Yesika Salgado keeps it fat, fly, brown and real
El Salvadoran poet and YouTube sensation, Yesika Salgado spoke at VCU Nov. 8 on issues self publishing, branding and identity in the creative field. Salgado toured college campuses for decades and is poet by trade, she told the audience, but never felt the need to attend college. After Salgado noticed the number of people who […]
VCU Qatar Day celebrates cross-cultural education
The seventh annual VCUQatar Day was held on Nov. 1 at the Commons Plaza in hopes to inform VCU students in Richmond about the campus in Qatar and promote connections between the two groups. “We used to come, I used to bring students here, and they would say ‘Qatar? We have a campus there?’ Nobody […]
Richmond Folk Festival lights up riverfront
One of Virginia’s largest festivals, the Richmond Folk Festival, brought thousands to the River City last weekend for the 13th year Oct. 13-15 at Brown’s Island. One of the vendors set up in the crafts marketplace is Martin “Rafiki” Owino of the online art and print shop, K’ Owino Batiks. In his first […]
RVA Street Art Festival livens the concrete giant
When the Richmond Flying Squirrels Diamond baseball stadium first opened in 1985 it received a series of awards for its unique modernist art-deco architectural designs. 32 years later, the stadium is harkening back to its creative roots by hosting the fourth annual RVA Street Art Festival. From Sept. 22 to Sept. 24, the stadium’s signature […]
Latino history in Richmond receives its due
The Valentine exhibit, “Nuestras Historias,” which opened July 27 and will run until April 15 of 2018, conveys the decades-long history and culture of Latino in Richmond, a group whose presence is often thought of as contemporary. “To think that Latino have been coming to the State of Virginia in permanent settlements since the mid-20th […]
Author Junot Diaz on white supremacy, neoliberalism, writing and more
Renowned American-Dominican author, activist and professor, Junot Díaz, opened VCU’s 2017-18 Speaker Series on Sept.16 to a packed room of more than 500 people. Díaz’s work explores issues of diasporic identity, race, patriarchy and politics through the lens of Dominican-American characters in New Jersey and how those issues radiate across spectrums of race, ethnicity and gender. […]
Junot Díaz kicks off VCU’s meet the author series
Renowned Dominican-American author and activist Junot Díaz spoke on issues of identity and oppression, in addition to reading a brief excerpt from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” on Sept. 12 at VCU’s Cabell Library. Díaz, a writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also spoke to a smaller […]
Cuban culture and life on display at Padow’s
Photography exhibition “Cuba” featuring the work of four Richmond-based photographers who document Cuban culture will accent the walls of Padow’s Deli on E. Main until Nov. 26. Ann Fulcher, Fred Morton, Joe Ring and Lynda Richardson compiled photos taken on numerous ventures to the island nation, and the exhibit features much of what is classically […]
VCU photo and film students explore “Other Realms”
VCU undergraduates in film and photography will exhibit their work at a student-run one-day gallery called “Other Realms” on Oct. 10.
Flickr awards student’s talent
Nicholas Scarpinato, photo and filmmaking major at VCU, was named for Flickr’s “#20under20,” a celebration of the website’s most talented young photographers.