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Amherst Glebe Arts Response (AGAR)

Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) is an Arts and Humanities Virginia non-profit corporation formed in March 2006 that received 501 (c)(3) status in 2008. AGAR's offices are located at 156 Patrick Henry Highway in Amherst, VA. Our MISSION is to commission, research, produce and publicly present educational materials the arts and the humanities, primarily in Amherst County and Greater Lynchburg, Virginia.

AGAR produces and presents arts and humanities programs and exhibitions in collaboration with community venues including the Amherst County Museum, Public Libraries and Public Schools, Second Stage Amherst, the Monacan Nation Cultural Foundation, the Legacy Museum for African-American History, Centra Community Health, Sweet Briar College, various schools, and Fairmont Crossing. During COVID-19, AGAR has brought music and poems on trays with meals on wheels to individuals receiving delivered meals from Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living. AGAR produces and annually presents performances in jazz and chamber music.

Between 2009 and 2015, AGAR received three grants from Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to conduct first-person interviews with over 133 individuals involved as students, teachers or parents in Amherst County schools in the years 1915-1975. The interviews were edited into 21 documentaries. Eight of the documentaries are on the “Discovery Virginia” website: “The Three Schools Project” (2010) had three films: “Bear Mountain Indian Mission School,” “Amherst Training School;” and “The Clifford School.” “The African American Schools Project” (2012) consisted of five films: “Small Schools of Northern Amherst County,” “Small Schools of Southern Amherst County;” “Madison Heights Colony Road Schools;” “Central High School 1954-69” and “Early Integration (told from African-American perspectives perspectives.”).AGAR’s open grant, “First Person Accounts of Twentieth Century Amherst County Schools” took place in 2013-2016.
AGAR was a presenter for the 250th Anniversary of Amherst County, and the 100th Anniversary of the Town of Amherst.

AGAR commissioned Aaron Garber to compose a chamber opera, “Romania: Revolution 1989,” for two singers and two pianists. The chamber opera premiered in 2014 in Clifford, Lynchburg, Moneta, and Roanoke, Virginia. In 2017, the small opera was reprised in Timisoara, Romania, where many of the events occurred. In 2018, AGAR commissioned an expanded version of the opera. The full version of “Romania: Revolution 1989” premiered in the Romanian National Opera House, Timisoara, Romania, on December 15, 2019, the 30th anniversary of the uprising that overthrew Nicolae Ceaușescu.

FUNDING FOR AGAR programs has come from the National Endowment for the Arts/Art Works and Big Read, National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia Commission for the Arts, Virginia Humanities, Greater Lynchburg Community Trust, CENTRA Health, Amherst Woman’s Club. Chamber Music America Digital Residency, and corporations and individuals.

AGAR is committed to the idea that unusual quality arts can find an audience in rural Virginia, and that local history can find an audience in many formats and many places.

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Board of Directors

Lynn Kable, President 
​J. Hardy Hubbard, Vice President
Edward Kable, Sec./Treas.
Ernest Deane
​James Hubbard
Lawrence Janow, esq.
​Amelia Moody, PhD
Marcia Robertson, PhD
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Board of Advisors

Janice Augustine
Sandi Esposito
​Melodie Fletcher
Jean Higginbotham
Beverly Campbell Jones

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Mission Statement

Amherst Glebe Arts Response (AGAR) Our mission is to bring, commission and develop or present programs in professional arts, humanities,  arts for young people, arts Iin education, and arts in healthcare to residents of Amherst County, Virginia, and others around the world.
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Contact Us

Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR)
156 Patrick Henry Highway
Amherst, VA 24521

US MAIL:

PO Box 117
Clifford, VA 24533
(434) 989-3215
Email: AmherstGlebeArts@gmail.com
FaceBook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse

amherstglebeartsresponse.org
Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR) arts and Humanities Projects in 2022-2023 are funded as follows:
 
AGAR’s concerts are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and The Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, with marketing assistance from SHARE Greater Lynchburg. The Louis Moreau Gottschalk project is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. AGAR’s arts programs for individuals receiving meals delivered at home are also funded in part by Amherst Woman’s Club.
 
The performances of Grant Gordy Duo and Cecilia Smith Ensemble, presented in collaboration with Gifts of Art, Michigan Medicine and VCU Health/Arts in Healthcare are supported by Chamber Music America’s Presenter Consortium for Jazz (PCJ) program, funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. AGAR’s concerts through PCJ are delivered online as a “thank you” during the COVID-19 times to medical and non-medical staff and to patients at Centra Health, Central Virginia Alliance for Community Living, area nursing facilities, and UVA Health.
 
AGAR’s Virginia History Programs are supported in part by the National Endowment
​for the Humanities (NEH) and Virginia Humanities (VH).
 
Funding for a VH/SHARP grant to AGAR has been provided by Virginia Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and the NEH Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) initiative.
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Amherst Glebe Arts Response, Inc. (AGAR)  |  156 Patrick Henry Highway, Amherst, VA 24521 
US Mail:  PO Box 117, Clifford, VA 24533   |   (434) 989-3215
Email: AmherstGlebeArts@gmail.com   |   Facebook: AmherstGlebeArtsResponse
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  • Home
  • The Arts
    • Music >
      • Java & Jazz >
        • Joseph Henson Jazz
      • Chamber Music America
      • Gottschalk
    • Beyond the Russian Pale
    • Opera
  • Humanities
    • Special Programs to View on Youtube
    • Museum
    • Amherst County School Project
  • Community | Healthcare
    • Arts in the Community
    • Arts in Healthcare >
      • Chamber Music America
  • About Us
  • Donate
  • Archives
    • Music Series Archives >
      • 2022-2023 Season
      • 2021-2022 Season >
        • NEA Big Read Amherst County Virginia >
          • NEA Big Read: Kickoff Event
          • NEA Big Read: Book Discussions
          • The Big Read Grant
          • NEA Big Read Amherst County Virginia Youtube Videos
        • Mezzo Soprano Sophie Delphis
        • Joseph Henson Jazz Project
        • “Winter Stories and Songs”
        • The Joseph Henson Jazz Project
        • Quintana All-Stars
        • Ayreheart
        • Isaac Williams Quartet
        • Alkemie Early Music Ensemble
        • Los Gatos
      • 2020-2021 Season >
        • Alkemie
      • 2019-2020 Season
      • 2018-2019 Season
      • 2017-2018 Season
      • 2012-2013 to 2016-2017 Seasons
    • Humanities Archive >
      • Museum
    • News Archive
    • Arts in the Community Archive
    • Arts in Healthcare Archive