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  • Jenny Wales

    Virginia Theatre Festival Announces Artistic Director Jenny Wales to Step Down

    August 28, 2026

  • Students wrap their garden with a wooden wall. (Illustration by Johnny Utterback, University Communications)

    Students transform vacant lot into a sculpture garden ‘where memory lives’

    https://news.virginia.edu/content/students-transform-vacant-lot-sculpture-garden-where-memory-lives

  • A woman with brown hair stands in a dark space with the only light on her face and body. She have a white and red striped fabric draped over her shoulder and she extends her arm to point to her far left. She is looking to her right with a pensive expression.

    Finding Her Voice: Priyanka Shetty’s MFA Journey from UVA to the World Stage

    https://as.virginia.edu/news/finding-her-voice-priyanka-shettys-mfa-journey-uva-world-stage

  • A close up image of a hand adjusting a small chair in a miniature display. The display shows a room with various desks and rolling chairs, and globes placed on the desks. One of the walls is a large bookshelf, filled entirely with colorful books.

    UVA Alumna Artist is Big into Miniature Artworks

    https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-alumna-artist-big-miniature-artworks

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UVA student Tara Sury holds a microphone and stands on the stage of 1515, next to a large mural of Dave Matthews on the wall.
Drama

UPC’s Stand-Up Comedy Show Opened the Doors of Stand-up Comedy to Everyone

University students eagerly gathered at 1515 Thursday for the University Program Council’s Stand-Up Comedy Show.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/04/upcs-stand-up-comedy-show-opened-the-doors-of-stand-up-comedy-to-everyone?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

Audiences sit in a classroom facing a projector screen, which shows a sepia-toned scene featuring a girl in a dress. Matthew Marshall sits at a piano under the projector screen.

The Music Beat: This UVA Lecturer Turns Up the Sound on Silent Film

Marshall, joined by student and community musicians, perform the movie score during the viewing – just as audiences would have heard when the films were first screened.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/music-beat-uva-lecturer-turns-sound-silent-film

Several dresses are shown on mannequins. One on the left features an intricate top with puffy sleeves and a plain black skirt; another towards the back features flowy sleeves and yellow, orange and brown fruit; an antique black and white dress; and an off-white sleeveless dress with a lattice pattern.
Drama

Behind the Scenes and Into the Past: UVA’s Historic Clothing Collection

On the lower level of the Drama Building on Culbreth Road exists a treasure trove of historic clothing, aptly named the Historic Clothing Collection.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/behind-scenes-and-past-uvas-historic-clothing-collection

A mural of an orange monarch butterfly surrounded by several different species of plants.
Visual Art

Student Legal Services mural paints a picture of student resilience

On the fourth floor of Newcomb Hall, a monarch butterfly welcomes students into the newly renovated office for Student Legal Services.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/04/student-legal-services-mural-paints-a-picture-of-student-resilience?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

Seven performers pose in a dance formation while holding jump ropes.
Drama

“What, like it’s hard?” — First Year Players Prepares to Stun With “Legally Blonde”

This year, the entirely student-run Contracted Independent Organization will put on the beloved musical “Legally Blonde,” continuing its tradition of giving first years and new transfer students the chance to perform.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/03/what-like-its-hard-first-year-players-prepares-to-stun-with-legally-blonde?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

Five student stand-up comics smile for a photo at an outdoor bar.
Drama

UVA Stepmom Hosts its Second-Annual "Step Comedy Jam" on a Night of Endless Laughter

Comedy lovers at the University showed up in droves to Crozet Pizza Buddhist Biker Bar Tuesday night for the return of UVA Stepmom’s fun-filled “Step Comedy Jam,” with musical guest Loose Champagne.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/03/uva-stepmom-hosts-its-second-annual-step-comedy-jam-on-a-night-of-endless-laughter?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

Five members of the band no composure play guitars, a bass, and a drum set on a sunny day on top of a wooden platform.
Music

No Composure Fosters Connection Through Music

The self-proclaimed “Old Dorms Band” came to be in the fall of 2023 after the band members found each other through a group chat for University Records — a student-run club that brings musicians together and hosts shows for them to perform.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/03/no-composure-fosters-connection-through-music?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest#google_vignette

Left: Person looking at artwork hanging on a wall RIGHT: Hallway lined with folks making art
Visual Art

Studio Art Thesis Exhibitions: 4th Year Students and Aunspaugh Fellows

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.

April 3, 2024
Two women pose for a photo taken in a studio in the 1950s — one holds her hands next to her face while staring at the camera, while the other holds a telephone to her ear.
Visual Art

A new book unearths a buried history of photography in West Africa

“Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840-1960” is published by Princeton University Press and released on March 5.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/01/style/senegal-photography-history-giulia-paoletti-interview/index.html

Rapper Eminem stands on a stage surrounded by red light, speaking into a microphone and pointing.
Music

Ben Shapiro’s hip-hop hypocrisy and white male grievance lands him on top of pop music charts for a brief moment

Over the past decade, conservative commentator and podcaster Ben Shapiro has made a living telling his followers that rap isn’t music.

https://theconversation.com/ben-shapiros-hip-hop-hypocrisy-and-white-male-grievance-lands-him-on-top-of-pop-music-charts-for-a-brief-moment-222545

Ta-Nehisi Coates sits in a chair and speaks to Robert Greene, who sits and speaks into a microphone.
Creative Writing

Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks at UVA on the Future of Reparations and the Power of Writing

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.

https://as.virginia.edu/ta-nehisi-coates-speaks-uva-future-reparations-and-power-writing

Rita Dove by Fred Viebahn

Poetic Unity: 'A Standing Witness' Examines Our Nation’s Recent History Through a Cycle of Songs

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.

https://www.c-ville.com/poetic-unity

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