Please join the Department of Art and the rest of our community in congratulating our graduating students and 5th Year Aunspaugh Fellows on the work they have done and the exhibitions we now get to enjoy on all three floors of Ruffin Hall and in Ruffin Gallery.
“Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960” is published by Princeton University Press and released on March 5.
Over the past decade, conservative commentator and podcaster Ben Shapiro has made a living telling his followers that rap isn’t music.
Author, journalist and activist Ta-Nehisi Coates, spoke on Friday, March 8, to a UVA audience and to attendees of the ninth annual conference of the African American Intellectual History Society hosted by the University’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies.
Rita Dove was on sabbatical from the University of Virginia English department when Richard Danielpour emailed the U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner. The Grammy Award-winning composer wanted to discuss collaborating on A Standing Witness, a cycle of songs that covers 50 years of American history, with original music set to poems as lyrics. The project was no small task. And Dove says that, at first glance, it seemed outside her wheelhouse.
Submit to be part of the Arts on the Hill: Battle of the Bands and a chance at $500!! Submissions are due by April 15th at 11:59pm.
Among a plethora of student bands, from fraternity bands to cover bands, one made entirely of female musicians sets itself apart from the rest, Fair Verona.
Students and Charlottesville locals filled Old Cabell Hall Sunday evening, eagerly waiting for the arrival of the Commodores, the United States Navy’s premier jazz ensemble.
While he has always loved performing, Stepanian said his recent top priority has been cultivating his own unique sound by creating and releasing original pieces.
University alumna Jessica Harris founded and serves as the artistic director for the nonprofit organization.
In her second album, the first-year tells a story of identity, insecurity and love, underscored by the theme of personal change.
What if women wrote great plays but everyone forgot about them? Even though their themes remain super relevant? WTJU 91.1 FM and UVA Drama present “She Wrote Plays” – new takes on works from a century ago by forgotten women playwrights. Charlottesville-based playwrights, tech producers, and actors have taken these old scripts and adapted them into modern radio dramas.
