Winning ‘Big’: UVA Grad Gets Caldecott Medal
By the time she got the call, Vashti Harrison had given up hope.
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The Fralin Museum of Art Awarded $125,000 from the Terra Foundation for American Art
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‘Maḏayin’ Transports You Back in Time
Inside The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is the cosmology of an entire people.
Portrait of The Artist as a Young Woman: The UVA Student Behind the Unique Posters
When friends think of Dabney Lancaster Stellmann, they remember her always having a pad and paper in front of her.
Become Enriched in Yolngu Aboriginal Culture Through the Fralin’s “Madayin” Exhibit
A pounding voice chants rhythmically alongside a projection of waves crashing as one enters the Fralin Museum of Art.
A Future for Fallen Trees
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.
World-Class Indigenous Art From Australia and Oceania is Featured Across Charlottesville This Spring
From February to July, gallery walls throughout Charlottesville will showcase world-class Indigenous art from Australia and Oceania, and artists are visiting all the way from their homelands to engage with the public. Why? Because Charlottesville’s Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection boasts not only a stellar collection of its own, but also deep local and global partnerships.
Week-Long Celebration for Two Exhibitions of Indigenous Art Features more than a Dozen Events
Starting Jan. 29, the University of Virginia (UVA) museums, The Fralin Museum of Art and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection will host artists, events and discussions around the opening of two exhibitions of Indigenous art. “Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala” will open at The Fralin on Feb. 3 joining “Voices of Connection: Garamut Slit Drums of New Guinea,” on view now. The Fralin and Kluge-Ruhe will host more than a dozen events throughout the week in partnership with UVA, the city of Charlottesville and several other arts organizations.
Unpacking the Creation of the Old Cabell Hall Mural
Home to the University’s premier performance space, Old Cabell Hall serves as a hub of musical celebration for the Charlottesville community. But upon stepping into the building, many visitors are struck initially not by music — but by artwork.
Holden Brown is an Artist On and Off the Soccer Field
When he’s not making game-winning saves or serving as team captain, Holden Brown, University soccer goalkeeper and fourth-year College student, is pursuing a pastime different from many of his teammates — art.
“Performing Country” Exhibits First Nations Australian Culture Through Continuously Unfolding Artistic Traditions
The Kluge-Ruhe stands apart from all other art collections at the University — it is the only museum outside of Australia dedicated to showcasing Indigenous Australian art.
“Figure and Fable: Aesop Through the Ages” expands on classics
Infusing the Fralin with captivating illustrations of familiar childhood tales, “Figure and Fable: Aesop Through the Ages” dives into a world of Aesop’s fables — the exhibit is a compelling collection of various authors and artists’ reimaginations of the classic fables throughout time.
The Fralin To Welcome Smithsonian Curator as Next Director
A senior curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art has been selected as the new director of the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art.