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People on the Charlottesville Civil Rights Tour

Memory Project Resuming Civil Rights Bus Tour

The Memory Project of the University of Virginia’s Democracy Initiative and its co-sponsor, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, are pleased to announce the Charlottesville Civil Rights Bus Tour. Scheduled for June 19-26, 2022, the tour will traverse the American South to visit former plantations, Civil Rights historical sites, museums and memorials to inspire honest, inclusive narratives about the ongoing struggles for racial justice.

https://insiderexpeditions.com/charlottesville-civil-rights-tour/

Collaborative Efforts Giving New Life to the Mayan Book of Creation

Collaborative Efforts Giving New Life to the Mayan Book of Creation

“Language preservation and documentation were important before, but it has a new urgency,” Allison Bigelow, an associate professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, said recently.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/collaborative-efforts-giving-new-life-mayan-book-creation

Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection to Enhance Indigenous Collaboration

Backed by Mellon Grant, UVA’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection to Enhance Indigenous Collaboration

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Art Museum Futures Fund recently awarded a $200,000 grant to the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection to expand the promotion of Indigenous Australian art and culture, as well as enhance the leadership of Indigenous people within the museum.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/backed-mellon-grant-uvas-kluge-ruhe-aboriginal-art-collection-enhance-indigenous

Shorty Lungkarta Tjungurrayi’s painting, “Rumya Tjukurrpa (Goanna Dreaming at Wantaritja),” 1980. (© The estate of the artist licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd on behalf of Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd)

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Launches Book and Virtual Exhibition

A new book and website tell the story of a small group of Aboriginal artists from Australia who changed the face of global art history – and the resources were produced by the only museum dedicated to Aboriginal Australian art in the United States, the University of Virginia’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/kluge-ruhe-aboriginal-art-collection-launches-book-and-virtual-exhibition

UVA’s Department of Art Welcomes Inaugural Eleanor Shea Professor in Art History, David Getsy
Art History

UVA’s Department of Art Welcomes Inaugural Eleanor Shea Professor in Art History, David Getsy

David J. Getsy is an art historian, art writer, and curator whose research examines the changing investments in the human figure in American and European art from the nineteenth century to the present. Working at the intersection of art history, queer studies, and transgender studies, his writings have addressed the ways in which non-normative genders and sexualities have been fundamental to the shape of art history’s narratives.

May 26, 2021
Francesca Fiorani Admiring Da Vinci
Art History

4 Things Art Historian Francesca Fiorani Wants You to Know About Leonardo da Vinci

Reading an article about a famous computer-generated scene in the Hollywood film “The Matrix Reloaded,” University of Virginia art history professor Francesca Fiorani couldn’t stop thinking about Leonardo da Vinci. The article focused on a digitally created fight scene in the sci-fi film in which Keanu Reeves, as Neo, dodges a barrage of bullets. The artists and animators behind the 2003 film said the most difficult part of such scenes was realistically recreating the shadows on people’s faces in different, fast-changing positions. “That is the exact problem Leonardo da Vinci worked to solve, though of course, he worked with brushes and pigments instead of pixels,” Fiorani said.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/4-things-art-historian-francesca-fiorani-wants-you-know-about-leonardo-da-vinci