DECEMBER 12, 6-9PM
PVCC V. Earl Dickinson Building and Surrounding Grounds
This is a FREE family friendly outdoor event! We can't wait to see you and celebrate! Here are some things to remember for your visit:
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Dress for outdoors. There are indoor restrooms available but the event and exhibits are outside.
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Bring a flashlight. Let There Be Light invites a little exploration! Paths are lit, but it helps to have your own flashlight.
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Most, but not all, artworks are accessible.
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There will be FREE hot chocolate and cider. Food trucks will be on site to purchase food.
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Free parking is available in the Dickinson Building lot, and the PVCC main parking lot.
Let There Be Light celebrates the approach of winter and the longest night of the year with illuminated artworks created by local artists, students, and community members. The 2025 exhibition will feature glowing sculptures, video projections, and for the first time, a parade with enlightened mystical beings at 7pm and 8pm.
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PVCC’s partnership with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) continues with the return of “VMFA on the Road,” a travelling artmobile housing the exhibition “Love, Laughter, Tears: An Artist’s Guide to Emotions”. The exhibition examines the relationship between art and emotion and considers how artistic depictions of emotions can connect humanity and foster mutual understanding.
5. Nothing to See Here
Peabody School
A UFO has crash landed on the PVCC campus. The authorities are investigating and there is likely a “little green man” on the loose. The craft is no longer capable of flight but still pulsates with light and power.
7. Let There Be Lichen
Experience the in-depth intricacies of everyone's favorite fungal/algal symbiont! A puppetry slide show that brings you inside the microscope.
9. Groundless
A fallen blossom / returns to the branch / — a butterfly! (Issa)
11. Delirium
Circe Strauss
There's some things inside my head.
15. VMFA ARTMOBILE
The exhibition examines the relationship between art and emotion
17. Mystical Beings Parade
Charlottesville Homeschool Art Club
PARADE STARTS HERE @ 7:00 & 8:00 p.m.
We are spiritual and mystical beings capable of emanating light into the world! Let us become what we are on this night of light!
2. Nucleus
The light from Master Glassblower Charles "Chip" Hall 's centerpiece radiates, creating a visual expression of how the community has evolved from a single artist to a group studio with almost 20 members.
4. Lilla: Memories of the 1950s
Patty Swygert
Multiple softly lit embroidered and painted panels on vintage fabric depicting Lilla’s kitchen and laundry with artifacts from the 1950s. Based on the short story, “Lilla” by the artist.
6. Water Light
“Water Light” is a collaboration between PVCC instructor Alexandria Searls and her video students and was filmed in the lake behind Dickinson as it moved and shone.
8. The Luminous Serpent
A glowing serpent of mythical proportions fills the space with its quiet presence, paired with an illuminated dress, worn by the artist. How you follow its path into the deep, is your choice.
10. How The Light Gets In
A floating cracked circle inspired by Leonard Cohen's words "there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in".
12. { Tempest }
A vibrant, energetic, and abstract visual journey through the evolution of our technology, from hard, analog, and exposed to the fluid, parallel, nanoscale palette of today, and the friction generated by this ever advancing process, commissioned for Code+Art, by city of Palo Alto.
14. Flower Power
Boys and Girls Club
Boys & Girls Club youth use STEAM skills to create a life size evening gown that glows and moves.
16. Love is the Answer
This installation uses multi-colored, solar powered garden lights to form the shape of a heart, the universal symbol of LOVE. In the midst of America’s current turbulent and divisive moments, this lighted symbol provides a hopeful reminder that LOVE IS THE ANSWER. It’s a simple installation whose intent creates a meaningful and provocative impact.
2025 Artworks and Artists
