PCA Arts Blog
February 08, 2010 · Arts Events, PCA Updates
Wednesday, February 24, 4:30-7:00pm
Second Street Gallery and PCA in collaboration with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts present Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographer of Mexico’s Soul, a workshop for Charlottesville/Albemarle area educators and anyone interested in arts education and photography.
Jeffrey Allison, Paul Mellon Collection Educator at VMFA, will lead the seminar. Workshop attendees will learn about Bravo’s work and leave with resource guides, PowerPoint, and a CD of images from VMFA’s exhibition.
The workshop is free for SSG & PCA members; $5 for nonmembers. TO LEARN MORE OR REGISTER, email outreach@secondstreetgallery.org.
February 08, 2010 · Arts Events, PCA Updates
Wednesday, February 10, 5:30-7:30pm
Don’t miss Art Drinks this Wednesday at Fellini’s #9! Join fellow arts lovers for great happy hour specials and conversation.
Don’t miss your chance to win a pair of tickets to two upcoming shows at Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, a mug from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection gift shop, and a print from the American Festivals Project.
Special thanks to Fellini’s for donating 15% of Art Drinks bar sales to PCA!
Fellini’s #9
200 Market Street
Charlottesville – 434.979.4279
February 03, 2010 · Arts Events,
Friday, February 19, 10:00am-noon
VSA arts is proud to announce a Panel Discussion Workshop with three authors, all with roots in the Charlottesville area. The workshop will feature Hazel Buys, Pat Malone, and Danny Thorne.
Each author will talk about how and why they write and share brief readings from their writings. There will be time for audience discussion and sharing ideas and challenges to support one another as writers.
The public is invited to attend the workshop which will be held at the Mary Williams Community Center, 1512 East Market Street. To register, call 434.970.3264.
February 02, 2010 · PCA Updates, Arts Events
Don’t miss the newest PCA photos online! We just added images from both of our January 13th events, Creative Conversation and Art Drinks! at Fellini’s.
Special thanks to PCA member and local photographer Barrie Humphries for taking the pictures at our events!
January 28, 2010 · Arts Events,
Friday, January 29, 8:00pm
Head to McGrady’s Irish Pub tomorrow night for an evening of live music and great drink specials to raise money for the people of Haiti.
Local band The BC’s, who play every Sunday at Millers, will play acoustic sets of original music and covers starting at 8. 100% of the $5 cover charge will go to haitirelieffund.org, and a portion of the proceeds from drink specials will also be donated.
Cover charge and music starts at 8; donations will be accepted all day.
January 26, 2010 · Arts Events,
4 Saturdays, January 30 – February 20, 1:30-3:00pm
Road Trip: A Creative Writing Workshop for Teens (9-12 Grades)
WriterHouse is offering a 4-week workshop for teens who love to write in any form or genre—poetry, stories, film, comics, anything. The cost is $100, and thanks to the generosity of the Bama Works Foundation of the Dave Matthews Band, a few scholarships are available. Contact classes@writerhouse.org for more information.
January 25, 2010 · Arts Events,
Deadline: February 1, 2010
Lynchburg’s Academy of Fine Arts calls for entries to its 2010 Juried Art Exhibition. Entry fee is $30 and deadline is February 1.
Entries in the following disciplines are accepted: painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, fiber, glass, wood, metal and mixed media.
Download the entry form or contact Ted Batt for more information.
January 25, 2010 · Arts Events, National Arts News
by Randy Cohen, VP of Local Arts Advancement, Americans for the Arts
Last week, Americans for the Arts released its new National Arts Index at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. This report represents a major milestone for arts in America. Never before has there been a single and annually produced measure of the health and vitality of the arts in America.
While new for the arts, we interact with indicators daily. If you want to know about the stock market, you check the Dow-Jones Index. Are we optimistic about the economy? Track the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index. Indicators are broad measures that compress a lot of data into a single indicator.
The National Arts Index is an annual measure that uses 76 equal-weighted, national-level indicators of arts activity—making it one of the largest data sets about the arts industries ever assembled. This new report covers an 11-year period, from 1998 to 2008.
The 2008 National Arts Index score is 98.4 —down 4.2 points from its 2007 score of 102.6. A score of 105.5 would return the Index to its highest point, measured in 1999. While the arts industries in the United States have become increasingly creative and the number of working artists and arts organizations is growing, audience demand has failed to keep pace—causing the National Arts Index to drop to its lowest level in the 11 years we’ve tracked.
The overall Index score is only one of the big stories in this report…
To read more of Randy’s post, respond, and read other arts bloggers, please visit Americans for the Arts’ ARTSBlog.
January 21, 2010 · Arts Events,
THIS Saturday, January 23, 2010
Don’t miss this art/music benefit event to raise funds for the people of Haiti on Saturday at Random Row Books. Visit the initiative online for more information.
January 20, 2010 · Arts Events,
Sunday, January 24, 8:00pm
Internationally acclaimed pipa (Chinese lute) virtuoso Wu Man will be in residency at UVA’s McIntire Department of Music January 23-25 2010. The high point of the residency will be a solo concert in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at 8:00pm. The residency is taking place in conjunction with the traveling art exhibition, Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University, which will be on view at the UVA Art Museum from January 15 – March 14, 2010.
Wu Man was the first student to receive a master’s degree in pipa from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Since that time, she has gone on to be the most prominent performer on the instrument, known both for her performances of the classical Pudong School of pipa playing from Imperial China, as well as being an outstanding exponent of contemporary compositions for pipa by leading Chinese composers such as Tan Dun as well as Western composers including Terry Riley, Philip Glass, and Lou Harrison. Her three most recent recordings have all been nominated for Grammy Awards. Wu Man is also a prominent member of Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. Read more online.
At 2pm on Sunday, January 24th there will be a free presentation by guest artist Wu Man on her instrument, the pip, the classical Chinese lute, and her musical background. The lecture demonstration will take place in 107 Old Cabell Hall.
This is an Arts Enhancement Event supported by the Provost’s Office to increase the awareness of and support for the arts at the University of Virginia.
Single tickets for the Sunday night, January 24 performance are $10 for adults, $5 for students, and free for UVA Students who reserve in advance, and can be purchased at the UVA Arts Box Office in the lobby of the Drama Building at 109 Culbreth Road, on the telephone at 434.924.3376, Monday through Friday 12pm to 5pm, or online.
