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UVa Arts Intern, Lydia Hendrickson, was part of the Scottsville Center for the Arts and the Natural Environment initiative putting the works of local artists in public windows in Scottsville. 

“We think its high time that Charlottesville made an investment in a new kind of public art that uplifts the stories of those who have been harmed in our past public artworks,” said Kendall King, a co-director with Visible Records.

Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics is devoted to contemporary design inspired by Islamic tradition. This is the sixth edition of the Jameel Prize and is the first time it has focused on design alone.

Fotini Kondyli has been named a NEH Horace W. Goldsmith Distinguished Teaching Professor for a three-year term beginning this month.

The Department of Art is excited to announce the appointment of Marisa Williamson as Assistant Professor of Visual Art with a research focus on Blackness.

Robbins's book, published by the University of Chicago Press, provides the first extended study of authorship in mid-20th century abstract painting in the US

This exhibition highlights the work produced by studio art majors during their final year at the University of Virginia.

Come see virtual exhibitions created by Beth Turner's Art and Experience and American Modernisms classes.

See Art and Experience HERE

Smith's paper "Bodies in Motion: Dance, Gesture, and Ritual on Greek Vases" examines dance gesture as a mechanism of ritual communication in ancient Greek vase-painting.

The Department will sponsor internships in the Visual Resource Center, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, and the Scottsville Center for the Arts and and the Natural Environment. Applications are due April... [...]

Professor Fiorani, UVA’s resident expert on Leonardo da Vinci, shares details and fun facts from her new book – and explains why the “Renaissance man” tag might be misapplied.

The prize will award one outstanding undergraduate or graduate artist $2,500. Applications are due May 2, 2021.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is now accepting applications for a graduate summer Internship in the Sculpture and Decorative Arts conservation lab.

"Life is what happens when you make other plans." highlights Archaeology student research with professors Tyler Jo Smith, Fotini Kondyli, and Anastasia Dakouri-Hild during COVID.

Vashti Harrison (Little Dreamers) reads from and discusses her work as well as how she became an author-illustrator on March 23, 2021.

The first exhibition of the 2021 season in Ruffin Hall, curated by PhD Candidates, Lucia Colombari and Kelvin L. Parnell Jr., is open through February 19th. 

The Department of Art invites applications from contemporary visual artists, working in any visual medium, whose creative work focuses on Blackness.

Kondlyi's six years on working on the Thebes Synergasia Excavation, where she's taken numerous undergraduate and graduate students, is featured in Hesperia 89.4. 

The book, out on Flood Editions, follows a rural eastern Colorado high school six-man football team through the entire season and is made mostly from video stills pull from over 40 hours of video footage.

Barbara Campbell Thomas's solo exhibition Pneuma is on display in the Ruffin Gallery through December 18, 2020. In conjunction with her exhibition, Ruffin Gallery Assistant, Olivia Pettee, sat down with Barbara to talk about her... [...]