VMFA Livestreams

You don’t have to miss a thing. Even from the comfort of home, VMFA is your go-to place for inspiration, contemplation, community, and wonder. And your health and safety are still our top priority. Enjoy these livestream options of our programs and events. Also visit our YouTube channel for videos of past livestream events, virtual jazz performances, 3 in 30 programs, and so much more!

Upcoming Livestreams

Curator’s Talk | Willie Anne Wright: Artist and Alchemist
Oct 19, 2023 | 6:30 pm

Past Livestreams

Whitfield Lovell and Richmond
Streamed Sep 7, 2023
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Benjamin Wigfall with Young People from Communications Village (left to right: Teresa Thomas-Washington, Raymond Gaye, Benjamin Wigfall, Robert Easter, Donnie Timbrouk, Dina Washington, and Larry Carpenter), December 1976, digital positive of scanned negative. Courtesy of Pat Jow Kagemoto © Pat Jow Kagemoto

We Had Keys to Communications Village: A Conversation
Streamed Aug 11, 2023

Untitled (detail), 1975, Melvin Edwards (American, born 1937), etching on wove paper. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment

In conversation with Ana and Mel Edwards
Streamed Jul 14, 2023

Dr. Sarah Eckhardt, VMFA’s Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, speaking at Curator's Talk | Benjamin Wigfall and Communications Village

Curator’s Talk | Benjamin Wigfall and Communications Village
Streamed Jun 15, 2023

Dr. John Mason, Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Co-Director of the Holsinger Portrait Project, presenting As We See Ourselves: Portraits of Racial Progress in Central Virginia, 1900 to 1925 at VMFA

As We See Ourselves: Portraits of Racial Progress in Central Virginia, 1900 to 1925
Streamed May 18, 2023

A Teen Stylin' participant poses in a handmade dress

Teen Stylin’ 2023: Illusion Runway Exhibition
Streamed May 7, 2023

Dr. Robert Levine presenting Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass, Andrew Johnson, and the Work of Reconstruction at VMFA

Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass, Andrew Johnson, and the Work of Reconstruction
Streamed Apr 21, 2023

Dr. Rhea Combs presenting The Power of Portraiture at VMFAat VMFA

The Power of Portraiture
Streamed Mar 17, 2023

I Have Given the World My Songs (detail), 1947, Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915–2012), linoleum cut. Loaned by Margaret N. and John D. Gottwald 2022 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Sorrow Songs in an Exuberant City: How Manhattan Influenced the Guitar Imagery of Elizabeth Catlett
Streamed Jan 12, 2023

Virtual Conversation | Storied Strings and the Sense of Sight
Streamed Jan 8, 2023

String Stories: A Conversation with Walter Carter and Joe Glaser
Streamed Dec 15, 2022

Artist Talk | Sir Isaac Julien
Streamed Dec 4, 2022

The Finding of Laocoön (detail), 1773, Robert Hubert (French, 1733–1808), oil on canvas. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund

2022 Paul Mellon Lecture at VMFA
Streamed Nov 3, 2022

Curator’s Opening Talk | Storied Strings: Picturing the
American Guitar
Streamed Oct 6, 2022

Tsherin Sherpa: Spirits | Mandala Offerings
Streamed Sep 15, 2022

Conversation | Relocation, Connection & Community
Streamed July 29, 2022

An oil on canvas landscape painting by the American Impressionist painter William Merritt Chase.

Curator’s Talk: A Belle Époque? American Women Artists and France, 1871–1914
Streamed Apr 14, 2022

Curator’s Opening Talk: A Conversation with Tsherin Sherpa
Streamed Feb 17, 2022

Introducing Ruby Richards
Streamed Feb 3, 2022

Conversation and Book Signing: Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
Streamed Jan 28, 2022

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VMFA Livestreams are made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.

Additional support is generously provided by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.

ABOVE One Night at Jimmy’s We Saw the Supremes on Color Television, ca.1965–67, Willie Anne Wright (American, born 1924), Liquitex on canvas. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, General Endowment Fund. © Willie Anne Wright

Upcoming Livestreams

Past Livestreams

VMFA Livestreams are made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.

Additional support is generously provided by the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.

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