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Visual Art

“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

X-Tasee Dance Crew
Dance

X-Tasee Dance Crew Fosters Community Through Hip-Hop

Built on inclusivity and passion, the University’s first competitive hip-hop dance group is still evolving after eighteen years.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2023/02/x-tasee-dance-crew-fosters-community-through-hip-hop

Russ Warren, The Denial of Death, 2022. Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60"
Visual Art

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
Mac Traynham, right, jams with children on the sidewalk outside the Floyd Country Store on 5/20/22. Pat Jarrett/Virginia Humanities
Music

Two New Opportunities For Traditional Arts In Bristol & Beyond

A collective of local culture workers spearheaded by the Birthplace of Country Music Museum is thrilled to announce new opportunities for folk and traditional artists and new support for cultural traditions in the greater Bristol region (Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee) thanks to Central Appalachia Living Traditions (CALT), an initiative of Mid Atlantic Arts.

https://www.virginiafolklife.org/2023/02/two-new-opportunities-for-traditional-arts-in-bristol-beyond/

Tina Fey by Miller Mobely
Drama

Tina Fey Returning to UVA for President’s Speaker Series for the Arts

The UVA President’s Speaker Series for the Arts will present award-winning writer, actor, producer, and noted UVA alumnae Tina Fey on Sunday, April 23 at 3:00 PM at the John Paul Jones Arena. Fey, who inaugurated the series in 2013, will participate in an onstage conversation moderated by University of Virginia President Jim Ryan.

February 24, 2023
Karen Pellón
Music

Long Time TECS Director to Retire

Karen Pellón, executive director of the Tuesday Evening Concert Series, will retire on June 30 from the post she has held for 32 years.

February 23, 2023
Ruth Cross
Visual Art

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

VAFF at the Paramount Theater
Film

2023 Virginia Film Festival set for October 25-29 & Opens Call for Entries

“We are excited to announce that this year’s Virginia Film Festival will be returning to Charlottesville for its 36th year from October 25-29,” said Virginia Film Festival Director and UVA Vice Provost for the Arts Jody Kielbasa. “We continue to receive such positive feedback from our patrons about last year’s festival, which saw us presenting a stellar lineup of films, and an impressive guest list headlined by Jonathan Majors, who is fast becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest stars thanks to his role as Kang the Conqueror in the Marvel Universe and his starring role opposite Michael B. Jordan in the highly anticipated Creed III. We look forward to sharing another outstanding lineup and guest roster in 2023.”

https://virginiafilmfestival.org/2023-vaff-set-for-oct-25-29/

an image of Ana Ozaki standing in front of a bookshelf
Architecture

Introducing Ana Ozaki - Mellon Race, Place and Equity Postdoctoral Fellow

The School of Architecture is pleased to announce Ana Ozaki as inaugural Mellon Race, Place, and Equity (RPE) postdoctoral fellow. Ana Ozaki's research investigates the complex ways racial ideologies have interfered with architectural understandings of climate and the environment within the African diaspora, mainly within the Black Atlantic.

https://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/introducing-ana-ozaki-mellon-race-place-and-equity-postdoctoral-fellowhttps://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/introducing-ana-ozaki-mellon-race-place-and-equity-postdoctoral-fellow

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Architecture

T-Shirts Honor Architecture School's First African-American Graduates

Honoring the contributions that African Americans have made, this year at the UVA School of Architecture we celebrate our first African American graduates, Edward Wayne Barnett (1950–2009) who received his Bachelor of Architecture in 1972 and Audrey Spencer-Horsley who received her Bachelor of City Planning in 1975.

https://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/t-shirts-honor-first-african-american-graduates