2025 Annual UVA Arts Welcome Picnic
Come learn about curricular, extra-curricular, programmatic, and volunteer opportunities from the Visual & Performing Arts & Architecture departments, programs, and community.
Stories
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The Paramount Theater, Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, and Virginia Theatre Festival Join Forces This Spring and Summer to Celebrate Iconic Artist and Cultural Figure Frida Kahlo
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Meet the Students Behind the Sound: UVA’s Battle of the Bands Winners
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Finding Her Voice: Priyanka Shetty’s MFA Journey from UVA to the World Stage
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UVA Alumna Artist is Big into Miniature Artworks
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The Paramount Theater, Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, and Virginia Theatre Festival Join Forces This Spring and Summer to Celebrate Iconic Artist and Cultural Figure Frida Kahlo
A trio of the area’s leading arts organizations, including The Paramount Theater, The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, and the Virginia Theatre Festival, are joining forces to celebrate the life, work, and legacy of the iconic artist Frida Kahlo with a series of phenomenal presentations and events.
Arts This Week: Sunshine Fruit Market
This Sunday May 17, the Sunshine Fruit Market will take place at Visible Records from 11am to 4pm with local artists and live screen printing from 12pm to 3pm. For Arts This Week, we spoke with the event organizer, Hazel Addams.
Arts This Week: CreativeMornings with Emma Terry
So Creative Mornings is an international organization, and the general idea is that all these different chapters across the world, one Friday a month, find a speaker from the community, someone with a creative practice, and you come and you get free breakfast, you get free coffee, you hear what someone in your community is doing, and then it’s done by 10:00 AM and you go off to your day, hopefully inspired to make that last push through the work week to get to the weekend.
‘The Art of Research’ calls for proposals that celebrate the visual language of research
Have you, your colleagues, your lab, or your collaborators created a striking image, schematic, model or other visual element in relation to produced research? Do you ever wish you had a wider audience for a compelling visualization within an article, chapter, or book?
The Fralin Museum of Art Announces Two Major Gifts
The Fralin Museum of Art at The University of Virginia celebrates two remarkable gifts that will strengthen the museum’s community impact, teaching, and curatorial practice for years to come. Arriving at a pivotal moment as UVA plans for its new Center for the Arts, these contributions underscore the museum’s vital role at the university and its vision of bringing art to all.
UVA Students and Local Kids Connect Through Art at The Fralin
Connection often comes from unexpected places. At the University of Virginia, one of those places is The Fralin Museum of Art. The Fralin is known for its exhibitions, but once a week during the spring semester, its galleries become a space for both UVA students and elementary school students to experience, learn and engage with various works of art.
The Fralin Museum of Art Announces Fall 2026 Exhibitions
The Fralin Museum of Art at The University of Virginia announces Legacies of Independence, a slate of four exhibitions exploring varied themes and perspectives around the legacies of Thomas Jefferson and the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. On view from August 29, 2026, through January 3, 2027, the exhibitions take both historic and contemporary approaches to consider the ways Jefferson helped shape the United States in its infancy and promoted ideals we continue to deliberate to this day.
Data Meets Art at UVA
The subject is art, the theme is “truth” and the medium is data. The University of Virginia’s School of Data Science is hosting its annual Data Is ART Competition, inviting artists and data scientists to transform data into compelling visual narratives. In its third year, the competition is open for submissions until Sunday from artists across disciplines related to this year’s theme: what truth looks like in data. Awards include a grand prize of $2,500. Finalists’ work will be announced at a fall ceremony and publicly exhibited. In its inaugural year in 2024, the competition drew more than 130 submissions from seven countries and four continents.
Arts This Week: Cville Puzzle Hunt
The Puzzle Hunt has nothing to do with puzzles like jigsaw puzzles. Instead, it’s like brain teaser puzzles. So we describe it as part escape room, part scavenger hunt, and it starts at IX Art Park. And basically you go around downtown Charlottesville finding and solving puzzles. Basically, there’s four initial puzzles. So at the beginning of the puzzle hunt will give you the coordinates and the map that you need to find the puzzles. The puzzles are around downtown, and you find them, you solve them
Q&A: How Does this Artist Explore South Sudanese Grief Through Her Craft?
When she’s not creating new pathways for University of Virginia students to train abroad, Awar Biong is writing poetry and creating embroidery at the New City Arts Initiative in downtown Charlottesville, where she is the fall artist-in-residence. Alongside her full-time role as a coordinator for global health training at UVA’s Center for Global Health Equity, her research residency includes organizing a series of events that examine past and present conflicts in the Sudans and hosting a mending circle for refugee women in Charlottesville.
'Spirits of the Forest': Anthropology Students Mount UVA Exhibition of Papua New Guinea Art
The idea for the art exhibition first occurred to professor Lise Dobrin in December 2024, after she received an email message from a French anthropologist in Papua New Guinea. Dobrin met Nicolas Garnier, who has lived and worked in the Pacific island nation for over 30 years, during her research trips there. Now Garnier was emailing Dobrin to let her know about a collection of drawings that his villager friends were making. Something special was going on, Dobrin recalled Garnier writing, and he wanted her help sharing these vividly drawn scrolls of artwork with the world.