The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia (UVA) takes a distinctive approach to interdisciplinary creation with Writer’s Eye. The literary competition challenges participants to respond to visual art from the Museum collection with original poetry and prose. Now in its 36th year, the annual program has become the Museum’s flagship educational offering.
Written by Biophilic Cities Program Director and A-School lecturer, JD Brown, and Helen Santiago Fink, Planning for Biophilic Cities recognizes nature as critical infrastructure for a rapidly urbanizing planet and the importance of proactively incorporating belonging and co-creation in the planning and design of biophilic cities to ensure that investments in nature address a diverse range of needs.
The second Lindner Lecture in Art History will be Thursday, 10/27/2022 with Ömür Harmanşah, Director of the School of Art and Art History & Associate Professor of Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago. His talk titled, "Landscape and Fieldwork in a Changing Climate: Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Anthropocene" will begin at 6.30pm in 160 Campbell Hall and will be followed by a reception in the Fayerweather Lounge.
The stage is set for the next two events in the University of Virginia’s “Arts on the Hill” series this semester. To showcase the art of acting, Jason George and Kathleen Turner will appear in separate events in November and December at Carr’s Hill, the home of UVA President Jim Ryan.
This summer, following several years of postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, University of Virginia researchers eagerly embarked on their first field season in the city of Utqiaġvik, Alaska.
It’s a life cycle familiar to many. A young couple marries. They grow their family by adding a pooch to the homestead and Fido becomes the center of attention. He may even make an appearance on the family holiday card, bookended by his adoring “mom and dad.” A few years later, husband and wife muster the courage to have an actual child and then comes the question: How to introduce the fur baby to the human baby? An alumna answers this question in her new book.
The Virginia Film Festival will celebrate its 35th Anniversary on November 2-6 with a robust program of more than 100 films and events, a stellar lineup of special guests, and an array of conversations that will once again take VAFF audiences beyond the screen to explore some of the most important issues of our time. HIGHLIGHTS: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Opens, Empire of Light Closes. Highlights Include All The Beauty And The Bloodshed; Good Night Oppy; Living; The Lost King; She Said; and Women Talking
The Virginia Film Festival will present more than 100 films, including dramas, comedies and documentaries, and will feature events with a lineup of guests discussing their careers and latest films. The festival runs from Nov. 2 to 6.
UVA School of Architecture is proud to announce that Elgin Cleckley, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Design Thinking, was recently named a 2021–22 Distinguished Public Scholar by the University of Virginia Office of Engagement. Cleckley was one of six UVA faculty to receive the award, which acknowledges excellent service to alumni, parents, and friends of the University.
We are excited to announce that Rabih Alameddine, UVA’s Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, has been selected as the winner of the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel The Wrong End of the Telescope (Grove Atlantic). “This year’s judges have done the seemingly impossible,” said Louis Bayard, PEN/Faulkner Awards Committee Chair. “They have found a ‘first among equals’ in a diverse slate of five extraordinary titles. We look forward to celebrating Rabih Allameddine’s exquisite novel, as well as the enduring work of his fellow finalists.”
ARTS ON THE HILL: One Night Only: Kathleen Turner LIVE! Two-time Golden Globe Winner & Academy and Tony Award Nominee!
SPICMACAY at UVA is excited to welcome TM Krishna to UVA as a part of his US tour on October 15th at McLeod Hall! The event seeks to give the music lovers of the Charlottesville community a cost-free opportunity to enjoy Indian classical music from a world-renowned Carnatic vocalist. TM Krishna will be accompanied by Akkarai Subhalakshmi on the Violin and Praveen Sparsh and Vijay Ganesh on the Mridangam.
