OPPORTUNITY FOR POETS WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN TO VCCA
Nancy Mooslin’s Lyrical Color and Music Fusions
…Visiting Buddhist temples on the trip, she heard chants. It became a natural progression to combine the two, overlaying the Buddhists chants onto her images of the local bodies of…
IT’S TIME TO APPLY — VMFA Visual Arts Fellowships 2013-14
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is now accepting applications for 2013-14 Visual Arts Fellowships. Grants from $4,000 to $8,000 are awarded to professional, graduate and undergraduate artists. You must…
Three VCCA Fellows are March Book Sense Picks
Check it out! Books by three VCCA writers—Debra Galant, Hillary Jordan and Joshua Kendall—appear on the March 2008 Book Sense list. Book Sense is the trade association for the nation’s…
David Farrar’s Ephemeral Moments of Beauty and Comedy
“Ephemeral moments of beauty and comedy influence and guide my practice,” says VCCA Fellow David Farrar. “Lines of light cast through a venetian blind, a toilet roll dancing uninhibitedly in…
Coming Soon: Rome Prize 2013 Competition
Competition Deadline: 1 November 2012 One of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities, the American Academy in Rome offers up…
VCCA Executive Director Elected to the Virginians for the Arts Foundation Board
The VCCA’s intrepid leader, Suny Monk, has been elected to the board of directors of the Virginians for the Arts Foundaion, a statewide arts advocacy organization established in 1992 and…
9 VCCA Poets Read to a Full House in DC
On July 15, Split This Rock and Busboys and Poets celebrated VCCA with a reading from Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. San Angelo — an anthology of…
VCCA Fellow’s Novel a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick
…new pages, a renewed sense of purpose and some wonderful memories.” ABOUT THE BOOK In the winter of 1946, Henry McAllen moves his city-bred wife, Laura, from their comfortable home…
Shigeki Yoshida Photographer of Light
…oblique manner and so the work doesn’t come across as hackneyed or sentimental. Shigeki distills his images down to the barest minimum, conveying so much with very little. Take the…