Piedmont Virginia Community College will host an evening of art, film, music and conversation on Nov. 21 in the V. Earl Dickinson Building.
The event will combine the opening reception for the latest art exhibition, “Spare Parts,” with the next installment of the Films Talk Back series.
The evening will begin in the gallery with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., showcasing a wide variety of collage and assemblage works in an exhibition inspired by PVCC’s One Book program selection: Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
Curated by Fenella Belle, chair of visual and performing arts, the exhibition explores how meaning emerges when smaller elements are joined together by artists using everything at hand – from commercially available stickers to magazines, postcards, clay, wire and more.
Participating artists in ‘Spare Parts’ include:
- Kim Boggs
- Diana Hale
- Mary Lamb
- Terri Long
- Deborah O’Keefe
- Nikki Painter
- Laura Parsons
- Charles Peale
- Noah Scalin
- Aggie Zed
The exhibit will run through Jan. 10, 2026.
Following the reception, at 7 p.m., the monthly Films Talk Back series will pair two silent films: Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” (1927) and Hans Richter’s “Ghosts Before Breakfast” (1928), with award-winning multi-instrumentalist Tom Teasley’s signature fusion of ancient percussion traditions and cutting-edge electronic sound design.
After the screening, Teasley will lead a talk-back session reframing these early 20th-century films in the context of today’s conversations about automation and AI.
The V. Earl Dickinson Fine and Performing Arts Center is located at the south end of College Drive.
For more information, visit pvcc.edu/performingarts.
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Crystal Graham
