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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 11 years, 3 months ago
Imagine a world without bird song. A world without bird beaks, long, sharp and charmingly curved. A world without feathered wings red, gold and green.
Artist Kate Samworth did, in fact, imagine s […]
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Suzanne Freeman wrote a new post 11 years, 3 months ago
Later, when asked to speak about what happened for the second time, Harlen recalled that it was in fact a single object, faint and blurry one second, close and vibrant the next. It hovered overhead: two blazing […]
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Spriggan Radfae wrote a new post 11 years, 4 months ago
Imagine for a moment an American family collected in a cozy living room and gathered close for the evening’s entertainment. But instead of gazing expectantly at some oversized TV screen while battling the c […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 11 years, 5 months ago
“I have an attraction to Berlin, especially the 1920s, when it was an art and science haven for the best and the brightest. I am also fascinated with German Expressionism, and many of the ar […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 11 years, 6 months ago
Photographer Sam Abell is a seeker, camera in hand. A National Geographic staff photographer for 33 years, Abell has traveled from Japan to Newfoundland, from Australia to Russia discovering and shooting […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 11 years, 7 months ago
Chroma Projects enjoyed four exciting years of being able to introduce and exhibit art in our glorious space on the (Charlottesville) Downtown Mall. But all things being eventually subject to change, we […]
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Suzanne Freeman wrote a new post 11 years, 7 months ago
In second grade, I was assigned the role of a Pilgrim woman in the Thanksgiving play. I wore a dull, gray dress with an itchy, starched white collar and I had only two sentences to say: “Look, look, the Gov […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 11 years, 8 months ago
Western photographer Katherine Minott moves in close in color and black and white.
Her closeups — abstracts as well as things recognizable — explore “the beauty hidden in every day objects, the sacred […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 11 years, 8 months ago
Charlottesville’s Les Yeux du Monde Gallery is presently exhibiting a solo show by mixed media painter and landscapist Anne Slaughter, profiled earlier in Streetlight. Slaughter is known for her layered s […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 11 years, 9 months ago
Lydia was larger than life.
Her paintings, installations, lectures and scholarship were all intertwined, embodying her probing and profound intellect and her far ranging quest to decipher modern culture […]
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Suzanne Freeman wrote a new post 11 years, 10 months ago
It wasn’t until a government agent called me that I realized I was somebody else. Not an impostor exactly, but something like that.
Since birth, I had been Jane Coffin Bradley, a moniker I bore through jibes a […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 11 years, 10 months ago
Roman Sirotin, a native of Saint Petersburg, Russia is a multi-media artist drawn to beauty in many realms. A dancer, painter and photographer now living in Columbus, Ohio, Roman moved to America […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 11 years, 11 months ago
Artist Richard Crozier’s works are subjects of change…change of seasons, change of light, change of landscape and skyline. Over the past four decades, he has produced more than 3000 “portraits” of the C […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 11 years, 12 months ago
First impressions can be unexpected. Driving into Athens and looking at its poorer parts, my wife and I first thought of Mexico.
When I went to see the Parthenon, it was soon clear I could never […]
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Suzanne Freeman wrote a new post 12 years ago
It was just about a hundred years ago that Martha dropped dead. She was found on the floor of her cage at the Cincinnati Zoo and that was that – the end of the last known passenger pigeon on the p […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 12 years ago
Julia Aurora Travers likes to mix it up. Her creative talent and social concerns combine in various venues—as artist, designer, writer and teacher. A native of Hampton, Virginia, Travers now lives in C […]
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Suzanne Freeman wrote a new post 12 years, 1 month ago
In 1983 I gave up on acting. I was a sophomore in college. It was not an easy choice. Since junior high, I had been convinced I was going to be America’s answer to Laurence Olivier. I had chosen to atte […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 12 years, 2 months ago
The mystery will be solved on Saturday at six.
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) will unveil “The Commission” at Morven Farm in Charlottesville on Saturday May 10th. This year’s Commi […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 12 years, 2 months ago
Water pistols. Animal crackers. Twinkies. Paper airplanes. Dollar bills, paddle ball toys and boxes of popcorn. Fun and games, but maybe not the stuff of fine art. Unless you’re Virginia artist Michael F […]
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Suzanne Freeman wrote a new post 12 years, 2 months ago
The recent New York Times news article asking the question: “Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?” was painful for me. Because I know where one of them is – on my desktop, unpublis […]
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