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Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art: Virginia Beach: Virginia Beach: Tidewater/Hampton Roads: Art: Focuses on 20th-century art with changing exhibitions of American & international artists. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Richmond: Richmond: Central: Art: Encyclopedic collection of 33,000 works of art from almost every major world culture
In 1971, VBAA and the Virginia Beach Museum of Art merged to form the Virginia Beach Arts Center — and operated from a surplus WWII temporary building at Arctic Avenue and 18th Street. In 1989 The Virginia Beach Art Center opened at 2200 Parks Avenue in Virginia Beach, a new 38,000 square foot facility on 9.6 acres at the foot of I-264.
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The Art Institute of Virginia Beach is closing its doors at the end of the month, along with all other branches and campuses of The Art Institute system. The closure was announced on the college ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia's state-run fine arts museum has begun the process of returning 44 pieces of ancient art to their countries of origin after law enforcement officials presented the ...
As of 1962, it came to light that VBAA and the Boardwalk Art Show were racially segregated, quietly refusing participation to African-American artists [3] — as evidenced specifically by a refusal to admit A.B. "Alec" Jackson (1925-1981), [4] head of the art department of the Virginia State College in Norfolk, who had applied to the 1962 show ...
The VMFA has its origins in a 1919 donation of 50 paintings to the Commonwealth of Virginia by Judge John Barton Payne.During the Great Depression, Payne collaborated with Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard to gain funding from the federal Works Projects Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to augment state funding and establish the state art museum in 1932. [7]