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
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9 Illuminating Memoirs by UVA Alumni
In his newest book, UVA religious studies professor Charles Marsh explores the ways in which his Christian upbringing affected his mental health. For years he suffered from panic attacks and depression, but “we did not do therapy—my family, my particular evangelical coterie,” he writes. With vulnerability and humor, Marsh explains how he finally sought mental health treatment.
Cville Band Presents: Summer at The Paramount
Our 103rd Summer Season continues at The Paramount Theater, with new pieces and old favorites. Guest artists for this show include Robert Graham, playing “Reflective Mood,” violinist Michelle Younger, playing Julia Delaney’s “Reel and The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” and Band assistant director Burton Hable. Our Instrument Petting Zoo will be operating at the foot of the stage before the performance, so families with younger children can see and touch some of the instruments in the Band.
Q&A: Why Did Oprah Call This UVA professor?
When he picked up the phone, University of Virginia English professor and author Bruce Holsinger expected to hear his publicist’s voice. Instead, he heard the instantly recognizable voice of Oprah Winfrey. “Your publicist is not calling you. She set you up, Bruce. I’m calling about ‘Culpability,’ and I want to choose it as my summer read for 2025,” Winfrey said in their phone conversation she recorded and posted to Instagram.
In the Beginning: Paintings by Senior Artists of the Spinifex Arts Project
In the Beginning: Paintings by Senior Artists of the Spinifex Arts Project presents the work of internationally renowned artists from the Spinifex Arts Project, a collective of Pitjantjatjara men and women in Tjuntjuntjara, 800 miles east of Perth in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia. Spinifex Arts Project began in 1997 when the artists realized that painting would be an instrumental tool in lobbying the Western Australian government to recognize their ongoing connection to their sacred Country so they could return to their homelands.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.