Come to the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU’s Markel Center for ICA Full House, a celebration of the Richmond arts community. From 1 to 4 p.m., check out the ICA’s newly opened exhibitions, meet representatives from local arts organizations, attend panel discussions on artist-run spaces and production models; enjoy mini-food-hall offerings in the ICA’s […]
Join us for the 2nd Annual Muslim American Heritage Celebration: a vibrant, family-friendly event showcasing the rich cultures, traditions, and contributions of the Muslim community in Richmond and beyond. Explore cultural tables representing countries from around the world, engage in fun activities for all ages, and enjoy interactive displays, snacks, and community spirit. This free […]
Join us for the 2nd Annual Muslim American Heritage Celebration: a vibrant, family-friendly event showcasing the rich cultures, traditions, and contributions of the Muslim community in Richmond and beyond. Explore cultural tables representing countries from around the world, engage in fun activities for all ages, and enjoy interactive displays, snacks, and community spirit. This free […]
Join us at the ICA in Gallery 2 to learn about Ayida with ICA guest curator Serubiri Moses. Ayida is a new group exhibition celebrating the Caribbean and its diaspora, featuring works by Lizania Cruz, Oletha DeVane, Thomas Allen Harris, mujero, and Didier William. The show’s main inspiration is the Haitian poet Assotto Saint (1957–1994), […]
Directed by Davy Chou, Return to Seoul follows Freddie, a young French-Korean woman adopted and raised in France, who unexpectedly finds herself on a trip to South Korea, the country of her birth. What begins as a visit to reconnect with friends evolves into a deeply affecting and uncharted journey as Freddie grapples with her […]
Connect to nature right here in the city with the ICA Living Lab, a monthly weekend program rooted in the understanding that our well-being flourishes when we engage with the natural world around us. Guided by mindfulness practitioner Thurmond Alford Jr., this program embraces the principles of biophilia, the idea that humans possess an innate […]
Join us for a workshop covering the basics of composing music using the production software Ableton. Space is limited to 15 participants.
Cartoonist Charles Burns will present 8mm silent short versions of films from his collection of inspirations. Discover the terrors within I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, two 1957 classics from the genre at the heart of Burns’ most recent graphic novel, Final Cut (Pantheon Books, 2024). Each short has a […]
An evening with Victoria Shen, alias evicshen, a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco. Shen’s sound practice is concerned with the spatiality and physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm […]
Celebrate the opening of the 2025 VCUarts MFA Thesis Exhibition, featuring works by twenty-six artists and designers mastering in disciplines ranging from sculpture to kinetic imaging. Find out more about the exhibition here: https://icavcu.org/exhibitions/2025-mfa-thesis/
Attend a workshop with publisher Yusuf Hassan co-organized by the ICA and the VCUarts Department of Graphic Design as part of the Objects and Methods Lecture Series. In this workshop, we will collaboratively create a publication in real time following the tradition of the Exquisite Corpse, where each participant contributes to an evolving, collective project. […]
Artists featured in the ICA exhibition Dear Mazie,—Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo and the collective known as The Black School (operated by Joseph Cuillier and Shani Peters)—invite the writers Alexis De Veaux and Ayana Zaire Cotton to facilitate a collaborative altar-building workshop and collective reading. Members of the public are invited to contribute to the altar with objects […]
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