Events

Join our community for an artist’s talk with Hank Willis Thomas, creator of With These Hands: A Memorial to the Enslaved and Exploited on Davidson’s campus. Thomas is a conceptual artist whose work explores perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. In this lecture, Thomas will discuss With These Hands alongside his broader art practice, considering […]

Join Ivan Mayerhofer, Associate Chaplain for Buddhist Programs, Director of Davidson Meditation Initiative, Coordinator of Interfaith Programs, for a student mindful and meditative community engagements. No experience with mindfulness necessary. Register here.

Co-sponsored with Departments of English and Film, Media and Digital Studies Close Up (1990, Iranian docufiction written, directed and edited by Abbas Kiarostami.) Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Location: Semans Lecture Hall (VAC 117)

1990 Iranian docu-fiction writte, directed, and edited by Abbas Kiarostami

Join Ivan Mayerhofer, Associate Chaplain for Buddhist Programs, Director of Davidson Meditation Initiative, Coordinator of Interfaith Programs, for a lunch where we will engage in the practice of Bearing Witness from the Zen Peacemakers Order. This includes (i) experiencing the exhibit from a place of unknowing mind, (ii) looking deeply, and (iii) responding compassionately. No experience […]

More than 10 vendors will sell their goods as our first Maker's Market, in collaboration with the Hurt Hub.

Join us for the reception for In House: Art and Craft from Faculty and Staff on Friday, Nov. 14, 5-6 p.m. Location: Hurt Hub@Davidson, 210 Delburg St, Davidson Exhibition On View: Oct. 31, 2025 – Feb 22, 2026 The Van/Every Smith Art Galleries, Hurt Hub@Davidson, and Davidson Arts and Creative Engagement are pleased to present an exhibition of art and […]

Join us for a quick snack and short talk about artworks in the Galleries’ collection installed in the E. Craig Wall Jr. Academic Center - We’re in This Together by Tavares Strachan & Ntozakhe II, Parktown, from the Somnyama Ngonyama series by Zanele Muholi.

In partnership with Davidson College Arts & Creative Engagement and Davidson College Health Education, the Galleries will once again commemorate Day Without Art with a screening of 6 videos commissioned by Visual AIDS that forefront the experience of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis. As a memorial […]

Seen in the Gallery: Last Chance to see Hank Willis Thomas’s exhibition, We The People. Join gallery staff and interns for a quick snack and a short talk about artworks in the exhibition before it closes on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2026.