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The VMFA Artmobile will bring View from Home: Landscapes of Virginia to Danville July 15-16.
Watch for the Artmobile Coming to Danville by Joyce Wilburn
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n Tuesday, July 14, be on the lookout for an 18 wheeler cruising through Danville on the way to the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History (DMFAH) on Main Street. Follow the massive vehicle that is thirteen feet longer than a traditional tractor trailer to the parking lot behind the DMFAH at 975 Main Street and watch for ninety minutes as it magically transforms into a mini-art museum. You will have witnessed the arrival of the Artmobile from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)!
be played on the outside. This traveling museum is a modern descendant of the world’s first Artmobile that traveled the roads of Virginia from 1953 to 1994. Today’s version is handicap accessible and climate controlled. Accept this invitation for a break from routine and travel Virginia with your eyes. • The Artmobile will be open to the public on Wednesday, July 15, and Thursday, July 16, from 2:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. • The tour is free but tickets/ ticket numbers must be reserved and obtained from the DMFAH. For more info about tickets contact the DMFAH at info@ danvillemuseum.org. No more than two tickets can be reserved per email. • For more information, visit www.vmfa.museum and www. danvillemuseum.org or call 434.793.5644.
Doors will open at 9:00 a.m. the next day, July 15. For two days, visitors can view paintings, photographs, woodblock prints and engravings from the Virginia Museum’s permanent collection in Richmond. A View from Home: Landscapes of Virginia showcases artists of various styles and periods who record the unspoiled nature of Virginia and the impact of human activity on it. Plan to stay for thirty to sixty minutes and enjoy the free interactive exhibit suitable for children and adults. If visitors have to wait to enter, they can watch an entertaining and educational O. Winston Link’s famous 1957 photo taken in Rural Retreat video that will will be on exhibit in the Artmobile.
