Humanities Feature Bureau

 

Ashley Bryan: A Life Celebrated

85 year-old Ashley Bryan, as a person of color, had to charge through a lot of racial barriers to become a published illustrator of children’s books. Bryan, who’s always creating something, was in Warm Springs last week to help a huge crowd of fans open a rare exhibition of his paintings at the Warm Springs Gallery. Reporter Martha Woodroof was there.

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The Incredible Mr. Poe

A pop culture icon in his own time, Edgar Allan Poe has found a new audience among fans of comic books and graphic novels.  Reporter Nancy King checked out a new exhibit at the Poe Museum in Richmond.

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Frankenstein invades Jefferson's Dome Room

The Dome Room at the University of Virginia plays host to a monster of an exhibition. Nancy King has a preview of ““The Monster Among Us: Frankenstein…from Mary Shelley to Mel Brooks.”

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