Department: Arts
New & Notable
Summer 2010
The Art of Reflection
Summer 2010
Required Reading
Summer 2010
Literary Wahoo of the Jazz Age
Summer 2010
Mother and Child
Summer 2010
A Portrait of the South in Black and White
Paul Gaston recounts his role in the civil rights movement in Charlottesville.
Summer 2010
Book Maker
Alumna Kristin Adolfson creates paper and print art pieces that address contemporary issues.
Spring 2010
Required Reading: Jennifer Burns
Spring 2010
The Song Collector
Spring 2010
New & Notable
Winter 2009
Couture Construction
Two alumnae, an urban planner and an artchitect, formed Chromat Garments. They make fashion that borrows heavily from architecture.
Winter 2009
Required Reading: R. Jahan Ramazani
Professor R. Jahan Ramazani (Col class of ’81), chair of the English department, edited the Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, co-edited the 20th-century volume of the Norton Anthology of English Literature and published a book of poetry.
Winter 2009
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Michael Rasbury is a sound designer, a composer and a professor of drama at UVA, and he co-wrote a play inspired by his son, a musical about a boy with autism named Max.
Winter 2009
The Philosopher Mechanic
Crawford argues that physical labor that offers tangible results—a motorcycle that starts, a plumbing system that doesn’t leak—provides satisfaction, both intellectual and psychic, that office work often lacks.
Winter 2009
New & Notable
Fiction for young and old, the race for the White House, collegiate a cappella and the hurricane that devastated the Gulf of Mexico 150 years before Katrina.
Fall 2009
All Fired Up
Eric Jao worked as a network engineer while moonlighting at D.C.’s hottest clubs, until he was discovered by Madonna. Watch a video of him DJ.
Fall 2009
Required Reading: Lois Shepherd
Lois Shepherd explains how you might have misunderstood Catcher in the Rye, the enduring resonance of Crime and Punishment and how books confront death and dying.
Fall 2009
Every Picture Tells a Story
Whether photographing Jessica Lange, Christopher Walken, Paul Newman or Al Pacino for Inside the Actors Studio or capturing Ella Fitzgerald performing at the Lincoln Center, Wright faces the challenge of reaching beyond a celebrity’s image and conveying a human being.
Fall 2009
Keeping it Reel
Young people are the largest consumers of digital media, films and TV. It’s a language they are taught to hear but not speak.
Fall 2009