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Art History

"Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales" Opens August 29th

Ayuujk (Mixe), Nahua, Maya-Ch’ol, Ñuu Savi (Mixtec), Otomí, Maya-Kaqchikel, P’urhépecha, Diidxazà, Maya-Tsotsil, Zapotec, and Sarhua are but a few of the ancestral lineages that collide in Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales. This project brings together the knowledge and aesthetic achievements of individuals Whose ancestral lineage predates Spanish colonialism and who center millennia of inherited epistemologies within their contemporary practices.

https://www.curatorlove.com/uvafesv

A.D. Carson with the Charlottesville Symphony by Joyce Boghosian
Music

Making “& metaphors”

Metaphors like machines, brick-and-mortar medicine markets, talking to ghosts, and figurative and literal dope boomerang back and forth through my work. They are a constellation of symbols spiraling like the lines on a barber’s pole through lyrics, prose, and whatever other means I can make them apparent.

July 18, 2025
Image of The Paramount Theater marquee with bright lights.
Music

Arts This Week: Tours and Programming at The Paramount Theater

You’re listening to WTJU Charlottesville. Charlottesville Downtown’s Paramount Theater has ongoing opportunities to take a tour of the historic space, as well as attend live performances. For Arts This Week, we spoke with the Director of Communications, Andy Pillifant, to connect with this living landmark.

https://www.wtju.net/arts-this-week-tours-and-programming-at-the-paramount-theater/

A basement show with band members performing, red and blue hues of light fill the space.
Music

Defining the Importance and Impact of a Movement Through the DIY Music Scene — Here in Charlottesville and Beyond

Bodies flood through the narrow entrance of a basement lined with graffiti. Basses start to thud as amps enliven the space with an electrifying murmur. The tight constraints of cement columns and a low hanging ceiling tempt trouble. Once the music starts, chatter dulls and the floor breaks into an intense mosh. Exposed pipes serve as obligatory handlebars that threaten to burst with every grasp. Through the pushes and breaks, even those on the outskirts of the space become uplifted. In a fleeting rush, the singer bursts out into the chaos. Her passionate melody is invigorated by the piercing energy. No one is an outcast within this space.

https://www.wxtj.fm/wxtj-writes-by-ella-powell-defining-the-importance-and-impact-of-a-movement-through-the-diy-music-scene-here-in-charlottesville-and-beyond/

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/

Two actresses from the show pose onstage, both holding coffee mugs in a kitchen, smiling and extending their arms.
Drama

The Heart Sellers

The Virginia Theatre Festival keeps rolling with The Heart Sellers, a deeply moving play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh. Set in 1973 in the wake of the Hart–Celler Act’s abolition of immigration quotas in America, two 20-something immigrant women meet by chance in a grocery store on Thanksgiving night. The women spend an evening bonding over what they’ve left behind, and the exciting possibilities that lie ahead in a new country.

https://c-ville.com/the-heart-sellers/

The actors and actresses from the show gather in a clump, all with their hand up to one ear to signal listening.
Drama

The Pirates of Penzance

Charlottesville Opera’s second summer production, The Pirates of Penzance, unfolds in a pitch-perfect comedy of errors featuring sentimental swashbucklers, ineffectual police officers, and deeply dutiful young lovers. A technicality threatens to upend Frederic’s newfound freedom, catching the young man in a tug of war of loyalties that sets him both at odds and in league with the titular crew of privateers. Hilarity unfolds in a libretto penned by W.S. Gilbert, accompanied by memorable music by Arthur Sullivan.

https://c-ville.com/the-pirates-of-penzance/

A digital drawing of a girl sitting under a tree reading a book with headphones on. A stack of more books sits next to her, and she is on a green hill.
Film

First-Year Multimedia Crash Course

After graduating high school, most incoming first-years spend the summer slowly packing their rooms, having awkward conversations with their roommate over Instagram DMs and wondering why they are still in their hometown. While there is no “right way” to prepare for college, first year may be a little easier when not everything feels so unexpected. Luckily, art can offer us roadmaps for new experiences. Here are two movies, two albums and a riveting memoir to guide you into your first year at the University.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/07/first-year-multimedia-crash-course?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

Kemi Adegoroye stands at a microphone with both hands raised, standing in front of a drumset and a black wall with a bright neon-red letter sign.
Music

Harmonizing Jazz and Justice, UVA Law Grad Takes Blues Alley Stage

Ella Fitzgerald. Dizzy Gillespie. Charles Mingus. Wynton Marsalis. Tony Bennett. Those are just some of the musical greats who have appeared at Blues Alley, the venerable Washington, D.C., jazz club in the heart of Georgetown, founded in 1965. As of Monday, you’ll be able to add Kemi Adegoroye, a 2017 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, to the list. She will perform two shows at the 125-seat venue, which bills itself as the “oldest continuing jazz supper club” in the country.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/harmonizing-jazz-and-justice-uva-law-grad-takes-blues-alley-stage

A photo of five African American women stand together, holding various instruments and feather decorations.
Art History

Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowship

Mid Atlantic Arts partners with the National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) and South Arts on the Black Appalachian Storytellers Fellowships. This program honors and promotes the understanding of Black Appalachian storytelling traditions that embody the history, heritage, and culture of African Americans in the region. The National Association of Black Storytellers awards one Fellowship per year in each of the six eligible states: Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

https://www.midatlanticarts.org/opportunity/black-appalachian-storytellers-fellowship/

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

Hayrunisa Yenilmes, seated, and Amar Kilich, left, of Alexandria are apprenticing Ajinur Setiwaldi, right, and Subhinur Elemin of Arlington in Uyghur music traditions. The group is positioned in front of a bright yellow wall.
Music

Singing to Make the Uyghur People Heard

About once a month, an otherwise unremarkable strip mall in Fairfax turns into a bustling bazaar where you can buy lamb kabobs straight off the fire, delicious samsa (meat pies), flatbread, and homemade liángpí (“cold skin” noodles). “The atmosphere is: you’re in the Uyghur community, you’re in a little homeland,” explained Ajinur Setiwaldi, a resident of Arlington.

https://www.virginiafolklife.org/sights-sounds/amir-kilich-hayrunisa-yenilmes-ajinur-setiwaldi-subhinur-elemin/?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=read%20our%20story