Hollins University is welcoming collegiate teams from across the commonwealth to participate in the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges’ (VFIC) 24th annual Ethics Bowl, presented by TowneBank, January 28-29. Student teams from Virginia’s leading independent colleges and universities will compete against one another head-to-head, deliberating a variety of case studies relating to this year’s Ethics […]
Join us online for both manuscript and “write-now workshops” with our acclaimed Tinker Mountain faculty! This is your opportunity to recharge your creativity, reconnect with the Tinker Mountain community of writers, and reframe your work. The weekend begins with a social session on Friday evening and continues with workshops Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. […]
2024 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence Ying Li: “Blossoms in a Sudden Strangeness III” exhibition through April 14, 2024 Ying Li is known for her thickly painted, abstract plein air paintings created in beautiful outdoor gardens, landscapes, and urbanscape settings around the world and across the United States. She has taught at Haverford College since 1997 and […]
Vernon is the author of The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle Ages, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018, which examines the influence of medieval studies on African American thought. Vernon focuses on nineteenth century uses of medieval texts to structure racial identity, but also considers the flexibility of medieval narratives […]
Praised for her “fantastic virtuosity, energy, and power, combined with deepest comprehension into authors’ idea,” Dinara Klinton is an acclaimed recording artist, performer, and teacher. Her music education started at the age of five in her native Kharkiv, Ukraine, and she now tours internationally while serving as professor of piano in the UK Royal College […]
L’Merchie Frazier is an accomplished visual activist, public artist, historian, and poet. She is a member of Women of Color Network Quilters, founded by Carolyn Mazloomi, Ph.D., whose quilt collection is currently on view at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum. In this lecture, Frazier will discuss the contributions of African American quiltmakers with particular attention […]
By Nick Payne. Directed by Elizabeth McDonald When: February 23 at 7:30 pm, February 24 at 2 pm and 7:30 pm Where: Hollins Theatre Main Stage What: This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we […]
In an act of civil disobedience, a group of women and their supporters organize their ordination to become Episcopal priests in 1974. The Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia welcomes them, but change is no small task. The women are harassed, threatened and banned from stepping on church property. In this feature-length documentary film, we […]
Brown is the author of The Donkey Elegies (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020); Fanny Says (BOA Editions, 2015), a biography in poems about Brown’s grandmother, which won the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry; and Sister (Sibling Rivalry Press), which was first published in 2007 and reissued in 2018. To Those Who Were Our First Gods, a […]
Learning to Look: An Artist’s Perspective, through March 17 African American Quilts from the Collection of Carolyn Mazloomi, through April 14 2024 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence Ying Li: Blossoms in a Sudden Strangeness III, through April 14 Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12-5 pm, Thursday 12-8 pm (closed Mondays) www.hollins.edu/museum