Department: Arts
He’ll Thrill You
Fall 2010
The Parking Lot Movie
Documentary reveals the philosophy of parking lot attendants, and how the job changes their lives.
Fall 2010
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 ’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