A! Magazine for the Arts Archive

In This Issue

• The New Virginia Museum — Expect to be Wowed

  Nearly four thousand pieces of art — with 35% never on view before — a 27-ton marble pavilion imported from India, a 50% increase in the size of the permanent collection galleries, and a 143,500-volume library are just a few of the improvements that

• McGlothlins Bequeath Art Collection to VMFA An exhibition of more than 70 paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from the McGlothlin collection of 19th- and 20th-century American art will inaugurate the new VMFA building, along with selections from a major new bequest of German Expressionist work
• VMFA's Local Connections In 1989 the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts welcomed the William King Museum in Abingdon as the newest member among its 200 statewide partners.
• Connections: VMFA Artmobiles In 1953 the Artmobile became the world's first mobile art gallery and toured the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts collection to hundreds of communities for more than 40 years.
• Connections: Jeffrey Allison Even a "local boy" can make it in the world of fine art in Richmond, Va. A native of Saltville, Va., Jeffrey Allison taught photography at several area colleges in Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. Today he is the Paul Mellon Collection Educator
• Connections: Heather Harvey In 2009, sculptor Heather Harvey from Big Stone Gap, Va., received a Professional Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
• Connections: VMFA Statewide Partners In the 1980s, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts phased out the Artmobile and initiated a ground-breaking program to lend works from the collection directly to art facilities across the state. Exhibitions now travel to Statewide Partners such as Abingdon's
• Connections: 'Art on the Spot' During VMFA's expansion construction, galleries sometimes were closed or became inaccessible to school groups. An Art on the Spot program was launched as an in-school alternative.
• Young Equestrian Enjoys Acting Knowing how children find it difficult to be still, I watched with admiration while 8-year-old Halle Harrison patiently waited her turn to perform during Barter Theatre's production of Heaven Sent (November 2009).

A! Extra

• Early Deadlines for MARCH 2010 A! Magazine for the Arts Our February 2010 edition will be inserted in the Bristol Herald Courier on Wednesday, Jan. 27. Please check out the deadlines for our MARCH 2010 print edition.
• Katherine Paterson Named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Katherine Paterson, author of "Bridge to Terabithia," was named National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on Jan. 5, 2010.
• Arts Funding Recommended for Southwest Virginia
• Virginia Arts Commission Suspends Funding As a result of the poor economy and declining state revenues, state funding for the Virginia Commission for the Arts has already been reduced by more than 30%. Further cuts are being proposed for 2010-11, forcing the Commission to suspend some funding cat
• Virginia Arts Commission Seeks Input The 2010 Art Works for Virginia conference will include the first-ever Rural Arts Roundtable. The conference will be held Wednesday, Jan. 27 in Richmond.
• Dr. Ted Olson edits 2009 'CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual' Dr. Ted Olson of East Tennessee State University's Center for Appalachian Studies and Services has edited the 2009 edition of CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, a publication dedicated to the interdisciplinary study and artistic appreciation of the So
• Barter Theatre Inks Agreement with E&H Barter Theatre and Emory & Henry College have signed an agreement that continues a collaborative arrangement aimed at enhancing professional theatre education for E&H students.