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10/23/2026

The November 1st deadline is quickly approaching!

First year students : Apply for Fall 2027 by November 1 for university-level scholarship consideration

First-year and Transfer Students: Apply by November 1 for Spring 2027 start date

Regular decision deadline for Fall 2027 is January, 15, 2027

Tap the Apply Now link through our bio for more 🔗

10/21/2026

Explore Graduate Studies at VCUarts!

Join us for our annual VCUarts Graduate Open House on Saturday, November 7, from 11am-1pm on the Monroe Park Campus! Meet faculty, tour our facilities, explore opportunities for graduate students, and learn more about what makes our top-ranked graduate programs truly exceptional.

Can’t join us in person? Connect with us by attending individual virtual program sessions during the VCUarts Graduate Admissions Week, November 16–20.

🔗 Learn more and register for either event through the link in our bio!

10/20/2026

Don’t miss our Open House event on October 31!

Open House is a great way to get to know us better! You will be able to meet with faculty, staff, and current students; tour our campus and creative spaces; and learn about financial aid, housing, and other important topics in your college search process. We hope to see you there!

We will also offer a portfolio review event on October 31! Get feedback from VCUarts representatives on your art and get tips on how to keep growing as a creative.

For more information and to register for Open House and/or a Portfolio Review visit the links in the Admissions section through our Linktree (link in bio)

10/19/2026

It all started with a pair of flamingo-print board shorts. 🦩

As a teen in the 1980s, Fashion alum Jonathan Bennett (B.F.A. ’97) couldn’t afford the shorts he wanted. His great-grandmother had a plan: buy them on credit just long enough to make a pattern, then sew a pair together on her antique treadle machine. It sparked a lifelong love of sewing.

A decade later, he majored in Fashion Design and Merchandising at VCUarts. “I learned so much. Like, SO MUCH. It’s such a good department.”

Today he owns Unsprung Upholstery in Richmond, and his work has appeared in Architectural Digest and Better Homes & Gardens. He hopes to turn his quiet classroom space into a one-of-a-kind training hub for drapery workrooms, upholstery and slipovers for the East Coast, teaching the next generation of artisans.

Why? “Because this doesn’t exist anywhere,” he says. “And it has to exist.”

Read his story at the link in bio.

10/16/2026

Sunni Sarkisian, a Northern Virginia native who is double-majoring in communication arts and graphic design, has family roots in Armenia. Their internship, as a user interface/user experience designer (UI/UX), was in its second-largest city, Gyumri.

When potential financial support from family fell through, Sarkisian learned about VCU’s Internship Funding Program, which defrays costs that students encounter to pursue unpaid internships.

“I’m really glad I was able to have this opportunity,” they said. “I’m also very thankful to VCU for giving me their generous funding to be able to come [to Armenia].” -Sarkisian

Read more about Sarkisian and the Internship Funding Program through the story link in our bio 🔗

10/14/2026

“I still draw. I still do music,” Davis said. “But I found something that is deeply embedded in every single thing that I wanted to do since I was a kid.”

Ashley Davis moved into VCUarts’ Photography and Film program with no prior film experience and no camera.

After Art Foundation, Davis experimented with film mediums and eventually began developing an interest in documentary filmmaking in the program. This interest led Davis to becoming the first student from VCUarts’ Photography and Film to be selected for the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art!

This program, with 25 other students, gave independent 24-hour studio access alongside their critiques, classes, visiting artist workshops and so much more. Yale Norfolk gave Davis the opportunity to discuss artwork in a community with valuable feedback and challenged their thinking within the field.

“Little by little, the world is showing me that I’m meant to be in these spaces,” Davis said.

Ashley’s advice to other students working through uncertainty:“Keep it pushing. Fight through that doubt. And do the work that you feel like you’re meant to do.”

Join us in celebrating their accomplishments!
Congratulations Ashley!

Read more from Ashley and their experience through the story link in our bio🔗
Photos by 📸: Dean Hoffmeyer

10/10/2026

VCUarts is proud to announce that two of our faculty members and one of our alumni are among the 12 artists and architects elected to the National Academy of Design’s class of 2026, making up a quarter of this year’s inductees! The academy confers the honor for contributions to contemporary American art and architecture.

Join us in congratulating sculptor Kendall Buster, a professor of Fine Arts; sound artist Stephen Vitiello, a professor of Kinetic Imaging; and alum and photographer Emmet Gowin (B.F.A. ’65), who were elected national academicians.

“Kendall and Stephen show our students every day what it means to live a serious creative practice, and Emmet’s six-decade career is proof of what can begin in our classrooms. Their peers across the country have recognized what we are so fortunate to witness here on campus” -Dean Higginbotham

Click the story link in our bio for more information on the Academy and our Inductees 🔗

10/07/2026

Love catching murals around the city? Take a peek at some of the many eye catching pieces down in the arts district caught on digicam 📸 Just a walk from campus!

Check them out next time you’re out and about, going to First Fridays, shopping, or grabbing coffee!

If you are an artist that worked on one of these murals, tags yourself in the comments! If you’d like to see murals around campus/Richmond as a series on socials let us know in the comments!

10/03/2026

National Portfolio Day hosted by VCUarts at the ICA is in full swing until 4pm! We can’t wait to review all of your amazing artwork 🎨🖼️

Visit your favorite art schools, stationed all around the building!

10/02/2026

You all showed up to speak up and tell us what Art means to you! Check out some of the highlighted messages and moments from the event.

Thank you to all who came out to share your thoughts with Chair Sheryl Oring and we hope to see you at the Fine Arts BBQ tonight from 5-7pm!

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325 N. Harrison Street
Richmond, VA
23284

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http://arts.vcu.edu/, https://linktr.ee/vcuarts

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