“To send light into the darkness of the heart – such is the duty of the Arts.”
– Robert Schumann 1810 -1856
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Marlin Mural Festival
Neil Britton Gallery, Hofheimer Library
Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
Opening Celebration and Reception
March 7, 2024 | 6 - 7:30 p.m.
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Marlin Mural Festival Enlivens Neil Britton Gallery
Virginia Wesleyan University’s Neil Britton Art Gallery, located in Hofheimer Library, has been transformed by the creation of student works that have unfolded over an extended period of time. Students' creative collaborations have resulted in the Marlin Mural Festival, the brainchild of Professor of Art and Gallery Curator John Rudel. More than 60 students have contributed to the mural since its inception at the beginning of the fall 2023 semester.
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Barclay Sheaks Gallery
Henry Clay Hofheimer II Library
Established in 1999, the Barclay Sheaks Gallery is named after nationally renowned painter and founder of the Art Department at Virginia Wesleyan University, Barclay Sheaks. Sheaks is best known for his acrylic paintings of waterfront scenes, wetlands, farmlands and people of the Chesapeake Bay.
Following his retirement from Virginia Wesleyan University in 2006, artist and educator Barclay Sheaks donated approximately 50 of his paintings to the University for the establishment of a permanent gallery. The Barclay Sheaks Gallery displays works from the Virginia Wesleyan collection on a rotating basis. Other pieces in the collection are displayed at various locations around campus.
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VWU Theatre Presents Anastasia
Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center
April 4 at 7:30 p.m.; April 5 - 6 at 8 p.m.; April 7 at 2 p.m.
Based on the beloved animated movie from 20th Century Fox, Anastasia is both a heartwarming and heart-wrenching dive into one of history’s biggest unanswered questions: what happened to Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov? Set amidst the turmoil of the Russian revolution with the Bolshevik regime on the rise, Anya, an amnesiac orphan stranded in what was once the Russian capital, St. Petersburg, is on a quest to rediscover her past which she believes lies in Paris.
Joined by a dashing conman, Dmitry, and an ex-aristocrat, Vlad Popov, who want to use Anya to bamboozle the only remaining Romanov, Dowager Empress Marie into believing that Anya is the lost Anastasia, she escapes to Paris with a determined Soviet officer on their heels. Including classic songs from the motion picture like “Journey to the Past” and “Once Upon a December,” Anastasia explores one determined girl’s journey to find home, love, and family as she discovers who she was and embraces who she is meant to be.
Book by Terrence McNally; Music by Stephen Flaherty; Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; Inspired by the Twentieth Century Fox Motion Pictures by special arrangement with Buena Vista Theatrical
Admission: $20 Adults, $10 Student/Military/Senior, Complimentary admission for VWU students, faculty and staff
From the play by Marcelle Maurette as adapted by Guy Bolton
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Deke Sharon A Cappella Festival
Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center
March 1 | 6 p.m.
Heralded as “The Father of Contemporary A Cappella,” Deke Sharon is a performer, arranger, music producer, author, producer and coach who is credited by many as being responsible for the current sound of modern a cappella. While at college, he pioneered the dense vocal-instrumental sound that we today take for granted as the sound of contemporary a cappella.
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Sounds of the Joint Service
Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center
March 10 | 3:00 - 5:15 p.m.
The TRADOC band, in conjunction with the Navy Fleet Forces Band and the Air Force Heritage of America Band, is proud to present “Sounds of the Joint Service.” This performance will feature masterworks from some of the most recognizable classical composers in music history, such as Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to “Candide,” Percy Grainger’s “Lincolnshire Posy,” and Ottorino Respighi’s “Pines of Rome.” The concert will also highlight Danzón No. 2 by Arturo Márquez, one of the most important Mexican composers of orchestral music. This collaborative band will be made up of 55 service members and the performance will last one hour and thirty minutes, plus intermission.
Complimentary Admission; Free to VWU students/faculty/staff
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Durufle Requiem
Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center
April 20 | 4:00 p.m.
Virginia Wesleyan Camerata and the Virginia Choral Society join together under the direction of Dr. Bryson Mortensen to perform Maurice Durufle's Requiem, as well as motets by both Durufle and Gabriel Faure.
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Virginia Wesleyan Orchestra
Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center
May 2 | 7:30 p.m.
Virginia Wesleyan Orchestra will perform a variety of classical and modern pieces that showcase the talents of our orchestra.
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Virginia Wesleyan Vox Vera and Jazz Ensemble
Susan S. Goode Fine and Performing Arts Center
May 3 | 7:30 p.m.
Virginia Wesleyan Vox Vera, fresh off their performance tour to Italy, and the Virginia Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble, collaborate on a fun concert full of contemporary, jazz, and everything in between. The Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble will perform a variety of jazz favorites at their spring concert, showcasing two songs from the late great Wayne Shorter, an early-jazz favorite of Louis Armstrong, the modern funk of the Meters, and a bossa from Antoinio Carlo Jobim.
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