Dear UVA Arts Friends, Alumni, and Supporters,

I am pleased to share Volume 9 of the online UVA Arts Magazine! Explore all the Arts have to offer with this innovative digital magazine that highlights the breadth and depth of UVA Arts.

As we celebrate the arrival of President James E. Ryan, the University as a whole, is full of a powerful energy that is inspiring us all to redouble our efforts to continually bring out the best of the University and point, together, toward an exciting future.

In this volume, you can read about Jenny Wales’s exciting and successful first season as Artistic Director of Heritage Theatre Festival; we’ll share a fascinating piece set at the intersection of ancient past and thrilling present with a look at the highly acclaimed Fralin Museum exhibition Reflections: Native Art Across Generations; catch up actor and alum Jason George, star of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and the spin-off drama Station 19; and join us in thanking Joe Erdman & The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation featured in this issue’s Giving Spotlight, plus so much more.

Throughout the Betsy and John Casteen Arts Grounds, our talented and creative students and Arts faculty continue to create and share extraordinary work that constantly raises the bar for excellence, enriches the entire UVA community, and creates unique pathways into the professional world. I hope you will consider joining me in supporting the extraordinary creative work of our students, faculty, and guest artists by making a tax-deductible charitable gift to the Arts. Contributions of any amount will support Arts projects and the creative work being done by our remarkable faculty and students.

Thank you for making the Arts an integral part of the University of Virginia!

Best Regards,

Jody Kielbasa
Vice Provost for the Arts
Director, Virginia Film Festival

Tables of Contents

• WTJU RADIO: WXTJ Student Radio on 100.1 FM
• KLUGE-RUHE ABORIGINAL ART COLLECTION: A Partnership with the Phillips Collection & Second Street Gallery
• ART HISTORY: Welcoming Carmenita Higginbotham as Chair
• UVA ARTS: A Tribute to Paul Junger Witt
• SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: [Design + Make] Workshops
• KLUGE-RUHE ABORIGINAL ART COLLECTION: Callie Collins’ Internship in Milingimbi
• FEATURE STORY: Jenny Wales’s Inaugural Season
• SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE: Urban Syncopation
• MELLON INDIGENOUS ARTS PROGRAM: Mellon Museum Interns Near and Far
• GIVING SPOTLIGHT: Joe Erdman of The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation
• MUSIC: Jazz4Justice
• UVA ARTS ENDOWMENT: Bernstein’s Mass
• HOOS FOR ART: Lisi Stoessel (College BA ‘06, MFA ‘08)
• FEATURE STORY: Reflections: Native Art Across Generations
• THE FRALIN MUSEUM OF ART: Unexpected O’Keeffe
• DRAMA: From Screenwriting to Film Directing
• CHARLOTTESVILLE SYMPHONY: Star Wars on Stage
• ARTS ADMINISTRATION: The Amazing Combo of Architecture and Arts Administration
• THE FRALIN MUSEUM OF ART: Signs of Change Charlottesville
• COMMUNITY PARTNERS: New City Arts & a UVA Arts Student Exhibition
• LIBRARIES: Eminent Miniatures
• STUDENT GROUP: Black Voices
• WTJU RADIO: UVA Stories, An Oral History Project
• STUDIO ART: Q&A with Cameron Mankin (College ‘16)
• ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Jason George (College ‘94)
• VIRGINIA FILM FESTIVAL: Katie Couric and Re-Righting History
• UVA ARTS COUNCIL: Courtney Schaefer (College ‘11)
• DANCE: and again…
• UVA CAREER CENTER: Musical Chairs at the Music Industry Networking Breakfast
• VIRGINIA FILM FESTIVAL: Festival Scholars Program
• VIRGINIA HUMANITIES: #UnseenCville
• CREATIVE WRITING: KC Councilor’s Between You & Me: Transitional Comics
• VIRGINIA HUMANITIES: Eddie Bond Is Honored by the NEA
• DRAMA: Micah Watson & The Kennedy Center
• STUDIO ART: A Timely Visit from Titus Kaphar
• MUSIC: New Interfaces for Musical Expression
• BUILDING SUPPORT FOR THE ARTS: Making an Impact