University of Virginia President Jim Ryan on Tuesday unveiled a portrait of Karenne Wood, whose roles at the University included researching and teaching the history of the Monacan Indian Nation while tirelessly advocating for its members.
Through their plays, musicals, camps and workshops, Live Arts connects people of all ages, all across Charlottesville as they direct, produce, build sets for and perform in some simply incredible shows.
Gunn, an academic who specializes in breaking and hip-hop culture, earned a score of 0, but she is probably more famous now than the gold medalist, Ami Yuasa of Japan.
Ben Larsen: You are listening to WTJU Charlottesville. The Jefferson School African American History Center is opening the newest installation of Pride Overcomes Prejudice, entitled Toward a Lineage of Self, Saturday, September 21st. For Arts This Week, we spoke with Jordy Yager, the Director of Digital Humanities at the center.
Sara Bastianelli: For Arts This Week, we chatted with Jess Thompson and Jade Long from Hotel Fiction. You can see Hotel Fiction at the Southern Cafe Music Hall on Friday, September 13th.
The New City Arts 2024 Fellowship will present their exhibition fallow on Friday, September 6, at 5pm.
Les Yeux du Monde proudly presents the fifth installment of an exhibition series orchestrated to honor the memory and scholarship of acclaimed Picasso scholar, beloved former professor of Modern Art at the University of Virginia, and sublime painter, Lydia Csato Gasman.
Arts on the Hill with John D'earth will be held at Carr's Hill, home of President and Mrs. Ryan, on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 from 5:30 - 6:30pm. All UVA faculty, staff, and students are eligible to register to attend. The deadline to register is 11:59 p.m. on Friday, September 13.
If someone told you there was music that could lull pillowy-winged moths into a fluttery state of happiness, that the Aurora Borealis can sing even better than you and I, or that the roots of the American elm trees in Central Park are a bustling ensemble waiting for their cue, would you believe them? Matthew Burtner would, and he’d have no trouble proving it on PROFILED FROM ATMOSPHERES, the veteran ecoacoustic composer’s sixth release with Ravello Records
In early 2020, University of Virginia associate drama professor Doug Grissom was looking to buy some recording equipment. He had found a set of plays that female playwrights had written nearly 100 years ago, that begged to be adapted as audio dramas. He planned to do it on his own. But then the general manager of UVA’s WTJU radio station, Nathan Moore, reached out asking if he had any podcast ideas. Grissom pitched adapting the plays as audio dramas.
Gerald R. (Jerry) and Mary Reid Brunstrom have donated a collection of 33 artworks by Indigenous Australian artists from Utopia to the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. Situated north of Alice Springs in Australia’s Central Desert, Utopia is the name given to the traditional lands of the Anmatyerre and Alyawarre people. The Brunstrom gift substantially increases the museum’s representation of early artworks from this region.
“Shifting Ground: Prints by Indigenous Australian Artists from the Basil Hall Editions Workshop Proofs Collection,” curated by Jessyca Hutchens, featuring work by 22 Indigenous Australian artists.
