Past Events
Sorry you miss out on these. Hope to see you at the next one!
Join us for a talk by Blake McDonald, Survey & Grants Specialist at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR). He will discuss the role of DHR in the process of preserving historic buildings and sites in the Commonwealth and will touch on how this works with Art Deco structures such as West Hospital.
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The talk will be held in the Gellman Room in the original Art Deco section of the Main Branch of the Richmond Public Library. This event is FREE!
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June 7th​
Meet us at 6 pm for cocktails and nibbles at the newly reopened Hotel Petersburg then join us for
"There Goes the Bride"
at Swift Creek Mill Theatre, South Chesterfield
Show starts at 8 p.m.
Visit: MainStage Performances | Swift Creek Mill Theatre
to get your tickets.
Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum Tour
1313 Pierce St. Lynchburg, VA 24501
Saturday, May 31, 2025
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Adult $15 Senior $10
Located in historic Lynchburg, Virginia, the Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum is the former home of the renowned Harlem Renaissance poet and has been named a Virginia Historic Landmark and is also on the National Register of Historic Places. With up to 95% of the original house and cottage furnishings
still in place, it is considered one of the most intact house museums in the United States. Anne Spencer’s garden is also the only known restored garden of an African American in the United States. Spencer was a poet, civil rights leader, advocate, and librarian. Her home and garden served as a gathering place for leading African Americans such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston
Hughes, and Martin Luther King, Jr. You can purchase your tickets to the tour that the ADSVA has booked directly from the Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum here. Make sure you choose the May 31st noon tour.
Easter on Parade
Sunday, April 20 at 1 p.m.
Meet in front of the
Branch Museum of Architecture and Design
Come out in your vintage or vintage-inspired Easter best for a stroll down Monument Avenue in Richmond. Meet us on the corner of Monument and Davis Avenues in front of the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design. From there we will parade in our best Art Deco finery along beautiful Monument Avenue. It is a highly enjoyable day to see the sights of Easter bonnets, dapper ensembles, and perhaps the Easter Bunny. It is the place to see and be seen!
World Art Deco Day
Celebrating Anniversary of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes
It is a special year as it marks 100 years since the first exposition featuring Art Deco! To celebrate the 100 th anniversary of the Paris Art Deco Exposition that started it all please join us for a docent-led tour of the Art Deco collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VFMA). The VMFA houses one of the most significant public collections of decorative arts in the French Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles, spanning the years 1895 through 1935. You will not want to miss this tour as the Art Deco and Art Nouveau Galleries will close in May 13, 2025 for the duration of the VMFA’s museum expansion. The expansion is slated to open in 2028.
To continue the celebration, explore more of the VMFA’s galleries after the tour and then make your own way down to Les Crepes in Carytown and have lunch with other decophiles. You can purchase tickets for the tour here. Member's can buy up to two discounted tickets. You can let us know if you are joining us for lunch at the end of the registration process.​
Please join us at the Quirk Hotel Bar for some cocktails, mocktails and nibbles.
Thursday March 20th
5:30 p.m. - until
The Quirk Hotel Bar
217 W. Broad St, Richmond​