Image: Mirror Shield Project (film still), 2016, Cannupa Hanska Luger (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Lakota, born 1979). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will present ‘Dream Sequences,’ a three-day program of video, performance and other moving-image works by contemporary artists from around the world, from November 15 to 17, 2026. The looped screening will examine Indigeneity across borders and beyond the framework of nation states.
The program will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in VMFA’s Cheek Theater in Richmond, Virginia. Admission is free for both members and the general public. The museum is located at 200 N Arthur Ashe Boulevard and states that its general admission is always free.
According to VMFA, the artists in ‘Dream Sequences’ use experimental forms of storytelling to articulate their relationships to homelands, culture and political concerns. The program’s focus on moving image brings together video and performance-based practices rather than presenting a conventional exhibition of still artworks. The museum has not published a complete artist list for the screening.
The event is co-organized by Siera Hyte, a member of the Cherokee Nation and VMFA’s Schiller Family Curator of Indigenous American Art, and Federico Cuatlacuatl, a Nahua artist and Horace W. Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. Their collaboration places the program within VMFA’s curatorial work in Indigenous American art while also connecting it to contemporary artistic and academic perspectives.
The screening is presented in recognition of the opening of the 10th annual Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival. The event page does not provide further information about the festival’s schedule or venues, and ‘Dream Sequences’ is listed specifically as a VMFA program in the Cheek Theater.
The event page identifies ‘Mirror Shield Project’ (2016) by Cannupa Hanska Luger as the source of the accompanying image. Luger is identified as Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota, and as born in 1979. No further details about which works will appear in the screening, their running times or the order of presentation are provided by the museum.
‘Dream Sequences’ will be available on a continuous loop during the museum’s listed hours on Sunday, November 15; Monday, November 16; and Tuesday, November 17, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
