Artists
This directory includes artists whose work has been presented through New City Arts exhibitions, exchanges, artist talks, interviews, programs, or grants.
MECOO is a Charlottesville-based artist making works rooted in ecological fantasy, creating stories with the Earth that record our deepest passions, desires, and experiences.
Jolinna Li is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker who grew up between Charlottesville, Virginia; Taipei, Taiwan; and Shanghai, China.
Emma Block is an emerging choreographer and movement artist who grew up in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Brian Simalchik is a Charlottesville-based composer who writes music embracing emotional directness, evocative sounds and structures, and the expressive potential of silence and space.
Ceejay Renner-Thomas is a teacher and artist who is making glassblowing more accessible to the Charlottesville community
Natasha Woods is committed to using filmmaking as a tool for inquiry, collective organizing, and worldmaking, she has organized a number of screenings and workshops at DIY and artist-forward spaces.
Molly Joyce has been deemed one of the “most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome” by The Washington Post.
Maude Brown applies a direct, physical approach to making art, deploying rapid mark making and energetic movements.
Dottie Swangin is a painter and collage artist whose process is driven by material exploration and playful experimentation.
Selina Thurston is a mixed media artist whose approach to artmaking involves innovation, experimentation, and a love of new media.
Amy Keenan-Amago (she/her) is the founder and director of The Arc Studio, a visual arts program and open studio space for artists with developmental disabilities.
Stephanie Germosen Salazar received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Chloe Clayborne is an interdisciplinary artist who engages with painting and sculpture to create works which explore metaphysical ideas surrounding the body and consciousness.
Adrienne Jacobson Oliver is an artist-researcher who explores Black matrilineal expressions that suspend time, entangle memory, and invite intimacy, articulating themselves through a key of resonance and silence.
Awar Monytwic Biong is an essayist, poet, and fiction writer whose writing draws from her experiences as a refugee from Sudan, a naturalized American, and a daughter of the newest nation, South Sudan.
Ava Burke is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher operating at the collision of the personal and the petrochemical-industrial, using each as a lens through which to view the other.
I.F Gonzales is a nonbinary diasporic Filipinx (Kapampangan and Visayan) artist, academic, and archive-maker from the semi-rural exurbs of Southern Illinois.
Sophia Chaudhry is a South Asian artist and leatherworker born in Virginia Beach, VA, currently working in Charlottesville.
Jack O’Neil paints and lives in Charlottesville, where he studied Sculpture at the University of Virginia
Hannah Kade is an interdisciplinary artist from Detroit MI, using both writing and drawing to express niche ideas simply and honestly.
Daisy Dee is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator with a particular curiosity for craft and the layered narratives that objects carry
Wilfred Henry is an herbalist, abolitionist, somatic movement educator, ecological marxist, ephemeral gardener, artist, writer living in Charlottesville.
Ben Frye is a Charlottesville-based photographer producing primarily street photography and concert photography,
