When a new month rolls around, that means one thing in the Cville art community: First Fridays. Cville Niche is here to be the online resource needed.
Let us guide you with our virtual roadmap, from Downtown galleries to off the mall gems just a short drive away.
The journey begins at 5pm…
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– DOWNTOWN –
Escapes
Featured Artist: Cindy Ferreria
Opening Reception: begins at 5pm Hors d’ouerves and non alcoholic drinks will be served.
Chroma Projects: an art laboratory
Small Breaches in the Firmament
Featured Artists: Bill Bennett, Barbara MacCallum, R andall Stoltzfus, Kathryn Henry-Choisser
Sparkling water and modest snacks provided {“It’s about the art.”}.Friday April 1st (April Fool’s Day) at Chroma Projects will introduce the next set of shows, and be celebrated with a pop-up event on the downtown mall in observance of the evening skies following the transformative spring equinox.
Byron’s Telescope, an experience machine, will appear on the 5th street Stub, located diagonally across the mall from the gallery, on Friday April 1, from 5-9pm, and offer visitors, one at a time, a chance to encounter “A Breach in the Firmament.” The site-specific installation was created by Bill Bennett and the UVA Sculpture Department, and organized to coordinate with Chroma’s Intergalactic April exhibition.
Inside the galleries the sculptures of both Bill Bennett and Barbara MacCallum is on view in the Front Gallery in a show titled Small Breaches in the Firmament. Contemplating deep space from both the scientific and mythological perspective, the artists imagine different mechanisms for seeing our story in the stars. MacCallum appropriates the scholarly papers of astrophysics husband, Bob Johnson. In re-using them as the fabric in her constructions, they are manipulated to express another reality, one filled with dual meanings that segue between the cosmos and the mundane.
Stephen Margulies, performance artist, and curator of works on paper at The University of Virginia Art Museum, will present a response to Bill Bennett’s work in the Gallery at approximately 6:00pm
Within a Shell
Featured Artist: Terry M. Coffey
Live music by Trio Mandolino with Mac Warford, Charles Winkler, and Fay Witherell
Reception from 5-9pm
Light refreshments will be served.
Calligraphy is an ancient art celebrating and elevating words through artistic treatment. In Celebration of Words, an exhibit for the 2011 Virginia Festival of the Book, consists of a series of pieces featuring quotes from well-known authors about writing.
Terry M. Coffey, calligrapher and painter, is exhibiting these art works in a variety of inks, acrylic paints and gilding on canvas. It is a visual celebration of words and provides a powerful supplement to the Book Festival programs.
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108 2nd Street NW, between Market Street and the Downtown Mall
434.293.3908
Mon, closed, Tues-Sat, 10-6pm, Sun, 12-5
Contemporary Wine Art on Canvas, Giclees on Canvas
In this installment of “Art @ the #9,” not unlike past First Fridays at Fellini’s, art and music is paired and celebrated.
Art will be exhibited from April 1-April 30.
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200 West Market Street, on the corner of West Market and 2nd Street NW
434.979.4279
Lunch: by reservation of 10 or more
Dinner: 5-10pm, Mon-Sat
Brunch: 11-3pm, Sun
Open late night.
Auction Preview and New Collector’s Silent Auction
Featured Artists: Many local, regional and national artists!
Wine and finger food will be provided by Mona Lisa Pasta.
As a preview to the gallery’s Benefit Art Auction on April 8, all works in the live auction will be on display, including pieces by Sally Mann, William Wylie, Rob Tarbell, Sam Abel, Dean Dass, Clay Witt, Anne Slaughter, Russ Warren, and many more. Tickets are still available!
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115 2nd Street SE, on the corner of Water Street and 2nd Street SE (next to Live Arts)
434.977.7284
Tues-Sat, 11-6pm
The Last Time I Saw That Boy
Featured Artist: Craig Snodgrass
Delicious coffee and home made pastries will be available for purchase, as usual!
In “The Last Time I Saw That Boy,” Snodgrass takes a reflective and introspective look through his own past and in turn shows us a half remembered dream of our own creation.
Through this muddled gazing-ball, we see images struck to the canvas with an intensity that arouses a nostalgic pity and an inkling of fear.
The WVTF and Radio IQ Studio Gallery 
Far Out Right Here
Featured artist: Patrick Costello
Opening Reception: 5-7pm
Food and drinks will be provided by Feast! and from Blenheim Vineyards.
Patrick is the very recent NCAI Artist-In-Residence at The Haven at First & Market, which is a coordinated effort of local hospitality to support the already-established creative endeavors among haven staff, volunteers, and guests, while initiating new, artistic ventures in our community.
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216 West Water Street, across from Eloise
434.260.1635
To see the exhibit by appointment, contact Maureen at artsdirector@newcityarts.org.
Prints by Daniel Perry
Musical entertainment by Hymn for Her, a punkabilly, stompgrass, Americana group from Philadelphia. Local songwriter Will Marsh opens.
Daniel Perry, local Jam maker, fills the Garage with hand-cut prints exploring the interrelated dynamism of nature and the human form.
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1st Street, across from Lee Park
No regular walk-in hours. See calendar for open door hours and events.
John Borden Evans: New Paintings
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Art Association 17th Annual Juried Show
107 5th Street SE, (the upstairs entrance by Hampton & Everett
434.979.9825
Mon-Fri, 9-5pm
Grown
Featured Artist: Allie Kelly
Opening Reception: 5-9pm
Light snacks will be served.
Stop by the little nook in between Monsoon and Now and Zen Sushi – Isolated Article. Elaine Butcher has designed Isolated as a small design studio and gallery space, as well as a little shop featuring local and handmade goods.
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Thanks to all the Galleries for submitting information!
Cville Niche 
Posted on April 1, 2011 by Linnea White
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