Ready...Set...Remove
An open letter to the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors You have the opportunity on August 6 to lead the Commonwealth of Virginia in...
Monumental Progress...what next?
On Thursday, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced the imminent removal of a monumental equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee in...
Kudzu and friends
An exhibition titled Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism is on display August 1 - October 25 at the Central Library of Rochester...
We will not be satisfied until...
Today is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and a holiday for Commonwealth of Virginia employees. My husband and I had a leisurely...
What are we celebrating?
Happy Thanksgiving from The Kudzu Project! Early this morning, we installed knitted kudzu on the University of Virginia's statue of...
Contextualizing Confederate Monuments
On Wednesday, November 14th, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors was presented with a petition signed by nearly 600 citizens...
Is Justice blind or turning a blind eye?
On any given day, a courthouse is filled with people of different genders, races and ethnicities, socio-economic and educational...
What happened to "Silent Sam" speaks volumes
Last week protesters at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill took matters into their own hands, toppling the statue of an anonymous...
What you need to know about A12
With the anniversary of August 11 and 12 fast approaching, we citizens of Charlottesville are preparing ourselves for the worst. Even...
"Sticks and stones..."
These often repeated words are intended to soothe the powerless, bullied and abused. But they provide cold comfort at best. Names hurt....
