Category — Gallery Exhibits

Opening Reception Friday, March 4, 6-8pm | Exhibition up through Saturday, March 26, 2011

This show contains new paintings from the last 14 months, along with mixed media work, sculpture maquettes, home design models and cigar box art galleries. It is a cohesive culling of diverse interests; a comprehensive showing of the various ways art manifests itself in Moore’s life.

Openings Friday, November 26, 2010 and Friday, December 3, 2010 | Shop up through Saturday, January 29, 2010

Great Gifts a Holiday Shop featuring unique handmade and vintage gifts for everyone on your list! Over 30 artists and craftspeople participating, stocking The Bridge with jewelry, clothing, prints, art, knits, pottery and more GREAT GIFTS.

The store will have a soft, unofficial opening on November 26, BLACK FRIDAY. The official opening is one week later, December 3, on First Friday. The store will be open weekdays from noon to 8pm and weekends from noon to 6pm, up until Christmas Eve. Gift Certificates will be available for purchase through December 23 and they make great gifts, too! Following the Christmas holiday, visitors can browse during normal gallery hours or by appointment. The store will come down the last week of January. We accept cash, check, and plastic. All proceeds go to The Bridge and the vibrant artists that enrich our community with their skills and creativity.

Volunteers interested in supervising the store during the operating hours will receive 30% in exchange for their services. Interested parties should contact charlottesville.all.stars@gmail.com.

The Southwood Youth Photography Project | Summer 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010 | 6-8pm

In the summer of 2010, The Southwood Youth Photography project completed its third book La Finca | The Farm.

In June 2010, a group of Albermarle County Public School students from Southwood Mobile Home Park were joined by professional photographers, writers and artists for a day-long visit to Maple Hill Farm, located in Scottsville Virginia and operated by the Local Food Hub. The goal of the project was to utilize the mediums of writing and photography to capture the students individual experiences of visiting a working farm.

As in previous workshops, creative partnerships were essential to the success of this program. Charlottesville photographer Billy Hunt and poet John Casteen IV instructed the students in their respective mediums. Generous support was provided by The Local Food Hub and Writer House with support from the Bama Works Fund.

La Finca marks the 5th year of the project and the 3rd book in an on-going series created through the program.

La Finca Community Partners:
Albermarle County Public Schools
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative
Local Food Hub
Writer House w/ generous support from the Bama Works Fund

Project Coordinators:
Greg Antrim Kelly
Gloria Maria Rockhold

Curated by Warren Craghead
Opening Reception Friday, October 1, 6-8pm | Exhibition up through October 30, 2010

For more information visit the Leaf and Signal BLOG

Featuring work by:
Café Royal Books with Craig Atkinson (Southport, UK)
Craig who runs Café Royal, a zine and art books publishing and distribution company. Craig will be showing some original work along with lots and lots of pages from lots and lots of artists who have published in his Café Royal magazine.

Oliver East (Manchester, UK)
Oliver has published a comics/art book series “Trains are….Mint” along with other books, prints and drawings.

Franklin Einspruch (Boston, USA)
Franklin is a painter, writer and comics-maker and has published online a great series of poem-comics, “The Moon Fell On Me.”

Little Paper Planes (San Francisco, USA)
LPP is an artist-run online store and publishing venture run by Kelly Lynn Jones and some pals. We’ll will have some of their LPP published prints and books from a variety of artists featured.

Opuntia Books with André Lemos (Lisbon, Portugal)
Lemos publishes his own and other artists work.  André was in a show a couple years ago here in Charlottesville and painted a mural on the side of The Bridge (he also drew tons with my kids).

dbqp with Geof Huth (Schenectady, USA)
Huth is a writer and artist who makes small books and objects that explore where images and words turn into each other.

Opening Reception Friday, September 3, 6-8pm | Exhibition up through September 25, 2010

A three-person show exploring single materials used in site installations, with artists who each plan to use their work to directly interact with The Bridge’s gallery space in a multi-sensory way. Curated by Leah Stoddard

Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 7-9pm | Exhibition up through May 21, 2010

The Bridge presents a group exhibition of selected works of graduating photography students from the University of Virginia Studio Art Program.

Exhibiting 4th years include:
Alix Baycroft
Derek Blair Cooper
Allison Dreon
Elise Gibson
Leila Anne Harris
Leise Hook
Missy McGuirk
Nina Ramadan
Julie Slater

Friday, February 26, 2010 | 6-8pm

Join us as we celebrate 3 years of creative programming with the youth of Westhaven.

This ONE NIGHT ONLY event will showcase works ranging from painted portraits, audio interviews, murals, video and a handful of ALL NEW WORKS – to be auctioned through out the evening – in support of the Westhaven After School Program.

Please mark your calendars and join us as we celebrate this amazing partnership and raise awareness in support of this vital youth program in Charlottesville.

Friday, August 28, 2009 | 6-8pm

Come join us as we celebrate and view works from The Southwood Sandbox Summer Workshops. This one-night-only event will include collages, off stage theatre and photography created by youth in the community of Southwood through the Sandbox Summer Workshops.

Select prints and copies of the new iConnect Southwood Youth Photography book will be available.

Reception | Saturday, August 22, 2009 | 3-6pm
Gallery Hours | Sunday August 23, 2009 | 12-3pm

To celebrate and share the StoryLine Project with the campers’ families and community members, The Bridge | PAI will host a micro-exhibit from August 22 to 23 in the gallery at 209 Monticello Road in Belmont. The exhibit will show drawings, photographs, studies and ephemera from the Story|Line project. An opening reception and celebration will be held from 3-6pm on Saturday, August 22nd, and the exhibit will be on display from 12-3pm on Sunday, August 23rd or by appointment.