FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December 3, 2025 CONTACT: Virginia Commission for the Arts Colleen Dugan Messick, Executive Director colleen.messick@vca.virginia.gov Richmond, VA | The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) announces a new cohort of artists and ensembles to its celebrated…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 18, 2025 CONTACT: Virginia Commission for the Arts Colleen Dugan Messick, Executive Director colleen.messick@vca.virginia.gov SPARC 2024 Live Art: Embrace | Photo credit: Tom Topinka RICHMOND, VA — The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) announces…
February 4, 2025 Richmond, VA | The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) welcomes 17 new artists to its statewide Teaching Artist Roster: Allisen Learnard | Multi-Disciplinary Dance, Mindful Movement – Richmond American Shakespeare Center | Shakespeare in Performance Studies…
The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) is excited to share a major grant announcement from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for the 2025 fiscal year. Recipients include 25 Virginia organizations that span across five regions of the…
December 4, 2024 Richmond, VA | The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) welcomes nine new artists to its statewide Touring Artist Roster: Akeylah Simone | Soul, R&B, Rock – Norfolk Alfred Yun | Jazz – Centreville Jack Hinshelwood |…
The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) announces grant allocations totaling more than $5.1 million into communities, arts organizations, and arts-centric programs across the Commonwealth of Virginia for FY25. “The arts – and those organizations that engage through the…
The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) is pleased to announce the election of Barbara Bailey Parker of Collinsville as the new Chair of the Commission Board for the 2024–2025 term. The election took place during VCA’s June meeting at…
The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) is delighted to announce grant awards totaling over $100,000 for VA250 Impact Grants. The VCA’s new grant initiative, in partnership with the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission (VA250), offers one-time programmatic support for…
The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) is excited to share a grant announcement from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for the upcoming fiscal year, in which over a million dollars of federal funding is allocated to drive…
Richmond, VA | The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) announces its newest cohort of teaching artists to the statewide Teaching Artist Roster. The Roster serves as an online resource for Virginia’s nonprofits, units of local and tribal government, or…
The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) unveiled a colorful new license plate that serves to support the state’s vibrant arts community. A portion of the fee for each Virginians for the Arts plate goes directly to the VCA and…
The Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA) announces the Artist Fellowship award recipients for 2023-2024. This year marks Printmaking as a singular and stand-alone discipline for the first time in 35 years, and Choreography for the first time in a…
