VMFA Museum Gallery Tour Meet-Up: The Dirty South - Members Only
Thursday, June 17, 20216:00 PMVMFA Museum Gallery tour meet-up:Join fellow members of the chapter for a tour of the current exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA): The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse.This groundbreaking exhibition explores the legacies of traditional southern aesthetics in contemporary culture and features multiple generations of artists working in a variety of genres.The visual expression of the African American South along with the Black sonic culture are overlooked tributaries to the development of art in the United States and serve as interlocutors of American modernism. This exhibition looks to the contributions of artists, academically trained as well as those who were relegated to the margins as “outsiders,” to uncover the foundational aesthetics that gave rise to the shaping of our contemporary expression.Ultimately, The Dirty South creates a meta-understanding of southern expression—as personified in the visual arts, material culture, and music—as an extension of America’s first conceptual artists, those of African descent. The exhibition traces across time and history, the indelible imprint of this legacy as seen through the visual and sonic culture of today.
$10 ticketGroup limited to 10 members, tour of exhibit and PMI tee-shirt included in ticket price.
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