A New Exhibition for the 500Block Craghead Gallery |
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An Installation of TIME and LABOR addressing INVISIBILITY
Artist Veronica Jackson has recently returned from a residency in Sacramento California, and has spent the past week in Danville meticulously installing her exhibition The Burden of Invisibility, which opens in the 500 Craghead Block Gallery on Sunday, April 18 from 2-5pm. The Burden of Invisibility is the physical manifestation of her evolution from designer to visual artist, as well as a reaction to the world around her. This work forms the foundation of Jackson’s practice, which investigates how black women see - don’t see - value, or devalue themselves in visual culture, and how these attitudes affect their sense of agency in constructing their own imagery or endeavors to mark space.
Jackson’s artwork is also grounded in the belief that studying visual culture elicits transformation. As an emerging cultural producer with a socially conscious practice, her goal is to engage audiences who may benefit from the ways visual art incites the imagination to see the world differently and eventually empowers them to contribute creatively to it. To find out more about Veronica Jackson’s work, please visit her website at: https://jacksondesigngroup.com/veronica-jackson
Exhibition Site: 500 Block Gallery on Craghead (#536) River District, Danville, VA 24541
Artist Zoom Presentation for Duke TRHT Group: May 11
(contact elsabe@danvillemuseum.org for Link)
Thank you for installation team: Butch Dalton; PiP Printing; Veronica Jackson; Velice McWilliams and our fantastic cleaning crew from Squeaky Klean. Also a big Shout out to Christy Harper and Rachelle Poteat for a culinary treat for Sunday and to all the Museum Interns for their help.
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Are You Interested in the HISTORY of Yarn Bombing? |
Tuesday April 20th Book Talk
The Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History would like to announce that Rachel Timm will present “Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti” by the author Mandy Moore on Tuesday April 20th at 6:30pm. Help celebrate the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History’s WANDERLOVE: A Stitch in Time (2021) event by exploring the history of yarn Bombing as “craftivism.” This will be a virtual event on Zoom. Registration is required. To register and for more information email Friends of the Danville Public Library: fotldanvilleva@gmail.com
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Flashback on Henry Van der Weyde |
On April 27, 1865 Danville authorities surrender the city to Henry Van der Weyde:
Henry Van der Weyde (1838-1924), a captain with Col. Thomas Hyde's Union Army staff. Hyde's unit was with the Army of the Shenandoah, attached to the Army of the Potomac until late June, 1865. Van der Weyde - a Dutchman - had been a prisoner in Danville, and was thus given the honor of accepting the surrender. He was imprisoned with George W. Whitman (Brother of Walt Whitman) in the Danville Civil War prisons. Henry Van der Weyde was an artist serving in the New York militia when he was captured at the Battle of Cedar Creek in 1864. He was held prisoner for a while in one of Danville’s warehouse-prisons — presumably located by the Dan River. While he was imprisoned, he kept a sketchbook showing some of the realities of prison life (an example of his sketches on the right, which is in the DMFAH collection, and can be viewed there). Van der Weyde went on to become a great pioneer in photographic art: He is considered a photographic pioneer in the use of electric light in photography. He was the first photographer to install and take portraits by electric light which permitted him to make many portraits in a short period of time.
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DMFAH April and May Textile Lab |
DMFAH Auditorium Becomes a TEXTILES LAB for two weeks in April
DMFAH will be offering a Textiles Lab experience and textiles based workspace open to community members utilizing multiple disciplines. Located in the sunlit Auditorium of the Sutherlin House building, the lab has four table-top sewing machines, one surger, cutting tables, layout tools, basic hand-sewing kits, working tools, a grommet machine, an ironing station, and donated materials for WANDERLOVE samples.
The lab is monitored on Wednesday from 10am -12noon By Helen Earle and on Fridays from 10am-12noon by Felice McWilliams, who are our museum Textiles Lab Technicians and knowledgeable with Yarn Bomb processes.
Project-based sewing, such as the WANDERLOVE: A Stich in Time Project, and community driven projects are accomplished in the space designed for technical skill building, conceptual advancement and exploratory research.
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Make Sure your Knitting Group Reserves a Site for WANDERLOVE
We are doing another River Walk on April 22, at 4pm (Earthday) and will be meeting up at Ballads Brewery afterwards around 5:30pm.
Contact elsabe@danvillemuseum.org to reserve your spot. Come on the RIVER WALK to see your spot.
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Please meet us at the JTI River District Fountain for a River Walk on April 22
(EarthDay) at 4pm or join us at Ballads around 5:30pm.
We look forward to seeing you and will be going over site maps for organizations.
Bring yourselves for this wonderful outdoor planning session!!! We look forward to seeing you.
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Service Spotlight: The Garden Club of Danville Spruces Up the Rose Garden |
A busy garden week for the DMFAH
The Perkinson Rose garden received a lot of tender loving care from the Garden Club of Danville this week. Weeds were pulled and beds were cleared by Nan Freed, Niki Fallis, Vicki Fuquay, Kay Trakas,Susan Daniel and Elsabé Dixon. The museum’s rose garden was given in memory of Sigie Perkinson, a former member of the Garden Club of Danville and Rose Chairman for the Garden Club of Virginia for 10 years. The Sutherlin Mansion which is today the DMFAH was originally Designed by F. B. Clopton, the building features a reproduction of the picket fence in place in the late 1880s, a restoration project of the Garden Club of Virginia with funding from past Historic Garden Week tours in which the Garden Club of Danville played a large role. The DMFAH also thanks the Garden Club of Danville for the red Geraniums that grace our front and back doors to the Museum. Thank you to Helen Earle for her help in planting and maintaining the geraniums.
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Best Kept Secret in Town!!!! |
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The Danville Science Museum Offers New Galleries |
On Wednesday April 14th, DMFAH director Elsabe Dixon met with Science Museum Director Adam Goebel and Miniature Crafter Steve Canfield to tour the newly renovated Science Center facility. The new digital and interactive stations have been closed during COVID19 but the Museum is slowly inviting families in to take a peek at the fantastic offerings. The Danville Science Center is a participating member of the Blue Star Museums Initiative. Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and museums across America. Each summer since 2010, Blue Star Museums have offered free gallery admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families, including National Guard and Reserve, from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Complete your visit with a feature in Digital Dome at the Science Museum.
Director Adam Goebel demonstrates components of new gallery
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