{"id":47,"date":"2012-04-10T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2014-03-23T13:30:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T17:30:01","slug":"richmond-va-usa-2012","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nearbycafe.com\/artandphoto\/liuxiaphotos\/exhibition-info-itinerary\/richmond-va-usa-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Richmond, VA, USA 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"University<\/a>“The Silent Strength of Liu Xia” opened at the\u00a0Lora Robins Gallery of the University of Richmond Museums<\/a>\u00a0in Richmond, VA, on February 28, 2013. Corollary programming included a keynote lecture by exhibition co-curator A. D. Coleman, and a symposium. The museum published a catalogue to accompany the exhibition. The catalogue includes a brief new commentary on Liu Xia’s work by\u00a0Kathleen Roberts Skerrett,\u00a0Dean, School of Arts and Sciences,\u00a0University of Richmond. The Richmond show will run through April 28.<\/p>\n

Co-curators Guy Sorman and A. D. Coleman attended the opening ceremonies and participated in the symposium, prior to which Coleman delivered a lecture on Liu Xia’s work. \"First<\/a>Sponsors in Richmond included Virginia Commonwealth University<\/a> and the First Freedom Center<\/a>, whose stated mission is “to advance the fundamental human rights of freedom of religion and freedom of conscience.” The FFC’s president, retired U.S. Ambassador Randolph Marshall Bell, also spoke at the symposium, as did Prof. Vincent Wang, Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond.<\/p>\n

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Lliu Xia poster, Richmond, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n

The university videotaped the keynote lecture and symposium, which it will publish online later this spring. A link to it will appear here when it goes public. (See below for links.) For this exhibition the University of Richmond Museums also subsidized the production and framing of a new set of 18-inch square digital prints of the 26 images in the show. This prints will be available for exhibition at other institutions following the closing of the Richmond show in late April. Materials available from this exhibition:<\/strong><\/p>\n