The Music Beat: Dave Matthews Band Nominated for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Charlottesville’s native son is in the running to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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He Made a Phone That Plays Birdsong in 2016. Why is It Just Now Catching Eyes?
Eight years ago, after winning a local art-in-place grant, Schulman retrofitted an old-school payphone to play the chirps, tweets and calls (get it?) of birds local to Takoma Park, Maryland, the Washington suburb he calls home.
This Student Fashion Organization Will Leave You ‘CRAVE-ing’ More
Capturing the attention of fashion fanatics across the globe, New York’s famed Fashion Week serves as a showcase for designers’ newest styles and trends. A little closer to home, a University of Virginia student organization is gearing up for a fashion show of its own.
Virginia Theatre Festival to Celebrate 50th Anniversary Year
The Virginia Theatre Festival Season to Kick Off With 50 Years and Counting: a Musical Revue, Directed by Longtime Artistic Director Robert Chapel Followed by All-time Classic Musical Little Shop of Horrors and Frenetic, Farcical Take on Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps.
UVA Honors Faculty for Research and Scholarship: David Getsy wins in UVA's Excellence in Arts and Humanities Award
UVA administrators honored faculty members, including David Getsy (Eleanor Shea Professor of Art History), for their outstanding research and scholarship at the fifth annual Research Achievement Awards event, held earlier this month.
The Fralin Museum of Art Announces the First Major Gift of Judaica in the University of Virginia’s History
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia will expand its holdings with a promised gift of more than 150 Torah pointers, or yads, from Clay H. Barr and the Barr Foundation. This marks the first major gift of Judaica in the University of Virginia’s history. Accompanying the bequest is The Clay H. Barr Endowment for Torah Pointers in Memory of Jay D. A. Barr that will enable The Fralin to preserve the collection and support related staff as well as educational programming and touring of the objects. Barr is making the contribution in honor of her late husband who earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Virginia (UVA).
EscapeRoom
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a site of reckoning. The legacies of slavery and white supremacy reverberate throughout its built environment. EscapeRoom confronts frameworks of injustice that contemporary audiences inhabit and inherit in relation to this UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Winning ‘Big’: UVA Grad Gets Caldecott Medal
By the time she got the call, Vashti Harrison had given up hope.
‘Maḏayin’ Transports You Back in Time
Inside The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia is the cosmology of an entire people.
How a Student Group Made Music History at UVA
PK German, a now-defunct organization, once brought stars from the Ramones to Kool & the Gang to Grounds.
Portrait of The Artist as a Young Woman: The UVA Student Behind the Unique Posters
When friends think of Dabney Lancaster Stellmann, they remember her always having a pad and paper in front of her.
Surveying the Rich Tapestry of U.Va.’s Flourishing Cultural Dance Teams
With nearly 20 dance teams on Grounds, it is safe to say that the students of U.Va. know how to bust a move.