Elizabeth Derby

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WriterHouse sponsors new creative nonfiction contest

For many years, The Hook ran a writing contest in conjunction with the Virginia Festival of the Book that was judged...

Ten locals interpret written work through visual art

When FIREFISH Gallery co-curators Araxe Hajian and Sigrid Eilertson brainstormed concepts for their next...

Live Arts production of Grey Gardens is a beautiful...

The façade of a large house spans the stage, partly obscured by white drop cloths on which the shadows of trees...

Kate Daughdrill on the power of social sculpture

“Social sculpture is the idea that whenever we’re shaping our own lives to be more beautiful, it’s an intentional act...

Taking the story off the page

When Andy Friedman enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design, he devoted himself to Venetian oil painting, a...

“Threesome” holds the ideal woman in a new light

“When people think of the word threesome, they think of one man and two women, and they think of the man getting...

Lord Huron’s existential sonic pursuit

Have you ever driven through the desert? Flown across dry, red earth while mammoth spires of stone and humps of rock...

Insufficient Funds

It seems like an absurd plan to grow a city’s art scene: take the cultural community, run it through two years of...

The new New Age

I met Nick Lasky the day after my birthday during Charlottesville’s first-ever psychic festival. The tarot card...

Charlottesville Ballet puts a new twist on the art of dance

“When I was 3, my parents took me to see The Nutcracker, and I remember telling them, ‘I want to be the Sugar Plum...