Events

Join us for a reception celebrating the opening of Alternative Medicine: Healing Remedies for Harmful Times. See the exhibition, meet some of the exhibiting artists, and enjoy light refreshments. Brief gallery talk at 6:30 p.m., followed by a live performance by Luis Sahagún, Visiting Assistant Professor of Drawing and Sculpture starting in the Missy Boaz Woodward […]

In conjunction with our current exhibition, Alternative Medicine: Healing Remedies for Harmful Times, join us for a casual conversation and lunch with the exhibiting artist, Beverly Fishman. Fishman has centered her work around the body, investigating disease, identity, and medicine. She questions for-profit pharmaceuticals as the means for a cure, and the manufactured promise of prescription happiness. Her […]

ART, MINDFULNESS, AND COMMUNITY with Ivan Mayerhofer, Associate Chaplain for Buddhist Programs, Director of Davidson Meditation Initiative, Coordinator of Interfaith Programs. Join us for a series of mindful and meditative community engagements. No experience with mindfulness necessary. Click here to register. 

Join Gallery interns as they share some of their favorite works currently in collection storage. Join us for a snack afterward. Storage is located in the VAC Basement.

Steve Sando is the founder of Rancho Gordo, a specialty food company focused on growing and promoting heirloom and heritage beans (as well as grains and spices). He will speak on his work in supporting smallholder farms and inspiring a new wave of interest in indigenous bean varieties. His passion has culminated in the best-selling […]

Join us for a Lunch-and-Learn with Steve Sando, founder of Rancho Gordo. Rancho Gordo is a specialty food company focused on growing and promoting heirloom and heritage beans (as well as grains and spices). Sando will speak on his work in supporting smallholder farms and inspiring a new wave of interest in indigenous bean varieties. […]

The arts and humanities are increasingly recognized as essential rather than peripheral to medical education across the continuum—from undergraduate studies to medical school and into the ongoing professional development of practicing clinicians. Reflecting the AAMC’s FRAHME report, which positions the arts as vital to fostering flourishing, perspective-taking, resilience, and professional identity formation, art museums have […]

Global Cinema Classics: The Exploding American Underground Co-sponsored by Van Every/Smith Galleries and the departments of English and Film, Media, and Digital Studies. Monday, Feb. 2, 5 p.m.: Todd Haynes' The Velvet Underground (2021) Acclaimed documentary about how the NYC underground film, visual art, and poetry scenes birthed rock's most radical band. Monday, March 2, 5 […]

Global Cinema Classics: The Exploding American Underground Co-sponsored by Van Every/Smith Galleries and the departments of English and Film, Media, and Digital Studies. Monday, Feb. 2, 5 p.m.: Todd Haynes' The Velvet Underground (2021) Acclaimed documentary about how the NYC underground film, visual art, and poetry scenes birthed rock's most radical band. Monday, March 2, 5 […]