VA250 • "Founding Collections: How Presidential Art Helped Envision a New Nation"

Name: VA250 • "Founding Collections: How Presidential Art Helped Envision a New Nation"
Start: 2026-09-14T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-09-14T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center

By College of Arts and Humanities, Department of History, Ferguson Center for the Arts, History Club, Honors Program, Institute for Public Humanities, LifeLong Learning Society, President's Leadership Program, Public History Center, School of the Arts, Torggler Fine Arts Center, Virginia 250 at CNU

Monday, September 14, 2026 5:30pm to 7:00pm EDT

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Mary M. Torggler Fine Arts Center, Torggler Lecture Hall View map

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1 Avenue of the Arts, Newport News, VA 23606

http://cnu.edu/va250

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Dr. Michelle Erhardt, CNU art historian, examines what the first four presidents -- Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison -- chose to display in their homes, revealing how their taste in art merged with their political ideals and offered a blueprint for the nation they hoped to build.