About the Virginia Commonwealth University Locker 50b Project:
What's 12” wide, 14” tall, 19” deep and has held the work of James Siena, Bonnie Collura, Richard Carlyon, Carolyn Henne, Richard Roth, Ed Trask, Mark Harris, and Jack Wax?
The VCUarts Locker 50b Project.
This diminutive exhibition space, with wood floors, removable foam core walls, and track lighting that turns on when visitors "ring the doorbell," is on the third floor of the VCUarts Fine Arts Building at 1000 West Broad Street.
The unique gallery began in March, 2002 by Virginia Samsel. As an undergraduate in Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Painting and Printmaking, Ms. Samsel turned her storage locker into an exhibition space for miniature scale work.
For nearly three years, the locker gallery was co-directed and curated by Ms. Samsel and fellow undergraduate, Llewellyn Hensley. In 2004, after graduating, Ms. Samsel and Ms. Hensley donated Locker 50b to VCU’s School of the Arts to exist as a student run exhibition space. For two years, it was curated by student volunteers from various departments in VCUarts.
In the fall of 2006, Ms. Samsel returned as Director of the VCUarts Locker 50b Project, directing the gallery for nearly two years.
The VCUarts Locker 50b Project exhibits the work of undergraduate and graduate students, VCU faculty and alumni, and regionally, nationally and internationally known professional artists. Locker 50b has an annual call for entries from high school students around the country, culminating in a show that runs from December through January.
The space houses group shows and installations, and is unique enough that its artists can easily experiment with ideas that would be more difficult on a larger scale.
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