The new World Trade Center is a space of remembering and healing, as well as a tribute to life and art. This place serves as a memorial designed to honor people and commemorate heroes and connects the past and the future to the present through architecture. The buildings and spaces designed by Daniel Libeskind, Michael … Read more
Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) first gained notoriety through printmaking, a practice he maintained throughout his career – though many know him now as a sculptor. In addition, he founded the Gehenna Press and collaborated with artists, writers, and other presses to produce artists’ books and bound publications. This exhibition focuses on Baskin’s prints, in which … Read more
The exhibition grows out of a class for freshmen, Photomania, that introduces new William & Mary students to photography and to undergraduate-level study in the liberal arts by combining readings and lectures in the history and theory of photography with hands-on demonstrations and original work in contemporary and historical photographic techniques. Students learn the fundamentals of … Read more
This exhibition —The Art of Well-Being — will not attempt to define either art or well-being. Rather it presents a range of works from the collection of the Muscarelle Museum of Art selected to explore those ideas. The exhibition has five sections—individual; kin; community; natural world; and art making. Individually and in groups, the paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and other media … Read more
Scales of Chaos: The Dance of Art and Contemporary Science is the result of a required practicum course for Art History majors called The Curatorial Project (ARTH 331) taught each spring with the exhibition topic coinciding with the university’s COLL 300 theme. For spring 2020, the theme is SCALE, and the course was taught by … Read more
The Museum strives to build the collection in meaningful and strategic ways, including a commitment to inclusivity and representation. It became apparent during a survey of the greater collection that photography remains an under-represented media in the Museum’s overall holdings. With this knowledge and the 2015 launch of the photography program at William & Mary, … Read more
In this exhibition of American paintings, the Muscarelle Museum of Art honors a longtime supporter and friend, Carroll Owens, Jr., who passed away in Alexandria on October 12, 2019. Carroll was a 1962 graduate of William & Mary, where he was a member of both the football and tennis teams. Following his time in Williamsburg, … Read more
This exhibition explores ceremony as a vital creative impulse expressed in remarkably diverse ways that reflect the emotional power of objects. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “ceremony” as “an outward rite or observance, religious or held sacred; the performance of some solemn act according to prescribed form.” Drawing upon collections at the Muscarelle Museum of … Read more
In the spring of 2018, the Muscarelle Museum of Art presented Women with Vision, a milestone exhibition in anticipation of the 100-year anniversary of the first women students admitted to the College of William & Mary. The exhibition, recreated here for Virtual Muscarelle and for the 100 Years of Women celebration at William & Mary, featured paintings, drawings, works on … Read more
Hark Upon a History: The 1929 Journey to England, curated by Sydney Stewart, ’16 and Michaela Wright, ’16, is a companion exhibition to Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School. The exhibition tells the story of William & Mary President Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler and his journey to explore and … Read more
VIRTUAL MUSCARELLE is proud to present Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection comprised of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by renowned artists. Created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first African American students in residence at William & Mary, Building on the Legacy: African American Art from the Permanent Collection was part … Read more
Rising: The American Indian Movement and the Third Space of Sovereignty was originally scheduled to run from April 17 through August 2, 2020. In light of current conditions the Dr. Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and her nine Anthropology and Native Studies students enrolled in the spring 2020 Native American Sovereignty senior seminar re-imagined the exhibition in an exciting and … Read more
