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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.
Visual Art

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.
Visual Art

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.
Visual Art

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.
Visual Art

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.
Visual Art

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"
Visual Art

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

Robert fielding painting with various words and bold neon green and pink color blocking.
Visual Art

Tjukurpa | Handle it: Robert Fielding

Fielding has spent much of the last decade creating a powerful body of work. What is on display only hints at the breadth of his artistic practice. Traversing a range of mediums—including paint, print, photography, poetry, drawing, film, and sculpture—Fielding’s work is rooted in his personal experience of reclaiming culture as a son of the Stolen Generation. He employs language, whether Yankunytjatjara or English, in his truth-telling and reconciliatory call for unity. Through his highly collaborative practice, Fielding creates community around him and affirms that many cultural practices are stronger than ever.

https://kluge-ruhe.org/all-exhibitions/tjukurpa-handle-it-robert-fielding/

A colorful painting with various images in a collage, such as faces, a mermaid, sea creatures, children and other abstract shapes.
Visual Art

August Exhibitions

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 as it ultimately concludes in the ocean. The form of the delta replicates the branching of trees, and the pattern of veining in humans, connecting to all of life’s formations.

https://c-ville.com/august-exhibitions-2/

Two models are posed next to each other, leaning slightly down with their arms outstretched in a "broken doll" manner.
Visual Art

V Mag Spring 2025 Issue

All good things must come to an end, or so we’ve been told. As we close out on our last semester with V Mag, we couldn’t be prouder of our final print issue. We’ll leave the lights on for you, Domenick Fini and Merrill Hart

https://www.vmagatuva.com/spring-2025-issue

A large painting of a brown moth with red accents, on a white background.
Visual Art

July Exhibitions

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 First Floor Galleries, Somé Louis and Hanna Taubenberger explore concepts of memory, childhood practices, cherished relationships, and time in “Soft Remembering,” an interdisciplinary, collaborative exhibition featuring textiles, video, bronze sculpture, and more.

https://c-ville.com/july-exhibitions-2/

Master Dàn bau player Nam Phuong Nguyen and her apprentice Anh Dien Ky Nguyen. In the background, there is a shelf full of various nicknacks.
Visual Art

Host Our Photos in Your Community

Virginia Folklife has awarded hundreds of Folklife Apprenticeships to artists, community leaders, and cultural practitioners across the Commonwealth since 2002. We work closely with each apprenticeship team to document their project in context. The resulting photographs are now available — at no cost — for display in Virginia’s public libraries, schools, and other community and cultural institutions. To make a request, review the catalog and complete the order form below.

https://www.virginiafolklife.org/2025/07/host-a-virginia-folklife-photo-exhibit-in-your-community/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=78%20Host%20a%20Virginia%20Folklife%20Photo%20Exhibit&utm_content=78%20Host%20a%20Virginia%20Folklife%20Photo%20Exhibit+CID_3cf2eb85d9f6463aa454ab850525a85f&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=Learn%20More%20%20submit%20a%20request