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An exhibition is on display – and also online – of the winning entries in the art competition held by the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women’s Center to (re)present UVA students. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)

No More Stereotypes: Student Artists ‘(re)present’ UVA Students Today

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.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/no-more-stereotypes-student-artists-represent-uva-students-today

UVA Drama to Introduce New MFA Acting Company In Death Of The Author And God Of Carnage
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UVA Drama to Introduce New MFA Acting Company In Death Of The Author And God Of Carnage

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.

April 14, 2021
The Fralin Museum of Art Awarded Re-Accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums
Visual Art

The Fralin Museum of Art Awarded Re-Accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums

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.

April 16, 2021
Virginia Film Festival Receives $20,000 Grant From National Endowment for the Arts
Film

Virginia Film Festival Receives $20,000 Grant From National Endowment for the Arts

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.

February 9, 2021
Moon and field plants
Film

Horror Film Forensics

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.

https://engagement.virginia.edu/learn/thoughts-from-the-lawn/horror-film-forensics

Musicians Performing on Zoom
Music

Pandemic Performance: How UVA Music Faculty Continue to Adapt to the Pandemic’s Challenges

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.

https://engagement.virginia.edu/learn/thoughts-from-the-lawn/pandemic%20performance-flute

Illuminated grounds
Architecture

UVA Architecture Fabrication Labs – Collaborating and Making a Difference

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.

https://soundcloud.com/user-648419957/uva-architecture-fabrication-labs-collaborating-and-making-a-difference

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

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

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.

January 19, 2022
SEPIDEH DASHTI Sewing
Visual Art

Sepideh Dashti, Counterpoint

Counterpoint includes recent and new photography, textile, and video installation work by Sepideh Dashti. Counterpoint is on view in the Ruffin Gallery through February 24, 2022.

January 25, 2022
Hajjar Baban Headshot
Creative Writing

Poet Hajjar Baban Receives Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Hajjar Baban’s experience as an immigrant to America exists in all aspects of her work, she says, from “the words that I may obsess over to images that become motifs.” Baban – who received a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2020 and is currently a Master of Fine Arts student in the University of Virginia’s Creative Writing Program in poetry – was awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a merit-based award to support graduate study for immigrants and children of immigrants. Founded by Hungarian immigrants Daisy M. Soros and her late husband Paul Soros, the fellowship program honors the contributions of continuing generations of immigrants in the United States.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/poet-hajjar-baban-receives-soros-fellowship-new-americans

Marianne Kubik Theater Movement Class

Student Performance Groups Keep Their Art Alive in COVID-19 Pandemic

Acapella concerts on the Lawn, dance showcases, live theater productions – student performances have long graced the University of Virginia. In the past year, as coronavirus brought in-person shows to a halt, UVA’s performance groups adapted to create virtually and keep their art alive. Some groups are taking advantage of technology like Zoom or TikTok to allow students in different places to create, practice, or learn together virtually, while others have met in small groups with a lot of precautions in place. UVA Today reached out to a number of student arts groups across Grounds to find out how they survived the past year.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/student-performance-groups-keep-their-art-alive-covid-19-pandemic