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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.
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LOCATION:VAC 119
CATEGORIES:Art,Community Event,Lectures,Open to the Public,Wilson Museum
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Willard Ramsey":MAILTO:ramseywz1@ĚÇĐÄ´«Ă˝.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T180000
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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
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SUMMARY:Writers' Virtual Winter Recharge 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for both manuscript and “write now workshops” with our acclaimed Tinker Mountain faculty! This is your opportunity to recharge your creativity\, reconnect with the Tinker Mountain community of writers\, and reframe your work.\nThe weekend begins with a social session on Friday evening and continues with workshops Saturday and Sunday\, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 to 4 p.m.  Just the right amount of time to affirm your writing and to reset for the balance of winter and spring.
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LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Continuing Studies,Workshops
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ORGANIZER;CN="Megan Canfield":MAILTO:canfieldm@ĚÇĐÄ´«Ă˝.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T173000
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion:  Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning By Vanessa Priya Daniel
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Pilgrim Baptist Church for a discussion of the book Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning\, by Vanessa Priya Daniel\, who will be giving a keynote presentation at the Hollins University Leading EDJ conference on March 12. The book discussion will be facilitated by Dr. LeeRay Costa and Dr. Tiffany Hinton from Hollins University. Attendance is free and open to the public\, and requires registration. \n\n\n\nAuthor Bio: Vanessa Priya Daniel is an author\, organizer\, and award-winning leader for racial and gender justice. She has worked in social justice movements for twenty-five years as a labor and community organizer and funder. Her first book is Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning (Random House\, 2025). She founded and served for 17 years as executive director of Groundswell Fund\, a leading funder of women of color-led grassroots community and electoral organizing. She is a recipient of the Smith College Medal\, was featured by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as one of fifteen “Influencers” who are changing the nonprofit world\, and was recognized by Inside Philanthropy as one of the “Top 100 Most Powerful Players in Philanthropy.” Daniel has written for The New York Times and other publications. \n\nWe are grateful to our co-sponsors for this event: Roanoke Women’s Foundation\, Junior League of Roanoke Valley\, Alpha Kappa Alpha\, and Delta Theta Sigma. \n\n \n\nRegister now
URL:/event/book-discussion-unrig-the-game-what-women-of-color-can-teach-everyone-about-winning-by-vanessa-priya-daniel/
LOCATION:Pilgrim Baptist Church\, 1415 8th St NW\, Roanoke\, VA\, 24016\, United States
CATEGORIES:Leading Together Series
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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.
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LOCATION:VAC 119
CATEGORIES:Art,Community Event,Lectures,Open to the Public,Wilson Museum
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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
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LOCATION:Green Drawing Room\, Main
CATEGORIES:English and Creative Writing,Lectures
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