Dr. Cornelia Homburg, independent art historian and guest curator of Van Gogh: Up Close, presents on the Dutch post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh and the inspiration he took from Japan. Homburg lectured on Thursday, November 10, 2016 as a part of the annual lecture series. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/295149156″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]
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Talks and Lectures: Fabergé: The Path of a Brilliant Jeweler
Dr. Wilfried Zeisler, Curator of Russian and 19th- Century Art at Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens, presents on the VMFA’s collection of Fabergé and its connection to other institutions. Zeisler lectured on Sunday, November 13, 2016 as a part of the programming related to the reinstallation of the VMFA’s Fabergé and Russian Decorative Arts collection.…
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Talks and Lectures: How… do art and music come together? | Else Olsen Storesund
- Collection: American Art, Mid to Late 20th-Century Art
- Culture/Region: America
- Subject Area: Fine Arts, Music
- Grade Level: 5-college
Else Olsen Storesund, Norwegian pianist and composer, presents on the crossover between visual art and the musical arts by exploring the prepared piano, open-form music, and John Cage. Storesund provided this interactive program on Thursday, November 10, 2016 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts as a part of educational programming related to the exhibition Jasper…
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Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch
At a crossroads in the middle of his career, preeminent American artist Jasper Johns found his way forward in part by looking to the work of Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch. This November, VMFA presents a groundbreaking exhibition that examines how Johns mined Munch’s work in the late 1970s and early 1980s as he moved…
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Sensory Inventory – English
- Collection: African Art, African American Art, American Art, 21st-Century Art, Ancient American Art, Ancient Art, Art Deco & Art Nouveau, contemporary-art, Decorative Arts, East Asian Art, Egyptian Art, English Silver, European Art, Faberge, japanese-art, Mid to Late 20th-Century Art, Native American Art, Pre-Columbian Art, South Asian Art
- Culture/Region: Africa, America, China, East Asia, Egypt, Europe, Greece, India, Japan, Rome, South Asia
- Subject Area: English, Fine Arts
- Grade Level: 1-12
Simply describing what a work of art looks like tells only part of the story. Try incorporating all of your senses. Put yourself into the work; think about what you might see, feel, hear, taste, or smell and respond. Take it further and have students write poems or short stories about a work of art that…
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Lesson Plan: Scratchboard Portraits: Who Do You Think You Are?
- Collection: African American Art, 21st-Century Art, Ancient Art, Egyptian Art, European Art, Mid to Late 20th-Century Art
- Culture/Region: America
- Subject Area: English, History and Social Science
- Grade Level: 4-12
Students will investigate how and why artists reference works of art from earlier times in their creations, and how context affects the interpretation of images by making scratchboard portraits using imagination and craftsmanship.
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Lesson Plan: What’s in your memory box?
- Collection: Mid to Late 20th-Century Art
- Culture/Region: America
- Subject Area: English, History and Social Science
- Grade Level: 4-12
Students will explore the rich connections and discoveries that arise from combining words, objects, and images as they plan and make expressive works of art using good craftsmanship and assemblage techniques.
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Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott
- Collection: African American Art, American Art, Mid to Late 20th-Century Art
- Culture/Region: America
- Subject Area: African American, History and Social Science, Visual Arts
- Grade Level: K-12
This exhibition examines the realities of life under segregation in 1950s America, as seen through the lens of groundbreaking photographer Gordon Parks (1912–2006). As the first African American photographer hired full time by Life magazine, Parks was frequently given assignments involving social issues affecting black America. In 1950, one such project took him back to his hometown in…
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Artist Talk | Kehinde Wiley
- Collection: African American Art, 21st-Century Art
- Culture/Region: America
- Subject Area: African American, Fine Arts, History and Social Science, Visual Arts
- Grade Level: K-12
In this 15-minute video, filmed onsite at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Kehinde Wiley discusses his work and his art historical influences.
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Egyptian Guide | Student and Family Guide
- Collection: Egyptian Art
- Culture/Region: Egypt
- Subject Area: History and Social Science, Math, Science, Visual Arts
Explore Egypt with this interactive guide! The guide is available in VMFA’s Egyptian Galleries, or you can download and print it for a fun pre or post-visit activity!
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