Current Exhibitions
Senior Studio Art Thesis Exhibition: Allie Allen and Elizabeth Bailey
On view April 13 – May 11, 2025
This exhibition is the capstone project for this year’s graduating senior studio art majors. Opening Reception: Saturday, April 13, 2025.
Foyer Focus: Inspired by Nature
On view through May 25, 2025
This intimate exhibition presents a selection of paintings and prints from the museum’s collection, several of which are on view for the first time. Inspired by Nature celebrates the intricate beauty of the plant world, highlighting artists’ interpretations of botanical forms across media and time periods. The works on view were selected in collaboration with Kristin Bliss, Professor of Biology, whose current course in Botany introduces students to the structure, function, physiology, evolution, and life history of plants. As part of their Botany Lab, students will examine these artworks to identify flower structures and apply botanical terminology, bridging scientific observation with visual interpretation.
Did you know leaf position is a characteristic used in plant identification and classification? The arrangement of leaves on a stem or branch can be alternate, opposite, spiral, or whorled—subtle details that help botanists (and students!) better understand and categorize plant life.
Ann Holsberry: Navigating Sea and Stars
On view January 19 – June 1, 2025
Ann Holsberry’s work celebrates the inherent beauty of the natural order of things in scales ranging from cosmic to microscopic representing both the vast and infinitesimal as a unified whole. Her long-term practice is a meditation on environmental changes that require humans and animals to adapt to new ways of navigating the world.
Holsberry depicts intricate networks found in nature using mixed media, especially the photographic process of cyanotype. She often incorporates materials sourced from surrounding ecosystems and also utilizes natural phenomena such as sunlight to expose prints on paper or fabric or allows time or weather to influence surfaces before embellishing with pigments, inks, wax, and embroidery.
Holsberry is the Maier Museum of Art’s 2025 Outten Visiting Artist Lecturer. In a weeklong residency, she participated in the installation of her exhibition which included a site-specific wall installed in collaboration with Randolph College students. Her residency will culminated in a lecture on Sunday, January 19, 2025.
Image: Ann Holsberry. Pink Moon, 2021, cyanotype, ink, and archival Printon paper on panel.
Performance and Display: The Art of Renaissance Maiolica
On view April 13 – November 15, 2025
Performance and Display, an exhibit of maiolica ceramics from the Italian Renaissance, highlights a fascinating period in Italian history marked by incredible advances in the arts and sciences which saw the creation of ceramics that blended artistic innovation with scientific experimentation.
The exhibition features objects that were made for everyday use, such as apothecary jars, to dramatic tableware which spoke to its owner’s status and taste. The maiolica’s imagery referring to Classical literature and the Bible and its relationship to monumental painting and sculpture speak to the elevated purpose of this art form that can shed light on the social history of the period. This exhibition, the first of its kind in Lynchburg, will offer visitors a rare opportunity to experience the art and culture of Renaissance Italy through its stunning ceramic works.
Performance and Display: The Art of Renaissance Maiolica is Randolph College student Jake Lofaso’s senior capstone project for his museum and heritage studies major. Lofaso curated the exhibition with guidance from Andrea Campbell, PhD, professor of art history and director of the museum and heritage studies program. The exhibition features loans from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Image: Francesco Xanto Avelli, Shallow Bowl on Low Foot with the Conversion of Saul, c.1525, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Ongoing
The Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College houses an outstanding collection of American art, chiefly paintings, works on paper, and photographs dating from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Explore this chronological exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection, including works by artists such as Milton Avery, Thomas Hart Benton, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Edward Hopper, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, and more. Explore works on view >>
Image: Edward Hopper, Mrs. Scott’s House, 1932, oil on canvas. Collection of the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College.
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