Featured Events
Events for July, 2009
Beyond Jamestown Exhibit at State Capitol
Monday January 12, 2009 - Thursday December 31, 2009
State Capitol Gallery
Richmond, VA 23219The "Beyond Jamestown" exhibit, curated by Virginia Indian Heritage Program Director Karenne Wood, will be exhibited at the State Capitol's new gallery in Richmond, beginning January 12, 2009 and continuing through next December.
This ground-breaking exhibit features a replicated longhouse, dugout canoe, and one-room schoolhouse in addition to period artifacts over the past 15,000 years. Contemporary artisans from the Virginia tribes are also featured.
Marking Time: Voyage to Vietnam
Saturday June 6, 2009 - Sunday August 30, 2009
Virginia Historical Society
428 North Boulevard map it
Richmond, VA 23220Organized by the Vietnam Graffiti Project, this exhibition features a cache of Vietnam War soldier art of striking importance and poignancy. Soldiers and Marines on the ship USNS General Nelson M. Walker, bound for Vietnam in 1967, inscribed graffiti phrases and images on the bottom side of canvas bunks in the troop compartments. Men wrote their name and hometown, the date they expected to leave the service, and kept day-by-day calendars to mark the voyage progress. Original graffiti-covered canvases, discovered in the process of scrapping the vessel in 2005, display messages of patriotism, politics, humor, anxiety, and love. Funded in part by a grant from VFH. More info...
Much in Demand: 200 Years of Central Virginia African American Military Service
Saturday June 20, 2009 - Saturday May 1, 2010
Legacy Museum
403 Monroe Street map it
Lynchburg, VA 24505
This exhibit traces the ways the status of African Americans in the larger society shaped their experiences in the military. Dianne Swann-Wright, director and founding curator of the Frederick Douglas - Isaac Myers Maritime Park in Baltimore, is guest curator.
The exhibit explores the following themes:
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- Central Virginia's African Americans, like people of African descent living elsewhere, fought in military conflicts dating back to the American Revolution.
- African Americans fought racial discrimination in the military while fighting for the principles of liberty and democracy.
- Military service changed the lives of African Americans living in Central Virginia in significant ways.
- Military service expanded Central Virginia's African American military men and women's social and economic horizons.
- Central Virginia's African American men and women had successful experiences in the military, bringing honor to themselves, their families, and communities.
