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Actors on the Stage of Live Arts with wild wigs
Drama

Live Arts Announces the 2022/23 Transformations Season

Live Arts announces a full season of powerhouse shows for its 2022/23 Transformations Season. The season opens with Caryl Churchill’s kaleidoscopic LOVE AND INFORMATION and continues with the heartfelt musical VIOLET with music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics and book by Brian Crawley. The musical is followed by Jez Butterworth’s mysterious THE RIVER, then CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY follows in the spring, a poignant memory play by Lynn Nottage. Next arrives the outrageously funny solo show BUYER & CELLAR. The Transformations Season closes with the first-ever WaterWorks Festival, a month-long festival celebrating new writing for the theater. Subscription packages start at just $90 for the season. Subscriptions are available now through the Box Office at livearts.org/tix or by phone at 434-977-4177 x123.

https://livearts.org/2022/06/2022-23-season-announced/

A picture of a piece of the Berlin wall on UVA grounds.
Visual Art

Cold War Relic Could Be Ending Time On Grounds

Four panels of the toppled Berlin Wall – a unique piece of Cold War history – are likely standing on Grounds at the University of Virginia for their final year.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/cold-war-relic-could-be-ending-time-grounds

Arrival, 2022. Oil on Canvas, 36” x 36” by Isabelle Abbot
Visual Art

Isabelle Abbot: Convergence opens Saturday, July 9 at Les Yeux du Monde

In her new paintings, Abbot explores those places where differing topographies come together: where mountains meet piedmont and cultivated land disappears into the wilderness. Per Abbot, “The tension these convergences create intrigues me both visually and emotionally. They reveal the shape of the land, they open our awareness of where we fall in our environment. Capturing where one space shifts into another highlights the truths of both.” Her representations of the convergent space where physical changes take place also serve as meditations on the transformations occurring within the interior landscape of the psyche.

July 6, 2022
Joseph Cornell (American, 1903 - 1972) 'Untitled (Soap Bubble Set, Latitude and Longitude Box)', ca. 1960 Box construction 10 x 15 ½ x 4 ¼ in. Gift of The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, 2002.15.4 Courtesy of The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia © 2022 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Visual Art

The Fralin Museum of Art Commemorates the Work of Leading American Artist Joseph Cornell

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the passing of Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), one of America’s most important and enigmatic artists, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has organized an exhibition of his work. Joseph Cornell: Enclosing Infinity, on view June 26, 2022-Feb. 12, 2023, is curated by Matthew McLendon, the Museum’s J. Sanford Miller Family director. The intimate, focused exhibition will feature six boxes from The Fralin’s collection, inviting visitors to enter Cornell’s world of fantasy.

July 6, 2022
Pink Moon on a black background
Visual Art

Pink, A Student-artist Exhibition at the Ruffin Gallery

Emerging from a series of weekly thesis presentations by fifteen artists from the Studio Art program, the exhibition considers the color pink unbounded by the sticky connotations and associations of constructed contexts. Beyond its power to signify such disparate notions as queens and communists, innocence and excess, fleshiness and futurism, does pink have a material presence of its own? If so, what might a liberated pink make possible?

July 6, 2022
The March sisters Meg Jo, Beth, and Amy (l-r Christine Jacobs, Sanjana Taskar, Summer Ainsworth, and Alexa Moore) navigate from childhood to adulthood in the Virginia Theatre Festival’s production of LITTLE WOMEN by Kate Hamill. Photo by Coe Sweet.
Drama

Virginia Theatre Festival to Present Little Women

The Virginia Theatre Festival will open its 2022 season with Kate Hamill’s fresh and innovative adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The production, directed by Aubrey Snowden, will open on July 15 in the Ruth Caplin Theatre.

July 5, 2022
Kate Tucker and her artwork
Visual Art

Freedom of the Press | Printmaker Kate Tucker Celebrates Native Species and Folklore in Rural North Louisiana

July 1, 2022 | by Jeffrey Roedel, Photos by Romero & Romero. With one bare foot steering the large silver press wheel, and two hands secure around the climbing boy’s bottom, his rainboots dangling over her ash-colored shop apron, this tangle of limbs and kinetic energy somehow stands in perfect poise, producing striking prints even so. With fresh ink sinking into paper, and cotton and linen, and then resting there to stir up stories of quiet afternoons, or wild encounters, or even legends.

https://www.louisianalife.com/freedom-of-the-press/

A rug with varied patterns in red, black, and white

The Roanoke Times: Fralin Museum Project Will Enrich our Understanding of Virginia's History

A $250,000 grant given to the Fralin Museum by the Henry Luce Foundation will help those of who live in the Roanoke Valley a better understanding of our pre-colonial history.

https://roanoke.com/opinion/editorial/editorial-fralin-museum-project-will-enrich-our-understanding-of-virginias-history/article_2f9a8a34-e8cd-11ec-ab2c-2bf9a3be70d8.html?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6.23.22&utm_content=version_A

The Virginia Theatre Festival logo overlays a group of people raising their top hats in a dance.
Drama

Live Drama Returns to UVA this Summer in Virginia Theatre Festival

The Virginia Theatre Festival – formerly known as the Heritage Theatre Festival – will literally and figuratively reopen its doors to the University of Virginia and local community with a season that includes a new adaptation of “Little Women,” along with “No Fear and Blues Long Gone: Nina Simone,” an acclaimed one-woman show about the legendary singer and civil rights activist.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/live-drama-returns-uva-summer-virginia-theatre-festival

Mike Rosensky’s Tuesday Small Group, October 29, 2021
Music

2021-22 Arts Council Libraries Grant: Making Noise and Reconnecting after COVID

​​​​​​​Making Noise, a performance series that originated in 2014 by Music Librarian Matthew Vest, has hosted a number of dramatic, musical, and dance performances over the years. Vest said, “[Making Noise] makes the library itself a locus of the types of scholarly and artistic conversations that typically happen in non-library spaces, simply by inviting music and noise into a controlled environment.”

June 23, 2022
(L to R) Chloe Rogers as Cinderella, Hope King as Little Red Riding Hood, and Ezra Smith as The Baker. Photo by Jannatul Pramanik Photography.
Drama

Enchanting Teen Musical “Into the Woods” Opens July 15 at Live Arts

June 20, 2022 – Live Arts Theater’s 2022 teen summer musical is the magical gem INTO THE WOODS, with music and lyrics by the incomparable Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The show is directed by Jessica Harris with music direction by Xavier Taylor and Austin Robey. INTO THE WOODS will have 12 performances, July 15 through July 31, 2022, at Live Arts Theater, 123 E. Water Street, in Charlottesville.

https://livearts.org/2022/06/enchanting-teen-musical-into-the-woods-opens-july-15/