Outreach
Educational initiatives have always been an integral part of SSG programming. SSG is committed to providing the Charlottesville region access to art by connecting artists and their work with the local community.
SSG offers over a dozen outreach programs, ranging from in-school art workshops to group art making activities through Family Art Day or the Public Art project. Each program is designed to deepen the public's enjoyment and understanding of exhibitions and to make the best of contemporary art more accessible to the community.
Second Street Gallery's outreach initiatives are supported by the following:
LEAW Family Foundation
The Bama Works Fund of Dave Matthews Band in the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (CACF)
Family Art Day
Clark Art Club: Zoe Cohen Claymaking
Collage workshop with Andy Faith at Community Housing Partners Greenstone on 5th
Clark Art Club: Visit Second Street Gallery
MOSAIC WORKSHOP WITH NINNI BAECKSTROM AT THE COMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNER’S COMMUNITY CENTER
Clark Art Club: Sarah Boyts Yoder Banner Collage
Clark Art Club: Laura Josephine Snyder Oil Pastel and India Ink
Clark Art Club: Mary Pearl Monnes book-making
Clark Art Club: Mary Pearl Monnes - Andy Goldsworthy inspired nature sculptures
Kite Making Workshop with the Community Housing Partners
Clark Art Club: Phuong Nguyen printmaking
RECENT POSTS
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Posted by Second Street Gallery
Thu, May 24
Meet Regina Pilawuk Wilson at the opening tomorrow (5/25) at SSG or tonight (5/24) at the Kluge Ruhe or at the Guided Artist Tour in the gallery on Saturday (5/26). Here is more information about Regina Pilawuk Wilson, a Ngan’gikurrungurr woman, was born in 1948 in the Daly River region of the Northern Territory. Together with her husband, Harold Wilson, Regina founded the Peppimenarti (meaning ‘large rock’) Community as a permanent settlement for the Ngan’gikurrungurr people in the Daly River region, south-west of Darwin in 1973. The location of the community is an important dreaming site for the Ngan’gikurrungurr language group and is situated amid wetlands and floodplains at the centre of the Daly River Aboriginal Reserve, 300 kilometers south-west of Darwin. Regina won the General Painting category of the Telstra National Indigenous and Torres-Strait Islander Award in 2003 for a golden syaw (fish-net) painting. -Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation durrmuarts.com.au Image: Artist Regina Pilawuk Wilson. Photo by Cassie De Colling
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Posted by Second Street Gallery
Wed, May 23
SSG hosted a lunch in the gallery with the participants from the “Communities Curate!” roundtable at the Kluge Ruhe. Come see Regina Wilson’s work on Friday from 5:30-7:30 and don’t miss the opening of “Nunguni” curated by Ms. Wilson at the Kluge Ruhe on Thursday from 5-7. Thank you to the Kluge-Ruhe, Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation, UVa Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures, UVa Mellon Indigenous Arts Initiative, and the Embassy of Australia.
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Posted by Second Street Gallery
Tue, May 22
We are so excited to have the work of Regina Pilawuk Wilson in our gallery! She met with our Executive Director and Chief Curator, Kristen Chiacchia, and posed in front of one of her spectacular weavings. She will be exhibiting both in our gallery, as well as at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, so be sure to check out both space! The exhibition will open at Second Street on Friday, May 25th from 5:30-7:30pm. Hope to see you there!
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Posted by Second Street Gallery
Fri, May 18
It’s here! Come see these amazing paintings at the opening next Friday from 5:30-7:30 with Regina wilson’s remarks at 6:30.
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Posted by Second Street Gallery
Wed, May 16
Our next artist, Regina Wilson has arrived at Phillips Collection in DC where she is completing a mural of her famous message sticks! Her show opens at SSG next Friday with a reception from 5:30-7:30.
