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If you wish to experience foreign art in a local building, visit the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art collection. There, you can get a look at art that was first introduced thousands of years ago. Aboriginal art is an ancient style first practiced by indigenous Australians. Using tree bark and stone as canvases, the Aboriginal Australians would […]
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Adjunct instructors Fenella Belle and Stacey Evans displayed collaborative work Feb. 5 at McGuffey Art Center. The monthly “First Fridays” in downtown Charlottesville was busy, with hundreds of visitors at a time. According to Belle, around 1,000 people visited the exhibit throughout the night. “It is hard to say, but I did have to buy […]
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The Ix Art Park formally adopted executive staff Jan. 4. This move, by Monticello Associates board of directors, marks the change from ephemeral experiment to formal establishment. Radical expression has been homeless for several years, since the bulldozing of Random Row Bookstore. Brian Wimer will now take the lead at the Ix Art Park and […]
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Let There Be Light is an annual, light-themed, interactive exhibit hosted on the grounds of PVCC’s V. Earl Dickinson building. Celebrating the winter solstice, Let There Be Light aimed to comfort and inspire in the midst of the longest night of the year. Upon entering the Dickinson building, guests were welcomed with complimentary maps of […]
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The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia was largely empty on Oct. 22. Most of the staff was travelling, leaving a skeleton crew of PVCC faculty and alumni to staff the facility. Visitors were greeted by PVCC student Angela Bell, who directed them to appropriate galleries and assured them that no one […]
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Curator James Yates and Professor Beryl Solla organized “Yard Dreams” and “Gallery Dreams,” a complementary exercise in gallery and installation art. Based in the South Gallery of the Dickensen Building, the gallery exhibit is companion to a series of installations in the Belmont neighborhood. Yates described the early days of the collaboration. He began with “It […]
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The PVCC Gallery debuted two new exhibits at its opening reception on Sept. 18. The exhibits, “Gallery Dreams” and “Lost and Found,” drew a steady crowd throughout the evening as students, friends, family, and other art enthusiasts paced the halls, exclaiming over the pieces. “Gallery Dreams,” displayed in the South Gallery, is a companion piece […]
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Imagine the mixture of curiosity and apprehension you feel as you see an open book with illustrations literally popping from its pages. Attached to it is a note. Your heart quickens with excitement as you realize it is the work of a generous gifted artist who leaves it for its finder to cherish, with one […]
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PVCC student artists unveiled their work at the opening of the Annual Student Exhibition on April 24. The event coincided with PVCC’s Seventh Annual Chocolate Chow Down, preparations for which had Professor Beryl Solla in Dickinson’s small catering kitchen as early as nine a.m. The exhibit features the work of many PVCC students, and the […]
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Charlottesville, Va. – Piedmont Virginia Community College opens two new art exhibits with a reception on Friday, Nov. 21, from 5-7 p.m. in the PVCC Gallery. 40 Years of Printmaking: A Mini-Retrospective of the Work of Frederick Nichols features several of the local artist’s prints. Light Years: Let There Be Light 2007-13 includes documentary photographs […]
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