Trisha Orr is an artist who has exhibited paintings at galleries and museums in Charlottesville, Houston, San Francisco, and New York City. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the University of Michigan, and her later professional education included the New York Studio School. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, she lives in Charlottesville with her husband, the poet Gregory Orr, with whom she has two grown daughters.

Charlottesville Burning

by Trisha Orr
Once you’ve closed one eye to evil,
You’d better not blink.

—Gregory Orr, “Charlottesville Elegy”

Through art and poetry, longtime Charlottesville residents Tricia and Gregory Orr witness the divisiveness and eruption of violence that threaten to replace civility with barbarism in American perspectives and discourse. In the face of darkness, the words and images here call to the better instincts of humanity.

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