The public is invited to the Barton Heights Cemeteries, located at the intersection of Lamb Avenue and Wellford Street, on Saturday, September 13, 2025, at 10:00am for a free walking tour. Over this past summer, Sara Wilson, a graduate student intern from the University of Virginia’s architectural history program, worked with Collaboratory member Ryan K.…

The Richmond Cemetery Collaboratory is seeking applications from faculty and community partners (existing and potential) to join the cohort for the upcoming 2025-2026 academic year. The kickoff meeting will take place in August 2025 sometime. This is a wonderful opportunity to network with faculty, Public History professionals, cemetery activists, descendants, and students in a supportive,…

Cultivating Perpetual Care Communities: A Richmond Cemetery Collaboratory SymposiumSaturday, March 29, 20259 AM – 4 PM The Richmond Cemetery Collaboratory invites you to its first symposium on how long-term care is created and supported in cemeteries, particularly historically Black cemeteries. Topics include volunteer network building, preservation planning, policy-making, archive creation, research, community partnerships, and the…

The Richmond Cemetery Collaboratory has issued its call for faculty and community fellows for the upcoming 2024-2025 program year. The Collaboratory welcomes applications from faculty in any department or discipline, and from community members representing current or potential partners. The link to the fellows application is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSefkyCQDxCXBikUSvyjwC7dvb-ktKV3DtFK65uoM-7zdXsXwA/viewform?pli=1&pli=1 Please help us spread the word. For…

The Collaboratory road tour continues. Join us with the VCU Division of Community Engagement for a one-hour webinar on March 21, 2024 at 3:00 PM, where representatives from the Collaboratory will introduce and discuss our work. The session is free to all, but attendees do need to register beforehand. Please register here. The webinar is featured as…

“Grave Artistry: New Findings from the J. Henry Brown Order Books,” April 26, 2024 at 5:30pm at the Library of Virginia. The Richmond Cemetery Collaboratory invites the public to an event celebrating the Library of Virginia’s acquisition of fourteen additional volumes of order books from Richmond’s J. Henry Brown Monuments company. Established in 1885, Brown’s…

On Thursday, November 30, the Cemetery Collaboratory in partnership with the Star of Benevolence Society will be holding a community conversation regarding Varina’s St. James Cemetery. The event will be held from 6:00-7:30pm at the Varina Branch of the Henrico County Public Library, located at 1875 New Market Road in Henrico. The public is invited.…

The Woodland Restoration Foundation, the steward of Richmond’s Woodland Cemetery and one of our Collaboratory community partners, will be holding a design jam sponsored by the VCU da Vinci Center and the VCU Division of Community Engagement on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, at 4:00pm at the VCU Health Hub. The goal of the design jam…

On Friday, September 8, at 3:30pm, representatives from the Cemetery Collaboratory will be giving a brief overview of our work, at the VCU Humanities Research Center on campus. The event is part of the HRC’s new Public Humanities initiative. Information and free registration here: https://bit.ly/phl0908 Please join us there!

The Cemetery Collaboratory is seeking to hire a GIS Technician again for the upcoming 2023-2024 academic year. The new hire will assist us with building digital maps of historic cemeteries in the Richmond region. Applicants should have experience working with ArcGIS software platform. To apply, visit: https://vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/4197?c=vcu Review of applications will begin on August 14,…