Workshops
All CVA/VFMA workshops are $25 for CVA Members and $45 for non-members. Email Debbie McClintock or call her at 434-394-2394, if you plan to come or for more information. Lecture are Free to attend.
Workshops
None at this time.
Lectures
There will be a CVA Lecture (description below) on Sunday, November 22, 3 pm, at the Farmville Public Library community room. The speaker is Jeffrey Ruggles, whom we have had before, and he is one of VMFA's most popular speakers. The CVA Lectures are open to the public and free to attend.
Edward Beyer and the Jeffersonian Landscape
The artist Edward Beyer came to the U.S. from Germany after the Revolution of 1848. For several years Beyer, a graduate of the Düsseldorf Academy, traveled around the northeastern US and Ohio, sketching, painting oil landscapes, and exhibiting a moving panorama. In the mid-1850s he traveled to Virginia, where he made panoramic oils in the western part of the state. For a number of towns Beyer’s view remains the best single historical representation. In 1857-58 he produced Album of Virginia, a portfolio of 41 lithographic views. In the Album, especially, Beyer’s vision was that of a European liberal who saw the world as a Jeffersonian idealist.
Jeffrey Ruggles works at Virginia Center on Aging, Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds a BA from the University of Virginia and an MFA in design/photography from Virginia Commonwealth University.