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Henry Moore, English, 1898–1986 Seated Woman, 1958–1959 (LH 440) Bronze, 83 x 381⁄2 x 451⁄2 in, 211 x 97.8 x 115.6 cm
University Virginia Art Museum Terrace Map >
Tuesday - Sunday, 1-5
The new terrace in front of the University of Virginia Art Museum received its focal point in the form of a bronze sculpture by Henry Moore, a loan from the Henry Moore Foundation in England. More >
About the sculpture
A monumental sculpture by Alexander Calder, considered one of the greatest sculptors of the 20th century, has been installed in front of Peabody Hall. The sculpture is on long-term loan from the Calder Foundation in New York, the result of a collaboration between the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts, the Committee on Public Art and others at the University. Calder's stabile is the first piece of public art the committee has proactively promoted.
Web cam
The monumental sculpture by Calder has become part of the environs in front of Peabody Hall. The transformation of the landscape could be watched live online. To read the impact of changing atmospheric conditions, like day and night or sunshine and rain, read through the observations. Read >
De-installation Tripes was de-installed on Tuesday May 22, 2012 after three years at U.Va. The sculpture was lifted off the site using a crane, placed onto a flat bed truck, and secured for transportation. The sculpture will travel to Connecticut where it will be prepared for its next installation, tentatively set for London.
University of Virginia Art Museum Thomas H. Bayly Building, 155 Rugby Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904 Map > Tuesday - Sunday, 1-5
Together, the loan of the Calder stabile Tripes and this mobile cement the U.Va. Art Museum's relationship with the Calder Foundation, a significant partnership.
Tom Burckhardt The Brooks Natural History Museum, c 1900; A Creative Interpretation
FULL STOP
2004-05 18’ X 18’ X 11’
cardboard, paint, wood and hot glue
On view—
Ruffin Hall Map >
February 24 - March 30, 2012
Monday - Friday; 9 - 5 pm
The 2011-2012 U.Va. Arts Board is thrilled to announce Tom Burckhardt, painter and sculptor, as our artist-in-residence for this academic year! Each year the Arts Board selects a visiting artist to engage U.Va. students in a collaborative and educational project over the course of the year. Throughout this coming year, Tom will be working with a group of students on a collaborative and ambitious art project: a life-size recreation of the old Brooks Hall museum, made out of cardboard! The project, to be exhibited this spring in Ruffin Hall on Arts Grounds, aims to combine hands-on art-making with a cause that is close to all of our hearts: the history of our own University. The University's Natural History Museum, which featured fascinating objects collected by Jefferson himself (and, yes, a giant mastodon), was housed in Brooks Hall through the 1940s. Tom and his team of student workers plan to bring its lost treasures back to life.
Homecomings Downtown Mall Mural Contest Sponsored by the Student Council
GOT CHALK?
Come borrow ours!
Celebrate Homecomings by decorating the Downtown Mall Chalk Wall! Enter your mural design submissions by October 6th for a chance to be selected to decorate the wall during Homecomings week.
Winners get their design featured on the jumbotron during the October 15th game against Georgia Tech, plus the awesome opportunity of creating a piece of public art. Think about signing up with your hall/CIO/class/team/friends!
Rules and Regulations
All design entries must be in before 9pm on Thursday October 6th. A jpeg of your design can be submitted to kdw43m or placed in the box in the Student Council Office (the PAC on the first floor of Newcomb).
Entries may be done in any way you seem fit. However please make sure each image is distinguishable.
The dimensions for the wall are as follows. a two sided wall that is 54 feet long and 7.5 feet tall.
All chalk will be provided.
The whole day of October 12th is reserved for you to work on the mural.
The winning mural will be creative, filled with school spirit, and respectful.
un-PAINTING From Yellow to White
A collaborative public art installation
On view—
The East Wing Gallery, Campbell Hall Map >
September 19 - October 1, 2011
Monday - Friday; 9 - 5 pm
Exhibit—
Elmaleh Gallery, Campbell Hall Map >
September 30 - October 15, 2011
Monday - Friday; 9 - 5 pm
Opening reception—
Elmaleh Gallery, Campbell Hall Map >
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 5:30 PM.
From September 22 to October 1, as they walk to and from class, students and professors at the Architecture school will witness an interesting abstract composition unfolding on the East Gallery Wall. Rather than painting the wall, students in Professor Iliescu’s Painting & Public Art class will “unpaint” it through a series of carefully choreographed transitional paintings. Executed every day over the span of the 12-day project, these “un-paintings” will celebrate the highly traveled, busy gallery space and afford a visually stimulating transition as the now-yellow wall is drained of its color and returned to its normal white state.
Contact— Sanda Iliescu
Associate Professor of Art and Architecture
Georgia O'Keeffe, American,1887-1986 Red Hills, Lake George, 1927 Oil on canvas, 27 x 32 inches Acquired 1945, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
Previously on view— University of Virginia Art Museum Thomas H. Bayly Building, 155 Rugby Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904 Map > Tuesday - Sunday, 1-5
Georgia O'Keeffe's Red Hills, Lake George will be on view this fall at the U.Va. Art Museum. This important loan from The Phillips Collection continues the special partnership the University has developed with this Washington DC art institution. There will be academic programming related to this loan during the year.
Sanda Iliescu Lines of Darkness and Light
Sanda Iliescu, Associate Professor of Architecture and Art Lines of Darkness and Light A Public Art Installation for the Day of Dialogue, September 24, 2010, at the University of Virginia
Locations: Column Veils: The South Porch of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia Ballot Boxes: The South portion of the Lawn next to Old Cabell Hall
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Artist-in-residence, 2008
Bill T. Jones described his collaborative project at U.Va. and the gift of public art as follows:
"What I know about the piece now—it starts as two armies performing maneuvers, then they walk across that bed, circle around the bed, then they disappear," he said. In the middle of the two armies will be a huge bed, Lincoln's deathbed, with a diagonal slash of red where the participants will write out the text of one of Lincoln's speeches. They will walk through the red paint of the words and leave footprints.
"I'm going to give that bed to the community, so the highest aspirations about culture will become a footpath on the man's deathbed. ... It will be a visualization of not 1865, but 2008."
UVA Today, November 12, 2008, by Anne Bromley. Read article >
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