The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $616,670 grant to the University of Virginia to create a research institute for interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and cultural projects related to the intersection of feminist Black and Indigenous Studies.
“To write the life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others,” James Boswell said, referring to the great 18th-century person of letters, Samuel Johnson, “may be reckoned in me a presumptuous task.” Exactly thus do I approach, with humility not unmixed with awe, Lisa Russ Spaar’s Madrigalia: New and Selected Poems
The Democracy Initiative has selected a new rotating lab to begin in the fall, led by co-directors Nomi Dave (Music) and Bonnie Gordon (Music), and Anne Coughlin (UVA School of Law). The Sound Justice Lab will explore what "justice" means to ordinary people around the world, how they pursuit it through and beyond formal legal mechanisms, and what role the arts can and do play in articulating and advancing claims.
Check out the current and upcoming exhibitions at The Fralin Museum of Art through July 2022.
“Language preservation and documentation were important before, but it has a new urgency,” Allison Bigelow, an associate professor in the University of Virginia’s Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, said recently.
This season, the McIntire Art Committee chose to display artwork by Nick Alexander, art therapist and children’s counselor, as well as Susie Juárez Rodriguez, Class of 2021 McIntire alumna, in the Connaughton Gallery, located on the third floor of Robertson Hall.
The exhibition 'I will never get tired and you will never get tired of me.' features new photographs and films by James Lam Scheuren including a collaborative series of silver prints with composer and intermedia artist Alex Christie.
UVA Department of Drama's Dance Program Presents Artist Talk & Demonstration with Riley Watts & Michelle Mola + Workshops.
On the evening of October 6th, 2017, the University of Virginia celebrated the historic Laying of the Cornerstone by Jefferson, Madison and Monroe with an opening night ceremony entitled the Bicentennial Launch Celebration.
With assistance from Special Collections Library curators, we present sweet greetings from eras past.
New Gift of Castillo-Brown Collection Expands Kluge-Ruhe!
This month brings with it ample opportunity to appreciate the work of Black authors, whether old or new, and experience love in all its beauty and depth from another perspective.
