Feb 18, 2020
Enjoy some great Final Friday Receptions & Gallery Talks on Arts Grounds & Beyond!!
Final Fridays is a monthly showcase of the Arts at UVA highlighting exhibits, performances, and lectures on Arts Grounds and across the University. We invite students, faculty, and community members to come experience this monthly showcase of the Arts at UVA!
February Schedule: Music • Studio Art • The Fralin • Drama • WTJU Radio
McIntire Department of Music
Tyshawn Sorey Colloquium & Concert
- Colloquium • Old Cabell Hall • 2pm • FREE
- Concert • Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church (717 Rugby Road) • 8pm • FREE
The New York Times has praised Sorey, a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ fellow, for his instrumental facility and aplomb, “he plays not only with gale-force physicality, but also a sense of scale and equipoise”; The Wall Street Journal notes Sorey is, “a composer of radical and seemingly boundless ideas.” The New Yorker recently noted that Sorey is “among the most formidable denizens of the in-between zone…An extraordinary talent who can see across the entire musical landscape.” Sponsored by The Gassmann Fund for Innovation, the UVA Arts Council Enriching the Arts on Grounds, and by the Miller Arts Scholars. Photo by John Rogers.
Studio Art
Nick Cave: Spot On
Ruffin Gallery | 5-7pm | FREE
Cave works in the visual and performing arts across mediums, including sculpture, installation, video, textiles, sound, and performance, to address themes such as race, gender, and class. He is best known for his body suit projects where he creates elaborate sculptural forms at scale with the human body.
~on view through March 31st
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E Pluribus Unum: out of many, one (motto of USA)
Ruffstuff Gallery, Ruffin Hall First Floor • 5-7pm • Free
Recent Sculpture by the UVA Sculpture Community including: Body Parts, Pele, Time machines, Heavy
Rockers, Physical poems, Anchors, Flags, ritual bread, and more
IMAGE: Large Small Organ, Margaret Kim, 2020, 3” x 4” x 3”, Mixed media
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CONSENT & REMAINS: Sculptures by James Nemer
CONSENT • On the corner of Ruffin Hall adjacent to Culbreth Rd
REMAINS • The third level outside of Ruffin Hall
James Nemer is a Community Scholar in his 13th year of studying sculpture in the Studio Art Department under the direction of William Bennett, Associate Professor of Sculpture.
CONSENT was conceived as a visual response to the growing awareness that interactions between humans require the consent of the one person in order to touch, in any way, another person. The sculpture is made using twelve foam blocks that were roughly shaped using computer technology and robotics. Once shaped, the blocks were cemented together and refined to reveal two figures in an embrace. Technical assistance was provided by Mathew Gardon an alumnus of UVA having received his degree in architecture. His work was done under the auspices of the School of Architecture and the Architectural Robotics Research Group.
REMAINS is the result of using scrap metal leftover from the construction of a backyard studio. Invaluable assistance was provided by Eric Schmidt, Facilities Manager, Ruffin Hall
IMAGE: CONSENT & REMAINS by James Nemer
The Fralin Museum of Art
Final Friday at The Fralin Museum of Art
5:30-7:30pm | The Fralin Museum of Art, 155 Rugby Road
Join us at The Fralin for food, fun and fabulous art! Spotlight Talks of Inside World will be given by student docents Abigail Staub and Ruth Alber at 6:15 and 6:45. Live music by performers from University Records!
On view now:
- The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles
- Select Works from The Alan Groh-Buzz Miller Collection
- Figures of Memory
Admission is free for all UVA students and Museum members; $3 for all others.
Drama
The New Works Festival
Helms Theatre • 8pm • Tickets at the UVA Arts Box Office
This festival, supported by an Arts Enhancement Grant from the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts, features the creative work of UVA students. Past Festivals have highlighted playwrights, screenwriters, devisers, choreographers, directors, and filmmakers in collaboration with performing artists, musicians, sound designers, scenic designers, costume designers, and lighting designers. (Mature Content)
WTJU Radio
Haze & Dacey play WTJU’s Offbeat Roadhouse
The Stage at WTJU, 2244 Ivy Road | 8-9pm | FREE
Live concert broadcast! Richmond-based folk act Haze & Dacey revel in lilting melodies, tight harmonies, and compelling rhythms that make toes tap and bodies sway. Free event and free parking at WTJU.
January Schedule: Music • Studio Art • The Fralin • Dance • WTJU Radio
McIntire Department of Music
Natacha Diels Colloquium
107 Old Cabell Hall • 3:30pm • Free
Natacha Diels’ work combines ritual, improvisation, traditional instrumental practice, and cynical play to create worlds of curiosity and unease. Recent work includes the completion of a series of fairytales/nightmares for performers, and the construction of a Portal with her performance duo On Structure.
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Telemetry at The Bridge with Natacha Diels, Alex Christie, .jmack
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative • 8pm • Free
This monthly music series occurs in partnership with The Bridge, and features UVA faculty, students, locals, and renown experimental performers. Supported by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts. The Bridge is located at 209 Monticello Road, Charlottesville, VA
Studio Art
All to Pieces: elin o’Hara slavick & susanne slavick
Ruffin Gallery | 5-7pm | Artist Talk at 6pm
All to Pieces brings together the work of two sisters, elin o’Hara slavick and Susanne Slavick. The title usually refers to a state of disintegration, fragmentation, collapse or chaos. Their works separately, but certainly, comment on a world plagued, but not necessarily condemned, by these conditions. Both work literally with pieces—of paper, carpets, or dissected images from a multitude of sources—to construct new images. Seams and partitions are sometimes exposed, sometimes camouflaged—inviting the viewer to recognize and transcend what divides us.
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Body and Soul and …. Sculpture by ARTS 2580, J-term sculpture, 2020
Ruffstuff Gallery, Ruffin Hall First Floor • 5:30-6:30pm • Free
~on view through December 13th
IMAGE: Body and Soul and Chetenge Phoebe Serlemitsos, Plaster, 28” x 18 “ x 8”, 2020
The Fralin Museum of Art
Final Friday at The Fralin Museum of Art
5:30-7:30pm | The Fralin Museum of Art, 155 Rugby Road
Join us at The Fralin for food, fun and fabulous art! Spotlight Talks by student docents will be given at 6:15 and 6:45. Spotlight Talks by student docents will be given at 6:15 and 6:45. Live jazz performed by Tina Hashemi
On view now:
- The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles
- Select Works from The Alan Groh-Buzz Miller Collection
- Figures of Memory
Admission is free for all UVA students and Museum members; $3 for all others.
Dance
Paramodernities
Ruth Caplin Theatre | 8pm | Free Ticketed Event | Tickets available via UVA Arts Box Office
Paramodernities is a series of lecture-performances, or dance-experiments, generated through deconstructions of landmark modern choreographies, performed alongside contributions by scholars and writers who situate these iconic works within the larger project of Modernism. The evening will feature Paramodernities #1 and #2 and will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.
- PARAMODERNITIES #1: The Work of Dance in the Age of Sacred Lives A response to Vaslav Nijinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” (1913)
- PARAMODERNITIES #2: Trauma, Interdiction, and Agency in ‘The House of Pelvic Truth’ A response to Martha Graham’s “Night Journey” (1947)
Co-sponsored by the UVA Arts Council: Enriching the Arts on Grounds, The J. Sanford Miller Family Arts Scholars, and the Department of Drama and its Dance Program.
WTJU Radio
Renaissance Soul at Offbeat Roadhouse
The Stage at WTJU | 8:00m | FREE
Renaissance Soul, a talented group from Renaissance School, will pull into Offbeat Roadhouse Friday, January 31, for a live session at The Stage at WTJU. Come on out and be part of the studio audience! If you can’t make it by, at least tune in (91.1 FM and streaming at wtju.net/player). It will also video stream over at WTJU!
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Jane Bunnett and Maqueque
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church | 8:00pm | $10-$25
The Charlottesville Jazz Society and WTJU are thrilled to announce the return of saxophonist Jane Bunnett and her all-female band from Cuba, Maqueque. Their concert two years ago is still being talked about as one of the most exciting shows ever presented in Charlottesville, with ecstatic jazz fans dancing in the aisles.
October Schedule: Virginia Film Festival • Music • Studio Art • The Fralin
Virginia Film Festival
Charlottesville, VA • 12 – 11:30pm
The Virginia Film Festival at the University of Virginia has been celebrating the magic of the movies and inspiring audiences for over 25 years. Every autumn, the Festival showcases celebrated new features and documentaries, fresh perspectives on timeless classics, and local filmmakers from right here in Virginia. The Festival brings in a fascinating selection of guests, from internationally acclaimed directors and actors to professors and leading cultural experts who lead discussions that stimulate, educate, and engage. Today, the Festival stands as one of Virginia’s most important cultural landmarks, and one of the most respected regional destination film festivals in the United States.
Full ScheduleMcIntire Department of Music
Paul Stapleton Colloquium
107 Old Cabell Hall • 3:30pm • Free
Paul Stapleton is an improviser and sound artist who designs and performs internationally with a variety of modular metallic sound sculptures, custom made electronics and found objects. Paul is currently Professor of Music at SARC in Belfast, where he teaches and supervises research in new musical instrument design, music performance, sound design, and critical improvisation studies.
Telemetry with Paul Stapleton, Trash Cats & Naomi Alligator
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative • 8pm • Free
October’s installment of the Telemetry Concert Series at The Bridge PAI features Paul Stapleton, Trash Cats, and Naomi Alligator. This event is free and open to the public. This monthly music series occurs in partnership with The Bridge, and features UVA faculty, students, locals, and renown experimental performers. Supported by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts. The Bridge is located at 209 Monticello Road, Charlottesville, VA
Studio Art
Community Scholar Exhibit
Ruffin Hall: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Floors • 5:30-7pm • Free
The Community Scholar exhibit is a collection of works by artists in a variety of media and studying within the Studio Art Department. The Community Scholar program is administered by the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Community scholars come from a variety of backgrounds and professional experiences who benefit from the unique opportunity to study alongside regular students.
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THIS : THAT, Corey Drieth and William Wylie
Ruffin Gallery • 5:30-7pm • Free
~on view through December 13th
Final Friday at The Fralin Museum of Art
5:30-7:30pm | The Fralin Museum of Art, 155 Rugby Road
Join us at The Fralin for food, fun and fabulous art! On view now…Time to Get Ready: fotografia social, by photographer and former SNCC member, Maria Varela; Otherwise, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising by examining LGBTQ+ themes in art, Asian Art from the Permanent and Select Private Collections; and OF WOMEN BY WOMEN, curated by the University Museum Intern class. Spotlight Talks by student docents will be given at 6:15 and 6:45.
And more!
- UVA’s Rocky Horror Club and Shadowcast, Voyeuristic Intention will perform outside at 5:45!
- Live music in the Museum by Stray Fossa!
- And the Student Council Arts Committee will have pumpkin decorating on the terrace!
Admission is free for all UVA students and Museum members; $3 for all others.
September Schedule: Music • Harrison/Small • The Fralin
107 Old Cabell • 3:30pm • FREE
Martin Daughtry is an Associate Professor at NYU and his studies focus on ethnomusicology, acoustic violence, music of the Russian-speaking world, and sound studies. Over the past several years, Daughtry has been exploring the social dynamics of sound and listening in di\ferent contexts. His work draws from ethnomusicology, sound studies, the anthropology of the senses, and the ethnographic study of violence.
Harrison/SmallExhibition Opening: Extinction: Unpacking the Archive
First Floor Gallery, Harrison/Small • 5-7pm • FREE
Join the student curators of Extinction In the Archive for a Final Friday event celebrating the exhibition opening in the First Floor Gallery of Harrison/Small. Working with Dr. Adrienne Ghaly, Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences and Visiting Scholar in the English Department, the student curators document extinction’s emergence in unexpected places and reveal the signs of extinction surround us—from menus to fashion, botanical prints to children’s books.
This event also celebrates the two-day Burning the Library of Life Symposium featuring interdisciplinary humanities scholarship and public-facing research addressing this emerging issue from the perspectives of environmental humanities, literary and cultural studies, the history of science, native studies, conservation, sound ecology, archival studies, and the visual arts and media.
The Fralin Museum of Art
Final Friday at The Fralin Museum of Art
5:30-7:30pm | The Fralin Museum of Art, 155 Rugby Road
Join us at The Fralin for food, fun and fabulous art! On view now…Time to Get Ready: fotografia social, by photographer and former SNCC member, Maria Varela; Otherwise, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising by examining LGBTQ+ themes in art, and Asian Art from the Permanent and Select Private Collections. Spotlight Talks by student docents will be given at 6:15 and 6:45! Live music by Devon Sproule! Admission is FREE for all UVA students and Museum members; $3 for all others.
August Schedule: Studio Art • The Fralin
“Leg, Arm, Belly, Hand and Souls”
5:30 – 7:00 | Rufstuff Gallery, Ruffin Hall first floor | On View: August 26 – Sept. 6
Sculptures exploring the relationships between “body and soul” by the 2019 summer sculpture class, featuring:
Evangeline Ellis
Lai Kwan Ching
Caleb Briggs
Tomas Woldetensae
Opening for “A Quick and Tragic Thaw,” a collaboration by Yvonne Love and Gabrielle Russomagno
5–7pm | Ruffin Gallery, 179 Culbreth Road
Please join the Studio Art Department for the opening of the first show of the school year in the Ruffin Gallery: “A Quick and Tragic Thaw”, a collaboration by Yvonne Love and Gabrielle Russomagno. A 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 imagery, as well as essays, poems, photographs and illustrations, these artworks interpret the more recent story of human influenced climate change. More broadly, this urgent narration recognizes migration movements of biological forms, toxins, and water and is meant to be a meditation on loss and the fragility of the planet. These artworks interpret and materialize the research of climate science and contextual literature by juxtaposing specific material with content intended to emphasize connections (and implicit irony) between indisputable data and the conceit of how we chose to live. This work also honors the fact that maps are an art form in and of themselves, that they are literate, and a scientific achievement. Read in one way, they are a narrative of human existence. Read another, they are an accounting of our planetary history and the emergence of the Anthropocene epoch.
Final Friday at The Fralin Museum of Art
5:30-7:30pm | The Fralin Museum of Art, 155 Rugby Road
Join The Fralin for food, fun and fabulous art! On view now…Time to Get Ready: Fotografia Social, by Maria Varela; Otherwise, inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising; and Asian Art from the Permanent and Select Private Collections. Spotlight Talks by student docents will be given at 6:15 and 6:45 and DJ Daniel Squitieri will be spinning the tunes.
Admission is free for all UVA students and Museum members; $3 for all others.
