“Sculpting History at the Valentine Studio” Wins Four Prestigious Awards
RICHMOND, VA – The Valentine and design firm Studio Joseph have been honored with four awards for the transformative exhibition, Sculpting History at the Valentine Studio: Art, Power and the “Lost Cause” American Myth, which opened to the public on the museum’s main campus in January of 2024.
2024 Golden Hammer Award, Best Placemaking – Arts + Culture
From Historic Richmond and Storefront for Community Design, the Golden Hammer Awards honor excellence in neighborhood revitalization projects throughout Greater Richmond by recognizing professionals and community members improving our neighborhoods through restoration, adaptive reuse, new construction, placemaking, and historic preservation.
2024 VAxDesign Award, Design Achievement Award
From The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, Virginia by Design is an annual awards program that launched in 2018 targeting visionary thinking and patronage in the design fields that broaden recognition and appreciation for architecture and design throughout Virginia.
2024 American Architecture Award
Since 1994, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, have organized The American Architecture Awards as a way to honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important American architects and planners practicing nationally and international.
2024 Global Future Design Awards, Gold Medal
Established in 2016, Architectural Press Release’s Global Future Design Awards are one of the world’s most prestigious awards for architecture, interior and product design. It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine architecture design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution.
About Sculpting History
Open since January 2024, Sculpting History uses artworks sculpted by Edward Valentine, the museum’s first president, as well as documents, objects, images, quotations, and questions to connect the Lost Cause myth to today. A powerful multimedia presentation reveals links between the Lost Cause campaign, Edward Valentine and Richmond’s monuments. Learn more at thevalentine.org/sculpting-history.
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The Valentine has been collecting, preserving and interpreting Richmond’s 400-year history for over a century. Located in the heart of historic downtown, the Valentine is a place for residents and tourists to discover the diverse stories that tell the broader history of this important region. thevalentine.org
Studio Joseph’s goal is to create highly detailed, carefully crafted work that is deeply engaged in the process of building. While working at different scales, they keep the individual experience paramount in the broader context of creating shared spaces. Ultimately, their contribution as designers is one steeped in humanity, providing places that inspire and enable a better quality of life for all. studiojoseph.com