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.
When Christine Moore (Engr ’92) came to the University of Virginia, it was with the plan to become an electrical engineer like her father and a hope to continue playing her flute. “I quickly realized that electrical engineering wasn't the best fit for me,” she remembered. She switched her major to chemical engineering and discovered the tremendous musical opportunities at UVA.
Joseph Cornell’s creations are visible in several major cities across the U.S., especially New York, but right here in Charlottesville, visitors can view the six Cornell boxes donated to The Fralin’s permanent collection – including four donated from the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation – in a special exhibition, “Enclosing Infinity.”
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. Tickets are $20 for adults and are available through the Box Office at boxoffice@livearts.org, by phone at 434-977-4177 x123, or online at livearts.org/tix. A discounted ticket price of $15 is available for students and senior citizens. INTO THE WOODS photo by Jannatul Pramanik.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 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.
