Applying the humanities to contemporary human questions.
Reckonings: A show by VABC Member Jesse Wells, May 4th-May 28 the New Dominion Bookshop Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 2012, 5:30-7:30pm New Dominion Bookshop (on the Historic Downtown Mall) 404 East Main Street Charlottesville, VA 22902 Gallery Hours during Bookshop hours. www.newdominionbookshop.com Jesse Wells’ most recent series is an assemblage of tokens pointing to [...]
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This live reading of Borges’s “The Circular Ruins” on May 17th is presented in conjunction with the Circular Ruins Gallery Show (May 1 – May 31). VABC welcomes “The Circular Ruins” to the Art on Ivy Gallery, installed by VABC gallery curator Dean Dass. Based on a short story from 1942 by Jorge Luis Borges, [...]
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“Hoarders are good people who are struggling with difficult issues. To move toward recovery they need love and help, not ridicule,” wrote Matt Paxton in the foreword of The Secret Life of Hoarders, one of the new releases presented to the attendees of the Virginia Festival of the Book.
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Coptic sewing is fun and the finished books are lovely. This will be an intermediate-level class requiring knowledge of basic bookmaking and pre-class preparation.
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In the early years of the nineteenth century, as the industrial revolution ignited the imaginations of the handyman inventors of America, dozens of patents appeared for new machines which used various techniques for using pressure to put ink on paper. They replaced the screw with various combinations of levers, joints, and toggles which provided so much pressure that even the new cast iron frames could be cracked by excessive use.
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The Folklife Program and the Virginia Festival of the Book staged a special tribute to the late Mike Seeger by hosting author Bill C. Malone and musicians Elizabeth LaPrelle, James Leva, Danny Knicely, Aimee Curl, and Alexia Smith for this special event.
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Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian region and culture. They call themselves Affrilachians.
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The 18th annual Virginia Festival of the Book came to a close on Sunday March 25th. The Festival featured 411 authors at 230 events in and around Charlottesville, VA.
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Basketball legend Jerry West (West by West) shares his thoughts on overcoming obstacles, being a “team player,” and achieving success.
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