BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hollins University - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL: X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hollins University REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T193000 DTSTAMP:20260414T081914 CREATED:20260122T180953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T182255Z UID:73289-1770919200-1770924600@www.ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Edward Steffanni DESCRIPTION:Edward Steffanni is an American artist born in Ohio. He received his Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. \nIn Edward’s interdisciplinary practice\, he examines the relationships between queerness\, concealment\, nature\, and spirituality using print media\, ceramics\, papermaking\, and performance. His work has been exhibited nationally and has received awards within those exhibitions. \nJoin the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum in hearing Edward discuss his artistic practice\, particularly in relationship with his spring exhibition in the museum\, Edward Steffanni: God-Shaped Hole\, on view from January 29 – April 18. \nReception to follow lecture. \nImage courtesy of Print Center New York. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. URL:/event/artist-talk-edward-steffanni/ LOCATION:VAC 119 CATEGORIES:Art,Community Event,Lectures,Open to the Public,Wilson Museum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260212T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T081914 CREATED:20250922T151705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T151705Z UID:71684-1770924600-1770928200@www.ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu SUMMARY:Reading Series: Remica Bingham-Risher DESCRIPTION:Reading: Thursday\, February 12\, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room\, Main Building\n\nRemica Bingham-Risher\, a native of Phoenix\, Arizona\, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals\, her work has been published in The New York Times\, The Writer’s Chronicle\, New Letters\, Callaloo\, and Essence. She is the author of Conversion (Lotus\, 2006)\, winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award; What We Ask of Flesh (Etruscan\, 2013)\, shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Award; and Starlight & Error (Diode\, 2017)\, winner of the Diode Editions Book Award. Her first book of prose\, Soul Culture: Black Poets\, Books and Questions that Grew Me Up\, was published by Beacon Press in 2022. Her book of poems along with family and historical photographs\, Room Swept Home\, published by Wesleyan in February 2024\, won the Los Angeles Book Prize. She is currently the Director of Quality Enhancement Plan Initiatives at Old Dominion University and resides in Norfolk\, VA with her husband and children.\n\nSponsored by: The Department of English and Creative Writing and the Jackson Poetry Fund URL:/event/reading-series-remica-bingham-risher/ LOCATION:Green Drawing Room\, Main CATEGORIES:English and Creative Writing,Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Remica-Bingham-Risher-1-High-Res.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Willard Ramsey":MAILTO:ramseywz1@ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T193000 DTSTAMP:20260414T081914 CREATED:20260122T190027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T190500Z UID:73304-1771524000-1771529400@www.ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu SUMMARY:Artist Talk & Exhibition Opening: Dara Hartman\, 2026 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence DESCRIPTION:Join the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum in welcoming 2026 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence Dara Hartman discuss her artistic practice\, particularly in relationship with her exhibition in the museum on view from February 19 – May 2. Reception to follow lecture.\n\nDara is a full-time studio artist based in Salt Lake City\, UT. She received a BFA from Virginia Tech and an MFA from Montana State University. After graduate school she moved to Washington and was an Adjunct Professor at Clark College in Vancouver\, WA and at Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland\, OR. Most recently\, Dara’s life has taken her to Salt Lake City\, UT where she worked for 3 years as a product designer\, a design team leader\, and traveled to China to work with factories on model design and production. Since 2020\, she has been director of Hollins’ own annual Women Working with Clay Symposium. URL:/event/artist-talk-exhibition-opening-dara-hartman-2026-frances-niederer-artist-in-residence/ LOCATION:VAC 119 CATEGORIES:Art,Community Event,Lectures,Open to the Public,Wilson Museum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T193000 DTSTAMP:20260414T081914 CREATED:20260122T182036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T182136Z UID:73299-1772128800-1772134200@www.ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu SUMMARY:Guest Speaker Panel: Richard Conway & Rachel Fugate DESCRIPTION:Join the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum’s guest speakers Richard Conway\, PhD\, and Rachel Fugate\, M.A.\, as they discuss their research work in relation to the exhibition Cultivating History: Food\, Crops\, and Art on loan from the VMFA from January 29 – March 21. Reception to follow panel.\n\nRichard Conway received a PhD from Tulane University. A historian of colonial Latin America\, his research interests include the social and environmental history of Mexico. He teaches courses including: Early Latin America\, the History of Mexico\, and Indigenous Societies in Latin America. He has published articles in several journals\, including The Americas\, Colonial Latin American Review\, and Ethnohistory\, and his book\, Islands in the Lake: Environment and Ethnohistory in Xochimilco\, New Spain was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. He also serves as the book review editor of Ethnohistory.\n\nRachel Fugate is Exhibitions Registrar at Delaware Art Museum. She joined DelArt from Lehigh University Art Galleries where she was the Collections Manager and Registrar. Previously she was the Collections Curator at the DeVos Art Museum of Northern Michigan University. Rachel holds an MA in Art History from Syracuse University where she focused on British art of the long eighteenth century. URL:/event/guest-speaker-panel-richard-conway-rachel-fugate/ LOCATION:VAC 119 CATEGORIES:Art,Community Event,Lectures,Open to the Public,Wilson Museum END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T081914 CREATED:20250922T152011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T152101Z UID:71686-1772134200-1772137800@www.ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu SUMMARY:Reading Series: drea brown DESCRIPTION:Reading: Thursday\, February 26\, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room\, Main Building \n\ndrea brown is a Hollins alumna\, queer Black feminist poet-scholar whose writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Stand Our Ground: Poems for Marissa Alexander and Trayvon Martin\, Smithsonian Magazine\, Southern Indiana Review\, Bellingham Review\, and About Place Journal. drea is the author of dear girl: a reckoning\, winner of the Gold Line Press 2014 chapbook prize\, and co-editor of Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2021). Their newly released monograph Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women (University Press of Mississippi\, 2025)\, explores the role of haunting in Black women’s literature and lived experiences. \n\nSponsored by: The Department of English and Creative Writing and the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Fund URL:/event/reading-series-drea-brown/ LOCATION:Green Drawing Room\, Main CATEGORIES:English and Creative Writing,Lectures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/db.headshot18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Willard Ramsey":MAILTO:ramseywz1@ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR