Halle Kate was just a 19-year-old preparing to enter college when she published her first coloring book. Now, two books under her belt, she’s turning her pen toward Charlottesville, with a 28-page compilation that will have myriad local landmarks, including the Rotunda, The Paramount Theater, and The Clifton. It drops in fall of 2026, so get your colored pencils sharpened.
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Big picture thinking
“I’ve been drawing since around the age of 2,” Jae Johnson says. “Growing up, I had an infatuation with drawing cars. Actually, my aunt still has probably 80 percent of my work from when I was around that age.” Today, Johnson’s moved on to bigger things—literally. You can find his mural art gracing walls around […]
Popular opinion
Charles Lewis, Maxicelia Robinson, Troy (Razor) Robinson (pictured above), and Aaron Simmons have a lot to say about local issues, and they put it all on the air with “In My Humble Opinion,” their local talk show/podcast. Topics tackled by “IMHO” include gun violence, race and media responsibility, the consequences of free speech, incarcerated mothers, […]
Simple pleasures
Good things come in small…galleries? That must be true, because The Little Museum of Art—an effort to reach more viewers during The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia’s shutdown in the summer of 2021—is a tiny treasure. Artists submit works no bigger than a square foot, which get displayed (and then traded […]
