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Histories on the Move; Choreographing Community and Company at UVA - Ariel Nereson, Assistant Professor of Dance Studies University at Buffalo
Dance

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.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/quick-on-its-feet-the-uva-dance-department-continues-their-renowned-programming-in-difficult-times

Jazz at 100 WTJU poster
Music

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.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/wtju-jazz100-nea

Virginia Film Festival To Receive $20,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Film

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.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/lights-camera-action-the-virginia-film-festival-s-celebrated-return-to-in-person-venues

Irrititja Kuwarri Tjungu Cover
Visual Art

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.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/kluge-ruhe-aboriginal-art-collection-launches-book-and-virtual-portal-with-australian-ambassador

Artist Chicho Lorenzo in front of his newest mural at WTJU 91.1FM. Image by Dan Grogan
Music

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.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/synesthesia-in-cville-new-wtju-mural-appeals-to-both-sound-and-sight

Eternity Was Shaped Like Her Lips by Ramón Martínez | Translated by Caitlin Nguyen and Mary-Dryden Miao
Creative Writing

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.”

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/global-connections-uva-spanish-students-publish-new-poetry-translations

Henry F. Skerritt, Curator of the Indigenous Arts of Australia at Kluge-Ruhe.
Visual Art

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.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/mellon-grant-revolutionizes-indigenous-studies-at-the-university-of-virginia

(L-R) Nicholas Rupert, Gabby Fuller, Jody Kielbasa (Vice Provost for the Arts), Savannah Hard, Amy Dalrymple, David Shim, Greatchen Tibbits (then Chair of UVA Arts Council), & Tim Michel (UVA Arts Council Member and creator of the UVA Arts Council Distinguished Artist Awards program) | Image by Tom Daly

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.

UVA Arts Magazine

https://magazine.arts.virginia.edu/stories/the-uva-arts-council-celebrates-30-years