Forum 2011 showcases latest work from Virginia art students
Julie DiNisio Staff Writer On Saturday evening, 1708 Gallery held The Forum 2011, a showcase and critique of current art students’ latest works. From 6 to 8 p.m., six up-and-coming artists – three undergraduate and three graduate students – presented and narrated slides of their artistic endeavors in a casual, intimate setting. University of Richmond […]
About 25,000 fill Monument Avenue for Easter parade
Monument Avenue received its annual festive makeover this past Sunday with the Easter on Parade event
Graduating visual artists show farewell exhibit
Graduating seniors of the departments of sculpture and extended media, craft and material studies, kinetic imaging and painting & printmaking bid farewell to their years at VCUarts with an exhibition of their latest work.
Social Services Board votes against gay adoption
Danny Rathbun Capital News Service The Virginia Board of Social Services has rejected a proposed regulation that would have prohibited faith-based adoption agencies from discriminating against prospective parents based on their sexual orientation. The board on Wednesday removed that provision from its revised Standards for Licensed Private Child Placing Agencies. The board’s vote was 7-2, […]
VCU green-lights Earth Day celebration
Larisa Robinson Capital News Service Students, faculty and staff crowded the Student Commons Plaza on Friday to celebrate Earth Day. This year marked VCU’s fourth observation of the international event. Unlike past Earth Days at VCU, this year’s event focused specifically on the university’s green initiatives. All week, known as Earth Week, student and university […]
Teachers at ‘hard to staff’ schools may get bonuses
Danny Rathbun Capital News Service Gov. Bob McDonnell has announced a salary bonus plan to help attract and retain teachers at low-performing, hard-to-staff schools. The Performance-Pay Incentives initiative will give $3 million in state funding to teachers in designated schools who earn exemplary ratings during the 2011-2012 school year. A teacher could receive a reward […]
Leading a Ram Nation: VCU alumnus reflects on a post-season
Nan Turner Staff Writer He is known as “Pav” – short for Pavarotti. He’s a presence at VCU men’s basketball games, home and away. He’s recognizable to fans, players, coaches, media and event staff – well, at least when he has his horns on. Chris Crowley has assumed the role as leader of Ram Nation […]
Briefs
Local and VCU Dog walk raises $20,000 for VCU unit The inaugural Hounds for Healing Dog Walk on Saturday raised more than $20,000 for the Center for Human-Animal Interaction at Virginia Commonwealth University, according to Sandra Barker, the center director and dog walk co-chair. The benefit attracted about 500 people to Richmond’s Monroe Park, Barker said. There were nearly 250 registered walkers […]
‘Hanna’: a modern (and violent) fairytale
James Klentzman Contributing Writer “Hanna” is an interesting movie to say the least. It wasn’t exactly what the trailers claimed it to be, but retaining some old and expected plot developments makes it seem familiar. In director Joe Wright’s (“The Soloist,” “Atonement”) latest movie, Eric Bana is a former CIA agent who is training his […]
Spectrum Briefs
Maymont trees receive makeover from VCU fashion students Last week sophomore fashion design students created skirts for trees at the Hampton St. entrance of Maymont Park with the sponsorship of Cotton Inc. Henry Swartz, an associate professor in the department of fashion design and merchandising told VCU News Center that the sixth-annual tree decorating project […]