Artists
This directory includes artists whose work has been supported or featured through New City Arts exhibitions, exchanges, artist talks, interviews, programs, or grants.
Unless otherwise noted, New City Arts features artists who live in the Charlottesville area including the city of Charlottesville and the counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna, Greene, Louisa, Orange, Buckingham, and Nelson.
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.
