Art History Classes

Wed, Oct 25, 12 –1:30 pm (1 sessions) | Reynolds Lecture Hall
Dr. Sarah Kennel, Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center

Join curator Dr. Sarah Kennel for a closer look at the life and work of artist Willie Anne Wright. This one–part class will focus on works of art in the exhibition Willie Anne Wright: Artist and Alchemist, a retrospective that encompasses photographs, paintings, and works on paper to celebrate the full scope, and remarkable career of one of Virginia’s renowned artists.

$35 (VMFA members $30)

Thu, Oct 26, 6 –7:30 pm (1 sessions) |Virtual
Dr. Sarah Kennel, Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography and Director of the Raysor Center

Join curator Dr. Sarah Kennel for a closer look at the life and work of artist Willie Anne Wright. This one–part class will focus on works of art in the exhibition Willie Anne Wright: Artist and Alchemist, a retrospective that encompasses photographs, paintings, and works on paper to celebrate the full scope, and remarkable career of one of Virginia’s renowned artists.

$35 (VMFA members $30)
This is a virtual class. A Zoom link will be sent following registration.

Thu, Dec 14, 6 –8 pm (1 sessions) | Registration on Zoom required.
Dr. W. Brian Piper, Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings, New Orleans Museum of Art  

Dawoud Bey’s photographic series In This Here Place, on view as part of the exhibition Dawoud Bey: Elegy, represents the landscapes of former plantations in Louisiana at an immersive scale, and with an acute sensitivity for both visual detail and historical nuance. Join Dr. Piper for a close consideration of these important and moving photographs within the context of African American enslavement in America, photography in the South, and the arc of Bey’s photographic career.

$35 (VMFA members $30)