Robert Schultz received the “Art Search” prize conducted by Streetlight Magazine and Chroma Projects gallery for his Against the Dark project. Streetlight ran an illustrated feature and the Against the Dark exhibition was mounted in the Chroma Projects “Vault” gallery in downtown Charlottesville, Virginia in February 2022.

The exhibition included specimen scans and notes from Schultz’s book, Specimens of the Plague Year, plus leafprint portraits of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, and Rachel Carson.