Perspective Gallery
The mission of Perspective Gallery is to expand the student’s conceptual world through art appreciation and to encourage patronage of the arts. The Gallery organizes exhibits by local, national and international artists. Through these exhibits and educational programming, the Gallery inspires active learning about art and provides a conduit for dialogue on local and world issues. The Gallery supports the transdisciplinary educational goals of the University to benefit students and members of the community.
Even when we’re closed, exhibitions are visually available through our perimeter windows, in front, and down the corridor along the side of the gallery.
Perspective Gallery First Spring Semester Exhibition
Leo’s Love Letters to Nature
A Community Celebration of Black History Month
January 21–March 6, 2025
Our first exhibition of 2025, Leo’s Love Letters to Nature, showcases the remarkable work of Leo Hoffman, a senior majoring in wildlife conservation. Leo creates living art in the form of terrariums and vivariums, beautifully crafted ecosystems that reflect his deep love for nature and his understanding of the earth’s diverse biomes and ecosystems.
The exhibit also features terrariums and dish gardens created by students from the Studio 72 Living Learning Community, drawing inspiration from Leo’s innovative work.
As a special highlight, the exhibition includes prototype plantscapes designed by Virginia Tech industrial design students for a leading horticultural sales company.
Closing Reception: Friday, February 28, 2025 from 4–6 p.m.
Exhibit and reception are free and open to all.
Flex Gallery Current Exhibit
(Located on the 2nd floor hallway adjacent to the Perspective Gallery)
Sara Woods
September 2024-April 2025
Sara Woods is studying studio art within the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech. She is from central Virginia and considers her hometown on the outskirts of the Shenandoah Mountains to have instilled in her a grounded perception of a cyclic and simultaneously ever-changing environment. Eventually this led to her initial commitment to wildlife conservation in academics before transitioning to a BFA. She considers this background to have had significant influence on her work, as well as her deep-rooted familiarity with concepts of political polarization and human connection amongst displacement.
Sara’s practice is explorative, navigating the interconnected nature of time and identity in relation to a stimulative sensitivity with our surroundings. These themes are demonstrated through various time-based mediums such as digital video and sound as well as photography and painting. Her most recent project involvement includes a sound piece in collaboration with an upcoming exhibition for the 2025 Architecture Venice Biennale, and the creation of media for the VECTOR South project funded by the CDC tasked with researching systemic disease control.
Artist Statement
Collectively we orient ourselves in a digital Anthropocene, each of us collecting ways that we are able to absorb the world we have.
I like it when I look at something and can pick out fragments of some type of decisiveness- cues that, if caught in action, expose lore that has trickled from some larger significant whole. In my practice, I single out these moments to bring attention to them and elevate each of their narratives, connecting the importance of smaller notions to our larger perceptions. It is how I absorb both the tangible and intangible.
My pieces are situations which take on a life of their own as enigmatic singularities, blurring the binaries of process and product, material and hypothetical, challenging what we see as important. In a world of illusive hyper stimulation, to notice the subtle has become more like a decision to make. I want my art to place in front of the viewer a brief iota of their universe, as a thing to take and be taken by.
Academic Year Hours of Operation
- Monday: 6-9 p.m.
- Tuesday-Saturday: 12-9 p.m.
- Sunday: 1-5 p.m.
- Closed during university breaks and holidays
For additional information contact:
Perspective Gallery (0138)
225 Squires Student Center
290 College Avenue
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-6040 (Phone)
540-231-5403 (Fax)
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Art Reach is Perspective Gallery’s community outreach program which provides visual arts experiences to students and experiential learning opportunities to our gallery assistants and interns.
