The twentieth annual Art History Symposium Towards a Multiple Worldview: Remapping Paradigms of Modern and Contemporary Art, hosted by the California State University, Sacramento Art Department, will be on April 19th, 2-4:30pm in Mariposa 1000.

Featuring Keynote Speakers Dr. Zamansele Nsele, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley; Dr. Henry Skerritt, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia; and Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza, Associate Professor, Pasadena City College.

The event is co-sponsored by the Sacramento State Art Department, the College of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Teaching & Learning.

Some years ago, Leslie Anne Baltz, a double major in this department, died in tragic circumstances, and her parents established the Leslie Baltz Art Study Fund in her memory. Its purpose is to assist a rising third or fourth-year major in art history or studio art, who plans to spend a year, semester, or summer studying in Italy.

This year we will award one fellowship in the amount of $2,000.00 to a student studying in Italy in the Summer of 2024, Fall 2024 or Spring 2025. 

The application is due: Monday, April 22 and the recipient will be notified by Friday May 3. 

We would like now to request applications for this fellowship from rising third-year and rising fourth-year majors in studio and/or art history.

Your application should consist of the following:

1. A letter of application, explaining in detail your study plans in Italy.

2. A copy of your most recent unofficial transcript (available on SIS).

3. The names of two members of the Art Department faculty to serve as references.

4. Your local contact information: address, phone number, e-mail address.

Please address your application to me and send it electronically as a single PDF file to Laura Mellusi in the Art Department office

An evening in honor of Italian poet and writer Antonella Anedda, who will speak of her interest in art, poetry and the possibility to derive "thought through [her] eyes," as proposed by Joyce in his Ulysses. Anedda will present on French artist Sophie Calle (b. 1953) and will be joined by her translator, Patrizio Ceccagnoli, for a bilingual poetry reading and conversation on poetry, art and translation.

Antonella Anedda is an Italian poet and essayist, whose literary work is often inspired by art. She was born in Rome to a Sardinian family in 1955. She studied literature in Rome and was awarded a PhD at the University of Oxford. She is the author of more than fourteen books and the recipient of many awards including the prestigious Viareggio-Repaci Prize, the Pushkin Prize and the 2024 Umberto Saba Poesia Prize. In 2019, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Sorbonne University for her literary works. She is a lecturer at the University of Lugano, Switzerland, and her last book is her complete poems (Tutte le poesie) published by Garzanti in 2023.

Patrizio Ceccagnoli is a literary critic and translator, a managing editor of Italian Poetry Review, and an associate professor of Italian at the University of Kansas. He was a finalist for the American Literary Translator's Association Annual Award for his work co-translating Milo de Angelis and translated five books of the Canadian writer Anne Carson. With Susan Stewart he co-translated Anedda's Historiae in 2023 (NYRB).

Please join the Department of Art and the rest of our community in congratulating our graduating students and 5th Year Aunspaugh Fellows on the work they have done and the exhibitions we now get to enjoy on all three floors of Ruffin Hall and in Ruffin Gallery. 

Thesis shows in Studio Art are the culmination of four academic years of undergraduate liberal arts at UVA. We, as faculty & staff, are incredibly proud of the hard work all of our students put into their creative practices and exhibitions. Students are involved with the production and installation of these exhibitions and gain valuable experience in the handling and hanging of important works of all types, as well as the work of hosting their own receptions. We all come together as a department during these Friday student exhibition receptions to recognize the student’s successful completion of the major.

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Week 5

May 6 - May 10

1st Floor Media Gallery: Anne Kickert

Lifelong learning program in Santa Fe, NM May 11-15, 2024

Join the University of Virginia’s Lifetime Learning program May 11-15, 2024, as we host distinguished Professors Elizabeth Turner, Art History, and Stephen B. Cushman, Department of English, on an inspiring learning experience of Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico. Delve into O’Keeffe’s creative process and see how the many facets of New Mexico impacted her life and her artistic work. 

This 4-day seminar will take place in beautiful Santa Fe, the City of Enchantment—a city unique in the nation for its combination of a long and fascinating history, a layered culture from ancient to modern, and a culinary cornucopia of indigenous food styles. On day trips to Taos and O’Keeffe’s home and studio in Abiquiu, experience the curvaceous adobe-style architecture and undulating landforms that create the chiaroscuro light and shadow so adored by O’Keeffe. 

You will enjoy private visits to noteworthy O’Keeffe sites, delectable New Mexican cuisine, and lectures by our esteemed faculty, who will provide the intellectual and historical framework for understanding the complexity of O’Keeffe’s sense of place and artistic genius. 

August 28, 2021 - June 1, 2024

Fralin Museum of Art

Admission is always FREE

This dynamic selection of 20th- and 21st-century artworks from the Museum’s permanent collection explores the ways that art can speak to or question the formal, physical, environmental, social, and institutional structures of our world. Here you will encounter the work of Robert Reed, whose abstract paintings and collages contain coded references to his life and memories. The depopulated architectural paintings of Emilio Sánchez invite us to contemplate our built environment. DJ and visual artist Rozeal addresses racism and the complexities of cultural appropriation and globalization in our current times. Alberto Rey encourages viewers to consider their own ecological surroundings from which we are often disconnected. These connections to regional resources and materials are also seen in the work of Maria and Julian Martinez, who innovated upon ancient forms of pottery in ways that still inspire Pueblo artists. Oftentimes, multiple structures are present in the same artwork, providing pathways and opportunities for interpretation and inquiry. From paintings to collages, from pottery to jewelry, the artworks in this exhibition inspire conversations about how our world is structured. This exhibition is curated by Laura Minton, Curator of Exhibitions; Adriana Greci Green,Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas; Emily Lazaro, Docent Coordinator; and Rebekah Boggs, former Tour Coordinator and Education Assistant.

Emilio Sanchez, American, born Cuba, 1921–1999. Untitled (Looking West from My Studio), ca. 1985. Oil on canvas, 14 x 14 inches. Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation, 2011.3.2. © Emilio Sanchez Foundation

Curated By: Djambawa Marawili, W. Wanambi, Yinimala Gumana, Wäka Munuŋgurr, Henry Skerritt and Kade McDonald. Organized by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia in partnership with the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre in Australia.

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia showcases Indigenous art in Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala and an exhibition of slit drums of New Guinea.

One of the most significant touring exhibitions of Aboriginal Australian art ever staged returns to the city where it was first envisioned. The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia presents “Maḏayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala” from Feb. 3-July 14, 2024. The exhibition features more than 50 masterpieces of ochre painting on eucalyptus bark, many of which have never been on view outside of Australia.