Black History Month at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The VMFA presents the following events in celebration of Black History Month:
Wednesday, February 15 at 7pm in the VMFA Marble Hall
"Darkroom: A Study of South African Photography and New Media 1950-Present."
Lecture by Tosha Grantham, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary art;
co-sponsored by the Friends of African & African-American Art.
Tickets are $5
$3 for VMFA members and students
Free for FOAAA members
Wednesday, February 22 at 11:30am and at 3:30pm
Black History Month Gallery Getaway
Featuring a3 blackface #5 by Iona Rozeal Brown
The event is free and open to the public
February 22, at 6pm at the VMFA Pauley Center
Poetic Principles series features Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 1999 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
This award is granted annually for the best first collections of poems by an African-American poet. Trethewey is also a recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship and many other awards.
Co-sponsored by the New Virginia Review.
Tickets are $6
$3 for VMFA members and students
Contact 804-340-1405 to purchase tickets in advance.
More information is available by calling 804-340-1400 or
by visiting http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/black_history2006.html
--Yuki Dixon, Collection Librarian for the Arts - Collection Management