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MOCA itself evolved from a succession of local art associations: the Virginia Beach Art Association (VBAA, 1952-1971), the Virginia Beach Art Center (1971-1989) and the Virginia Contemporary Art Center (1989-2010). MOCA is located just off the Virginia Beach oceanfront.
As of 1962, it came to light that VBAA and the Boardwalk Art Show were racially segregated, quietly refusing participation to African-American artists [3] — as evidenced specifically by a refusal to admit A.B. "Alec" Jackson (1925-1981), [4] head of the art department of the Virginia State College in Norfolk, who had applied to the 1962 show ...
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This list of museums in Virginia, United States, contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Admission is $10 at the door and $8 pre-sale at the Canton Museum of Art. For ticket information, call 330-453-7666 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Ages 12 and younger are admitted free.
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The VMFA has its origins in a 1919 donation of 50 paintings to the Commonwealth of Virginia by Judge John Barton Payne.During the Great Depression, Payne collaborated with Virginia Governor John Garland Pollard to gain funding from the federal Works Projects Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to augment state funding and establish the state art museum in 1932. [7]
When these two freedoms are observed, in the context of a university art museum and/or gallery, a unique setting for academic discovery is opened up. University art museums and exhibits are sometimes sources of controversies regarding issues of propriety, politics, gender, and sexuality.