UVa Art Museum

Events & happenings


Final Fridays	Weedon Lectures	Colloquia	Collections
Join us for receptions held on the last Friday of Aug., Sept., and Oct., Jan., Feb., and March. Read more >	Dr. Donald Wood, senior curator at the Birmingham Museum of Art, will present the final lecture in our Weedon series. His talk entitled Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master - Pioneer of Modern Japanese Design will be held April 3, 5:30 pm in Cambell Hall rm 158. See lectures & talks >	Writing the South - In this final program of the colloquia series Deborah MacDowell, Casey Clabough and Lisa Spaar will discuss southern writers that have influenced their work. Friday March 28, 4:00 pm in the Museum. See programs >	View highlights from the Art Museum's collection of more than 10,000 objects. Explore collections >

Community programs

		Family Art Jams Families first! Make-and-take art is now available on a regular basis in the Museum new and growing hands-on space. Read more >				Docent Training Come to our information session on …. and see if docenting is right for you. See details >

		Writer’s Eye Youth in grades 3-12, university students, and adults are invited to submit prose and poetry inspired by particular works of art on view in the Museum. See details >				Docent Tours Interactive tours of special exhibits and permanent collection galleries are individually created with the input of teachers by docents trained in Va. SOL concepts. Schedule a tour >

News

New Media Gallery. The film Nightjohn by Charles Burnett continues the 2007-08 schedule of the New Media Gallery, co-presented with the Virginia Film Festival.
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Museums Gateway U21. The University of Virginia Art Museum is home to more than 10,000 objects, and now a select sampling has been included in a Web-based collaboration of museums’ collections from universities around the world.
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