WTJU 91.1 FM, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, and UVA Music announce a new exhibition and community arts time capsule, We Hope This Art Finds You Well.
We Hope This Art Finds You Well has existed as both an in-person and virtual exhibition focused on our local Charlottesville arts scene during the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibition uses the stories and creations of local artists as a lens to explore creative moments, struggles, pain, grief, humor, and survival in an extraordinarily challenging year.
We Hope This Art Finds You Well is sponsored by a Faculty Research Grant for the Arts from UVA Arts and the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost of the Arts.
Featuring
and local arts organizations, including:
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative
Chroma Projects
Feminist Union of C'ville Creatives
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
The Front Porch
The global pandemic has devastated arts scenes everywhere, with performances canceled, venues closed, and artistic livelihoods and opportunities greatly reduced. The scourge of the virus along with a renewed reckoning with racism and white supremacy left many artists feeling exhausted and spent.
Yet the arts have endured and evolved over the past year and a half in creative and resilient ways. Artists have used their creative talents to explore more deeply questions around isolation, community, race, gender, violence, isolation, and community.
We Hope This Art Finds You Well provides an inclusive platform for community remembering of this pandemic year. This work will collectively help us as a community make sense of the moment we are living through.
We Hope This Art Finds You Well is made possible by a Faculty Research Grant for the Arts from the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost of the Arts. More information at arts.virginia.edu.