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VCUarts Qatar blends the innovative spirit and high standards of our home campus with the bold originality and deep traditions of Qatar.

The result is an art and design education that helps students cultivate creativity, probe possibilities, fearlessly question, surpass limits, set new standards, and most importantly, make an impact.

Last year we celebrated 25 years in Qatar. Join us as we look forward to our Next 25.

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Bashi-Bazouk

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, Vesoul 1824–1904 Paris)
1868–69
Oil on canvas
31 3/4 x 26 in. (80.6 x 66 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008, 2008.547.1

Art History (BA)

Speakers from Around the World share their research and insights at the HBK Islamic Art Symposium every two years

HBK Islamic Art Symposium

Art History (BA)

Speakers from Around the World share their research and insights at the HBK Islamic Art Symposium every two years

HBK Islamic Art Symposium

Art History (BA)

Bashi Bazouk

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, Vesoul 1824–1904 Paris)
ca.1868–69
Oil on canvas
10 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. (26 × 21.6 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gift of Kenneth Jay Lane,2014, 2014.435.1

Art History (BA)

Khalifa Obaidly’s 3d printed pinhole camera made during post pandemic shortages

Khalifa Obaidly

Painting & Printmaking (BFA)

Albarello

Second half 16th century
Italian, Sicily or Faenza
Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)
11 1/2 × 5 × 5 in. (29.2 × 12.7 × 12.7 cm)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gift of William B. Osgood Field,1902, 02.5.21

Art History (BA)

Archaeological “Dig” on campus

VCUarts Qatar

Art History (BA)

History of art and culture captured in treasured books

Art History Book

Art History (BA)

Speakers from Around the World share their research and insights at the HBK Islamic Art Symposium every two years

HBK Islamic Art Symposium

Art History (BA)

Arabic lettering as art in VCUQ gallery space

VCUQ gallery

Graphic Design (BFA)

Classmates working together – drawing class

Graphic design students

Graphic Design

Graphic design can be a collaborative effort

Collaborative effort

Graphic Design (BFA)

Bilingual Typeface Project, Hamada Al Kuwari, GDES

Hamada Al Kuwari

Graphic Design

Graphic design students in the lab

Graphic design lab

Graphic Design (BFA)

MINBER Exhibition 2018 – a collection of art works created by 15 junior and senior PAPR students

MINBER Exhibition

Painting & Printmaking (BFA)

Las Hermanas Iglesias – Janelle and Lisa Iglesias – Fanoon Center for Printmedia Research

Printmedia research

Painting & Printmaking (BFA)

PAPR Students and one alumna working on 29 paintings for client GWC

PAPR students

Paintining and Printmaking (BFA)

Almaha Almaadeed PAPR graduate 2021 work

Almaha Almaadeed

Painting & Printmaking (BFA)

The painter’s tools at Doha Fire Station

Doha Fire Station

Painting & Printmaking (BFA)

Work by alumna Bouthayna Al Muftah

Bouthayna Al Muftah

Painting & Printmaking (BFA)

BFA+MFA 2023 Happiness in the Air by Almaha Al-Mahmoud

Almaha Al-Mahmoud

Painting & Printmaking (BFA)

BFA+MFA 2023 Common Thread by Noof Al-Atteya

Noof Al-Atteya

Painting & Printmaking (BFA)

BFA+MFA 2022

Bfa mfa exhibition

Painting & Printmaking (BFA)

GDES Abu Dhabi experience Grand Mosque

Graphic design students

Graphic Design (BFA)

Work by 2021 Interior Design graduate Asma Al Mohannadi

Asma Al Mohannadi

Interior Design (BFA)

Work by 2021 Interior Design graduate Al Dana Meghisib

Al Dana Meghisib

Interior Design (BFA)

Interior Design Department exhibition of student work, held in the Saffron Hall, March, Spring 2018

Interior Design Exhibition

Interior Design (BFA)

Living Room Hand Render by Fajr Amir

Fajr Amir

Interior Design (BFA)

Hand Rendering, Burano, by Amira Y. Mohamed 2020

Amira Y. Mohamed

Interior Design (BFA)

Diane Von Furstenberg in her IDES designed Mshbreib apartment

Mshbreib apartment

Interior Design (BFA)

Interior Design Program Student Project – Rendering IDES 2020

Interior Design Student Project

Interior Design (BFA)

Work by Ghada Al-Ansari, 2021 Interior Design Graduate

Ghada Al-Ansari

Interior Design (BFA)

Touring the Qatar Desert – historical visits to Qatar’s original homes

Qatar’s original home

Interior Design (BFA)

Dish with Two Intertwined Dragons

ca. 1640
Attributed to Iran, Kirman
Stonepaste; painted in blue under transparent glaze
H. 2 3/4 in. (7cm), diam. 17 1/4 in. (43.8cm)
The metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund,1965 , 65.109.2

Art History (BA)

Work by Taykoem Lee, visiting artist to Graphic Design

Taykoem Lee

Graphic Design (BFA)

Graphic Design Student Project

Graphic design project

Graphic Design (BFA)

Graphic Design owning a space with bold statement geometric

Graphic Design Space

Graphic Design (BFA)

VCUarts Qatar Gallery, Annual MFA Exhibition

Photo credit: Raviv Cohen

MFA in Design

Dish with Sailing-ship Design

ca. 1600
Attributed to Turkey, Iznik
Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
H. 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm), diam. of rim: 11 1/2 in. (29.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund,1966, 66.4.7

Art History (BA)

Parametric Prayer Rug, Asma Derouiche

Photo credit : Raviv Cohen

MFA in Design

Qatar Desert Souvenir, Nia Alexander Campbell

Photo credit : Raviv Cohen

MFA in Design

Project assembly, Virga: MFA Field Study, Stella Colaleo and Moom Thahinah

Photo credit : Campovisible

MFA in Design

Sipcasting workshop with Atelier La Juntana, Reema Abu Hassan

Photo credit: Markus Elblaus

MFA in Design

Yolkkh, The Story of My People, detail, Amna Yandarbin

Photo credit: Raviv Cohen

MFA in Design: Overview

Blown-glass drinking vessels, Nada Elkharashi

Photo credit: Raviv Cohen

MFA in Design

3D-printed glass-blowing molds, MFA Field Study

Photo credit: Raviv Cohen

MFA in Design

Virga Installation, MFA Field Study

Photo credit: Rab McClure

MFA in Design

Melting Pottery Vases designed by Giovanni Innella

Photo credit: Pepe Fotografia

MFA in Design

The Sultan Mehmet II

Gentile Bellini (active about 1460; died 1507)
1480
Oil (19th-century repaint) on canvas, perhaps transferred from wood
69.9 × 52.1 cm
National Gallery, London
Layard Bequest, 1916

NG3099

Art History (BA)

Naser al-Din Shah (Iranian, Tehran 1831–1896 Tehran)

Possibly by Luigi Pesce (Italian, 1818–1891)
ca. 1855–58
Salted paper print from paper negative
19.5 x 13.5 cm (7 11/16 x 5 5/16 in.)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Charles K. and Irma B. Wilkinson, 1977

1977.683.24

Art History (BA)

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

ca. 1578
Made in Turkey, Iznik
Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze
H. 9 13/16 in. (24.9 cm), W. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm), D. 11/16 in. (1.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902

02.5.91

Art History (BA)