Join us at VMFA and celebrate the art and culture of Latin America as we explore El Salvador! Families are invited to participate in the rich, artistic traditions of Latin America through art activities, workshops, collaborative projects, performances, and more.
In this intimate view of Ansel Adams, Stillman draws on her experiences managing the sales of hundreds of his photographs, editing his writings, organizing his archive, and accompanying him on extensive travels. She will share anecdotes of Ansel’s early life in San Francisco where he wrestled with the decision to pursue a career as a pianist or as a photographer of America’s wild places.
This program is being recorded and will be posted to the VMFA YouTube channel at a later date. Masks are required of all participants, regardless of vaccination status, while in Leslie Cheek Theater. Please read more about our COVID-19 protocols here.
Explore three artworks currently on view in the modern and contemporary galleries that are inspired by everyday clothing, like blouses, sweaters and bathrobes. Discover the moments of inspiration for each artist and examine how they featured, transformed or destroyed the article of clothing in their creative process.
VMFA members get exclusive access to Working Together: Louis Draper and the Kamoinge Workshop before it opens to the public. This groundbreaking exhibition features 180 photographs by 15 of the New York-based group’s early members, including Richmond native Louis Draper.
Collection Connections are curator-led gallery programs that explore links between works of art in different collection areas throughout the museum.
Artists working in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods often applied their design motifs to lithography, illustration, advertisements, prints and book cover design. Join Lee Bagby Viverette, Director of Library, Archives and Special Collections. and Barry Shifman, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator – Decorative Arts from 1890 to the Present, to explore how turn-of-the century artists such as Alphonse Mucha, Eugene Grasset, Georges Barbier, Jessie King, and others are represented in the Rare Book Collection and how the materials relate to works on view in the Decorative Arts Galleries.
Image: Documents Décoratifs, French, 20th century, Alphonse Mucha, lithography and letterpress. Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis.