• Two faculty members of VCU School of the Arts in Qatar have received awards for outstanding contributions in service and research. Recipients are Sandra Wilkins, chair of Fashion Design and John Schmeelk, Mathematics professor.

• More good news from the Department of Craft/Material Studies

Alumni:
Kazue Taguchi has an exhibition at the Kunst Palast Museum in Dusseldorf, Germany
Sayaka Suzuki is in Options 2007 the WPA/C exhibition, Pepco's Edison Gallery, DC
Megan Biddle and Virginia Griswold are in Glass Works at the Hewitt Gallery in New York
Liz Perkins has been invited to be a Searchlight Artists for the next American Craft Council Exhibit in Baltimore
Adam Welch has accepted the position of Assistant Director of Greenwich House Pottery in New York
Adam Whitney has accepted a position as the Metals Coordinator at Penland School of Craft
Hyun Kyung Yoon is in the prestigious Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Korea

Undergraduate students:
Susan Bellflower received a prestigious $750 scholarship from the Women's Jewelry Association

Faculty:
Susie Ganch is in the prestigious Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Korea
Jack Wax received the Pollak award and two residencies at The Kohler Arts and Industry Progam in Wisconsin and The Jentel Foundation in Wyoming
Sonya Clark is in the Well Dressed exhibit at the Nathan Cummings Foundation Gallery in NYC and has her Beaded Prayers Project opening at Purdue University in Indiana

• Robert Hobbs, Professor and Eminent Scholar in the Department of Art History is presenting a paper on Richard Pousette-Dart's painting, Ezra Pound's Vorticist criticism, and Aristotle's concept of form on Saturday morning, September 15, at the Guggenheim in New York.

• The Department of Theatre's "bedside manner" training at the VCU Medical Center continues to get press. This time, it's on forbes. com.

• Dan Currier, recent VCUarts MFA graduate and adjunct professor in the Department of Photography and Film, was recently on WUNC radio talking about his film "Labeled."

• VCU School of the Arts in Qatar welcomes its first class of male students.

• Bravita Threatt, a 2007 graduate of Dance and Choreography, is performing with Lula Washington Dance, based in Los Angeles. She will appear with the company at New York's Lincoln Center and has already begun filming for a feature-length animated movie in LA.

• Craft/Material Studies Professor Jack Wax has been awarded the Tenth annual Theresa Pollak Award for Outstanding Excellence in the Arts.

• Hyun Kyung Yoon (MFA 07) was selected for a solo show at Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts scheduled for Jan. 9- Feb. 22, 2009.

• Elizabeth Perkins (MFA 05) was selected from over 80 nominees as a Searchlight Artist for the American Craft Council show in Baltimore for 2008.