Between classes, third-year College student Faith Goalder finds herself knitting in the halls of the University’s academic buildings. Knitting needles in hand, Goalder is one of the many young fiber artists working with fabric, yarn or thread as a material to advocate for sustainable fashion.
Two glass cases of women’s scrapbooks, zines and mementos line the walls of the First Floor Gallery in the University’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. The exhibition, “Women Making Books,” showcases stories ranging from the 18th century to the 21st century that assert bookmaking as a source of female agency in the historically male-dominated world of literature.
Rapper Baby Tate will be the first female artist to perform at the University Programs Council’s Springfest in more than ten years, joining rapper NLE Choppa. UPC also hinted that a third artist will be announced in the future, writing “⅔” in the caption of the announcement post.
At a school overflowing with student talent and imagination, one student-run organization offers a space for creators, writers and designers alike to connect and share their passion — V Magazine.
Rhythmic jazz and melodious rock filled Old Cabell Hall at the Distinguished Major recital of fourth-year College student Michael McNulty. The evening’s performance was a culmination of years worth of composing and arranging, taking the audience on a journey through McNulty’s time as a musician at the University.
Trumpeter John D’earth’s new CD, “Coin of the Realm" (Cosmology Records), assembles some of the best musicians from the RVA-Charlottesville axis for a recording that echoes and updates the approach on classic 1960s Blue Note sessions.
A conversation with Fotini Kondyli, Associate Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, about our changing picture of rural communities in late Byzantium.
The bestselling author of “Just Mercy,” Bryan Stevenson, will visit the University of Virginia this month to deliver the second Scoper Lecture in Christian Thought and to engage in a discussion with President Jim Ryan on issues related to racial injustice.
Populated by sharks, snakes and kangaroos, but mostly by densely arrayed lines and shapes, the pictures in “Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting From Yirrkala” represent the universe.
