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A photo of a blonde smiling middle-aged woman on the left, and a painted portrait of a blonde woman with a serious expression on the right.
Visual Art

Artists in Conversation: Courtney Coker + Suzanne Tanner Chitwood

We invite you to join us on Thursday, January 15, 5:30–6:30PM, for a special conversation between exhibiting artist Courtney Coker and fellow artist Suzanne Tanner Chitwood, on the artist’s body of work on view in Possibility in the Dové Gallery from December 5, 2025–January 23, 2026. In this artist talk, Coker will delve into how the shifting state of her family’s 19th-century farmhouse opens a dialogue about midlife, memory, and the quiet revelations found in nature’s reclaiming of place.

https://www.secondstreetgallery.org/second-street-gallery/p/aic-coker

A bright blue room with tables and six visitors engaging in crafting activities. There is a young woman with a name tag helping a younger child.
Visual Art

Fralin Fun Day - February 7th

The Fralin welcomes community members of all ages to celebrate the opening of our spring exhibitions! Join us throughout the day for a variety of free art-making activities and refreshments.

https://uvafralinartmuseum.virginia.edu/events/fralin-fun-day-1

The inside ceiling dome of the Rotunda with projections of constellations in white light.
Visual Art

Starry, Starry Night: Dome Room Constellations Will Shine For the Public

Thomas Jefferson wanted to bring the stars indoors. Jefferson, in designing the University of Virginia’s iconic Rotunda, planned to paint constellations on the ceiling of the Dome Room. He never completed this part of his vision, but in 2019, three graduate students set up projectors to display the constellations on the Dome Room’s ceiling.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/starry-starry-night-dome-room-constellations-will-shine-public

A display of lace fabrics, black and white photos, and garlands of yellow marigolds, with a collection of flowers in vases and bouquets bellow the images.
Visual Art

McGuffey Art Center’s Día de los Muertos Exhibit Celebrated Art and Commemoration

The doors of downtown’s McGuffey Art Center opened to a sea of color this November, with paper flag garlands strung from the ceiling, painted skeletal masks adorning the walls and marigolds galore decorating surfaces. Walking through the first floor halls, a web of displays interspersed with saved messages of memory from past years transformed the gallery with the festive spirit of the 13-day Día de los Muertos exhibition, carefully crafted in remembrance of loved ones now passed on.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/11/mcguffey-art-centers-da-de-los-muertos-exhibit-celebrated-art-and-commemoration?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

A painting hung on a white wall depicts a human body immersed within a space of colors and shapes, some plantlike and mostly pastel colors.
Visual Art

Exploring the Body As A Vessel in Chloe Clayborne’s “Decadent Dissolution”

Chloe Clayborne, Class of 2025 alumna, is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on the transcendent, using her art to question what a human soul is and how it relates to the world. Her current exhibit “Decadent Dissolution” at New City Arts in the Downtown Mall explores these themes through sculpture, as well as oil and watercolor paintings.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/11/exploring-the-body-as-a-vessel-in-chloe-claybornes-decadent-dissolution?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

Gray faded text in the background and large black bold letters in the foreground spell, "ZINES NOW!"
Visual Art

‘Zines Now!’: New Program Builds Community Through Independent Art Form

2025 is the year of the zine at the University of Virginia, according to Erin Dickey, Librarian for the Arts at UVA Library. From the Library’s Makerspace to classrooms across Grounds, Dickey has observed an uptick in students and faculty experimenting with creating the self-published, do-it-yourself magazines thanks in part to a new Library initiative, Zines Now!

https://library.virginia.edu/news/2025/zines-now-new-program-builds-community-through-independent-art-form?mtm_campaign=em&mtm_kwd=sub

Half the screen is an image of a young woman with long dark brown hair smiling at the camera, close up. The right side shows two magazine covers from The New Yorker, one white and one blue.
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Q&A: How Did a UVA Student Magazine Shape This Alumna’s Path to The New Yorker?

Every Friday by midnight, Christina Hara sends The New Yorker’s latest issue to the printer with words in place, layouts locked and pages perfected. Just four years after graduating from the University of Virginia, the Class of 2021 alumna is an editorial producer at one of journalism’s most prestigious publications. Her journey with magazine design began at V Magazine, a fashion and culture magazine produced by UVA students since 2004.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-how-did-uva-student-magazine-shape-alumnas-path-new-yorker

A colorful graphic that has the phrase "Fantasy Festival" in bold 3D letters, and has a neon rainbow-like pattern across the words.
Visual Art

Arts This Week: Fantasy Festival at IX Art Park

You are listening to WTJU. On Friday, October 31, Halloween, Ix Art Foundation presents its Fantasy Festival, featuring live art, music, and performances from 2pm-10pm. For Arts This Week, we spoke to Ewa Harr, the Executive director of the Ix Art Foundation. Can you share a bit about the IX Art Foundation with me? What are your primary goals and what role do you play in the Charlottesville community?

https://www.wtju.net/arts-this-week-fantasy-festival-at-ix-art-park/

A woman stands at a podium speaking at an art exhibition, with a tall pile of golden inner-tubes stacked in the gallery behind her.
Visual Art

Global Spanish Marks Close of 'Fuego Eterno' Exhibition with Party, Series of Events

The Department of Art and the Global Spanish Initiative celebrated the final day of the “Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales” exhibition with a closing reception and party at the Ruffin Gallery on Oct. 10. The Friday night party, bringing together the exhibition’s artists, scholars and the larger community for one last opportunity to view the collected works of artists from across borders, organized by guest curator Erika Hirugami, wrapped a week of Global Spanish events on Grounds.

https://as.virginia.edu/news/global-spanish-marks-close-fuego-eterno-exhibition-party-series-events

A wall in the UVA Ruffin Gallery is painted with a ocean wave-like pattern and has inner-tubes hanging in from of the wall, also painted with a wave pattern.
Visual Art

Q&A: How Does UVA’s ‘Fuego Eterno’ Exhibit Explore Indigenous Sovereignty?

It’s the final few days to catch “Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales (Eternal Fire: Visual Sovereignties),” an art exhibition at the University of Virginia’s Ruffin Hall. The newly launched Global Spanish Initiative has hosted the exhibition showcasing indigenous artwork from across the Americas and beyond. Featuring artists and scholars from Mexico, the U.S., Guatemala, the Philippines and nine other countries, the exhibit wraps up Friday.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-how-does-uvas-fuego-eterno-exhibit-explore-indigenous-sovereignty

An abstract close-up painting of a flower, with red, pink, yellow, and orange colors in the petals.
Visual Art

Arts This Week: “Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Life” at Vinegar Hill Theater

You’re listening to WTJU Charlottesville. On Saturday, September 27th at 2pm, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society is showing Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Life, at Vinegar Hill Theater followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers and UVAs Beth Turner, who we spoke with for Arts This Week.

https://www.wtju.net/arts-this-week-georgia-okeeffe-the-brightness-of-life-at-vinegar-hill-theater/

A colorful display of different shapes and paper elements put together in a 3D collage, on a plain white background.
Visual Art

Data Artist Nathalie Miebach Joins School as Inaugural Artist-in-Residence

Later this month, the University of Virginia School of Data Science will welcome internationally recognized artist and data storyteller Nathalie Miebach as its inaugural Artist-in-Residence. Miebach, known for transforming scientific weather data into woven sculptures and musical compositions, will be in residence Oct. 20–24, 2025, engaging students, faculty, and the community in a week of workshops, lectures, and presentations, and an exhibition.

https://datascience.virginia.edu/news/data-artist-nathalie-miebach-joins-school-inaugural-artist-residence