The Poetry Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the 2022 Pegasus Awards, a family of literary prizes that include the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Young People’s Poet Laureate, and the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony in Chicago in October.
ARTS ON THE HILL: An Immersive Choral Experience with the University Singers with Director Michael Slon on October 6th • 5pm • Carr’s Hill • FREE by Lottery! Won't you join us?
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire makes history this fall when it debuts 'Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala', the first major exhibition of Aboriginal Australian bark paintings to tour the United States. On view from Sept. 3 through Dec. 4, 2022, Madayin presents an unbroken tradition representing a unique contribution to global contemporary art emanating from a remote corner of Australia from the perspective of those who shaped it.
UVA Welcomes New Music Faculty: Nicole Mitchell & JoVia Armstrong! Read more about them here!!
A violin concerto, a Beethoven symphony, a choral masterwork, folk tunes, dances, a sonic exploration of the cosmos and more! – Charlottesville Symphony Music Director Benjamin Rous has curated a 2022-23 season that will delight nearly every musical taste.
Art is as old as war, and vice versa. In Dan Weiss’ course, students view art through this lens of conflict, combat and culture. Yavorska-Antrobius, a Ukranian artist living in Charlottesville, provided an important perspective to the seminar students.
“Playlist for the Apocalypse” recently published by Rita Dove, covers topics ranging from the Black Lives Matter movement to her struggle in learning to cope with her Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis.
Over two years into the pandemic, the push is on for a return to a normal cinema experience. This is an encouraging sign, University of Virginia media studies professor Jack Hamilton explains.
This past year, a grant from the UVA Arts Council made it possible for them to redouble efforts to nourish Charlottesville’s classical music community.
Arts Grounds Day has been a tradition for the past five years, where UVA Arts invites undergraduate & graduate students & Arts Faculty & Staff to Arts Grounds for a free cookout & open house. Thanks to the help of the Arts Council, the event was a huge success in 2021!
Have you ever started a project, only to be stymied by a lack of the proper tools? The Charlottesville Tool Library might be your solution. “Tool libraries are part of a larger network, part of the do-it-yourself movement and shared resources and the right-to-repair movement,” said Melissa Goldman, fabrication facilities manager at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture and one of the founders of the library. “It helps empower neighbors to start a group within your community to share tools. It provides access and training … to support homeowners and entrepreneurs and blossoming makers of all sorts.”
What if one of the most legendary artists and activists of the 20th Century were to return to Earth for just one evening to share her unique perspective on the world as well as the songs that made her beloved around the world.
