Past Events

Friday, May 26, 2023

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

Emily Kame Kngwarreye, My Country, 1994, acrylic on canvas. Gift of John W. Kluge... [...]
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... [...]

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... [...]

Saturday, April 29, 2023

6 pm | Vinegar Hill Theatre

The inaugural Odds & Ends Experimental Film Festival, which begins... [...]

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... [...]

Saturday, April 15, 2023

1:30 pm | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Friday, April 14, 2023

11:59 PM | Submit Online

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

... [...]

Friday, April 14, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Week 2

April 10 - April 14

Ruffin Gallery: Pilar... [...]

Friday, April 14, 2023

6:30 pm | Visible Records Studio West 3

Current Freeman Artist Residents Caro Campos and Dorothy Li will have an... [...]

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

7:30 pm |Newcomb Theater

UVA Archaeology and UPC Present:

Raiders of the Lost Ark Movie Night... [...]

Friday, April 7, 2023

5 - 7 pm | New City Arts Initiative

Essing, Fawning, Gawping, Hocking, Isling, Jostling,... [...]

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

Friday, April 7, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Left to Right: Bankes Haden, Mary O'Connor, Léo Zhang... [...]
Thursday, April 6, 2023

6.30 pm | Livestream

Global Histories and Transgender Studies in the Humanities... [...]

Thursday, April 6, 2023

12:00 pm | Virtual

Legacies of State Socialism, Renewed Dichotomies, and Southeast European... [...]

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... [...]

Thursday, March 30, 2023

6.30 pm | Wilson Hall 142

Global Histories and Transgender Studies in the Humanities... [...]

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Noon | Virtual (from Istanbul)

JOINT LECTURE

THE AMERİCAN RESEARCH INSTİTUTE... [...]

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

3:30 pm | Ruffin

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

Friday, March 24, 2023

3:30 pm | 107 Old Cabel Hall

On Friday, March 24th... [...]

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... [...]

Thursday, March 23, 2023

6:30 pm | Campbell 160

... [...]

Thursday, March 23, 2023

6 pm | Ruffin 206

James Scheuren is hosting visiting artist Autumn Knight this week.... [...]

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

2 pm | Zoom

NFTs have become a topic of intense debate since the landmark Christie's... [...]

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

6:30 pm | PVCC Fine Arts and Performance

A lecture by Veronica Jackson

Veronica Jackson,... [...]

Sunday, March 19, 2023

3 - 5 pm | Schmidt/Dean Gallery

Dean Dass

“Clouds, Flares, Fireflies”

19... [...]

Saturday, March 18, 2023

7:30 pm | Visible Records

Join us for sweet treats and good company at the Gelatin Film... [...]

Friday, March 17, 2023

4 pm | Brooks Hall Commons

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

The idea of the landscape as a palimpsest, where traces of a former version can be read... [...]

Thursday, March 16, 2023

Trompe l’oeil, aporia, illusionism – art has many... [...]

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.... [...]
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Midnight | Online

The American Institute for Southeast European Studies (AISEES) announces the... [...]

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... [...]

Thursday, March 2, 2023

5:30 pm | Campbell 160

Metcalf Lecture

Frédérique... [...]

Thursday, March 2, 2023

6.30 pm | Wilson Hall 142

Global Histories and Transgender Studies in the Humanities... [...]

Friday, February 24, 2023

4 pm | Brooks Hall Commons

Architectural innovation and metallurgy in early Etruria: evidence from Poggio... [...]

Friday, February 24, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

UVA Ruffin Gallery • Feb 24 — Mar 24

Opening... [...]

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

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

Atlanta-based photographer Tokie... [...]

Thursday, February 16, 2023

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

Nastassja Swift is a multi-disciplinary... [...]

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

11 am (Eastern) | Virtual

POSTPONED

The AISEES-ARIT lecture on... [...]

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

3:30 pm | Zoom

On Wednesday, February 15th, Intermediate and Advanced... [...]

Monday, February 13, 2023

6 - 8 pm | Multicultural Student Center

 Monday, February 13th, Graphic Artist and Designer Ovila Mailhot... [...]

Friday, February 10, 2023

6 - 8 pm | Visible Records

Lago Gatún (2021) consist of two continuous-... [...]

Monday, February 6, 2023

4-6 pm | 16/18 Bond House

Book Talk & Discussion: Rhiannon Stephens, ... [...]

Monday, February 6, 2023

5 pm | Campbell 153

What is the role of the designed environment both in the opportunistic... [...]

Sunday, February 5, 2023

1:30 pm | Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection

Special Sunday Tour with Anthropologist Fred Myers

In this very special tour, anthropologist and professor Fred Myers ... [...]

Saturday, February 4, 2023

6 pm | Katzen Art Center, American University

Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from... [...]

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... [...]

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... [...]

Monday, January 30, 2023

5 pm | Campbell 153

Hanaa Dahy, Associate Prof. Dr. for Sustainable Design... [...]

Saturday, January 28, 2023

9 am | UVa

There is no easy way to define... [...]

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

There is no easy way to define... [...]

Friday, January 27, 2023

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

A migrant is perpetually unfinished.
... [...]

Friday, January 27, 2023

3:03 pm | Ruffin Courtyard

Thursday, January 26, 2023

12 pm | Virtual

The “ISTROS” Society for Historical Studies, the Romanian... [...]

Monday, January 23, 2023

5 pm | Campbell Hall 153

Hazel Ruth Edwards, Professor of Architecture at Howard... [...]

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... [...]

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... [...]

Friday, December 2, 2022

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

Prof. Anastasia Dakouri-Hild, Associate... [...]

Friday, November 18, 2022

4:00 - 5:15 | Zoom

Portrait of Dr. HuDi Hu, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, James... [...]

Friday, November 11, 2022

9 - 4 | Virtual

Since the 1990s, exhibitions of African photographers such... [...]

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

5 pm | Online

The Smithsonian Art Museum and its... [...]

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... [...]

Thursday, October 27, 2022

6:30 pm | Campbell 160

Ömür Harmanşah, Director of... [...]

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... [...]

Monday, October 10, 2022

5 PM | Campbell 153

aerial view of MontpelierMatthew Reeves has been the Director of Archaeology... [...]

Friday, October 7, 2022

5:30 pm | Campbell Hall 160

In this explorative Friday afternoon lecture, anthropologist and... [...]

Friday, October 7, 2022

5 pm | Second Street Gallery - Downtown Mall

SAVE THE DATE: FRIDAY, OCT 7, 2022

Parade procession... [...]

Friday, October 7, 2022

5:30 - 7:30 | Second Street Gallery

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present Mummers, a solo... [...]

Thursday, October 6, 2022

5 pm | UVA Harrison Small Auditorium

Buddha, Shiva, Mudra: On Understanding the Development... [...]

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

10:00 am | Virtual

Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and Indian... [...]

Saturday, October 1, 2022

6:30 pm | Visible Records

Please join JaVori Warren & Megan Richards - 2021-22... [...]

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, ... [...]

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

12:30 pm | Zoom

On Tuesday 9/27 at 12:30pm, interdisciplinary... [...]

Friday, September 23, 2022

4 pm | Brooks Hall Commons

Jeffrey Hantman, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology
... [...]

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... [...]

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... [...]

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

6 - 8 pm | Virtual

 

Speakers:

Fotini Kondyli - University... [...]

Friday, August 26, 2022

5 - 7 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Opening Reception | Friday, August 26 | 5:00-7:... [...]

Thursday, June 30, 2022

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

Francesca Fiorani, University of Virginia

Leonardo da Vinci and Cortona: Wetlands,... [...]

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... [...]

Friday, June 3, 2022

8:30 pm | Visible Records

Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney

A family rests in the shade of a C... [...]

Saturday, May 21, 2022

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

  • Fair-Weather Location: Drama Bldg., Culbreth Theatre, (12:30 - 1:30 p.m.), ... [...]
Saturday, May 21, 2022

12 pm | Ruffin Gallery

 

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... [...]

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... [...]

Thursday, May 5, 2022

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

Installation of red dresses at Kluge-Ruhe, 10 am – 4 pm
May 5 is known in... [...]

Friday, April 29, 2022

1 - 3 pm | Virtual

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

Thursday, April 28, 2022

5:30 pm | Virtual

Melissa Baltus, University of Toledo

The neighborhoods of ancient Cahokia tell its stories. Their similarities and... [...]

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... [...]

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... [...]

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... [...]

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-... [...]

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... [...]

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... [...]

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

7 pm | Campbell 158

STEPHANIE H. SHIH explores the diasporic nostalgia and material lineages of migration and... [...]

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... [...]

Thursday, March 24, 2022

5:30 pm | Clark Hall 107

The ... [...]

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

6 pm | Ruffin Gallery

Alex Christie makes acoustic music, electronic music, and intermedia art in many forms.... [...]

Monday, March 21, 2022

6:15 pm | Virtual

Lecture promotion imageBettman Lecture Series, Columbia University

In Buddhist cultures across Asia, the... [...]

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... [...]

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


The editors and graduate student authors of Boomalli Prints and Paper: Making Space as an Art Collective... [...]

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... [...]

Friday, March 4, 2022

5:30 pm | The Bridge PAI

... [...]

Monday, February 28, 2022

Ruffin Hall, Photo Classroom 206

Deborah Anzinger is an artist and founder of New Local Space (NLS), Kingston, Jamaica. Anzinger works in... [...]

Friday, February 25, 2022

5 - 7 PM, Ruffin Gallery

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

Thursday, February 24, 2022

6:30 pm | Campbell Hall 160

Martina Rugiadi, Metropolitan Museum

"Afghan marbles: the expanded archaeological archive"

*co-... [...]

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Closes February 24th

 

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

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... [...]

Sunday, February 13, 2022

3 - 4:30 pm | Virtual

Dylan K. Rogers

With the recent reboot of HBO's classic... [...]

Friday, February 11, 2022

5-7 |Ruffin Hall

 

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

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 “... [...]

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

1 pm ET | Virtual

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

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 Dashti.... [...]

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Zoom, 6:30 PM

 

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

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... [...]

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... [...]

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

7 pm | Nau Hall Auditorium

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

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... [...]

Friday, October 22, 2021

Virtual | 1 PM

 

 

Howard Paine is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is the Head of... [...]

Friday, October 22, 2021

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

Thursday, October 21, 2021

5:30 pm | Virtual

Michael Chazan, University of Toronto

The urge towards creativity and self-expression is a fundamental element of... [...]

Friday, October 1, 2021

5 - 7:30 pm | New City Arts

Marisa Williamson, Sandy Williams IV, Patrick Costello

From October 1-28, 2021,... [...]

Friday, October 1, 2021

5 - 7 pm | Chroma Projects Art Laboratory

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

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... [...]

Saturday, September 25, 2021

6 pm | Visible Records

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

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 University

... [...]

Friday, September 10, 2021

TBD | Virtual

Dr. Eid-Sabbagh's will present on her... [...]

Sunday, August 29, 2021

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

Please join UVA Arts for the annual ... [...]
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... [...]

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... [...]

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!

 ... [...]

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... [...]

Friday, June 18, 2021

Ruffin Gallery

Kim Salac, Diana Dreams, April 28, 2021, HD video and archival footage

This exhibition highlights the work... [...]

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... [...]

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

7 pm | Virtual

Every year on May 26, Australians celebrate Sorry Day, also known as the National Day of Healing, that ... [...]

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,... [...]

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... [...]

Saturday, May 22, 2021

10 am - 3 pm | Ruffin Hall

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

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... [...]

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... [...]

Friday, May 7, 2021

Ruffin Hall, through May 7th

 

Thesis shows in Studio Art are the culmination of not only one but four academic years of undergraduate Liberal Arts... [...]

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... [...]

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... [...]

Friday, April 30, 2021

4 - 5 pm | Virtual

Carrie Thornbrugh will draw on her 8+ years of professional experience directing... [...]

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... [...]

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

3 pm | Virtual

João Mayawari Mehinaku is an artist of the Mehinaku people; he learned... [...]

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

6:30 pm | Virtual

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

Registration to be posted to our... [...]

Friday, April 16, 2021

4 - 5 pm | Virtual

Protecting copyright can be a significant challenge for visual artists, particularly in a digital... [...]

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

12:30 pm | Virtual

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

Monday, April 12, 2021

2 pm | Virtual

The Tiwanaku sacred center and its influence in eastern Cochabamba valleys

Tiwanaku is an important... [...]

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,... [...]

Monday, April 12, 2021

6 pm | Brooks Hall

Exhibition at Brooks Hall, UVA

The bilum is a type of looped net bag that is made, carried, and gifted... [...]

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... [...]

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

6 pm | Virtual

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

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

2:15 | Virtual

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

Patricia... [...]

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... [...]

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 appointment, ... [...]

Thursday, March 25, 2021

5:30 | Zoom

 "The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier: Interaction and Exchange among Muslim and... [...]

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... [...]

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

6 pm | Virtual

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

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... [...]

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

1 pm | Virtual

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

Monday, March 22, 2021

9 am | Virtual

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

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... [...]

Thursday, March 18, 2021

March 18-19, 2021 | Online

Art & Architectural History Graduate Online Symposium
University of Virginia... [...]

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 ... [...]

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... [...]

Friday, February 19, 2021

Open now until February 19th!

 

The 2021 Studio Art Department Faculty Exhibition offers the UVA campus and the Charlottesville community the opportunity to discover the recent artistic endeavors and professional accomplishments of faculty in the Art Department.... [...]

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 

To be... [...]

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... [...]

Thursday, November 19, 2020

7 pm | Virtual

In this timely webinar, Aboriginal Australian artist Tony Albert (Girramay) and Alaska Native... [...]
Thursday, November 19, 2020

2 pm | Virtual

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

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

 

Kasey Jernigan, Assistant Professor of... [...]
Thursday, November 12, 2020

17:30 | Zoom

"Using Ugly Pottery to Understand Elite Mycenaean Cuisine"
 

For generations, Greek archaeologists interested in ceramics have mostly focused on the “pretty” kind, usually painted vessels... [...]

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... [...]

Thursday, November 12, 2020

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

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

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

5:30 | Online

 

 

The Department... [...]

Friday, October 23, 2020

12-1:30 pm | Virtual

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

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... [...]

Thursday, October 15, 2020

6:30 pm | Online

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

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... [...]

Friday, October 2, 2020

3-7 pm | Second Street Gallery

In his exhibition at Second Street Gallery, Cuatlacuatl will explore the use of tradition and culture as political weapons by examining the Latinx custom of... [...]
Thursday, October 1, 2020

6:30 pm | Virtual

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

Professor DeCaroli is a specialist in... [...]

Friday, September 25, 2020

10 am | Online

“In its own Image: Beginnings of... [...]
Thursday, September 24, 2020

7 pm | Online

In this webinar, Kluge-Ruhe interns Addie Patrick and Ashley Botkin join Kluge-Ruhe... [...]
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

Abstract: Tiwanaku, located in western Bolivia, was among the largest... [...]

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... [...]

Monday, September 14, 2020

Flyer for Torres-Tama Cyber Residency

Monday, September 14, 2020

7pm | Virtual

Speaker: Ingrid... [...]

Friday, February 28, 2020

5 - 7pm | Ruffin Hall

Please join the Studio Art... [...]

Thursday, February 27, 2020

6:30pm | Campbell 160

McIntire Lecture Series

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

5pm | Campbell 153

Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History... [...]

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... [...]

Friday, February 7, 2020

12pm | Campbell 220B

Friday, February 7, 2020

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

Join us for a morning of stimulating... [...]

Thursday, February 6, 2020

5:30pm | Campbell Hall 160

In 1984, at eight years old... [...]

Friday, January 31, 2020

6pm | Ruffin Gallery

Please join the Studio Art department for the... [...]

Friday, January 31, 2020

5-7pm | Ruffin Hall Annex

Please join our Aunspaugh 5th year... [...]
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Dates: February 28 & 29... [...]

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

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

... [...]

Friday, December 6, 2019

5pm | Ruffin Hall

 

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

6:30pm | Campbell Hall 160

Melinda Watt, The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Allure of Cotton: Making and Marketing Fashionable Fabrics in the long Eighteenth Century"

 

 
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!

THIS:THAT is a collaborative response to the body of work created by the ... [...]

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... [...]

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,... [...]

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... [...]

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... [...]

Thursday, October 3, 2019

5:30pm | Campbell 158

Lisa Nevett (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

New Fieldwork from Classical Olynthos (Greece): towards an archaeology of identity

Among ancient historians the city of Olynthos is best-known as a regional power from northern... [...]

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... [...]

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

6:30pm | Campbell Hall 160

Irene V. Small, Princeton University, "The Discovery of the Organic Line."

 
Friday, August 30, 2019

4 pm Fayerweather Hall

Friday, August 30, 2019

5-7 PM, Ruffin Gallery

The McIntire Department of Art is hosting its first exhibition of Fall 2019, “A Quick and Tragic Thaw”: A Collaboration by Yvonne Love &... [...]