Recent Exhibitions
Our gallery is a rousing social laboratory for diverse ideas and practices. Regular exhibits showcase emerging artists while shining a spotlight on pioneering concepts and social trends. We challenge the expectations of a traditional white-wall gallery by nurturing diversity, maintaining flexibility, and facilitating cross-contamination of ideas and disciplines.
Gallery of Curiosities
Gallery Of Curiosities This community-curated Wunderkammer showcases, the unique, bizarre, fanciful, sacred, ill-defined, celebrated, historical, alternative, supernatural, and otherwise curious collections and creations of... Read More
June Bouquet: New Works by Veronica Haunani Fitzhugh and Aerial Perkins
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative hosts June Bouquet, a photography and poetry pop-up exhibition running June 29 through July 1. The exhibition opens with... Read More
Redefining the Family Photo – Exhibition Opening
Exhibition June 1 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm and runs through June. Come join us for our kickoff party for a group photography... Read More
Collaborative Residency 2018
The 2018 Public Artist Collaborative Residency program provided an opportunity for 3 jury-selected local artists from the city of Charlottesville working with varied mediums... Read More
Face to Face: Portraits of our Vibrant City 2017
Welcome to our 2017 collection of community portraits resulting from Face To Face: Portraits of Our Vibrant City Face To Face: Portraits of Our... Read More
Golara Haghtalab: “Who Is Your RGB Self?” Exhibition
An inventive exhibition, Golara Haghtalab’s “Who Is Your RGB Self” features a miniature landscape by use of paintings, poems, sculpture, and interactive installations to... Read More
Beasts: Annie Temmink
Beasts! – Annie Temmink Internationally awarded sculptor and costume designer, Annie Temmink, unveils the show Beasts! at the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative through the... Read More
Signs of Change
As part of our efforts to share the under-represented stories of Charlottesville’s African American history, 10 artists–both current and former Charlottesville residents—were selected by... Read More
Jum Jirapan – Coexist: A Prayer Flag Project
Jum Jirapan brings Coexist: A Prayer Flag Project to The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, opening the evening of Friday January 12th, 2018 and running... Read More
Destinee Wright: Solidarity Cards Project
Saturday January 20, 5:30 PM Exhibition Opening at The Bridge, 209 Monticello Rd. Friday January 19 6:00 PM at the Jefferson School: presentation at “Healing... Read More
