Two years after defying the odds and delivering twin girls at the University of Virginia Medical Center, a quadriplegic woman from Culpeper is sharing her story on the big screen at the Virginia Film Festival next month.
Virginia Humanities announced that Kalela Williams is serving as the new Director of the Virginia Center for the Book. The Virginia Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, works across the Commonwealth to unite communities of readers, writers, artists, and book lovers. It is the home of the Virginia Festival of the Book, which happens every year in March, as well as a book arts studio located in Charlottesville’s Jefferson School City Center.
Arts Administration, part of The Department of Art at the University of Virginia, welcomes Professor Bill Cole and the Untempered Ensemble for an Artist-in-Residence program from November 14-17, 2022, including concerts at the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, and the Dome Room of the Rotunda.
Three hand-crafted decoy ducks have been returned to the First Nations people of the River Murray after spending many years in the United States. The ducks are typical of decoys traditionally used for hunting by Aboriginal people living along the river in South Australia. Research from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) has found the ducks were created by Nganguruku and Ngarkat man Robert Joseph Tarby Mason in the 1940s.
Two guest soloists, each skilled in the art of improvisation, appeared in New York City on Friday night with the cutting-edge chamber group Ensemble Signal. One soloist was human: Nicole Mitchell, the veteran flutist, composer and bandleader whose albums and performances are regularly (and rightly) celebrated by jazz critics.
One of the University of Virginia’s most iconic landmarks is getting ready for its Halloween-style closeup with the return of the “Great Rotumpkin.” The “spooktacular” Halloween event, which debuted last Fall, will feature a variety of original Halloween projections shown on the Rotunda, including dancing skeletons, bubbling cauldrons, and a haunted house, sure to get the community in the holiday spirit.
UVA School of Architecture’s advanced research studio, Yamuna River Project/Thirsty Cities: Jaipur, (ARCH 4010_4011 / ALAR 8010) taught by Pankaj Vir Gupta and María Gonzalez Aranguren recently returned from their 10-day visit to India, where they spent time in Delhi and Jaipur.
Over 160 UVA School of Architecture students, with their studio faculty, headed north in early October 2022 for an immersive experience in New York City as part of the Arch 3010, Arch 7010, and UD 8010 studios.
On October 14, 2022, The Environmental Resilience Institute at UVA hosted the Environmental Futures Forum bringing together faculty, students, alumni, and partners across the University to launch its new Grand Challenges programs in Environmental Resilience and Sustainability. Following opening remarks by Provost Ian Baucom and ERI’s Director Karen McGlathery, sixteen faculty members representing university-wide collaborations in this area presented flash talks on their current research efforts.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia (UVA) takes a distinctive approach to interdisciplinary creation with Writer’s Eye. The literary competition challenges participants to respond to visual art from the Museum collection with original poetry and prose. Now in its 36th year, the annual program has become the Museum’s flagship educational offering.
Written by Biophilic Cities Program Director and A-School lecturer, JD Brown, and Helen Santiago Fink, Planning for Biophilic Cities recognizes nature as critical infrastructure for a rapidly urbanizing planet and the importance of proactively incorporating belonging and co-creation in the planning and design of biophilic cities to ensure that investments in nature address a diverse range of needs.
The second Lindner Lecture in Art History will be Thursday, 10/27/2022 with Ömür Harmanşah, Director of the School of Art and Art History & Associate Professor of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago. His talk titled, "Landscape and Fieldwork in a Changing Climate: Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Anthropocene" will begin at 6.30pm in 160 Campbell Hall and will be followed by a reception in the Fayerweather Lounge.
