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Anna Perkins Dozed Off in Class One Day. It Changed Her Life.

Natasha Dakouri-Hild has just been named a National Lecturer by the Archaeological Institute of America for 2023-24. 

Professor David Getsy’s book Queer Behavior: Scott Burton and Performance Art is the recipient of the 2023 Robert Motherwell Book Award for outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts, giv

Margo Smith AM, founding director of the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection was given the Thomas Jefferson Award for Service at a dinner hosted by the University of Virginia’s Board of Visitors in the Rotunda on June 1.

“It’s a blend of commemoration, awareness building, art and activism all at once,” said Catherine Walden, program director for the Mellon Race, Place and Equity Program.

Mamadou Dia is an award-winning film director, screenwriter and former journalist from Senegal who now teaches as an assistant professor of practice in the Departments of French and Media Studies.

Artist and filmmaker Anna Hogg based the film around her family history, and more specifically a quilt made by her great-grandmother. The quilt is seen in the film being hand-washed by the women in her family.

Professor of Arts Administration George Sampson and a cohort of Arts Administration students had worked on planning and executing a residency by free jazz great Bill Cole and his Untempered Ensemble.

A new exhibit at the University of Virginia has offered artists who identify as “undocumented” a place to showcase their work, and soon the exhibit organizers will be offering a place for those artists to create as well.

The Phillips Collection’s new academic partnership with the University Virginia is slated to begin in fall 2023.

Associate Professor Fotini Kondyli is the NEH Horace W.

As Artists Look for Alternatives to the ‘Limiting’ Aspects of Figuration, Art Historian David Getsy Surveys the Landscape of Queer Abstraction.

Effective July 1, 2022, Jennifer Bair, Professor of Sociology, will serve as the next Associate Dean for Social Sciences, and Sarah Betzer, Professor of Art, w

Natasha Dakouri-Hild has been nominated for the Leonard A. Lauder Visiting Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC).

Tyler Jo Smith (in a super secret ceremony) was awarded the 2021 Z Society Distinguished Faculty Award. We add this to Dr. Smith's recent Jefferson Scholars Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence. Congratulations Dr.

Rosario Cornejo has received a substantial Dumas Malone Graduate Research Fellowship to continue research on her dissertation, “Gems in the Sky: Bridging Astrology and Magic in the Lapidario of Alfonso X,” in Spain. 

Art has always had a place in connecting cultures and rediscovering history, but recent social isolation and unrest make it more crucial than ever as a key to learning from each other.

Dr. Andrea Roberts, planning historian, theorist, public humanities scholar, place preservationist and educator, joins the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Architecture as Associate Professor in Urban and Environmental Planning.

We are excited to announce the donation by Professor Greg Castillo and his partner Gary Brown of over 35 paintings from their private collection to Kluge-Ruhe!

David Getsy and Che Gossett have been awarded the Art Journal Award for their article: ... [...]

The Department of Art at the University of Virginia is pleased to announce that it is accepting applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Black Art in the Americas and... [...]