Past Events

Friday, April 25, 2025

5-7pm | Ruffin Hall

 

Please join the Department of Art in celebrating our exhibiting Studio Art Majors and Aunspaugh Fellows. Exhibitions will be on view in Ruffin Gallery and throughout Ruffin Hall.

Friday, April 18, 2025

5-7pm | Ruffin Hall

 

Please join the Department of Art in celebrating our exhibiting Studio Art Majors and Aunspaugh Fellows. Exhibitions will be on view in Ruffin Gallery and throughout Ruffin Hall.

Friday, April 11, 2025

5-7pm | Ruffin Hall

 

Please join the Department of Art in celebrating our exhibiting Studio Art Majors and Aunspaugh Fellows. Exhibitions will be on view in Ruffin Gallery and throughout Ruffin Hall.

Friday, March 28, 2025

5pm | Ruffin Gallery

 

Ruffin Gallery at the UVA Department of Art presents the installation New Level Heads by Christopher Cozier, a mixed-media artist who lives and works in Trinidad. Cozier is the 2025... [...]

Thursday, March 6, 2025

7:00 pm | Ruffin 120

Sculpture and Film will be hosting Bryan Ortiz, who will be giving an artist lecture in Ruffin 120 on Thursday, March 6th @7pm

BRYAN ORTIZ IS AN ARTIST BASED IN FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS WITH ROOTS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA... [...]

Friday, February 21, 2025

5-7pm | Ruffin Gallery

 

Ruffin Gallery at the UVA Department of Art presents the installation New Level Heads by Christopher Cozier, a mixed-media artist who lives and works in Trinidad. Cozier is the 2025... [...]

Thursday, February 20, 2025

6:30 pm | Campbell 158

Murad Khan Mumtaz, Associate Professor in the Art Department, Williams College (and UVA Art... [...]

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

6:30pm | Campbell 160

 

Due to today’s weather, the in-person talk is cancelled. We will be shifting to a Zoom only format. Link here:

... [...]

Friday, February 14, 2025

5 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Four Decades of UVA Painters, Curated by... [...]

Thursday, February 6, 2025

6:30pm | Campbell 158

Exploring the Impact of Modernity on the Crafts of the Middle East... [...]

Saturday, February 1, 2025

5 pm | Online

In honor of Naomi Rabb Winston, NSAL established an annual... [...]

Friday, January 31, 2025

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Four Decades of UVA Painters, Curated by... [...]

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art

Wednesday, December 25, 2024

11- 5 everyday | Visible Records

Visible Records and Infinite Repeats are hosting an extended WINTER MARKET!!! 20% of all... [...]

Friday, December 6, 2024

1 - 4 pm | Zoom

With pleasure, we announce this year’s dissertation presentations on December 6, 1-4pm... [...]

Thursday, December 5, 2024

5 pm | Virtual

Join us on Thursday, December 5th, from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM... [...]

Saturday, November 23, 2024

6 pm | Ruffin Hall 103B

Sunday, November 17, 2024

12:30 - 2 | The Fralin Museum of Art

Gallery Talk with Xolile ‘X’ Madinda

Ubuhlanti is a Xhosa gathering... [...]

Saturday, November 16, 2024

12 - 3 pm | The Fralin Museum of Art

New Tape Worns: Public Cassette-loop Making

Live creation of... [...]

Friday, November 15, 2024

1 - 2:30 pm | The Fralin Museum of Art

Ubuhlanti: Solution-Oriented Being Pop-Up Platform

A pop-up platform... [...]

Friday, November 15, 2024

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Hall, First Floor Media Gallery

Thursday, November 14, 2024

6:30 | Campbell Hall 160

Suzanne Blier, Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies, History of Art and... [...]

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

6:30 - 7:45 pm | Campbell 160

Please join the UVA Department of Art for two public programs featuring Los Angeles-based artist, activist and educator... [...]

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

6 pm | Visible Records

Please join the UVA Department of Art for two public programs featuring Los Angeles-based artist, activist and educator... [...]

Monday, November 11, 2024

5 pm | Campbell 153

In dialogue: Veronica Jackson and Andrea Douglas

Friday, November 8, 2024

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Friday, November 8, 2024

4 - 5 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Sunday, November 3, 2024

11 am | Culbreth Theater

Academy Award-winning director Paul Wagner trains his lens onto one of the most influential American artists of the 20th-century.... [...]

Sunday, November 3, 2024

The Virginia Film Festival, now in its 37th year, is a program of the University of Virginia and is widely recognized as one of the leading... [...]

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

6:30 pm | Fayerweather Lounge

Come one!! Come all!

Pizza party and information session for ALL archaeologists at UVA 

on OCTOBER 29th at 6:30 pm in... [...]

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

5 pm | First Floor Gallery of Harrison/Small

American Modernisms: Modern Stories, Types, & Aesthetics, curated by the Spring 2024 graduate seminar ARTH 9545 led by ... [...]

Monday, October 28, 2024

5 pm | Email submission

In conjunction with UVA Arts, the UVA Library’s Art in Library Spaces... [...]

Monday, October 28, 2024

5 pm | National Liberty Museum

National Liberty Museum Presents the Power of Art as Civic Dialogue as it Hosts an Ambitious New Exhibition Curated by Philadelphia... [...]

Friday, October 25, 2024

The University’s Family Weekend 2024 will take place from Oct. 25-27.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

5:30 - 7 | First Floor of Harrison/Small Library

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

1- 4 pm | Newcomb Ballroom & South Meeting Room

Representatives from more than 50 majors, minors, and programs will be on hand!

No registration is necessary. Visit Hoos Involved to... [...]

Monday, October 21, 2024

9 am | Ruffin Gallery

This exhibition celebrates the mission and history of UVA’s ArtLab Residency at Mountain Lake Biological... [...]

Thursday, October 17, 2024

7 - 9 pm | Ruffin Hall

Tuesday, October 15, 2024

6 - 7 pm | Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

Join Virginia Center for the Book for the launch of “MORNINGSIDE” with author Aran Shetterly... [...]

Friday, October 4, 2024

7:10 - 7:40 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Endurance, grief, and collective power drive The Exact Right Amount of Force, a performance finale that runs from 7:10 – 7:... [...]

Friday, October 4, 2024

5 pm | Campbell Hall 153

The East Asia Center, the Department of Art and the Fralin Museum will be hosting Yujiro Seki, director and producer of ... [...]

Friday, October 4, 2024

5 pm | Ruffin Gallery

 The Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures presents The Threat, The, an indoor and outdoor exhibition that examines and... [...]

Thursday, October 3, 2024

6:30 pm | Campbell Hall

Visual manipulation has been common in war photography, but in the digital age, correcting and colorizing vintage images has become pervasive... [...]

Thursday, October 3, 2024

5:30 - 8 pm | The Arts Center in Orange

Join the Arts Center in Orange for First Thursday in October to celebrate the opening of our latest exhibition: ... [...]

Thursday, October 3, 2024

4 pm | Ruffin 220

Thursday, October 3, 2024

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Hall

Details forthcoming

Thursday, September 26, 2024

5 - 6:15 | Karsh Institute of Democracy, Bond House

Thursday, September 26, 2024

3 - 5 pm | Zoom

One can easily admit that the term GENIUS has been abused by contemporary society. Nowadays, child prodigies, tech moguls, athletes—not to... [...]

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

5 pm | New City Arts

Image courtesy of the artist

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

2 pm | Shannon Library 308, DH Center/ Scholars’ Lab Common Room

Please join us in welcoming Victoria Szabo to the Scholars’ Lab and the DH Center for her talk, “Critical Approaches to Visualizing Cities: Representing the Past and Cultural Memory”.

Friday, September 20, 2024

9:30 am - 3:45 pm | Multiple Locations

Exploring law, tactics and norms that silence essential voices.

This multidisciplinary... [...]

Thursday, September 19, 2024

9 am - 2:45 pm | UVA School of Law; Purcell Reading Room

Exploring law, tactics and norms that silence essential voices.

This multidisciplinary... [...]

Monday, September 16, 2024

1:30 pm | Zoom

The Emerging Scholars Working Group of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, in association with the Historians of... [...]

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art

UVA Studio Art alum Heather Beardsley’s Tell the Bees is more than an exhibition; it’s a conversation. Lean in and whisper... [...]

Friday, September 13, 2024

5 - 7 pm | Les Yeux du Monde

Les Yeux du Monde proudly presents the fifth installment of an exhibition series orchestrated to honor the memory and scholarship of... [...]

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

11 am - 3 pm | Newcomb Ballroom

Join the ISO for the Fall Education Abroad Fair! Learn about the many different study abroad programs available for UVA students. Meet with... [...]

Sunday, September 8, 2024

6 - 8 pm | Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds

SAVE-THE-DATE

UVA Arts Welcome Picnic
Sunday, September 8, 2024 • 6:00-8:00pm
Betsy and John Casteen Arts... [...]

Saturday, September 7, 2024

10 am - 4 pm | New Cabell Hall 236

Visible Man, or The Culture of Film (1924), by the Hungarian writer and critic Béla Balázs (1884-1949), was published exactly a... [...]

Friday, September 6, 2024

5 - 7:30 pm | New City Arts

Join us for an exhibition opening on Friday, September 6, 2024 from 5:00-7:30PM for... [...]

Friday, September 6, 2024

9:30 am - 4 pm | New Cabell Hall 236

Thursday, September 5, 2024

5 - 7 pm | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Join us at the Kluge-Ruhe for a reception on Thursday September 5th from 5-7pm to welcome Kluge-Ruhe’s 2024-25 First Nations... [...]

Friday, August 30, 2024

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

 The Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures presents The Threat, The, an indoor and outdoor exhibition that examines and... [...]

Friday, August 9, 2024

13 Lefkosias Street, 11252 Athens Attica

Cynefin is a Welsh word that does not have an exact equivalent in the English language. Often translated as habitat, the word has a deeper,... [...]

Saturday, August 3, 2024

7 pm | Carver Substation

Featured artists include:

Lindsey Arturo | Chrystine Rayburn | Christina C. Nguyen | Art Jones | Kaitlyn... [...]

Sunday, July 14, 2024

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia

Curated By: Djambawa Marawili, W. Wanambi, Yinimala Gumana, Wäka Munuŋgurr, Henry Skerritt and Kade McDonald. Organized by the Kluge... [...]

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Online

Every Fall, the VAFF showcases new narrative and documentary features, independent and international projects, and local filmmakers from... [...]

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Upper West Oval Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia

Saturday, June 22, 2024

12 - 2 pm | New City Arts

Friday, June 7, 2024

5 - 7:30 pm | New City Arts' Welcome Gallery

First Friday Opening Reception

June 7 from 5-7:30PM; Artist talk at 6PM.
Free and open to the public.... [...]

Friday, June 7, 2024

5:30 - 7:30 pm | Second Street Gallery

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present The Art of Collage, a group exhibition of 41 artists to be held... [...]

Thursday, June 6, 2024

5 - 7 pm | UVA Arts Grounds, Culbreth Road, Northwest corner of Ruffin Hall

“Back-to-Back: Hands to Earth” William Bennett, 2024, 72” x 43” x 30”

Two recycled Indiana grey limestone blocks formed during... [...]

Saturday, June 1, 2024

10am - 5pm | Fralin Museum of Art

August 28, 2021 - June 1, 2024

Fralin Museum of Art

Admission is always FREE

Friday, May 31, 2024

2 - 5 pm |The Rotunda

This exciting exhibit will be on view in the Rotunda on Friday afternoon, May 31, 2024, from 2-5 p.m.

Thursday, May 30, 2024

3 pm CET | American Academy in Rome Lecture Room and Cryptoporticus

The American Academy in Rome will host a seminar and concert honoring the life and work of the archaeologist ... [...]

Friday, May 24, 2024

10 am - 12 pm | Zoom

The Met’s fellows present cross-cultural and transhistorical connections throughout The Met collection that go beyond traditional... [...]

Friday, May 24, 2024

5 pm | Online

We invite UVA students from any school to participate in this year's RGW Prize call for submissions.  Accepted submissions include,... [...]

Saturday, May 18, 2024

11:30 am | Culbreth Theater (Drama Building)

The Art Department graduation ceremony will be held at 11:30am on Saturday, May 18, in the Culbreth Theatre (the Drama... [...]

Saturday, May 18, 2024

12:30 - 3 pm | Ruffin Gallery

In celebration of the 2024 Studio Art graduates and Aunspaugh Fellows of the University of Virginia’s Department of Art, the Ruffin... [...]

Monday, May 6, 2024

Ruffin Hall | 179 Culbreth Rd.

Please join the Department of Art and the rest of our community in congratulating our graduating students and 5th Year Aunspaugh... [...]

Monday, May 6, 2024

5:30 pm PST | McMurty 370, Stanford University

Global Approaches to Sacred Space Workshop Series 2023-2024 co-sponsored by the Ho Center for Buddhist Studies and the Department of... [...]

Monday, April 29, 2024

Ruffin Hall | 179 Culbreth Rd.

Please join the Department of Art and the rest of our community in congratulating our graduating students and 5th Year Aunspaugh... [...]

Friday, April 26, 2024

5 pm | Online

The Department's Distinguished Majors Program (DMP) is an opportunity for qualified undergraduates to undertake substantial, independent research projects while working closely with department faculty. Participants are prepared for advanced... [...]

Friday, April 26, 2024

5 pm | I front of the Fralin Museum of Art

It's the last Final Friday of the year at The Fralin, so come on out!

There will be...

Live music performed by the University... [...]

Friday, April 26, 2024

7 pm | UVA Arts Grounds

Get ready to embark on a magical journey at The Stan Winston and Steven Warner Festival of the Moving Creature, taking place on April 26th at... [...]

Thursday, April 25, 2024

5 pm | Campbell Hall 160

An evening in honor of Italian poet and writer Antonella Anedda, who will speak of her interest in art, poetry and the possibility to derive... [...]

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

11 am | Wilson 1st Floor Lobby Lounge

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

12:30 pm | Zoom

Please join AISEES on April 24 for a lecture by Marina Mandrikova. The lecture will begin at 9:30 a.m. PT / 12:30 p.m. EST... [...]

Monday, April 22, 2024

Ruffin Hall | 179 Culbreth Rd.

Please join the Department of Art and the rest of our community in congratulating our graduating students and 5th Year Aunspaugh... [...]

Monday, April 22, 2024

Some years ago, Leslie Anne Baltz, a double major in this department, died in tragic circumstances, and her parents established the Leslie Baltz Art Study Fund in her memory. Its purpose is to assist a rising third or fourth-year major in art... [...]

Friday, April 19, 2024

2 pm | Sacramento State

The twentieth annual Art History Symposium Towards a Multiple Worldview: Remapping Paradigms of Modern and Contemporary Art... [...]

Thursday, April 18, 2024

The 2024 Howland Symposium engages with the scale of the particulate—from dust, smoke, sand, gravel, or similarly mobile units of matter—and... [...]

Monday, April 15, 2024

Ruffin Hall | 179 Culbreth Rd.

 

Please join the Department of Art and the rest of our community in congratulating our graduating students and 5th Year... [...]

Friday, April 12, 2024

2 pm | Shannon Library

Join UVA Library & artist Amy Chan to celebrate the public art piece dedicated to the UVA Asian American community on the second... [...]

Friday, April 12, 2024

12 pm | Campbell Hall 160

The Role of Mud in the Darien Rainforest

Rolando Vargas, a Rising... [...]

Friday, April 12, 2024

5 pm | Online

To encourage new scholarship in the field of ceramics, the American Ceramic Circle (ACC) annually underwrites... [...]

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Multiple: Note the Lecture on Tuesday

Part of the  “Paradoxes of Ancient Citizenship” events of the academic year.

Professor Myles Lavan (St. Andrews) for:

Monday, April 8, 2024

Ruffin Hall | 179 Culbreth Rd.

Please join the Department of Art and the rest of our community in congratulating our graduating students and 5th Year Aunspaugh... [...]

Sunday, April 7, 2024

TBD | Kardinal Hall

Sisters Project Peru, a new CIO at UVA, is seeking donations for an art auction we are hosting on April 7th at Kardinal Hall. SPP was founded with the mission of providing healthcare access to the community of Huacahuasi, a rural village in the... [...]

Saturday, April 6, 2024

5 - 8 pm | Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington

Federico Cuatlacuatl, Xochipitzahuatl-Nova (still), 2024, Three-channel HD video installation, color, sound, 10 min.

Saturday, April 6, 2024

6 pm | Vinegar Hill Theater

... [...]

Friday, April 5, 2024

Ruffin Hall, 2nd Floor Terrace

Thursday, April 4, 2024

6 pm | Riese Lounge at 721 Broadway

Portrait And Place: Photography In Senegal, 1840–1960 (2024) Author Giulia Paoletti In Conversation With Smooth Nzew

Thursday, April 4, 2024

5:30 pm | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Join us for an Artist Talk with Lisa Waup, who will be in... [...]

Monday, April 1, 2024

5 pm | Online

Muralism, Indigeneity & Contemporary Art in Cholula

Sunday, March 31, 2024

McGuffey Art Center

On a Scale serves as a visual testimony of the intricacies of our present-day milieu, revealing and exploring the tension that lies... [...]

Thursday, March 28, 2024

1 pm | Zoom

Career Paths in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Alumni Panels

Interested in learning about your career options... [...]

Thursday, March 28, 2024

2 - 5 pm | Room 308 of the Main Library Building (now known as the Shannon Library)

Experience the Crystal Palace in Virtual Reality.

What did people in England during the nineteenth century care about? What did they... [...]

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

5 pm | New Cabell Hall 323

Łukasz Stanek, University of Michigan

"Architecture in Global Socialism: Poland, West Africa, and the Middle East in the... [...]

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

3 pm | Fayerweather Hall Lounge

Professor Douglas Fordham, Professor Beth Turner, and Chris Jessee
What did people in England during the nineteenth... [...]

Friday, March 22, 2024

5 pm | Online

The UVA Department of Art is excited to be sponsoring a limited number of paid internship positions in Summer 2023! Internship applications are open to all rising 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year studio and art history ... [...]

Friday, March 22, 2024

6:30 pm | VMFA Reynolds Lecture Hall

The Mary Ann Frable Lecture in Ancient Art: It's Showtime!  Greek Vases and Ancient Performances

Fri, Mar 22, 2024... [...]

Thursday, March 21, 2024

10:30 | R-Lab, Fine Arts Library, UVA

A conversation on ... [...]

Friday, March 15, 2024

4 pm | Brooks Hall Commons

Changing Social Relationships Between Plantation Owners and Their Laborers in the 17th-Century Chesapeake: Evidence from Tobacco... [...]

Friday, March 15, 2024

5:30 pm | tranSci Lab for Real World Chemistry and Creative Communication, Chemistry Building, Room 222

Exhibition opening March 15th at 5:30p @ the tranSci Lab for Real World Chemistry and Creative Communication, Chemistry Building, Room 222.... [...]

Friday, March 15, 2024

11:30 - 13:00 | Fayerweather Lounge

WHAT: Majors Party and Info Session

WHERE: Basement of Fayerweather Lounge

WHEN: 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

FOOD:... [...]

Thursday, March 14, 2024

1 pm | Zoom

Career Paths in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Alumni Panels

Interested in learning about your career options... [...]

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

11:59 p | Online

The Undergraduate Research Symposium wil take place on Thursday, April 18, 2024

Undergraduate students from all disciplines at UVA are invited to present their research and creative inquiry at this annual event. Students may use the... [...]

Sunday, March 3, 2024

On view | Kluge-Ruhe

March 16, 2023 - March 3, 2024

On view in the... [...]

Saturday, March 2, 2024

1 pm | Virtual

Join the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for the 14th annual Caroline and H. McCoy... [...]

Friday, March 1, 2024

5 pm | Online

Set the beautiful hills of Tuscany and the city of Rome, this program offers students a unique opportunity to learn the principles... [...]

Friday, February 23, 2024

9:30 am | Zoom

The Studio DMPs and Aunspaugh Fellows will be welcoming Katrina Palmer, as a guest speaker on Friday, February 23rd at 9:30am (via... [...]

Friday, February 23, 2024

10 am - 5 pm | Wilson 142

In collaboration with the IHGC and New Literary History, Christa Robbins, Bruce Holsinger (English), and Rachel... [...]

Friday, February 23, 2024

3 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

EscapeRoom, Curated by Kim Bobier and Marisa Williamson

February 23 - March 29, 2024

... [...]

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Morning | Music Library

Thursday, February 22, 2024

7 pm | Old Cabell Hall Auditorium

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

1 - 3 pm | Auditorium of the Harrison Institute

A Conversation with Sara Curruchich: Indigenous Arts and Activism.

 

 

 

 

 ... [...]

Monday, February 19, 2024

Class visits in Spanish, Art, Global Studies, and Music Departments.  Projection of  Sara Curruchich’s movie “Desde... [...]

Sunday, February 18, 2024

11 am | Ruffin 203

We are pleased to announce the return of the Arts Students Society!! Have ideas about what arts students at UVA need? Unsure about making arts friends? Want to collaborate with other artists? Well the Art Students Society is for you! We are... [...]

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Applications are now open for the 2024-2025 Digital Humanities Fellowship cohort. The application deadline for fellowships to be held during the 2024-2025 academic year is February 15th, 2024. More details on how to apply at the... [...]

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

9:30 am | Zoom

The Film/Cinema Concentration will be welcoming Noor Abed as a guest speaker on Wednesday, February 14th at 9:30am (via ZOOM). She... [...]

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

9 - 11:30 am/12:30 - 3:00 pm | Ruffin 120

The Sculpture Concentration is hosting visiting US-based palestinian Israeli artist Abed Shalabi to sculpture classes (in Ruffin 120) this... [...]

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

7 pm | Latinx Student Center

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The New City Arts Internship is a paid 12-week learning opportunity for a UVA Arts student who is passionate about the arts. ... [...]

Saturday, February 3, 2024

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia showcases Indigenous art in Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala and an exhibition of slit drums of New Guinea.

Saturday, February 3, 2024

4 - 6:30 pm | Rotunda Upper West Oval Room

Mayatili Marika will deliver the W. Wanambi Distinguished Lecture in the Dome Room of the Rotunda on Feb 3 at 4 pm, followed by a reception in the Upper West Oval Room. 

Saturday, February 3, 2024

10 am - 12 pm | Second Street Gallery

This workshop is now SOLD OUT. Email us at info@... [...]

Friday, February 2, 2024

5:30 - 7:30 pm | Second Street Gallery

Charlottesville Indigenous Art Takeover 2024

Friday, February 2, 2024

5 - 7 pm | Fralin Museum of Art

Celebrate the opening of Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala during a... [...]

Friday, February 2, 2024

10 - 11:30 am | Second Street Gallery

Charlottesville Indigenous Art Takeover 2024

Get an exclusive first-look and engage in enriching discussions at our special... [...]

Friday, February 2, 2024

3 pm | Fralin Museum of Art

Charlottesville Indigenous Art Takeover 2024

Thursday, February 1, 2024

The ArtLab Artists-in-Residence program began informally in 2013 when 13 artists were invited to stay at Mountain Lake for part of the summer... [...]

Thursday, February 1, 2024

12:20 pm | Bond House 116-118.

The Paradoxes of Ancient Citizenship Working Group is delighted to announce two upcoming events with ... [...]

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

5 7 pm | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Yolngu delegation visiting Washington DC for the opening of Madayin at American University Museum, March 2024.Celebrate the opening of ... [...]

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

5 pm | Gibson Room (Cocke Hall)

The Paradoxes of Ancient Citizenship Working Group is delighted to announce two upcoming events with ... [...]

Monday, January 29, 2024

6 - 7 pm | Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall, Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education

Murad Khan Mumtaz, Assistant Professor, Williams College and UVa Art Departmen Alum

Saturday, January 27, 2024

6 - 7 pm | Visible Records

This Friday, January 27, 2024 from 6 - 10pm Visible Records is hosting a very special film screening featuring works by Rosalind Nashashibi, Federico Cuatlacuatl, Morgan Ashcom, and Patricia Nguyen. 

Join us for an evening of art,... [...]

Friday, January 26, 2024

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

6 pm | Ruffin Hall 206 (Photography Classroom)

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

5 pm | Online

MAP FORUM PRESENTS: The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint ~ Presented by... [...]

Friday, January 19, 2024

Odds & Ends is an experimental film festival located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The festival will hold its 2nd annual screening on April 6th, 2024 at the Vinegar Hill Theatre and will be presented by Light... [...]

Monday, January 15, 2024

11 am | Scholar's Lab

Applications for the Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities are due soon! The application deadline for Graduate Fellowships in Digital Humanities to be held in the Scholars’ Lab during the 2024-2025 academic year is February 15th, 2024.

Thursday, January 11, 2024

5:30 pm | Second Street Gallery

Monday, January 8, 2024

Upper West Oval Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia

Waŋupini (clouds) is the same story as my father taught me about the sunset.

—Bulthirrirri Wunuŋmurra

... [...]

Saturday, January 6, 2024

11 am - 2 pm | Second Street Gallery

Sunday, December 31, 2023

5 pm | Fralin Museum of Art

Sunday, December 31, 2023

5 pm | Fralin Museum of Art

Curated by Emma Dove, she/her, 2022–2023 Barringer-Lindner Curatorial Fellow... [...]

Sunday, December 31, 2023

5 pm | Fralin Museum of Art

Sunday, December 31, 2023

5 pm | Fralin Museum of Art

Saturday, December 16, 2023

11 am | Second Street Gallery

Join us for a free, in-person artist talk between exhibiting artist Clay Witt and Second Street Gallery’s Executive Director &... [...]

Friday, December 15, 2023

5 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Friday, December 15, 2023

Odds & Ends is an experimental film festival located in Charlottesville, Virginia. The festival will hold its 2nd annual screening on April 6th, 2024 at the Vinegar Hill Theatre and will be presented by Light... [...]

Thursday, December 14, 2023

5:30 - 7 pm | Second Street Gallery

Saturday, December 9, 2023

Open All Day | Benedict Gallery at Sweet Briar College

Oct. 4 to Dec 9. 2023Benedict Gallery at Sweet Briar College — Open 24/7... [...]

Thursday, December 7, 2023

2 - 5 pm | Fayweather Hall 102

On Thursday, Dec. 7, in Fayerweather Hall, room 102, from 2-5 pm, we will host professor Stella... [...]

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

7 - 8 pm | Online

Join UVA Clubs for an exclusive Behind the Scenes experience as we embark on an insightful art studio tour and creative practice talk... [...]

Monday, December 4, 2023

6:30 pm | Campbell 160

Lindner Lecture Series: Mapping Art History and its Futures: Steven Nelson in Conversation with David Getsy 

Speakers: 
... [...]

Sunday, December 3, 2023

10 am - 4 pm | Kluge-Ruhe

August 12 - December 3, 2023 • 10am-4pm  ... [...]

Friday, December 1, 2023

5 pm | Visible Records

A Two-Person Exhibition by Lucia Jones &... [...]

Friday, December 1, 2023

5 pm | Ruffin Hall

Please join us for a mid-year 4th year exhibition! Maddy Veloce is showing Dec 1-8... [...]

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

7 pm | Violet Crown

The Price of Everything
Directed by Nathaniel Kahn 
Starring Jeff Koons, Jeffrey Deitch 

Rated NR | Runtime 1 hours &... [...]

Sunday, November 19, 2023

All Weekend | Virginia Museum of History

Representation matters. It matters because it impacts how we interact with our fellow Americans, the way that we educate our children, and it... [...]

Thursday, November 16, 2023

2:15 pm | Zoom

The ARTS 2620 Drawing II class invites you to join them for a talk by visiting artist ... [...]

Thursday, November 16, 2023

4 pm | Wilson 142

"Video Games and the Pornography of Death* Amanda D. Phillips, Georgetown University Presented by Games Lab
11/16, Wilson 142, 4-6 pm.... [...]

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

5 pm ET | Online

Predoctoral dissertation fellowships support advanced graduate research in the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, urbanism... [...]

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

6 pm | Ruffin Hall 206

Simon Benjamin is a Jamaican artist and filmmaker whose practice considers how the past ripples into the present in unexpected ways.... [...]

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

7 pm | Old Cabell Hall

On November 14 at 7pm, the UVA Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures will host a screening of the recently... [...]

Monday, November 13, 2023

5 pm | Campbell 153

Saturday, November 11, 2023

8 - 9:30 pm | Light House Studio at Vinegar Hill Theatre

AFP challenges filmmakers to write, film, edit and screen their films in 72 hours! We cannot wait to debut each team's short film on... [...]

Saturday, November 11, 2023

NOVEMBER 11 - 13 | Doha, Qatar

Islamic Art History and the Global Turn, The Tenth Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art 

November 11 - 13, 2023, Doha... [...]

Friday, November 10, 2023

4:00 - 5:15 | Brooks Hall Commons

Corey Sattes, Curator of Archaeological Collections, Monticello

Friday, November 10, 2023

4 pm | Virtual (Zoom)

Friday, November 10, 2023

6 pm |Visible Records Gallery

A Two-Person Exhibition by Lucia Jones &... [...]

Friday, November 10, 2023

12 pm | Campbell Elmaleh Gallery

Thursday, November 9, 2023

5 pm | Fralin Museum

Katherine Burnett, Professor of Chinese Art History and Founder and Director of the Global Tea Institute for the... [...]

Monday, November 6, 2023

5 pm | Campbell 153

In an increasingly diverse nation, one riven by class, race, and political division, including renewed battles over our nation’s history,... [...]

Friday, November 3, 2023

10 am - 2 pm | Various locations, Campbell Hall

We invite parents and families of our A-School students to join us at Campbell Hall to kick off Family Weekend (11.3– 11.5) with the... [...]

Friday, November 3, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Hall, 1st Floor

Please join us for an exhibition of ArtLab 2023 students showing work made at and inspired by their Mountain Lake Biological Station... [...]

Thursday, November 2, 2023

6:30 pm | Campbell Hall 160

Lindner Lecture Series

Nancy Marie Mithlo, Professor  ... [...]

Friday, October 27, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Hall

Thinking of Place III is a collaborative print project that involves 4-6 artists each from 16 international printmaking... [...]

Monday, October 23, 2023

5 pm | Campbell Elmaleh Gallery

POSTERS FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT, 1968–2022
__________

EXHIBITION
FRI, SEPT 22 – SUN,... [...]

Friday, October 20, 2023

1:00 - 2:30 | Brooks Hall Commons

Olanrewaju Lasisi, Mellon Race, Place and Equity Postdoctoral Fellow, UVA School of... [...]

Monday, October 16, 2023

5 pm | Campbell 153

Panel
Supported by the Dean's Forum on Inclusion + Equity and the Harry Shure Visiting Professor Endowment.

Saturday, October 14, 2023

7 - 9 pm | front plaza of Ruffin Hall

Please join us for a pop-up installation outside Ruffin Hall this FRIDAY + SATURDAY (details below):

... [...]
Friday, October 13, 2023

4:00 - 5:15 |Brooks Hall Commons

Sean Tennant, Archaeology Data Manager, Survey and Information Management Division, Virginia Department of... [...]

Friday, October 13, 2023

12 pm | Campbell East Wing Gallery & Naug Lounge

2023 DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI OLLE LUNDBERG IN CONVERSATION WITH ROBIN DRIPPS AND LUCIA PHINNEY

Join the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Award... [...]

Friday, October 13, 2023

3 pm | Campbell 158

BOOK TALK WITH AUTHOR LAURA J. MARTIN, MODERATED BY BRADLEY CANTRELL + ELIZABETH MEYER

FOLLOWED BY A BOOK-SIGNING + RECEPTION

Friday, October 13, 2023

10 am - 12 pm | Scholar's Lab, Clemons Library

Yota Batsaki is the executive director of Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard University research center, museum, and historic... [...]

Friday, October 13, 2023

4 - 6 pm | Wilson 142

Dr. Anatole Tchikine is Curator of Rare Books, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University.

... [...]

Friday, October 13, 2023

7 - 9 pm | front plaza of Ruffin Hall

FRIDAY EVENT CANCELLED

point... [...]

Thursday, October 12, 2023

4 - 6 pm | Wilson 142

Yota Batsaki is the executive director of Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard University research center, museum, and historic... [...]

Monday, October 9, 2023

Various |

  • James Benning | 2022 | U.S. | 65 minutes

Q&A with James Benning and Kevin Jerome Everson on Oct. 8... [...]

Monday, October 9, 2023

Various | Various

Currents Program 4: Close Encounters (for If You Don’t Watch the Way You Move)

Q&A with... [...]

Saturday, October 7, 2023

8:30 am - 5:30 pm | Watson Hall, Syracuse University

“Monumental Concerns,” a daylong symposium hosted by Syracuse University artist-in-residence ... [...]

Saturday, October 7, 2023

11 am EDT | Virtual

Based on her recent book, Sea Change, Amanda Phillips... [...]

Friday, October 6, 2023

10 am - 5 pm | Fralin Museum

The Fralin will host the Tashi Kyil Tour Monks who will create a sand mandala in the museum. Visitors are welcome to watch the monks at work... [...]

Friday, October 6, 2023

6 pm | Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

IFA CHINA PROJECT WORKSHOP FALL 2023 SCHEDULE

The in-person workshops will take place... [...]

Friday, October 6, 2023

9 - 11 am | Zoom

zoom: ... [...]

Friday, October 6, 2023

12 pm | Campbell Hall 160

Professor Michael Lee, Department of Landscape Architecture

Thursday, October 5, 2023

5 pm | Fralin Museum

Michael Sheehy, Ph.D., is the Director of Scholarship at the Contemplative Sciences Center, Research Assistant Professor in Tibetan Buddhist... [...]

Thursday, October 5, 2023

10 am - 5 pm | Fralin Museum

The Fralin will host the Tashi Kyil Tour Monks who will create a sand mandala in the museum. Visitors are welcome to watch the monks at work... [...]

Thursday, October 5, 2023

5 pm | Kluge-Ruhe

On Thursday, Professor Jennifer Biddle will be speaking to the fantastic exhibition PERFORMING COUNTRY which was curated by PhD students... [...]

Thursday, October 5, 2023

6 pm | ICA Philadelphia and Virtual

The Stuart Weitzman School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute of Contemporary Art are pleased to present the first... [...]

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

10 am - 5 pm | Fralin Museum

The Fralin will host the Tashi Kyil Tour Monks who will create a sand mandala in the museum. Visitors are welcome to watch the monks at work... [...]

Sunday, October 1, 2023

5 pm | Online

UVA in Prague: Threshold of European Art and Culture 

Friday, September 29, 2023

12 pm ET | Online

The American Academy in Berlin invites applications for its residential fellowships for the academic year 2024/25. 

Thursday, September 28, 2023

6:30 pm | FXCollaborative, Brooklyn, NY

BOOK TALK WITH CO-EDITORS MONA EL KHAFIF AND SETH MCDOWELL, MODERATED BY ILA BERMAN 

... [...]

Monday, September 25, 2023

5 pm | Campbell 153

PANEL WITH DR. ASHLEY ADAMS, DENISE KADARA, DR. TIMOTHY E. NELSON, AND LA BARBARA JAMES WIGFALL; MODERATED BY DR. ANDREA ROBERTS... [...]

Friday, September 22, 2023

10:30 am - Noon | Smithsonian American Art Museum

Meet the Professionals Behind the Museum

Free |... [...]

Friday, September 22, 2023

5:30 pm | Begins at South Lawn, Homer Flat

... [...]

Thursday, September 21, 2023

6:30 pm | Campbell 160

Lindner Lecture Series

Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies/... [...]

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

5 pm | Minor Hall 125

Monday, September 18, 2023

5 pm | Campbell 153

BOOK TALK WITH CONTRIBUTOR CAITLIN BLANCHFIELD AND EDITORS JEFFREY S. NESBIT + CHARLES WALDHEIM, MODERATED BY BRADLEY CANTRELL 

... [...]

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Friday, September 8, 2023

3 - 4:30 pm | Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds

There will be a memorial tree planting and plaque dedication ceremony in honor of Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis, Jr., and D’Sean Perry on Friday,... [...]

Thursday, September 7, 2023

12 - 1 pm | Fayerweather Lounge (Room 102)

Come learn about study abroad opportunities led by UVA faculty and chat with ISO staff. Open to all Architecture, Art History, and Studio Art undergrads. Lunch to be provided.

Thursday, September 7, 2023

8 pm | Outside Ruffin Hall

House (1977)

The Cinematography class will be holding our first outdoor movie night of the semester on Thursday, September... [...]

Sunday, August 27, 2023

6 - 8 pm | Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds

Sunday, August 27, 2023

6 - 8 pm | Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds

UVA Arts invites all UVA faculty, staff, & students to the Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds for a FREE picnic from 6:00 to 8:... [...]

Friday, August 25, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

On View: August 25 – October 26

Gallery Hours, Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

Supported by the ... [...]

Wednesday, August 16, 2023

7 - 9 pm | Visible Records

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Fralin Museum

From nighttime constellations to fun cloud shapes to manifestations of the divine, we often look for something when our eyes turn... [...]

Friday, June 23, 2023

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

July 1, 2022 – June 23, 2023

Friday, June 23, 2023

9-5 pm | Ruffin Hall

Curated by Victoria Valdes, Visual Resource Center 3D Fabrication Lab Director

The desire to accomplish my... [...]

Friday, June 23, 2023

12:30 - 1 | Ruffin Hall

An exhibition featuring this year’s Studio Art graduates and Aunspaugh fellows

 

Playing with Syn·tax... [...]

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

5 - 8 pm | Selvedge Brewery

Thursday, June 8, 2023

11 am | Virtual

Lynn Roller, Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of California, Davis, will present an online lecture sponsored by our local... [...]

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Multiple Locations in Vienna

“20 YEARS AND ONE MOMENT: VIENNA SHORTS CELEBRATES ITS ANNIVERSARY WITH GUEST OF HONOR KEVIN JEROME EVERSON

Two months before... [...]

Friday, May 26, 2023

11 am - 12 pm | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Saturday, May 20, 2023

11:30 am | Culbreth Theater

The Department of Art’s Diploma Ceremony will be held at 11:30am on Saturday, May 20, in the Culbreth Theatre (the Drama Building) rain or shine. This ceremony follows the Lawn ceremony, which will take place at 9:00am that day.

Official... [...]

Friday, May 5, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Week 5

May 1 - May 5

Ruffin Gallery: Alyce Yang, Mia Gualtieri

2nd Floor South: Sharon Chong

1st Floor East: Skye Jung

1st Floor West: Vibha Vijay

1st Floor North: Luke Wentz... [...]

Friday, May 5, 2023

7 pm | Visible Records

The UVA Department of Art, New Media program is excited to invite you to the student animation screenings on May 5th at Visible Records, 7pm... [...]

Saturday, April 29, 2023

6 pm | Vinegar Hill Theatre

The inaugural Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival, which begins at 6 p.m. on Saturday at Charlottesville’s... [...]

Friday, April 28, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Week 4

April 24 - April 28

Ruffin Gallery: Zhiwen Xu, David Askew

3rd Floor Hallway: Val Deshler, Paul Leclere

2nd Floor Media Lab; Adrian Moore

1st Floor West: Sean Moore

1st... [...]

Friday, April 21, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Week 3

April 17 - April 21

Ruffin Gallery: KJ Vaughan, Tori White, Virginia Gibson

3rd Floor North: Ruoxun... [...]

Saturday, April 15, 2023

1:30 pm | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Friday, April 14, 2023

6:30 pm | Visible Records Studio West 3

Current Freeman Artist Residents Caro Campos and Dorothy Li will have an open studio from 6.30pm until late this Friday April 14th.  The FAR... [...]

Friday, April 14, 2023

11:59 PM | Submit Online

Are you a UVA student who happens to be an artist?

An artist who happens to be a UVA student?

... [...]

Friday, April 14, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Week 2

April 10 - April 14

Ruffin Gallery: Pilar Grover, Claire Szeptycki, Madeline Butkovich, Mira Manalastas... [...]

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

12:30 - 3:00 | Ruffin Hall Painting

On Wednesday, April 12, from 12:30 - 3:00, the Painting Department will host two arts professionals who will address issues of professional arts practices and procedures.

Dr. Dena Jennings is a doctor, artist, and Chairperson of the... [...]

Friday, April 7, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Left to Right: Bankes Haden, Mary O'Connor, Léo Zhang

Please join the Department of Art and the rest of our community in congratulating our... [...]

Friday, April 7, 2023

7:30 pm |Newcomb Theater

UVA Archaeology and UPC Present:

Raiders of the Lost Ark Movie Night

Dinner and refreshments will be served. Please... [...]

Friday, April 7, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Week 1

April 3 - April 7

Ruffin Gallery: Anna Myers, Mary O’Connor, Léo Zhang

1st Floor Media Galleries: Emma Spence, Zoe Orr

1st Floor West: Bankes Haden

Thursday, April 6, 2023

12:00 pm | Virtual

Legacies of State Socialism, Renewed Dichotomies, and Southeast European Diaspora

Thursday, April 6, 2023

6.30 pm | Livestream

Global Histories and Transgender Studies in the Humanities

A lecture and seminar series sponsored by the... [...]

Monday, April 3, 2023

11:59 pm | Online

Creatives of all disciplines with practices or projects based in research are invited to apply for the ... [...]

Friday, March 31, 2023

Muralism, Indigeneity, & Contemporary Art in Cholula

Summer 2023

Location: The program is based in Cholula, a city known... [...]

Thursday, March 30, 2023

6.30 pm | Wilson Hall 142

Global Histories and Transgender Studies in the Humanities

A lecture and seminar series sponsored by the... [...]

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Noon | Virtual (from Istanbul)

JOINT LECTURE

THE AMERİCAN RESEARCH INSTİTUTE IN TURKEY AND

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

... [...]

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

3:30 pm | Ruffin

We will be welcoming filmmaker Nazlı Dinçel... [...]

Friday, March 24, 2023

3:30 pm | 107 Old Cabel Hall

On Friday, March 24th Erik DeLuca​ will present a colloquium in 107 Old... [...]

Thursday, March 23, 2023

6 pm | Ruffin 206

James Scheuren is hosting visiting artist Autumn Knight this week. Autumn is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance,... [...]

Thursday, March 23, 2023

6:30 pm | Campbell 160

Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family... [...]

Thursday, March 23, 2023

5.30 pm via Zoom only

Global Histories and Transgender Studies in the Humanities

A lecture and seminar series sponsored by the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures at... [...]

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

6:30 pm | PVCC Fine Arts and Performance

A lecture by Veronica Jackson

Sunday, March 19, 2023

3 - 5 pm | Schmidt/Dean Gallery

Dean Dass

“Clouds, Flares, Fireflies”

19 March - 14 May 2023
Schmidt/Dean Gallery
1879 Old Cuthbert... [...]

Saturday, March 18, 2023

7:30 pm | Visible Records

Join us for sweet treats and good company at the Gelatin Film Festival on March 18th, 2023 at 7:30 PM EST! The proceeds from all... [...]

Friday, March 17, 2023

4 pm | Brooks Hall Commons

From ‘Enslavement’ to ‘Empowerment’ and What Comes After: Plantation Futures on a Palimpsestic Landscape 

Thursday, March 16, 2023

5 - 7 | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection


Image: Emily Kame Kngwarreye, My Country, 1994, acrylic on canvas. Gift of John W. Kluge, 1997. 1996.... [...]
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Midnight | Online

The American Institute for Southeast European Studies (AISEES) announces the availability of 3 travel grants per year of up to $2,500... [...]

Friday, March 10, 2023

5 pm | Electronic

The UVA Department of Art is excited to be sponsoring a limited number of paid internship positions in Summer 2023! Internship applications are open to all rising 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year studio and art history ... [...]

Thursday, March 2, 2023

6.30 pm | Wilson Hall 142

Global Histories and Transgender Studies in the Humanities

“A Global History of Trans Panic”... [...]

Thursday, March 2, 2023

5:30 pm | Campbell 160

Metcalf Lecture

Frédérique Duyrat, Bibliothèque nationale de France

“Treasure troves. How to Study a Greek... [...]

Friday, February 24, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

UVA Ruffin Gallery • Feb 24 — Mar 24

Opening Reception • Fri, Feb 24, 5:00pm — 7:00pm

every bit     unrending,... [...]

Friday, February 24, 2023

4 pm | Brooks Hall Commons

Architectural innovation and metallurgy in early Etruria: evidence from Poggio Civitate

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

5:30 pm | The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA

Atlanta-based photographer Tokie Rome-Taylor is interested in ethnography, identity, and... [...]

Thursday, February 16, 2023

11:00 - 11:30 or 12:30 -1:00 | Ruffin 203 or Zoom

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

11 am (Eastern) | Virtual

POSTPONED

The AISEES-ARIT lecture on February 15, 2023 by Amanda Phillips is postponed to March due to the Maraş-based... [...]

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

3:30 pm | Zoom

Monday, February 13, 2023

6 - 8 pm | Multicultural Student Center

 Monday, February 13th, Graphic Artist and Designer Ovila Mailhot will be joining us for an interactive Coast Salish Art session in... [...]

Friday, February 10, 2023

6 - 8 pm | Visible Records

Lago Gatún (2021) consist of two continuous-exposure films traveling south to north through the Panama Canal. Viewing south is titled Pacific... [...]

Monday, February 6, 2023

4-6 pm | 16/18 Bond House

Sunday, February 5, 2023

1:30 pm | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Special Sunday Tour with Anthropologist Fred Myers

Saturday, February 4, 2023

6 pm | Katzen Art Center, American University

Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala is the first major exhibition of Aboriginal... [...]

Friday, February 3, 2023

5:30 pm | McGuffey Art Center

Thursday, February 2, 2023

6:30 pm | Campbell 160

Roland Betancourt, Professor of Art History, University of California, Irvine

Between Wonder and Omen: Conjoined Twins from... [...]

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

5 PM | Digital

UVA-Phillips Collection Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art History

The University of Virginia–Phillips Collection Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art History will support interdisciplinary research in American, European, or... [...]

Monday, January 30, 2023

5 pm | Campbell 153

Hanaa Dahy, Associate Prof. Dr. for Sustainable Design within Innovation & Technology, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, and Director,... [...]

Friday, January 27, 2023

3:03 pm | Ruffin Courtyard

Friday, January 27, 2023

4 pm | Brooks Hall Commons

Chris Motz, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, University of Richmond 
"Connecting Ecology, Economy, and Craft in the Roman Fish-Salting Industry"

Friday, January 27, 2023

12 pm | Visible Records

Friday, January 27, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

A migrant is perpetually unfinished.
Instead of a living embodiment of one’s place of origin,
a person is a work of art... [...]

Thursday, January 26, 2023

12 pm | Virtual

The “ISTROS” Society for Historical Studies, the Romanian representative of the American Institute for Southeast European Studies, invites... [...]

Monday, January 23, 2023

5 pm | Campbell Hall 153

Hazel Ruth Edwards, Professor of Architecture at Howard University.

Dean's Forum Inclusion + Equity Lecture and Reception... [...]

Monday, January 16, 2023

11:59 pm | Online Application

“They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.” – Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous 

Applications for the UVA student show at McGuffey Art Center are accepted until ... [...]

Friday, January 13, 2023

Midnight

The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences aims to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion, through programs that cultivate a respectful, inclusive environment where all members of our community can exchange ideas, grow, and flourish... [...]

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

1 - 3:30 | Auditorium of the Harrison Institute in the Special Collections Library

The Corcoran Department of History will be holding our Robert D. Cross Memorial Lecture on December 7th from 1-3:30pm at the Auditorium of... [...]

Friday, December 2, 2022

4:00 - 5:15 | Brooks Hall Conference Room

Prof. Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program, University of Virginia... [...]

Friday, November 18, 2022

4:00 - 5:15 | Zoom

Portrait of Dr. HuDi Hu, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, James Madison University
"Approaches to the Archaeology of Resistance: A... [...]

Friday, November 11, 2022

9 - 4 | Virtual

Since the 1990s, exhibitions of African photographers such as Seydou Keïta have raised questions about the relationship of ownership to... [...]

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

12:30 | Newcomb Hall 389

The next and final Classics Tuesday Luncheon this semester will be on November 1 in Newcomb Hall 389.

The speaker will be Kate Kreindler, our new colleague in Art, who will speak on 'Domestic Architecture and Social... [...]

Friday, October 28, 2022

5 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Calista Lyon & Carmen Winant

UVA Ruffin Gallery • Oct 28 — Dec 9

Opening Reception • Fri, Oct 28, 5:00pm — 7:00pm... [...]

Thursday, October 27, 2022

6:30 pm | Campbell 160

Ömür Harmanşah, Director of the School of Art and Art History & Associate Professor of Art History, University... [...]

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

4:30 pm | Zoom and Ruffin Hall

Performance/video/sound artist Fetter (... [...]

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Noon - 1 pm | Les Yeux du Monde

David Summers: Bright Lines

24 September – 30 October

... [...]

Monday, October 10, 2022

5 PM | Campbell 153

aerial view of MontpelierMatthew Reeves has been the Director of Archaeology and Landscape Restoration at Montpelier since 2000. Dr. Reeves’s... [...]

Saturday, October 8, 2022

2 pm | Fralin Museum of Art

Clara Ma gives a guided tour of her exhibition!

Arhats and... [...]

Friday, October 7, 2022

5:30 - 7:30 | Second Street Gallery

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present Mummers, a solo exhibition featuring paintings and sculptures by Charlottesville-based artist... [...]

Friday, October 7, 2022

5 pm | Second Street Gallery - Downtown Mall

SAVE THE DATE: FRIDAY, OCT 7, 2022

Parade procession starts at 5PM, along the Charlottesville Downtown Mall beginning at Second... [...]

Friday, October 7, 2022

5:30 pm | Campbell Hall 160

Thursday, October 6, 2022

5 pm | UVA Harrison Small Auditorium

Buddha, Shiva, Mudra: On Understanding the Development of Ananda Coomaraswamy

by Janice Leoshko, Associate Professor of... [...]

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

10:00 am | Virtual

Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans

... [...]

Saturday, October 1, 2022

6:30 pm | Visible Records

Please join JaVori Warren & Megan Richards - 2021-22 Freeman Artist Residents - for the closing reception of their exhibition, ... [...]

Friday, September 30, 2022

5 - 7 | Ruffin Gallery

Jackson Taylor, New works in printmaking

 

Thursday, September 29, 2022

6:30 pm | Campbell 160

Lindner Lecture Series

Patrick R. Crowley, Associate Curator of European Art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford... [...]

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

12:30 pm | Zoom

On Tuesday 9/27 at 12:30pm, interdisciplinary artist Mariana Parisca will give a talk about her work in Anna Hogg's Intro to Studio Art class... [...]

Friday, September 23, 2022

4 pm | Brooks Hall Commons

Jeffrey Hantman, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology
Archaeology of Monacan Mounds, Ancestral Territory and Survivance in... [...]

Thursday, September 22, 2022

5:30 pm | Special Collections Library

At the end of Spring 2022, the Art Department’s American Modernisms class created an exhibition... [...]

Friday, September 9, 2022

10 - 11 am | Democracy Initiative (Bond House)

Rufus Elliott, a citizen of the Monacan Indian Nation, will be working to preserve and digitize oral history and song and ceremony recording. “[B]y creating a searchable database of oral history and ceremonial songs more... [...]

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

6 - 8 pm | Virtual

 

Speakers:

Fotini Kondyli - University of Virginia

Benjamin Anderson - Cornell University

... [...]

Friday, August 26, 2022

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Thursday, June 30, 2022

4 pm (IT) | Centro Convegni S. Agostino, Cortona

Francesca Fiorani, University of Virginia

Leonardo da Vinci and Cortona: Wetlands, Mapping, and the Art of Painting in... [...]

Monday, June 6, 2022

5:30 pm | Dome Room, UVA Rotunda

Lecturer: Dorothy C. Wong - Professor of East Asian Art, Department of Art History, University of Virginia

Friday, June 3, 2022

8:30 pm | Visible Records

Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney

A family rests in the shade of a C-47 warcraft. An army installation contains the last... [...]

Saturday, May 21, 2022

12 pm | Ruffin Gallery

 

Saturday, May 21, 2022

12:30 - 1:30 pm| Drama Bldg., Culbreth Theatre

Friday, May 13, 2022

7 pm | Vinegar Hill Theatre

On Friday, May 13th at 7pm, the Intermediate and Advanced Film class, with support from Anna Hogg & Kevin Everson, will be screening at... [...]

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

1 pm ET | Virtual

Ivan Vasilevm (Bulgarian Heritage Foundation) - Frescoes of the Boyana Church (Bulgaria) - joint ARIT*/AISEES Lecture

Friday, May 6, 2022

5-7 pm | Ruffin Hall 3rd Floor (R320)

You’re invited to the opening reception of three twenty; an exhibition of work by this year’s Advanced Painting students (featuring... [...]

Thursday, May 5, 2022

10am - 4pm| Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Friday, April 29, 2022

1 - 3 pm | Virtual

Justin Mann, “Between Authority and Sanctity: Constructing the Monastic Landscape of Hosios Loukas” 

Lucia... [...]

Thursday, April 28, 2022

5:30 pm | Virtual

Melissa Baltus, University of Toledo

Thursday, April 28, 2022

12 Noon | Virtual

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

6 pm | Campbell 160

Artist talk tonight with Veronica Jackson!

 

In person!!

 

6:00 Campbell hall room 160!

 

Friday, April 22, 2022

12:30 - 2:30 | Virtual

Najee Olya, "Constructing the African in Ancient Greek Vase-Painting: Images, Meanings, and Contexts" 

 ... [...]

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

9:00 am | Ruffin 219

As an artist, performer, and researcher Nikolaus Gansterer is deeply interested in the relational field between drawing, thinking and... [...]

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

1 pm ET | Virtual

Marka Tomić (The Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)  - The Church of St Sophie at Ohrid (North... [...]

Monday, April 11, 2022

1 pm | New Cabell Hall, Room 236

Thursday, April 7, 2022

4 - 5:30 pm | Zoom

trans memory archive flyerThe Trans Memory Archive (TMA) collective is an archivist-activist-artistic collective comprised of 8 trans and... [...]

Friday, April 1, 2022

5 pm | Fralin Museum of Art

The Fralin Museum and V magazine are co-hosting a fashion gala this Friday (4/1) 5pm at the museum inspired by Emilio Sanchez's work and... [...]

Thursday, March 31, 2022

12:30 - 2 pm | Zoom

flyer for the virtual reality Spring symposium

One of our own Studio majors, and 2021 Visual Resources Summer Intern, Shelby Lawton,... [...]

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

7 pm | Campbell 158

STEPHANIE H. SHIH explores the diasporic nostalgia and material lineages of migration and colonization through the lens of the Asian... [...]

Friday, March 25, 2022

5-7 pm | The Bridge PAI

Please join current Freeman Artist Residents, JaVori Warren & Megan Richards, for the closing reception of their two-person... [...]

Thursday, March 24, 2022

5:30 pm | Clark Hall 107

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

6 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Monday, March 21, 2022

6:15 pm | Virtual

Lecture promotion imageBettman Lecture Series, Columbia University

Friday, March 18, 2022

10 am | Virtual

... [...]

Thursday, March 17, 2022

6:30 PM | Campbell Hall 160

Delinda Collier is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Interim Dean of Graduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her research interests are in old and new media in Africa, Luso-African Art, and Cold... [...]

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

12 - 1 pm | Fralin Museum of Art

Tuesday, March 15th | 12:00-1:00pm | ... [...]

Monday, March 14, 2022

5:30 - 7:30 p | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Arts Collection


Wednesday, March 9, 2022

1 pm ET | Virtual

Carolyn Snively (Gettysburg College) - The Episcopal Complex at Golemo Gradiste (North Macedonia)

Saturday, March 5, 2022

3 - 5 pm | Les Yeux du Monde

Turn on the Light! / A Memorial Show in honor of Lyn Bolen Warren features work by Ed Miller, Bill Bennett and others.

... [...]

Friday, March 4, 2022

5:30 pm | The Bridge PAI

 

 

 

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Monday, February 28, 2022

Ruffin Hall, Photo Classroom 206

Friday, February 25, 2022

5 - 7 PM, Ruffin Gallery

Join us for our second Ruffin Gallery exhibition by James Scheuren, opening February 25th. This... [...]

Thursday, February 24, 2022

6:30 pm | Campbell Hall 160

Martina Rugiadi, Metropolitan Museum

"Afghan marbles: the expanded archaeological archive"

*co-sponsored by the... [...]

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Closes February 24th

 

"Counterpoint" by artist Sepideh Dashti will be on view in the Ruffin Gallery from January 24... [...]

Friday, February 18, 2022

7 - 9 pm | Iridian Gallery

Thursday, February 17, 2022

4 PM, Zoom

The UVA Department of Art Printmaking concentration is thrilled to host an artist lecture with Diana Behl, Professor of Printmaking at South Dakota State University.

... [...]

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Anytime | Anywhere

Prof. Kondyli is delighted to launch our 60 Days Writing... [...]

Sunday, February 13, 2022

3 - 4:30 pm | Virtual

Dylan K. Rogers

Friday, February 11, 2022

5-7 |Ruffin Hall

 

Ed Miller's J-Term Sculpture students are putting together an exhibition of their work and having an opening entitled... [...]

Thursday, February 10, 2022

7:00 - 8:00 PM

Currently on exhibit at the Kluge-Ruhe, Boomalli Prints and Paper: Making Space as an Art Collective, was curated as part of the graduate seminar titled “Prints and Indigenous... [...]

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

1 pm ET | Virtual

Ols Lafe  (Aleksander Moisiu University at Durres, Albania)​ - Private-Sector Archaeology in... [...]

Monday, February 7, 2022

5 pm | Ruffin Hall 320

Everyone is welcome to join the Painting Concentration in room 320 of Studio Art for the 5pm artist talk by our current Ruffin Assistant Professor of New Media & Distinguished-Artist-in-Residence, Calista Lyon.

... [...]

Friday, February 4, 2022

8 am | Virtual

Artefacts, Creativity, Technology, and Skills from Prehistory to the Classical Period in Greec... [...]

Friday, January 28, 2022

Instagram, 12:00 PM

 

 

Join us via Instagram for a livestreamed performance in the Ruffin Gallery by Sepideh... [...]

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Zoom, 6:30 PM

 

Sepideh Dashti joins the UVA Department of Art to discuss her work and current exhibition ... [...]

Thursday, November 18, 2021

6:30 pm | Virtual

Please join the Department of Art and The Fralin Museum of Art virtually on November 18, 2021 at 6:30 PM for “Word and Image/Word in Image:... [...]

Friday, November 5, 2021

6:30 pm | Virtual

Thursday, November 4, 2021

6 pm | Clark Hall 107

The Materiality of Maps and the Guises of New World Colonialism

A Public Lecture by Barbara... [...]

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

7 pm | Nau Hall Auditorium

“Elegantly shot in his narrative hometown, Mamadou Dia’s praiseworthy first feature... [...]

Saturday, October 30, 2021

5 pm | Visible Records

Work by Natalie Romero and Liz Zhang, UVa alumna and the inaugural 2020-2021 ... [...]

Saturday, October 30, 2021

9 - 11 am | Boston University

Join artist and University of Virginia painting professor ... [...]

Friday, October 29, 2021

5:00 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Monday, October 25, 2021

5 PM | Ruffin Hall Room 320

 

 

Join the Department of Art for an artist talk in Ruffin Hall Room 320 with Christian Camacho whose... [...]

Friday, October 22, 2021

Join the Rasquache Mobile Cinema this Friday and Saturday for screenings featuring and celebrating Black and Indigenous... [...]

Friday, October 22, 2021

Virtual | 1 PM

Join the Printmaking concentration of the Department of Art for artist Howard Paine's virtual artist talk!

Thursday, October 21, 2021

5:30 pm | Virtual

Michael Chazan, University of Toronto

Friday, October 1, 2021

5 - 7:30 pm | New City Arts

Marisa Williamson, Sandy Williams IV, Patrick Costello

From October 1-28, 2021, New City Arts presents Situated Knowledge,... [...]

Friday, October 1, 2021

5 - 7 pm | Chroma Projects Art Laboratory

“Pandemonium: Postcards from the Edge“, on view at Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, opens this Friday,... [...]

Saturday, September 25, 2021

6 pm | Visible Records

Work by Natalie Romero and Liz Zhang, UVa alumna and the inaugural 2020-2021 ... [...]

Saturday, September 25, 2021

4 - 8 pm | Valley Street, Scottsville

VALLEY.STREET.SCAPE is an exhibition by the Scottsville Center for Art and the Natural Environment in partnership with the town of... [...]

Thursday, September 23, 2021

TBD | Wilson 142

Thursday, September 16, 2021

6:30 pm | Campbell 160

The University of Virginia Art Department presents: 

Samantha A. Noël, Wayne State... [...]

Friday, September 10, 2021

TBD | Virtual

Dr. Eid-Sabbagh's will present on her photographic practice, collective work processes, engagement with digital and family archives... [...]

Sunday, August 29, 2021

6 - 8:30 pm | Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds

Friday, August 27, 2021

5 - 7 pm | Fralin Museum of Art

Final Friday is returning! Join The Fralin on Friday August 27 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM outside on the plaza for the Little Museum... [...]

Friday, August 27, 2021

5:30 pm | Ruffin Gallery

We’re excited to announce our first exhibition of the 2021 – 2022 season Wild Whimsy by artist Emily Moores, which opens today in... [...]

Friday, August 27, 2021

5 pm | In front of Fayerweather Hall

Calling all Current and Future Art History Majors and anyone interested in the Major!

 

Please join us... [...]

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

8 am | On Grounds

Friday, August 6, 2021

6 - 10 pm | Visible Records Gallery

Participating artists include: Ateri Miyawatl, Bryan Ortiz, Ana Quiroz, Ken Rinaldo, Amy Youngs, Yusuf Adbdul Lateef,... [...]

Saturday, June 12, 2021

All Day | Virtual

Come see virtual exhibitions created by Beth Turner's Art and Experience and American Modernisms classes. All 20 exhibitions are available to see NOW!

See Art and Experience ... [...]

Sunday, May 23, 2021

4 pm | Virtual

Congratulations, University of Virginia, Class of 2021 Studio Art Graduates!

You are invited to join faculty and students for the Art Department's LIVE virtual graduation ceremony taking place Sunday, May 23rd, and... [...]

Sunday, May 23, 2021

3 pm | Virtual

Graduation 2021

Congratulations, University of Virginia, Class of 2021 Art History Graduates!

You are invited to join faculty and students for the Art Department's LIVE virtual graduation ceremony taking place Sunday,... [...]

Saturday, May 22, 2021

10 am - 3 pm | Ruffin Hall

The Spaces Between, curated by Eleanore Neumann and Meaghan Walsh opens in Ruffin Hall tomorrow, May 22! The... [...]

Thursday, May 13, 2021

6 pm | Virtual

Join the Richmond and Charlottesville Societies of the Archaeological Institute of America for a book talk and Q&A with Fiona... [...]

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

2 pm | Virtual

Join Lifetime Learning and faculty from UVA’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences to explore how food plays a significant... [...]

Friday, May 7, 2021

Ruffin Hall, through May 7th

Join the Aunspaugh 5th Year Fellows and the graduationg 4th Year Majors for their final thesis exhibitions through May 7, 2021.https://www.instagram.com/uva_artdepartment/

Thursday, May 6, 2021

7 pm | Virtual

In this iteration of The Art in Life series offered by The Fralin Museum of Art and Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, we... [...]

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

11 am | Virtual

Marla Redcorn-Miller (Osage/Kiowa/Caddo) is the director of the Osage Nation Museum (ONM), the oldest tribally-owned museum in the country.... [...]

Friday, April 30, 2021

4 - 5 pm | Virtual

Carrie Thornbrugh will draw on her 8+ years of professional experience directing marketing strategy for arts organizations... [...]

Monday, April 26, 2021

5 PM, Zoom

Join the UVA Department of Art and the Sculpture Concentration for a talk by installation artist Beili Liu. Registration required!

 

... [...]

Friday, April 23, 2021

12 pm | Virtual

Azadeh Akhlaghi, a world-renowned artist, will speak on her media artwork on Iranian history, in conversation with our colleague, Mona Kasra... [...]

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

6:30 pm | Virtual

Louise W. Mackie, Curator Emerita, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Registration to be posted to our website soon.

Friday, April 16, 2021

4 - 5 pm | Virtual

Protecting copyright can be a significant challenge for visual artists, particularly in a digital world. As an artist, it is your... [...]

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

12:30 pm | Virtual

Join a conversation with filmmakers, Ángeles Cruz and Federico Cuatlacuatl, whose work casts a lens on indigeneity, sexuality, immigration,... [...]

Monday, April 12, 2021

2 pm | Virtual

Daniel Munduruku was born in Belém do Pará, Brazil, and belongs to the Munduruku people. He is a professor, writer, and author of more than... [...]

Monday, April 12, 2021

2 pm | Virtual

Friday, April 9, 2021

5 pm | Virtual

Lopez’s talk will explore the development (over the last fifty years) of a network of Mexican stonemasons, quarry workers, homebuilders,... [...]

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

2:15 | Virtual

This presentation is hosted by ARTH 4591: American Modernisms, with Professor Elizabeth Hutton Turner.

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

6 pm | Virtual

Born in Oklahoma, Anita Fields (Osage/Muscogee) creates works of clay and textile that reflect Osage worldviews, including... [...]

Thursday, April 1, 2021

6 pm | Virtual

Navina Haidar, the Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Curator in Charge of Islamic Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

3:30 pm | Virtual

America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is a visual artist, art writer, critic, independent curator, and the publishing editor... [...]

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

1 pm | Virtual

This presentation is hosted by ARTH 3595: Indigenous North American Arts with Professor Adriana Greci Green.

Friday, March 26, 2021

Open now until March 26th in the Ruffin Gallery

Neal Rock, Flesh Poems is now on view in the Ruffin Gallery through March 26th by appointment! To schedule... [...]

Thursday, March 25, 2021

4:00 pm EST, virtual event

Angela Dominguez (Stella Díaz Dreams Big), Vashti Harrison (Little Dreamers), and Dub Leffler (Once There Was a Boy) discuss the importance of diversity in children’s... [...]

Thursday, March 25, 2021

5:30 | Zoom

 "The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange among Muslim and Christian Communities."

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

6 pm | Virtual

America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is a visual artist, art writer, critic, independent curator, and the publishing editor of... [...]

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

1 pm | Virtual

Born in Oklahoma, Anita Fields (Osage/Muscogee) creates works of clay and textile that reflect Osage worldviews, including... [...]

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Zoom, 6:00 PM

 

The Department of Art hosts Neal Rock for an artist talk surrounding his current Ruffin Gallery exhibition... [...]

Monday, March 22, 2021

9 am | Virtual

Dr. Carla Jaimes Betancourt (University of Bonn) will present to students in UVA professor Sonia Alconini's... [...]

Monday, March 22, 2021

2 pm | Virtual

Born in Umariaçu in the Alto Rio Solimões region, vocalist and songwriter Djuena belongs to the Tikuna, Brazil’s largest Indigenous Amazonian... [...]

Thursday, March 18, 2021

7:00 - 7:45 pm EST, virtual event

Children’s book author-illustrators Tom Angleberger (DJ Funkyfoot! Butler for Hire) and Dub Leffler... [...]

Thursday, March 18, 2021

March 18-19, 2021 | Online

Art & Architectural History Graduate Online Symposium
University of Virginia Department of Art

March... [...]

Saturday, February 27, 2021

virtual | February 27 & 28, 2021

The Mellon Indigenous Arts Initiative at UVA is a co-sponsor of a symposium on writing about art by Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

... [...]

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

1-3 pm | Virtual

America Meredith (Cherokee Nation) is the publishing editor of First American Art Magazine and an art writer, critic, visual artist, and independent curator, whose curatorial practice spans 28 years. Based in Norman,... [...]

Friday, February 19, 2021

Open now until February 19th!

 

Friday, February 19, 2021

4:00 pm | Virtual

Archaeology Brown Bag

Professor Michael Frachetti
Department of Anthropology
Washington University in St. Louis

“Remapping the Silk Roads from Prehistory to the Medieval Era"

See a full... [...]

Thursday, February 18, 2021

8 am | Virtual

University of Oxford Greek Archaeology Group and Prehistoric and Early Greece Graduate Seminar

Tyler Jo Smith: A Religious Middle Ground? Athenian Vases for the Dead at Spina.

 

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Administrative Deadline!

New Declarations

Students who wish to declare a major or a minor in art history should contact the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Fayerweather Hall.

... [...]

Saturday, November 28, 2020

9 am EST| Virtual

With fellow artist Neal Rock on the occasion of Murillo's recent exhibition in Paris... [...]

Friday, November 20, 2020

All Weekend | Virtual

Our very own Federico Cuatlacuatl is premiering his film Tsenacommacah. Tsenacommacah is what the Powhatan called their territory of Tidewater Virginia, roughly translated as, “densely inhabited land”. An experiential recall takes form... [...]

Thursday, November 19, 2020

2 pm | Virtual

We welcome you to join us as our 2020 fall speaker series concludes with our Coughlin Lecture... [...]

Monday, November 16, 2020

TBD

Joy Harjo, the first Native American to be awarded the prestigious honor of Poet Laureate, will present a poetry reading for the UVA community on the evening of Monday, November 16. Check back on this site for more details.

... [...]
Friday, November 13, 2020

10 am - 12 pm | Virtual

 

Thursday, November 12, 2020

17:30 | Zoom

"Using Ugly Pottery to Understand Elite Mycenaean Cuisine"
 
Thursday, November 12, 2020

18:00 (NYC)/17:00 (Guatemala) | Zoom

The event will be held in Spanish but questions in English are welcome.

Thursday, November 12, 2020

6 pm | Online

The Lunder Institute for American Art is pleased to announce the Lunder Institute Talks, a series of live, hour-long Zoom conversations with scholars and artists who are shaping the field of American art. Together, Lunder Institute area directors... [...]

Friday, October 23, 2020

12-1:30 pm | Virtual

The Early Modern Workshop is a multidisciplinary forum where... [...]

Thursday, October 15, 2020

6:30 pm | Online

Thursday, October 15, 2020

6 pm | Online

The Lunder Institute for American Art is pleased to announce the Lunder Institute Talks, a series of live, hour-long Zoom conversations with scholars and artists who are shaping the field of American art. Together, Lunder Institute area directors... [...]

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

12 pm | Online

2020 AHAA Research Fellowship Talks

Kelvin Parnell, PhD candidate, University of Virginia

“Casting Bronze, Recasting Race: Sculpture in... [...]

Friday, October 2, 2020

3-7 pm | Second Street Gallery

Friday, October 2, 2020

4 pm | Online

Abstract: The Eleusinian Mysteries that took place at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis (outside of Athens, Greece) were a mystery cult that stretched back as far as the Bronze Age. While we do not know the full details of what... [...]

Thursday, October 1, 2020

6:30 pm | Virtual

Robert DeCaroli, Professor of South and Southeast Asian Art History, George Mason University

Friday, September 25, 2020

10 am | Online

“In its own Image: Beginnings of Photography in Senegal”

... [...]
Thursday, September 24, 2020

6 pm | Online

The Lunder Institute for American Art is pleased to announce the Lunder Institute Talks, a series of live, hour-long Zoom conversations with scholars and artists who are shaping the field of American art. Together, Lunder Institute area directors... [...]

Friday, September 18, 2020

8:30 am | Online

Friday, September 18, 2020

4 pm | Online

Dr. Jonah Augustine

Honorary Fellow

Thursday, September 17, 2020

6 pm | Online

Please join the Thomas Jefferson Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians for a roundtable discussion, “State of the Field: Architectural History at the University of Virginia.” This event will showcase the recent work of professors... [...]

Monday, September 14, 2020

Flyer for Torres-Tama Cyber Residency

Monday, September 14, 2020

7pm | Virtual

Speaker... [...]

Friday, February 28, 2020

5 - 7pm | Ruffin Hall

Please join... [...]

Thursday, February 27, 2020

6:30pm | Campbell 160

McIntire Lecture Series

... [...]
Monday, February 17, 2020

5pm | Campbell 153

Howard Crosby Butler... [...]

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

12pm | Fralin Museum

In response to The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles, this exhibition highlights works in The Fralin’s permanent collection in which twentieth and twenty-first century artists have tackled history and the challenges... [...]

Friday, February 7, 2020

12pm | Campbell 220B

Friday, February 7, 2020

9:30am - 12:30pm | Rotunda, Lower West Oval Room

Join us for a... [...]

Thursday, February 6, 2020

5:30pm | Campbell Hall 160

... [...]
Friday, January 31, 2020

5-7pm | Ruffin Hall Annex

Please join our... [...]
Friday, January 31, 2020

6pm | Ruffin Gallery

Please join the... [...]

Thursday, January 23, 2020

... [...]

Monday, January 13, 2020

5 - 7pm | Ruffin Gallery

Please join the Studio Art department for the first Ruffin Gallery show of the Spring 2020 season, All to Pieces by elin o’Hara slavick and susanne slavick! 

The show runs from January 13th  to... [...]

Friday, December 13, 2019

9am - 6:30pm | Ruffin Hall

Final Exam Sculptures by the UVA Sculpture Classes

Featuring:

Tiny Self- Portraits, Bronze Amulets, Cardboard Performative works,
Recyclable currency as gifts, Text Sculpture works,... [...]

Friday, December 6, 2019

5pm | Ruffin Hall

 

Friday, December 6, 2019

5-7pm | Ruffin Hall

Join Art Department faculty, students, and staff for an end-of-semester gathering!

Please RSVP Keith Robertson (zkr7e) by Wednesday 12/4

... [...]

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

6:00pm | Campbell Hall 153

Artist Talk by Cara Romero, Mellon Indigenous Arts Visiting Fellow. Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) is an award-winning artist who utilizes techniques learned in film, digital, fine art, and commercial photography to produce powerful... [...]

Friday, November 15, 2019

Friday and Saturday | Campbell Hall 153

Please join our alumni, students, and friends as we gather for a symposium featuring paper presentations in honor of Richard Guy Wilson’s scholarship, teaching, and mentorship, and as we celebrate the Department of Architectural History... [...]

Thursday, November 14, 2019

5:30pm | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

A reception to launch a new mural painted by celebrated artist Barbara Moore on-site at the Kluge-Ruhe. Barbara Moore and Sharon Adamson are visiting artists-in-residence at Kluge-Ruhe November 4-16. Their visit coincides with an exhibition of... [...]

Thursday, November 14, 2019

4:00pm | Ruffin Gallery

Please join William Wylie for a gallery talk  surrounding his show with Corey Drieth: THIS:THAT, on view in the Ruffin Gallery!

Thursday, November 14, 2019

6:30pm | Campbell Hall 160

 

 
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

5pm | Harrison Small Auditorium

The Studio Art department is thrilled to host 2019-2020 Ruffin Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Nick Cave for a lecture in anticipation of his residency this coming Spring! Cave works in the visual and performing arts across mediums, including... [...]

Friday, November 1, 2019

12noon - 1 pm | Campbell Hall 220C

Julie Bargmann
Tough Landscapes: a manifesto for ugly ducklings

Elgin Cleckley and Lisa Reilly
New Interpretation, James Monroe’s Highland

Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz
Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in... [...]

Friday, November 1, 2019

5pm | Campbell Hall 153

Professor Andrea Giordano teaches at the University of Padova, where he is... [...]

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

6:30 pm | Campbell 153

The Mellon Indigenous Arts Program and The Fralin Museum of Art are delighted to host Navajo weaver D.Y. Begay as our next Indigenous Arts Visiting Fellow. Begay will give an Artist Talk (free, no reservation required) on October 22, 6:30 PM,... [...]

Friday, October 18, 2019

August 26 - October 18

The McIntire Department of Art is hosting its first exhibition of Fall 2019, “A Quick and Tragic Thaw”: A Collaboration by Yvonne Love & Gabrielle Russomagno in the Ruffin Gallery. The show will run from August 26 through October... [...]

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

5 pm | Campbell 153

The Studio Art Department is honored to host a talk from activist, gallery owner, filmmaker, entrepreneur Linda Goode Bryant. Goode Bryant is best known for founding the Just Above Manhattan (JAM) Gallery in 1974 that centered around supporting... [...]

Friday, October 11, 2019

5pm

Emily Larned has been publishing as an artistic practice since 1993, when she made her first zine as a teenager. Working in an overlapping region of graphic design, socially engaged art, speculative design, craft, book arts, and writing, she... [...]

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

4:45pm | Ruffin Gallery

Quick and Tragic Thaw is a series of artworks that explores the impact of a warming world using the arctic region as the symbolic apex. Through the study of scholarly research and data, use of mapping technology and satellite... [...]

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

6:30pm | Campbell Hall 160