Event Agenda

5:30 pm | Theater doors open for seating of ticketed guests | Leslie Cheek Theater, Level L

6 pm | Film: New-Fashioned, A Teen Stylin’ Documentary

6:30 pm | Runway Exhibition Begins
Ticketed Event – Sold Out

7:30 pm | Runway Exhibition Concludes

7:30–8:30 pm | Models and Designers in Galleries | Museum-wide
This portion is free and open to the public, no tickets required.

8:30–9 pm | Certificates and Award Presentation | Marble Hall, Level 2
This portion is free and open to the public, no tickets required.

Times are subject to change.

Teen Stylin’ 2016 is generously supported in part by RBC Wealth Management

The creative collaboration between talented Richmond artists Kranitzky and Overstreet began in 1985 with a mixed-media jewelry venture known as “Lost & Found”. Over the years, their jewelry has evolved into intricate narrative pieces which can now be found in many permanent museum collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Collection: National Museum of Contemporary American Craft and Design, and the Design Museum in Finland.

Fri, Dec 4, 6:30 – 7:30 pm | Leslie Cheek Theater
With Nathalie Bondil, Director, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Who were Rodin’s principal collaborators? They were mold makers, technicians, patinators, founders, photographers, friends, lovers, models, and students. Each brought expertise and, occasionally, innovation to the service of Rodin’s oeuvre. While explaining the technical challenges of sculpture and its capacity to be reproduced, this talk also explores the life within the studio and the encounters of different people, known or unknown, such as Desbois, Limet, Druet, or Bourdelle.
$8 (VMFA members $5)

Join Mary Holland, printmaker and Thomas C. Gordon, Jr. Director of the Studio School, on a tour of Nightfall: Prints of the Dark Hours. Drawn largely from the Frank Raysor Collection, the exhibition is curated by Dr. Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art, and explores evocative, artistic images of the night known as nocturnes. After the talk, participants are invited to tour the nocturne-inspired VMFA Studio School Exhibition Nightfall.

The extended Thursday evening tour will also include the Curatorial Assistant for the Mellon Collection, Kristie Couser, in conversation with Mary Holland. 

“Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.”

Starring Joe Inscoe in the title role, this epic, heartrending drama is renowned as  one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Lear, the aging king of Britain, intends to divide his kingdom among his daughters and live out his remaining years untroubled. However, his attempt to force his daughters’ public declarations of love goes disastrously awry, leading to the devastation of his kingdom, his family, and himself. In this fractured world, loyalty crumbles, sanity is fleeting, and no one can be trusted.

All seating is General Admission | Contact VMFA Visitor Services or select date online. Quill Theatre season ticket subscribers please contact Pam Webb at the Quill Theatre Box Office: pam@quilltheatre.org | 804.340.0115

*Sunday performances are followed by a talk featuring the cast and director

Fri, Feb 3, 6–8 pm | Atrium

Saxophonist J. Plunky Branch is an experienced performer, songwriter and music and film producer. He is president of his own independent record label, N.A.M.E. Brand Records, through which he has released 26 albums. With his group, Plunky & Oneness, he has appeared in concert with some of the biggest names in Black music, including Patti Labelle, Ray Charles, Earth Wind & Fire, Yellow Jackets, and Frankie Beverly & Maze, LL Cool J, George Clinton, and more.

His latest 12-song album is Plunky & Oneness – Juju Jazz Funk and it is the companion piece to his recently published autobiography, PLUNKY: Juju Jazz Funk & Oneness. In the 1980’s his song “Every Way But Loose” was a top-ten soul music chart hit in London; and in 2007 his hit single, “Drop,” was an urban sensation. These days he continues to produce and tour with his band playing rousing funk, jazz, African, rap and R&B music.

A theatrical production by Crystal Sessoms and Nandi Shariff honoring the strength, diversity and struggle of African American Men.

Artist Tristin Lowe and InLight Richmond juror Alex Baker discuss Lowe’s 2011 neon sculpture, Comet: God Particle, recently installed in VMFA’s Atrium.

Tristin Lowe, a Philadelphia-based artist, studied at Parsons School of Design before earning a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. Lowe’s exhibition, Mocha Dick, was shown at VMFA in 2011. Alex Baker, InLight juror, is currently the director at Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia. Baker worked as a senior curator at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, and most recently as curator of contemporary art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Organized by the 1708 Gallery, InLight is a highly acclaimed public exhibition of light-based art. This year, InLight will be held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Since its founding in 2008, the annual InLight exhibition draws attention, through temporary public art, to significant sites in Richmond, inviting fresh and diverse perspectives of our city. One installation in this year’s exhibition offers an opportunity for many to be introduced to the Confederate Memorial Chapel on the grounds of VMFA and to learn about its place in Richmond’s history.

Historically, churches and chapels have been spaces for the celebration and display of great works of art. The November 3rd Style Weekly article was misleading, making the assumption that all installations at InLight are whimsical in nature, and that the Chapel piece would be as well. In fact, it is just the opposite. This is a serious work done by two independent artists, originally from Virginia, who hope to draw attention to the historical significance of the chapel and to offer a contemplative experience for all those who enter that space.

For the past seven years, 1708’s InLight has featured 190 local, national, and international artists and artist collectives across some of Richmond’s most unique neighborhoods and evocative sites — from Broad Street to historic Tredegar to Monroe Park — engaging more than 30,000 visitors.

VMFA galleries will be open during InLight. Light-based works on view inside the museum include Sky by Leo Villareal, Blue Husk by Tony Oursler, Glass Pavilion by Theaster Gates, and Comet: God Particle by Tristin Lowe. Additionally, the new exhibition Nightfall: Prints of the Dark Hours highlights viewers’ perception of light and darkness.

On Friday, audiences are invited to participate in the Community Lantern Parade at 7:30 pm. Lantern-making will be available onsite before the Parade from 5:30–7 pm. On Saturday, visitors can create lanterns inspired by Tristin Lowe’s Comet: God Particle.

Both Best Café and Amuse will serve until 11:30 pm. on Friday and until 9:30 pm on Saturday. Beer and wine will be for sale in the sculpture garden and food trucks will be located on Grove Avenue. Parking will be available in VMFA’s garage and on surrounding streets. In addition, 1708 will offer a free shuttle from The Diamond to VMFA. Shuttles will run every 15 minutes from 6:30 pm–12:30 am on Friday and from 6:30 until 10:30 pm on Saturday.

For a full schedule of programs and other event details, please visit www.1708gallery.org.

Quill Theater and VMFA present the 7th Annual Bootleg Shakespeare: Macbeth! Starring Andrew Firda and Susan Sanford as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth with an all-star supporting cast of 25 Richmond favorites.

This year’s demented theme is 1950/60s B-Horror movie monsters and groovy greasers! Come dressed as your favorite classic movie monster or cool cat, and you may win a special prize!

This event is one night only! Tickets will be released at 5 pm sharp (two per person, first come, first served). Pre-show entertainment will begin at 5 pm in the Best Café. Food and drink will be available.