Looking Back: March 2019
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Second Stage would like to thank our sponsors for helping make the Artmobile visit possible: VMFA Sweet Briar College Mary Snow Realty Greif 1st National Bank |
VMFA on the Road: An Artmobile for the 21st Century
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’(VMFA) new state-of-the-art traveling museum and art studio hit the road in October 2018. The climate-controlled, 53-foot Volvo trailer includes Wi-Fi to connect visitors with VMFA educators and interactive components to meet their 21st century expectations. The main attraction of VMFA on the Road, however, is the opportunity for residents of the Commonwealth to see and experience works of art from the VMFA collection up close. VMFA on the Road will visit remote corners of Virginia by way of the museum’s Statewide Partners program, which includes 1,000 locations from community centers and small museums to colleges and universities.
The inaugural exhibition, How Far Can Creativity Take You: VMFA Fellowship Artists, celebrates the role VMFA has played in the lives of fellowship recipients. The exhibition will include works by the following acclaimed artists, who all have some connection to Virginia: Julien Binford, Nell Blain, Ann Chenoweth, Esther Worden Day, Steven Fishman, Emmet Gowin, Sally Mann, Arthur Sawyers, Charles Sibley, Cy Twombly, Benjamin Wigfall, and Dennis Winston.
Nostalgia adds to the excitement of VMFA on the Road’s launch because it was 1953 when the museum was among the first in the world to have what was then known as the Artmobile. For four decades, as many as four Artmobiles toured 59 exhibitions and served more than 2.5 million Virginians. Due to conservation concerns and the fragility of traveling works of art, VMFA replaced the program in the early 1990s with a strategy to develop stronger partnerships with schools, community centers, and museums around the state. Since that time, VMFA has developed a robust Statewide Partners program and is now revving up with VMFA on the Road to reach an unprecedented number of Virginians with innovative art experiences.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’(VMFA) new state-of-the-art traveling museum and art studio hit the road in October 2018. The climate-controlled, 53-foot Volvo trailer includes Wi-Fi to connect visitors with VMFA educators and interactive components to meet their 21st century expectations. The main attraction of VMFA on the Road, however, is the opportunity for residents of the Commonwealth to see and experience works of art from the VMFA collection up close. VMFA on the Road will visit remote corners of Virginia by way of the museum’s Statewide Partners program, which includes 1,000 locations from community centers and small museums to colleges and universities.
The inaugural exhibition, How Far Can Creativity Take You: VMFA Fellowship Artists, celebrates the role VMFA has played in the lives of fellowship recipients. The exhibition will include works by the following acclaimed artists, who all have some connection to Virginia: Julien Binford, Nell Blain, Ann Chenoweth, Esther Worden Day, Steven Fishman, Emmet Gowin, Sally Mann, Arthur Sawyers, Charles Sibley, Cy Twombly, Benjamin Wigfall, and Dennis Winston.
Nostalgia adds to the excitement of VMFA on the Road’s launch because it was 1953 when the museum was among the first in the world to have what was then known as the Artmobile. For four decades, as many as four Artmobiles toured 59 exhibitions and served more than 2.5 million Virginians. Due to conservation concerns and the fragility of traveling works of art, VMFA replaced the program in the early 1990s with a strategy to develop stronger partnerships with schools, community centers, and museums around the state. Since that time, VMFA has developed a robust Statewide Partners program and is now revving up with VMFA on the Road to reach an unprecedented number of Virginians with innovative art experiences.
Past performances:
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Saturday | April 15
Skiffle United! The Skiffle Steel Orchestra of Trinidad and the Skiffle USA Steel Orchestra of Sweet Briar College played in concert together. The Skiffle Steel Orchestra of Trinidad had a scheduled concert at Sweet Briar in April. When they heard that the SBC steel band, Skiffle USA, was returning to Second Stage around the same time, they asked to perform with them! It was an amazing, stand-room-only evening! |
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Sunday | March 19
Dr. Horace Rice Second Stage partnered with the Amherst County Museum and Historical Society for a lecture by Dr. Horace Rice, author and historian of native cultures in Amherst County. He discussed his new book, Patrtiot Pinn's Pearl, a historical novel that chronicles the lives of Cherokee and Wicocomico Native Americans, focusing on the Revolutionary War era. |
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March 14 | 8 PM
Molly McCully Brown Ms. Brown read from her book of poetry, The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded (Persea Books, 2017). The study of the Central Virginia Training Center here in Amherst County won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize.This presentation was in cooperation with Sweet Briar College’s Writers Series. |
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Second Stage | Amherst is partially supported by
the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Greater Lynchburg Community Trust, The Charlottesville Area Community Fund, the Andrew W. Easley and Anne O. Easley Charitable Trust, and many area businesses and benefactors. |
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