Sun, May 1, 2022 | Noon–3 pm
Art Education Center
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…
with Dr. Susie Rawles, Elizabeth Locke Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts
Thu, Apr 14, 2022 | 6:30–7:30 pm
Leslie Cheek Theater
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…
Thu, Sep 15, 2022 | 3 pm
Tsherin Sherpa: Spirits Exhibition, Evans Court Gallery
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.
Fri, May 20 | 6:30–8:30 pm
Leslie Cheek Theater
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…
Fri–Sun, Nov 19–21, 2021
VMFA'S LESLIE CHEEK THEATER
The East Coast’s Premier Native American Film Festival Co-presented at VMFA 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…
with Facilitated by Crystal Mason, current co-founder Queering Dreams, former Queer Rebels Productions; Dr. Carmen D. Higginbotham, Dean, VCUarts; Emily Smith, Director, 1708 Gallery; and Dr. Sarah Kennel, Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center at VMFA
Wed, Dec 8, 2021 | 6:30–7:30 pm
VMFA'S LESLIE CHEEK THEATER
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.
with Dr. Christopher C. Oliver, the Bev Perdue Jennings Assistant Curator of American Art, VMFA, and Michael Jefry Stevens
Fri, Sep 24, 2021 | 6–7:30 PM
VMFA'S LESLIE CHEEK THEATER
Celebrate the opening of the special exhibition Ansel Adams: Compositions in Nature with excerpts of “Ansel Adams: America,” composed by Chris and Dave Brubeck and performed by pianist/composer Michael Jefry Stevens, as a tribute to one of America’s most celebrated photographers. Dr. Oliver, the exhibition curator, will introduce the concert with an exploration of Adams’s…
with Dr. Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography
Fri, Dec 10, 2021 | 6:30–8:30 pm
Talk: 6:30 pm | Leslie Cheek Theater
Book Signing (Free, no tickets required): 7:30 pm | Conference Center Suites
Ansel Adams scholar Rebecca Senf recently published Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, a new book on the acclaimed photographer that looks at the source of his lifelong investments in landscape and environmentalism. She will discuss how his early experiences connected him to the wilderness and how his decades of thinking about…
