Hampton University Museum

PROGRAMS CALENDAR
Academic Year 2009-2010

February 9, 2009 - August 28, 2009

Common Ground, Uncommon Vision:
Four Howard University Trained Artists

Over the last eight decades Howard University has established an important place for itself in the art world as a fertile training ground for artists and scholars. Common Ground, Uncommon Vision, celebrates that evolving tradition by bringing together a group of Howard University trained exhibiting artists who also teach. The participating artists are Kwabena Ampofo-Anti, Rudolph and Carolyn Mendes, Gina Lewis and Richard Ward. The exhibit features over thirty works executed in a variety of media. While Common Ground, Uncommon Vision artists are unique in their artistic inspirations and processes, they share a common training and a common dedication to an aesthetic and intellectual ideal. It is an ideal that they pursue in their own work, and seek to instill in the students that they teach.

There will be an opening reception for Common Ground, Uncommon Visions on
Friday, February 6, 2009, at 5:30 p.m.

October 2, 2009 - November 28, 2009

Whitfield Lovell: One Man's Treasures

Whitfield Lovell, a 2007 MacArthur Fellow is known as a painter and installation artist. Lovell will exhibit a number of his meticulous, life-sized charcoal portraits on wooden panels that are typically shown with various found objects. An avid collector of treasures, patrons will be awestruck at the assemblages Lovell creates.

Works for this exhibition are on loan from the D.C. Moore Gallery of New York, private collectors and museum collections including Hampton University Museum’s piece, Fortune.

November 11, 2009-November 15, 2009

Fall 2009 Friends of the Museum Trip to St. Helena Island, South Carolina.
27th Annual Penn Center Heritage Days Celebration

Join the Hampton University Museum Friend’s group as we travel to historic St. Helena Island, South Carolina to visit Penn Center for the 27th Annual celebration of Sea Island history and culture. We will stay at the historic Arnett House on the campus of Penn Center. All other activities will take place on the grounds or surrounding area of Penn Center.

The Hampton University Museum Fall 2009 Trip to St. Helena Island, South Carolina has been cancelled because we did not reach our limit for deposits.

December 11, 2009

Holiday Marketplace

Purchase your holiday and Kwanzaa gifts from the museum and select vendors while you enjoy art and music. To RSVP call 757.727.5308.

January 29, 2010 - September 2010

The City of Hampton's 400th Anniversary
The City of Hampton: Through the Lens of Reuben V. Burrell and James Van Der Zee

Reuben V. Burrell has documented through photographs a half of a century of Hampton University events – both big and small. Not only is Mr. Burrell the Griot (historian) of the University but his lens goes beyond the campus into the surrounding community. Coming to Hampton as a student in 1938 Burrell finished his course requirements in 1940, after which, World War II was pending. He received a B.S. degree in Industrial Arts from Hampton in 1947, and then enrolled at New York University where he earned his M.A. degree in Industrial Arts Education in 1949. Hired at Hampton in December 1949, Mr. Burrell began his career as the school photographer. For more than sixty years, he has provided an invaluable service to the university documenting its history as well as reprinting historic photographs. He has also documented landmarks, businesses, social and civic activities in the city of Hampton. His photographs include well known individuals in the city as well.

James Van Der Zee is recognized as the dean of African American photographers based on his large body of photographs taken in Harlem, New York during more than half of the 19th century. In 1906 Van Der Zee left his hometown of Lenox, MA here he met and married Kate L. Brown, a seamstress from Newport News, Virginia. The couple’s first child, Rachel, was born in 1907 and shortly afterward they traveled to Virginia. The Van Der Zee’s decided to remain in Tidewater, VA where Van Der Zee found employment as a waiter at the Hotel Chamberlin. The photographs will share images of two categories: the everyday activities of Slabtown residents and the academic community at Whittier Preparatory School.

Partial funding for this exhibition provided by the City of Hampton, 400th Anniversary Celebration Fund.

Hampton University Museum Partnerships

The Curiosity Room at the Hampton University Museum

The Curiosity Room is located on the 2nd floor of the Hampton University Museum. It is a place where children can learn to appreciate and explore the many facets of art. The room is designed for pre-school through third grade children. In addition to structured activities in the room, children receive guided tours designed for their age level. The room is currently closed for the summer and will resume operation in the fall. It is open fall through spring on Thursday's except the third Thursday from 10:00 a.m. - 12 noon. For reservations please call 757.727.5508. Maximum class size is ten and the minimum class size is three. The room is sponsored by GWWA (The Greater Williamsburg Women's Association).

Call or email Vanessa Thaxton-Ward for more information at 757.727.5508 or email vanessa.thaxton-ward@hamptonu.edu.