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Together, Again

October 15, 2025-February 26, 2026
Together, Again is a collection of magical, familiar, and tender moments found in the work of Cozbi A. Cabrera. This artist, dollmaker, quilter, and author takes notice and finds meaning…

CHASM: Intuition, Risk, and Certainty

September 12, 2025 17:30-February 2, 2026 20:00
CHASM Exhibition Catalogue

Past Events

Start with Art, Learn for Life: 2025 Annual Area Youth Art Exhibition

June 8, 2025-September 21, 2025
Start with Art, Learn for Life: 2025 Annual Area Youth Art Exhibition 8 June- 21 September 2025 Exhibition Opening Reception Sunday 8 June from 2-4pm This exhibition features the work…

A Gracious Plenty: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Jack Blanton

June 4, 2025 00:00-August 31, 2025 23:59
A Gracious Plenty: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Jack Blanton  4 June — 31 August 2025  An opening reception will be held Wednesday 4 June from 5 to 8…

Point of Departure, 2025 Senior Show Reception

May 2, 2025-May 14, 2025
2 — 14 MAY 2025  OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY 2 MAY FROM 5:30 TO 8 P.M.  EARLY ENTRY FOR FRIENDS AND PARTNERS AT 5 P.M.  Point of Departure is a group…

Point of Departure, 2025 Senior Exhibition

May 2, 2025-May 14, 2025
2 — 14 MAY 2025  OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY 2 MAY FROM 5:30 TO 8 P.M.  EARLY ENTRY FOR FRIENDS AND PARTNERS AT 5 P.M.  Point of Departure is a group…

Working Artist Exhibition

May 2, 2025-May 14, 2025
2 — 14 MAY 2025 OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY 2 MAY FROM 5:30 TO 8 P.M. EARLY ENTRY FOR FRIENDS AND PARTNERS AT 5 P.M. Working Artist is a group exhibition…
Untitled (Animal made of carpeting, with large caterpillars and small figure outlined in orange)

Choose Your Own Adventure Exhibition Celebration

January 31, 2025 17:30
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…
Bagley Fruit Stand painting

Choose Your Own Adventure

January 31, 2025 08:00-May 25, 2025 17:00
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…
acrylic on canvas painting

LCVA’s Art After Dark Presents a Gallery Talk with Dr. Debra Jean Ambush

October 23, 2024 18:00
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,…
Bad Kitty Starry Night

Bad Kitty Does Not Like Art Museums

October 16, 2024 11:00-February 9, 2025 17:00
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…
still from Of Time, and the Town by Dave Ellsworth

Of Time, and the Town

September 6, 2024 08:00-January 21, 2025 17:00
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…

Start with Art, Learn for Life

June 9, 2024 11:00-September 8, 2024 18:00
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…
Joseph Allen Postcard

A Way of Life: The Art of Joseph “JB” Allen

May 31, 2024 08:00-August 28, 2024 17:00
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…
2006 17 11

Main Street Museum: On Our Way

May 10, 2024 08:00-August 20, 2024 17:00
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…
LCVA First People Announcement extension (2)

First, PEOPLE Artist Call for Entries

January 10, 2024 08:00-February 7, 2024 17:00
 

Exhibition: Flapper Fashion of the 1920s

November 3, 2023 08:00-February 11, 2024 08:00
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

October 6, 2023 08:00-February 18, 2024 17:00
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…
Kissee Painting

Exhibition: Keith Kissee Memorial

October 6, 2023 08:00-February 11, 2024 17:00
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)

September 1, 2023 08:00-October 20, 2023 17:00
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…
Reflections of the Heart: Eldridge Bagley – 50 Years of Painting

Reflections of the Heart: Eldridge Bagley – 50 Years of Painting

December 9, 2022-April 16, 2023
Eldridge Bagley began painting fifty years ago while he was still living with his parents on their farm in rural Lunenburg County, Virginia.
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts • 129 N. Main St. • Farmville, VA 23901

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