UVA Arts

UVA Center for the Arts

We are pleased to share that the Virginia General Assembly has approved construction funding for the University of Virginia Center for the Arts. This landmark investment allows the University to advance a transformational project that will strengthen creativity, learning, and community engagement across Grounds and throughout Central Virginia. We are deeply grateful for the visionary leadership of Tessa Ader, whose $50 million gift in 2021 established the Richard and Tessa Ader Performing Arts Center as the cornerstone of this initiative. Her extraordinary generosity enabled UVA to move forward with the project’s full design phase while state support was still pending, providing critical momentum and helping bring the Center for the Arts closer to reality.