Current and Upcoming Events
Choose Your Own Adventure Exhibition Celebration
Choose Your Own Adventure January 31 to May 25, 2025 Exhibition Celebration • Friday 31 January• 5:30–8 P.M. Early Entry for Friends and Partners at 5 P.M. Inspired by the…
Bad Kitty Does Not Like Art Museums
Art museums are great! You can see many wonderful things, the curator exclaimed. Bad Kitty does not agree. Her dislike of them remained. Could a visit change her mind? Would…
Letters from Farmville: Reflections on Ancestral Arrival into Descendant Memory
In 1989 Dr. Debra Jean Ambush came to Farmville to help settle an estate for a recently passed family member. In her family’s farm house was a trunk. This trunk…
Of Time, and the Town
Of Time, and the Town from filmmaker David Ellsworth poetically depicts twenty years of changes and constants in the built environment of Farmville, Virginia and in the rural areas surrounding…
Past Events
LCVA’s Art After Dark Presents a Gallery Talk with Dr. Debra Jean Ambush
Join artist Dr. Debra Jean Ambush for a discussion of her current exhibition, Letters from Farmville: Reflections on Ancestral Arrival into Descendant Memory. This program will be held on Wednesday,…
Start with Art, Learn for Life
Start with Art, Learn for Life 2024 Annual Area Youth Art Exhibition June 9th-September 8th 2024 Exhibition Opening Reception Sunday, June 9th from 2-4pm This exhibition features the work of…
A Way of Life: The Art of Joseph “JB” Allen
A Way of Life: The Art of Joseph “JB” Allen On View: May 31 to August 28, 2024 A Way of Life highlights 58 years of painting from local artist…
Main Street Museum: On Our Way
Main Street Museum: On Our Way Someone who plays music is a musician. Someone who acts is an actor. And, someone who makes art is an artist. Often times artists…
Exhibition: Flapper Fashion of the 1920s
With the end of World War I in 1918 came great social, economic, and cultural changes that reverberated throughout America in the 1920s. The rejection of social formalities and the…
Exhibition: The Adventures of Timothy Basil Ering
Discover Frog Belly Rat Bone and Other Adventures – Acclaimed Children’s Lit Illustrator/Author Timothy Basil Ering at Longwood Center for the Visual Arts The New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Timothy…
Exhibition: Keith Kissee Memorial
To collect is to remember. People collect shells, coins, baseball cards, and often art. Each object can instill unique and deep emotional memories for the collector. For Keith Kissee collecting…
Exhibition: I Am A Man (Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement)
The 1960–1970 decade was a momentous time for the civil rights movement in the American South. It was a historic decade that unleashed both hope for the future and profound…