April Is National Poetry Month!!! |
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It’s National Poetry Month, the largest literary celebration in the world. Created to encourage the artistry and legacy of poets, and to encourage the reading and teaching of poetry.
The Academy of American Poets has come up with 30 ways to celebrate national poetry month–like buying a book of poetry at your local bookstore, attending a poetry reading, or signing up for a “Poem-a-Day”.
Sign up for a daily dose of poetry with the New Yorker Poetry Bot. You’ll get selections of poems from every decade on Twitter or Facebook.
The Danville Museum of Fine Arts pays tribute to Claudia Emerson, who grew up in Pittsylvania County. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection Late Wife, and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008.
The Polio Vaccine, Chatham, Virginia, 1964 (for Inez Shields)
It was not death we learned to fear but her life,
Her other birth, waking remade from the womb
of that disease. One leg was withered, a dragging –
Numb weight behind her, one shoulder humped –
A camel’s – and what did we know of that foreign
Beast but ugliness and that she carried it hard
Faith like water. And so we did what we were told:
Outside the elementary school the long line drowsed.
We saw gleaming trays of sugar cubes rose-pink
With the livid virus tamed, its own undoing
We opened our mouths, held it out on our tongues
And, as with any candy, savored the sharp corners
Going, the edges, until at last the form gave way to grain, to sweet sand washing against the salt of us.
(By Claudia Emerson, From the Poetry Collection Figure Studies, 2008)
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The Averett Education Department Plans Another visit to the Museum |
The Averett University Education Department and Dr. Riddell would like to welcome you to a community event on May 4th at 9:30am at the Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History.
Averett students have been diligently working on history units that cover the Virginia SOLs and each last a week long. The Averett University Education Department is presenting these units to the museum as a resource for local teachers in the area to check out and use in their classrooms. This event will be covered by the Averett marketing and communications team and posted on their website.
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Forrest Moses, a Danville Son and Renowned Artist |
Lew Allen Galleries announced the passing of Forrest Moses, one of America's most celebrated painters of abstracted landscape and, for more than 25 years, a leading figure among our represented artists. Moses passed away peacefully earlier this year in Palm Springs, California. He was 86.
Born in 1934 in Danville, Virginia, Forrest Moses earned a BFA from Washington and Lee University. He was drafted into the Navy, becoming an air intelligence officer in Southeast Asia. This allowed him the opportunity to experience and learn about the artistic and cultural traditions of Japan that were to play important roles in the development of his widely-admired aesthetic and art-making.
After completing his service with the Navy, Moses studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, then moving to Texas, where he began a career making fine art that would span more than five decades. He settled in Santa Fe in 1969, and became a much-admired figure in the art world. His paintings and works on paper are included in the permanent holdings of museums and important private collections, and leave an indelible mark of excellence in the art world and an enduring legacy of joy for his many collectors.
(Source: Staff of LewAllen Galleries)
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santafenewmexican/obituary.aspx?n=forrest-moses&pid=197587498
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Thank You For Coming Out to the Veronica Jackson Exhibition: THE BURDEN OF INVISIBILITY |
On Sunday, April 18 a new exhibition opened in the 500 Craghead Block Gallery, and saw a gallery attendance of 36 people. Veronica Jackson’s exhibition is a powerful statement on the invisibility of labor, on the invisibility of women’s labor, on the invisibility of individual worth. This is an exhibition that tells us to change our lives and lives up to the measure that the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) set for the arts when he described in his poem on the Archaic Torso of Apollo that all art must first and foremost inspire us to change our lives. This exhibition comes down on May 28. Please make haste to see this amazing exhibition… it might change your life!
A shout out to Mac Goad and his team at Squeeky Klean, who made the gallery sparkle for the opening, and a big thank you to Rachelle Poteat for her tremendous work on the individually wrapped appetizers, that not only tasted good, but looked amazing. Thank you to museum interns Daniel Shogan, Aidan Thomas, John Sheridan, as well as Daniel Shogan, and Tommy Dixon for helping with the refreshments and gallery management. A big thank you to Rick Barker for providing housing for our artist, and a sincere appreciation for our artist, Veronica Jackson, for this beautiful exhibition.
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ODCSCC Chooses Danville on Sunday for their DRIVING DESTINATION |
Update: Saturday’s Austin Healey event moved to Sunday at Crema and Vine and the DMFAH, due to rain forecast.
ODCSCC and Crema & Vine is hosting the Triad Austin Healey Club this Sunday April 25, instead of Saturday, due to rain forecast. All times remain the same, at Crema & Vine from 12 noon til 3pm. They wanted a driving destination and chose Danville as their 1st driving trip. We have obtained a permit to close off the north-bound lane in front of the Danville Museum from 11 to 3pm. Also, we have music by Jay Shelton from 12 til 1; in addition, Joyce Wilburn will lead a tour for the Triad AH club to tour a historical house. Come on down to the Museum, and stop by Crema & Vine at 11am.
COME OUT FOR THE FUN!
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Garden Week Bouquets for the DMFAH
The Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History thanks the Garden Club of Danville and Gabriella Garden club for the beautiful bouquets that deck our museum during garden week this month! Thank you especially to Karan Johnson (Gabriella) and to Sandra March (Garden Club of Danville) who put these bouquets together. Southside has long been known as a premier tobacco growing area in Virginia. Southside's tobacco tradition will be a focus of this week’s Garden Tour, which includes rustic tobacco barns and a modern barn entertainment venue. Two properties in Chatham showcase classic architecture and pastoral scenery, as well. The historic barns are filled with references to the area’s past while another property features a restored cabin, and a newly built lodge and barn.
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Sandra March Bouquet for DMFAH Garden week, 2021. |
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WANDERLOVE: A Stitch in Time TIMELINE for SIP & SEW Fiber Labs |
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Join us in cutting and upcycling sweaters for the WANDERLOVE Exhibition! Learn what it takes to get gallery representation on Craghead... Join the WANDERLOVE COLLABORATION!! |
Trail Walks to Pick Sites
· Thursday April 22: WANDERLOVE Riverwalk Trail (Pick sites while hiking along the River Trail in the River district from 4-6pm) – Ballads Meet up right after.
· Friday April 30: WANDERLOVE Riverwalk Trail (Pick sites while hiking along the River Trail in the River district from 4-6pm) – Ballads Meet up right after.
· Friday May 14: WANDERLOVE Riverwalk Trail (Pick sites while hiking along the River Trail in the River district from 4-6pm) – Ballads Meet up right after.
· Friday May 28: WANDERLOVE Riverwalk Trail (Pick sites while hiking along the River Trail in the River district from 4-6pm) – Ballads Meet up right after.
Morning Fiber Lab Workshops at Museum
(10 am -12 noon)
· Friday April 23: Fiber Lab (DMFAH Auditorium)
· Wednesday April 28: Fiber Lab (DMFAH Auditorium)
· Friday April 30: Fiber Lab (DMFAH Auditorium)
· May 5 and May 7: Fiber Lab (DMFAH Auditorium)
· May 12 and May 14: Fiber Lab (DMFAH Auditorium)
· May 19 and 21: Fiber Lab (DMFAH Auditorium)
Evening Fiber Lab Workshops at Museum (Refreshments)
(4:30pm -9pm)
· Thursday April 29: Evening Fiber Lab (DMFAH Auditorium)
· Thursday May 13: Evening Fiber Lab (DMFAH Auditorium)
· Thursday May 27: Evening Fiber Lab (DMFAH Auditorium)
Evening Sip and Sew (Adults only) – 6pm to 9pm
· Saturday May 8: WANDERLOVE Sip & Sew (2 Witches)
· Tuesday May 11: WANDERLOVE Sip & Sew (Crema & Vine)
· Tuesday May 18: WANDERLOVE Sip & Sew (Crema & Vine)
· Saturday May 22: WANDERLOVE Sip & Sew (2 Witches)
· Tuesday May 25: WANDERLOVE Sip & Sew (Crema & Vine)
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Community Yoga on the DMFAH Lawn |
April 24, 2021
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 AM
SATURDAY YOGA
April 24 - May 22 • 10:30 am • No class Memorial Day Weekend
Get Ready to Stretch! DMFAH is partnering with Firefly Yoga again for Yoga on the DMFAH lawn!!!
Firefly Yoga also offers yoga, mindfulness and fitness classes online, outdoors and in their new studio at 415 Main Street.
There will be no Yoga on Saturday, Memorial Day Weekend, July 4th and the Labor Day weekend.
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