WTJU 91.1 FM has been approved for a $20,000 Arts Education grant to support the development of an online jazz history curriculum. Adapted from WTJU’s Jazz at 100 radio series, this project will creatively engage students around the unique story and passion of jazz music.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Virginia Student Council’s Arts Committee approached UVA photographer Sanjay Suchak about teaching a Zoom workshop with smartphone photography tips and setting up a student photo contest. The hope was to give students an opportunity to get creative, and a new way to get outside and explore UVA and Charlottesville.
One course could change your entire life. That’s exactly what happened to University of Virginia alumnus Jason George, who plays Dr. Ben Warren on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and its spin-off, “Station 19.” Jody Kielbasa, director of the Virginia Film Festival and UVA’s vice provost for the arts, introduced George during Sunday night’s installment of the Virginia Film Festival’s virtual conversation, “Beyond the Screen: Reflecting Reality with the Cast of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘Station 19.’” The event was moderated by Chandler Ferrebee, the film festival’s program manager; the film festival is a program of the University and the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts.
The Women’s Center (renamed in 2017, thanks to the generous support of Maxine Platzer Lynn, a 1951 alumna of what is now the School of Education and Human Development) was created to offer more resources and programs to women at UVA and in the community – especially students, of course – and to foster leadership and work on gender justice. Today, its programs include mentoring and outreach to boys and young men, as well as to girls and young women.
The UVA Department of Drama will introduce its new MFA Acting company in two one-act plays that will stream April 22-25, 2021 on the ShowTix4U platform. Death of the Author by Steven Drukman and God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza and translated by Christopher Hampton, will be video recorded live on the Culbreth Theatre stage without an audience and with all actors masked and following protocols in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The performances are components of graduate course DRAM 7400: Mentored Study: Acting.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia has again achieved the highest national recognition afforded the nation’s museums. Accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) signifies excellence to the museum community, to governments, funders, outside agencies, and to the museum-going public. All museums must undergo a re-accreditation review at least every 10 years to maintain AAM accredited status.
The Virginia Film Festival has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects Award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the 2021 Virginia Film Festival. The VAFF is among 1,073 arts projects from across America that were selected during this first round of fiscal year 2021 funding in the NEA’s Grants for Arts Projects funding category.
Congratulations to UVA Music’s Professor Nomi Dave who won the Ruth Stone prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for best first monograph for her book “The Revolution’s Echoes: Music, Politics, and Pleasure in Guinea!”
Thoughts From the Lawn has a spooky treat this Halloween weekend! Composer, screenwriter, and adjunct film lecturer Matthew Marshall in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia leads us on a trail of horror film history, iconography, and deeper social meanings.
The show goes on thanks to the innovation, dedication, and collaboration among UVA faculty and student musicians! Kelly Sulick, Senior Lecturer in Flute at the University of Virginia discusses music collaboration and performance during the Pandemic as well as the exciting future for music performance at UVA.
On this UVA Speaks podcast, Melissa Goldman, Lab Manager in UVA’s School of Architecture, talks about the Fabrication Labs. The Lab’s mission is to provide an inclusive space where students, staff, and faculty can learn through practice by using the tools and techniques of making, prototyping, and crafting across the different disciplines of architecture. Goldman also speaks about MakerGrounds, a network of UVA shops, labs, and maker spaces across Grounds open to the UVA community and the Milton LandLab, a 172-acre experimental landscape space. Listen in to hear about examples of the small and large-scale products and projects created in these dynamic spaces.
The Virginia Film Festival has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects Award from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the 2022 Virginia Film Festival. The VAFF is among 1,248 projects across America totaling $28,840,000 that were selected to receive this first round fiscal year 2022 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects category.
