Saturday 11/8 & Sunday 11/9 Now in its 31st year, the Artisans Studio Tour offers opportunities for the public to experience the work spaces of Central Virginia’s finest artists, craftspeople, and makers. This weekend, 47 artisans open their spaces for A Journey Through Artful Lives and Timeless Craft, providing visitors with insights and explorations of […]
Saturday 11/8 & Sunday 11/9 Now in its 31st year, the Artisans Studio Tour offers opportunities for the public to experience the work spaces of Central Virginia’s finest artists, craftspeople, and makers. This weekend, 47 artisans open their spaces for A Journey Through Artful Lives and Timeless Craft, providing visitors with insights and explorations of […]
Friday 10/3 through Friday 11/21 Second Street Gallery presents two new exhibitions exploring the passage of time and its effects on aesthetics and materiality. In the Main Gallery, “Time and Again” features mixed media and installation pieces by JMU professor Corinne Diop, who works in photo-based processes. In the Dové Gallery, “What Remains” features mixed […]
Through 10/10 The Ruffin Gallery at UVA presents an expansive group exhibition that brings together the knowledge and aesthetic achievements of individuals whose ancestral lineage predates Spanish colonialism, and who center millennia of inherited epistemologies within their contemporary practices. “Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales” features sculpture, photography, video, painting, performance, textiles, mural, and installation works by […]
Friday 8/1through Friday 8/29 Chroma Projects presents two solo shows during the month of August. In the Micro Gallery, “Delta” features prints and printing plates by Tim Michel that consider the motif of the delta, using it as a metaphor for life as it gathers matter, stories, and experiences along its route, spreading its beneficence […]
Wednesday 7/2 – Sunday 8/17 McGuffey Art Center presents a collection of summer shows covering lepidoptera, nostalgia, and the human form. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, Deborah Davis’ “Drawn to Light” offers a collection of moth portraits in acrylic on canvas, capturing subjects observed at the artist’s home in southern Albemarle County. In the […]
Through 6/29 Les Yeux du Monde presents “Material/Mater/Mother,” an exhibition by Michelle Gagliano that explores the intimate relationship between medium and message in abstract and expressive representations of the natural world. Informed by principles of sustainability and historical technique, Gagliano creates her own paints using only nontoxic materials—natural gold pigment, walnut and lavender oils, egg […]
Friday 5/2 Charlottesville’s newest creative space, Milkweed Clay Studio, launches its venture with a grand opening celebration. Tour the studio, meet with member artists, take in pottery demonstrations, and shop locally made ceramic works while enjoying the company of fellow fans of functional ware and artworks on May 2, from 5–8pm. The studio will also […]
April 4–27 McGuffey Art Center’s Mid-Atlantic Juried Show presents works from more than 75 artists for this dynamic exhibition that showcases artistic excellence and diversity from across the region, including artists residing in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina. Juror Jeffrey W. Allison, of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, […]
March 7–30 Phaeton Gallery presents “Understory,” an engaging exhibition of expressive nature paintings by Krista Townsend (Charlottesville, Virginia) paired with vibrant, layered written messages by Niki Hare (Tewkesbury, England) that invite viewers to immerse themselves in the splendor of the forest. “Understory” brings together a group of paintings that explore and promote the profound connection […]
February 7–March 21 Second Street Gallery presents two new exhibitions from artists with local ties engaging the overlap of abstraction and figuration. In the Main Gallery, “Liminal” offers mixed-media works by Charlottesville-based artist Cassie Guy (artwork pictured above). In the Dové Gallery, “Signs of Life” shows paintings and drawings exploring grief and the cyclic nature […]