In this moment: Steve Prince, director of engagement and distinguished artist in residence at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, brings art to the community while creating his own new work in this unique moment in U.S. history. Photo by Corey Miller Photography
Photo - of - by Jennifer L. Williams | January 19, 2021
Steve Prince, director of engagement and distinguished artist in residence at William & Mary’s Muscarelle Museum of Art, is using this pandemic period as a time to be deeply creative in both art and in education.
Prince delved further into his own new work while sharing with the museum’s audience virtually everything from at-home art projects to a virtual art camp for youth. W&M News asked him to catch us up on how he’s using a recent Virginia Artist Relief Fellowship Program grant from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and how
Joseph Michael Essex, a 1970 graduate of Richmond Professional Institute (VCUâs precursor).Â
This method of capturing ideas or presenting images has a long history, similar to Morris columns covered in advertisements that can be seen in the plazas of European cities. In Holland, there is the âmuurkrant,â literally, âwall [of] news.â
âJohn and I have been involved with wheat pasting posters since our VCU days together,â Carter says. âWe were office mates, have like philosophies. Weâve always been advocates for posting up public messages. Theyâre immediate communication. And you are right, this is a mural city. We looked at this as an opportunity to expand that with more transformative language.â
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âDopesick,â an eight-episode limited series for Hulu based on Virginia author Beth Macyâs bestselling book, is now filming around Richmond and will continue through May.
The project is expected to generate over $45 million in direct spending in Virginia, according to the Virginia Film Office.
On Tuesday, âDopesickâ was filming at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the Museum District. The cast and crew have been filming around Richmond and Central Virginia since December. The series has also been filming in Hopewell, Bowling Green and Lexington. The crew will visit Clifton Forge in western Virginia in the weeks ahead.
Reviews - January 14, 2021
In 2016, on the occasion of an exhibition of the photographs of Louis Draper at Steven Kasher Gallery, Hyperallergic critic John Yau asked, “Does the Museum of Modern Art Even Know about This Great Photographer?” Apparently, they didn’t. Although Draper, who had died in 2002, was a prominent Black photographer and one-time president of the Kamoinge Workshop, there was little evidence that New York’s august Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) had paid much attention. MoMA’s communications director tersely informed Yau that the museum did, indeed, own photographs by Draper and other members of the Kamoinge Workshop. But they had been consigned to what was unceremoniously called the “study collection” work deemed “not appropriate for acquisition to the Collection.”