Sepideh Dashti, Counterpoint
Counterpoint includes recent and new photography, textile, and video installation work by Sepideh Dashti. Counterpoint is on view in the Ruffin Gallery through February 24, 2022.
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Art in Library Spaces: Warm Up America!
In 2019, the UVA Library proposed a project to the Cornerstone Program to pilot an Art in Library Spaces program. The Cornerstone project team — Emerson Aviles, Kelli Martin, Jennifer Hasher, Katherine Grove, Gabriela Garcia Largen, Kate Beach, and David Sauerwein — developed a display plan for students, staff, faculty, and Charlottesville community art in Library spaces that represents the diversity of the University community. With so many Library spaces currently undergoing renovation, we are proud to have the opportunity to reimagine the feel and inclusivity of our Library.
Brighter Together: 4 More Opportunities to See UVA Architecture Glow
The University of Virginia Chapel glowed with dancing colors this weekend as a pop-up projection mapping show played on its exterior. This show was the first of five opportunities to see local artist Jeff Dobrow light up some of UVA’s most recognizable buildings. The shows offer students and community members a way to experience art with one another while being masked and physically distant. The energetic pop-up projections blend UVA’s prominent architecture with colorful lights and music. At a time of pandemic (and academic) stress, organizers hope the shows will lift the spirits of those watching or walking by.
Ghostly Forests on Eastern Shore Have a Story to Tell
The term “ghost forests” might sound like something from a Halloween movie, but these ghosts actually exist along low-lying shores, where rising seas infiltrate coastal forests. Trees in areas along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico are dying due to the increasing salinity of the groundwater, and the landscape is slowly transitioning to salt-tolerant marshland. University of Virginia environmental scientists, who study this interaction between sea and land and how it affects broader ecosystems, are taking on a new project: they are collaborating with artists on the Eastern Shore to reveal the phenomenon of ghost forests, to showcase their eerie beauty and to raise awareness of our changing coastal environments.
A New Home for the Arts at UVA: $50 Million Gift Sets Stage for Performing Arts Center
UVA President Jim Ryan announced at a Board of Visitors meeting a $50 million lead gift from Tessa Ader for the building of a performing arts center at the University.
Brighter Together: Beginning Friday, Pop-up Art Will Light Up Grounds
The Projection Mapping shows are part of a project called “Brighter Together,” presented by UVA Arts, the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts, and the Division of Student Affairs.
The Dirt: A review of “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse”
By UVA Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History Grace Elizabeth Hale. This is a review of “The Dirty South” at the VMFA where it originated and hung until September 6, 2021. The show is now on view at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, through February 6, 2022, and images in this feature are courtesy of that museum. Later, it will travel to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, March 12–July 25, 2022; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, September 2022–February 2023. Please note that the installations will vary in each location.
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Launches Book and Virtual Portal With Australian Ambassador
Much of Kluge-Ruhe’s collection of 2200 objects has never been published. In November of 2021, Kluge-Ruhe launched a comprehensive catalog and virtual resource to accompany the exhibition Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, which is on view at Kluge-Ruhe through February 2023. Ambassador Sinodinos and University of Virginia President Jim Ryan released the publication during a reception at the museum.
Award Recipient’s Research Focuses on Female Artists from the 1980s
Art history major Ansleigh Graeff focuses on the 1980s to champion the work of three female painters whose work she thinks was overlooked by the art world.
Mellon Grant Revolutionizes Indigenous Studies at the University of Virginia
In 2016, UVA Art History Professor Francesca Fiorani, then also serving as Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, led an effort to revolutionize indigenous studies at the University of Virginia, spearheading a successful grant proposal that would ultimately bring in $815,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.