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Four different UVA students hold up their laptops to show the various stickers and art on their laptops.
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Peel Back the Layers: UVA Students Express Themselves Through Laptop Stickers

Walk across any college campus and you’ll spot them everywhere: laptops transformed into personal billboards, with screen backs covered in a collage of stickers. Each carefully chosen sticker tells a story, from academic affiliation and club involvements to beloved music, movies and inside jokes shared with friends. UVA Today talked to five University of Virginia students about their laptop sticker collections and discovered the interesting stories behind their sticker choices.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/peel-back-layers-uva-students-express-themselves-through-laptop-stickers

A woodcut of a nude woman with short hair holding a shell in one hand and a scythe-like object in the other. Rays of gold surround her head, and the background is a navy blue sky with gold stars.
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UVA Fralin Art Museum Acquires Alison Saar Woodcut Print

On September 3, 2025, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia (The Fralin/museum) announced the acquisition of a new work by Alison Saar. Mutiny of the Sable Venus (2024) is now on view in the museum’s Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation Entrance Gallery. Based in Los Angeles, Alison Saar (b.1956) is an influential sculptor, mixed-media, and installation artist. Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and Black female identity. She cites African, Caribbean, and Latin American folk art, rituals, and spirituality as influences.

https://www.seegreatart.art/uva-fralin-art-museum-acquires-alison-saar-woodcut-print/

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Charlottesville Area Arts Council Planning Project Announces Steering Committee Members

A broad cross-section of artists, cultural workers, and community leaders has been selected to serve on the Steering Committee for the Charlottesville Area Arts Council planning project. The Steering Committee will guide the community-driven process to explore the creation of a future Arts Council for the Charlottesville area. Their role is to provide insight, ensure broad community perspectives are represented, and co-create recommendations for how a future Arts Council can equitably serve the city’s diverse arts and culture ecosystem. The committee members were chosen from a pool of 59 applications submitted by local artists, organizers, educators, administrators, and community supporters.

September 23, 2025
A very dark room with only a black leather couch. Two small rectangular pillows are on the couch, one green and one blue.
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The Fralin’s “In Feeling” is a Multisensory Journey Through Disability and Art

“In Feeling: Empathy and Tension Through Disability” at the Fralin Museum of Art does not look like the everyday art exhibit — in fact, upon visiting, museum goers might ask themselves where the art is. The exhibit opened Aug. 30 and explores how we empathize with others, highlighting the experiences of lived disability through different mediums such as space, music, video, text and drawing.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/09/the-fralins-in-feeling-is-a-multisensory-journey-through-disability-and-art?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

A large group of artists stands outside on the steps of a large building.
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McGuffey Art Center Toasts 50 Years of Collaboration and Support

From the moment it opened on October 11, 1975, the McGuffey Art Center was a hit. Half a century later, the vibrant arts organization is still humming along, providing affordable studio space and a supportive environment for artists while delivering art shows, receptions, classes, open studios, and performances to the public.

https://c-ville.com/mcguffey-art-center-toasts-50-years-of-collaboration-and-support/

Deborah Parker

UVA Scholar Wins Prestigious Art in Literature Award for Book on Trailblazing Librarian Belle da Costa Greene

University of Virginia professor Deborah Parker has been awarded the 2025 Mary Lynn Kotz Art in Literature Award for her book Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters. Presented by the Library of Virginia and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the award honors outstanding literary works inspired by art and recognizes excellence in both creative and scholarly writing.

https://as.virginia.edu/uva-scholar-wins-prestigious-art-literature-award-book-trailblazing-librarian-belle-da-costa-greene

Colorful painting with various dots and circles, mostly in blue, purple, orange, and red.
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Maḻatja-Maḻatja | For the Next Generation

The artists of Mimili Maku Arts span generations, from emerging creatives to established visionaries. Together their work reflects the vibrant Mimili Community in South Australia on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. In 2012, artists across families and generations made prints at a workshop on Country with the master printmaker Basil Hall. This selection speaks directly to the continuity of Aṉangu culture. Husband and wife Kunmanara (Mumu Mike) Williams and Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin mentored Robert Fielding who in turn taught his son Zaachariaha Fielding. Betty Kuntiwa Pumani passed down the stories that she learned from her mother to her own daughter Marina Pumani Brown and her niece Josina Pumani.

https://kluge-ruhe.org/all-exhibitions/malatja-malatja-for-the-next-generation/

A colorful crowd stands outside at IX Art Park in front of a covered stage.
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Soul of Cville at IX Art Park

Celebrate Black excellence in Charlottesville at the 5th annual Soul of Cville Festival! This free, family-friendly festival will take place Saturday, August 16 and is excited to highlight Black Artisans and Vendors in the city and county. Enjoy fashion shows, free art making, a community canvas, musical performances, and community access to The Looking Glass Immersive Art Experience.

https://www.ixartpark.org/soul-of-cville

A close up photo of a dragonfly with black stripes, against a light blue sky.
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For a Local Naturalist, Photography Goes Hand in Hand with Science

How does a mathematician turn into an odonatologist? (And what the heck is an odonatologist?) Emily Luebke can tell you all about it. A love of the outdoors led math major Luebke to become a photographer of wildlife, especially insects. That led her to a fascination with dragonflies (in science terms, order Odonata), which led to a career in ecology and an avocation as a citizen scientist—not necessarily what you’d expect from a numbers person and competitive ultimate frisbee player (more on that later).

https://c-ville.com/for-a-local-naturalist-photography-goes-hand-in-hand-with-science/

A painting of water paths in land, with blue, white, and black colors only used.
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Tim Michel Takes Inspiration from Water’s Transitions in Chroma Show

Tim Michel became interested in deltas after a friend, a follower of Carl Jung, suggested it would be useful to have a personal symbol or archetype that could carry you to the next stage of your life. “This was interesting to me,” says Michel, whose “Delta” show at Chroma Projects considers these alluvial phenomena through a series of prints.

https://c-ville.com/tim-michel-takes-inspiration-from-waters-transitions-in-chroma-show/

A cream sheet of parchment with lines of ink that seem to be words, but are unintelligible.
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OPENS AUGUST 30: In Feeling: Empathy and Tension Through Disability

Is it possible to fully understand someone’s point of view? In Feeling: Empathy and Tension Through Disability features works by nine contemporary artists that reckon with how we empathize. Literally meaning “in feeling,” empathy implies the action of understanding or experiencing the feelings and thoughts of another. Yet the practice of empathizing—being aware of and sensitive to the experience of someone else—can also engender tensions relating to one’s own position and expectations. Exploring the relationship between empathy and tension, this exhibition highlights and celebrates perspectives that challenge assumptions about ways of being and living.

https://uvafralinartmuseum.virginia.edu/exhibitions/opens-august-30-feeling-empathy-and-tension-through-disability

Light blue background with the words, "Through this, to that: 2025 Fellowship Exhibition"
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2025 New City Arts Fellowship Exhibition

The 2025 New City Arts Fellowship invited a select group of artists to make work responding to the annual theme, through this, to that, written by Fellowship Guest Curator, Eboni Bugg (read the full theme below). Following an open call and competitive application process, this year’s Artist Fellows were selected by a community panel. Inspired by water’s movement and transformation, these four artists considered their own movement “through this, to that” (as written by Lucille Clifton in her poem “blessing the boats”). During month-long Fellowships that included a studio space grant—located at Visible Records—and a stipend, Fellowship artists engaged with this theme through photography, interactive sculpture, installation, and assemblage touching upon themes of grief, joy, perpetual transformation, generative destruction, and displacement.

https://newcityarts.org/exhibitions/2025-fellowship-exhibition