One summer, a grandfather decided to take his 10-year-old grandson on a roadtrip. The family had been through a great deal as the man’s wife was dying of Alzheimer’s disease. The man would take the boy from their home in Virginia and through the American landscape. ...
For Matthew Grimes, growing up in a beautiful old house in Winchester, Virginia, deeply influenced his view of the world. “When I was younger, I played outside a lot. We were raised in a rather old-fashioned environment,” Grimes said. “We were taught how to hunt and...
It’s no secret that paying for graduate school takes a lot of money, which is why Elizabeth Flood applied to be a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) fellow. Flood, an artist from Charlottesville, was accepted as one of four artists to receive the prestigious award...