Days on the Lawn Visual & Performing Arts & Architecture Receptions
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UVA Arts Signature Events
Events hosted by UVA Arts, the Office of the Provost and Vice Provost for the Arts
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Current Events!!
Arts on the Hill
Arts on the Hill is a recurring event on Carr's Hill featuring artists and scholars from our faculty and student body and visiting artists and scholars from around the globe. President Jim Ryan will host guests each month during the academic year for performances and discussions around the Arts at UVA!!
Annual Events!!
Annual UVA Arts Welcome Picnic
Come learn about curricular, extra-curricular, programmatic, and volunteer opportunities from the Visual & Performing Arts & Architecture departments, programs, and community.
The Great Rotumpkin • A Spooktacular Halloween Projection
Dancing skeletons, spooky pumpkins, bubbling cauldrons and a haunted house will all make appearances on the exterior of UVA’s Rotunda this weekend in celebration of Halloween this year!!
President’s Speaker Series for the Arts
The President’s Speaker Series for the Arts aims to bring a global leader in the Arts to the University to speak about the value and meaning of the Arts to universities, communities, and the nation.
Past Events!!
Sesame Street Puppet Workshop
Get ready, Hoos—Sesame Street is making a special stop at UVA! On Thursday, March 20, some of the magic-makers behind Sesame Street are bringing joy, laughter, and a little behind-the-scenes Muppet magic to UVA. Muppet performer Matt Vogel (Big Bird, The Count, and more) and Jason Weber, Creative Supervisor of Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, will give an exclusive look into the world of Sesame Street. Expect fun surprises and a chance to relive childhood nostalgia—all for FREE! Don’t miss your chance to hang with the Muppets and make your day a little smarter, stronger, and kinder!
UVA Arts Presents Ailey II
UVA Arts will welcome Ailey II, the next generation of dance, to the Paramount Theatre on October 9 at 7:00pm. Performance is part of residency program that will include lectures and master classes with UVA students and an appearance in the UVA President’s Office “Arts on the Hill” Series.
A Standing Witness
UVA Arts will present A Standing Witness, a powerful and provocative song cycle collaboration between Grammy Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour and Pulitzer Prize-winner, former U.S. Poet Laureate, and UVA faculty member Rita Dove on Thursday, March 21 and Saturday, March 23 at 7:30 PM at Old Cabell Hall. The piece will feature internationally renowned mezzo soprano Susan Graham along with the acclaimed chamber ensemble Music from Copland House.
Brighter Together: Projection Mapping at UVA
The energetic pop-up projections blend UVA’s prominent architecture with colorful lights and music in hopes of providing an uplifting, joyful, impactful, and engaging encounter that will leave you with a bit of wonder, curiosity, and maybe a new shared experience or memory to draw from.
Tina Fey to be UVA President’s Speaker for the Arts on April 23, 2023
Tina Fey, as the 2023 UVA President’s Speaker for the Arts, will discuss her life and career, the impact of the arts on education, and on the world in which we live during a moderated conversation with the University of Virginia President Jim Ryan.
UVA's Bicentennial Launch Celebration
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.
The Berlin Wall at UVA
April 2014: Berlin Wall’s ‘Kings of Freedom’ Art was unveiled on UVA's grounds as a symbol of liberty.