Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library 2450 Old Ivy Rd. “Women Making Books” explores women’s contributions to English and North American bookmaking from the mid-18th to the 21st centuries, and other permanent exhibitions.
Botanical Fare 421 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Familiar Scenes: Recent Landscapes in Oil” by Randy Baskerville. Opens June 26. Through September 4.
The Bridge PAI 306 E. Main St. Open studios with member artists of The Underground, and a mural created by high school students of Blue Ridge Juvenile Detention Center. Through June.
The Center at Belvedere 540 Belvedere Blvd. “All About Flowers,” a group exhibition of floral photography by the Charlottesville Camera Club. Through June.
Chroma Projects Inside Vault Virginia, Third St. SE. “Symbiotic Tango,” collaborative works by Beatrix Ost and Michelle Gagliano. Through June. First Fridays opening.
The Connaughton Gallery Rouss & Robertson Halls, UVA Grounds. “Healing Nature,” acrylic on canvas and oil on canvas Henry Wingate and Rick Morrow. Through June 15.
Create Gallery InBio, 700 Harris St., Ste. 102. “BozArts for Literacy” features work from Betty Brubach, Julia Kindred, Brita Lineberger, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Ellen Moore Osborne, Shirley Paul, and Juliette Swenson to benefit Literacy Volunteers. Through June.
Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Quiet Places,” paintings by Debra Sheffer, and “Lucid Trees,” wooden objects by Jason Goldman. Through June. Meet the artists June 17 at 1pm.
C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Exploring Virginia and Beyond,” designs from illustrator Barbara Shenefield. Through June. First Fridays opening.
The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA 155 Rugby Rd., UVA Grounds. Exhibitions include “Look Three Ways: Maya Painted Pottery,” “Processing Abstraction,” and “N’dakinna Landscapes Acknowledged.”
JMRL Central 201 E. Market St. Digital collage artwork by Reta Crenshaw.
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVA 400 Worrell Dr. “Performing Country,” an exhibition highlighting never-before-seen works, and other permanent exhibitions.
Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Axis Mundi,” new work by New York-based artists Dorothy Robinson, Kurt Steger, and Meg Hitchcock. Through June 15.
Live Arts 123 E. Water St. Watercolor paintings by Karen Knierim. Opens June 10.
McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Smith Gallery, “Flotsam, Discarded Materials Transformed,” an immersive installation of oceanic artwork by L. Michelle Geiger. In the first floor hallway galleries, “Cracked,” an exhibition representing the cumulative works created by the 2022-23 Incubator Studio Artists. In the second floor hallway gallery, “Portraits: Ourselves, Themselves,” a McGuffey members group exhibition featuring portraits. In the Associate Gallery, “Travel,” works by associate artists. Through July 2. First Fridays opening.
New City Arts 114 Third St. NE. “loss.nothing.memorial.” is an immersive sound and video installation by Ashon Crawley, honoring the lives of musicians, singers, and choir directors from the Black Church tradition who died of AIDS complications between 1980-2005. Through June 29. First Fridays opening.
Phaeton Gallery 114 Old Preston Ave. “New Works” by Jackie Moore Watson. Through June 29.
PVCC Gallery V. Earl Dickinson Building, 501 College Dr. In the North and South galleries, the 2023 Student Exhibition. Through September 4.
Quirk Gallery 499 W. Main St. “Trial & Error,” mixed-media works by Frank Phillips. “Ephemeral Spring,” a group show curated by Jessica Breed, featuring area artists. “House on Fire,” glass works by Kiara Pelissier and her team. Dates vary.
The Ruffin Gallery 179 Culbreth Rd., UVA Grounds. “Playing with Syn-tax,” works by this year’s UVA studio art graduates and Aunspaugh fellows. In the third floor stairwell gallery, “In Memoriam: Art by and for D’Sean Perry.” Through June 23.
The Scrappy Elephant 1745 Allied St., Ste. C. Mixed-media works by Alissa Ujie Diamond. Through July 5. First Fridays opening.
Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. In the main gallery, “Ditto” showcases collaborative works by Tobiah Mundt and Sarah Boyts Yoder. In the Dové gallery, “Echoes in the Deep Blue,” a solo exhibition of new work by Sahara Clemons. Through July 21. First Fridays opening.
Studio Ix 969 Second St. SE. “Beyond Boundaries” showcases works created by artists with developmental disabilities who belong to The Arc Studio collective. Through June 25. First Fridays opening.
Top Knot Studio 103 Fifth St. SE. “Take A Closer Look: intimates of nature” by Claire Smithers Mellinger. First Fridays opening.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville 717 Rugby Rd. Showcasing the works of Circe Strauss using polarization diffraction in “Through a Glass Darkly,” and Ellen Osborne using mixed-media collage in “Transparency.” Through June.
Visible Records 1740 Broadway St. “Blue Veins,” murals and small square drawings from artist in residence Nadd Harvin, and “ENTRE NOS: Aesthetics of Undocumentedness,” a group show curated by Erika Hirugami featuring emerging artists within the undoc+ spectrum. Through June 3 and opens June 9, respectively.
