The University of Virginia's Arts Grounds will host the SW2 Festival of the Moving Creature on the evening of Friday, April 26th. This highly anticipated event promises an unforgettable experience, featuring two gigantic mythical creatures parading through the UVA Grounds, brought to life by the talented students, faculty, and staff of the Art of the Moving Creature drama department class.
Azaleas and camellias are in full bloom as spring reaches its peak on Grounds and several of the University of Virginia gardens, originally conceived in Thomas Jefferson’s plans for his Academical Village, will be celebrated this week as part of the annual Garden Club of Virginia Historic Garden Week.
Jody Lahendro and Will Rourk are on a mission to preserve history.
The top of Observatory Hill has always been facilities management territory—a place where branches and brush, leaves, and other bio-rubble are hauled away to keep the Grounds looking their best. Some of these piles, now neatly stacked and categorized by UVA Sawmilling, are logs from trees that have fallen, or have been cut down during new building construction, on and around Grounds.
Volcanoes. Remote controlled vehicles. Palaces for kittens. These are just some of the building challenges contestants are being given this television season on “Lego Masters,” an outlandish creative competition with $100,000 on the line and the chance to have the winning creation immortalized in a new, official Lego set.
A new mural has gone up in the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture, thanks to the work of professor Sanda Iliescu and three architecture students. The mural stands out in the school’s Campbell Hall home, where neutral tones abound, and that’s the point.
If you’re looking for art at the University of Virginia, you probably already know about The Fralin Museum of Art, the exhibit spaces at the Rotunda, the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library and the Ruffin Art Gallery. But beyond museums and official exhibits, there’s far more art to explore across Grounds – if you know where to look.
The melancholy painting “Dark Flag,” rendered in tones of black and dark gray, is a richly textured American flag and a meditation on the tragedy of gun violence in America.
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.
The School of Architecture is pleased to announce Ana Ozaki as inaugural Mellon Race, Place, and Equity (RPE) postdoctoral fellow. Ana Ozaki's research investigates the complex ways racial ideologies have interfered with architectural understandings of climate and the environment within the African diaspora, mainly within the Black Atlantic.
Honoring the contributions that African Americans have made, this year at the UVA School of Architecture we celebrate our first African American graduates, Edward Wayne Barnett (1950–2009) who received his Bachelor of Architecture in 1972 and Audrey Spencer-Horsley who received her Bachelor of City Planning in 1975.
In an interview with Madame Architect, Margaret talks about her sources of inspiration, including play and modern and contemporary art, as well as her aspirations to focus on service and mentoring throughout her graduate studies and in her future design career.
