Elizabeth Derby

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Ascending dreamer

Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, and several days before the first anniversary of last...

Jeremy and Allyson Taylor’s environmental art approach

When it comes to visual art (paintings in particular), you can’t throw a rock without hitting a pastoral fantasy....

The Charlottesville Women’s Choir sings for all

In the wake of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Amanda Korman knew what she needed to do. Sing....

Motherhood is at the center of Studio IX’s May exhibition

When you imagine a mother, what do you picture? A woman up to her elbows in soapy dishwasher with a baby strapped to...

Reading from inspiration at New Dominion Bookshop

As a kid in grade school, Angie Hogan began writing poetry for the same reason her peers wrote in a diary or passed...

Review

In case you forgot why people still put on pants and leave the house in order to partake in live theater (as opposed...

‘Feminine Likeness’ explores two sides of the canvas

Standing in The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, surrounded by paintings from across the 19th and 20th centuries, you...

Poet Patricia Asuncion gathers a sea of sisters

When writer and Charlottesville resident Patricia Asuncion took to the streets of Washington, D.C., during the 2017...

Designer Annie Temmink coaxes ‘Beasts!’ to life

After years spent living abroad and around the U.S., Annie Temmink thought something was missing from her native...

Budding artists learn in the spotlight

When I was a tween writing “X-Files” fan fiction, I never suspected my interest in storytelling would lead to an...