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On Friday, February 10 at 12:30pm, Creative Capital will host a grant information session in the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, D.C. If you are unable to attend in-person, but still interested in learning more about the grant process, there will also be a webinar on Friday, February 24 from 12:00-1:00pm.

To apply for a Creative Capital grant, an artist must first submit an online Inquiry Form. The Inquiry Form for Emerging Fields, Literature, and Performing Arts must be submitted by March 1. Selected applicants will advance through two further application phases during the year, and grantees will be announced in January 2013.

This event is FREE and open to the public. Please RSVP to grants@creative-capital.org. To learn more, click here.

Take a look at all the great First Fridays openings this month… Don’t let the chilly weather keep you from the chance to see some of the best art in town! All events listed below take place on Friday, February 3 and are FREE and open to the public.

“Architectural Fragments” – BozART Gallery
Christine Rich is an accomplished artist in acrylics, watercolor, and pastel. Her paintings capture the subject revealing the inner beauty of the smallest objects. Her subjects range from animals and people to landscape and buildings. An opening reception will be held from 5:00-8:30pm. For more information, call 434-296-3919.

“iConnect Photography” – CitySpace Gallery
Now in the program’s sixth year, The Bridge PAI and Albemarle County Schools presents the 2012 iConnect Photography Program’s book release of El Rio. An accompanying month-long exhibit will feature work by Albemarle County students from the Southwood and Westhaven communities. With creative partnerships through the Charlottesville Photography Initiative and WriterHouse, students worked with mentors for two weeks taking photos and writing poetry about their images. An opening reception will be held from 5:00-7:00pm. For more information, email Greg Kelly.

“Journey” – Second Street Gallery
In February, artist Laura Ball presents a menagerie of Archimobodesque wildlife, a pantheon of animals rendered from an aggregate of other creatures. These paintings vibrate with color and life as the subjects at hand, often animals, are set in motion by the fluid nature of the watercolor medium. An opening reception for both exhibits will be held from 5:00-7:30pm, with an artist talk at 6:30pm. For more information, email members@secondstreetgallery.org.

“The Imaginary City” – WriterHouse
The Imaginary City is a series of pen and ink drawings of buildings, streets, and towns. The scenes recall European and American cities of the nineteenth century and earlier, drawn freehand and to scale. Robert Boucheron is a local architect and freelance writer whose work has appeared in many publications. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held from 5:00-7:00pm. For more information, email Robert Boucheron.

“Freshwater” – New City Arts
Join NPR, WVTF, Radio IQ, and New City Arts for new photographs by Leila Anne Harris in her exhibit, “Freshwater,” at the WVTF and Radio IQ Studio Gallery. An opening reception for the exhibit will be held from 5:00-7:00pm. For more information, email Maureen Lovett.

“Famous Faces” – Spring Street Boutique
This exhibit features graphite drawings by Michele Price. An opening reception will be held from 6:00-8:00pm. For more information, email Cynthia Schroeder.

“Permutations” – McGuffey Art Center
The main exhibit in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery will feature “Permutations,” a collection of enameled jewelry, wall panels, and prints by Kristi Glick. McGuffey also proudly presents “Beyond the Bars” – artwork by inmates from the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail – and paintings by Salena Hitzeman in the hallways galleries. An opening reception will be held from 5:30-7:30pm. For more information, email mcguffeyartcenter@gmail.com.

“Back Country Scenes from Rural Virginia” – Warm Springs Gallery
The February exhibit features paintings by Ed Hatch. An opening reception will be held from 5:00-7:00pm. For more information, call 434-245-0800.

“Twig” – The Bridge PAI
This month’s exhibit features mixed-media work by Carolyn Capps. An opening reception will be held from 6:00-8:00pm. For more information, email Greg Kelly.

“Cub Creek Foundation for the Ceramic Arts” – City Clay
This month’s exhibit features work by current Cub Creek Resident Artists, including Mitch Iburg, Kendra Sparks, Lane Kaufman, and John Jessiman. An opening reception will be held from 5:00-8:00pm. For more information, email Randy Bill.

“Gloria” – The Garage
Local artist Ellen Picker explores the “coruscations of bodies and shore” in this new installation of photographs. An opening reception will be held from 5:00-8:00pm. For more information, email Sam Bush.

Beginning on Friday, February 10, the Staunton Music Festival will present a series entitled Schubert: Late Masterworks, celebrating the late chamber music of Franz Schubert. All performances will take place in Trinity Episcopal Church in Staunton.

Schubert remains one of the most interesting composers of the last 300 years, having written more works and died younger than any other major composer in history. However, only about 150 of his roughly 1,000 compositions were published in his lifetime, and relatively few of the unpublished works were known at all.

Performances will take place on February 10 at 7:00pm, Saturday, February 11 at 7:00pm, and Sunday, February 12 at 4:00pm. For complete programs, click here.

Tickets are $20 ($18 for seniors, $8 for students) and may be purchased in advance or at the door. For more information, please call 540-569-0267.

Please join us on Friday, February 3 from 5:00-7:00pm at the CitySpace Gallery for the book release party and exhibit opening of the iConnect Photography Program. Now in the its sixth year, the program is a collaboration between The Bridge PAI and Albemarle County Public Schools. Theis year, the program culminated in a book, El Rio, and a month-long exhibit featuring photographs by students from the Southwood and Westhaven communities.

Working with the Charlottesville Photography Initiative and WriterHouse, students worked with mentors for two weeks writing poetry and taking digital and 35mm photographs. The ongoing goal of the program is to utilize the mediums of writing and photography to capture the students’ individual experiences.

For more information about this event or the iConnect Photography Program, please contact Greg Kelly. This event is FREE and open to the public.

On Thursday, January 26 at 5:30pm, UVa will host an artist talk with Michael Lundgren and Aaron Rothman in Campbell Hall, room 153. The talk accompanies the artists’ new collaborative photography installation,”If There Be Such Space: Michael Lundgren and Aaron Rothman,” in Ruffin Gallery, which will be open through February 17.

Lundgrun and Rothman have spent the past decade engaged in a common photographic exploration of landscape. They share ideas, experiences, and experiments, yet have each created unique bodies of work that at times have a similar approach and process and at other times have diverged. You can read more about their work on The Design Observer.

A Final Friday reception for the exhibit will be held on January 27 from 5:30-7:30pm in Ruffin. For more information, click here.

Need a lunch break? Head over to the UVa Art Museum today from 12:00-1:00pm for a free talk by contemporary artist Tom Burckhardt.

Burckhardt’s paintings, made of oil on fabricated cast plastic supports, blur divisions between abstract and representational art. Often, his works evoke the psychological phenomenon known as “pareidolia,” in which a person believes they randomly encounter the image of an object or a person, such as a face found in the clouds or a rock formation.

The museum is hosting this focused exhibition in conjunction with Burckhardt’s UVa Arts Board residency. The focus of the residency is working with studio art students to create an artistic interpretation of the Brooks Natural History Museum, which was located in UVa’s Brooks Hall from 1877 through the 1940s.

This event is FREE and open to the public. For information, please call 434-243-2050 or email museumoutreach@virginia.edu. The exhibit of his paintings will be on display through June 3.