Making a new family home

An alumna’s winding path to Charlottesville and U.Va.

When I first moved to Charlottesville in 1988, it was not to go to U.Va. I was escaping my life in New York City, where I had been working in…

A Stitch in Time

Former professor’s vision inspires designers from Culbreth to Broadway

Admire rare and beautiful items of clothing from the 1790s to the 1950s that are held in the Collection of Historic Dress.

Bestsellers at the U.Va. Bookstore: October through December 2010

1. Leavings: Poems by Wendell Berry2. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown3. The Mad Farmer Poems by Wendell Berry

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Book Maker

Paper and print art pieces address contemporary issues

After folding folios into signatures, Kristin Adolfson (Col ’98) uses a needle and thread to sew the pages of her books together. She prints the text with a letterpress, and…

Required Reading: Jennifer Burns

Jennifer Burns is an assistant professor of history who specializes in intellectual history. She wrote Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, published in October 2009 by…

The Song Collector

How folksinger Paul Clayton brought the music of Virginia to the world

Folk music traveled in the back seat of Paul Clayton’s beat-up car in the form of a tape recorder he used to capture the beautiful and obscure mountain ballads of…

A Curious Feline

Geriatrician and cat attend to the dying

I thought he was just a cat.When Oscar came to live on the third floor of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, R.I., I barely paid him…

Filthy Fun

John Waters visits Grounds

The theme of the Virginia Film Festival in November was “Funny Business,” which allowed new festival director Jody Kielbasa to show all kinds of funny films, from Chaplin-esque slapstick to…

Peaceful Stones

Ancient Chinese sculptures, some more than 2,000 years old, fill the University of Virginia Art Museum’s main gallery with a profound sense of serenity. “You can feel the karma in…

From Pennsylvania Avenue to Sesame Street

Sherrie Sandy Westin trades politics for puppets in many-hued career

Westin trades politics for puppets.

Art and Science

We who work and live within Mr. Jefferson’s University sometimes overlook the energy our founder devoted to other pursuits in his spare time. Among his many avocations, science and the…

Bestsellers at the U.Va. Bookstore:July through September 2009

1. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown2. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith3. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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Couture Construction

Two alumnae, an urban planner and an artchitect, formed Chromat Garments. They make fashion that borrows heavily from architecture.