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  • Leah Reid

    Music Faculty Member Earns a Guggenheim

    June 6, 2022

  • Julie Bargmann in her “debris garden” outside her home in Charlottesville, Va.Credit...Eze Amos for The New York Times

    How the ‘Queen of Slag’ Is Transforming Industrial Sites

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/arts/design/julie-bargmann-landscape-architecture-industrial-urban.html?

  • Three poets stand in a line in a black-and-white photo.

    The Sound of Poetry: Three Student Voices

    https://news.virginia.edu/content/sound-poetry-three-student-voices

  • Class of 2022: Ziff Balances Mind and Body With Biochemistry and Dance

    Class of 2022: Ziff Balances Mind and Body With Biochemistry and Dance

    https://news.virginia.edu/content/class-2022-ziff-balances-mind-and-body-biochemistry-and-dance

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The Roanoke Times: Fralin Museum Project Will Enrich our Understanding of Virginia's History

A $250,000 grant given to the Fralin Museum by the Henry Luce Foundation will help those of who live in the Roanoke Valley a better understanding of our pre-colonial history.

https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-fralin-museum-project-will-enrich-our-understanding-of-virginias-history/article_2f9a8a34-e8cd-11ec-ab2c-2bf9a3be70d8.html?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6.23.22&utm_content=version_A

The Virginia Theatre Festival logo overlays a group of people raising their top hats in a dance.
Drama

Live Drama Returns to UVA this Summer in Virginia Theatre Festival

The Virginia Theatre Festival – formerly known as the Heritage Theatre Festival – will literally and figuratively reopen its doors to the University of Virginia and local community with a season that includes a new adaptation of “Little Women,” along with “No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone,” an acclaimed one-woman show about the legendary singer and civil rights activist.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/live-drama-returns-uva-summer-virginia-theatre-festival

Mike Rosensky’s Tuesday Small Group, October 29, 2021
Music

2021-22 Arts Council Libraries Grant: Making Noise and Reconnecting after COVID

​​​​​​​Making Noise, a performance series that originated in 2014 by Music Librarian Matthew Vest, has hosted a number of dramatic, musical, and dance performances over the years. Vest said, “[Making Noise] makes the library itself a locus of the types of scholarly and artistic conversations that typically happen in non-library spaces, simply by inviting music and noise into a controlled environment.”

June 23, 2022
 (L to R) Chloe Rogers as Cinderella, Hope King as Little Red Riding Hood, and Ezra Smith as The Baker. Photo by Jannatul Pramanik Photography.
Drama

Enchanting Teen Musical “Into the Woods” Opens July 15 at Live Arts

June 20, 2022 – Live Arts Theater’s 2022 teen summer musical is the magical gem INTO THE WOODS, with music and lyrics by the incomparable Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The show is directed by Jessica Harris with music direction by Xavier Taylor and Austin Robey. INTO THE WOODS will have 12 performances, July 15 through July 31, 2022, at Live Arts Theater, 123 E. Water Street, in Charlottesville.

https://livearts.org/2022/06/enchanting-teen-musical-into-the-woods-opens-july-15/

Gretchen Tibbits

Whatever It Takes: Gretchen Tibbits, Member of the Rotunda Society

Witnessing Gretchen Tibbits (Col ’89) in the wild, one might assume she was born fully formed, a hard-charging New York City investment banker ready to broker any power deal that sets foot in her path. It’s a look she wears well, making it easy to forget that she was once a fresh-faced college graduate arriving in the big city to carve out her niche.

https://giving.virginia.edu/stories/whatever-it-takes

Selected pages from Studies of Ancient Masters (Gakko-jō) Kano Tsunenobu Japan, ca. 1695 Ink and color on silk and paper Anonymous Gift, 1975.11 Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
Visual Art

The Fralin Museum of Art’s Upcoming Exhibition Chronicles the Spread of Buddhism Across Asia

As different traditions of Buddhism spread across Asia in tandem with evolving political dynamics from the 17th through the 19th centuries, art of Buddhist luminaries played a pivotal role. In Earthly Exemplars: The Art of Buddhist Disciples and Teachers in Asia, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia will exhibit works that facilitated the faith’s constant transmission across the continent from one teacher to the next, creating local versions of sacred history.

June 14, 2022
The cover of the book "Restorative Cities" with a city placed in the background.
Architecture

Architecture Professor Jenny Roe's 'Restorative Cities' Selected for Book Award

The UVA School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Professor Jenny Roe's co-authored (with Layla McCay) book Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing has been selected as 2022 Honorable Mention of the Place Book Award, part of the 24th annual Great Places Awards.

https://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/professor-jenny-roes-restorative-cities-selected-for-book-award-by-the-environmental-design-research-association?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=06.08&utm_content=version_A

Leah Reid
Music

Music Faculty Member Earns a Guggenheim

Leah Reid, an Assistant Professor of Music Composition, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Provided by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career scholars and artists who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exhibit exceptional creative ability in the arts while exhibiting great promise for their future endeavors.

June 6, 2022
Julie Bargmann in her “debris garden” outside her home in Charlottesville, Va.Credit...Eze Amos for The New York Times
Architecture

How the ‘Queen of Slag’ Is Transforming Industrial Sites

The landscape architect Julie Bargmann focuses on contaminated and forgotten urban sites. The results are both beautiful and socially conscious.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/arts/design/julie-bargmann-landscape-architecture-industrial-urban.html?

Nana Boateng leans on a railing in a blue and white shirt.
Creative Writing

Awards Judge: UVA Student's Writing 'Brims with Urgent Feeling'

Graduate student Nana Boateng wins prestigious Henfield prize in fiction writing.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/awards-judge-uva-students-writing-brims-urgent-feeling

Three poets stand in a line in a black-and-white photo.
Creative Writing

The Sound of Poetry: Three Student Voices

To celebrate the Area Program in Poetry Writing for undergraduate students graduating its 20th class this year, three students to read their favorite original works.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/sound-poetry-three-student-voices

Jahan Ramazani is pictured in the center, a man with glasses and a mustache.
Creative Writing

Accolades: Ramazani Chosen for Illustrious Academic Society

Jahan Ramazani, University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English, has been elected into the American Philosophical Society, just the 10th UVA faculty member asked to become a member of the oldest academic society in the United States.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/accolades-ramazani-chosen-illustrious-academic-society?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6.2.22&utm_content=version_A

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