Discover the arts through our Community Partners & Friends around Charlottesville.
Founded in 2007 with a unique mission for dancer wellness, Charlottesville Ballet is the only full-time professional dance company in the Charlottesville area. Co-Directors Sara Clayborne and Emily Hartka are committed to elevating professional ballet with a healthy working environment for the artists.
The Charlottesville Mural Project incorporates community perspectives to showcase the talents of artists locally, regionally, and abroad while contributing to the cultural and visual vibrancy of the city. We believe public art can inspire people of all ages. By involving the public in projects that visibly change the landscape of our city, we help instill a sense of pride and ownership in our community.
Our Mission is to produce high-quality opera and musicals at affordable prices, to provide training opportunities and experience for Young Artists, Apprentice Singers, and Interns, to provide educational nourishment for all sectors of the community, and to enrich the cultural vitality and quality of life in Virginia.
Chroma Projects has risen to the challenge of locating in a number of pop-up spaces around town since losing its fabulous original downtown mall location. However, Chroma’s newest iteration as a Micro Gallery is now housed in a bank vault inside Vault Virginia.
CreativeMornings is a free, monthly breakfast lecture series for the creative community. It happens in 224 cities in 67 countries around the world. Charlottesville is the 180th chapter, and your local hosts are Kori Price, Emma Terry, and Maureen Brondyke. There will be a creative lecture on the 2nd Friday of each month (generally) centered around a global theme picked by CreativeMorning chapters around the world!
The Cville Tool Library aims to be a collective and collaborative space for empowering our community with tools. It is a place where community members can check out tools, similar to books at the library, for home repair, maintenance, and personal projects without having to buy and store tools they might only use a handful of times.
Empowered Players is a Fluvanna-based nonprofit designed to make a difference in the community through the arts. We promote youth empowerment, are dedicated to community service, and believe the arts have the power to unite.
Friends of Cville Downtown is a group of stakeholders who care deeply about the future of Cville, and work in partnership with City Government and the Community to craft strategies and implement projects that can stimulate Downtown social and economic vitality, and make Cville even better and more inclusive.
The Front Porch was founded with the strong belief that music is a universal language that brings people together. It’s a bridge between our past and our future.
Embracing the emerging trend toward immersive art experiences, we want to inspire people to find their own spark of imagination and creativity, and bring it to life using multiple artistic mediums.
Infinite Repeats is a print shop based in Charlottesville Virginia, next to Visible Records in the Woolen Mills area. We offer silkscreen, etching, and risograph printing. Monthly memberships, workshops and classes are available. Members have access to multicolor presses, exposure unit, conveyor dryers, flash dryers - come print with us!
Les Yeux du Monde (The Eyes of the World) is a contemporary art gallery located in Charlottesville, VA. The gallery rotates exhibitions by regional, national and international contemporary artists and modern masters. Committed to education and sharing the joys of art with both the novice and collector alike, the gallery offers artists’ talks and trips to studios, museums and collections.
Light House Studio equips young people with the skills and confidence to tell their stories and build community through collaborative filmmaking. We seek to foster a community where Charlottesville’s young people flourish as students, storytellers, and citizens.
Forging theater and community in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Virginia’s first and only immersive art space, featuring a larger-than-life interactive enchanted forest and kaleidoscopic cave!
Since its establishment in 1975, the art center has been a community of artists, dedicated to practicing art and passing on the creative spirit to the greater Charlottesville community, through creating opportunities for increasing access to art for all.
Milkweed Clay Studio provides 24/7 access to a small group of members who are passionate about working with clay. The studio is a light-filled space in the historic Silk Mill building near downtown Charlottesville, VA. Just as important as providing the physical space, MCS also provides a supportive and collaborative community that allows our members to learn and grow alongside one another.
The Music Resource Center (MRC) fosters the youth of Charlottesville through music. The MRC is a safe, diverse, and creative community where teens learn, grow, and make music together. MRC is affordable to all. As a nonprofit after-school program, the Music Resource Center provides unlimited voice, instrument, and dance lessons, practice space, mentorship, access to instruments and equipment, performance opportunities, summer camps, and recording studio time to 6th – 12th grade students.
New City Arts Initiative is a collaborative non-profit fostering engagement with the arts in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Paramount Theater is a member of the League of Historic American Theaters, and is a significant part of our area’s history. Now a vibrant and versatile venue for performing arts and community events, The Paramount is a vital contributor to Central Virginia’s present and future quality of life as well as an economic driver for the region.
Presenting a rich array of dance, music, theatre, and visual arts programming since 1999, Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Fine Arts and Performance season offers high-quality arts experiences to entertain, enrich, and educate students and the larger community.
We promote contemporary artists through the presentation of their work in a professional gallery and encourage an appreciation of contemporary art by educating the public through exhibitions, lectures, workshops, classes, tours, and publications.
At Studio IX, our commitment to fostering community and providing a platform for fresh ideas, real conversations, new perspectives and deep connection is stronger than ever.
We believe in connecting communities & sharing solutions to build a brighter tomorrow.
Violet Crown is not simply a business. We strive to be an important part of our community. Our goals are to provide spaces for public entertainment and to support our neighbors in myriad ways. We partner with local vendors whenever possible, and we always look to connect with community members.
Virginia Book Arts is a thriving community of letterpress printers, bookbinders, printmakers, and paper artists based in Charlottesville, Virginia. We teach and preserve the history and craft of the book.
Where writers, visual artists, and composers bring forth their finest work.
Visible Records is an artist and community run space situated in a large warehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. that houses a variety of working-class businesses, initiatives, and nonprofits such as Infinite Repeats, Food Not Bombs, Charlottesville Tool Library, and Siller Pollinator Co. Composed of artist studios, a gallery, a large common area and a community garden.
