# @thetorggler_cnu on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2023-11-14T22:00:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Torggler Fine Arts Center (@thetorggler_cnu) — https://gondola.cc/thetorggler_cnu

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✨TOMORROW✨ 

Join the VMFA's Dr. Sarah Eckhardt for and in-depth look at "Benjamin Wigfall & Communications Village", currently on view here at the Torggler. 

Dr. Sarah Eckhardt is the associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and co-organizer of the exhibition Benjamin Wigfall & Communications Village. Eckhardt will focus on Wigfall’s background in his hometown of Richmond; his years as a student and professor
at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University); and his subsequent founding of Communications Village in Kingston, New York. Join us to learn more about Wigfall, his artistic circle, and his inspiring approach to community art education.✨

This event is FREE and open to the public!

Wednesday | November 15 | 6 p.m.
Torggler Lecture Hall

📷  Benjamin Wigfall & Communcations Village is organized by the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Communications Village poster, ca. 1977–78, concept, Benjamin Wigfall; photographs, Rose Tripoli and Communication Village participants; graphic design, Diane Hunt, 14 x 171⁄2 in. Benjamin L. Wigfall Artist Archives (VA-12), Gift of Michael Gino Wigfall and Gia Oke-Bello, Margaret R. and Robert M. Freeman Library, VMFA Archives, Richmond, Virginia, VA12.04.7.001.
 

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