News + Events
FALL 2011
STUDENT NEWS
Jacob Copetillo (MFA candidate) has a piece at Corrugated Box in Richmond, VA
Julia Gabriel (BFA) has work up at Quirk Gallery in Richmond, VA through October 28
Rachael Bohannon (BFA candidate) has recently brought clay and music together in her work. Check out this recent piece played by Kevin Night
Liz Borsetti (BFA candidate) had a fiber piece included in the Virginia Artists 2011 Juried exhibition at the Charles Taylor Art Center in Hampton this summer and received an honorable mention for her piece, Tibolt's Revenge.
Jennifer Degges (post bacc student) will lectured on her work at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD
April Dauscha (MFA candidate) and Lily Smith (BFA candidate) received Mid-Atlantic Needlework Retailers Association Scholarships
FACULTY NEWS
Susie Ganch received tenure and the VCUarts Faculty Award for Distinguished Achievement in Teaching. Susie attended the Penland School of Craft Instructor Retreat in September. Susie's collaborative project,Radical Jewelry Makeover, travels to Santa Fe NM in October and will engage the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe Community College, the Universities of New Mexico and Texas along with the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian and Patina Gallery in the project. Susie's work is also included in Surface and Substance at the CAA gallery in London, UK through December 11.
Susan Iverson is a recipient of the 2011 Theresa Pollak prize for excellence in the Arts!
Andrea Keys Connell has recently joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor and the lead professor in the clay area. Andrea also has work included in the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA in the exhibition "Fresh Figurines: A New Look at a Historic Art Form" curated by Gail M Brown. This exhibition will be up through Feb 12, 2012
Ariel Brice (Fountainhead Fellow) was selected for exhibition at the Korean Gyeonggi International CeraMIX Biennale 2011, one of the highest profile group exhibitions in the field. He was also invited to do a 10 day residency in conjunction with the exhibit in Korea.
Jack Wax was a visiting artist at the Danish Design School in Bornholm, Denmark in September. Jack will be exhibiting at SOFA in Chicago November 4-6 in a special show, Innovations in Glass and Metal: The Work of Richard Meitner, Jack Wax, and Louis Mueller, three iconic artists exploring abstraction and design through the use of glass, metal, bronze, and steel.
Sonya Clark recently received an Art Matters grant. Sonya has a solo exhibit that runs through November 19 at the SnydermanWorks Gallery in Philadelphia, PA . Sonya is in two group exhibits, DUBH: dialogues in black, through November 13 at the American Irish Historical Society in NYC and Complex Weave at Penn State's Robeson Gallery through December 4.
ALUMNI NEWS
Megan Biddle (MFA) is featured in the New York Times for making a "Model T". Megan has a Residency at Pilchuck this fall.
JD Garn (MFA) had a solo show up at Georgia Southwestern State University through mid- September.
Sid Caldwell (BFA) spent the summer in the Netherlands as an Artist in Residence at the Atelier Rian de Jong.
Sayaka Suziki (MFA) has a solo show at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia through December 30, 2011 and she has a solo exhibition at the Gateway Gallery on VCU's MCV Campus, November - December
Katie Glusica (BFA) had a interview with an online magazine. See the video here.
Aaron McIntosh (MFA) had a solo show in the Vault Space at Quirk in Richmond, VA in August.
Susan Myers (MFA) was in a podcast on Artblog earlier this year. Check it out here.
Eum Youseal (Sheal) (MFA) is in an exhibit at William King Museum from mid October to mid February. She was also in a news paper (Joong-ang daily) and Robot Magazine (Aug 2011) in Korea as a designer for the robot CHARLI.
Fiona Ross (MFA) was in the show Drawing Analogies at the Athenaeum in Alexandria, VA through August 28th. She was also in Virginia Artists 2011 in Hampton, VA at the Taylor Arts Center in August.
Alissa Guzman (MFA) has continued to pursue her talents as a writer and critic in NYC. Check out her review in Hyperallergic and Times Quotidian.
Akiko Jackson (MFA) was in a solo exhibition, Different Perspectives, at the Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas this summer. Also this summer she was invited as part of the Artist Invite Artist series at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts to collaborate as an Artist in Residence with Misty Gamble, Armelle Le Roux, Jessie Fisher, Crystal Kamoroff, Leandra Urrutia, Shalene Valenzuela, and Trisha Kyner. Akiko was also the recipient of the 2011 Kiln God Award from Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine.
Gabriel Craig (MFA), Amy Weiks (post bacc) and Sidney Caldwell Deaghlan (BFA) are three of thirty artists in Fresh, the exhibition in Print of Metalsmith Magazine
Amy Weiks (post bacc) was in Lappeenranta, Finland for a four week residency in August.
Gabriel Craig (MFA) and Amy Weiks (post bacc) were in Crafting Live(s): 10 Years of Artists-In-Residence at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Gabriel Craig (MFA) is in an exhibit at Houston Center For Contemporary Craft through January 8th 2012. Gabriel is exhibiting in ArtPrize through October 9 at the Collins Gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is exhibitingSoundforge, a collaborative installation with Michael Remson at Houston Center For Contemporary Craft, through January 8, 2012. Gabriel's article Graphic Content: Counterculture Imagery in Contemporary Jewelry is featured in the past issue of Metalsmith magazine.
Jackie Brown (MFA) was offered a full-time 3-year renewable position at Ursinus College where she will be teaching sculpture and drawing as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Julia Pfaff (MFA) is in Sense of Adventure at International Quilt Festival, Houston TX in November 2011
Nathan Hansen (MFA) is working at the University of New Hampshire. The university just wrote an article about his work.
Matthew Isaacs (MFA) is in a group exhibit through November 20 at Space Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA.
Sarah Mizer (MFA) was in Pixilerations [v.8],a new media festival in Providence, Rhode Island that investigates the state of new media arts through installations, performances and film/video screenings,
Toshiyuki Tanaka (MFA) has a solo exhibit that has opened in Tokyo, Japan at Gallery Kuu.
Susan Myers (MFA) has a solo exhibit exhibiting at Towson University's, Center for the Arts, Holtzman Gallery through November 5, 2011. Susan's work is featured in American Craft.
Kazue Taguchi (MFA) is in Yokohama, Japan, doing Koganecho Artist in Residence. In October she will have a three person show called "Everyday Life/ Hidden Reasons" in Yokohama
Kiara Pelissier (MFA) is featured in an article about her life and work in Virginia Living Magazine
Younseal Eum (MFA) had two shows recently: Radius 250 2011' at Artspace(Plant Zero) in Richmond and Viridian Artists Juried Exhibition' at Viridian Contemporary Art Gallery in NYC