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Test Pattern 09
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondA presentation by performance artist Brontez Purnell and The Brontez Purnell Dance Company, with artist/mycologist Sophia Wang and dancer/astrologer Larry Arrington. The performance will be followed by a conversation and Q&A with the artists moderated by ICA Executive Director Dominic Willsdon. Doors will open at 6:00 PM and the performance will begin at 7:00 PM. ...
Fall ’23 Premiere
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondCelebrate the unveiling of the ICA’s Fall 2023 season as they debut Paul Chan: Breathers and Morgan Bassichis: More Little Ditties. ...
ICA Live: Peni Candra Rini
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondMaster Javanese singer and composer Peni Candra Rini performs new and experimental works for voice, electronics, and gamelan in the ICA’s Royall Forum, in collaboration with Dr. Andy McGraw, Associate Professor and Chair of Music at the University of Richmond, and members of Gamelan Raga Kusuma. ...
ICA 5th Anniversary
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondA night of performances, artist talks, the final iteration of MURRMUR, as well as new works from Tricky Walsh and Sharon Mashihi. Internationally acclaimed architect Steven Holl, designer of the ICA’s LEED-Gold certified building, will also be making remarks at the event. ...
Test Pattern 07: Holland Andrews
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondTest Pattern returns to the ICA auditorium, with a performance by vocalist, composer, and performance artist Holland Andrews. Their work focuses on the abstraction of operatic and extended-technique voice to build cathartic and dissonant soundscapes. ...
Holiday Powers
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondMoroccan Modernism 1956-1978 focuses on the artists of the Casablanca school and the modernism movement in post-colonial Morocco. The in-person lecture will be held a the ICA auditorium. ...
Murrmur: [Name] Inevitable Objects Workshop
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondThis workshop aims to use Rafael Domenech’s exhibition The Medium is the Massage as an invitation to local artists and students to explore the ways in which writing can be generative to production of artworks. Day 1: Collective Worldbuilding | March 29 6-8PM Day 2: Artifact making and post-workshop phases March 30 | 5-9PM ...
Making Sense of the Art World: How Did Art Get Mixed Up in Politics?
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondA series of classes at the ICA at VCU that will explore how to see and understand contemporary art. Explore the intersection of politics and contemporary art in this second course. ...
First Friday: 2022 Day With(out) Art
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondFor the 33rd annual Day With(out) Art, arts organization Visual AIDS presents Being & Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of artists across the world living with HIV/AIDS. ...
MURRMUR: Mariana Parisca on Valór
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondA participatory publishing workshop with Mariana Parisca. Bring in an object: perhaps it's trash that you find value in, or something sentimental, or something spiritually charged, or something that holds potential. This workshop is on gathering, sharing, exchanging, and questioning how we read value. ...
MURRMUR: SIT(UATION) Workshop with Riley Hooker
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondA discussion for the prototyping of SIT(UATION)—a mutable seating environment commissioned as a part of M.U.R.R.M.U.R. Riley Hooker, artist and designer; Nick Meehan, architect; and Cas Holman, toy designer join in a roundtable to discuss the project, highlighting the project’s intersecting reference points. ...
First Friday: Portrait Studio with Naima Green
VCU institute for Contemporary Art 601 W Broad St, RichmondDrop by the ICA for a chance to have your portrait taken in a studio led by photographer Naima Green in collaboration with VCUarts photo students. ...