VCUarts supports student scholarship by annually funding undergraduate research grants.
The program enhances traditional course work through thought-provoking discussions and hands-on experience that spark curiosity, creativity, risk-taking and scholarly investigation.
Students are encouraged to work in multidisciplinary teams and are led by a faculty mentor. Each team can request up to $3,000 in funding.
Congratulations to the 2017 recipients:
Coyle, Cummings, & Lowe
This group will study an abandoned particle accelerator and present our findings in a multimedia installation that will engage the viewer in a conversation of scientific advancement, personal loss, and national unmet potential. (Award: $2,535.54)
Team Members
Alexandra Coyle, Creative Advertising, Photography + Film, and Product Innovation
Shannon Lowe, Photography + Film, minor in Art History
Grace Cummings, VCU Spring 2016 alumna, Physics, PhD candidate in Particle Physics at UVA
Faculty Mentor
Jon-Phillip Sheridan, Photography + Film
Fundamental Solitude
This group will create an installation that explores the phenomena of jail construction. (Award: $2,435)
Team Members
Charles Heebner, Painting + Printmaking
Logan Wyatt, Sculpture + Extended Media
Faculty Mentor
Corin Hewitt, Sculpture + Extended Media
Journeys
This endeavor will challenge and develop the way we work as dance artists by collaborating with students in different disciplines to support the process of producing an evening length dance performance. (Award: $2,730)
Team Members
Christine Wyatt, Dance + Choreography
Jelani Taylor, Dance + Choreography
Taylor Black, Dance + Choreography
Angelique Scott, Craft/Material Studies: Ceramics and Art Education
Faculty Mentors
Lea Marshall, Dance + Choreography
Scott Putman, Dance + Choreography
Capturing the Quadruped in Motion Capture Systems
This group plans to build upon the motion capture resources in the Depot by adding the capabilities for quadruped motion capture. (Award: $915)
Team Members
Dawn Carr, Communication Arts
Virginia Stephenson, Communication Arts
Morgan Colonna, Communication Arts
Katelyn O’Leary, Communication Arts
Katharine Thompson, Communication Arts, Scientific and Preparatory Medical Illustration Concentration
Belle, Dog
Faculty Mentors
Matt Wallin, Communication Arts
John Henry Blatter, Interdisciplinary Technology and Media, The Depot
Forgotten News, Forgotten Names
This team proposes a series of events to follow the initial public screening of “Hell You Talmbout,” co-directed by Denzel Boyd, including a screen printing session and a social dance workshop–engaging the community with the themes of the film. (Award: $2,702)
Team Members
Denzel Boyd, Graphic Design
Talia Levinas, Graphic Design
Christina Hairston, Communication Arts
Maya Jackson, Photography + Film
Amanda Barnes, Painting + Printmaking
Faculty Mentors
David Shields, Chair, Graphic Design
Sandra Wheeler, Graphic Design
Vmodern Furniture Design
This team seeks to design a suite of handmade, non-traditional stools that provoke playfulness, imagination, and positive social interaction. (Award: $1,645)
Team Members
Esther Cho, Interior Design and Craft/Material Studies
Yeji Hong, Communication Arts
Faculty Mentors
Sterling C. Hundley, Communication Arts
Bohyun Yoon, Craft/Material Studies
The Fire Fawn
An innovative use of CGI will be employed to present the story of The Fire Fawn, which will screen at the end of the spring semester, 2017. (Award: $1,850)
Team Members
James Heyes, Kinetic Imaging
Meredith Brindley, Kinetic Imaging
Faculty Mentors
Bob Kaputof, Kinetic Imaging
Stephanie Thulin, Kinetic Imaging
Edmund the Snail – Stop Motion Animated Short Film
This team’s goal is to produce a stop motion short film titled Edmund the Snail, in which a little girl steps on a snail and is haunted by its ghost. (Award: $1,500)
Team Members
Lucas Alexander, Cinema, Writing/Media Studies Double Minor
Zack Rogers, Kinetic Imaging
Arielle Bryant, Cinema Major, Philosophy/Sociology Double Minor
Jesse Hosick, Cinema Major, English/History Double Minor
Tori Lusik, Cinema Major, Creative Writing/History Minor
Kyle Brady, Cinema Major, Business/Art History
Matt Williams, Cinema/Criminal Justice Double Major
Allen Simmons, Cinema Major, History/Sociology Double Minor
Faculty Mentors
Kirk Kjeldsen, Cinema
Pam Turner, Kinetic Imaging
Lumarium
Lumarium is an interactive sensory environment combining new media and tactility in a non-traditional exhibition experience. (Award: $2,443)
Team Members
Marin Leong, Kinetic Imaging
Jackie Lu, Kinetic Imaging
Roya Sodei, Sculpture + Extended Media
Faculty Mentor
Stephen Vitiello, Kinetic Imaging
A Sustainable Digital Art Show
This group will address the problem of E-waste through an exemplary curated show of digital art that examines the implications of E-waste’s dispersion. (Award: $1,900)
Team Members
Meredith Brindley, Kinetic Imaging
Claudine Reyes, Kinetic Imaging, Mathematics
Illya Lykinin, Kinetic Imaging
Hannah McKalips, Graphic Design
Costantino Toth, Kinetic Imaging, Art History
Marin Leong, Kinetic Imaging, Art History
Kevin Moun, Kinetic Imaging
James Heyes, Kinetic Imaging
Brianna Ondris, Kinetic Imaging
Faculty Mentor
Stephanie Thulin, Kinetic Imaging
The Unghosting of Black America: An Exploration of the Black Experience and Racial Relations through Visual Poetic Drama
Through the collaborative development of Visual Poetic Drama in a nontraditional theatre space, this project will investigate the portrayal of the black experience in a variety of forms (theatre, literature, and visual art). (Award: $3,000)
Team Members
Mikayla Bartholomew, Theatre
John Tyler Ludwig, English
Malik Sparrow, Kinetic Imaging
Faculty Mentor
Bostin Christopher, Senior Acting Professor
Shifting Focus on Identity, Community & Inclusivity “By what means do you understand yourself in the world?”
This group intends to film interviews in Richmond, Baltimore, New Haven and New York City to be digitally uploaded and accessed through a public website domain. (Award: $530)
Team Members
Tiffany Vander Laan, Sculpture & Extended Media, Art History
John DiJulio, Photography & Film major
Faculty Mentor
Janelle Proulx, Department of Photography + Film
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