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Abigail L. Palko, UVA Women's Center

  • Mixed Media/Collage
  • Sep 8, 2023
  • 2 min read

Visual Arts / Equity, Inclusion + Representation



University of Virginia Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center presents: (Re)present. As a feminist call to action, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of full co-education at University of Virginia and in response to the national racial reckonings of 2020 and of the 2017 Unite the Right Rally (#Charlottesville), the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center of the University of Virginia launched (re)present, an arts and writing competition aimed at reimagining, revising, and (re)presenting “the” stereotypical (white, male, heteronormative) UVA student. While the competition was open to the entire University community, students in particular submitted award-winning writing and art that interrogated, subverted, and reclaimed the image of the UVA student, reflecting the richly diverse community they claim as their own. The Women’s Center created a physical and virtual gallery of award-winning work, the former visible to all passing by the Women’s Center (during a time of lockdown when indoor viewing was not possible), and the latter still proudly accessible online. When the Women’s Center issued the call to action, the community responded enthusiastically, submitting work, serving on juries to judge the submissions, and voting in the Students’ Choice Awards.




Featured Artists:

  • Untitled by Brandon Eley

  • Untitled by Lily Roberts

  • "R U OK", mixed media interactive art by Selena Cheng

  • "I, Too, Sing" Charlottesville by Lexi Magenheim

  • "Silver Spoon’s Lament" by Ryan Doerr

  • Untitled self portrait, front and back of panel embroidered with thread handmade from artist’s pandemic-length hair by Kaitlin Hyun



About the Center

The Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center at the University of Virginia provides a wide array of leadership opportunities through their academic internship and engaged scholarship program; resources and services, including counseling for trauma recovery; and educational trainings for the University community. Our mission centers our values of social justice, community care and wellness, and professional excellence and mentorship. We support students in their academic careers and professional development, and we celebrate the accomplishments of the University’s change agents. We aspire to embody leadership concerned with the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong.


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