Join us on Sunday, December 1st in the VMFA Shop for the 3rd annual Museum Store Sunday! Shop local, shop with a purpose, shop hand-selected, unique, curated gifts for your family and friends!
20% Discount for Members and 10% for non-members!*
Sign up with your email to spin our prize wheel and be entered to win:
A VMFA Membership – 5 lucky winners will be selected!
$25 Gift Card to the VMFA Shop
VMFA Catalogs
Museum Store Sunday Tote Bag, Mugs and Pins
Free giveaways, snacks and more!
*Cannot be combined with other offers or discounts.
Excludes Chihuly Studio Editions & Fine Art Prints, Marie Chamblin, Gabriel O’Fiesh, Memberships, Sale Merchandise, and Gift Certificates.
Join us in the VMFA Shop for the most anticipated shopping day of the year!
Members save 20%* all day in-store and online. To shop online, enter your member ID at checkout to receive the 20% discount.
*Cannot be combined with other offers or discounts.
Excludes Chihuly Studio Editions, Marie Chamblin, Gabriel O’Fiesh, Memberships, Sale Merchandise, and Gift Certificates.
Join artist Paul Rucker for a discussion of his multidisciplinary practice as a visual artist, composer, and musician. He combines media, live performance, sound, original compositions, and visual art to explore issues related to mass incarceration, racially motivated violence, and the continued impact of policies that sustain inequity. To describe the video installation Proliferation (pictured left), which VMFA acquired in 2018, Rucker states, “Art can tell stories. For years I would talk about injustice by reciting numbers and statistics. When you say, ‘we have over 2.3 million people in prison,’ it’s too large a number to comprehend. During a residence around prison issues at the Blue Mountain Center in New York, I found some maps that I felt could help tell the story. This project shows the proliferation of the US prison system from a celestial point of view. Using different colors to indicate different eras, the viewer can clearly see the astonishing growth of this system over time.” Rucker was recently announced as a Ted Fellow and featured on PBS NewsHour.
Join the VMFA on Nov. 17 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. for the launch of Now Upon A Time, a new storytelling podcast that reimagines classic tales with modern, empowering messages. Kids and parents will hear live music, participate in hands-on activities and listen to the stories of two smart, brave and bold princesses (who don’t need rescuing).
1:30 pm – La Bella Durmiente (a twist on Sleeping Beauty)
2:15 pm – Lil’ Ruby Riding Hood
Discover the history of The Negro Motorist Green Book through a screening of the Smithsonian Channel film The Green Book: Guide to Freedom (51 min) followed by a discussion between Melody Short, Director of Operations and Marketing, Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inns; Dr. Michael Hall, Assistant Professor of English, VCU; and Neverett Eggleston Jr., whose family owned the historic Eggleston Hotel and Motel from the 1930s to the ’90s.
Film: The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
In the 1930s, a black postal carrier from Harlem named Victor Green published a book that was part travel guide and part survival guide. It was called The Negro Motorist Green Book, and it helped African Americans navigate safe passage across America well into the 1960s. Explore some of the segregated nation’s safe havens and notorious “sundown towns” and witness stories of struggle and indignity as well as opportunity and triumph.
IMAGE CREDITS:
Photo by Larry Roach, courtesy Black History Museum & Cultural Center Archives Neverett Eggleston Sr., Neverett Eggleston Jr. and Neverett Eggleston III at 541 N. Second St.
Photo Courtesy of The Smithsonian Channel
Learn more about the VMFA Fellowship Program with this free discussion open to practicing and aspiring artists and art historians. Former Fellowship Program Coordinator Jenny Harding will provide a history of the program and review the eligibility requirements as well as helpful hints for navigating the application process.
Edward Hopper was known for his love of movies. VMFA recreates the matinee double feature with movies inspired by Hopper’s painting style.
Force of Evil (1948; B&W; 79 min)
The great John Garfield plays a crooked lawyer who urges his small-time racketeer brother to move up into the hardcore gangster numbers racket. Director Abraham Polonsky asked cinematographer George Barnes to capture the look and feel of Hopper’s paintings for this noir-esque study of moral conflict, which was filmed in New York City. It is likely Hopper saw this movie at the time.
Hammett (1982; Color; 96 min)
This retro-film noir depicts pulp fiction writer Dashiell Hammett (Frederick Forrest) in a fictional setting, where the retired detective is drawn back into investigating a deadly crime ring in San Francisco. Costarring Marilu Henner and Peter Boyle. Director Wim Wenders based the film’s lighting and compositions on Hopper’s paintings.
The Searchers (Dir. John Ford; 1956; 119 min; Technicolor)
The Searchers is known as one of Hollywood’s biggest, action-packed, epic Westerns. It complicates the Western myth primarily through the hero, Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), whose bouts of extreme racism and anger toward American Indians suggest he is psychologically imbalanced and is operating on a different level than society. VMFA’s Trent Nicholas and Jeffrey Allison will discuss the Western myth and this movie’s cinematic and revisionist elements.
Co-sponsored by VMFA and the Pocahontas Reframed “Storytellers” Film Festival being held at the Historic Byrd Theatre on November 21–24.
People of all abilities are welcome to learn about job opportunities at VMFA and the other participating employers who will be onsite to engage with job seekers. This exciting event reflects VMFA’s own commitment to hiring persons with disabilities, engaging in diverse and inclusive hiring practices, creating an enriching workplace culture, and making a positive impact on the greater Richmond community. Job seekers of all backgrounds and experiences are welcome, and persons with disabilities and military/disabled veterans are highly encouraged to attend.
Join us to learn about the great jobs at VMFA and other participating organizations, including the following:
Department of Human Resource Management
Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired
Science Museum of Virginia
Department of Military Affairs
Department of Veterans Services
Department of Environmental Quality
Virginia Commonwealth University
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
Virginia Community College System
Virginia Hispanic Chamber
Dominion Energy
Capital One
Sodexo at HCA Healthcare System
Goodwill Central and Coastal Virginia
Ulta Beauty
Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Resource Table)
Parking is available in the VMFA Deck where a number of disabled-parking spaces are located. The museum will allow curb-side drop-offs at the two entrances along its driveway, which can be accessed from Arthur Ashe Boulevard. Free parking is available on surrounding streets. The GRTC bus routes to VMFA are 20, 76, and 77. To learn more about getting to VMFA, please see Directions and Parking.
The Commonwealth of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, political affiliation, genetics, or disability in the recruitment, selection, and hiring of its workforce. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is an EEO/AA, Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Certified Employer.
This longest-running juried film competition in Virginia spotlights the year’s best short videos/films (20 minutes or less). Finalists are selected from international entrants. A special guest judge chooses the top entries at the screening and awards cash prizes. Many filmmakers will be on-hand for Q&A, and the audience votes for their favorites.
Since 1994, the James River Film Society has been a volunteer-run, nonprofit dedicated to the art of film and film as art. Visit jamesriverfilm.org to learn more.
Join artist Paul Rucker for a discussion of his multidisciplinary practice as a visual artist, composer, and musician. He combines media, live performance, sound, original compositions, and visual art to explore issues related to mass incarceration, racially motivated violence, and the continued impact of policies that sustain inequity. To describe the video installation Proliferation (pictured left), which VMFA acquired in 2018, Rucker states, “Art can tell stories. For years I would talk about injustice by reciting numbers and statistics. When you say, ‘we have over 2.3 million people in prison,’ it’s too large a number to comprehend. During a residence around prison issues at the Blue Mountain Center in New York, I found some maps that I felt could help tell the story. This project shows the proliferation of the US prison system from a celestial point of view. Using different colors to indicate different eras, the viewer can clearly see the astonishing growth of this system over time.” Rucker was recently announced as a 
