From David Baldacci’s latest thriller to the history of nurses, University of Virginia faculty and alumni published a range of books last semester. Here’s a selection of what they’ve written or edited that might appeal to a range of readers, with information from publishers and reviewers.
In Andrea Trimble’s drawings, worlds merge. The built environment stakes its claim and nature presses its inevitability. Sometimes structure morphs into nature through the slender black lines that capture what she’s seen and where she’s been. “I use pen and ink mostly to depict different locations that I see in my travels, usually something that captures my eye,” Trimble said.
Molly Joyce was in sixth grade when she started composing music and experimenting with musical notation software. “It was like a game,” she said, “combining the music in my head with the software and playing it back.” She could change the notes, the timing, and make other special effects.
By the end of any year, UVA Today’s photographers – Sanjay Suchak, Dan Addison and Erin Edgerton – will have snapped thousands of images on and around the University of Virginia’s Grounds. They range from the expected, like portraits of faculty members in the news, to the surprising, like a rainbow arcing across the Lawn. UVA Today asked each photographer to select five photos that moved him or her most this year, and explain why.
At the University of Virginia, we strive to make the world a better place through our commitment to the ideal of creating engaged citizens. We embrace a spirit of innovation and creativity and encourage new ideas to be tested. These values are at the heart of UVA Arts as we foster experimentation, creativity, and imagination across Grounds through a highly creative, collaborative, and exciting arts community.
The direct gazes of the portrait subjects and vibrant colors of the photographs caught the attention of two museum visitors, University of Virginia students who are photographers themselves. Ava Proehl and Kate MacArthur, who both work on the UVA student newspaper, the Cavalier Daily, took a break from their studies to view The Fralin Museum of Art’s “Power Play: Reimagining Representation in Contemporary Photography.” The exhibit displays selected works of five photographers from women’s perspectives: Sarah Maple, Tokie Rome-Taylor, Cara Romero, Martine Gutierrez and Wendy Red Star.
In his program called “The Music Paradigm,” maestro Roger Nierenberg aims to help organizations improve their work by exposing their leaders and employees to the dynamic that exists between a conductor and orchestra musicians.
The story told in the documentary, “The Lives Between the Lines,” brings together the persistent voices of student activists, the painstaking research of scholars, the careful planning of designers and the crucial participation of community members – all collaborating to create the University of Virginia’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers.
Jonathan Majors receives the Virginia Film Festival’s “Breakthrough Star” award after the screening of his new film, “Devotion.” University of Virginia alumnus and actor Jason George, who is also on the festival’s advisory board, presented the award.
Matthew McLendon, Ph.D., The Fralin Museum of Art’s J. Sanford Miller Family director and chief curator, has been appointed as the new director and CEO at The McNay Art Museum, the first modern art museum in Texas. He will continue his duties at The Fralin through late January and begin his appointment at the McNay in San Antonio Feb. 13. The Fralin Museum of Art will launch a national search in the spring for its new director.
From the opening night’s full house at the Paramount Theater for the area premiere of “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” to many other sold-out movies and illuminating discussions, the 35th Virginia Film Festival, held Wednesday through Sunday, drew big crowds – free this year from COVID restrictions on social gatherings.
"I need you to know this other story about this place,” Kern Jackson’s godmother, Valena McCants, said to him 30 years ago when he visited Mobile originally to study Mardi Gras culture. This ultimately led to his documentary, "Descendant," that explores the history of The Clotilda.
