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The Fralin Museum of Art Awarded Re-Accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums
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The Fralin Museum of Art Awarded Re-Accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has again achieved the highest national recognition afforded the nation’s museums. Accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside agencies, and to the museum-going public. All museums must undergo a re-accreditation review at least every 10 years to maintain AAM accredited status.

April 16, 2021
SEPIDEH DASHTI Sewing
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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.

January 25, 2022
Warm Up America Art in Library Spaces Exhibition
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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.

https://smallnotes.library.virginia.edu/2021/04/01/art-in-library-spaces-warm-up-america/

Brighter Together UVA Chapel Projection

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.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/brighter-together-4-more-opportunities-see-uva-architecture-glow?utm_source=DailyReport&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news

Ghostly Forests on Eastern Shore Have a Story to Tell
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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.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/ghostly-forests-eastern-shore-have-story-tell

Artist Jeff Dobrow has designed a colorful, spring-like show for the University Chapel, beginning Friday. (Images courtesy Jeff Dobrow)
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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.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/brighter-together-beginning-friday-pop-art-will-light-grounds

VMFA Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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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.

https://www.southerncultures.org/article/the-dirt/

Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu Cover
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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.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/kluge-ruhe-aboriginal-art-collection-launches-book-and-virtual-portal-with-australian-ambassador

Henry F. Skerritt, Curator of the Indigenous Arts of Australia at Kluge-Ruhe.
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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.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/mellon-grant-revolutionizes-indigenous-studies-at-the-university-of-virginia