The Greening of Mt. San Angelo
…more comfortable for our Fellows, and cut utility costs by thousands of dollars. Better Building Works, a company specializing in energy engineering, created a master plan for reducing VCCA’s carbon…
Five Year Retrospective at Moulin à Nef
…attended the community dinner held on June 15 in the Moulin à Nef’s spacious ceramics studio. Some were friends we’ve known since our first visit five years ago. Some had…
In VCCA-France: “Jardin de l’Empereur” by Melissa S. Armstrong
“Jardin de l’Empereur”, Installation View, Auvillar, France 2012, stoneware, piano wire, mixed media, dimensions variable Gracefully arcing on slender stems in the grass behind Maison Vieilhescazes, ceramic bells chime, many…
Danny Hauben Recognized by Americans for the Arts
…commissioned by New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA) ARTS FOR TRANSIT program. Since 2001, Americans for the Arts Public Art Network’s Year in Review has annually recognized 40 exemplary…
Lisa Beane’s Unflinching Gaze
…to deal with things that are too hard to talk about or really show. In her larger works, Lisa organizes her composition into broad fields of color interspersed with highly…
Painter Daniel Hauben in “The New York Times”
…Bronx Community College commissioned him to paint for their new North Hall and Library. A native son of the Bronx, Hauben’s career has been in the borough’s streets “…illuminating the…
VCCA Fellows to Exhibit in Lynchburg
…trying to understand its changing aesthetics. They use landscape painting to comment, to varying degrees, on environmental degradation and global warming they see around them. Above: Rough Seas and Ice…
Stacey Gregg: Expanding Theater’s Boundaries
Irish playwright Stacey Gregg, who just completed a month-long residency at VCCA, came armed with an ambitious project: to begin and end a play commissioned by the distinguished Abbey Theater,…
Panel Shares Inside Stories About Artists’ Communities
…on choosing the first artist community, insights on the selection process, and why writers, artists and composers consider the residency experience beneficial to their work. (A big increase in productivity!)…
VCCA Fellows to Read in Lynchburg May 30
…the public and is followed by an opportunity to meet the poets and enjoy refreshments. At once separate and part of the larger community, the VCCA looks for ways to…