RVA Community Makers 2025 Unveiling

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, United States

Join VMFA and host Ashley Hendricks, 12 On Your Side, for the exciting unveiling of an art project dedicated to this year's honorees of RVA Community Makers. This will be […]

Free

Creator’s Workshop | Designing a Learning Experience for the Artist in Every Student

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, United States

In this workshop, educators will learn how to guide their students through artmaking using the process-driven “Writer’s Workshop” model—here reimagined as a “Creator’s Workshop” using a visual arts lens. A […]

Free; registration required

Conversation | Making the Ground Talk: Documenting Black Cemeteries with Brian Palmer

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, United States

Join visual journalist and educator Brian Palmer and Dr. Sarah Kennel, the Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center for Works on Paper, for a discussion about Palmer's works currently on view at VMFA. Learn more about how the artist pays tribute to history through his photography and activist work in […]

$5 – $8

Collection Connection | Black History Month

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, United States

Join Dr. Leo Mazow, VMFA's Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art, in honoring Black History Month by exploring VMFA's American art galleries. This program includes a closer look at a recently acquired sculpture by the Chippewa and African American artist Edmonia Lewis.

Free

African American Read-In

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, United States

Literature and fine art come together at VMFA's African American Read In. See and hear notable figures from the greater Richmond community deliver prose and poetry readings throughout the galleries. This powerful display of storytelling pairs evocative and powerful works by African American artists and authors. The National African American Read-In is sponsored by the […]

Free

African American Read-In

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, United States

Literature and fine art come together at VMFA's African American Read In. See and hear notable figures from the greater Richmond community deliver prose and poetry readings throughout the galleries. This powerful display of storytelling pairs evocative and powerful works by African American artists and authors. The National African American Read-In is sponsored by the […]

Free

Talk | VMFA’s History-Making Art Loan to Lusanga, Democratic Republic of Congo

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 200 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, United States

Last year, VMFA became the first major US art museum to lend a work from its permanent collection to a sub-Saharan African institution. This talk details the collaboration between the museum and the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League art collective located in the remote village of Lusanga in the Democratic Republic of Congo that led […]

$5 – $8

The Mary Ann Frable Lecture in Ancient Art | Drawings of Women at Pompeii

Leslie Cheek Theater

Join Dr. Margaret Laird to explore how, where, and why nonprofessional artists created pictorial graffiti and drawings of women on walls and other media. Although women were uncommon subjects for Pompeii’s artists, their images were nevertheless given prominence and power. This lecture has adult content, including images of graffiti with mature themes. The Mary Ann […]

$5 – $8