Dear UVA Arts Friends, Alumni and Supporters,

I am pleased to share Volume 7 of the online UVA Arts Magazine! Explore all the Arts have to offer with this innovative digital magazine, exploring the breadth and depth of the Arts at UVA. 

In this volume, you can read the about the Remarkable Story of A.D. Carson, UVA’s new Professor of Hip-Hop, learn about plans for the new Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and catch up with Mollie Crosby Burch (College ’13) in our Alumni Spotlight, plus so much more. 

The University’s momentous Bicentennial Launch Celebration on October 6th cast a spotlight on the Arts at UVA, elevating the importance of creativity and artistic expression in the life of our great University. 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! 

• Letter: Welcome Back From Jody Kielbasa
• Music Feature: Why Not Me: The Remarkable Story of AD Carson
• Dance Feature: Dance Minor Enters Second Decade
• UVA Arts Feature: UVA’s Bicentennial Launch Celebration
• UVA Arts Feature: Bryan Cranston as the 3rd Annual President’s Speaker for the Arts
• University of Virginia: Designing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers
• Hoos for Arts: Nick Acquavella (College ’00)
• Alumni Spotlight: Mollie Crosby Burch
• Studio Art: Introducing Federico Cuatlacuatl
• College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: New Class of Arts Fellows Selected
• UVA Arts: Mark Dion’s Curiosity Shop
• School of Architecture: Highland’s Past and Our Future
• Cavalier Marching Band: A Few Incredible 4th Years
• Art History: Undergraduate Student Internships
• School of Architecture: Cultural Landscapes: Race and Space
• Arts Administration: The Digital Psyche by Dallas Simms
• Charlottesville Symphony: The Wait is Over! Benjamin Rous is the New Music Director
• Creative Writing: Student Voices: Quince
• The Fralin Museum of Art: Shelley Niro and ElizaBeth Hill
• Drama: The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel
• The Fralin Museum of Art: From the Grounds Up: Thomas Jefferson’s Architecture and Design
• Drama: UVA Drama Welcomes Donald Margulies
• Heritage Theatre Festival: Welcome New Artistic Director Jenny Wales
• The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection: Kluge-Ruhe Mayadin
• Music: The Gassmann Fund for Innovation in Music
• The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection: An Expanding Collection
• Mellon Indigenous Arts Program: Songs of a Secret Country and Student Curators
• Studio Art: The Big Head Brigade Marches on the Lawn
• Virginia Foundation for the Humanities: Khizir Khan to Headline the 24th Annual Virginia Festival for the Book
• Student Group: Photography Club Exhibits in the Rotunda
• Virginia Film Festival: Virginia Film Festival and James Madison’s Montpelier Explore Race in America
• WTJU Radio: WTJU To Go
• UVA Arts Development: We Need Your Support!

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