InLight 2024: Grounds for Clearing

November 8 + 9, 2024 | 7-11pM

Pine Camp Cultural Arts and Community Center | 4901 Old Brook Road, Richmond, VA 23227

InLight is 1708’s annual public exhibition of contemporary art that takes place at night, and is presented in a different location in Richmond each year. It features multimedia works, sculptures, installations, performances, community-based works, and virtual projects that utilize light-based platforms experienced in the dark. Past sites include the Arts District, Bryan Park, Chimborazo Park, Scott’s Addition, and the sculpture garden and grounds of the VMFA. This year’s InLight curators are Dr.  Tiffany E. Barber and Nicole Pollard.

Taking Pine Camp’s history and topography as inspiration, InLight: Grounds for Clearing will explore the material and metaphorical facets of open space. When Pine Camp first came to be, it was a clearing – a space carved out of the pine woods, far outside of the city where people went to heal. A former farm and site of both a whites-only and separate Black Tuberculosis Hospital listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Pine Camp today is a multidisciplinary, multiracial community space that offers a theater, dance studio, art classes, darkroom, playground, basketball court, soccer field, walking trails, nature reserves, and public artworks.

Pine Camp’s history stretches back to Virginia’s colonial settlements of the early 1600s, and the site was part of the agricultural land north of the city of Richmond during the periods leading up to the end of the Civil War. After, Pine Camp became City Farm (1866-1909), producing food for city institutions, such as the jail and the city almshouse. The city also utilized the farm in the early twentieth century as an isolation ward for those with highly contagious diseases, especially smallpox, and it was popularly known as “the pest house.” At this time, Pine Camp became a private, whites-only Tuberculosis hospital where isolation, rest, and fresh air in pleasant surroundings were the first lines of disease treatment. This site’s impressive pine trees added to this treatment as they have been shown to have antimicrobial properties. Pine trees are also important because of their durable timber and fast growth. In 1936 the city established a separate Black infirmary. Space in the infirmary was very limited, and it was demolished in 1957 after the main hospital closed. Remains from the hospital, such as bottles and bedpans, can still be found on the site to this day.

Participating Artists

InLight Community Partners

1708 is a nonprofit arts organization founded by artists in 1978. Our mission is to empower artists’ ideas and voices so they can create works that matter to our communities. We believe that artists are catalysts for new ways of thinking, connectors of different perspectives, and conveners of the curious. We facilitate  opportunities with Richmond-based, national, and international artists to offer our communities diverse ideas and visions from across the field of contemporary art.

1708 Thanks Our InLight Sponsors

  • National Endowment for the Arts

  • E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation

  • Peachtree House Foundation

  • Capital One

  • Oliver Properties

  • Common Wealth Public Art Fund

  • VCU arts

  • NewMarket

  • VMFA

  • TV Jerry

LANTERN MAKING & PARADE

InLight kicks off with the Community Lantern Parade. We will gather at 7:00pm at the entrance of Pine Camp Cultural Arts and Community Center. The procession begins at 7:30pm. Need a  lantern? Join us on Friday, November 8th at 6:30pm near the entrance to make one!

PARKING

Street parking, and parking lot at Henderson Middle School

FOOD & BEVERAGE

  • 1115 Kitchen

  • Big Wife’s Mac N’ Cheese

  • Bikini Panini

  • Blessed Meals on Wheels

  • Coalesce Coffee

  • OPA

  • Mobile Yum Yum

HEALTH & SAFETY

InLight is a community-wide event! Here's how we can care for each other this weekend:

  • Stay home if you're not feeling well

  • Wash your hands 

  • Maintain social distancing

  • Masks are encouraged especially while making a lantern, waiting in a food truck line, gathering to view an installation, or at any moment that you find yourself in close proximity to others

SPECIAL THANKS

  • Keith Boitnott

  • Boitnott Visual Communications

  • City of Richmond Parks and Recreation

  • Jolene Giandomenico

  • Henderson Middle School

  • Will George

  • Jake Urbanski

  • Richmond Toolbank

1708 Gallery would especially like to thank its Board of Directors, staff, and numerous interns and volunteers, without whom InLight would not be possible.

1708 STAFF

  • Emily Smith, Executive Director

  • Cidney Cher, Operations Manager

  • Unicia R. Buster, Programs Manager

  • Dr. Tiffany E. Barber, InLight Curator

  • Nicole Pollard, InLight Curator

  • Kerry Mills, Lantern Coordinator

  • Tricia Evangelisto, Volunteer Coordinator

  • Sam Morgan, Installations Manager

  • Christopher Evangelisto, Installations Team

  • Silly Genius, Installations Team

  • Shane McFadden, Installations Team

  • Oliver Mukherjee, Installations Team

SUPPORT

InLight is made possible in large part by the generosity and support of numerous corporations, foundations and individuals.

Join our list of supporters and help 1708 Gallery continue bringing exceptional new art to the public by making a donation to InLight today.

VOLUNTEER

1708 Gallery needs volunteers for a variety of roles during the weeks leading up to InLight and during the days of the event. Volunteers support exhibition installation, event logistics, and other needs.

If you would like to volunteer for InLight 2024, please fill out this volunteer sign up form.



ARTIST INSTALLATION PREVIEWS

Banner Image: nonhumanities, point to touch, to touchpoint fall low up lands, low fall lands up you resemble the wall, you resemble the garden, InLight 2023.

Photo courtesy of David Hale

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