Tag: Label Writing Contest
Museum labels...informative or limiting? Easier to write than a term paper? Less pressure than an exam? Now’s your chance to find out! Choose an object on view from the VMFA collection and write a label for it. You decide what to tell, what to express, and what to leave out.
Congratulations to the 2012 Winner!
Linda Fox, John Tyler Community College, Class of 2012
Cleopatra, Modeled 1858, Carved 1865, William Wetmore Story (American, 1819-1895)
Not Enough Time
The chair she sat in was cold. She would give anything to have her plush, warm, padded chaise. It was all gone, left behind. Her jewels, gowns, and her thick charcoal makeup, left behind with her kingdom, and her crown. Her love, far away, being thrown into unknown battle for her honor and their lives, their children’s lives. She had so very little time left, and much to do, yet all she could do was sit on this cold harsh chair and think. She knew her precious world would not last forever, but she had made of it what she
could. Suddenly she saw a flash of color in the corner of her eye. “Oh!” she thought. “What a pretty snake.”
See Linda's label on view in the American Galleries!
Top Ten Students of 2012
These students read their labels on Apr 19, 2012. In order of date of object: oldest to newest:
Glenna Gray (Randolph College)
Cycladic, Female Figure, ca. 2400 B.C.E., 83.73
Sarah Zoller (VCU)
Greek, Red-Figure Ram’s-Head Rhyton (Drinking Cup), ca. 480 B.C.E., 79.100 (read by Della Watkins)
Morgan Chelsea Rinehart (VCU)
Remojadas style (Mexico), Seated Figure, 200-600 CE, 69.55
Isabella Jost-Dixon (VCU)
Francisco Goya, General Nicolas Philippe Guye (1810),71.26
Jennifer Strotz (JMU)
Alfred De Dreux, Man in a Red Coat on a Black Horse, ca. 1852, 85.669
Linda Fox (John Tyler Community College)
Cleopatra, Modeled 1858 Carved 1865, 2005.73 (read by Celeste Fetta)
Kristie Couser (VCU)
Émile Gallé, Ladle, ca. 1900, 75.6
Kirby Steele (VCU)
Edward Hopper, House at Dusk, 1935, 53.8 (read by Celeste Fetta)
Mark Hasten (VCU)
Lee Bontecou, Untitled (No. 25), 1960, 85.364
Ayyaz Amjad (VCU)
Nam June Paik, Buddha Watching TV, 1974/1997, 2000.96a-g