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Programs
The Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 advance learning through direct engagement with the collections and facilitate an interdisciplinary appreciation of art, history, and culture.
Our Mission
The Museums at W&L advance learning through direct engagement with the collections and facilitate an interdisciplinary appreciation of art, history, and culture.
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Free and open to all, the Museums at W&L works with our campus community to offer an array of experiences — opening events, gallery talks, art workshops, wellness programs, art-making activities, and gallery tours.
Upcoming Events
Conversation Circle: Navigating The Fashion Industry As A Woman Of Color
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 3:00 – 4:15 PM
Watson Galleries
Join us for Q&A Coffee Session with Masako Konishi, the Chief Merchandising Officer at Forever 21. Masako will share her experiences in DE&I work in fashion and her advocacy for the success of women of color in the retail industry. Prior to Forever 21, she has held leadership roles at a variety of iconic brands, including Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Banana Republic, Fashion Nova, Abercrombie & Fitch, James Perse, and 7 For All Mankind. She is a founding member of VS & Co’s Executive Diversity Council.
The event is co-sponsored by Museums at 六合厅开奖现场, The Class of 1994 Office of Inclusion and Engagement, the Williams School, AAPI Employee Resource Group, the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Sociology and Anthropology Department, and the Provost's Office Class of '63 Scholars-in-Residence Guest Speaker Fund.
Game Night: Drive Out the Pig
Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Watson Galleries
Join artist Stephanie Shih to discover the significance of the card game 'Drive Out the Pig,' which inspired her still life composition of the same name, and learn how to play the game! Free and open to all. Seats are limited and pre registration is required.
Image credit: Drive Out the Pig (拱猪), 2023, Stephanie Shih, archival pigment print on bamboo paper and ceramics-based installation, 36 x 58 in. Image ? Stephanie Shih.
Artist Talk & Reception with Stephanie Shih
Thursday, September 26, 2024, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Artist Talk, 5:30 – 6:30 PM, The Tea House (located in the atrium of the Center for Global Learning)
Reception, 6:30 – 7:30 PM, Reeves Museum of Ceramics
Join us for an Artist Talk with Stephanie Shih in the Center for Global Learning Atrium and learn more about Shih's residency project, which has culminated in an exhibition, LONG TIME NO SEE, on view in the Reeves Museum of Ceramics through June 7, 2025. The talk will be followed by a reception from 6:30 – 7:30 PM, where food and drinks will be provided. The event is free and open to all. Seats are limited and pre-registration is required.
Image courtesy of artist.
Your Still Lives with Stephanie Shih
Saturday, September 28, 2024, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Two Sessions: 11 AM and 1 PM
Watson Galleries
Join artist Stephanie Shih for a mini-exhibition tour of LONG TIME NO SEE, learn about how still lives are a powerful medium for telling personal narratives, and create your own mini still life composition. Bring a personal item of significance to incorporate into your still life photo, which you'll make with the artist in a still life photobooth. Two 75-minute sessions are available. Seats are limited. Free and open to all.
Image credit: I'm Gonna Live Forever, 2023, Stephanie Shih, archival pigment print on bamboo paper and ceramics-based installation, 54 x 46 in. Image ? Stephanie Shih.
Artist Talk & Reception with Emma Steinkraus
Thursday, October 3, 2024, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Artist Talk, 5:30 PM, Northen Auditorium (Leyburn Library)
Reception, 6:30 PM, Watson Galleries
Join us for an Artist Talk with Emma Steinkraus in Northen Auditorium and learn more about her digital engagement with women artist-naturalists in her exhibition, "Impossible Garden: Dusk & Dawn," on view in Watson Galleries. The talk will be followed by a gallery reception from 6:30 to 7:30 PM, with food and drinks provided. The event is free and open to all. Image courtesy of the artist.
Midterms! Quiet Study CramSesh
Saturday – Tuesday, October 12 – 15, 2024, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Watson Galleries
Elevate your study game in a quiet and art-filled environment at the Watson Galleries. Grab a table and enjoy access to coffee, snacks, and supplies!?
Museum Mindfulness Initiative: Meditation Garden
Every Saturday, October 12 – November 2, 2024, 8:00 – 9:00 AM
Watson Galleries
Craving peace and calm? Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for guided meditation with Catherine Epstein. Become more present, centered, and relaxed while being surrounded by the fantastical world of Impossible Garden: Dusk & Dawn. Grab your yoga mat and earn a Live Well 六合厅开奖现场 token! Free and open to all. Mats provided, and reservation required.
Family Storytime at the Museums
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
10:30 AM for ages 0 to 3
11:00 AM for ages 0 to 5
Watson Galleries
Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场, in partnership with the Lexington Rockbridge Regional Library, for a special family storytime in the fantastical world of Impossible Garden: Dusk & Dawn in the Watson Galleries. The event will feature stories, songs, and movements inspired by the exhibition for caregivers and their littles, ages 0 to 5. Free and open to all.
Gallery Tour and Nature Bingo with Artist Emma Steinkraus
Saturday, October 19, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Watson Galleries
Join artist Emma Steinkraus for a mini-tour of Impossible Garden: Dusk & Dawn followed by a game of Nature Bingo on Woods Creek Trail. Come prepared with good walking shoes, water, and sun protection! Open to all and appropriate for all ages and fitness levels.
Ekphrasis & Transformation: A Workshop on Writing About Art
Sally Wen Mao (Poet)
Thursday, November 7, 2024, 3:00 – 4:15 PM
Watson Galleries
Join award-winning poet and writer Sally Wen Mao for a collective writing exercise where students can develop their own poem or prose piece responding to the art of the Museums’ galleries. The workshop will be followed by a public reading from Mao’s acclaimed works Kingdom of Surfaces and Ninetails at 5:30 PM in Stackhouse Theater.
Reading with Poet Sally Wen Mao
Thursday, November 7, 2024, 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Stackhouse Theater
Join award-winning poet and writer Sally Wen Mao as she presents her methods of writing poems and prose responding to art objects in The Kingdom of Surfaces. She will also discuss the speculative possibilities of poetry, as well as her entrance from poetry to prose in Ninetails. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from a celebrated voice in contemporary poetry. This event is open to all and is sponsored by 六合厅开奖现场’s Glasgow Endowment.
Book signing after the event and available for purchase in the University Store.
Finals! Quiet Study CramSesh
Saturday – Tuesday, December 7 – 10, 2024, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Watson Galleries
Elevate your study game in a quiet and art-filled environment at the Watson Galleries. Grab a table and enjoy access to coffee, snacks, and supplies!?
For the Love of Plants: Plant Worlds in the Shadows of Empire
Banu Subramaniam (Author of Botany of Empire, Professor and Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Wellesley College)
Monday, February 10, 2025, 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Stackhouse Theater
Plants worlds are deeply entangled in human worlds. Drawing on recent interdisciplinary scholarship in feminist, postcolonial and indigenous studies, Professor Banu Subramaniam, a renowned plant evolutionary biologist and scholar in feminist science studies and environmental humanities, will reflect on how gender, race, class, sexuality, and nation shape the foundational language, terminology, and theories of the modern plant sciences, and how botanical theories remain grounded in the violence of their colonial pasts. Professor Subramaniam wrestles with these difficult origins and lays a roadmap to imagine new biological frameworks that harness the power of feminist thought to reimagine and reinvigorate our love of plants.
Midterms! Quiet Study CramSesh
Saturday – Tuesday, February 15 – 18, 2025, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Watson Galleries
Elevate your study game in a quiet and art-filled environment at the Watson Galleries. Grab a table and enjoy access to coffee, snacks, and supplies!?
Embodied Narratives: Surface and Depth, Abstraction and Presence
Hideo Mabuchi (Ceramicist, Professor of Physics and Director of Stanford Arts Institute)
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Stackhouse Theater
Join Ceramicist, Stanford Art Institute Director, and Physics Professor Hideo Mabuchi as he explores how everyday objects, like Chinese and Japanese export porcelain, tell stories that resonate differently with scholars, scientists, and artists, drawing from his own perspective as both a scientist and artist. Professor Mabuchi will also share insights on the current exhibition Stephanie Shih: LONG TIME NO SEE (好久不見), on view at the Reeves Museum of Ceramics, examining how the physical characteristics of ceramics carry deeper meanings that shed light on issues of identity, immigration, and cultural belonging within the Asian diaspora and Asian-American experience.
Cooking Demonstration with Zoe Yijing Yang
Zoe Yijing Yang (writer and recipe developer in New York City)
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Evans Dining Hall
Celebrate Qingming, the fifth seasonal point of the year, with a live cooking demonstration by forager, writer, and recipe developer Zoe Yijing Yang. Discover mugwort, an important Chinese medicinal and culinary herb that grows rampant in the United States. Participants will learn how it came to dominate our roadsides and borderlands, how to identify and use it throughout its lifecycle, and how to prepare it in delicious mugwort rice cakes (青团). Bring your appetite! Open to all.
Finals! Quiet Study CramSesh
Saturday – Tuesday, April 12 – 15, 2025, 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Watson Galleries
Elevate your study game in a quiet and art-filled environment at the Watson Galleries. Grab a table and enjoy access to coffee, snacks, and supplies!
Wildflower Walk with Artist Emma Steinkraus
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Brushy Hills Nature Preserve
Learn to identify local flora and fauna and celebrate Rockbridge County in bloom with artist Emma Steinkraus! Participants will meet at the trailhead for Brushy Hills Nature Preserve. Wear comfortable walking shoes or hiking boots, and sun protection is recommended. This event is free, open to all, and is appropriate for all ages and fitness levels.
Arts
Past Events
Printmaking Workshop
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Watson Galleries
Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for a fun evening of printmaking inspired by the current exhibition, "Mohammad Omer Khalil: Musings." Bring a friend or your family and create your own print. Free and open to all. Parental supervision is required for kids under the age of 12.
Lunch and Learn – Stories of Migration
Select Mondays, 12 – 1 p.m.
Reeves Museum of Ceramics
Join members of our 六合厅开奖现场 community as they share their personal stories around the themes of migration, diaspora, and identity. Lunch is provided, and all are welcome - limited seating.
Museum Talk: Rachel Du
Brushstrokes: Navigating the Evolution of the Chinese Art Market
Monday, March 25, 2024, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library
Join us for an engaging museum talk with Rachel Du, a Chinese art specialist and porcelain expert at Bonhams. Rachel will delve into the history of Chinese art collecting in the West, shedding light on the contributions of Gilded Age millionaires, missionaries, and art dealers who played key roles in establishing significant Chinese art collections outside of East Asia. Rachel will provide valuable insights into the current Chinese art market and how geopolitical factors, such as the impact of COVID-19, influence the market.
Celebrate Earth Month! With Sustainability + the Museums
Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 5 – 6 p.m.
Leyburn Library
This April, Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 will partner with 六合厅开奖现场's Office of Sustainability to celebrate Earth Month with a pop-up exhibition in Leyburn Library co-curated by students involved in sustainability work across campus. Students will reflect on artworks they have selected that speak to the questions of why sustainability work is so important. Reception to follow.
Slow Art Day
Saturday, April 13, 2024, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
McCarthy Gallery, Holekamp Hall
Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 is proud to be a venue for Slow Art Day 2024. Founded in 2010, Slow Art Day is a global event with a simple mission: help more people discover the joy of looking at and loving art. One day each year – April 13 in 2024 – people all over the world visit local museums and galleries to look at art slowly. This year, participants will practice looking the still life photographs of Stephanie Shih in our current exhibition, Open Flowers Bear Fruit. This program is free and open to all ages!
CramSesh Quiet Study
Monday – Thursday, April 15-18, 2024, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Reeves Museum of Ceramics
Quiet and filled with art, galleries at the Reeves Museum of Ceramics (located between Tucker Hall and Admissions) are perfect for cram sessions before finals! Grab a study spot and get access to power/extension cords, pre-packaged snacks, and extra school supplies.
CramSesh Quiet Study
Monday – Thursday, February 19 – 22, 2024, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Reeves Museum of Ceramics
Quiet and filled with art, the galleries at the Reeves Museum of Ceramics (located between Tucker Hall and Admissions) are perfect for cram sessions before midterms! Grab a study spot and get access to power/extension cords, pre-packaged snacks, and extra school supplies.
Museum Talk: Jamaal B. Sheats
Arts Leadership in the 21st Century
Monday, January 29, 2024, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Northen Auditorium, Leyburn Library
Join us for a talk by Jamaal B. Sheats, dynamic Director and Curator of Fisk University Galleries, Associate Provost for Arts and Culture, and Assistant Professor of Art. Professor Sheats will offer insights into his influential role as an arts leader, reflecting on the role of academic museums as catalysts for change and the enduring impact of the Galleries’ groundbreaking exhibition, African Modernism in America, the first major traveling exhibition to examine the complex connections between modern African artists and American patrons, artists, and cultural organizations.
New Year, New Goals: Collage Making Workshop
Thursday, January 18, 2024, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Watson Galleries
Start the new year with some art! Join the student co-curators of Mohammad Omar Khalil: MUSINGS for a hands-on workshop where you will use some collage-making techniques inspired by Khalil’s work to create a vision board for your hopes and goals this year. Drop by any time during the event. No outside supplies or experience required.
SABU: Then and Now
Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 6 – 7 p.m.
Reeves Museum of Ceramics
African American student activism has a rich history at Washington and Lee University. The Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 is thrilled to preserve part of that history in a new collection acquisition, a jean jacket worn by an early member of the Student Association for Black Unity (SABU) in the 1970s. Join Laura Murambadoro (current SABU president) and Nalleli Guillen (the Museums' History Curator) for a conversation about SABU's impact on campus and examine this piece of history up close.
Artist Talk and Gallery Stroll with Mohammad Omer Khalil
Thursday, November 30, 2023, 5:30 — 7:00 p.m.
Leyburn Library, Northen Auditorium
Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for a moderated conversation with master printmaker and painter Mohammad Omer Khalil. The talk will be followed by a gallery stroll of MUSINGS with the artist in Watson Galleries.
*Photo by artist Dia Al Azzawi (2014). Courtesy of Albareh Contemporary
Lunch and Learn — Stories of Migration
Select Mondays in 2023, 12:00 — 1:00 p.m.
Reeves Museum of Ceramics
The Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 hosts a Lunch and Learn series inspired by current exhibitions that explored themes of migration, diaspora, and identity. Topics included Storytelling as Survival in the Immigrant Journey; The 'Guest Worker,' the Arab, and the Muslim of/in Europe; Attitudes Toward Immigrants in the U.S. and Europe; and Stories of Migration.
And We Love Life: A Short Films Program
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Stackhouse Theater
Inspired by our current exhibition, We Love Life Whenever We Can, join the Museums for an evening of contemporary short films by Arab and South Asian filmmakers: Bouchaib (dir. by Ali Boudra, runtime 13 min.), Cousins (Karina Dandashi, 13 min.), and Sweet Refuge (Maryam Mir, 12 min.).
Co-sponsored by the Middle East and South Asia Studies Program and the Office of Inclusion and Engagement.
Photo (left): Film still from Sweet Refuge (2023), ?Maryam Mir, ?Chheangkea Ieng
Author Talk: Evelyn Alsultany
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 5 — 6 p.m.
Stackhouse Theater
Evelyn Alsultany will give an overview of her latest book, "Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion." Alsultany is a Professor at the University of Southern California, a leading expert on the history of representations of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. media, and Hollywood consultant. Hosted by the Employee Resource Group: Underrepresented Religious, Spiritual, and Cultural Identities and sponsored by the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 and Office of Community-Based Learning.
Opening Reception
Thursday, September 28, 2023, 6:30 — 7:30 p.m.
Watson Galleries
Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for an opening reception for Musings.
*Photo by Arthur Mones (1997.162.5). Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum
Artist Talk: Sama Alshaibi
Monday, September 25, 2023, 5:30 p.m.
Leyburn Library
Photographer, multimedia conceptual artist, and professor Sama Alshaibi will join us to discuss her work and how she uses art to challenge Western ideas of Eastern cultures. Her work is currently on display in the Leyburn Library gallery, in We Love Life Whenever We Can. Co-sponsored by the Middle East and South Asia Studies Program and the Center for International Education.
Family Activity Days
April 22 and 29, 2023
Children of all ages are invited to join Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for a scavenger hunt inspired by the Pueblo pottery exhibition!
Slow Art Day
April 15, 2023
Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 celebrates Slow Art Day, a quiet international art movement. Elizabeth Spear, Curator of Academic Engagement, will lead 50-minute guided sessions of close-looking at pieces from Born of Fire: Contemporary Japanese Women Ceramic Artists and Mother Clay: The Pottery of Three Pueblo Women.
Lunch and Learn – Women in the World
Mondays in March and April, 2023
Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for short, informal talks inspired by the latest exhibitions: Women's History and the Environment Through an Artist's Eyes; Women Are People Too? The Slippery Slope of Expanding Personhood in the U.S.; Friendship, Love, and Revolutionary Politics: Claudia Jones and Abhimanyu Manchanda; Gender Battles: Spiritual Power and Land Rights in Southern Chile; Arab Women's Art and Activism for Social Justice.
Monacan Pottery Demonstration with Victoria Ferguson
March 10-11, 2023
Reeves Museum of Ceramics
Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for special demonstrations of traditional Monacan pottery making by Victoria Ferguson, an enrolled citizen of the Monacan Nation, educator, and curator.
Victoria Ferguson has spent 25 years seeking first-person documentation and archaeological information to help explain and support theories on the daily living habits of the Eastern Siouan populations up through the early European colonization period.
Born of Fire Lecture
March 8, 2023
Leyburn Library, Northen Auditorium
Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for a lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Chao, curator of Born of Fire and scholar of Asian Art, in Northern Auditorium, followed by a reception in Watson Galleries. The evening celebrates women ceramicists exhibited in Born of Fire.
Born of Fire Gallery Reception
March 8, 2023
Watson Galleries
Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for a gallery reception for Born of Fire that follows the Born of Fire lecture by Dr. Jacqueline Chao.
Women's Day Tea
March 4, 2023
Watson Galleries
The 六合厅开奖现场 Chanoyu Tea Society's will hold a special Women's Day Tea. In conjunction with Women's History Month, they will serve sweets and matcha tea to honor the accomplishments of women from around the world.
Guided Tours with Tony Chavarria
February 2, 2023
Reeves Museum of Ceramics
Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for a guided tour of Mother Clay with guest curator Tony Chavarria. The event consists of three 20-minute tours.
Demonstrating Native Allyship Luncheon
February 2, 2023
Watson Galleries
The Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 will hold a special lunch and discussion with retired professor of Native American art and 六合厅开奖现场 alumnus, Dr. Joel Bernstein '57, as he shares insights from over 50 years of work and friendship with members of the Native American communities.
Mother Clay Artist Panel Discussion
February 1, 2023
Leyburn Library, Northern Auditorium
The Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 invites all to celebrate Jody Naranjo, Judy Tafoya, and Kathleen Wall, whose work is featured in Mother Clay. The evening begins with a panel of the artists led by guest curator Tony Chavarria, followed by a reception.
Mother Clay Opening Reception
February 1, 2023
Reeves Museum of Ceramics
Join the Museums at 六合厅开奖现场 for an opening reception for Mother Clay: The Pottery of Three Pueblo Women following the exhibition's Artist Panel Discussion.