As part of the UVA Department of Drama’s production of Shaina Taub’s musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It this spring, we are excited to announce that on Saturday, April 5th, two members of the original cast of the Public Works production of the show for the Public Theater at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park – Joel Frost and UVA alumna Brianna Cabrera – will join us for a talkback after that night’s performance!
The University of Virginia art department is hosting opening receptions at Ruffin Hall throughout April as part of a thesis exhibition series for arts. This week, we spoke with Elena Yu.
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection’s latest exhibition is called “In the Beginning: Paintings by Senior Artists of the Spinifex Arts Project.” For Arts This Week, we spoke to the curator, Katina Davidson.
"Sesame Street” is coming to the University of Virginia’s Grounds. Cast members from the friendliest street in America will perform Thursday at Carr’s Hill for an Arts on the Hill event, following a workshop with students in Helms Theatre. Sesame Street puppeteer Matt Vogel, who gives life to Count von Count and Big Bird, is one of the cast members who will perform at Carr’s Hill. Vogel talked to UVA Today ahead of the performance about how he joined the show’s cast and some of the most surprising things about being on the show.
Les Yeux du Monde is pleased to present two new exhibitions, Russ Warren: FACES, and David Hawkins: New Works, which will open Friday, March 28th and run through Sunday, May 4th.
On the second floor of Shannon Library, two massive mixed-media collages hanging side by side are catching the attention of passers-by. The art installation, titled “Free to Be, a Collective Virginia Landscape,” is the work of Maria Villanueva, an Assistant Professor of Art who arrived at UVA in August. Using layered transfers of photographs, gouache and watercolor paints, and colored pencils, Villanueva mixes Charlottesville’s urban spaces with the lush landscape of the Blue Ridge Mountains, interspersing local birds, people, and texts into the visual narrative, all presented on giant scrolls.
Nici Cumpston has played a transformative role at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Over the past 16 years she has driven First Nations curatorial practice to new heights, shaping what began as a biennial exhibition into a festival of contemporary Indigenous art that surveys artmaking across the continent.
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia (The Fralin/the Museum) (UVA) today announced a transformative gift of modern Haitian art from the Collection of John Fox Sullivan and Beverly Knight Sullivan—considered one of the foremost collections in the United States. Among the approximately 100 promised works are 70 paintings by internationally celebrated artists as well as metalwork, assemblages, and drapo Vodou (also known as Haitian flags).
For over three decades, textile artist Myrlande Constant has depicted scenes from Haitian history, religion, and daily life through the large-scale, labor-intensive beaded embroidery of traditional Vodou flags. Now, her work will join the permanent collection of the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, as part of a landmark gift of approximately 100 modern and contemporary Haitian artworks from collectors John Fox Sullivan and his late wife Beverly Sullivan.
Sesame Street is coming to UVA!!
The Phaeton Gallery is hosting an opening reception as part of a joint exhibition for works by Krista Townsend and Nikki Hare for arts. This week, we spoke with artist Krista Townsend and Lisa Hogan with the gallery.
Every week before his radio show on the University of Virginia’s student-run station WXTJ, co-director Jacob Hobbs asks himself a question: “What do I want to subject everyone to this week?” Hobbs, along with fellow WXTJ co-director Mary Hall, hosts “High Up and Low Down,” a radio show that features house music, neo-soul and tracks by artists like Lady Gaga and Charli XCX. The show, Hall said, is “haphazard.” That’s by design. “Our station is special because it’s entirely free-form,” Hall said.
