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Join Korantema Pierce Williams, Mindfulness Educator and MBSR Consultant, for a mindful movement and meditative contemplation of the Wish-Fulfilling Tree. This experience invites participants into individual exploration of the sacred and secular practice within their body, mind, and the work.
VMFA hosts Richmond’s first-ever community screenings of Citizen Ashe, the documentary film about trailblazing tennis legend, humanitarian, and Richmond native Arthur Ashe. Told largely in Ashe’s own voice and featuring archival film, photography, and newsreel coverage of his athletic career, the documentary follows his self-exploration, evolution on race relations, family relationships, the pivotal decisions that shaped his life, and his influence on athletes who came after him. The first screening will be followed by a panel discussion with co-director/producer/cinematographer Rex Miller, brother Johnnie Ashe and sister Loretta Harris, and moderated by historian Dr. Lauranett Lee. Citizen Ashe is directed by Peabody Award–winner Rex Miller and Academy Award–nominee Sam Pollard and produced by Dogwoof, Sidewinder Films and Rexpix Media for CNN Films and HBO Max.
Girls For A Change presents the 2022 annual showcase which celebrates and presents projects developed by this year’s Girl Action Teams with a focus on bringing the community together to learn about social justice issues and how to solve them with a little Black Girl Magic.
This program is sponsored by Chase and in partnership with the Girls For a Change and VMFA. For more information about the Girls For a Change visit their website.
Be the first to experience VMFA’s newest interactive gallery exhibition, A Closer Look. Join us for the opening event, taking place in conjunction with Open Studio Sunday. A Closer Look goes beyond the surface of six works of art from VMFA’s collection to investigate how art can be an expression of personal, cultural, or a spatial identity; how different cultures throughout time represent history and identity through art; and what histories are publicly told and which are hidden.
Activities include a virtual reality demo with the team from Hidden In Plain Site™ and an art project celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
The Former and the Ladder or Ascension and a Cinchin’, 2012, Trenton Doyle Hancock (American, born 1974), acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sydney and Frances Lewis Endowment Fund and Pamela K. and William A. Royall Jr. Fund for 21st-Century Art with funds contributed by Mary and Don Shockey Jr. and Marion Boulton Stroud, 2013.3 © Trenton Doyle Hancock
The end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 ushered in La Belle Époque, decades of peace in an era of dramatic social and political change. Thousands of artists flocked to Paris to take advantage of its famous École des Beaux-Arts and indulge in its café society. Among them were women artists. The experience of American women painters in France was different from that of their male colleagues. Deemed unsuitable for study of the nude male model, they were prohibited from entering the government-sanctioned school until 1897, nor could they mingle with their male colleagues in lodgings and cafés. And yet they persisted. This talk considers the experience of American women artists in France in “this transitional age in art.”
Observe VMFA art handlers insert visitors’ wishes into the mandala’s tiers of Tsherin Sherpa’s piece, Wish-Fulfilling Tree. VMFA educators will share background about the piece, and lead visitors in a discussion of the work and the significance of the wishes as they relate to Sherpa’s practice.
This 30-minute documentary film explores the life and work of Tsherin Sherpa. A devoted Tibetan Buddhist artist, trained by his father in the art of traditional Tibetan Buddhist thangka painting, Sherpa moved to San Francisco from Kathmandu and reinvented himself to fit his surroundings, finding new meaning for an ancient art form and launching the next wave in Tibetan contemporary art.
Dr. John Henry Rice, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art and curator of Tsherin Sherpa: Spirits, discusses the film with producer/director Sheri Brenner.
Representation matters. Storytelling and filmmaking have suffered from a dearth of representation of important groups that influenced American democracy, notably Native Americans. Native culture is rich, steeped in history, and multifaceted, yet mainstream films do not often capture this nuance. This festival offers a series of films by Native American filmmakers that tell an expansive range of stories about Native American experiences and cultures.
Events run all day and include films and panel discussions with prominent Native American filmmakers, performers, artists, and other speakers.
2nd Annual PRFF Virtual Festival, Nov 21-26. To register, visit pocahontasreframed.com.
VIP Pass: $75, admission to all films and activities in the Leslie Cheek Theater and the VIP reception in the Marble Hall on Fri, Nov 19, 5-7 pm, plus the Virtual Festival.
Weekend Pass: $25 Admission into all films and activities in the theater.
Virtual Pass: $10 for 11 films.
Special discounts for military, police, fire fighters, hospital workers.
VIP Pass: $60; Weekend Pass: $20; Virtual Pass: $8.
Use code Frontline_Worker.
Visit the PRFF website at pocahontasreframed.com to view the schedule, purchase festival passes, and learn more about the films.
All persons over 2 years of age, regardless of vaccination status, must wear a mask while indoors at VMFA.
Inspired by the 1920s photographs of Berenice Abbott, Lee Miller, and other modern women in VMFA’s Man Ray: The Paris Years exhibition, this conversation will offer perspectives on today’s modern woman and gender equity in the arts.