Muscarelle Museum of Art

06/02/2026

Something new is brewing at Café M at the Muscarelle Museum of Art! Column 15 Nitro Brew Coffee & Nitro Brew Tea will now be available for purchase at Café M! ☕️

06/02/2026

Join us this Friday for First Fridays in Bloom, featuring a build-it-yourself flower bar in partnership with White Hall Flower Farm! Try your hand at floral watercolors by visiting our flower still-life table and learn to make everlasting flowers using crepe paper. Enjoy a glass of wine and a cheese plate in the café, then explore our Permanent Collection with a docent-led tour.

Friday, June 5 | 5-8 PM

05/29/2026

In “Union Square” (2014), American painter Linda Lippa juxtaposes a highly rendered scene at a Union Square metro stop with blurred subjects in the foreground. According to Lippa, her work “attempts to convey a sense of speed and perpetual motion” because she believes that we as a society have “lost the ability to punctuate time and that our individual experiences are no longer distinct but instead blend into the miasma that is the passage of time.”

LINDA LIPPA | American, 1947-2021 | Union Square, 2014 | Oil on canvas | © Linda Lippa | Gift of Arnold Lippa | 2014.043

05/28/2026

Wythe County, Virginia played an integral role in the extraction of lead ore for musket ball production during the Revolutionary War. An enslaved man named Aberdeen (upper right) defied his Loyalist master’s orders and volunteered to enlist in the Continental Army, where he labored in the lead mines. After petitioning to the Virginia House of Delegates, Aberdeen was granted his freedom in 1783.

“America’s Tapestry: 13 Colonies. 13 Stories. 1 Nation.” is coming to the Muscarelle Museum on June 19, 2026. Featuring 13 hand-embroidered panels, one for each of the original colonies, “America’s Tapestry” illustrates diverse stories that reveal each colony’s struggle for independence during the American Revolution. Visit americastapestry.com to learn more!

05/13/2026

Art Educators! Please join us at the museum for this appreciation brunch in partnership with An Occasion for the Arts. We'll have mimosas, brunch bites, art-making and more!

Art Educators: You’re Invited!

An Occasion for the Arts invites local art educators to Art Educator Appreciation Brunch & Create at the Muscarelle Museum of Art.

Join us on Saturday, May 23, for a relaxed gathering celebrating the creativity, dedication, and impact of our local teaching community.

Drop in anytime between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM to enjoy a complimentary brunch, connect with fellow art educators, and take part in a hands-on creative activity in the inspiring setting of the Muscarelle Museum of Art.

Bringing family?
Museum volunteers will host a creative activity for children ages 5 and up, so feel free to bring your kids and partners along.

This event is free, but space is limited and advance registration is required.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-educator-appreciation-brunch-create-tickets-1988000581254

05/13/2026

Such a well-deserved honor for our Board Chair Judi Starkey! We're excited to celebrate her this week! 🎉💛🎉

Judith ‘Judi’ Starkey to be named an honorary W&M alumna.

05/08/2026

Looking for a last-minute Mother's Day gift? Lots of ideas in the Muscarelle Museum Store! Whether Mom is an art-lover, fashionista or gourmet, you'll find something unique to make her feel special. The Museum Store is open during all regular museum hours — visit us Tuesday through Saturday 10 AM to 5 PM and on Sunday 12 to 5 PM. https://muscarelle.wm.edu/visit/

05/07/2026

"First Looks & Favorites from the Permanent Collection," now on view at the Muscarelle, brings together works that span centuries and cultures, placing recent acquisitions with longstanding highlights from our permanent collection.

Among the favorites on view again is Hung Liu’s "Raising the Red Lantern" (1992-1993), a work that engages directly with history and memory. Drawing from archival photographs, Liu reinterprets images of women in pre-revolutionary China through layers of paint and the incorporation of mixed media elements. Her practice reflects an ongoing interest in the relationship between documentation and interpretation, as well as the ways in which histories are constructed and preserved. In the context of the exhibition, the work’s material complexity and layered imagery resonate with newer works that similarly explore identity and narrative.

Docent-led tours of "First Looks and Favorites from the Permanent Collection" are offered Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 1 PM. Visit this weekend to explore the art in depth!

🖼️ HUNG LIU | Chinese-American, 1948-2021 | Raising the Red Lantern, 1992-1993 | Oil on canvas and wood architectural fragment | © Hung Liu | Purchase, Gene A. (W&M 1952) and Mary A. Burns Acquisitions Fund | 1996.085