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Summer 2023 Education Internship at Kluge-Ruhe: Apply Now!

The Education intern will work directly with the Manager of Education and Programs. Kluge-Ruhe has an ambitious Digital Engagement Strategy and this internship project will help bring it to life! You will help us with our in-person summer programs, and you will help contribute to ongoing digital projects in a variety of ways. Note that Kluge-Ruhe is located off Grounds, and the selected candidate will be responsible for finding transportation to work on-site.

March 2, 2023
Drawing of two people sitting across a desk from each other with books

Call for the Sound Justice Lab Summer Research Fellowship

The fellowship aims to support students who have an exciting idea or question related to sound justice and help them put together a creative, public-facing project to communicate their findings. Project formats can include multiple modes, such as an essay, research, audio-visual media, or artwork. Dates: June 5 - August 3| Award: $7,500 | Due April 15th.

https://soundjusticelab.org/2023-sound-justice-lab-summer-research-fellowship

A work of art composed of abstract blocks with blue bases
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“Hearts: A UVA Student Exhibition” at the McGuffey Arts Center Features the Creativity and Power Behind the Work of University Studio Artists

The McGuffey Art Center is typically home to works from a number of professional Charlottesville artists, but the second floor of the gallery is home to a hidden gem — a hallway recently lined with student masterpieces. University studio artists, whether enrolled in the major or just a studio art class, contributed a selection of thought-provoking and personal pieces to the exhibit.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/02/hearts-a-uva-student-exhibition-at-the-mcguffey-arts-center-features-the-creativity-and-power-behind-the-work-of-university-studio-artists?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

Russ Warren, The Denial of Death, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60"
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Russ Warren: The Denial of Death opens Saturday, March 11 at Les Yeux du Monde

Les Yeux du Monde is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Russ Warren, The Denial of Death, which will run from March 11th to April 30th, 2023. The title of Warren's exhibition pays homage to the existentialist philosopher, Ernest Becker, and his book of the same name. Becker’s critique examines global perspectives on the subject of the human condition. He focuses in particular on different ideas surrounding mortality, such as the construction of social shields against the reality of human vulnerability in an impassive universe, and explores the relationship of madness and creativity in the revelation of “truth,” notions Warren has pondered in his art throughout his career. These ideas have acquired a special resonance in his recent work in which he grapples with the loss of his wife and Les Yeux du Monde gallery Founder and Director, Lyn Bolen Warren.

February 24, 2023
Ruth Cross
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A Life Inspired

In 2021, The Fralin Museum of Art lost one of its most ardent and energetic supporters, Ruth Cunningham Cross. Cross believed so greatly in the mission of the museum that she always wanted to be the first person from the community to welcome any new member of the museum team, ensuring that they knew they had a friend and advocate. Continuing this tradition of support, The Fralin is poised for future success thanks to a $1 million endowment created by the family of Ruth Cross.

https://giving.virginia.edu/stories/a-life-inspired

An image from the new Fralin exhibition, featuring colorful cloud-like shapes
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Fralin's New Exhibitions Explore Diverse Perspectives

“N’Dakinna Landscapes Acknowledged,” a new exhibition at The Fralin Art Museum at the University of Virginia, offers visitors a chance to gain a different perspective of the peaceful vistas in the diminutive landscapes painted by members of the North Conway artists’ group led by Benjamin Champney at a moment on the cusp of a revolution to be brought by photography.

https://dailyprogress.com/entertainment/arts/fralins-new-exhibitions-explore-diverse-perspectives/article_afdc675e-a6b8-11ed-841b-93eb1e345e27.html

Aesthetics of Undocumentedness
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UVA Exhibit Showcases 'Undocumented' Artists

A new exhibit at the University of Virginia has offered artists who identify as current or former members of the “undocumented spectrum” a place to showcase their work, and soon the exhibit organizers will be offering a place for those artists to create as well.

https://dailyprogress.com/news/uva/uva-exhibit-showcases-undocumented-artists/article_236dacd0-9e8c-11ed-9b06-f78806cc2bf0.html

an image of Federico Cuatlacuatl, founder and director of the Rasquache Artist Residency
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Aesthetics of Undocumentedness - Lived Experiences

The two-day Aesthetics of Undocumentedness symposium and exhibition highlights the kaleidoscope of ways individuals experience and are affected by undocumentedness.

https://www.c-ville.com/aesthetics-of-undocumentedness

Matthew McLendon’s (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)
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News in Brief: Fralin Director Takes New Role at Texas Museum

Matthew McLendon, J. Sanford Miller Family Director and chief curator of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, will leave at the end of the month to become director and CEO of San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, the first modern art museum in Texas. McLendon will begin his appointment at the McNay on Feb. 13.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/news-brief-fralin-director-takes-new-role-texas-museum

Andrea Trimble is stepping forward as an artist of the built and natural environment. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)

Critical Lines: Andrea Trimble’s Art Merges Natural, Built Worlds

In Andrea Trimble’s drawings, worlds merge. The built environment stakes its claim and nature presses its inevitability. Sometimes structure morphs into nature through the slender black lines that capture what she’s seen and where she’s been. “I use pen and ink mostly to depict different locations that I see in my travels, usually something that captures my eye,” Trimble said.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/critical-lines-andrea-trimbles-art-merges-natural-built-worlds

Photo illustration by Emily Faith Morgan, University Communications
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UVA Today’s Photographers Unveil Their Favorite 2022 Images

By the end of any year, UVA Today’s photographers – Sanjay Suchak, Dan Addison and Erin Edgerton – will have snapped thousands of images on and around the University of Virginia’s Grounds. They range from the expected, like portraits of faculty members in the news, to the surprising, like a rainbow arcing across the Lawn. UVA Today asked each photographer to select five photos that moved him or her most this year, and explain why.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-todays-photographers-unveil-their-favorite-2022-images

Tokie Rome-Taylor depicts Black girls dressed as upper-class white women in the Antebellum era or in European motifs. (Photos by Erin Edgerton, University Communications)
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Photography Exhibit Turns Female Stereotypes on Their Heads

The direct gazes of the portrait subjects and vibrant colors of the photographs caught the attention of two museum visitors, University of Virginia students who are photographers themselves. Ava Proehl and Kate MacArthur, who both work on the UVA student newspaper, the Cavalier Daily, took a break from their studies to view The Fralin Museum of Art’s “Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photography.” The exhibit displays selected works of five photographers from women’s perspectives: Sarah Maple, Tokie Rome-Taylor, Cara Romero, Martine Gutierrez and Wendy Red Star.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/photography-exhibit-turns-female-stereotypes-their-heads