museum and heritage studies

33rd Annual Berlind Symposium set for Oct. 26

Photo inside the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, showing the new exhibition. A large-scale black and white drawing takes up the entirety of the left wall, while three colorful paintings hang on the back wall opposite.

The program is inspired by the College’s 113th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, “Vita Wild: Contemporary Wildlife Art.”... READ MORE >>

Grace Duckworth ’23 brings passion for history, education to role at George Mason’s Gunston Hall

Grace Duckworth ’23 poses in George Mason’s Gunston Hall

Duckworth is a full-time educator at the historic Georgian-style home of one of the country’s founding fathers.... READ MORE >>

Jack Gary, executive director of archaeology at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, to speak at Randolph

Jack Gary works at an archaeological dig, kneeling in the dirt with a brush.

“What Lies Ahead… And Beneath: The Future of Archaeology at Colonial Williamsburg” will be held on Monday, Sept. 16.... READ MORE >>

Maier lecture to focus on the ‘Universal Museum’

The free lecture will be held on Tuesday, April 2, at 6 p.m. in Leggett 537, preceded by a reception at 5 p.m. ... READ MORE >>

Maier event to focus on women workers

“Uncover/Recover: Remembering Women Workers” will be held on Tuesday, March 19.... READ MORE >>

New Randolph exhibit focuses on marine plastic pollution

“Entangled and Ingested,” which opens Jan. 12 in Hampson Commons, located in the Student Center, features seven life-sized collage portraits using plastic film to document animals that are harmed by marine plastic pollution.... READ MORE >>

Keith Harvey ’22 named site director for the American Civil War Museum in Appomattox

Harvey majored in museum and heritage studies at Randolph. ... READ MORE >>

College partners with Jones Memorial Library to explore legacies of slavery

“Lynchburg: Named” brought brought together Randolph and the Jones Memorial Library to explore the region’s legacy of slavery and fill in information gaps related to African Americans in Lynchburg. ... READ MORE >>

Karen McIlvoy, Poplar Forest archaeology lab supervisor, to speak at Randolph

She’ll deliver the David F. Anthony Memorial Lecture, “Archaeology on the Plantation: Exploring how enslaved people engaged with their material world,” on Wednesday, Oct. 25.... READ MORE >>

Andi Curtis ’23 completes collections management internship before heading overseas for grad school

Curtis double majored in history and art history, with a minor in Renaissance studies, at Randolph. Now she’s preparing to start a masters program in medieval history at Swansea University in Wales.  ... READ MORE >>