Matter: Charlottesville 2018

Book excerpt: Each year, the students at the University of Virginia pool their money together to bring an artist or art event to UVA Grounds and beyond through their student run, UVA Arts Board Committee. For 2017-18, in collaboration with the Studio Arts Program, the students invited artist and Art in Odd Places founder & director Ed Woodham to help oversee the creation and production of Art in Odd Places 2018: MATTER Charlottesville. This catalogue is a record of AiOP MATTER festival that took place on the grounds of the University of Virginia and on the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville. The gatherings of white supremacists on August 11 and 12, 2017 framed a narrow view of Charlottesville. AiOP MATTER encouraged rethinking this limited view of Charlottesville by presenting fresh images and narratives by nineteen local artists, and nine national and international artists.