The University of Virginia Art Museum exhibits art from around the world dating ancient times to the present. In addition to its permanent collection, the Museum offers changing exhibitions exhibitions, accompanied by related programs and publications.
Gallery Hours Tuesday - Sunday
12 - 5 pm
Location Thomas H. Bayly Building
155 Rugby Road
P.O. Box 400119
Charlottesville, VA
22904-4119
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New Media Gallery, Summer 2008
Click on the exhibition title below to see dates and scheduled events. The "Read more" link under some listing provides additional information.
Highlights from the Black Maria Film
and Video Festival April 15 – June 1
Each year the Virginia Film Festival brings a much-
anticipated Film Society program featuring works
from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. In
conjunction with this year’s visit by Festival director
John Columbus, the Museum presents these award-
winning new experimental, documentary, and
animated films and videos. Visit www.vafilm.com for details on the Virginia Film Festival show or download programming press release (pdf).
U.Va. Art Musuem Media Gallery Installation
"The Ville"
17 min. by Amy Bench, Austin, Texas
Juror's Citation
"The Ville" is a quiet contemplation of race, identity, fear and acceptance in today's urban landscape. In its heyday, the Ville neighborhood of St. Louis was notable in many ways and was where the young Chuck Berry heard the Antioch Baptist Church choir. In the Ville, Tina Turner, Arthur Ashe and Barbara Jordan went to school at the first black high school west of the Mississippi. Today, 16-year-old Jermaine and 8-year-old Kathryn reflect on what it means to live there now, how survival is more real than history.
"Conjure Bearden"
16.5 min. compiled by Thomas Whiteside, Durham, N.C.
"Conjure Bearden" is a short meditation on African-American life in the Jim Crow South in the 1930s and '40s. Filmmaker Thomas Whiteside has reassembled and reconfigured silent footage originally shot by nomadic African-American filmmaker H. Lee Waters. This piece is a sort of homage to the iconography of artist Romare Bearden, who was a native of Charlotte, N.C., and who, aside from his career in New York, Paris and St. Martin, kept close ties to his roots. Bearden doesn't appear in this footage, but his aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents do. Whiteside has collected an extraordinary cross-section of Waters' films now accompanied by a bluesy score by Anthony Kelley. Waters' work stands out not only because of its power, but because so much of it survives.
Carrara
by William Wylie, photographer and associate
professor in the McIntire Department of Art
June 3 – July 6
Opening in conjunction with the second annual
Festival of the Photograph historic marble quarries
of Carrara, Italy. Several of Wylie’s elegant black
and white photographs of Carrara stones and
artisans, recent gifts to the Museum, will also be on
display.
