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Critical Thinking + Art = Knowledge Retention: An Arts Education Workshop
On Thursday, May 10, from 4:30-7:00pm, at Second Street Gallery, come and engage with arts education.
What in the world can you learn from just looking at pictures? This information-packed and interactive workshop on the topic of “Critical Thinking + Art = Knowledge Retention” will provide resources for constructing new understandings of our cultural, social, and political history by discovering clues in works of art. Attendees can expect a combination of entertaining stories, discussion, and hands-on exercises.
Educators will receive a CD of images courtesy of the VMFA, posters, lesson plans to take back to their classroom, and will be eligible for re-certification points.
Co-sponsored by Second Street Gallery and the Office of Statewide Partnerships of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, this workshop is intended for teachers, educators, and all those interested in ART!
Jeffrey Allison, Paul Mellon Collection Educator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, will lead this presentation.
FREE for PCA and Second Street Gallery members, $5 for non-members.
Registration is required. To RSVP, please contact info@charlottesvillearts.org by May 8th.
Second Street Gallery is located at 115 Second Street SE, Charlottesville, VA 22903.
Image: Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977)
Willem van Heythuysen, 2006
Oil and enamel on canvas
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Acclaimed author Lauren F. Winner, an assistant professor of Christian spirituality at Duke Divinity School, will discuss spiritual autobiography at the University of Virginia’s Rotunda Dome Room on Tuesday, April 10th at 6 pm.
The lecture is free and open to the public; Seating is first come, first served.
Winner’s lecture, “Writing about God,” will draw on sources as diverse as Augustine, slave narratives and the memoirs of Frederick Buechner. An award-winning author of more than 30 books, including four volumes of spiritual autobiography, Winner will discuss the conventions and mores of spiritual autobiography, asking questions such as: Why are we, as writers and readers, drawn to spiritual autobiography? How do we narrate our story inside God’s story? What are the literary pitfalls of this kind of writing?
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PCA co-presents an ongoing series of seminars with the Virginia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, navigating the legal processes for arts-related issues.
On Wednesday, April 25th, from 6:00–8:00 pm, as part of the series, Richmond lawyers Ian Titley, Esq. and Kirk Schroder, Esq. will lead this helpful seminar for artists on the topic of copyrights. The presenters will speak on the topic and answer questions from attendees. Pizza and beverages will be provided for all attendees.
$5 for PCA members, $10 for non-members.
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New City Arts Forum: April 20th-22nd at the Haven.
While the landscape of the arts community is always changing, many questions remain the same, questions such as What is the responsibility of the artist? and What is good art? New City Arts has organized an April forum to engage both the newly emerging and the perennial issues—of art, city, and society—faced by artists as they pursue their curious vocation.We have invited top-notch presenters and paired them together based on their expertise, interests, and relationships. As you visit exhibits and attend performances, you will experience, not just hear about, great artwork. (And there will be a fancy, secret dinner in beautiful downtown Charlottesville.)
We invite you to join this conversation and this community. Come listen as practitioners and philosophers address contemporary questions of our collective, creative world, and become part of a still-forming community that seeks to be attentive to the life and profession of the artist.
Look here for our schedule, and here for more information about the presenters, which include: Dean Dass, Howard Singerman, Nicholas Wolterstorff (author of Art in Action), Dan Siedell (author of God in the Gallery), a representative from the National Arts Endowment, the CEO of National Arts Strategies, and performances with Benjamin and Isaac Wardell.
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On December 5, from 6:00-7:30pm, join PCA for this fun introduction to basic money management skills and techniques for artists and arts organizations. Helene Downs will discuss and answer questions about recordkeeping, tax forms, budgeting, retirement planning, and more.
Pizza and beer (and other beverages) will be provided for all attendees. Helene Downs is a CPA at Hantzmon Wiebel LLP in downtown Charlottesville. She is also the Board Treasurer for Piedmont Council for the Arts.
FREE for PCA members, $5 for non-members.
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Whether you’re a professional artist or just exploring your creative side for the first time, join Piedmont Council for the Arts for this energizing workshop with local consultant Jessica Thayer.
She’ll help you brush the cobwebs off your creative process, artistic goals, and outreach strategies while discussing: coping mechanisms for stalled creativity, confusion about where to focus your creative energies, feeling of being overwhelmed by artistic tasks, fear of pursuing innovative ideas, and more.
This brown bag lunch workshop is FREE for PCA Members, $5 for non-members. Mudhouse coffee will be provided, but please remember to bring your lunch. Registration is required.
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“There is no material or subject in Creation that in using, we are excused from using well; there is no work in which we are excused from being able and responsible artists.” –Wendell Berry, Christianity and the Survival of Creation.
Join a Casa Alma group at The Haven this summer for a 6-week roundtable discussion series on the topic of Christianity, creativity, and Creation. Through weekly readings and participation in group discussion and prayer, this Charlottesville Catholic Worker group will explore the intersection of faith, art, and the environment in the Christian call to stewardship.
Meetings will be held on Monday evenings from 7-8:30 PM for 6 weeks, from June 20 to Aug 1. For inquiries and to RSVP, contact Claire Hitchins.
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As part of PCA‘s ongoing Law & The Arts series, artists of all genres are invited to join Richmond attorney Eric Perkins for this informative seminar covering topics related to business formation in the arts on Tuesday, April 19 from 6-8 PM at McGuffey Art Center.
Perkins is the founding owner of Perkins Law, PLLC, a business law firm in Richmond, Virginia. He specializes in business and non-profit start-ups and related contractual and compliance matters. Since earning his law degree from UVa in 1996, he has helped organize hundreds of corporations, limited liability companies, and other business entities and assisted clients in a variety of industries ranging from retail, real estate, professional services, hospitality, entertainment, to professional wrestling.
Pizza and drinks will be provided. This seminar is FREE for PCA Members, $5 for non-members. Registration is required. To register email Sarah at info [at] charlottesvillearts.org with the subject, “RSVP for Law.”
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On April 7 at 5:15 PM in Minor Hall, The St. Anselm Institute hosts its 2nd Annual Robert Louis Wilken Public Lecture by welcoming back Thomas F. X. Noble, Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Noble’s lecture will untangle the interesting history of the relationship between Christianity and the visual arts.
Prof. Noble is a former UVA colleague and a highly regarded historian of the Papacy and of all things related to western civilization in the late antiquity and early medieval eras. He is the author and editor of numerous scholarly books and more than 40 articles, the well deserved recipient of excellence in teaching awards at both UVA and Notre Dame, as well as the recipient of research grants from the NEH and American Philosophical Society. He presently serves as Chair of Notre Dame’s History Department and he also has served as the Director of Notre Dame’s widely acclaimed Medieval Institute.
The St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought is celebrating its 10th year of service to the University of Virginia community.
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All Saints Anglican Church in Ivy is hosting a four-month Arts and Culture series, ranging from panel discussions to multimedia presentations. Come out for engaging lectures, lively discussion, and refreshments every third Sunday of the month from January to April.
On Sunday, April 17 at 5:30 PM, All Saints will host the fourth of this series, “How Might Music Mean? Listening to Sound, Structure, Community, and History,” with guest speaker Ken Myers.
Myers, former arts editor for NPR and founder of Mars Hill Audio in Charlottesville, will speak on meaning in music. While it is often treated merely as a mood-altering mechanism (whether a sedative or a stimulant), music has the capacity to convey deeper resonances with human experience in the world—joy, longing, melancholy, anticipation, grief, and much more.
Myers will argue that—as with poetry or the visual arts—the perception of musical meaning requires more attentiveness than we often give to music, attentiveness which allows for the formulation of a musical syntax and vocabulary that enriches and defines experience, and which renders our deepest sentiments communicable to others.
All Saints is located at 3889 Ivy Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903. For more information, call 434-987-3562. Free Child Care will be provided. There will be wine and refreshments after the lecture.