UVA administrators honored faculty members, including David Getsy (Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History), for their outstanding research and scholarship at the fifth annual Research Achievement Awards event, held earlier this month.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia will expand its holdings with a promised gift of more than 150 Torah pointers, or yads, from Clay H. Barr and the Barr Foundation. This marks the first major gift of Judaica in the University of Virginia’s history. Accompanying the bequest is The Clay H. Barr Endowment for Torah Pointers in Memory of Jay D. A. Barr that will enable The Fralin to preserve the collection and support related staff as well as educational programming and touring of the objects. Barr is making the contribution in honor of her late husband who earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia (UVA).
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a site of reckoning. The legacies of slavery and white supremacy reverberate throughout its built environment. EscapeRoom confronts frameworks of injustice that contemporary audiences inhabit and inherit in relation to this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By the time she got the call, Vashti Harrison had given up hope.
Inside The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is the cosmology of an entire people.
When friends think of Dabney Lancaster Stellmann, they remember her always having a pad and paper in front of her.
A pounding voice chants rhythmically alongside a projection of waves crashing as one enters the Fralin Museum of Art.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
