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.
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Artnet: As Artists Look for Alternatives to the ‘Limiting’ Aspects of Figuration, Art Historian David Getsy Surveys the Landscape of Queer Abstraction
Art historian, curator, and professor David Getsy has been observing how abstraction lends itself to often less obvious—though no less potent—ways of communicating aspects of queer experience and embodiment.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Whatever It Takes: Gretchen Tibbits, Member of the Rotunda Society
Witnessing Gretchen Tibbits (Col ’89) in the wild, one might assume she was born fully formed, a hard-charging New York City investment banker ready to broker any power deal that sets foot in her path. It’s a look she wears well, making it easy to forget that she was once a fresh-faced college graduate arriving in the big city to carve out her niche.