For Immediate Release
May 19, 2017
Contact: Carson Reeher, Community Engagement Coordinator
434.395.2662
Enduring Legacy to display Recent Acquisitions
Since 2015 Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) has collected nearly 300 works of art, significantly expanding the permanent collection.“Enduring Legacy 2017: Recent Acquisitions,” which opens on June 2 from 5-8 p.m., will highlight several of those pieces. The exhibition will remain on view through July 30, 2017.
“Enduring Legacy” will include several recent substantial gifts including paintings by William Clarke and Eldridge Bagley from noted collector Julia Norrell, and African Art from noted collector Keith Kissee.Photographs from several contemporary photographers will be exhibited, such as Robert Von Sternberg, Kenda North, Shelia Pinkel, Bonnie Schiffman, and Daryl Curran.
The exhibition will feature pieces from Robert B. and Margaret T. Mayo, Heyn and Sandy Kjerulf, Terence and Rosemary Finegan, and Bernice Rowe, class of 1970, in loving memory of Dr. Henry C. Rowe.
Although Longwood University began collecting art in the late 19th century, its first collecting area was defined in 1951 with the establishment of the Contemporary Virginia Artists Collection. Twenty years later LCVA’s collections broadened to include American art. In the decades that followed, the collections once again expanded to include Chinese and African art.
LCVA also actively collects and exhibits folk art, crafts and decorative arts. Recent years have seen a renewed emphasis on our acquisition of contemporary Virginia art.
In addition to LCVA’s galleries at Third and Main streets in downtown Farmville, the collection is displayed throughout the Longwood campus as part of our Art on Campus program. LCVA’s successful Have Art, Will Travel school outreach program takes our collection on the road to thousands of school age children in our service area. Through LCVA’s collections, many in our community enjoy compelling and accessible encounters with art that might not otherwise be possible.
About LCVA:
The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts presents a rotating program of inspiring and conversation-starting exhibitions. Admission to LCVA and its programs is—and always has been—free for all. It is located at the intersection of Main and Third Streets (129 North Main Street) in Farmville, Virginia. For additional information on these programs or other exhibitions and events, contact LCVA at or 434.395.2206.
Images/Credit Lines:
Eldridge Bagley, Station Break, 2005, oil on linen, 25.13 x 29.13 x 1.5 inches (framed), Virginia Artists Collection, Gift of Julia J. Norrell, 2016.11.1.
Hope Morgan (Longwood 2016), World 2, 2015,acrylic, ink, 24.625 x 22.5 in x1.25 in, Purchase, Virginia Artists Collection 2016.5
unknown, Bakongo culture, Zaire, Slit Drum, 20th century, wood, 22.5 x 5 in, Gift of R. Keith Kissee, African Art Collection, 2016.