UVA Arts, University of Virginia

Vol 18 Spring 24 Library
Letter

Welcome Back!!

As they have since our founding, the arts continue to provide UVA and its community with a vital outlet for expression, creating avenues to understanding that often transcend traditional communication and illuminate the world in powerful ways.
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Jon Batiste & American Symphony

The sun was dancing into the living room at Carr’s Hill on a late October afternoon as Grammy and Academy Award-winning recording artist Jon Batiste took his seat at the piano for a very special installment of the Arts on the Hill series that few in attendance will ever forget.
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MAḎAYIN • Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala

Lots of great ideas are hatched around an open fire. Ask Henry Skerritt. At The Fralin Museum of Art, he might tell you about one that was hatched at the former Three Notch'd Brewery, now the site of Charlottesville's City Market, that helped open a cross-cultural portal in the art world and changed lives in the process – starting with his.
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Architecture of the Negro Travelers’ Green Book

The 2018 Academy Award-winning film <em>Green Book</em> opened a lot of eyes to the brutal realities of what it meant to live and travel as a Black American in the 1950s and 60s.  It also provided a boost to a project that was started by three architectural historians who first met at the UVA School of Architecture in the 1990s.
Pan-University

Staff by Day, Artists After Hours
Music & Student Spotlight

Molly Joyce
Alumni Spotlight

How to Dance in Ohio
WTJU 91.1FM

The David Berman Memorial Fund
The Fralin Museum of Art

Educating from The Fralin
Creative Writing & Architecture

Alexa Luborsky's Poetry Machine
Drama

Everybody
Studio Art & Dance

nonhumanities
Architecture

Bridging Gaps One Brick at a Time

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Under the Table and Screaming

For five years, Erin O’Hare had a front row seat to the Charlottesville music scene as the music writer at<i>C-Ville</i>, the premier news/arts weekly in the region. She couldn’t have known that an opportunity was around the corner that would tell her earn her an unofficial Ph.D. in the subject.
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The Gift that Keeps Giving: Basil Hall Delivers Programmatic Rewards for Kluge-Ruhe

In its 25th year as a public museum, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection is widely acclaimed as an exemplar of the idea and practice of collaboration. From its inception, Kluge-Ruhe has been about so much more than the art. It has been about building bridges with people and communities and shining a light on vibrant cultures.
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The Reedville Fishermen’s Museum: Preserving Sea Chanteys and the Everyday Art of a Chesapeake Bay Community

Reedville is a small community in Virginia’s Northern Neck, a peninsula bordered by the Potomac River to the north, the Rappahannock River to the south, and the Chesapeake Bay to the east. Its history and identity is tied to the evolving commercial fishing industry; specifically, one small, lucrative fish: menhaden.

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