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Virginia Samsel, the creator of Locker 50b, was the recipient of the 11th Annual Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts: Emerging Artist. Click here to read the article published in the October 2008 issue of Richmond Magazine.
VCUarts Locker 50b Project featured in the Washington Post. Click here to read the article.
VCU View features Locker 50b video.
About Locker 50b
What's 12” wide, 14” tall, 19” deep and has held the work of James Siena, Bonnie Collura, Richard Carlyon, Carolyn
Henne, Richard Roth, Ed Trask, Mark Harris, and Jack Wax?
The VCUarts Locker 50b Project.
This diminutive exhibition space, with wood floors, removable foam core walls, and track lighting that turns on when
visitors "ring the doorbell," is on the third floor of the VCUarts Fine Arts
Building at 1000 West Broad Street.
The unique gallery began in March, 2002 by Virginia Samsel.
As an undergraduate in Virginia Commonwealth University’s
Department of Painting and Printmaking, Ms. Samsel turned
her storage locker into an exhibition space for miniature
scale work.
For nearly three years, the locker gallery was co-directed
and curated by Ms. Samsel and fellow undergraduate,
Llewellyn Hensley. In 2004, after graduating, Ms. Samsel
and Ms. Hensley donated Locker 50b to VCU’s School of
the Arts to exist as a student run exhibition space. For two
years, it was curated by student volunteers from various
departments in VCUarts.
In the fall of 2006, Ms. Samsel returned as Director of the
VCUarts Locker 50b Project, directing the gallery for nearly two years. The space is now run by Erin Neff, a VCU School of the Arts graduate.
The VCUarts Locker 50b Project exhibits the work of undergraduate and graduate students, VCU faculty and
alumni, and regionally, nationally and internationally known
professional artists. Locker 50b has an annual call for entries from high school students around the country, culminating in a show that runs from December through January.
The space houses group shows and
installations, and is unique enough that its artists can easily
experiment with ideas that would be more difficult on a
larger scale.
