Ridderhof Martin Gallery January 26 – April 2, 2017 Opening Reception: January 26, 5-7pm Drawn from the KIA collection, this exhibition includes works by American modernists including Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Sheeler, Max Weber and others. Responding to the artistic developments in Europe, these artists sought new ways to picture the rapidly […]
February 2, 2017 6-7pm Hurley Convergence Center, Digital Auditorium Dr. Leo G. Mazow, Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will give a lecture entitled, “Defining American Modernisms.” The lecture is in association with the exhibition American Perspectives on Modernism on view in the Ridderhof […]
Andrew Kozlowski duPont Gallery October 27- December 4, 2016 Opening Reception: Oct. 27, 5-7pm Programming Papermaking Workshop duPont Gallery December 7, 12- 3 pm Artist’s Talk: December 7, 4pm Melchers Hall, Room 107 The exhibition brings together several series of artwork by Andrew Kozlowski that consider objects and their collective impact on our […]
Ridderhof Martin Gallery October 27- December 4, 2016 Opening Reception: Thursday, October 27, 5-7pm Lecture: Wednesday, October 26, 5pm in Melchers Hall, Room 107 At first glance, “The Association for Creative Zoology,” appears to document an early 20th century scientific organization advocating for a Biblically-based understanding of natural history. The exhibition includes two kiosks used […]
Destination: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia Saturday, November 5, 2016 Sign up and travel fee due by Nov. 1 Non-Members: $50 Members: $40 Students: $20 Please join the UMW Galleries for our annual bus trip! This year, we will be going to two important art […]
Ridderhof Martin Gallery (lawn) September 16, 2016 9:30am Love drawing but could never find the right horse? Now is your chance- come to the UMW Galleries for a rare drawing session with a live horse model and drawing instructor. This opportunity is free and open to the public but please bring your own drawing materials.
Ridderhof Martin Gallery September 1- October 9, 2016 Opening Reception: Thursday, September 1, 5-7pm The horse was omnipresent in nineteenth-century France — not only did humans awake and doze off to the clatter of their hooves in the streets and the sounds of their snorts, whinnies, and neighs, avoid their dung as they walked, and […]
Jon McMillan duPont Gallery September 1- October 9, 2016 Opening Reception: September 1, 5-7pm Artist’s Talk: September 15, 4-5pm The sculptures in this series address the concept of duality by bringing together disparate parts in a variety of relationships. The idea of confluence informs the work through the physical reference to processes and materials, and […]
