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Follow @VMFAMUSEUM on Instagram or like us on Facebook, then post your photo using #VMFARODIN for your chance to win an annual membership!

Posts will be randomly selected to appear on vmfa.museum as well as VMFA’s Facebook and Instagram pages. Winners will be chosen at random and notified via social media.

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Selfie Gallery

Take a look at our interactive gallery to see some creative pics!

 

Winners List

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Kinsey G.
Midlothian, VA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sarah F.
Richmond, VA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April B.
Glen Allen, VA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Courtney H.
Richmond, VA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew H.
Richmond, VA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kelly G.
Richmond, VA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Domenick C.
Henrico, VA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ernesto D.
Richmond, VA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark H.
Baltimore, MD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Official Contest Rules

 

 

November 20, 2015–March 13, 2016*
Sundays: 11 am–1 pm
Wednesdays: 10 am–noon
Fridays: 5–7 pm

This program features contemporary sculptors who will demonstrate and discuss their creative processes as they create sculptures on the Sculptor Cart, a moveable demo cart in VMFA’s Atrium. The Sculptor Cart will also feature examples of sculpting tools as well as touchable samples of marble, bronze, and plaster—the three main materials Rodin used in his studio.

Rick Delano
Nov 20 & 21, Dec 27 & 30, Jan 29, Feb 7–12

Rick Delano is a full-time sculptor, maintaining studios in Virginia and New Mexico. Working primarily in marble, but also in bronze, he has been trained both academically and through his work alongside Master carvers from diverse backgrounds. His work has been featured in galleries and exhibitions, where he has received national awards.

Julie Elkins
Nov 22–Dec 4

Julie Elkins is a local artist who combines art and narrative to create miniature environments out of porcelain. Inspired by her architectural and historical surroundings, her sculptures often include elements from local homes and buildings, abandoned places, and landscapes. As a working artist in Richmond, she teaches a wide variety of ceramics classes in the community in addition to maintaining a personal studio practice at home.

Kate Horne
Dec 23, Mar 11 & 13

Lindsay Parnell
Jan 17, 22, & 24

Lindsay Parnell is a performance and installation artist who currently lives and works in Richmond, VA. Her interactive installation projects involve physical and mental spaces that investigate the body’s relationship to objects while questioning how the body can act as a dynamic object in relationship to non-dynamic objects. While in Richmond, Parnell is studying Sculpture and Extended Media along with Art History and Dance and Choreography at the School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Debbie Quick
Jan 31–Feb 5, Feb 28–Mar 4, 6, & 9

Debbie Quick is the assistant chair of VCUarts Craft/Material Studies Department. Quick has an MFA alumni of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Craft/Material Studies Department with a BFA from Tyler School of Art. Her work has been included in numerous national exhibitions. Recently, she was at the Soaring Gardens residency in the Pennsylvania Blue Ridge Mountains.

Eva Rocha
Dec 6–Dec 18

Eva Rocha is a multimedia artist from Brazil. She is currently a graduate student in the Master of Fine Arts program at Virginia Commonwealth University with a focus in Kinetic Imaging. In 2015, Eva received the Theresa Pollak Award for Excellence in the Arts from Richmond Magazine and was selected for the People’s Choice Award at 1708 Gallery’s “inLight Richmond”, a juried annual light-based art festival which took place at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Her most recent works include sculptures and video performances in large-scale installations.

Freddie Trebby
Jan 3–15, 20, & 27

2012 Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Fine Arts,  BFA Painting/Printmaking
2012 Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Fine Arts,  BFA Sculpture & Extended Media
2014  The New York Academy of Art MFA Figurative Sculpture

Chris White
Feb 14–Feb 26

Christopher David White is an American artist currently living and working in Richmond, Virginia. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Indiana University in 2012 and his Masters of Fine Arts in Clay from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015. He was the recipient of the Center of Craft, Creativity and Design: Windgate Fellowship in 2012, and later was awarded ‘Most Environmentally Conscious’ at InLight 2014, juried by Denise Markonish. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally, and is held within numerous private collections. His sculptural works are handmade predominantly from clay and rendered with acute attention to detail, often resembling decaying pieces of wood, rusted metal, and other objects in various stages of deterioration. These works explore the relationship between humanity and nature and humans’ apperception of their environment.

*Except Christmas and New Years Day

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 ChinaFest! Event Schedule
Sat, Feb 11 | 10 am–5 pm

Bring the whole family to celebrate the Lunar New Year and the Chinese Year of the Fire Rooster! Explore Chinese art and culture through fun art activities and collaborative events. Experience demonstrations and performances by Yu Dance, The Pride: Lion Dance at UVA, Lion Dance at VCU, and Wushu martial arts—and much more!

Download ChinaFest Map!

All times and locations are subject to change

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SAY CHEESE! Photographers and videographers are on duty at museum events to capture images for VMFA’s archives and publications. If you prefer not to have video or pictures taken of yourself or your family members, please notify the staff at the Welcome Table as soon as possible. You will be provided with a red sticker indicating that you and your family should not be photographed or recorded.

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ChinaFest! Year of the Fire Rooster Family Event is generously sponsored by:

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 SAVE THE DATE! Join us on June 10, 2017 for Celebrate the Art of Africa and African American Art: Adornment

It’s National Bike Month, and what better way to celebrate than jumping on a bike and heading to the museum? (Look at those happy people!)

Here is your challenge:

1.) Ride your bike to VMFA,
2.) Take a picture of the journey,
3.) Send your image to us on Tumblr (vmfaeducation.tumblr.com)
OR use the #Bike2VMFA on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

Is biking to VMFA not an option? No worries! Bring your bike to the museum and cruise around our Robins Sculpture Garden path, or just bike to a spot that inspires you!

Join us for the keynote lecture of the Virginia Tech Student Symposium given by Professor Robert Hobbs, Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair in American Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Hobbs will address the German Neo-Expressionist artist Anselm Kiefer and his imposing mixed media Landscape with Wing in the Museum’s collection.

Presented in collaboration with the Arts@VirginiaTech.

In its 21st and final year, the Museum Stores of Richmond’s Holiday Shoppers Fair brings together Richmond’s premier museums, selling their many specialty items just in time for the holidays. A special Member Preview will be held on Thursday, Nov 5 from 5–8 pm. Members of any participating museum can show their membership ID to receive 10% off all purchases, plus complimentary refreshments. Don’t miss your last chance to enjoy this favorite shopping tradition!

Participating museums include:
Agecroft Hall, Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Library of Virginia, Preservation Virginia, Science Museum of Virginia, Valentine Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Virginia Historical Society

Visit the Holiday Shoppers Fair website for more information.

 

 

 

Early in her career, artist Valerie Sanson worked as a fashion coordinator for Richmond’s famed Thalhimer department stores. The retail experience she gained there, coupled with her own creative bent, later drove her to open one of the most imaginative home accessory and gift boutiques in Richmond: Lane Sanson. Her love of fashion soon inspired her to create “Painting with Stones”, an inventive line of necklaces, pins, rings, and cufflinks. “When wearing my jewelry,” Sanson says, “you simply can’t have a bad day!”

On this gallery exploration, personal interpretation along with artist intention will guide our discussion of various works of art. Examine how artistic choices encourage us to uncover meaning. Docent Debra Stoss will be your guide through this artistic discovery process.

Join artist and educator Megan Liles Endy for a closer look at paintings of flowers in VMFA’s permanent collection. After a visit to the galleries, watch flowers come to life in the studio as Ms. Endy demonstrates drawing techniques using colored pencils and shows how the medium exhibits characteristics of both drawing and painting. Visitors also are given the opportunity to draw their own flowers after the demonstration.

Exploring three works by 20th- and 21st-century artists, Karen Getty, Docent and Tour Program Coordinator, shows how these artists refashion and implement historical visual content from Africa to bring greater cultural significance to the meaning.