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December’s First Friday Exhibits

"Haunted House" by Valero Doval at The Haven. Image courtesy of the artist.

First Friday is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many Downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions. Listings are compiled in collaboration with Piedmont Council for the Arts. To list an exhibit, please send information two weeks before opening to arts@c-ville.com.

First Friday exhibitions: December 7

BozArt Gallery 211 W. Main St. Annual All-Members Show. 5-7pm.

The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative 209 Monticello Rd. Artwork and goods by local artisans at “Great Gifts Holiday Shop.” Opening Party 5-9pm.

Café Cubano 112 W. Main St. Paintings by Robin Hoffman. 5-7pm.

City Clay 301 W. Main St. “Tis the Season” features work by local potters and wheel demonstrations. 5-7:30pm

Chroma Projects 201 Second St. NW. “Alchemy,” a collaborative series by Pam Black and Lauren Taylor with Todd Leback in the Front Gallery, “Mnemonic Devices” by Kim Boggs in the Passage Gallery, and “A Study,” an installation by Corry Blancin the Black Box Gallery. 5:30-7:30pm.

CitySpace Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. Quilts made by the Crescent Hall Quilters. 5:30-7pm

C’Ville Arts 118 E. Main St. “Happiness, Love, and Wisdom” features clay sculptures by Tanya Tyree. 6-8pm.

FIREFISH Gallery 108 Second St. SW. “The Animal Series,” oil paintings by Sigrid Eilertson, “Glass.Metal.Fire.,” cloisonne jewelry by Charlene Cross, and “C’ville Vargas Girls: A Pin-Up Project for Brain Cancer.” 5:30-8pm.

The Haven 112 W. Market St. “There’s No Place Like Home,” an art auction to benefit this day shelter for the homeless. Plus, open artist studios and a pop-up shop of homemade goods. 5:30-8pm.

The Honeycomb 310 E. Market St. “Deep Shadows,” enamel paintings on wood by Elliott Downs. 5-9pm.

Java Dragon Coffee House 923 Preston Ave. Works by Janet Pearlman as well as other local artists. 5-7pm.

McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. Holiday Group Show. 5:30-7:30pm.

New Dominion Book Shop 404 E. Main St. Watercolors by Blake Hurt. 5:30-7pm.

Second Street Gallery 418 E. Main St. “…And Justice for Mall of America,” an installation by Brent Birnbaum in the Main Gallery and “Piñata” a video installation by students from Light House Studio in the Dové Gallery. 5:30-7:30pm. Artist talk at 6:30pm.

Studio Baboo 321 E. Main St. Box assemblages by Deborah Rose Guterbock, sequential illustrations by A.I. Miller, and paintings by Rhonda Raban. 3-7pm.

South Street Brewery 106 W. South St. (upstairs offices) Paintings and etchings by Tom Tartaglino. Artist reception reception 5:30-8:30pm.

Warm Springs Gallery 103 Third St. NE. “Museum Studies” featuring paintings by Bradley Stevens. 6-8pm.

WriterHouse 508 Dale Ave. “Live in Possibility,” abstract paintings by Judy Longley. 5:30-7:30pm.

OTHER EXHIBITS

Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society 200 Second St. “1962 Time Capsule” and “Queen Charlotte,” as part of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society’s collaboration with Celebrate!250.

Cavalier Inn 105 N. Emmet St. “Charlottesville’s Streetcar Railways” and “The Wealth of Theaters,” as part of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society’s collaboration with Celebrate!250.

Charlottesville Albemarle Airport 100 Bowen Loop. Charlottesville Stone Carvers Guild show.

Cityspace 100 Fifth St., NE “Charlottesville Maps,” as part of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society’s collaboration with Celebrate!250.

City Hall Lobby 605 E. Main St. “The City’s Public Schools,” as part of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society’s collaboration with Celebrate!250.

Coca-Cola Bottling Works LAB 134 10th St. “Mi Ossa: Made by Hand in Haiti and Virginia,” local artist Clay Witt uses sustainable and recycled fair trade materials from Haiti to create unique jewelry and leather accessories.

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “What They Wanted,” an exhibition by Melbourne-based artist Yhonnie Scarce.

Mudhouse 213 W. Main St. “Serpents,” a small series of paintings by Sharon Shapiro.

Over the Moon Bookstore 5798 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Fury’s Hallowed Trace,” featuring photographs by Bill Mauzy.

Speak! Language Center 313 Second St. SE, Suite 109. Rick Weaver’s watercolors of the plazzas and marketplace scenes of Cortona, Italy in the front space and Jennifer Byrne’s black and white photographic studies of Italian architecture in the main room. A collaboration with Chroma Projects Art Laboratory.

UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art 155 Rugby Rd. “Ancient Masters in Modern Styles: Chinese ink paintings from the 16th-21st centuries,” “Jean Hélion: Reality and Abstraction,” “Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott,” and “The Valley of the Shadow: American Landscape in the time of the Civil War.”

Visitor’s Center 610 E. Main St. “Charlottesville Mosaic: A City of Neighborhoods,” as part of the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society’s cooperation with Celebrate!250.

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November’s First Friday Exhibits

Joan Griffin at WVTF and Radio IQ Gallery
First Friday is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many Downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions. Listings are compiled in collaboration with Piedmont Council for the Arts. To list an exhibit, please send information two weeks before opening to arts@c-ville.com.

First Friday exhibitions:

BozArt Gallery 211 W. Main St. Ceramics and paintings by Mike Harrison and Julia Kindred. 5-9pm.

The Bridge PAI 209 Monticello Rd. “Vipassana: A Personal Experience,” paintings and sculpture by Madrid-based artist Chicho Lorenzo. 6-8pm.

Café Cubano 112 W. Main St. Paintings by Elaine Bunch.

City Clay 301 W. Main St. “Mug Up” a show and sale of handmade cups for dining with friends, mugs for the approaching snowy winter, teapots that will serve as perfect birthday gifts, and handmade domestic wear by guest and City Clay potters. 5-7:30pm

Chroma Projects 201 2nd St. NW. “Water Keepers” paintings and ceramics by Diego Sanchez and Scott Meredith in the Front Gallery, “Intervals” paintings by Karen Hubacher in the Black Box Gallery, and “Domesticity: Collages by Barbara Bernstein” in the Passage Gallery. 5:30-7:30pm.

C’Ville Arts 118 E. Main St. “Seasons of Color,” by fiber artist Maryann Lincoln. 6-8pm.

FIREFISH Gallery “The Mask Show,” a collaborative project among 20 local artists and “A Wing and A Song,” an exhibit to benefit a parrot sanctuary. 5:30-8pm.

The Honeycomb 310 E. Market St. “Random Accumulations,” paintings by Dave Moore. 5-9pm.

McGuffey Art Center 201 2nd St. NW. “The Thirsty Guilt: Installation by Peter Allen” in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery and the “Central Virginia Watercolor Guild Annual Juried Exhibition” in the Hallway Galleries. 5:30-7:30pm.

Milli Joe’s Coffee 400 Preston Avenue. “Polaroids: Reworked & Repurposed” by Cary Oliva. 5-7pm.

Mudhouse 213 W. Main St. “Serpents,” small paintings and collages by Sharon Shapiro. 6-8pm.

Second Street Gallery 418 E. Main St. “…And Justice for Mall of America,” an Installation by Brent Birnbaum in the Main Gallery and “Pictures for Artificial Intelligence” by Michael Zachary in the Dove Gallery. 5:30-7:30pm with an artist talk at 6:30pm.

Studio Baboo 321 E. Main St. Works by painter Donna Redmond, photographer Tim McDaniel, and art quilts by Evelyn Braintwain. 3-7pm.

Warm Springs Gallery 103 3rd St. NE. Recent Paintings by Beth Cartland. 5:00-8:00pm.

WVTF and Radio IQ Study Gallery 216 West Water St. “Woven Journeys” by textile artist Joan Griffin. 5-7pm.

OTHER EXHIBITS

Albemarle County Courthouse 501 E. Jefferson St. Group show by members of Central Virginia Watercolor Guild.

Charlottesville Albemarle Airport 100 Bowen Loop. Charlottesville Stone Carvers Guild show.

Hotcakes Barracks Road Shopping Center. “Landscape Journal, Local Views,” oil paintings by Meg West.

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “What They Wanted,” an exhibition by Melbourne-based artist Yhonnie Scarce. 10am-4pm.

Sun Bow Trading Company 110 South St. “Camel Flowers,” rare textile art of tribal Anatolian and Persian animal decorations. 11am-5:30pm.

UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art  155 Rugby Rd. “Ancient Masters in Modern Styles: Chinese ink paintings from the 16-21st centuries,” “Jean Hélion: Reality and Abstraction,” “Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott,” and “The Valley of the Shadow: American Landscape in the time of the Civil War.” Noon-5pm.

UVA’s Ruffin Gallery 179 Culbreth Rd.   Paintings by New York Artist Margaret McCann’. 9am-4:30pm, Mon-Fri.

WriterHouse 508 Dale Ave. “Tale Telling,” an exhibit by print-maker Akemi Ohira. Opening reception 2-4pm on Sunday, November 4.

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Kaki Dimock “Hiding in Plain Sight”

"Inside The Sperm Whale, "pen and pigment on paper, 15″ by 8.5,″ 2012. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

By day, Kaki is the executive director of The Haven, a comprehensive day shelter in downtown Charlottesville for the homeless and very poor of Central Virginia. But by night, Kaki makes intricate drawings with pencil and markers. Often depicting animals, her art has a whimsical air: a hot pink elephant wraps its trunk around a tiny skyscraper, a killer whale gently floats among trees branches with new green leaves, an elk steps confidently from one snowy mountain peak to another. There seems to be a message waiting for the viewer in each drawing, as if the animals depicted want to tell us something important.

WVTF and Radio IQ Study Gallery 216 West Water St. “Hiding in Plain Sight,” drawings by Kaki Dimock. 5-7pm.

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“A Thousand Hills: An Exhibit of Rwandan Art”

Artists Emmanuel Nkuranga and Innocent Nkurunziza showcase their culture, art and community at McGuffey along with 38 paintings from the Ivuka Art Studio, an artist cooperative based in Kigali, Rwanda. Image courtesy of McGuffey Art Center.

Founded in 2007, the Ivuka Art Studio is an artist cooperative based in Kigali, Rwanda that showcases the work of local artists and runs a mentoring program for children. “A Thousand Hills” is a large exhibit of paintings from the Ivuka Art Studio made possible thanks to a partnership with surgeons from UVA who began visiting the cooperative while doing medical relief work. Visiting artists Emmanuel Nkuranga and Innocent Nkurunziza will be present during the opening reception to discuss their art. Both self-taught painters, Nkuranga works primarily as a mixed-media expressionist and Nkurunziza transforms utilitarian objects into works of fantasy.

McGuffey Art Center 201 2nd St. NW. 5:30-7:30pm “A Thousand Hills: An Exhibit of Rwandan Art,” mixed-media visual art by Emmanuel Nkuranga and Innocent Nkurunziza from the Ivuka Art Studio in the Second Floor Hall Galleries, “A Room of Her Own,” new work celebrating women, acrylic paintings from Joan Soderlund in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, and “Life over Time,” new mixed media work by Lindsey Mears in the First Floor Hall Galleries.

 

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October’s First Friday Listings

"River Reflections" by Andras Bality at Warm Springs Gallery.

First Friday is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many Downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions.

Listings are compiled in collaboration with Piedmont Council for the Arts.  To list an exhibit, please send information two weeks before opening to arts@c-ville.com.

 

First Friday exhibitions:

BozArt Gallery 211 W. Main St. “Yesterday Today,” plein air paintings by Cindy Ferreira. 5:30-8:30pm.

The Bridge PAI 209 Monticello Rd. “Three Wishes … Come True,” a multi-media exhibit with collage, film, music, and photography by Christopher Hlad. 6-8pm.

City Clay 301 W. Main St. “Global Color: A Year of Solo Travel,” an installation about people, clothing, and travel by artist Annie Temmink, plus a weaving demonstration by the Women’s Craft Cooperative of the International Rescue Committee. 5:30-7pm

Chroma Projects 201 2nd St. NW. “Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces,” paintings and sculptures by Ray Kass and John Ruppert in the Front Gallery, “Entropy,” an installation piece by Leigh Ann Chambers in the Passage Gallery, and “Passenger,” photographs by Stacy Evans in the Black Box Gallery. 5:30-7:30pm.

CitySpace Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. “2012 Rising Star Celebration,” photographs, paintings, and other original artwork by local high school students. 5-7pm.

Community 315 West Main St. A pop-up artist collective space created to give the Charlottesville community a taste of what is up-and-coming in art and design. 6-9pm.

Fellinis #9 200 W. Market St. “A Piedmont Perspective,” by Michael Marino. 5:30-7pm.

The Garage 250 First Street. “GR1ND1N’ 434,” featuring screen-prints by Thomas Dean. 5-8pm.

The Honeycomb 310 E. Market St. “A Small Section of the Universe,” paintings by Chris Butler. 5-9pm.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolftrap Rd. “Collage: Earl Staley and Russ Warren.” 3-5pm.

McGuffey Art Center 201 2nd St. NW. “A Thousand Hills: An Exhibition of Rwandan Art” mixed-media visual art by Emmanuel Nkuranga and Innocent Nkurunziza. 5:30-7:30pm.

Mudhouse 213 W. Main St. “Experiments,” by Ken Horne. 6-8pm.

Second Street Gallery 418 E. Main St. “Pictures for Artificial Intelligence,” drawings by Michael Zachary. 5:30-7:30pm with an artist talk at 6:30pm.

Warm Springs Gallery 103 3rd St. NE. “Perspectives in Balance,” paintings by Andras Bality and Susan Spies. 5:30-7:30pm.

WVTF and Radio IQ Study Gallery 216 West Water St. “Hiding in Plain Sight,” drawings by Kaki Dimock. 5-7pm.

WriterHouse 508 Dale Ave. “Focus Found: The Art of Carrie Payne Miller.” 5:30-7:30pm.

Other exhibits:

Albemarle County Courthouse 501 E. Jefferson St. 974-6372. “Botanical,” group show by members of Central Virginia Watercolor Guild.

Cavalier Inn Art Gallery 105 Emmett St. 974-6372. “Across the United States,” by Ruby Canody.

FIREFISH Gallery 108 Second St. SW. “The Wood Show” and “John Whitehead: A Retrospective of Works in Oil and Watercolor” on display.

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection 400 Worrell Drive. “What They Wanted,” an exhibition by Melbourne-based artist Yhonnie Scarce. 10am-4pm.

UVA’s Fralin Museum of Art  155 Rugby Rd. 924-3592. “Ancient Masters in Modern Styles: Chinese ink paintings from the 16-21st centuries,” “Jean Hélion: Reality and Abstraction,””Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott,” and “The Valley of the Shadow: American Landscape in the time of the Civil War.” Noon-5pm.

Check out PCA’s Google Map of local galleries and cultural hotspots to plan your visit. 

View Charlottesville Arts & Culture Map in a larger map