On the shelf: New reads from alumni and faculty
From academic research to rollicking fiction, UVA alumni and faculty members have been churning out books on a variety of topics. Here’s a look at some of them.
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Quick on Its Feet, the UVA Dance Department Continues Their Renowned Programming in Difficult Times
In a year that was particularly hard on best-laid plans, Head and Artistic Director of Dance at UVA Kim Brooks Mata and her colleague Katie Baer Schetlick delayed an official celebration of the milestone 15th anniversary of the UVA Dance minor. However, that certainly didn’t mean they sat idly by during the pandemic. In fact, Brooks Mata and Schetlick were as busy as ever, if not more so, with a spring chock full of performances, guest artists, and rare opportunities for students to see the inner workings of some of America’s finest choreographers and companies.
WTJU's Jazz at 100 Receives a $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
From 2017 to 2019 WTJU jazz expert Rus Perry took on a rather formidable task. While receiving important technical support from his station colleagues, he was the unstoppable one-man force behind Jazz at 100, a series of 100 hour-long episodes that covered the history and celebrated the centennial of America’s homegrown cultural treasure.
Lights, Camera, Action! The Virginia Film Festival’s Celebrated Return to In-Person Venues
On Wednesday, October 27th, UVA President Jim Ryan took the stage of The Paramount Theater to welcome the near-capacity crowd, all gathered to see Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch. The film was the first of many to be screened at the 34th Annual Virginia Film Festival. Ryan’s speech was not just any welcome, just as 2021 is not just any year. The night marked a return to live theatrical presentation for VAFF following a virtual and drive-in program in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection Launches Book and Virtual Portal With Australian Ambassador
Much of Kluge-Ruhe’s collection of 2200 objects has never been published. In November of 2021, Kluge-Ruhe launched a comprehensive catalog and virtual resource to accompany the exhibition Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu (Past & Present Together): Fifty Years of Papunya Tula Artists, which is on view at Kluge-Ruhe through February 2023. Ambassador Sinodinos and University of Virginia President Jim Ryan released the publication during a reception at the museum.
Synesthesia in Cville: New WTJU Mural Appeals to Both Sound and Sight
If there is a single word that can accurately describe the rich history of WTJU, it would be “colorful.” From the larger-than-life personalities of its DJs to the spectacularly diverse array of sounds that have traveled across the CVille airwaves since WTJU’s maiden broadcast in 1957, the station has added more than its share of hues to the UVA experience, the Charlottesville community, and now to the world at large.
Global Connections: UVA Spanish Students Publish New Poetry Translations
According to UVA Lecturer in Spanish and professional translator Nieves García Prados, translation is an exercise in challenge and compromise, linguistically, and also culturally: “When translating, students seek solutions to the challenges they face, and therefore achieve, in my opinion, a deeper understanding of the meaning, structure, and use of the language, both the mother tongue and the one they are learning.”
Award Recipient’s Research Focuses on Female Artists from the 1980s
Art history major Ansleigh Graeff focuses on the 1980s to champion the work of three female painters whose work she thinks was overlooked by the art world.
Mellon Grant Revolutionizes Indigenous Studies at the University of Virginia
In 2016, UVA Art History Professor Francesca Fiorani, then also serving as Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities, led an effort to revolutionize indigenous studies at the University of Virginia, spearheading a successful grant proposal that would ultimately bring in $815,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The UVA Arts Council Celebrates 30 Years!
Anyone involved with the UVA Arts Council over the last 30 years will tell you that their efforts on behalf of the University and its arts-oriented students are about more than numbers. After all, it’s hard to put a price on the inspiration the members of the arts council have unleashed since its founding in 1990 and the dizzying spectrum of art that has made its way to the world with their support.