Final Fridays: 2016-2017
Enjoy some great Final Friday Receptions & Gallery Talks on Arts Grounds & Beyond on Friday, April 28th!! Sponsored by the …
Apr 30, 2017
Enjoy some great Final Friday Receptions & Gallery Talks on Arts Grounds & Beyond on Friday, April 28th!!
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for the Arts
Final Fridays is a monthly showcase of the Arts at UVA highlighting exhibits, performances, and lectures on Arts Grounds and across the University. The Fralin Museum of Art, the Ruffin Gallery & the School of Architecture offer monthly receptions and gallery talks in conjunction with their exhibits. The Arts Libraries, Music performances, Drama performances, and Creative Writing readings often join the line-up. We invite students, faculty, and community members to come experience this monthly showcase of the Arts at UVA!
April Schedule:
Betsy & John Casteen Arts Grounds | The Fralin Museum of Art
Studio Art | Music | Drama | WTJU
Betsy & John Casteen Arts Grounds
UNVEILING: Virginia Curiosity Shop by Mark Dion
~Lawn adjacent to Culbreth Road | 5:30 – 7:30pm
The Virginia Curiosity Shop is a large-scale temporary public artwork sited on the Arts Grounds of the University of Virginia. The work consists of an impeccably crafted, aged vernacular structure that gives the impression of having been located on the site for decades. The modest building, resembling countless structures dotting the rural landscape of the state, appears as an orphaned vestigial building miraculously untouched by the modern era.
The Fralin Museum of Art: Final Fridays
5:30-7:30pm
Join us at The Fralin for the final Final Fridays of the year! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages.
- Live music in the lobby by Peter Richardson
- Spotlight Talks by Fralin Student Docents Katherine Phillips at 6:15 pm and Erin O’Reilly at 6:45 pm
- Special performances by the Mahogany Dance Troupe and the Virginia Glee Club
On view:
- Collect, Care, Conserve, Curate: The Life of the Art Object
- Grasping at the Ephemeral: Explorations on Change from the Permanent Collection, by the University Museums Interns
- Imagining Antiquity: Italianate Prints from the Langhorne Collection
Studio Art: Closing Receptions 5:30-7:30pm
4th and 5th Year Show
~Ruffin Gallery & ~Stairwell Galleries and Studios 103 & 104
McIntire Department of Music
Cuong Vu and Glen Whitehead Colloquium
3:30pm | 107 Old Cabell Hall | FREE
Cuong Vu and Glen Whitehead will discuss the role improvisation plays as a strategy for exploring new ideas, broadening the scope of language, realizing new influences, and connecting to cross-disciplinary arenas beyond music. Cuong and Glen will be performing with the UVA Jazz Ensemble on April 29, 8pm in Old Cabell Hall.
Baroque Orchestra with David Breitman, Fortepiano
8pm | Old Cabell Hall | Tickets
The UVA Baroque Orchestra, directed by faculty violinist David Sariti, is joined by Weber guest artist, fortepianist David Breitman in an all-Classical program. Works include Mozart Violin Sonata K. 379, Haydn Symphony No. 44, and Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12, all heard for the first time at UVA on period instruments. Breitman is Director of Historical Performance at Oberlin College Conservatory, and will be performing on his reproduction 1780-era instrument. Breitman will coach the group in special masterclasses twice during the semester.
Drama
New Works Festival
8pm | Helms Theatre | FREE with Ticket
Come see exciting premiers of new plays and emerging works in this faculty-mentored festival showcasing the collaboration of student artists from across Grounds.
WTJU Radio
Lambeth Live
8pm | Daryl Shawn
Daryl Shawn blends the guitar chops of flamenco and classical with a modern songwriter’s sensibility and the energy of rock. Shawn grew up among Amish farms in rural Pennsylvania, studied classical and flamenco guitar in between jazz classes at Berklee College of Music, hitchhiked to San Francisco and formed Maxwell Horse, a trio which was soon opening shows for the likes of Brendan Benson and Rocket from the Crypt. After four releases and a number of successful tours, he split up the band and left the United States for the remote Mexican city of Oaxaca, where he spent five years writing solo instrumental and vocal songs and building his own approach to the acoustic guitar outside the influences of any scene. After leaving Mexico, he spent several years with no fixed address before moving to Brooklyn, NY, and finally Pittsburgh, PA.
March Schedule:
School of Architecture | Music | The Fralin Museum of Art | Drama | WTJU
School of Architecture:
8am – 7pm | Campbell Hall
2016 PELLICCIA/NIX TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
~Corner Gallery Talk at 5pm
Founded in 1996 by Lewis and Beth Nix in honor of his mother Sarah McArthur Nix, the intention of the fellowship is to support a line of graphic research, analysis independent study of architecture students over the course of the summer in France. It is encouraged that the study of the Nix Fellow might entertain the influence of French architecture upon the work of Thomas Jefferson.
FIFTY YEARS OF ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS
~Elmaleh Gallery
After graduation from the University of Virginia School of Architecture in 1963, Carlton Abbott embarked on his professional journey as an architect and artist. This exhibition is a collection of drawings created during his career which has spanned over fifty years. The drawings depict a range of subjects from housing to large urban projects. Pencil, ink, and pastel on paper or illustration board, are the primary materials used. Significant in the exhibit is a series of ink drawings of the buildings along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Carlton is the son of Stanley Abbott, FASLA, recognized as the primary designer of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
THE YAMUNA RIVER PROJECT
~East Wing Gallery 
The University of Virginia’s Yamuna River Project is an inter-disciplinary research project whose objective is to revitalize the ecology of the Yamuna River in New Delhi and reconnect India’s capital city back to the water. In the next phase of this continuing research project we are actively engaging the efforts of government agencies, experts and activists (in India and internationally) in an ongoing investigation addressing multidimensional challenges towards recovering the relation between Delhi, its people, and their sacred Yamuna River.
McIntire Department of Music
Joan of Arc/Afterlives Symposium
9am-7pm | Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room
“Joan of Arc/Afterlives” will explore the reception of Joan and the many roles Joan has played in world culture. Joan’s many lives have included playing the role of heretic and sexual ingénue, icon of the American feminist movement and symbol of the ultra right in France, victim of the patriarchal establishment and the face of the transgender movement. How can one individual of whom we know so little (and then only through court transcripts and rumor) fulfill so many modern desires? These roles and many others will be the subject of discussion during the symposium that will bring together internationally recognized specialists of Joan of Arc with members of the UVA community who will engage with the histories, mythologies, and representations of Joan from the vantage point of their own disciplines.
History of Hip-Hop with guest artist 9th Wonder
1pm | Dome Room, Rotunda
The UVA Music Arts Board presents Grammy Award-winning producer, DJ, Lecturer, and Social Activist 9th Wonder. Patrick Denard Douthit (b. 1975 in Winston-Salem, NC) began his career as the main producer for the group Little Brother and has since worked with such acclaimed artists as Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Murs, Erykah Badu, Ludacris, Talib Kweli, and Rapsody. He served as Hip-Hop Fellow at Harvard University in 2012, where he continues his residency at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute while also serving as an adjunct professor at Duke University. This public lecture on the History of Hip-Hop will serve as the culmination to his week-long artist residency at the University of Virginia. Do not miss this historic event, March 31st, 1:00pm, in the Rotunda Dome Room.
UVA Hip-Hop Student Showcase
8pm | Ante Room
Come check out student work at the Ante Room at 8PM on Friday, March 31st. Acclaimed hip-hop producer 9th Wonder has been working with these students on their songs in up close and personal feedback sessions, and this is the chance for the community to hear what they’ve created.
Steven Jenny, Distinguished Major Recital The Great Release
8pm | Old Cabell Hall
Steven Jenny, a double major in music and computer engineering, will be performing an original musical, titled The Great Release. This is the premise: “Alex is a disgruntled office worker. He works a dead-end job and has little outlets for his emotions, thoughts, and aspirations. He is also constipated, in part thanks to his antidepressants. One day, Alex falls asleep only to awake in the obscure world of his lower intestine, where all of the other beings are singing pieces of poop. The society he finds bears a striking resemblance to the 2016 America in which Alex lives. Alex must work with a team of young activists including Kevin Fecal and Diana Ria to help save the world within Alex’s bowels, and in doing so, allow him to crap again.”
The Fralin Museum of Art: Final Fridays
5:30-7:30pm
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages.
- Live music in the lobby by Grant Frazier
- Spotlight Talks by Fralin Student Docents Lucie Lyons at 6:15 pm and Kristen Clevenson at 6:45 pm
- Special performance by the Academical Village People at 6:30 pm
On view:
- NEW! Collect, Care, Conserve, Curate: The Life of the Art Object
- NEW! Grasping at the Ephemeral: Explorations on Change from the Permanent Collection, by the University Museums Interns
- NEW! Imagining Antiquity: Italianate Prints from the Langhorne Collection
- Kevin Everson: Rough and Unequal
Drama: Conversations & Theatre
Keenan Lecture with Donald Margulies
4pm | Ruth Caplin Theatre | FREE
Join UVA Drama as we welcome playwright Donald Margulies as the 2017 Keenan Lecturer.
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (As Told By Himself)
by Donald Margulies
Ruth Caplin Theatre | 8pm | Tickets
Climb aboard for a journey from the high seas to exotic islands to Queen Victoria’s garden and beyond in this celebration of storytelling that will leave you thoroughly . . . entertained! Shipwrecked! brings Louis De Rougemont center stage to tell us about the adventures of his youth sailing to exotic islands, meeting native peoples, and dealing with a giant octopus complete to a “soundtrack” created by the actors and original music by UVA Drama lecturer Matthew Marshall.
WTJU Radio
Lambeth Live
8pm | SPICMACAY
SPICMACAY at the University of Virginia, a chapter of a non-profit organization for the promotion of Indian classical music and culture will put on the March 31st edition of Lambeth Live (heard each Friday night from 8-9 on WTJU), and you are invited to be part of the studio audience for this FREE concert broadcast!
February Schedule:
School of Architecture | Music | Drama
Studio Art | The Fralin Museum of Art
School of Architecture: On view
8am – 7pm | Campbell Hall
MANUAL OF SECTION
MARC TSURUMAKI, LTL Architects
~ Elmaleh Gallery
This exhibit exploits the differences between an exhibition and a book. Rather than one copy, 64 copies of the book are put on display. Each is open to one of the cross-sections in the book, and is held and illuminated by its own stand. The assembly of stands is arranged from left to right unfolding the sequence of the book into the space of the gallery, with each book clipped to the next for stability. Designed and fabricated by LTL, the displays are comprised of 704 parts and 896 pieces of hardware, which reflect the interest in detail and assembly within the drawings themselves.
Parque de los Primeros Pasos. Caracas. Venezuela
ARQUITECTURA AGRONOMIA
Teresa Galí-Izard and Jordi Nebot
~ East Wing Gallery
This exhibit illustrates the construction process of the Parque de los Primeros Pasos in Caracas, Venezuela. This park is the first built piece of a larger project, which includes the construction of a football stadium and a bus station. AQAG has collaborated with RSHP and ARUP, and the local team of the FPHC. The goal of this exhibit is to highlight the voice of landscape architects in the conversation of the construction of the built environment, and the importance of identifying the opportunities to build critical innovative projects for the city.
A BODY INCORPORATE
Patterns and Peoples of the Virginia Municipality
Andrew Marshall (MAH ‘18)
~ Corner Gallery
The Center for Cultural Landscapes is proud to sponsor the exhibit A Body Incorporate: Patterns and Peoples of the Virginian Municipality, created by Masters of Architectural History student Andrew Marshall. Borrowing the title from Chester W. Bain’s 1967 study of the municipal structure of Virginia, this exhibition documents Andrew’s travels to small towns across the state to investigate the physical typology of its urban form. Through the view of architectural form as an extension of society’s collective consciousness, the project seeks to read urban and building scale patterns to foster the critical practices to interpret and improve the civic realm. Formal analysis, as well as the stories of individual people and encounters, begins to unveil how these structures serve as a backdrop for our lives as citizens and our work as designers.
Visit the School of Architecture website for more information.
McIntire Department of Music
Beatbox / Rhythm Clinic with Rizumik
3:30pm | Old Cabell Hall, Room 107 | FREE
RIZUMIK is an artist mostly known for his rhythmic and improvisational skills. In 2016, he was part of the faculty of Bobby McFerrin’s Circlesongs course, at Omega Institute, alongside Rhiannon, Judi Vinar, Joey Blake, Christiane Karam and Karen Goldfeder. He was the lead in the internationally acclaimed show The Voca People and was the 2012 American Beatbox Champion. Rizumik uses beatbox, hand percussion and vocal improvisation in his teaching. His rhythmic skills also include tap dance, body percussion, drum kits and performance with percussion syllables (“Konnakol” style). He currently teaches his own style of beatbox/vocal percussion sounds and techniques branded as “Cadenza,” focusing on the parallel between human communication (languages / accents / alphabets) and the Universal language of music and rhythm. This colloquium event will be focused on experiential learning.
Drama: Conversations & Theatre
A Conversation with Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
Ruth Caplin Theatre | 4pm | FREE with tickets from the Arts Box Office
UVA Drama will host Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil in the Ruth Caplin Theatre for a discussion of two of their collaborations (Les Misérables, Miss Saigon) and their thoughts about the state of musical theatre today. Colleen Kelly, will moderate and there will be ample time for audience Q&A.
Blood Wedding
By Federico Garcia Lorca
Translated by Langston Hughes
Adapted by Melia Bensussen
Culbreth Theatre | 8pm | Tickets available at the Arts Box Office
Happily ever after or ‘til death do they part? You are cordially invited to attend an evening of love, betrayal, revenge, and family feuds.
McIntire Department of Art | Studio Art: Receptions
Ruffin Hall | FREE
Same Sky: Jessica Mallios and Adam Schreiber
~Ruffin Gallery | 5-7pm
Same Sky is an exhibition of recent work by Jessica Mallios and Adam Schreiber. Working between photography and video, the artists reveal a shared interest in time as a force at work on architecture. Works included mark the sun’s exposure to a library and the slow, fixed loop of an observation tower. For both artists, specificity of site gives rise to reimagined possibilities of photographic exposure, durational experience of place, and the gap between site and its representation.
“Nasty Women” (and Friends)
Sculpture Exhibit by UVA Sculpture Women and the rest of the UVA Sculpture Community
~Ruffstuff Gallery, First Floor | 5-7pm
“Nepho” (The study and contemplation of Clouds) detail, 2017, Caitlin Peterson, 4′ x 3′ x 2′, steel, Nylon fabric, Wool
Caitlin Peterson is a UVA 3rd year double major in Psychology and Studio Art with a concentration in Sculpture.
The Fralin Museum of Art: February Hiatus
Due to extensive exhibition transitions, The Fralin will not be hosting Final Friday on February 24th. They look forward to sharing their exciting new exhibitions with you in March and April. See you then!
January Schedule:
Kluge-Ruhe | Music | Women & Gender Studies | Studio Art | School of Architecture | The Fralin Museum of Art
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection: Opening
10am – 4pm
Janet Fieldhouse: Body Ornaments
This exhibition of works by Indigenous Australian artist Janet Fieldhouse sits at the intersection between contemporary ceramic practice and the art traditions of the Torres Strait Islands, off the northern coast of Australia. Her “woven” ceramic practice is particularly inspired by historical and contemporary practices of Torres Strait women, such as the creation of mats, baskets, pendants and armbands. Other works created by Fieldhouse explore her desire to preserve designs from the female ritual of scarification, where skin is cut or burned to produce permanent markings in scar tissue rather than ink. While this is no longer practiced today, the designs retain their cultural significance, and it is these two-dimensional patterns that Fieldhouse transforms into her raku clay sculptures.
Women & Gender Studies: Opening
5:00 | First Floor Gallery, Harrison / Small Special Collections Library
The Sounds and Silences of Black Girlhood
Please join us for a reception with refreshments in celebration of The Sounds and Silences of Black Girlhood, an exhibition curated by the students in the fall 2016 course “Women and Gender Studies 4559: A Global History of Black Girlhood.”
McIntire Department of Art | Studio Art: Receptions
Ruffin Hall | FREE
Peter Williams: The N-Word, Common & Proper Nouns (based on Peter Williams Book of the same title)
~Ruffin Gallery | 5-7pm
The Figure: J-Term 2017 Sculpture Exhibition
~Ruffstuff Gallery, First Floor | 5:30-7:pm
School of Architecture: Opening & Gallery Talks
5:00 | Campbell Hall
The Work of ARQUITECTURA AGRONOMIA
~ East Wing Gallery
Teresa Galí-Izard is principal of ARQUITECTURA AGRONOMIA, a landscape architecture firm in Barcelona, Spain. In the last 20 years she has been involved in well-known contemporary landscape architecture projects In Europe including TMB Park, Coastal Park, the new urbanization of Passeig de Sant Joan in Barcelona and the Sant Joan Landfill restoration, the winner of the 2004 European Urban Public Space award. Through her work, Gali-Izard explores new languages and forms while working with living materials such as earth, water and vegetation and using a contemporary approach involving dynamics and management. With her partner Jordi Nebot, she has a large number of built projects in Spain such as San Telmo Palace garden in Sevilla, Arriaga Lake in Vitoria, Odesa Park in Sabadell, Logroño Train Station park, Casabermeja Park in Malaga, Desierto square in Bilbao, and Giner de los rios Garden in Madrid. Her latest projects are in Crimea, Lebanon and Algeria.
Visit the School of Architecture website for more information.
The Fralin Museum of Art: Reception
5:30-7:30 pm | FREE for Members, $3.00 for non-members
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. This Friday will feature live music in the lobby by Gold Connection and Spotlight Talk at 6:15 pm & 6:45 by Fralin Student Docents.
On view:
– NEW! Kevin Everson: Rough and Unequal
– A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne
– Ann Gale: Portraits
– New Acquisitions: Photography
McIntire Department of Music
Yarn / Wire
8pm | Old Cabell Hall | FREE
Photo of Yarn/Wire by Bobby Fisher
WTJU’s Lambeth Live Concert Series: Small Town Rodeo
8-9 pm | Lambeth Commons at UVA | Free
Lambeth Live invites a different musical group from around North America into your home each Friday night for an hour long concert live from just outside the WTJU studios at Lambeth Commons at the University of Virginia in front of a LIVE studio audience. This week features Bluegrass band Small Town Rodeo! So gather round (or better yet be part of the studio audience!) each Friday night for Lambeth Live, right here on WTJU, truly the sound choice in Central Virginia!
October Schedule:
School of Architecture | Studio Art | The Fralin | Drama | Music
School of Architecture: Opening & Gallery Talks
5:00 | Campbell Hall
Race & the Control of Public Parks
Gallery Talk by Isaac Cohen (Alumni, Researcher and Designer)
~Elmaleh Gallery
Race & the Control of Public Parks examines the relationships between parks, design, and the right to the city, to ask: How, when, and for whom are parks created? Analyzing 100 years of Dallas history, tracing the migration of racial and ethnic populations across the city in relation to the development of the city’s park system revealing the controls placed on public space. Isaac Cohen is a graduate of an MLA from the University of Virginia School of Architecture in 2013. He led, with Lizzie MacWillie and Thomas Simpson, the research and design of the exhibit at buildingcommunityWORKSHOP
Visit the School of Architecture website for more information.
McIntire Department of Art | Studio Art: Receptions
5:30-7:30pm at Ruffin Hall | FREE
Out of the Closet (from the collections of Art Department faculty)
~Ruffin Gallery
“Framing the Chaotic” In continuation of Intertwined
~Ruffin Hall First Floor Sculpture Hallway
A study of the artistic frame –
A structure that turns impermanent materials into a lasting statement.
Preservation acted out physically and theoretically;
Framing as an attempt to stop time to
Arrest the change inherent to cycles of life.”
by Charlotte Barstow, Lead Designer/Visionary
The Fralin Museum of Art: Reception
5:30-7:30 pm | FREE for Members, $3.00 for non-members
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. This Friday will feature live music in the lobby by Sam Bush and Spotlight Talk at 6:15 pm & 6:45 by Fralin Student Docents Mitchell and Will Pedrick respectively & a performance by the Virginia Gentlemen at 6:30 pm.
On view:
– NEW! A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne
– NEW! Ann Gale: Portraits
– THE GREAT WAR: Printmakers of World War I from the VMFA
– New Acquisitions: Photography
Department of Drama
7:00pm | Helms Theatre
What Every Girl Should Know by Monica Byrne
Learn More >
McIntire Department of Music
8:00pm | Culbreth
Cavalier Marching Band – Open Rehearsal
6:30pm | Carr’s Hill Field | FREE
University Singers
8pm | Old Cabell Hall | $15 for the general public, $13 for UVA Faculty and Staff, $5 for students and free for UVA Students who reserve in advance. Tickets at the UVA Arts Box Office.
September Schedule:
Studio Art | School of Architecture | The Fralin | Drama
McIntire Department of Art | Studio Art: Openings
5:00-7:30pm at Ruffin Hall | FREE
Unearthed: Art/Archaeology Project: Echoes of Nature Sculpture Park, Baker-Butler Elementary School
~Ruffin Hall | 2nd Floor Stairwell Gallery
Models, photos, artifacts, by the UVA Sculpture community and the UVA Archeology Program of the McIntire Department of Art
This project was funded by a major grant from the UVA Arts Council, as well as support from Wells Fargo, UVA Community Engagement Grant, Snowdon Hall, Rockydale Quarry, Allied Concrete, and sweat equity from members of the UVA Sculpture classes and Community from 2013 – 2016.
On the Fly, 2013 – 2016 by Patrick Dougherty
~Ruffin Hall
Photos, documents, Patrick’s Gloves, and other Artifacts of the UVA Stickworks project, the first sculpture project to grace the Arts Grounds of UVA. A project of the Art Department, The Fralin Museum, the UVA Sculpture Community, with volunteer help from hundreds of UVA and Charlottesville Community Volunteers. Major funding of this project by Ray Graham.
Public Bronze Casting: Art from Fire, By Sandy Williams, 5th year sculptor/cinematographer and other members of the UVA Sculpture Community
~7:15pm Ruffin Hall Sculpture Courtyard
School of Architecture: Reception
5:00 | Campbell Hall
Emerging Typologies in the City-region: 2016 China Summer Program
~Campbell Hall, East Wing Gallery
UVA Architecture China program in summer 2016 identifies, documents, and analyses emerging architectural and urban typologies in two of China’s most dynamic city-regions, the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. With a combined population of 260 million people, both delta areas are made of clusters of cities and towns that provide vast design, production, and consumption capacities. Perhaps the most fascinating features to architecture and urbanism are new realities in city-making that demand knowledge and insights. We are witnessing the making of an urban age in which not only half of the world’s population lives in cities, but also the very idea of the city is changing. Architecture and urbanism in China present rare opportunities to observe mutations of the city in response to contemporary world political and economic structures, as they take place.
Visit the School of Architecture website for more information.
The Fralin Museum of Art: Reception
5:30-7:30 pm at The Fralin Museum | FREE
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. This Friday will feature live music in the lobby by Matty Metcalfe and Spotlight Talk at 6:15 pm by Fralin Student Docent Evan Steinberg & a performance by the Virginia Belles at 6:30 pm (on the Museum plaza weather permitting)
On view:
– NEW! A Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne
– NEW! Ann Gale: Portraits
– THE GREAT WAR: Printmakers of World War I from the VMFA
– New Acquisitions: Photography
Department of Drama
8:00pm | Culbreth
The Comedy of Errors
By William Shakespeare, directed by Scheidler & Tucker.
Tickets at the UVA Arts Box Office.
Who’s Who? What’s What” The whys and the wherefores abound in Shakespeare’s tale of mismatched pairs of long-lost twins.
August Schedule:
Studio Art | The Fralin | School of Architecture
McIntire Department of Art | Studio Art: Reception
5:00-7:00pm at Ruffin Hall | FREE
2016 Studio Faculty Exhibition
~Ruffin Hall Gallery | 3rd Floor Details >
Black Body: Digital Video/Sculpture by Chris McDaniel
~UVA New Media Gallery | First Floor, Room 104 Details >
The image depicts a digital cube created in the 3-D modeling environment: Blender. This cube can be seen as a “back body” of sorts that contains an internal light generating source, which it emits to the external world beyond it boundaries by means of a series mechanical louvered doors that exist on each of the six faces of the cube. Digital video generated from the process of animating this object will be displayed inside an actual cube, constructed from wood.
La Narine du Monde et plus (the nostril of the world and more)
~RuffStuff Gallery | 1st Floor Details >
Artists: Eleanor Birle, Amanda Downing, Celine Dussaud, Pure Peacher, Veronique Lucas, Nicole Thorne, Margaret Wiwuga
Fired Clay Artifacts, Bronze visions, Over Life-Sized Body Parts, and Artifact Performance Slide Show.
The Fralin Museum of Art: Reception
5:30-7:30 pm at The Fralin Museum | FREE
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. This Friday will feature live music in the lobby by Gina Sobel and Spotlight Talks at 6:15 pm by Katherine Phillips and 6:45 pm Cassidy Savarino in Andy Warhol: Icons.
On view:
– Andy Warhol: Icons
– THE GREAT WAR: Printmakers of World War I from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
– New Acquisitions: Photography
School of Architecture: Reception
5:30 – 7:30pm | Campbell Hall
Victorious Secret – Noticing Elite Sports for Women, 300AD
~Campbell Hall, East Wing Gallery Details >
Bikini girls or elite athletes? Visual artist Angela Lorenz recreates a fourth century mosaic often referred to as dancing girls in bikinis, but in fact an image of elite female athletes competing in sacred, international competitions. Created to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Title IX, this exhibit prompts questions about gender equity in sport, the objectification of women, and ideals for female achievement both ancient and modern.
SDI (Summer Design Institute)
~Corner Gallery and Salon Walls (2nd flr of Campbell Hall)
The Summer Design Institute (SDI) is an intensive design summer course and is required for all incoming Path 3 Architecture and Landscape Architecture students. The work displayed is a culmination of their summer work.
Visit the School of Architecture website for more information.
April Schedule:
Art History | Music Library | Theatre | Studio Art | The Fralin | Dance
Art History: The Nelson Lectures on Southeast Asia Presents Professor Nora Annesley Taylor
3:15-5:00pm at 124 Monroe Hall 
“The Artist, The Archive, And Historical Artifact: Contemporary Vietnamese Artists Contemplate The Past”
This talk addresses the work of two contemporary Vietnamese artists, Danh Vo and Dinh Q. Le have used historical documents dated to the American war period in their art installations as artifacts. Danh Vo acquires objects of various origins that have participated in or witnessed historical events pertaining to Vietnam. Dinh Q. Le’s 2012 installation at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany displayed over a dozen drawings by artists employed by the North Vietnamese army to record life on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Full details on lecture HERE.
Music Library: MEI Fellow Presentations
3:30-5:00 pm at Old Cabell Hall | FREE
Three music students involved in the Digital Humanities Student Fellow Program will present their work in the Music Library on Friday, April 29th from 4-5pm. In their projects, the fellows, Kevin Davis (CCT grad), and Matthew Leon and Jenny Xing (both undergraduates), explore a variety of questions ranging from how to encode non-standard notation to automated performance of music encoding. The fellows have worked with a wide range of music, beginning in the Italian Renaissance with Palestrina and ending in 1954 with Stockhausen’s Studie II. Come to the library to learn more about the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) and future opportunities from the students and their mentor, Metadata Librarian for Research and Scholarship, Perry Roland. The event will open at 3:30pm with a brief performance by a U.Va. ensemble, more details to come (TBA), and will conclude with a catered reception following the MEI Fellow presentations.
Shakespeare on the Lawn: Twelfth Night
4:00pm at Pavilion X Garden | FREE
Annika Schunn, Director & Meg Loftus, Assistant Director
A woman disguised as a man, a bizarre love triangle, a case of mistaken identity, and an elaborate prank—witness all these shenanigans and more in Shakespeare on the Lawn’s abbreviated production of this classic comedy, brought to life in the magical setting of Garden X, just off the Lawn at the University of Virginia!
Featuring the Talents of:
Pete Hanner, Claire Constance, Lital Firestone, Chase Smith, Jackie Leary, Jake Mathews, Broghan Kelly, Nick Hurst, Whiz Whisnant, Ali Cheraghpour
Featuring songs by Elvis, the Kinks, and Beyonce!
Studio Art:
5:30-7:30pm at Ruffin Hall | FREE
Ruffin Gallery: Hannah Varden: 5th Year Fellow, Photography & max + margaret via: Studio Art DMP, Zines
Ruffin Hall: Jessica Burnam (5th Year Sculptor)
RuffStuff Gallery & Cinematography Black Box: Looking Through Illusions by Sandy Williams (4th Year Sculptor and Cinematographer) and Collaborators (April 22nd – 27th)
Ruffin Sculpture Hallway: Bronze Amulets/Red Hot – 18 hand held Personal Amulet Sculptures exploring Fears and Desires. Gallery Talks @ 6:00pm.
The Fralin: Final Friday Reception
5:30-7:30 pm at The Fralin Museum | FREE
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays ! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. This Friday will feature live music in the lobby by Sam Bush and Spotlight Talks (6:15 pm by Emily Shu in Casting Shadows and 6:45 pm Cassidy Savarino in Serra).
On view:
– NEW! Casting Shadows: Selections from the Permanent Collection featuring the FUNd
– Richard Serra: Prints
– Fish and Fowl
– Two Extraordinary Women: The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway and Mary Darby Robinson
– Jacob Lawrence: Struggle…From the History of the American People
Graciously sponsored in part by the UVA Parents Fund.
Dance Program: Spring Dance Concert
8:00pm at Ruth Caplin Theatre | $5-7
Rejuvenate your senses this spring and treat yourself to an evening of innovative choreography featuring the works of students, faculty, and guest artists in the Department of Drama’s Dance Program. Highlighting imaginative, expressive, and thought-provoking compositions, our spring concert features surprising explorations of physicality and artistry through engaging performances.
Presented with support from an Arts Enhancement Grant and an Arts Endowment Grant from the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost of the Arts
March Schedule:
Music Library | Studio Art | The Fralin
Music Library 
3:30-5:00pm | UVA Music Library | FREE
“Irreverence/Irrelevance: New Rules for Opera”
In this interactive discussion, internationally accomplished opera singers Brenda Patterson & Miriam Gordon-Stewart invite you into the artistic process of Victory Hall Opera, the revolutionary chamber opera company they have just launched here in Charlottesville.
Visit the Music Library Facebook page for more information.
The Fralin
5:30-7:30pm | The Fralin Museum | FREE
Final Fridays Reception
Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. There will be live music in the lobby Gina Sobel, Spotlight Talks by Laurel Abowd and Lucie Lyon, and current exhibitions: Richard Serra: Prints, Fish and Fowl, Navajo Weaving, Two Extraordinary Women, and Jacob Lawrence: Struggle…
Graciously sponsored in part by the UVA Parents Fund.
Studio Art
5:30-7:00pm | RuffStuff Gallery | FREE
3rd Year Studio Art Show
Studio Art Majors and Minors from the Class of 2017 will be showing their work on the first floor of Ruffin from March 21st through March 25th. The show will include a variety of styles across all studio concentrations, including Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, New Media, Photography, and Cinematography.
February Schedule:
Music Library | UVA Library | Studio Art | The Fralin | Architecture | Drama
Music Library
3:30-5:00 pm | Old Cabell Hall
V Major Chinese Music Ensemble
Solo Performances & Instrument Petting Zoo, featuring Yifan Wang (Guzheng), Zexi Ye (Hulusi), Yuanyuan Ji (Erhu), Lily Ouyang (Pipa; event organizer), and Feiyin Wu (singer).
University of Virginia Library
5:00-7:00pm |Harrison Institute & Special Collections Library
Shakespeare by the Book: Four Centuries of Printing, Editing, and Publishing
Marking 400 years since Shakespeare’s death, this exhibition celebrates the vibrant, complex, and sometimes contentious history of bringing his works into print. From early editions to contemporary artists’ books, from massive folios to micro-miniature editions, the exhibition 
offers visitors a glimpse into the varied riches of the Library’s Shakespeare collections.
The exhibition will be on display until December 31, 2016. From October 1-26, UVA will host a First Folio as the exhibition becomes the backdrop for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare.
Studio Art
McIntire Department of Art | 5:30-7:30 pm | Ruffin Hall
Mark Dion: The World in a Box and Other Adventures in Cosmology
Recent Print Editions @ Ruffin Gallery
5th Year Open Studio
Jessica Burnam, Phuong Nguyen, Hannah Varden & Nick Watson @ Fifth Year Studio
Betwixt: Advanced Sculpture Class
RuffStuff Gallery, 1st Floor w/ Gallery Talks: 6:30
The Fralin
5:30-7:30 pm | The Fralin Museum
Final Friday Reception
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages.
- Live music in the lobby.
- Spotlight Talks at 6:15 pm by Emily Shu in Navajo Weaving and 6:45 pm by Delaney Mitchell in Two Extraordinary Women.
- On view:
Graciously sponsored in part by the UVA Parents Fund.
School of Architecture
6:00pm | Campbell Hall
Lessons of the City | Lessons of the Landscape | Lessons of History
Venice Program 2015, School of Architecture, University of Virginia @ the Corner Gallery
Visit the A School website for more information.
Department of Drama
8:00pm | Ruth Caplin Theatre
The Triumph of Love
Written by Pierre de Marivaux and translated by James Magruder. Tickets at the UVA Arts Box Office.
A beautiful young princess disguises herself as a man to pursue her heart’s desire, who just happens to be an exiled prince who intends to right a family wrong by murdering her and usurping her throne. What can possibly go wrong?
January Schedule:
Music | Studio Art | The Fralin | School of Architecture
Music
JACK Quartet Performing New Works for String Quartet & Electronics
Described as “superheroes of the new music world” (Boston Globe), “the go-to quartet for contemporary music” (Washington Post), and internationally renowned for their “viscerally exciting performances” (New York Times), the JACK Quartet is one of the world’s finest string quartets focusing on the commissioning and performance of new works.
Comprising violinists Christopher Otto and Ari Streisfeld, violist John Pickford Richards and cellist Kevin McFarland, JACK is the recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, New Music USA’s Trailblazer Award, and the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.
Sponsored by the UVA Arts Council | Enriching the Arts on Grounds
JACK Quartet – Performing New Works for String Quartet & Electronics
Old Cabell Hall | 8:00pm | FREE
JACK Quartet – Master Class
B18 Old Cabell Hall | 9:30am | FREE
JACK Quartet – POP-UP Concert
Music Library | 3:30–5pm | FREE
McIntire Department of Art: Studio Art
Final Friday Reception
Primates & Friends: Work by Aliene de Souza Howell, Zehra Khan and Tim Winn, Megan Marlatt, Akemi Ohira, Marc Snyder & Charles Yuen
Ruffin Hall | 5:30-7:30 pm
Body: 10,000 years – J term Sculpture 2016
RuffStuff Gallery: 1st Floor | 5:30-7:00pm
Gallery Talks at 6:00pm
The Fralin
Final Friday Reception | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages.
- Join Jordan D. Schnitzer, collector and lender of the Serra exhibition in the gallery to chat about the works, his views on art, and much more!
- Live music by local musician Matty Metcalfe.
- Spotlight Talks by student docents at 6:15 pm and 6:45 pm.
- On view:
Graciously sponsored in part by the UVA Parents Fund.
School of Architecture
Final Friday Exhibition & Gallery Talk
“A Matter of Space – A Question of Place” by Peter Giscombe
Gallery Talk and Reception | Elmaleh Gallery | 6:00pm
October Schedule:
Music Library | Studio Art | The Fralin | Department of Drama | Poster
Music Library
Final Friday Exhibition Opening
Oct 30 | 3:30 pm | Old Cabell Hall
On Exhibit
October 30 – November 26
The Ghost in the MP3
by Ryan Maguire
Part of the Making Noise Series
Ryan Maguire will present his award winning project, “The Ghost in the MP3,” which explores and captures the sounds lost during MP3 compression.
McIntire Department of Art
Final Friday Reception
Oct 30 | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Ruffin Gallery
Performance at 6:30pm
On Exhibit
October 9 – December 8, 2015
“I don’t like the way you’re not looking at me.”
featuring work by Marisa Finos, Erika Diamond, Dana Ollestad, and Janelle Proulx
“I don’t like the way you’re not looking at me.” brings together the work of 4 artists who work from different mediums and perspectives, yet investigating similar themes- themes of thresholds, the impulse of self-preservation, and the idea of legacy through relationship.
Facebook EventThe Fralin Museum of Art
Final Friday Reception | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. Want a quick introduction to one of our exhibitions?
FREE for U.Va. students and members,$3 for non-members
Live music by UVA student & lead vocals/guitar for Kendall Street Company, Louis Smith
The Virginia Gentlemen will perform on the plaza at 6:00 pm.
Spotlight Talks by student docents Emily Shu at 6:15 pm and Laurel Abowd at 6:45 pm.
Exhibitions on View
- Cavaliers Collect
- Collection: Sol LeWitt and Photography
- Jacob Lawrence: Struggle…From the History of the American People
- Cuban and Cuban-American photography from The Fralin’s collection
Department of Drama
The Sweetest Swing in Baseball
By Rebecca Gilman
Directed by Betsy Rudelich Tucker
Helms Theatre
October 30, 2015 | 8:00pm
Everyone needs a break, and struggling artist Dana Fielding finds herself in a mental hospital after suffering a breakdown following scathing reviews of her work. Realizing her prescribed ten-day-stay is not nearly long enough, she tries to convince hospital authorities that she thinks she is former baseball great Darryl Strawberry. In the process she makes discoveries that change her life and her art.
Tickets are $14.00 for adults, $12.00 for seniors, U.Va. faculty/staff and U.Va. Alumni Association members, and $8.00 for children and students. Full-time U.Va. students may receive one free ticket if reserved at least 24 hours in advance of their desired show date.
Friday, August 28th
August Schedule: Studio Art | The Fralin | School of Architecture
McIntire Department of Art
Final Friday Reception | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Ruffin Gallery
There is a slab of concrete that was once a factory floor. What remains are various bits of material used by local skaters as obstacles. What strikes me is the directness and simplicity in creating what seemed to me as formal sculptures full of movement and transition. Through a photography and sculpture installation I challenged myself to use the material within the reclaimed skate park to create a series of arrangements employing a similar aesthetic. The sculptures draw from the raw and archetypal material used in creating DIY skate parks.
Ruffstuff Gallery, First floor Ruffin Hall
6:00pm Gallery Talks
- Facture, Fire, Earth, Milagros, and the River of Suns
Summer Sculpture 2015, ARTS 2810 - Myth, Provocation, and Balance
by Advanced Sculptors: Ian Frye, Nick Watson, and Sandy Williams
Ceramics in Pit Fire Kiln, 2015 | Photo Credit: Belinda Cyckevic Gordon
The Fralin Museum of Art
Final Friday Reception | 5:30 – 7:30pm
Join us for the Museum’s most popular, recurring social event: Final Fridays! Enjoy lively conversation with friends, connect with art, listen to music, and snack on tasty food and beverages. Want a quick introduction to one of our exhibitions? Final Fridays feature Spotlight Talks by our student docents at 6:15 and 6:45 pm.
FREE for U.Va. students and members,$3 for non-members
Live music by UVa students Micah Iverson & Alexia Willems
6:00pm: University Dance Club performance on the plaza (weather permitting)
Exhibitions on View
School of Architecture
Final Friday Reception | 5:45 – 7:30pm
Featuring:
- Re-entrant India 2015
6:00pm Gallery Talk by Peter Waldman + Margarita Jover
Campbell Hall 2nd floor Elmaleh Gallery - Summer Design Institute 2015
6:30pm Gallery Talk by Tat Bonvehi-Rosich + Shanti Levy
Campbell Hall 2nd floor Salon Walls
