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.
The Virginia Theatre Festival’s 50th season has kicked off, and this week it’ll bring you a production of “Little Shop of Horrors.”
The concept of the song of the summer dates to at least the 1990s, according to associate professor of media studies Jack Hamilton.
Our friends over at the University of Virginia Library have offered their own reading recommendations with every quiz result.
The Virginia Theatre Festival is back – and celebrating its 50th anniversary by revisiting some of the best songs from its first half-century of performances.
For retired Virginia Circuit Court Judge Martin Clark, a 1984 graduate of the University of Virginia’s School of Law, law was a fallback career, a parent-pleasing choice he made after he found nobody wanted to hire him to teach creative writing.
Earlier this month, a University of Virginia Communications photographer ran into a small film crew from Germany on Grounds, where they were working on a documentary about Edgar Allan Poe.
The Virginia Theatre Festival is wrapping up its 50th Anniversary season with the two-time-Tony Award-winning, hilarious whodunit The 39 Steps which opens on July 25.
A new curator will join the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia in August for a six-month curatorial residency that will take place over the 2024-25 academic year. Katina Davidson (Kullilli/Yuggera) is Curator of Indigenous Australian Art at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Suddenly Seymour…is back! The Virginia Theatre Festival is preparing to transport audiences into the unforgettable world of one of everyone’s favorite out-of-this-world musical sci-fi love stories when 'Little Shop of Horrors' comes to the Culbreth Theatre from July 11-21.
After 27 years as the director of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, Margo Smith AM will retire in June 2025. Kluge-Ruhe is one of the most significant collections of Indigenous Australian art in the world with more than 3,600 artworks in its care. It is the center for Indigenous Australian art in the United States and an exemplar of respectful and collaborative relationships with artists and knowledge holders.
The 8th annual Charlottesville-Albemarle Black Business Expo is back for 2024 with a new date and location. This year's Expo will take place on Saturday, June 15, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. It is co-located with Charlottesville's Juneteenth celebration at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. The event is free and open to everyone.
