Faculty Members Earn Guggenheim Fellowships to Support Music, Filmmaking
A journalist and filmmaker-turned-assistant professor and an award-winning flutist and bandleader who teaches music have earned Guggenheim Fellowships to pursue their arts.
Barbara Brown Wilson Receives Casteen Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award
UVA School of Architecture Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning Barbara Brown Wilson was recently awarded the John T. Casteen III Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award by the university.
Fragile Beauty: A Visual Essay - The Making of a Large-Scale Painting About the Climate Crisis
Dillon McDowell, a fourth-year undergraduate double majoring in architecture and global sustainability, wanted to create an artwork that addressed the dire environmental crisis our planet faces, but one that did so in a hopeful, not a despairing way.
Arts on the Hill: Battle of the Bands with featuring Luke Richard Powers, Logistical Nightmare, & Davy HBF
Virginia Film Festival to Welcome Activist, Filmmaker, and Musician Boots Riley for Advance Screening of New Amazon Series 'I’m a Virgo'
UVA Department of Music to Present Free Rotunda Dome Room Chamber Music Concert Featuring UVA Faculty and Faculty from the University of Pécs in Hungary
Local Fiber Artists Fight Against Fast Fashion by Using Sustainable Materials
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.
Prints, Plaits, and Poetry: “Women Making Books” Portrays Personal Narratives by Women Writers Through a Variety of Media
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.
UPC Invites a Female Artist to Perform at Springfest for the First Time in 10 Years
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.