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The Music Box on Main Street
The “Music Box on Main Street” is a grand installation of artwork now being fastened to the Dewberry building at 200 East Main on the Cville Downtown Mall, featuring the paintings of acclaimed guest artist Eric Waugh.
New Portraits, Markers Honor Important Stories and Figures in UVA History
The University of Virginia this month launched an effort to highlight events and people who have broken barriers, sparked change, and shaped UVA into the university it is today. The initiative, which includes installation of portraits and markers commemorating important people, moments, and places, began with the unveiling of a portrait of former Rector George Keith Martin and the installation of a historical marker commemorating the “Coat and Tie Rebellion.”
"Magnolia Cone" by Lisa Russ Spaar on Poetry Daily
Professor Lisa Russ Spaar’s poem, “Magnolia Cone,” is today’s Poetry Daily selection | February 25, 2022.
Puerto Rican Poet and Book Artist Nicole Delgado Named as the Next Riccio Artist in Residence by Virginia’s Center for the Book
The Virginia Center for the Book at Virginia Humanities is pleased to announce the 2022 Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence: Puerto Rican poet, book artist, and small-press publisher Nicole Delgado.
Q&A: Former Disney Cast Member Channels Creativity as UVA Law Student
The Force is strong with Ryan Kurtiak. The second-year University of Virginia School of Law student, who previously worked at Walt Disney World as a “Star Wars” villager and grew up wanting to design theme parks, saw law school as a way to channel his creative energy.
Live Arts Presents The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez
"Lip-sync or swim, baby!" Outrageous and campy, sweet yet spicy, THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA McBRIDE is a heartfelt valentine to drag queens, a celebration of divas and difference.
Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Creation of UVA Institute for Black, Indigenous Studies
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $616,670 grant to the University of Virginia to create a research institute for interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and cultural projects related to the intersection of feminist Black and Indigenous Studies.
“Revived Again, Again, Again”: On Lisa Russ Spaar’s “Madrigalia: New and Selected Poems”
“To write the life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others,” James Boswell said, referring to the great 18th-century person of letters, Samuel Johnson, “may be reckoned in me a presumptuous task.” Exactly thus do I approach, with humility not unmixed with awe, Lisa Russ Spaar’s Madrigalia: New and Selected Poems
Democracy Initiative Announces New Rotating Lab, Working Groups
The Democracy Initiative has selected a new rotating lab to begin in the fall, led by co-directors Nomi Dave (Music) and Bonnie Gordon (Music), and Anne Coughlin (UVA School of Law). The Sound Justice Lab will explore what "justice" means to ordinary people around the world, how they pursuit it through and beyond formal legal mechanisms, and what role the arts can and do play in articulating and advancing claims.
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions at The Fralin Museum of Art Through July 2022
Check out the current and upcoming exhibitions at The Fralin Museum of Art through July 2022.
Collaborative Efforts Giving New Life to the Mayan Book of Creation
“Language preservation and documentation were important before, but it has a new urgency,” Allison Bigelow, an associate professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, said recently.