A new exhibit at the University of Virginia has offered artists who identify as current or former members of the “undocumented spectrum” a place to showcase their work, and soon the exhibit organizers will be offering a place for those artists to create as well.
At the core of the University and Charlottesville’s famously rich musical culture lies the student organization Indieheads — a home for local artists and all lovers of indie music.
The two-day Aesthetics of Undocumentedness symposium and exhibition highlights the kaleidoscope of ways individuals experience and are affected by undocumentedness.
The University of Virginia announced designer, urbanist and spatial justice advocate Liz Ogbu as one of two inaugural University Fellows this semester. The new program brings expert practitioners to Grounds to engage with the UVA community on today’s most challenging problems and inspiring opportunities.
UVA School of Architecture's Master of Urban Design candidate Vishal Jayan (MUD '23) was recognized at the 10th Annual Tamayouz Excellence Award Ceremony, hosted by the Oman Society of Engineers in Oman's capital city of Muscat earlier this month.
ARTS ON THE HILL: Beethoven Up Close with Members of the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia and Music Director Benjamin Rous • Tuesday, February 14 • 5-6pm (doors open at 4:30pm) • Carr’s Hill • FREE by Lottery
Something about WTJU appeals to the radio station’s DJs. Really appeals to them. Such that some have spent decades hosting weekly shows on the station, licensed to the University of Virginia and on the air since 1957. In October, the station’s longest-volunteering DJ hosted his last regular show. Dave Rogers, known through his WTJU show and across the regional music community as “Professor Bebop,” ended a run of nearly 50 years as leader of a jazz-centric weekly show.
Assistant professor of hip-hop and the Global South A.D. Carson’s University of Virginia courses provide students a musical and cultural experience enriched by creativity, connections and curiosity.
Reflecting on the time he spent working in artistic isolation as a court musician for Hungary’s Esterházy family, Joseph Haydn once remarked: “I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original.” In many ways, the same is true for award-winning composer and Eleanor Shea Professor of Music, Matthew Burtner. Born and raised in Alaska, Burtner knows what it means to live remotely. Growing up in Nuiqsut, an Arctic city accessible only by airplane or ice road, he spent much of his young life helping his family prepare adequate food, heat, and clothing.
Tanya Holland has made numerous appearances on NBC’s “Today” show, “Good Morning America” and The Food Network; was a contestant on Bravo TV’s “Top Chef”; and hosted her own show, “Tanya’s Kitchen Table,” on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. But this celebrated Black celebrity chef and 1987 University of Virginia graduate started her food service career not in the grand kitchens of Europe, but on the Corner, working at two long-gone restaurants in the 1980s.
Matthew McLendon, J. Sanford Miller Family Director and chief curator of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, will leave at the end of the month to become director and CEO of San Antonio’s McNay Art Museum, the first modern art museum in Texas. McLendon will begin his appointment at the McNay on Feb. 13.
