Brighter Together: Projection Mapping at UVA

by Local Artist Jeff Dobrow & the AV Company

Colorful Projection Mapping on the UVA Chapel

UVA Arts, the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts, and the Division of Student Affairs presents Brighter Together: Projection Mapping at UVA. 

Projection mapping plays with the evolving, fluid relationship between technology & art to produce interactive, immersive, and involving experiences. The show offers students and community members a way to experience art with one another while being safe during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The energetic pop-up projections blend UVA’s prominent architecture with colorful lights and music in hopes of providing an uplifting, joyful, impactful, and engaging encounter that will leave you with a bit of wonder, curiosity, and maybe a new shared experience or memory to draw from.

THE GREAT ROTUMPKIN
Halloween Projection Mapping by local artist Jeff Dobrow

In the News:

  • ‘The Great Rotumpkin’ reignites Halloween celebration on Grounds • by Leon Arceo • Cavalier Daily • November 1, 2021
  • The Great Rotumpkin lights up the Lawn • by Anne-Parker Coleman • CBS19 • October 31, 2021
  • It’s ‘The Great Rotumpkin’: Spooktacular Halloween Projection Show Coming to UVA • by Jane Kelly • UVA Today • October 28, 2021
  • A Bright Spot: Look Back at the Spring Semester’s Pop-Up Shows • by Caroline Newman & Sanjay Suchak • UVA Today • July 16, 2021
  • Lightening up: Jeff Dobrow’s Brighter Together celebrates art and community at UVA • by Dan Goff • C-VILLE Weekly • May 12, 2021
  • “Brighter Together” Project Lights Up UVA • by Max Patten • WUVA News • April 28, 2021
  • Pop-up art exhibition brings light to the University community • by Omega Ilijevich • The Cavalier Daily • April 8, 2021
  • VIDEO: UVA Weekly, Spring 2021: Rotunda Show Lights Up Grounds • by Erik Duda • UVA Today • April 6, 2021
  • University of Virginia’s “Brighter Together” light show continues at Rotunda • by Max Marcilla • NBC29.COM • April 2, 2021
  • PICK: Brighter Together • C-VILLE Weekly • March 31, 2021
  • Brighter Together: 4 More Opportunities to See UVA Architecture Glow • by Caroline Newman & Sanjay Suchak • UVA Today • March 22, 2021
  • University chapel wall flaunts visual art display • by Carly Haynes • CBS 19 News • March 24, 2021
  • University of Virginia’s pop-up light show begins at the University Chapel •  by Max Marcilla • NBC29.COM • March 19, 2021
  • Brighter Together: Beginning Friday, Pop-up Art Will Light Up Grounds • by Caroline Newman • UVA Today • March 17, 2021

The shows will run on Friday & Saturday: 8pm – Midnight:

  • March 19 & 20, 2021: University Chapel
  • April 2 & 3, 2021: The Rotunda
  • April 16 & 17, 2021: Old Cabell Hall
  • April 30 & May 1, 2021: Amphitheater, in partnership with Kluge-Ruhe
  • May 14 & 15, 2021: University Chapel
  • JUST ADDED: May 21 & 22, 2021: University Chapel
Artist Jeff Dobrow has designed a colorful, spring-like show for the University Chapel, beginning Friday. (Images courtesy Jeff Dobrow)

Brighter Together: Beginning Friday, Pop-up Art Will Light Up Grounds

The Projection Mapping shows are part of a project called “Brighter Together,” presented by UVA Arts, the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts, and the Division of Student Affairs.

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