Final Friday ~ September 30, 2016!!
Enjoy some great Final Friday Receptions & Gallery Talks on Arts Grounds & Beyond on Friday, August 26th!! Sponsored by …
Aug 16, 2016
Enjoy some great Final Friday Receptions & Gallery Talks on Arts Grounds & Beyond on Friday, August 26th!!
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for the Arts
Final Fridays is a monthly showcase of the Arts at UVA highlighting exhibits, performances, and lectures on Arts Grounds and across the University. The Fralin Museum of Art, the Ruffin Gallery & the School of Architecture offer monthly receptions and gallery talks in conjunction with their exhibits. The Arts Libraries, Music performances, Drama performances, and Creative Writing readings often join the line-up. We invite students, faculty, and community members to come experience this monthly showcase of the Arts at UVA!
September Schedule:
Studio Art | School of Architecture | The Fralin | Drama
McIntire Department of Art | Studio Art: Openings
5:00-7:30pm at Ruffin Hall | FREE
Unearthed: Art/Archaeology Project: Echoes of Nature Sculpture Park, Baker-Butler Elementary School
~Ruffin Hall | 2nd Floor Stairwell Gallery
Models, photos, artifacts, by the UVA Sculpture community and the UVA Archeology Program of the McIntire Department of Art
This project was funded by a major grant from the UVA Arts Council, as well as support from Wells Fargo, UVA Community Engagement Grant, Snowdon Hall, Rockydale Quarry, Allied Concrete, and sweat equity from members of the UVA Sculpture classes and Community from 2013 – 2016.
On the Fly, 2013 – 2016 by Patrick Dougherty
~Ruffin Hall
Photos, documents, Patrick’s Gloves, and other Artifacts of the UVA Stickworks project, the first sculpture project to grace the Arts Grounds of UVA. A project of the Art Department, The Fralin Museum, the UVA Sculpture Community, with volunteer help from hundreds of UVA and Charlottesville Community Volunteers. Major funding of this project by Ray Graham.
Public Bronze Casting: Art from Fire, By Sandy Williams, 5th year sculptor/cinematographer and other members of the UVA Sculpture Community
~7:15pm Ruffin Hall Sculpture Courtyard
School of Architecture: Reception
5:00 | Campbell Hall
Emerging Typologies in the City-region: 2016 China Summer Program
~Campbell Hall, East Wing Gallery
UVA Architecture China program in summer 2016 identifies, documents, and analyses emerging architectural and urban typologies in two of China’s most dynamic city-regions, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. With a combined population of 260 million people, both delta areas are made of clusters of cities and towns that provide vast design, production, and consumption capacities. Perhaps the most fascinating features to architecture and urbanism are new realities in city-making that demand knowledge and insights. We are witnessing the making of an urban age in which not only half of the world’s population lives in cities, but also the very idea of the city is changing. Architecture and urbanism in China present rare opportunities to observe mutations of the city in response to contemporary world political and economic structures, as they take place.
Visit the School of Architecture website for more information.
The Fralin Museum of Art: Reception
5:30-7:30 pm at The Fralin Museum | FREE
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. This Friday will feature live music in the lobby by Matty Metcalfe and Spotlight Talk at 6:15 pm by Fralin Student Docent Evan Steinberg & a performance by the Virginia Belles at 6:30 pm (on the Museum plaza weather permitting)
On view:
– NEW! A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne
– NEW! Ann Gale: Portraits
– THE GREAT WAR: Printmakers of World War I from the VMFA
– New Acquisitions: Photography
Department of Drama
8:00pm | Culbreth
The Comedy of Errors
By William Shakespeare, directed by Scheidler & Tucker.
Tickets at the UVA Arts Box Office.
Who’s Who? What’s What” The whys and the wherefores abound in Shakespeare’s tale of mismatched pairs of long-lost twins.
August Schedule:
Studio Art | The Fralin | School of Architecture
McIntire Department of Art | Studio Art: Reception
5:00-7:00pm at Ruffin Hall | FREE
2016 Studio Faculty Exhibition
~Ruffin Hall Gallery | 3rd Floor Details >
Black Body: Digital Video/Sculpture by Chris McDaniel
~UVA New Media Gallery | First Floor, Room 104 Details >
The image depicts a digital cube created in the 3-D modeling environment: Blender. This cube can be seen as a “back body” of sorts that contains an internal light generating source, which it emits to the external world beyond it boundaries by means of a series mechanical louvered doors that exist on each of the six faces of the cube. Digital video generated from the process of animating this object will be displayed inside an actual cube, constructed from wood.
La Narine du Monde et plus (the nostril of the world and more)
~RuffStuff Gallery | 1st Floor Details >
Artists: Eleanor Birle, Amanda Downing, Celine Dussaud, Pure Peacher, Veronique Lucas, Nicole Thorne, Margaret Wiwuga
Fired Clay Artifacts, Bronze visions, Over Life-Sized Body Parts, and Artifact Performance Slide Show.
The Fralin Museum of Art: Reception
5:30-7:30 pm at The Fralin Museum | FREE
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. This Friday will feature live music in the lobby by Gina Sobel and Spotlight Talks at 6:15 pm by Katherine Phillips and 6:45 pm Cassidy Savarino in Andy Warhol: Icons.
On view:
– Andy Warhol: Icons
– THE GREAT WAR: Printmakers of World War I from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
– New Acquisitions: Photography
School of Architecture: Reception
5:30 – 7:30pm | Campbell Hall
Victorious Secret – Noticing Elite Sports for Women, 300AD
~Campbell Hall, East Wing Gallery Details >
Bikini girls or elite athletes? Visual artist Angela Lorenz recreates a fourth century mosaic often referred to as dancing girls in bikinis, but in fact an image of elite female athletes competing in sacred, international competitions. Created to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Title IX, this exhibit prompts questions about gender equity in sport, the objectification of women, and ideals for female achievement both ancient and modern.
SDI (Summer Design Institute)
~Corner Gallery and Salon Walls (2nd flr of Campbell Hall)
The Summer Design Institute (SDI) is an intensive design summer course and is required for all incoming Path 3 Architecture and Landscape Architecture students. The work displayed is a culmination of their summer work.
Visit the School of Architecture website for more information.
April Schedule:
Art History | Music Library | Theatre | Studio Art | The Fralin | Dance
Art History: The Nelson Lectures on Southeast Asia Presents Professor Nora Annesley Taylor
3:15-5:00pm at 124 Monroe Hall 
“The Artist, The Archive, And Historical Artifact: Contemporary Vietnamese Artists Contemplate The Past”
This talk addresses the work of two contemporary Vietnamese artists, Danh Vo and Dinh Q. Le have used historical documents dated to the American war period in their art installations as artifacts. Danh Vo acquires objects of various origins that have participated in or witnessed historical events pertaining to Vietnam. Dinh Q. Le’s 2012 installation at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany displayed over a dozen drawings by artists employed by the North Vietnamese army to record life on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Full details on lecture HERE.
Music Library: MEI Fellow Presentations
3:30-5:00 pm at Old Cabell Hall | FREE
Three music students involved in the Digital Humanities Student Fellow Program will present their work in the Music Library on Friday, April 29th from 4-5pm. In their projects, the fellows, Kevin Davis (CCT grad), and Matthew Leon and Jenny Xing (both undergraduates), explore a variety of questions ranging from how to encode non-standard notation to automated performance of music encoding. The fellows have worked with a wide range of music, beginning in the Italian Renaissance with Palestrina and ending in 1954 with Stockhausen’s Studie II. Come to the library to learn more about the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) and future opportunities from the students and their mentor, Metadata Librarian for Research and Scholarship, Perry Roland. The event will open at 3:30pm with a brief performance by a U.Va. ensemble, more details to come (TBA), and will conclude with a catered reception following the MEI Fellow presentations.
Shakespeare on the Lawn: Twelfth Night
4:00pm at Pavilion X Garden | FREE
Annika Schunn, Director & Meg Loftus, Assistant Director
A woman disguised as a man, a bizarre love triangle, a case of mistaken identity, and an elaborate prank—witness all these shenanigans and more in Shakespeare on the Lawn’s abbreviated production of this classic comedy, brought to life in the magical setting of Garden X, just off the Lawn at the University of Virginia!
Featuring the Talents of:
Pete Hanner, Claire Constance, Lital Firestone, Chase Smith, Jackie Leary, Jake Mathews, Broghan Kelly, Nick Hurst, Whiz Whisnant, Ali Cheraghpour
Featuring songs by Elvis, the Kinks, and Beyonce!
Studio Art:
5:30-7:30pm at Ruffin Hall | FREE
Ruffin Gallery: Hannah Varden: 5th Year Fellow, Photography & max + margaret via: Studio Art DMP, Zines
Ruffin Hall: Jessica Burnam (5th Year Sculptor)
RuffStuff Gallery & Cinematography Black Box: Looking Through Illusions by Sandy Williams (4th Year Sculptor and Cinematographer) and Collaborators (April 22nd – 27th)
Ruffin Sculpture Hallway: Bronze Amulets/Red Hot – 18 hand held Personal Amulet Sculptures exploring Fears and Desires. Gallery Talks @ 6:00pm.
The Fralin: Final Friday Reception
5:30-7:30 pm at The Fralin Museum | FREE
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays ! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. This Friday will feature live music in the lobby by Sam Bush and Spotlight Talks (6:15 pm by Emily Shu in Casting Shadows and 6:45 pm Cassidy Savarino in Serra).
On view:
– NEW! Casting Shadows: Selections from the Permanent Collection featuring the FUNd
– Richard Serra: Prints
– Fish and Fowl
– Two Extraordinary Women: The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway and Mary Darby Robinson
– Jacob Lawrence: Struggle…From the History of the American People
Graciously sponsored in part by the UVA Parents Fund.
Dance Program: Spring Dance Concert
8:00pm at Ruth Caplin Theatre | $5-7
Rejuvenate your senses this spring and treat yourself to an evening of innovative choreography featuring the works of students, faculty, and guest artists in the Department of Drama’s Dance Program. Highlighting imaginative, expressive, and thought-provoking compositions, our spring concert features surprising explorations of physicality and artistry through engaging performances.
Presented with support from an Arts Enhancement Grant and an Arts Endowment Grant from the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost of the Arts
March Schedule:
Music Library | Studio Art | The Fralin
Music Library 
3:30-5:00pm | UVA Music Library | FREE
“Irreverence/Irrelevance: New Rules for Opera”
In this interactive discussion, internationally accomplished opera singers Brenda Patterson & Miriam Gordon-Stewart invite you into the artistic process of Victory Hall Opera, the revolutionary chamber opera company they have just launched here in Charlottesville.
Visit the Music Library Facebook page for more information.
The Fralin
5:30-7:30pm | The Fralin Museum | FREE
Final Fridays Reception
Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. There will be live music in the lobby Gina Sobel, Spotlight Talks by Laurel Abowd and Lucie Lyon, and current exhibitions: Richard Serra: Prints, Fish and Fowl, Navajo Weaving, Two Extraordinary Women, and Jacob Lawrence: Struggle…
Graciously sponsored in part by the UVA Parents Fund.
Studio Art
5:30-7:00pm | RuffStuff Gallery | FREE
3rd Year Studio Art Show
Studio Art Majors and Minors from the Class of 2017 will be showing their work on the first floor of Ruffin from March 21st through March 25th. The show will include a variety of styles across all studio concentrations, including Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, New Media, Photography, and Cinematography.
February Schedule:
Music Library | UVA Library | Studio Art | The Fralin | Architecture | Drama
Music Library
3:30-5:00 pm | Old Cabell Hall
V Major Chinese Music Ensemble
Solo Performances & Instrument Petting Zoo, featuring Yifan Wang (Guzheng), Zexi Ye (Hulusi), Yuanyuan Ji (Erhu), Lily Ouyang (Pipa; event organizer), and Feiyin Wu (singer).
University of Virginia Library
5:00-7:00pm |Harrison Institute & Special Collections Library
Shakespeare by the Book: Four Centuries of Printing, Editing, and Publishing
Marking 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, this exhibition celebrates the vibrant, complex, and sometimes contentious history of bringing his works into print. From early editions to contemporary artists’ books, from massive folios to micro-miniature editions, the exhibition 
offers visitors a glimpse into the varied riches of the Library’s Shakespeare collections.
The exhibition will be on display until December 31, 2016. From October 1-26, UVA will host a First Folio as the exhibition becomes the backdrop for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare.
Studio Art
McIntire Department of Art | 5:30-7:30 pm | Ruffin Hall
Mark Dion: The World in a Box and Other Adventures in Cosmology
Recent Print Editions @ Ruffin Gallery
5th Year Open Studio
Jessica Burnam, Phuong Nguyen, Hannah Varden & Nick Watson @ Fifth Year Studio
Betwixt: Advanced Sculpture Class
RuffStuff Gallery, 1st Floor w/ Gallery Talks: 6:30
The Fralin
5:30-7:30 pm | The Fralin Museum
Final Friday Reception
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages.
- Live music in the lobby.
- Spotlight Talks at 6:15 pm by Emily Shu in Navajo Weaving and 6:45 pm by Delaney Mitchell in Two Extraordinary Women.
- On view:
Graciously sponsored in part by the UVA Parents Fund.
School of Architecture
6:00pm | Campbell Hall
Lessons of the City | Lessons of the Landscape | Lessons of History
Venice Program 2015, School of Architecture, University of Virginia @ the Corner Gallery
Visit the A School website for more information.
Department of Drama
8:00pm | Ruth Caplin Theatre
The Triumph of Love
Written by Pierre de Marivaux and translated by James Magruder. Tickets at the UVA Arts Box Office.
A beautiful young princess disguises herself as a man to pursue her heart’s desire, who just happens to be an exiled prince who intends to right a family wrong by murdering her and usurping her throne. What can possibly go wrong?
January Schedule:
Music | Studio Art | The Fralin | School of Architecture
Music
JACK Quartet Performing New Works for String Quartet & Electronics
Described as “superheroes of the new music world” (Boston Globe), “the go-to quartet for contemporary music” (Washington Post), and internationally renowned for their “viscerally exciting performances” (New York Times), the JACK Quartet is one of the world’s finest string quartets focusing on the commissioning and performance of new works.
Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards and cellist Kevin McFarland, JACK is the recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, New Music USA’s Trailblazer Award, and the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.
Sponsored by the UVA Arts Council | Enriching the Arts on Grounds
JACK Quartet – Performing New Works for String Quartet & Electronics
Old Cabell Hall | 8:00pm | FREE
JACK Quartet – Master Class
B18 Old Cabell Hall | 9:30am | FREE
JACK Quartet – POP-UP Concert
Music Library | 3:30–5pm | FREE
McIntire Department of Art: Studio Art
Final Friday Reception
Primates & Friends: Work by Aliene de Souza Howell, Zehra Khan and Tim Winn, Megan Marlatt, Akemi Ohira, Marc Snyder & Charles Yuen
Ruffin Hall | 5:30-7:30 pm
Body: 10,000 years – J term Sculpture 2016
RuffStuff Gallery: 1st Floor | 5:30-7:00pm
Gallery Talks at 6:00pm
The Fralin
Final Friday Reception | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages.
- Join Jordan D. Schnitzer, collector and lender of the Serra exhibition in the gallery to chat about the works, his views on art, and much more!
- Live music by local musician Matty Metcalfe.
- Spotlight Talks by student docents at 6:15 pm and 6:45 pm.
- On view:
Graciously sponsored in part by the UVA Parents Fund.
School of Architecture
Final Friday Exhibition & Gallery Talk
“A Matter of Space – A Question of Place” by Peter Giscombe
Gallery Talk and Reception | Elmaleh Gallery | 6:00pm
October Schedule:
Music Library | Studio Art | The Fralin | Department of Drama | Poster
Music Library
Final Friday Exhibition Opening
Oct 30 | 3:30 pm | Old Cabell Hall
On Exhibit
October 30 – November 26
The Ghost in the MP3
by Ryan Maguire
Part of the Making Noise Series
Ryan Maguire will present his award winning project, “The Ghost in the MP3,” which explores and captures the sounds lost during MP3 compression.
McIntire Department of Art
Final Friday Reception
Oct 30 | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Ruffin Gallery
Performance at 6:30pm
On Exhibit
October 9 – December 8, 2015
“I don’t like the way you’re not looking at me.”
featuring work by Marisa Finos, Erika Diamond, Dana Ollestad, and Janelle Proulx
“I don’t like the way you’re not looking at me.” brings together the work of 4 artists who work from different mediums and perspectives, yet investigating similar themes- themes of thresholds, the impulse of self-preservation, and the idea of legacy through relationship.
Facebook EventThe Fralin Museum of Art
Final Friday Reception | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. Want a quick introduction to one of our exhibitions?
FREE for U.Va. students and members,$3 for non-members
Live music by UVA student & lead vocals/guitar for Kendall Street Company, Louis Smith
The Virginia Gentlemen will perform on the plaza at 6:00 pm.
Spotlight Talks by student docents Emily Shu at 6:15 pm and Laurel Abowd at 6:45 pm.
Exhibitions on View
- Cavaliers Collect
- Collection: Sol LeWitt and Photography
- Jacob Lawrence: Struggle…From the History of the American People
- Cuban and Cuban-American photography from The Fralin’s collection
Department of Drama
The Sweetest Swing in Baseball
By Rebecca Gilman
Directed by Betsy Rudelich Tucker
Helms Theatre
October 30, 2015 | 8:00pm
Everyone needs a break, and struggling artist Dana Fielding finds herself in a mental hospital after suffering a breakdown following scathing reviews of her work. Realizing her prescribed ten-day-stay is not nearly long enough, she tries to convince hospital authorities that she thinks she is former baseball great Darryl Strawberry. In the process she makes discoveries that change her life and her art.
Tickets are $14.00 for adults, $12.00 for seniors, U.Va. faculty/staff and U.Va. Alumni Association members, and $8.00 for children and students. Full-time U.Va. students may receive one free ticket if reserved at least 24 hours in advance of their desired show date.
Friday, August 28th
August Schedule: Studio Art | The Fralin | School of Architecture
McIntire Department of Art
Final Friday Reception | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Ruffin Gallery
There is a slab of concrete that was once a factory floor. What remains are various bits of material used by local skaters as obstacles. What strikes me is the directness and simplicity in creating what seemed to me as formal sculptures full of movement and transition. Through a photography and sculpture installation I challenged myself to use the material within the reclaimed skate park to create a series of arrangements employing a similar aesthetic. The sculptures draw from the raw and archetypal material used in creating DIY skate parks.
Ruffstuff Gallery, First floor Ruffin Hall
6:00pm Gallery Talks
- Facture, Fire, Earth, Milagros, and the River of Suns
Summer Sculpture 2015, ARTS 2810 - Myth, Provocation, and Balance
by Advanced Sculptors: Ian Frye, Nick Watson, and Sandy Williams
Ceramics in Pit Fire Kiln, 2015 | Photo Credit: Belinda Cyckevic Gordon
The Fralin Museum of Art
Final Friday Reception | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. Want a quick introduction to one of our exhibitions? Final Fridays feature Spotlight Talks by our student docents at 6:15 and 6:45 pm.
FREE for U.Va. students and members,$3 for non-members
Live music by UVa students Micah Iverson & Alexia Willems
6:00pm: University Dance Club performance on the plaza (weather permitting)
Exhibitions on View
School of Architecture
Final Friday Reception | 5:45 – 7:30pm
Featuring:
- Re-entrant India 2015
6:00pm Gallery Talk by Peter Waldman + Margarita Jover
Campbell Hall 2nd floor Elmaleh Gallery - Summer Design Institute 2015
6:30pm Gallery Talk by Tat Bonvehi-Rosich + Shanti Levy
Campbell Hall 2nd floor Salon Walls
