Featured Art Exhibits
Dash Shaw
Dooley Foyer
Dash Shaw is a cartoonist and animator. His most recent graphic novel, Blurry, 2024, from New York Review Comics, was named a graphic novel of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and others. He’s also the cartoonist of Discipline, New School, Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, and others. He’s written and directed two animated features, most recently the 2021 film Cryptozoo which won the Sundance Next Innovator Award and was nominated for a John Cassavetes Independent Spirit Award. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.
John Vasquez Mejias
Gellman Room
John Vasquez Mejias is a cartoonist and performer recently based in Brooklyn, New York, yet his character is shaped by his years in the Bronx as an arts teacher. He self-published his graphic novel The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History in 2020. It was republished by Union Square & Co. in 2024 and is currently up for a Will Eisner Awards nomination. He has recently finished carving a graphic novel that depicts the life of Puerto Rican revolutionary Lolita Lebrón due out sometime in the future.
Vincent Hayden
Second Floor
Vincent Hayden has been creating art in Richmond, Virginia under the name Anne Chovy for 5 years.
