Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum with Chamomile and Whiskey
5:00 – 9:00 pm, band goes on at 6 pm
$5 non-members, FREE for members
Join us for Night at the Museum, your opportunity to explore our exhibitions after hours and enjoy the best food, libations and music in Charlottesville! In August we’re featuring beer from Hardywood Park Brewery and a few of Charlottesville’s best food trucks. Chamomile and Whiskey, who have played at festivals such as FloydFest and shared the stage with actslike Old Crow Medicine Show and the Infamous Stringdusters, will showcase their eclectic sound that blends Americana and southern rock with Irish, Gypsy and Old-Time influences. The event also has a Kids Zone with Australian-themed children’s activities, as well as a Flat Chat Tour, a ten-minute discussion about an artwork on view by a museum staff member. And all of it happens outside at our beautiful location on Pantops, one of the best hidden spots to watch the sunset in Charlottesville.
Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Kanien’kehaka Mohawk Nation) is a multimedia artist whose iconic visual narratives incorporate photography, painting, sculpture, poetry, film, and beadwork to disrupt stereotypical representations of Native people as "vanishing," to address the objectification of Native women, to explore the family and community connections between ancestral traditions and contemporary realities of indigenous lived experiences, and to honor, reflect upon and critique historical and contemporary treaty, sovereignty, and land issues. She recently received two prestigious Canadian art awards, the 2017 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts and the Scotiabank Photography Award.
