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Theater as You’ve Never Seen It Before

Theater as You’ve Never Seen It Before

Lisi Stoessel (Col '06, Grad ’08) makes all the world a stage

Set designer Lisi Stoessel (Col '06, Grad '08) creates fantastical places.

Kudzu and Heavy Metal

Kudzu and Heavy Metal

The work of photographer Pamela Pecchio

Driving down I-81 with heavy metal on the stereo, Pamela Pecchio envisioned a new series of photographs

Rebuilding History … With Cardboard and Paint

Rebuilding History … With Cardboard and Paint

Student art exhibit draws inspiration from Brooks Hall Natural History Museum

Mammoth Undertaking: Students reimagine Brooks Hall menagerie.

Unleashing Their Inner Warriors

Sculptors use clay against adversaries

Studio art professor William Bennett’s January Term course hosted nearly a dozen U.Va. students who brought their own ideas of adversity into the classroom

Bookmarked: Please Touch the Artwork

“UVaM” brings art to the Apple App Store

iPad users can turn, magnify and further explore 19 objects from the U.Va. Art Museum’s collection as if the artifacts were in their hands. At

Worth Thousands of Words

Art Museum opens four new exhibits of oldies and goodies

The U.Va. Art Museum introduced four new exhibitions on Jan. 20.

“Master Printmakers” is a collection of 16th-century Italian Renaissance prints, based on

Drawing From Nature

Drawing From Nature

Mountain Lake Biological Station inspires art

Students carried five-gallon buckets that held their art supplies through the hardwood forest of the Appalachian Mountains. When they found something to draw, they turned the buckets over and

Take a Ride on the Wild Side

Take a Ride on the Wild Side

U.Va. sculptors build interactive art

Art doesn’t just hang on a wall. Art professor Bill Bennett—with help from members of the local sculpture community, including Edward Miller and Joseph Schepps—transformed an

Painting Away the Blues

Painting Away the Blues

Student wins prize with colorful art

Gloomy weather spurred Rebecca Lewis to undertake a project that is now a bright spot among her artistic endeavors.

An acrylic painting of a path winding through

Street Art Meets Fine Art

Street Art Meets Fine Art

Reko Rennie paints the walls of Kluge-Ruhe

Reko Rennie Photo by Tom Cogill

Artist Reko Rennie spray-painted the Berlin Wall and the streets of Melbourne, Shanghai and Paris before he came to Charlottesville. For two weeks

Artful Transformation

Artful Transformation

Moore statue, more offerings

Installing a Henry Moore sculpture outside the Art Museum Photo by Jane Haley

On Rugby Road, a large Henry Moore statue dominates the entrance to the U.Va. Art

Mind’s Eye

Mind’s Eye

Nir Avissar’s photography documents military life in Israel

Nir Avissar’s photography documents military life in Israel

Painting a Farewell

Painting a Farewell

Celebrating the career of art professor Richard Crozier

Richard Crozier

An exhibition of paintings by Richard Crozier, who has taught drawing and painting courses at the McIntire Department of Art since 1974, was on display at U.Va.

When the Image Is the Word

The art of Corwin Levi

See how Corwin Levi (Law ‘05) transformed his law school notes into art

A sign on the window outside Corwin Levi’s summer studio reads “Please don’t tap the

View From a Garden

View From a Garden

Student’s painting of University Chapel wins prize

A lover of outdoor spaces and peaceful places, Olivia Kiers (Col ’12) often retreats to the garden behind Pavilion I to study, write poetry, let her thoughts wander and let

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