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The Virginia Clay Festival was held on Sept. 21 and 22 at William Monroe High School in Stanardsville. While it was a fairly long drive, it was well worth it. Our plan was to look at the pottery and get kettle corn on the way out. We were greeted by two lovely ladies who handed […]
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Interested in getting your creative work seen? Consider submitting it to PVCC’s student-run literary journal. The Fall Line has been publishing student creative writing and art for 14 years and is still going strong, curating a selection of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, comics, and visual art for a yearly issue every spring. Past issues are […]
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With a free 30-minute tour, guide Ed Miller walks visitors through the past, present, and the future of Aboriginal art at UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. The tour of the 84 year old colonial revival style house begins with an acknowledgment of the original inhabitants of the majority of the Piedmont and parts of the […]
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PVCC has a music club once again. The organization was put together to promote and celebrate the musical arts. With the help of PVCC’s Coordinator of Student Activities and Campus Engagement Rory Lee-Washington, the club was able to host their first listening party of the Spring semester, on Feb. 11. Students got together and listened […]
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Art is different for everyone. Fenella Belle, associate professor of art at PVCC, tries to make it accessible for all. She said there are countless ways to take reality and make something unique and beautiful from it. Belle has had art around her for most of her life. Her mother was an artist and art […]
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Each semester, PVCC assembles a collection of student art to showcase the hard work and dedication of students taking various art classes. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, it has become a bit more complicated for students to take in-person art classes or have their works displayed in their usual gallery in […]
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Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, students everywhere have transitioned to almost entirely online learning. The few classes that do meet in person are hybrid classes and mostly related to the arts. Tom Clarkson, professor of art, teaches ceramics as a hybrid class on campus and shared some thoughts about how his practices and […]
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It was cold and dark night on Monday, Nov. 23, rain gathering in the hollows of the steep and winding gravel driveway leading to a quaint little school house where the Bluegrass jam session was being held by The Front Porch. Walking through the entryway into a homey room, full of colorful paintings of animals […]
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Charlottesville, Va. – Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Visual Arts Department presents Let There Be Light, an evening of light-centered artworks and performances illuminating the outdoors for one night only Friday, Dec. 12, from 6-9 p.m. The exhibit is generously sponsored by CenturyLink* and will be held on the Main Campus grounds surrounding the V. Earl […]
Continue ReadingRegistered PVCC students with an interest in dance, music, theater or the arts are in luck. Every semester, a pair of student arts voucher is available to all current PVCC students. Although this is a great opportunity for students, some are not aware of the student voucher program. Mary Jane King and Kay Bethea were […]
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