The Daura Museum of Art presents stimulating, innovative, and inclusive exhibitions and programs that enhance the academic curriculum, emphasize cross-cultural understanding, provide broad academic experiences, and support collaborative and interdisciplinary opportunities to meet the academic needs of the University and enhance visitors’ on-site and on-line experiences, leading to ongoing engagement with the Gallery.
Exhibitions are scheduled in the Daura Museum and Dillard Lobby Gallery for the academic year. Temporary exhibitions may be planned to correspond with University initiatives, special programs, lectures, events, or symposia scheduled by other academic programs.
Current Exhibitions
Works from the Permanent Collection.
Gallery I
Artists and artwork include Pierre Daura, Queena Stovall, Georgia Morgan, Umaña, Connie Fox, Marie Tiner, Howard Finster, Annie Tolliver, Beth Shively, African masks, and much more.
Aug. 22 to Dec. 6, 2024
An Imprint on Time: A History of Print
Gallery II
This exhibition explores the unique history of printmaking through various techniques, including woodcut, engraving, lithography, silkscreen, and modern printmaking. It will highlight the impact of the printing press on the evolution of printmaking in Europe, ushering these mediums into a new era. Additionally, the exhibition will provide detailed explanations of the processes involved in creating each technique.
Nov. 13 to Dec. 6, 2024
2024 High School Invitational Exhibition
Lobby Gallery
Celebrate with us the artistic accomplishments of regional high school students. This year, the schools represented are Altavista Combined School, Amherst County High School, Campbell County School, E. C. Glass High School, Heritage High School, Jefferson Forest High School, Nelson County High School, New Covenant School, and Liberty High School.
The closing reception will be held on Nov. 14 from 6 to 7 p.m., and the awards presentation will take place at 6:30.
Oct. 18 to Nov. 14, 2024
Past Exhibitions
2024
Elena Peteva: Of Ash and Light
Gallery II
Of Ash and Light explores individual, social and global states through allegorical representation. Subject and material become metaphor, creating a net of meaning – a charcoal drawing of hands about to reach into a dark tangle or an installation of a mound of ash. I seek a distilled representation that goes beyond the surface and invites the viewer to slow down, look closer and reflect.
Pierre Daura: Self-Portraits
A lifetime of artistic practice, viewed through the lens of the self-portrait.
John McCormick: Just a Guy with a Camera
An exhibition of photography by John McCormick celebrating almost 40 years of photojournalism, 13 years of which as a staff photographer at the University of Lynchburg.
Special Programs and Events
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Digital Exhibitions
- Forgotten Markings on Earth: Monacan Burial Mounds of Virginia
- Children’s Art During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Digital Lectures
- Color in Art
- Catalan Artist Pierre Daura as Exile, Refugee, Naturalized American Citizen Virtual Tour
Disclaimer
The subject matter and themes found in the art of all cultures and all ages often deal with explicit and/or abstract ideas and images that some individuals may find difficult or offensive. Works of art selected for and/or included in exhibitions display significant artistic merit and academic integrity. Exhibitions and associated discussions are frequently quite forthright and challenging, as the content is expressive of diverse social, cultural, religious, and/or individual values.
Assurances
- Exhibitions and public programs support the Museum’s mission;
- Exhibitions and programs are founded on scholarship, marked by intellectual integrity, and subject to academic freedom;
- Exhibitions and programs are accessible and encourage the participation of the widest possible audience consistent with the Museum’s mission and resources;
- Exhibitions and programs respect pluralistic values, traditions, and concerns.
