UVA Arts Events
Due March 4, 2019 | $2,500 Prize | Open to all full-time UVA Students
The 4th annual Madison Lane and Rugby Road Charitable Trust Visual Arts Prize is intended to expand students’ opportunities for creative expression and to showcase significant accomplishments in the Arts. The prize will award one outstanding undergraduate or graduate artist $2,500. See examples of last year’s submissions >
Each student applicant will submit up to three images of ONE piece of finished creative work or a URL to a film/video less than 4 minutes in length and a brief description of their work. Eligible media include: drawing, painting, water color, film/ video, photography & sculpture. Only one submission per student will be considered.
Eligibility: Current full time undergraduate & graduate students are encouraged to apply. The program is open to all schools, majors & programs. All work must have been created while in residence at UVA in 2018 or 2019.
Eligible Media: Drawing, painting, water color, printmaking, film/video, photography & sculpture
Prize: $2,500
Application Process: The online application is available at arts.virginia.edu/visualartsprize
Learn More: Please contact Emma Terry at the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for the Arts if you have any questions or do not see the Submission Confirmation page (see below), once submitted.
The Madison Lane and Rugby Road Charitable Trust Visual Arts Prize is presented through the Jefferson Trust in partnership with UVA Arts.
Share Your Words of Wisdom!!
The Virginia Center for the Book, a program of Virginia Humanities, is collaborating with Detroit-based printmaker Amos Paul Kennedy. Jr., the Center's first Frank Riccio Artist-in-Residence, to produce Finding Wisdom, an intergenerational public art project connecting the Charlottesville, Albemarle, and University communities in early 2019. All community members are invited to participate. Finding Wisdom will lead up to and culminate during the 25th anniversary Virginia Festival of the Book, March 20-24.
With Amos’s help, we are collecting everyday sayings, mottos, aphorisms and proverbs from our community, and we want to hear from you! Sayings will be selected for printing by Kennedy based in part on length (shorter is better: 20 words or less) and timeliness (sooner is better).
For more information and to participate, visit: VaBookCenter.org/finding-wisdom.
CHECK OUT THE FULL UVA ARTS CALENDAR!!
WTJU 91.1 FM to Move to New Ivy Road Location in 2019 • By: Nathan Moore • Published December 2018
Student Curator Brings Recent UVA Grad’s Art Back to Charlottesville • By: McGregor McCance & Payton Moledor • Published December 2018 • Original Publication: UVA Today
Letterpress Core Skills: 2019 Winter Session
Register today for our upcoming Letterpress Core Skills Winter Session !
Four classes: February 16 & 17; March 2 & 3, 10:00am - 4:00pm each day
Fees: $400 for members; $465 for non-members (includes all materials and a trade edition of Speaking in Faces); UVA Education Benefit Eligible
Participants of all skill levels welcome. This winter, our multi-session, signature typesetting and press usage class will feature the printing of broadsides and other ephemera. We’ll explore the art and craft of typesetting and letterpress printing with the Center’s Vandercook cylinder letterpresses and the largest publicly accessible collection of movable type in the mid-Atlantic.
18-19 CHN Yearbook Photo Contest
TOPIC | BEING: “We shouldn’t spend time doing; we should spend time being.”
HOW TO ENTER? Interested participants should fill out a google form and follow the instruction to submit their works.
ONLINE POLLING: The polling will open on January 18, 2019. It will last for a week and close on January 25.
Mellon Indigenous Arts Faculty Fellows Program
The Mellon Indigenous Arts Initiative is now accepting applications for the 2019-20 Mellon Indigenous Arts Fellows Program for University of Virginia faculty. This call for applications seeks to appoint up to five Arts Fellows working in areas related to Indigenous Arts to begin Summer 2019.
These fellowships will offer UVA faculty the opportunity to pursue creative and scholarly projects in the arts. Indigenous Arts Fellows will be able to forge new research initiatives with the University museums and their collections, jointly organize workshops, exhibitions and courses on interdisciplinary themes related to Global Indigenous arts, and present their projects at a Spring 2020 symposium at UVA.
The Arts Fellows will be partially released from teaching. Fellows will be expected to develop a course based on the research they conduct during their fellowship. In addition to one course release, each Fellow will receive research funds in the amount of $10,000.
CALL FOR ARTISTS: Coasts in Crisis: Art and Conversation in the Aftermath of Hurricanes (English & Español)
The Environmental Resilience Institute at the University of Virginia seeks artists to participate in
Coasts in Crisis: Art and Conversation in the Aftermath of Hurricanes
This event will bring artists from coastal areas affected by hurricanes in 2017 and 2018 to Charlottesville in 2019. Invited artists will present their work made in the aftermath of the storms, and will have a public dialogue about the role of the arts in hurricane resilience.
Invited artists will receive a $1,000 honorarium, travel and lodging in Charlottesville for two nights and three days.
Read about C.R.A.V.E, an annual fashion show where fashion is represented with a creative and edgy style!
UVA Faculty, learn about GRANTS offered through the Office of the Provost and the Vice Provost for the Arts...
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Gift Forest: Pop-up Buy Local Holiday Market
Now through early January | Downtown Mall at 301 E Main St
Featuring over 100 local Artists and Crafters This Holiday Season
The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative is pleased to announce GIFT FOREST, a seasonal pop-up holiday shop, this year on the Downtown Mall at 301 E Main St. The market will debut Friday, November 30th and will be open every day through 12/24. The Gift Forest is an annual holiday pop-up market featuring handmade gifts, vintage, and vinyl records. It is an alternative to big box stores and way to find quality gifts while supporting local artists, makers, and collectors.
Gift Forest organizer Sarah Carr explains, “When you shop at Gift Forest, you invest in a working artist that might be your neighbor. You also provide the support an artist needs to keep pushing forward through the process.”
The Gift Forest was conceptualized as a means of supporting our local creative community while offering ethically-minded shoppers an alternative to mass produced goods and big box stores. Now in it’s 9th season, the pop-up returns to the Downtown Mall to provide increased exposure to a wider selection of artists and crafters than ever before.
Charlottesville Ballet's "The Nutcracker"
Thursday, December 20-Sunday, December 23 | Various Times | V. Earl Dickinson Building at PVCC | $20 - $75
Sweeten your holiday season with Charlottesville Ballet’s professional production of the classic holiday ballet! This enchanting 90-minute performance features professional dancers from across the U.S. and around the world, plus a cast of over 120 children and community guests - including UVA professors and employees! "The Nutcracker" is sure to delight the entire family with performances in Waynesboro, Lynchburg, and 8 shows Charlottesville at PVCC:
WHEN:
Thursday, December 20 at 11:00am* and 3:00pm*
Friday, December 21 at 2:30pm* and 7:00pm†
Saturday, December 22 at 1:00pm* and 4:30pm*
Sunday, December 23 at 2:00pm* and 5:30pm
* “Class with Clara” event after the performance!
†Meet the Ballet Pre-show drinks & discussion at 6:00pm
Vice Provost for the Arts
University of Virginia
PO Box 400308
Charlottesville, VA 22904
