Project reinventing Edward Valentineâs Lost Cause studio Reinventing Edward Valentine's studio By Kelly Avellino | February 16, 2021 at 6:57 PM EST - Updated February 16 at 7:15 PM RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - After the social unrest of 2020, this yearâs Black History Month has a different feel to it, a different mission, per se. The Valentine Museum in Richmond is taking up that mission. Early last year at the onset of the pandemic, the museum closed off the near 200-year-old studio where Edward Valentine sculpted many Confederate statues in the late 1800s. Over 900 statues now rest silently in the studio, but their message of paying homage to the Confederacy is loud.