LCVA Events

• culptor Charlie Brouwer will give an artist’s talk Wednesday, April 2, at 6 p.m. in Bedford Auditorium, in the Brock Commons Outdoor Sculpture Program. Brouwer’s sculpture From Whence Cometh My Help?, made of locust wood, will remain on view through spring 2010. Brouwer lives in Floyd, Va., and is retired from teaching at Radford University. Since 1975 his wood sculptures have been in nearly 200 exhibitions throughout the United States and in three foreign countries.
• Erin Devine, lecturer in art history, will give an Art for Lunch talk Thursday, April 10, at 12:30 in the LCVA lower level on “Art, Internationalism, and Identity.” Using the work of three women artists who have left their native Iran, Palestine and Cuba (Shirin Neshat, Emily Jacir and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons), Devine will examine the role of identity and place in their art. The illustrated lecture also will explore the “New Internationalism,” which questions traditional boundaries among countries, genders and races.
• The Art Department Senior Exhibition opening reception will be held Saturday, April 12, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the LCVA lower level. The exhibition runs through May 10.
• Sculptor Mike Hansel will give an artist’s talk Wednesday, April 16, at 6 p.m. in Bedford Auditorium, in the Brock Commons Outdoor Sculpture Program. Hansel’s Intestinal Fortitude, made of stainless steel, which won the Best of Show award at the 2005 Port Warwick Art and Sculpture Festival in Newport News, will be on view through spring 2010. Hansel, who makes large-scale steel sculptures, heads the art department at St. George’s School and teaches art at Salve Regina University, both in Newport, Rhode Island, where he lives.
• A reception for the 13th annual Community Achievement in the Arts Awards will be held Saturday, April 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the LCVA lower level.
• “The Benefit is Mutual,” a sale of original art by Janice Lemen and Barbara Bishop, will be held Saturday, April 26, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts lower level. An LCVA exhibition featuring work by Lemen (1916-1994) and Bishop (1938-1991), longtime members of the Longwood art faculty, ends that day. Through their estates, the two artists donated a substantial number of prints, drawings and paintings to be sold to the community for the LCVA’s benefit. The works for sale are not from the LCVA’s permanent collection. Proceeds from the sale, which is made possible by contributions from Johnnie Britt Hubbel, will benefit permanent collections management including care, conservation and acquisition.