Events
Public Lectures, Visiting Artists & Scholars, Majors Events
Upcoming Events
Winter Market: Visible Records and Infinite Repeats
11- 5 everyday | Visible Records
Visible Records and Infinite Repeats are hosting an extended WINTER MARKET!!! 20% of all sales go toward supporting Visible Records and Infinite Repeats.
Begins: Friday, November 29, 2024 11:00 PM
Ends: Wednesday, December 25, 2024 5:00 PM
Location:
1740 Broadway Street Charlottesville, VA, 22902
20+ Local artists & vendors (many affiliated with the Art Department!)
7 days a week 11-5
Extended hours on Monday and Saturday until 7 pm
More information forthcoming.
Made in VA Biennial CLOSES
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art
JULY 12, 2024-JANUARY 5, 2025
Since 1994, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art has celebrated the extraordinary talent of Virginia artists through its annual juried exhibition. Nearly 30 years later, this favorite tradition continues to thrive and evolve together with the immense creative talent found across the commonwealth. Now, Made in VA has transitioned to a biennial event featuring artwork created by Virginia artists in the preceding two years.
Every other year, we’re dedicating an expanded gallery space to the juried exhibition, enabling the Museum to showcase a wider range of artistic voices and visions. This expansion also means more prizes and professional opportunities for participating artists. Now as in 1994, Made in VA reflects the Museum’s commitment to enriching and supporting the artistic communities in our region. This momentous occasion marks a new chapter in the Museum’s long history of fostering creativity and innovation.
UVA Art Department artists: Anna Hogg and Federico Cuatlacuatl
Hank the Aquarian, Wash Me & Comb Me, 2023. Acrylic paint & latex house paint on canvas. Courtesy of the artist
DEADLINE: Winston Art Scholarship & Wright Art Award
5 pm | Online
In honor of Naomi Rabb Winston, NSAL established an annual scholarship fund for young visual artists age 16-22. Applicants must demonstrate exceptional talent and promise of future success.
The scholarship funds are for private study, special training or personal advancement in the applicants’ chosen art fields. The funds can be used for college tuition and required art supplies, but not for housing, travel or personal expenses. In most years, as many as eight to ten scholarships are awarded in varying amounts.
From Mamluk Imaginings to the Iraq Revolt of 1920
TBD | TBD
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Exploring the Impact of Modernity on the Crafts of the Middle East
Marcus Milwright, University of York/University of Victoria
Marcus Milwright is British Academy Global Professor in History of Art, and a member of the Centre for Medieval Studies.
He is also Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria, Canada.
Co-sponsored by the Islamic Worlds Initiative and Interdisciplinary Archaeology Program
Lindner Lecture: Jeanne Voccaro, Construction as Commitment: Nicki Green's Alchemical Clay
TBD | Campbell Hall
This talk takes sculptor Nicki Green's assertion that "clay is a trans material" as its starting point. In clay, the artist uses hand-making to study rituals of belonging and becoming, conveying construction as one iteration of commitment. The talk will engage the range of Green's practice as anchored in the ecstatic mysticism of the everyday.
Jeanne Vaccaro is a scholar and curator of contemporary art and public practice. Her writing and social practice trace the idiosyncrasy of the archive to activate liberation histories and coalitions. Jeanne’s book in process, Handmade: feelings and textures of transgender, considers the felt labor of making identity, and was awarded the Arts Writers Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. Jeanne received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University under the mentorship of José Esteban Muñoz. She is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Museum Studies at the University of Kansas, and affiliate faculty at the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction.
Amy Chan's "Double Happiness" in Shannon CLOSES
Alderman Library 2nd floor lobby
To create the piece "Double Happiness", Amy Chan asked the UVA Asian / Pacific Islander / South Asian American community to submit greetings, proverbs, and colloquial sayings that are important to their cultural identity. Text left to right reads:
Ganbare, Japanese, to persevere
Double Happiness, Chinese, joy and unity
Hwaiting, Korean, you got this!
Padayon, Visayan dialect / Philippines, to carry on
Kya baat hai, Hindi, how amazing!
All places are ours, and all people are our kin, Tamil
Andamu, Telugu, inner beauty
Sudah makan, Malaysian, have you eaten?
Elena Yu at New City Arts
New City Arts Welcome Gallery
In October 2025, New City Arts will present an exhibition of work by Elena Yu.
Elena Yu’s exhibition will respond to lichen-covered headstones and historically significant burial grounds. With this work, she aims to ask: “What constitutes care of burial grounds, and how might interspecies knowledge, respect and tending enable new ways of interacting with sites of human memorialization?”
Elena Yu is an interdisciplinary artist and arts organizer from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice weaves together many mediums and intentions including textiles, performance, drawing, sculpture, archival research and community practice. She has exhibited, performed, facilitated workshops and attended artist residences throughout the United States, and is the co-founder of The Firehouse (@thefirehousejt) and Sun Spot (@sun___spot), two artist-run spaces in Joshua Tree, CA.
Elena is currently a New City Arts Fellow, Artist-in-Residence at University of California Santa Barbara, an Incubator Artist at McGuffey Art Center, studio member at Visible Records, and the Ruffin Gallery and Visiting Artist Coordinator at UVA’s Department of Art.