The Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History cordially invites you to our pre-view reception of the Smithsonian Exhibition called Crossroads: Change in Rural America.

This Smithsonian Exhibition comes with all the tremendous design elements that only the Smithsonian can offer, and we would like YOU to see it first. This exhibition serves multiple purposes – but most importantly it serves as a reminder of the importance to honor our cultural programming and why the humanities and the arts matter. We cannot produce programming without you.

Come for the music, come for the wine, come for the food, come for the art, come for the history.

The DMFAH serves Pittsylvania County, Caswell County and the City of Danville. Your support enables us to carry out our mission to promote History and Art in the Dan River Region.

We also invite you for a viewing of the DMFAH Carson Davenport collection that will be shown in the same location as the Crossroads Exhibition. This local artist adds more than just a beautiful historical New Deal mural to our Pittsylvania County community at the Chatham Main Street Post Office. Many artists have a true passion for making their own communities a better place to live through their artwork. When arts and culture interweave in the fabric of a community, it helps cities attract tourists, diverse talent, brings about innovation and grows the economy. From citizens, individual artists, cultural organizations to businesses and government leadership—everybody in the ecosystem benefits from the arts. 

The DMFAH thanks our community spokes:

The Smithsonian, The Virginia Association of Museums, the Virginia Humanities.

We also thank Ben Davenport for providing us with this tremendous space and Tred Hunt ( Hunt &Co) for making sure nobody that sees the show goes hungry

The DMFAH thanks our Community Partners:

Averett University, Preservation Virginia, Chatham First, Old Dominion Agricultural Complex, Community Action, Pittsylvania County Historical Society, Danville Historical Society, NAACP, the Pittsylvania Public Library and Piedmont Sustainable Living

We could not have launched the Carson Davenport Exhibition without the generous sponsorship of the Patterson Foundation