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"Profiled From Atmospheres": Matthew Burtner album release
Music

"Profiled From Atmospheres": Matthew Burtner Album Release

If someone told you there was music that could lull pillowy-winged moths into a fluttery state of happiness, that the Aurora Borealis can sing even better than you and I, or that the roots of the American elm trees in Central Park are a bustling ensemble waiting for their cue, would you believe them? Matthew Burtner would, and he’d have no trouble proving it on PROFILED FROM ATMOSPHERES, the veteran ecoacoustic composer’s sixth release with Ravello Records

August 23, 2024
Senior administrative assistant UVA Library Evelyn Garey, drama lecturer Cady Garey and Julia Robertson read their lines at WTJU's studio. (Photo by Emily Faith Morgan, University Communications)

‘She Wrote Plays’ and WTJU Is Streaming Them

In early 2020, University of Virginia associate drama professor Doug Grissom was looking to buy some recording equipment. He had found a set of plays that female playwrights had written nearly 100 years ago, that begged to be adapted as audio dramas. He planned to do it on his own. But then the general manager of UVA’s WTJU radio station, Nathan Moore, reached out asking if he had any podcast ideas. Grissom pitched adapting the plays as audio dramas.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/she-wrote-plays-and-wtju-streaming-them

Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled, 1989, acrylic on canvas board, 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm). Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Gift of Gerald and Mary Bruntrom, 2024.
Visual Art

Brunstrom Donation Brings Significant Utopia Artworks to Kluge-Ruhe

Gerald R. (Jerry) and Mary Reid Brunstrom have donated a collection of 33 artworks by Indigenous Australian artists from Utopia to the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. Situated north of Alice Springs in Australia’s Central Desert, Utopia is the name given to the traditional lands of the Anmatyerre and Alyawarre people. The Brunstrom gift substantially increases the museum’s representation of early artworks from this region.

August 9, 2024
A pattern made up of yellow and brown shapes with four points and a pink-red dot in the middle of each.
Visual Art

August Exhibitions A Roundup of Monthly Arts Events

“Shifting Ground: Prints by Indigenous Australian Artists from the Basil Hall Editions Workshop Proofs Collection,” curated by Jessyca Hutchens, featuring work by 22 Indigenous Australian artists.

https://www.c-ville.com/august-exhibitions

Woodrow Proctor as Richard Hannay embraces Mollie Downes as Annabella Schmidt. They look into the distance under a prop streetlight and stage lights.
Drama

Virginia Theatre Festival's '39 Steps' Shows Off the Humor in Hitchcock

If you’ve ever surprised yourself, or people seated near you, by laughing at a suspenseful moment in a movie, you’re ready for “The 39 Steps” on stage.

https://dailyprogress.com/life-entertainment/local/art-theater/virginia-theatre-festivals-39-steps-shows-off-the-humor-in-hitchcock/article_4c443a50-490f-11ef-9428-cb127eb8dc7e.html

Professor A.D. Carson wears a baseball cap and stands in front of a microphone, backed by stage lights.
Music

Q&A: Hip-Hop Professor Traveled an Innovative Path to Tenure

In June, as the University of Virginia sent graduates on their way and ended the academic year, associate professor A.D. Carson concluded his first year as a tenured professor of hip-hop and the Global South.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-hip-hop-professor-traveled-innovative-path-tenure

A person lays in the sun with an open book on a colorful hammock.
Creative Writing

Quiz: What Kind of Reader Are You?

Our friends over at the University of Virginia Library have offered their own reading recommendations with every quiz result.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/quiz-what-kind-reader-are-you