todd Cronan, VCU Dept. of Art History
Bibiana K. Obler, George Washington University
Charles Palermo, College of William and Mary
Howard Singerman, University of Virginia
1:00 - 5:00 pm
The Grace Street Theater
Read More Friday, April 2nd
Faculty Lecture Series
Dr. Robert Hobbs, Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair in American Art
"Looking for Bumstead"
4:00 - 6:00 pm
The Grace Street Theater
Read More Thursday, April 8th
Opening reception for "Social Skin",
an exhibition collaboratively curated by VCUarts Museum Studies graduate students
7:00 - 9:00 pm
VCUarts Anderson Gallery
Read More Friday, May 28th
“Traditions--II” VCUarts' 18th Annual Symposium on Architectural History and the Decorative Arts
9:00 am - 3:30 pm
Virginia Historical Society
Read More Friday, November 19th
The VCUarts Department of Art History is engaged in establishing a global approach to the visual arts. Its faculty and students recognize the need to study the permeability of geographic, temporal and theoretical boundaries, which in the past separated and defined the world.
The Department offers undergraduate and graduate programs with various tracks from which students
select their programs of study. The undergraduate program, leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree,
offers Architectural History and Art Historical Studies tracks. The graduate program leading to the
Master of Arts degree offers Architectural History, Art Historical Studies, and Museum Studies tracks.
The graduate program leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree offers Art Historical Studies and
Curatorial tracks.
The ten full-time faculty members in the Department of Art History conduct research and offer courses
in European art since the Renaissance, art and architecture of the Americas, modernism and
postmodernism, South Asian and Himalayan art, African and African-Diaspora art, and the history and
theory of museum practice. Graduate students conduct their own research under the direction of faculty
in the above areas.
The Department is located on VCU’s Monroe Park Campus in Richmond, the state capital of Virginia.
Richmond offers a host of museums and historic sites—including the renowned Virginia Museum of Fine
Art with its encyclopedic collections—as well as easy access to Washington, DC, and the Smithsonian
Institution’s many specialized collections, archives, and libraries.
Address
Virginia Commonwealth University
School of the Arts
Department of Art History
VCU School of the Arts
922 W. Franklin
P.O. Box 843046
Richmond, VA 23284-3046
Contact
Email: arthistory@vcu.edu
Phone: 804.828.2784
Fax: 804.828.7468