#VCUArts

[kylesdaily]

In That Moment: Fragments and Forms May 2025 Collages only

[jqdickens]

[sketchy--doodles]

(via "VCU Rats" Sticker for Sale by Fawnadeer)

PLEASE REBLOG! IT HELPS A LOT!

[thedurvin]

If anybody in the Richmond area needs a side hustle, VCU's art program is hiring nude models for the drawing classes. I took those classes and I can tell ya those models don't have it too tough, as long as you're willing to strip down and hold still for twenty minutes while college kids struggle to draw you

(They actively want diverse ages, races, body types, &c.)

[oliviadempseyart]

insane feeling to be a freshman sadly sitting in ur dorm the day u return from thanksgiving break, brainrotting over doctor who, stumbling across the most gorgeous amazing mouth watering doctor who fanart u’ve ever seen, clicking on the profile, and discovering that the artist graduated from the same school ur currently in the middle of losing ur mind over. go rams etcetera. i LOVE vcuarts! (<—i say at gunpoint)

🐏🐏🐏

Haha what a small world lolol!

I feel you on the slog that art foundations is but I promise you once you’re in your major it improves a bunch (well I can only speak for communication arts lol) at least we all have doctor who to help cope through it till then.

Thank you for your kind words! Good luck and have a good time at VCU, I def miss it even with all the annoying aspects lol!

[starshinedesigns]

Fragments of Self - 2024

Using jagged glass pieces suspended in the air, the material refracts and obstructs the self portraiture printed on each shard. While using glass to represent fragility, the very hands on process of mod podge transfer requires me to be a bit rough with each image. The installation itself, not only in the subject matter of each image presented, works as a self portrait as a whole; fragmented and delicate.

Displayed in "When Does a Garden Stop Growing?" 2024 VCUarts Senior Capstone exhibition

4x4x13 ft

[stenum]

Khtobtogone by Sara Sadik, at The Gallery at VCUarts Qatar

[ellacflo-blog]

Mr. Lawnchair and The Star Night Light

I think Lawnchair is a good place to start because, to many people's agreeance, this character may be one of my worst. Lawnchair was a guy I talked to in the winter of 2024, and I met him through the photography department at VCUarts (don't wanna fully dox myself, but look it up. You'll see the breed of guy I'm talking about).

Lawnchair is tall, dark, handsome, mysterious, and clean-cut (again, to many people's agreeance, maybe too clean-cut in some ways), firmly riding into any room on his customized cruiser bike. Lawnchair is an asshole, always has been and always will be. Even before I knew him as Lawnchair, this guy was just a stick in the mud. If you ever watched Charlie Brown, I imagine Lawnchair as when Charlie Brown has a constant raincloud stuck over his head. For example, the last time we spoke, I asked him how his day was, to which he replied: "horrible. just found out I have nine cavities. I hate the dentist."

Yep, that's definitely the dentist's fault.

Lawnchair earned his title from an incredibly shining moment of his strange, negative view of life. On Valentine's Day 2024, I woke up to see I had received a text from Lawnchair (at this point, he was referred to by his government name, which is way less fitting). Per the holiday, I assume this message would be a romantic scrawl of his appreciation of our time together. Of course, as I wouldn't be including the story if that was the case, was not what the message included.

"We can't see each other anymore...I have an addictive personality, and when it comes to you, I fold into you like a lawnchair."

??? Obviously annoyed with the content of the message, I was already fuming in a similarly cartoonish manor to his constant raincloud. And then, I was more mad that he included some pathetic attempt at poetry with the lawnchair bit. From that point on, he would always be known to me and my group of friends, as Lawnchair.

The most prized piece of my thesis show was a photo of me dumpster diving, wearing a bright red jacket. On top of the image, engraved into the glass, were the words:

"Contorted roots of kudzu splintered and split through me as I'm sat on a lawnchair near the I-81."

An obvious hit to the lawnchair bit, I was hoping this would bust the metaphorical cheap plastic seat out of the now-distant Lawnchair. The night goes on - and nothing. Not a word.

The next day, however, I opened Instagram to see Lawnchair had posted on his story, which I immediately opened (duh). To both my horror and absolute delight, my lawnchair photo was staring back at me through the screen. I had won, but I had also so obviously lost.

With each guy that I can, I'll end the story with a clipping from an angry and disgustingly cringy detail of my account at the time. Here is one for Lawnchair:

"I was a sweet sip on corn syrup, an embarrassing and awkward transaction of sex with the lights on and keeping things a secret so your other girlfriends wouldn't know. Hanging above me, your star night light laughs at me for shitting where I eat."

XOXO,

ellacflo

[daliaberlinartist]

National Portfolio Day

*Maryland Institute College of Art

Rinehart school of Sculpture

*Maine College of Art & Design

Low residency program

*Boston University School of Visual Arts

*Massachusetts College of Art and Design

MFA low residency

*Virginia Commonwealth University (VCUarts)

MFA ceramics

[kylesdaily]

In That Moment: Fragments and Forms May 2025

[jqdickens]

Nice little illustration I did for my college portfolio.

[cruisified]

“We met on a park bench”. The Boys (2019-)

[msborkborkrevolution]

stayed up till like 4 am getting started on this, i am ✨ exhausted ✨

[4lfck]

🎨 - tete is just a little child !!

JE0NSG0THIC on twitter.

[boojing]

Heyyyy I’m launching a kickstarting campaign soon so here’s some samples and wips !!!

[momosweetpeach]

“Career Manual”

Final project for my class Piloting the Enterprise!