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Students Dancing on Arts Grounds During the Welcome Picnic

2025 Annual UVA Arts Welcome Picnic

Come learn about curricular, extra-curricular, programmatic, and volunteer opportunities from the Visual & Performing Arts & Architecture departments, programs, and community.

June 15, 2025

‘The Art of Research’ calls for proposals that celebrate the visual language of research

Have you, your colleagues, your lab, or your collaborators created a striking image, schematic, model or other visual element in relation to produced research? Do you ever wish you had a wider audience for a compelling visualization within an article, chapter, or book?

http://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/art-research-calls-proposals-celebrate-visual-language-research

An image of a typewriter printing a page with the words, "Virginia Festival of the Book," and with two cardinals sitting on the typing device.

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Arts This Week: 2026 Virginia Festival of the Book

The Virginia Center for the Book is hosting the 2026 Virginia Festival of the Book. Programming begins this Thursday with preview events, and will continue from this Friday, March 20th, through this Sunday, March 22nd. For Arts This Week, we spoke with the director of the Center, Kalela Williams.

https://www.wtju.net/arts-this-week-2026-virginia-festival-of-the-book/