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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.

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Image Captions Stele of the Nubian soldier Nenu, Egyptian, First Intermediate Period, dynasty 9–10, about 2100–2040 B.C. Painted limestone, Overall: 17 11/16 x 14 5/8 x 2 5/8 in., 31 lb. (45 x 37.1 x 6.7 cm, 14.06 kg). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Emily Esther Sears Fund. 03.1848. Photography © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Visual Art

The Fralin Museum of Art Announces Fall Exhibitions Opening in August Celebrating 90th Anniversary

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia (The Fralin/ the Museum) today announced its fall exhibitions schedule featuring new scholarship surrounding the complex interactions between ancient Egypt and Nubia with The World Between, and the contemporary practice of empathy through disability with In Feeling. Having received the exceptional gift of modern Haitian art from Beverly and John Fox Sullivan in February, the slate includes Haiti’s Time, a selection from the collection. Internationally acclaimed artist Pélagie Gbaguidi responds to the paintings in this gift in her multi-media installation—the first of The Fralin’s Commission series. The four presentations open on August 30, 2025.

July 8, 2025
A digital image of a classroom with 4 tables, one with a theatre mask symbol, one with paint brushes, one with a laptop, and one with a pen and paper.
Visual Art

Arts on Grounds: Fun-Filled Fall Semester Courses

Picking classes every semester can feel like a lottery. But whether you are a first-year student looking to explore your options or a fourth-year wanting to take a fun elective, the good news is that the University offers a myriad of arts courses to take that are engaging and enlightening. No matter your major, arts classes can provide a creative outlet and introduce you to valuable new skills.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/06/arts-on-grounds-fun-filled-fall-semester-courses?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

A picture of the installation at Visible Records. It is a projection of a woman surrounded by household objects, and it is projected onto various 3D white objects.
Visual Art

Visible Records’ ‘Return of the Triumphal Mother’ Illustrates the Overlap of Art and Life

“Return of the Triumphal Mother” at Visible Records shares a series of new works by Dani and Sheilah ReStack, including a site-specific projection installation. The exhibition by the ReStacks, who are life partners as well as frequent artistic collaborators, “continues their imagining of queer family, desire, relationship and fantasy.” In service of this, the artists engaged in a call-and-response form of production—creating works that are simultaneously distinct and connected—offering audiences a single-channel video projected over an installation, along with a collection of six photograms, a two-dimensional drawing, and a mixed media work combining two-dimensional and sculptural elements.

https://c-ville.com/visible-records-return-of-the-triumphal-mother-illustrates-the-overlap-of-art-and-life/

A picture of a Visible Records event, where people are gathered outside at night in front of a bonfire.
Visual Art

Visible Records is Not Your Typical Art Gallery

Tucked away in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlottesville, a former data warehouse has been transformed into an affordable artist-run gallery and studio space. Opened in 2021, Visible Records was created with the goal of providing both central Virginians and global artists with 24-hour studio access, community programming and artist residencies.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/05/visible-records-is-not-your-typical-art-gallery?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

Daniel "Cosmo" Kuzmick standing with his arms crossed and smiling. He is in the UVA Drama Building.
Visual Art

Charlottesville Senior Finally Calls Himself a Hoo

Daniel “Cosmo” Kuzmick has lived in Charlottesville for more than 12 years, but never felt connected to the University of Virginia. Until now. At age 71, he’s taking two courses at UVA: The Art of Moving Creatures and Introduction to Movement. He’s auditing the courses through Virginia’s Senior Citizen Waiver Program, a statewide program that allows Virginia residents 60 years and older to take courses tuition-free at public institutions.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/charlottesville-senior-finally-calls-himself-hoo

A picture of the student event where visitors are seen creating zines at a table, which is covered in various colorful art supplies.
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The Growing Zine Scene of Charlottesville

From recent on-Grounds workshops to city-wide festivals, University students and community members all across Charlottesville have begun to embrace the unique medium of zines. The art form can be traced back to the 1920s, when they were used to spread the message of the Harlem Renaissance. Since then, artists have also used zines to speak on crucial subjects such as rights for the disabled, women’s reproductive rights, the dismantling of racial discrimination and more.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/04/the-growing-zine-scene-of-charlottesville?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

Piece by Joan Mitchell on a blue wall at the exhibition, with the wall text to the right.
Visual Art

“Joan Mitchell: Uncovering 100 Years” Is a Fascinating Look at the Complexities Behind Art Restoration

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American artist Joan Mitchell’s birth, museums all over — such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Seattle Art Museum — are displaying collections of her work. However, along with celebrating the artistry of Joan Mitchell, the Fralin Museum of Art exhibit also centers the process of restoring the artwork itself.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/05/joan-mitchell-uncovering-100-years-is-a-fascinating-look-at-the-complexities-behind-art-restoration?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

A colorful puppet creature is shown in front of the Rotunda at night.
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Fantasy Comes Alive at UVA’s Festival of the Moving Creature

Creatures from the sky and the sea met Friday evening on the University of Virginia’s Grounds. Delia, a flying creature, and her aquatic companion Peri marched from Culbreth Theatre to the Rotunda and back as part of the annual Stan Winston and Steven Warner Festival of the Moving Creature.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/fantasy-comes-alive-uvas-festival-moving-creature

A picture of The Merton Spire, which is a tower carved from soft, porous limestone.
Visual Art

So Hoos Asking: What Is a Limestone Spire From Across the Pond Doing on Grounds?

Don’t worry if you’re unsure about the three-ton limestone sculpture in the lower garden of Pavilion VI, why it’s there remains a mystery. The sculpture is the Merton Spire, a really big gift from Merton College, Oxford, that originally perched atop a chapel buttress. A plaque on the piece reads “A pinnacle of Merton College Chapel Tower, erected 1451, presented to the University of Virginia, 1927, by Merton College, Oxford.”

https://news.virginia.edu/content/so-hoos-asking-what-limestone-spire-across-pond-doing-grounds

Ubuhlanti: Solution Oriented Being at The Fralin Museum of Art. Photo by Stacey Evans.

UBUHLANTI FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO UVA: Solution Based Curating at The Fralin Museum of Art

What does it mean to bring the world to UVA? In recent years, “curating” has become a hot-topic everywhere from museums and universities to fine-dining and social network influencers. As consumers, we can now select from a global array of options in every domain of life. While this has made us more attuned to the diversity of “world” experiences, it has also resulted in the inequalities that curator Geraldo Mosquero has identified, between “curated” and “curating” cultures. Bridging this divide has been a central question for Profs. Noel Lobley (music) and Henry Skerrritt (art history) as they developed the Co-Present Art Initiative with Xhosa artist Xolile ‘X’ Madinda in both Makhanda, South Africa and Charlottesville, Virginia.

June 5, 2025