Visual and Dramatic Arts

Rice’s new arts building will be Sarofim Hall, designed by internationally acclaimed firm

Architecture team led by Rice alumnus will create new gateway to campus

Be water, my friend

Baker College senior Magdah Omer debuted their first solo art exhibition Oct. 15 at Sleepy Cyborg.

Behind the scenes: What does a dramaturg do?

Rice’s latest piece of public art, 'Seif,' lights up campus

Shirazeh Houshiary’s glass helix sculpture draws attention day and night.

Rice Theatre presents 'On the Verge' Oct. 8-10

Eric Overmyer’s magical play follows three Victorian explorers through place and time.

Puppet masters

At the end of this semester, students in Afsaneh Aayani-Santos’ course on puppetry design — a brand-new offering in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts — will have created their own fully original and fully articulated puppets.

A farewell to barns

Following a final screening of "Last Night at the Alamo" in the Rice Cinema June 4, the Rice Media Center hosted an open house June 5 for friends of the 51-year-old building to say farewell before its scheduled demolition this summer. Its sister structure, the “Art Barn,” was razed in 2014.

Bruce Hainley joins Rice as new VADA chair

Noted writer Bruce Hainley is joining the faculty at Rice as the new chair of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (VADA).

The art of politics: Sperandio convenes April 30 panel on protest art in comics

As the New York Times put it in a recent profile, artist Sue Coe “proudly labels her own work propaganda.” Coe’s “searing social-political art,” notes Times writer Hilarie Sheets, “can feel like a punch in the face or a call to action — or both.”

The final curtain

The final curtain at Rice Media Center, photo by Tommy LaVergne

Final Low-Fi films bid a fiery farewell to the Rice Media Center

The all-analog Low-Fi film series from the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts (VADA) will conclude its weekly screenings with a bang May 6, marking the end of an era.

The questions of our time: Humanities courses encourage closer examination of daily life

Rice's Big Questions courses speak to issues that are fundamental to our experience.

‘Power Flower’ blooms as Bowdoin’s debut work of Rice Public Art

VADA professor’s sculpture is one of four new pieces acquired for campus art program.

VADA helps student create on-campus sculpture from across the country

Visiting Artist Lecture Series continues spotlighting Black voices in contemporary art

VADA and CAAAS team up to bring four artists into virtual conversation weekly, starting Nov. 5.