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In Harriet Tubman I helped hundreds to freedom (From I Am the Negro Woman)

Making History: 20th Century African American Art

Mar 31, 2012 – Jun 10, 2012
Focus Galleries

 

An innovative collaboration between VMFA and VCU’s Museum Studies graduate program, this student-organized exhibition features more than 50 works by 23 renowned and lesser known African American artists once associated with the pioneering Barnett Aden Gallery (1943 – 1969). A cross-section of art by the internationally acclaimed Elizabeth Catlett forms the core of the exhibition.

Free admission
 


Trace of a Fictional Third

Diana Al-Hadid: Trace of a Fictional Third

Mar 10, 2012Sep 02, 2012

21st-Century Gallery

The Innocent (detail), 1949, Robert Doisneau

Visions of France

Mar 10, 2012Jul 08, 2012
Photography Gallery

No. 13 – John Brown, after long meditation, planned to fortify himself somewhere in the mountains of Virginia or Tennessee and there make raids on the surrounding plantations, freeing slaves

Jacob Lawrence: The Legend of John Brown

Feb 04, 2012Jun 10, 2012
Works on Paper Focus Gallery

“Divination Instrument (Galukoji)” (detail), 19th–20th century, Pende culture (Democratic Republic of Congo), wood, fiber, feathers

Visions from the Congo: Ancestral Contact

Sep 10, 2011Jul 01, 2012
Evans Court

Rosetta Stone

Say What? How Ancient Writing Began

Sep 30, 2011Aug 01, 2012
Memorial Foundation for Children Teaching Gallery

“March Moon II

Studio School Exhibitions

Ongoing
Studio School Gallery

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