Final Fridays: 2018-2019

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!

April Schedule: Music • Studio Art • The Fralin • Drama

Music

Tea Time Recital: Old Cabell Hall • 1pm • FREE

Studio Art

Fourth and Fifth Year Final Exhibitions
5-7 pm | Ruffin Hall

Join us for our fourth week of closing exhibition for our Fourth and Fifth Year students with work by Erin O’Keefe, Corrinne James, Claire Golladay, Hojung Lee, Lauren Meinhart, Andrew Jacobson, Madeline Smith, Krista Hartmann, Michelle Miles, and Megan Richards!

Air, Fire, Water, Earth, Bronze and …
5-7 pm | Fralin Terrace

Recent Sculpture by the UVA Sculpture community. Gallery Talks by the Artists at 6pm & 7:30 Artist Talk by William Bennett, about his recently installed sculpture, “Earth to Moon”, located on the Chadwick Terrace, above the Caplin Theater, Drama Building.

Image: Figure of Light and Water
Edward Miller
Translucent Red Plastic, light, water, reflection
Life size figure, water element, 12’ x 6’ x 4”
2018

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 The Fralin for food, fun and fabulous art! Spotlight Talks by student docents at 6:15 and 6:45. There will be an interactive multi-media performance by Richmond artist, Sarmistha Talukdar. And recent work by Bill Bennett’s sculpture class will be on display on the Museum’s plaza. Admission is FREE for all UVA students and museum members; $3 for all others.

On view:

OF WOMEN BY WOMEN, curated by the University Museum Intern class
sometimes.we.cannot.be.with.our.bodies., by citizen artist, Vanessa German
Pompeii Archive: Photographs by William Wylie
The Print Series in Bruegel’s Netherlands: Dutch and Flemish Works from the Permanent Collection, Curated by Erik Harrington, Barringer-Lindner Curatorial Fellow

Two Students at Final Friday at The Fralin

Drama

The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
~ Culbreth Theatre | 8pm | Tickets at the UVA Arts Box Office

UVA Drama presents The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Music & Lyrics by William Finn, Book by Rachel Sheinkin, Conceived by Rebecca Feldman. Directed by Dave Dalton. An eclectic group of high-spirited tweens competes for the spelling championship of a lifetime while candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories for their P-U-B-E-S-C-E-N-T lives.

Photo by Martyn Kyle.

March Schedule: Music • Studio Art • The Fralin • Dance

Music

The Charlottesville Mural Project and UVA Music Department are teaming up to bring Charlottesville graffiti artist Saeoh to UVA Arts Grounds. During March’s Final Friday Saeoh will begin painting a mural that will be installed in the UVA Rap Lab (New Cabell Hall 398). Stop by Arts Grounds between 5:00 and 7:30 to check on the progress.

Baylor Towne Distinguished Major Violin Recital: Old Cabell Hall • 3pm • FREE
James Currie Colloquium: 107 Old Cabell Hall • 4pm • FREE
Neave Trio: Old Cabell Hall • 8pm • FREE

Studio Art

Earth to Moon by William Bennett
5:30-7 pm | Chadwick Terrace

Artist Talk at 6:30pm

19’ x 11’ x 11’; 2018
Wood, Steel, aluminum, bronze, copper, stone, juniper branches, solar powered light

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

Featured in the exhibition sometimes.we.cannot.be.with.our.bodies, will be drag performer and docent, Jasmine Rice, singer & UVA student, Tristen Gulley-Davenport and Poetry for the People, with artist Vanessa German. Spotlight Talks will be given at 6:15 and 6:45 by student docents Izzy Burke and Frankie Mananzan. Admission is FREE for all UVA students and museum members; $3 for all others.

On view:

Learn more!

Vanessa German, American, b. 1976. sometimes.we.cannot.be.with.our.bodies., 2017. Mixed-media installation. Image courtesy of the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. Photographed by Tom Little.

IMAGE: Vanessa German, American, b. 1976. sometimes.we.cannot.be.with.our.bodies., 2017. Mixed-media installation. Image courtesy of the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. Photographed by Tom Little.

Dance

Spring Dance Concert
~ Ruth Caplin Theatre | 8pm | Tickets at the UVA Arts Box Office

February Schedule: Studio Art • Libraries • The Fralin

Studio Art

Opening for The New Barbarians: Border Art/Photo Performance in defiance of traditional “documentation”
5-7 pm | Ruffin Hall

Join this year’s Ruffin Distinguished Artists-in-Residence, La Pocha Nostra, for a participatory photo-performance karaoke event held during the opening of their photography exhibition at Ruffin Hall! Dressing up as your favorite New Barbarian/cultural other is highly encouraged!

More Here!

Opening for Bodies and Souls, Harvesting Eggs, and Concrete Ladder
Recent work by the UVA Sculpture Community
5-7 pm | Ruffstuff Gallery, First Floor Ruffin Hall

Sculpture from Body & Soul Show: Body and Soul, Margaret Kim; Concrete Ladder, Charles Lambert; Body and Soul; Galen Moore

Albert & Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Opening for Public Domain 2019
5-7 PM | First Floor Gallery, Harrison/Small

Please join us for a jazz-infused, 1923-style reception to celebrate the Public Domain 2019 exhibition and the rebirth of the public domain, as well as the advent of Fair Use Week and the forthcoming publication of a groundbreaking collection of public domain jazz tunes.

Featuring a gallery talk by Brandon Butler, recognition of local fair use champions, a variety of desserts, champagne, and live public domain jazz from members of the Bob Schwartz Quartet, Prof. Scott Deveaux, and jazz musicians from the Cville and UVA communities.

Explore!

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

The Fralin is proud to present, sometimes.we.cannot.be.with.our.bodies an installation by world-renowned visual and performance artist Vanessa German. This timely and innovative, multi-media work addresses issues of identity, race and violence in our modern world. Final Friday will include an appearance by drag performer and docent, Jasmine Rice and the 6:15 Spotlight Talk by student docent Anya Karaman.

Additionally, student docent Abigail Staub will be giving the 6:45 Spotlight Talk in Pompeii Archive: Photographs by William Wylie. Please join us for food, drink and art! Admission is FREE for all UVA students and museum members.

On view:

Learn more!

January Schedule

Studio Art | The Fralin Museum | Architecture

Studio Art

Opening for “Quinhagak, Bethel, Nikolai: Photogravure by Alice Bailey”
5-7 PM | Ruffin Hall

The McIntire Department of Art presents “Quinhagak, Bethel, Nikolai,

Photogravure by Alice Bailey” in the Ruffin Gallery from January 22 to February 15. For over eight years, Alice Bailey has been exploring life in remote Western Alaska with photogravure works on paper, highlighting the presence of tradition, reliance on nature, and emphasis on domestic life that pervades this subarctic environment. Please join us at the opening reception for this exhibition on Friday, January 25th from 5-7 PM.

The Fralin Museum of Art: Reception 5:30-7:30pm

Enjoy food, drink and amazing art, and live performances by local musician Dhara Goradia Trio! Spotlight Talk by Visiting Artist, Lily Hope at 6:15 pm and 2^nd Spotlight Talk will be by student docent Sarah VanLandingham on Pompeii Archive at 6:45 pm

Architecture

Exhibition Runs: Monday, January 21 – Friday March 1
Gallery Talk: Friday, January 25, 5pm

Location: Elmaleh Gallery, Campbell Hall

After three decades of rapid development, Chinese urbanization seems to have entered into a new phase, which is characterized by cosmopolitanism. While earlier examples of world cities in Asia such as Hong Kong and Singapore are illuminating, Chinese cities offer unique experiences as they engage with this profound transformation from social and cultural conditions not foregrounded in colonialism. The 2018 China Program investigated this new stage of Chinese urbanization, particularly in the context of increasing infrastructural integration of the world ambitiously planned by China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The 2018 China Program focused on influential factors of urban change: the flows of labor, goods, and innovations which resulted in Chinese cities adapting its spaces to new realities. We examined the instruments and institutions of the world system, and studied the spatial modifications in the Chinese city that anticipate a new era of urbanization not marked by quantitative increase but by a cultural change. These are presented as documentations of urban change, analyses of architectural developments, and understandings of cultural encounters in the context of global trade.

UVA Architecture China Program would like to thank the Weedon Foundation for their continued support for better understandings between cultures and architectural traditions.

October Schedule

Music | Studio Art | The Fralin Museum | Drama

McIntire Department of Music

Heather Frasch CCT Colloquium
- 107 Old Cabell Hall | 3:30pm | FREE
Choral Showcase with the University Singers, UVA Chamber Singers, Virginia Glee Club, and Virginia Women’s Chorus
- Old Cabell Hall | 8pm | Tickets at the UVA Arts Box Office

Studio Art Reception • Ruffin Hall

Tales of a Future Past by Cecelia Condit - Horse Mask on a Person

Courtesy of Cecelia Condit

Tales of a Future Past by Cecelia Condit
- Ruffin Gallery • Reception 5:00-7:00pm

Grandmothers’ Law: Granddaughters and Grandsons rekindle our Gylanic* Past
- 6:00pm Re-creation of Huddle by Simone Forti
- 6:30pm Gallery Talks
- Ruffstuff Gallery, First Floor • Reception 5:00-7:30pm
- *Gylany, A social System based on the equality of women and men.

Queen Anne of River Anna, Rivanna by Andrea Galina, Photo taken at Flow Rivanna River Renaissance Festival, Sept. 29, 2018, Charlottesville, Virginia

The Fralin Museum of Art: Reception 5:30-7:30pm

Enjoy food, drink and amazing art, and live performances by local musician Jordan Perry (inside the Museum) and student A Capella group, Ektaal (outside on the plaza at 6:00)! Spotlight Talks by Abigail Staub on O’Keeffe at 6:15pm & Shreya Maini on the Fralin Collection at 6:45pm

Unexpected O’Keeffe: The Virginia Watercolors and Later Paintings
- This rare exhibition of the watercolor studies Georgia O’Keeffe produced at the University of Virginia will include several key sketches and paintings made while in Virginia, on loan from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, as well as other works showing her developing style.
Highlights from the Heywood and Cynthia Fralin Collection
- In 2011, Heywood and Cynthia Fralin, major collectors of 19^th and early 20^th century American art, committed to making the largest gift of art in the University of Virginia’s history. The collection includes works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Mary Cassatt, Robert Henri, Reginald Marsh and many other notable artists of the period.
Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu