“My fascination with the Underground Railroad began in elementary school,” says photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales in...

Sometimes art is so public—in galleries, in gardens, on exterior walls of buildings—that unless we purchase it...

Charlottesville native Henry Hoke remembers writing stories and poems while a student at Venable Elementary. “I think...

Before Hannah Barnaby became a writer, she was an editor at Houghton Mifflin. It was there that the process of...

While singer-songwriter Devon Sproule’s sound has evolved over time, she continues to write thoughtful and compelling...

If you have never heard of Bix Beiderbecke, the unlikely jazz legend from a Midwestern, German-American family,...

Every superhero has an origin story that explains how he or she obtained superpowers, and sometimes these powers lie...

The second annual Shenandoah Fringe Festival—“a culmination of the wild, wondrous and weird of our region,” according...

Artist Sharon Shapiro has a unique history with the Welcome Gallery, where her exhibition “Above Ground” opens this...

The programming of the annual Virginia Festival of the Book—now in its 23rd year—always seems to strike a beautiful...