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Joseph Cornell (American, 1903 - 1972) 'Untitled (Soap Bubble Set, Latitude and Longitude Box)', ca. 1960 Box construction 10 x 15 ½ x 4 ¼ in. Gift of The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, 2002.15.4 Courtesy of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia © 2022 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Visual Art

The Fralin Museum of Art Commemorates the Work of Leading American Artist Joseph Cornell

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passing of Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), one of America’s most important and enigmatic artists, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has organized an exhibition of his work. Joseph Cornell: Enclosing Infinity, on view June 26, 2022-Feb. 12, 2023, is curated by Matthew McLendon, the Museum’s J. Sanford Miller Family director. The intimate, focused exhibition will feature six boxes from The Fralin’s collection, inviting visitors to enter Cornell’s world of fantasy.

July 6, 2022
Pink Moon on a black background
Visual Art

Pink, A Student-artist Exhibition at the Ruffin Gallery

Emerging from a series of weekly thesis presentations by fifteen artists from the Studio Art program, the exhibition considers the color pink unbounded by the sticky connotations and associations of constructed contexts. Beyond its power to signify such disparate notions as queens and communists, innocence and excess, fleshiness and futurism, does pink have a material presence of its own? If so, what might a liberated pink make possible?

July 6, 2022
The March sisters Meg Jo, Beth, and Amy (l-r Christine Jacobs, Sanjana Taskar, Summer Ainsworth, and Alexa Moore) navigate from childhood to adulthood in the Virginia Theatre Festival’s production of LITTLE WOMEN by Kate Hamill. Photo by Coe Sweet.
Drama

Virginia Theatre Festival to Present Little Women

The Virginia Theatre Festival will open its 2022 season with Kate Hamill’s fresh and innovative adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The production, directed by Aubrey Snowden, will open on July 15 in the Ruth Caplin Theatre.

July 5, 2022
Kate Tucker and her artwork
Visual Art

Freedom of the Press | Printmaker Kate Tucker Celebrates Native Species and Folklore in Rural North Louisiana

July 1, 2022 | by Jeffrey Roedel, Photos by Romero & Romero. With one bare foot steering the large silver press wheel, and two hands secure around the climbing boy’s bottom, his rainboots dangling over her ash-colored shop apron, this tangle of limbs and kinetic energy somehow stands in perfect poise, producing striking prints even so. With fresh ink sinking into paper, and cotton and linen, and then resting there to stir up stories of quiet afternoons, or wild encounters, or even legends.

https://www.louisianalife.com/freedom-of-the-press/

A rug with varied patterns in red, black, and white

The Roanoke Times: Fralin Museum Project Will Enrich our Understanding of Virginia's History

A $250,000 grant given to the Fralin Museum by the Henry Luce Foundation will help those of who live in the Roanoke Valley a better understanding of our pre-colonial history.

https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-fralin-museum-project-will-enrich-our-understanding-of-virginias-history/article_2f9a8a34-e8cd-11ec-ab2c-2bf9a3be70d8.html?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6.23.22&utm_content=version_A

The Virginia Theatre Festival logo overlays a group of people raising their top hats in a dance.
Drama

Live Drama Returns to UVA this Summer in Virginia Theatre Festival

The Virginia Theatre Festival – formerly known as the Heritage Theatre Festival – will literally and figuratively reopen its doors to the University of Virginia and local community with a season that includes a new adaptation of “Little Women,” along with “No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone,” an acclaimed one-woman show about the legendary singer and civil rights activist.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/live-drama-returns-uva-summer-virginia-theatre-festival

Mike Rosensky’s Tuesday Small Group, October 29, 2021
Music

2021-22 Arts Council Libraries Grant: Making Noise and Reconnecting after COVID

​​​​​​​Making Noise, a performance series that originated in 2014 by Music Librarian Matthew Vest, has hosted a number of dramatic, musical, and dance performances over the years. Vest said, “[Making Noise] makes the library itself a locus of the types of scholarly and artistic conversations that typically happen in non-library spaces, simply by inviting music and noise into a controlled environment.”

June 23, 2022
(L to R) Chloe Rogers as Cinderella, Hope King as Little Red Riding Hood, and Ezra Smith as The Baker. Photo by Jannatul Pramanik Photography.
Drama

Enchanting Teen Musical “Into the Woods” Opens July 15 at Live Arts

June 20, 2022 – Live Arts Theater’s 2022 teen summer musical is the magical gem INTO THE WOODS, with music and lyrics by the incomparable Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The show is directed by Jessica Harris with music direction by Xavier Taylor and Austin Robey. INTO THE WOODS will have 12 performances, July 15 through July 31, 2022, at Live Arts Theater, 123 E. Water Street, in Charlottesville.

https://livearts.org/2022/06/enchanting-teen-musical-into-the-woods-opens-july-15/

Gretchen Tibbits

Whatever It Takes: Gretchen Tibbits, Member of the Rotunda Society

Witnessing Gretchen Tibbits (Col ’89) in the wild, one might assume she was born fully formed, a hard-charging New York City investment banker ready to broker any power deal that sets foot in her path. It’s a look she wears well, making it easy to forget that she was once a fresh-faced college graduate arriving in the big city to carve out her niche.

https://giving.virginia.edu/stories/whatever-it-takes

Selected pages from Studies of Ancient Masters (Gakko-jō) Kano Tsunenobu Japan, ca. 1695 Ink and color on silk and paper Anonymous Gift, 1975.11 Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
Visual Art

The Fralin Museum of Art’s Upcoming Exhibition Chronicles the Spread of Buddhism Across Asia

As different traditions of Buddhism spread across Asia in tandem with evolving political dynamics from the 17th through the 19th centuries, art of Buddhist luminaries played a pivotal role. In Earthly Exemplars: The Art of Buddhist Disciples and Teachers in Asia, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia will exhibit works that facilitated the faith’s constant transmission across the continent from one teacher to the next, creating local versions of sacred history.

June 14, 2022
The cover of the book "Restorative Cities" with a city placed in the background.
Architecture

Architecture Professor Jenny Roe's 'Restorative Cities' Selected for Book Award

The UVA School of Architecture is pleased to announce that Professor Jenny Roe's co-authored (with Layla McCay) book Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing has been selected as 2022 Honorable Mention of the Place Book Award, part of the 24th annual Great Places Awards.

https://www.arch.virginia.edu/news/professor-jenny-roes-restorative-cities-selected-for-book-award-by-the-environmental-design-research-association?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=06.08&utm_content=version_A

Leah Reid
Music

Music Faculty Member Earns a Guggenheim

Leah Reid, an Assistant Professor of Music Composition, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Provided by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowships are intended for mid-career scholars and artists who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exhibit exceptional creative ability in the arts while exhibiting great promise for their future endeavors.

June 6, 2022