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Jurgen Comics Contest Newspaper And Artwork - Fall 2023, Julia Martinez

Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest

Digital edition of the Jurgen Comics Contest broadsheet newspaper celebrating the Fall 2023 Contest winners. The newspaper design and supplemental artwork were created by contest student editor Julia Martinez. Supplemental promotional materials include a poster for an online information session.

The Fall 2023 Jurgen Comics Contest invited VCU students to explore a specific historical incident of censorship or suppression of visual art, books, music, film or performance.

Jurgen Comics Contest Newspaper And Artwork - 2022, Alyson Piccione

Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest

Digital edition of the Jurgen Comics Contest broadsheet newspaper celebrating the 2022 Contest winners. The newspaper design and supplemental artwork was created by contest student editor Alyson Piccione. Supplemental promotional materials include poster, comic, and caricatures of historical figures who played a role in the censorship of James Branch Cabell's work Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice.

The 2022 Jurgen Comics Contest invited VCU students to explore some episode or aspect of the seizure and censorship of James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice in a single-page, multi-panel comic.

Cabell Walks Into A Bar, Erin Crawford

Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest

Grand Prize winner in the 2022 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest.

Literary figures F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald make an appearance in this wry work calling to mind the Sunday comics of Winsor McCay. The Prohibition era story is told with a modern twist, as characters drink from juice boxes. Their heads are drawn as speech bubbles as a commentary on how we are all our thoughts and words/actions.

Moral Of The Story, Katy Hooper

Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest

Honorable mention in the 2022 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest.

A student works with laptop and sketchbook to develop insight into the events and issues surrounding the censorship of James Branch Cabell's book Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice. A drawing of a devil taunts the artist throughout the comic.

The Banning Of Jurgen, Hannah Smith

Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest

Honorable mention in the 2022 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest.

Inspired by the work of Frank C. Papé, one of the illustrators of Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice, this comic features a young Jurgen and numerous fanciful creatures surrounded by an angry crowd calling for them to be banned.

Swear To It, Jay Crilley

Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest

Runner-up award in the 2022 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest.

This colorful comic draws from a newspaper account of the “Propriety and Impropriety in Literature” debate held at the National Arts Club on Nov. 8, 1922, only weeks after the case against Cabell's Jurgen was dismissed.

The Judging Of Jurgen, Tess Wladar

Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest

Runner-up award in the 2022 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest.

Playing with sight gags and double-entendre, this comic refers to James Branch Cabell's own response to New York Society for the Suppression of Vice censor John S. Sumner. Cabell wrote a satirical fable called "The Judging of Jurgen," featuring a tumblebug, or dung beetle, who made accusations against King Jurgen in the court of Philistia.

Not Missing: Transcriptions, J. L. Gaustad

Someone's Missing...and I Think It's Me

Not Missing: Transcriptions contains transcriptions of handwritten notes and journal entries from the book Someone's Missing...and I Think It's Me: Our Great Adventure with Dementia, by J.L. Gaustad. It is meant to accompany that book, with page numbers keyed to the pages in the book. For the print edition, this separate zine will be included in a pocket in the cover.

Someone's Missing...And I Think It's Me: Our Great Adventure With Dementia, J. L. Gaustad

Someone's Missing...and I Think It's Me

Someone’s Missing…and I Think It’s Me is a unique blend of memoir, advice, and art. Gaustad chronicles her experiences with her late husband, prominent artist and VCU faculty member Gerald Donato, as they try to navigate the mysteries and terrors of early-onset dementia. Beautifully illustrated with original artwork by the author, Donato, and artist friends, Gaustad takes a brutally honest, sometimes harrowing, and ultimately life-affirming look at their challenged marriage. Although her original intent was to create a guide for those dealing with brain illness in loved ones, the book became a testament to the beauty and humor to be …

Anderson Gallery: 45 Years Of Art On The Edge

Anderson Gallery Art Exhibition Catalogues

Anderson Gallery: 45 Years of Art on the Edge is a commemorative book celebrating the Anderson Gallery’s 45-year run of introducing innovative contemporary art to Richmond audiences and its vital role in the evolution of Virginia Commonwealth University and VCUarts. Overseen by project director and editor Ashley Kistler, with input from former gallery staff Traci Garland and Michael Lease, the book also illuminates significant developments in the larger cultural community of Richmond.

Voz Alta: The Sound Of A Collective Memory, Sarah E. Kleinman

Graduate Research Posters

Voz Alta is a participatory, voice-activated public light installation designed by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer as a memorial for the Tlatelolco massacre, which occurred on October 2, 1968 in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico. In the Plaza, Lozano-Hemmer has synchronized a megaphone with a 10 kW Xenon robotic searchlight. As each participant speaks into the megaphone, the searchlight shines to the uppermost floor of the towering Centro Cultural Tlatelolco (CCT) building where three additional searchlights instantaneously strobe, dim, and brighten, illuminating the nocturnal landscape in horizontally fixed, tangential beams. Although the aesthetic, social, historical, and political aspects of …

Reviving Project:A Chinese-American Culture Exchange Project, Yushan Cassie Sun

Undergraduate Research Posters

Through art exhibitions in Beijing, China and Richmond, Virginia, Reviving project 01 aims to help promote/ revive a craft technique in Qinghai, China that is disappearing due to the urbanized surroundings.

American artist were invited to collaborate with people from Qinghai to make new pieces incorporating original crafted pieces.

Imaging South Africa: Collection Projects By Siemon Allen, Siemon Allen

Anderson Gallery Art Exhibition Catalogues

"This catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition Imaging South Africa: Collection Projects by Siemon Allen, August 27-October 31, 2010, and made possible by generous support from the Office of the Dean, VCU School of the Arts."--p. 83.

Richard Carlyon: A Retrospective, Richard Carlyon

Anderson Gallery Art Exhibition Catalogues

Published in conjunction with the multisite exhibition Richard Carlyon: A Retrospective, which opened on September 11, 2009, and was organized by the Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University; Reynolds Gallery; 1708 Gallery; and Visual Arts Center of Richmond, all in Richmond, Va.

Gerald Donato: Reinventing The Game, Gerald Donato

Anderson Gallery Art Exhibition Catalogues

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts (VCUarts) Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, and at Staniar Gallery at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, in 2007.

David Freed, Printmaker: A Retrospective, David Freed

Anderson Gallery Art Exhibition Catalogues

"This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition David Freed: Printmaker: A Retrospective, curated by Ted Potter, August 31-October 28, 2001. Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts." --p. 4.