News & Events

On Tuesday, December 4, 2018, Bread and Puppet Theater will perform “The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus” at 7:30 p.m. in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

The Radford University Department of Dance will present “A Waltz Around the World: A Celebration of Cultures” on November 15, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. in the Albig Studio Theatre (B112) of Peters Hall at Radford University. Admission is free and open to the public.

In 2020, the Radford University Art Museum and the Taubman Museum of Art will hold retrospective exhibits of the late Roanoke, Virginia native and Radford University Distinguished Professor or Art, Dorothy Gillespie (1920 – 2012).

Two faculty members and nineteen students from the Department of Theatre spent the last weekend of October, 2018 in Norfolk, Virginia attending the Virginia Theatre Association’s annual conference.

On November 30, 2018 at 7:30 p.m., faculty and students in Radford University’s Department of Music will hold a benefit concert in support of refugees in the New River Valley.

Senior dance major Fiona Scruggs recently completed a lengthy honors capstone project on Josephine Baker, the famous cabaret dancer of the 1930s.

In October, 2018, three faculty members from the Department of Music spoke at the College Music Society National Conference in Vancouver Canada.

On Wednesday November 7, 2018 at 7:30 p.m. the Radford University College of Visual and Performing Arts will host the high-intensity martial arts and acrobatics show, "Chinese Warriors of Peking" at Bondurant Auditorium in Preston Hall.

Professor Z. L. Feng recently judged the 2018 National Juried Show sponsored by the Southern Appalachian Artist Guild and the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association in Blue Ridge, Georgia.

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard, the Radford University Department of Theatre brings “The Laramie Project” to the stage of Pridemore Playhouse in Porterfield Hall.

Professor of Art Carlee Bradbury is the co-editor of  “Gender, Otherness and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art” recently published by Palgrave Macmillan in its prestigious New Middle Ages Series.

Nakia Shelton, a design thinking graduate student, was selected as a Design Management Institute student essay winner and was invited to attend the 2018 Design Leadership Conference in Boston in early October.