Upcoming Exhibitions
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 will participate in the installation of her exhibition which will include a site-specific wall installed in collaboration with Randolph College students. Her residency will culminate in a lecture at 2 p.m. on Sunday, January 19, 2025. Reception. FREE and open to the public.
Image: Ann Holsberry. Pink Moon, 2021, cyanotype, ink, and archival Printon paper on panel.
Legacy: Celebrating African American Creativity in Central Virginia through Art
On view January 25 – February 28, 2025
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of The Legacy Museum of African American History, the Daura Museum of Art at the University of Lynchburg and the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College partner to host a joint art exhibition featuring work by or about African Americans, to run simultaneously at both museums. Legacy: Celebrating African American Creativity in Central Virginia through Art is intended to highlight visual art in all its diversity, while also raising funds as part of The Legacy Museum’s anniversary year goal.
CALL FOR ARTISTS – DEADLINE DECEMBER 31st! Original artwork by or about African Americans is sought in all mediums from local artists of all ages and abilities. For more information or to indicate interest in submitting art: https://maiermuseum.org/legacyart/
The exhibition opening reception on January 25th from 2-5 pm will kick-off a year-long celebration recognizing the Legacy Museum’s twenty-five years of spotlighting local African-American history through engaging programming and educational initiatives. It is also the first time the three museums have collaborated.
Legacy is generously sponsored by Alice Hilsewick Ball ’61, Randolph College (formerly Randolph-Macon Woman’s College).
Performance and Display: The Art of Renaissance Maiolica
Opens March 21, 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 Cambell, 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.
2025 Senior Studio Art Thesis Exhibition
On view April 13 – May 11, 2025
This exhibition is the capstone project for this year’s graduating senior studio art majors Allie Allen and Elizabeth Bailey.