Longwood Center for the Visual Arts

The Center is open for business and for fun! In addition to the art exhibitions on view in the galleries, children ages 3­12 can stop by from 11:00 a.m.­2:00 p.m. and create a piece of art as personal adornment to wear and dazzle fellow festivalgoers! Participants can choose and design a sun visor, a headdress, or a masquerade mask (in butterfly and moth shapes.) LCVA staff and volunteers are on site at the Center to assist with the activities.

While the children are creating art, parents and friends can view the artwork currently on exhibition at the Center. The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts is the art museum of Longwood College.

Located in the Barbara L. Bishop Gallery is the exhibition Inheritors of a Legacy: Charles Lang Freer and the Washington Avant-Garde. This exhibition features four artists, Allen D. Carter, Rob Barnard, Mary Annella Frank, and Tom Nakashima, whose paintings, prints, sculptures, and ceramics reflect the vital inspiration of the Freer Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C. For these artists, the Freer has offered a unique resource for observing culturally diverse, aesthetically challenging art.

Ultra Real is presented in the Thomas Sully Gallery. Ultra Real features meticulously crafted psychologically suggestive and beautiful paintings by Susan Abbott, Lisa Brotman, Manon Cleary, Margarida Kendall, and Natasha Mokina. LCVA Director, Johnson Bowles curated this exhibition.

The LCVA is proud to present four oil pastels on paper by Washington D.C. artist, Gene Davis (1920-1985) in the Third Street Gallery. These works are a recent gift to the permanent collection by Michael David Whaley, Director of Publications and Visual Art for Longwood College. The works, from 1981, are indicative of Davis' life's obsession-the stripe. For Davis, the stripe was a vocabulary in which he presented concepts of systematic expressions of rhythm and time.

In addition to an active exhibition schedule, the Center offers docent-led school tours, classes and workshops through the Community Art School, the Art Print Program for area school children, partnerships with the local school system, lectures, and gallery talks. Additionally, there are numerous opportunities for community members to volunteer at the Center, as well as internships available for Longwood College students.

The Center is located at the corner of Main and Third Streets in historic downtown Farmville. Admission is free. The galleries are open to the public Monday - Saturday from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

Heart Of Virginia Festival
P.O. Box 35
Farmville, VA 23901

email: info@heartofvirginia.org
Phone: (804) 395 2744