Join us for Final Fridays!

Receptions are held the
last Friday of September, October, January, February, and March, 5:30–7:30 pm. Final Fridays are a benefit of membership; a fee is charged to non-members. Student membership is free, thanks to the Art$ program! All we need is your email address.

Flowers Interpret Art

Every year, in conjunction with Garden Week in Virginia, members of the Museum’s Volunteer Board organize Flowers Interpret Art, an exhibition of floral arrangements inspired by selected works on view. Visitors enjoy the creativity and beauty of the presentations and vote for their favorite piece. Check our website or call 434-924-3592 to learn how you can enter or make reservations for the buffet.

April 2008

Exhibition hours, with refreshments,
10 am – 5 pm

Buffet, 6–9 pm; charge

Ellen Bayard Weedon Lectures

in the Arts of Asia

With the generous support of the Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation, the Museum presents four annual lectures on South and East Asian art each year. This spring the Museum presented:

Writer’s Eye

Now celebrating its 20th year, the Writer’s Eye invites youth in grades 3–12, University students and adults to submit original prose and poetry compositions inspired by selected works on view in the Museum.

For 2006-2007, the major focus of the program was the special exhibition Complicit! Contemporary American Art & Mass Culture. Area teachers and writers judge all entries. High school and University/adult entries are judged by noted authors and poets. Winners are honored at an annual ceremony in the spring and winning entries are published in an anthology.

Docent-led tours and self-guided are tours available and must be scheduled in advance. 2007-2008 tours will be available for booking in summer of 2007.