Featured Events

VMFA’s Youth and Family Studio Programs employs a team of more than 30 professional artists and educators to lead classes for students from the ages of five to seventeen. These studio instructors have varying academic and artistic backgrounds and specialize in a wide range of media, bringing diversity and expertise to our exciting programs. VMFA…

Explore how pairing historical and contemporary artworks by Native American and Euro-American artists inspires new readings and unearths overlooked narratives of our nation’s history and culture. Following a discussion on the current gallery exhibition, American Land, American People, Haley Clouser, Exhibitions Research Assistant, will present additional examples of collection pairings in an attempt to offer…

Join Dr. Peter Schertz, Jack and Mary Ann Frable Curator of Ancient Art, VMFA, and Vida Williams, Data Scientist, Singlestone & Program Chair, CodeVA, for a Pi Day conversation about the celebrated 2009 movie Agora starring Rachel Weisz as Hypatia–one of the earliest female mathematicians, astronomers, and philosophers. Within a week prior to Pi Day,…

Explore the museum’s growing collection of African American art, and take part in virtual experiences that celebrate African American artists, the stories they tell, and the depth and breadth of the museum’s collection. To adapt to ongoing safety concerns related to COVID-19, most of our programs have been reimagined as virtual experiences. Studio classes will…

See the program for the event! RVA Community Makers returns for the third year with a new mixed-media public art mural at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts that celebrates Richmond-area artists. In anticipation of the upcoming exhibition The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Culture (opens May 22), this year’s project…

To adapt to ongoing safety concerns related to COVID-19, VMFA will host this year’s AARI event virtually with prerecorded videos of community readers and educators presenting on our website. This program celebrates children’s literature and art created by African and African American artists. Experience works from the permanent collection by watching engaging videos that will…

VIRTUAL GALLERY PROGRAM | African American Read-In Day 1 Thu, Feb 4 | 6–7 pm Free, Zoom registration required Procession, 2020, Odili Donald Odita, (American, born Nigeria 1966), acrylic latex matte/flat wall paint, acrylic soft gel medium, varnish. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund Literature and fine arts come…