Opening tonight! We invite you to join us to view four new exhibitions. Main Street Museum: Virginia Landscapes and Sites, which considers the Commonwealth’s narratives and natural beauty. Jill Krutick: Nature Reimagined, which is an exploration of time, scale, and self-discovery. Folk Beasts explores the realms of magical and diverse creatures celebrated in folklore throughout time. And Start with Art, Learn for Life the Annual Area Youth Art Month! The LCVA would like to thank YakAttack, Helton House, and Southside Electric Cooperative for their generous support of these exhibitions. 
Sooo many works of art are on view here at the LCVA. Over 1300 pre-k to 12 grade artists contributed their talents and craft to this exhibition! 
Main Street Museum: Virginia Landscapes and Sites, which highlights work from the LCVA’s permanent collection, further considers the Commonwealth’s narratives and natural beauty. In combining familiar landmarks in Richmond with the serene Blue Ridge Mountains and the coast, the works invite visitors to delve into familiar landscapes in a new and personal way. The LCVA’s location in central Virginia allows for residents and visitors to easily explore the surrounding lush, diverse landscape. Maps and coordinates of each setting are provided within the exhibition so visitors can see each site for themselves alongside the artist’s representation. LCVA Executive Director, Rachel Ivers, stated that “since these sites are within driving distance, we hope that visitors may find new occasions to visit and create their own interpretations through the medium of their choice.” This exhibition is on view May 21-August 15, 2021. 
Jill Krutick: Nature Reimagined is an exploration of time, scale, and self-discovery. “Informed by my experiences, challenges, and triumphs, I transform the real into an imaginary world—sometimes whimsical, other times dramatic,” says Jill Krutick. As the title of this show suggests, much of Krutick’s work has its source in the natural world. At once abstract and representational, her art becomes a joyful reflection of color, form, and memory. This exhibition, which is sponsored by Yak Attack, is on view May 28-August 8, 2021. 
Folk Beasts explores the realms of magical and diverse creatures celebrated in folklore. Stop by the LCVA to make your own folk beast with a FREE art activity packet - then put it up in the “on-growing” wall. This exhibition was conceived as a collaboration between London-based Hart Club and The Golden Thread Project as an extensive group-led exhibition born of artist-led workshops. Hart Club is an organization dedicated to championing neurodiversity in the arts through work with various charities and organizations that spotlight artists who think, communicate and create differently. www.hartclub.org The Golden Thread Project aims to popularize folklore through collaboration with artists, writers and musicians in an effort to connect new generations to folklore and myth and the universality of human experience they share. www.thegoldenthreadproject.com Artists: Aidan Saunders, Beau Brannick, Bette-Belle Blanchard, Celine Lau, George Finlay Ramsay, Hannah Dyson, Harriet Vine, Holly St Claire, Jay Cover, Karolina Jonc Buczek, Lena Yokoyama, Michelle Edwards, Naomi Subryan-Anderson, Stephen Fowler, Tommy Brentnall, Yuk Fun, and Zeel. On view through August 8, 2021, this exhibition is generously sponsored by Helton House, Inc. @hartclublondon @thegoldenthreadproject @aidan_saunders_ @celinelkw @betteblanchard @georgefinlayramsay @hannahjdyson @harrietvine @hollidaystclair @jay__cover @jajonc @lena_yokoyama @meeshi21 @naomiandersonsubryan @stephenfowler_rubberstamping @piggybankshoe @yukfunwow @mr_zeel @ninten_beau 
Over 800 pre-k to 4th grade students at @princeedwardcountypublicschool made this lovely front window installation! What wonderfully talented artists we have in our community! 
Next time you are on Main Street, be sure to look for the newest display made by the elementary students at Prince Edward County Public Schools! Can you guess which famous artist the students are learning about? @princeedwardcountypublicschool 
Neurodiversity, folklore, and magic come together in the LCVA’s latest exhibition, Folk Beasts! This exhibit, opening May 21, is a collaboration between London’s Hart Club and The Golden Thread Project that explores magical and diverse creatures that have been celebrated via folklore throughout time. Initially conceived as an extensive group exhibition created by artist-led workshops, the 2020 global pause led the group to adapt the concept. Seventeen artists created make-at-home art packs, enabling people to share their own art and participate remotely in a user-generated online exhibition. Founded in 2018 the London-based Hart Club is dedicated to championing neurodiversity in the arts. They work with various charities and organizations to spotlight artists who think, communicate, and create differently. This includes artists with disabilities, dementia, brain injury, autism, and other neurological variations. Hart Club celebrates diversity and inclusion – striving to gain creative and financial recognition for the artists they work with, and in doing so, building confidence, community, and wellbeing. The Golden Thread Project aims to popularize folklore, introducing the benefit of it to new audiences by visualizing it in new ways. They embrace all media and a wide range of diverse and communicative art-styles and methods being applied in reimagining folklore throughout the globe. The Golden Thread Project works with artists, writers, and musicians to show that every generation can discover folklore and myth anew as a way to connect to the past and understand the universality of human experience. @aidan_saunders_ @mr_zeel @naomiandersonsubryan @jay__cover @hartclublondon @thegoldenthreadproject 
May the 4th be with you. JASON ST. PETER (Longwood 2003) YODamask, 2011 digital pigment print Collection of the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts Virginia Artists Collection; Alumni Sub-collection LCVA purchase 2012.3.2