Who We Are

We envision the Charlottesville area as a place where a thriving group of local artists unsettles and transforms our community to work toward a more just, beautiful future.

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New City Arts provides free and low-cost ways to see and experience art at Welcome Gallery and in the Charlottesville-area community.

 
 

Featured Artist

Lauro López is a mixed-media artist based in Charlottesville with roots in Texas and the Mexican-Latine diaspora whose work explores identity and the relationship to self and culture as a Latine, transgender, and autistic person of color. Lauro’s exhibition, Birds on the Block, is on view at Welcome Gallery from July 10-26, 2025.