The Bigger Picture: Raising Their Voices
The University Singers filled Carr’s Hill, the home of University of Virginia President Jim Ryan, with song Thursday evening, opening this semester’s “Arts on the Hill” series. Directed by faculty conductor Michael Slon, the University’s flagship choral ensemble’s 90-plus students performed for a crowd of more than 100 UVA faculty and staff members, students and guests.
Real Person, Imagined Scene
Specificity is the anchor of poetry as we write it now. Who can forget—or is allowed to forget—William Carlos Williams’s red wheelbarrow? We may believe that love is a major concept and value and thus should be celebrated in poems, but we also know that abstractions are not all that vivid or useful in poetry. Behind every personal experience that we might label “love,” there is a specificity to be seized by language and put in a poem. That is: There is a who (or what), a where, and a when—the basics of context, the beginnings of story. What follows is an exercise in developing specificity of context and storytelling.
Revolutionary Black Portrait Exhibition Opens at UVA
During the Jim Crow era, when minstrel shows and racist caricatures accounted for nearly all visual representations of Black people, hundreds of Black Virginians from Charlottesville, Albemarle County and Nelson County commissioned distinguished self-portraits that shattered stereotypes.
Megan Marlatt’s 'Mummers' at Second Street Gallery
Second Street Gallery is pleased to present Mummers, a solo exhibition featuring paintings and sculptures by Charlottesville-based artist (and UVA Professor) Megan Marlatt, to be held in the Main Gallery from October 7 - November 18, 2022.
CAVALIER DAILY: “The Beginning of My End” is a distinctive on-Grounds ghost story
Written by alumnus Siddharth Dalal, “The Beginning of My End” tells the story of Rahm, an Indian-American engineer who is unexpectedly murdered by his girlfriend, Marie. As Marie disposes of Rahm’s body, his research team — who work on Grounds at the University — is found dead, and the missing Rahm becomes the chief suspect in the investigation into their murder
Student Turns Dream of Memorial Benches into Concrete Reality
To change the lives of future students – that is the lofty goal of University of Virginia fourth-year student Sanjeev Kumar’s project to install memorial benches around Grounds dedicated to groundbreaking faculty, staff and students.
URecords is the Force Behind the UVA Music Scene
University Records is a student-led organization that connects like-minded musicians, organizes performances and practices, manages equipment and helps to engage beginners in the UVA music scene.
Portrait Project Opens Windows on Black Citizens and Connections to Descendants
One hundred spectacular photographs in the new exhibition of the Holsinger Studio Portrait Project in the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library tell the story of Black citizens in Charlottesville.
What’s the True Story of Brooks Hall? This Architectural Historian Has the Answer
Richard Guy Wilson, professor emeritus of architectural history, will retrace some of his own footsteps in University of Virginia history. He will speak Sept. 29 at the Colonnade Club, recounting an address he gave to students at Brooks Hall in 1976, marking that building’s 100th anniversary.