VCUarts Qatar’s much-awaited year end show opens

Doha: Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar), a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, has officially opened...

Doha: Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar), a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, has officially opened its highly anticipated Year End Show: Art and Design Now 2025 to the public. The exhibition will run from May 5 to July 5 at M7 in Msheireb Downtown Doha.

A special opening event was held on Sunday, May 4, drawing a full house of over a thousand attendees. The evening welcomed key figures from Qatar’s creative industries, industry partners, members of the joint advisory board, university leadership, faculty, and proud family and friends of the graduating students.

The exhibition showcases the innovative and often boundary-pushing work of VCUarts Qatar’s graduating students. 

It features projects from the undergraduate programmes in Art History, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Painting + Printmaking, and Fashion Design, as well as the Master of Fine Arts in Design program. For the first time, the exhibition also includes contributions from Foundation Year students and the newly launched Bachelor of Fine Arts in Kinetic Imaging.