Art Notes

Annual workshop helps parents promote the arts

The University of Virginia Art Museum will host its annual Art Print Workshop from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday.

Co-sponsored by the Piedmont Council for the Arts, the workshop offers training to parent volunteers interested in bringing art prints into elementary classrooms to promote visual literacy.

The workshop will introduce attendees to the Socratic, or inquiry method of looking at art with children.

For schools that do not have an active art print program, the workshop is an opportunity for parents to gain the skills necessary to start one.

Hands-on activities during the workshop will offer participants a chance to learn and practice the inquiry method.

The workshop is free, but participants are asked to register in advance.

The workshop will be held at the UVa Art Museum and Fayerweather Hall on Rugby Road.

To register, call 971-2787 or send an e-mail to .

Curator gives gallery lecture

Elizabeth Hutton Turner, curator of the University of Virginia Art Museum exhibit “El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios,” will give a lunchtime talk noon Tuesday in the museum.

“El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios,” which will be on view through Dec. 28, features two complete sets of the influential Russian abstract artist Lazar Markovich (El) Lissitzky’s futuristic portfolios, commissioned by the Kestner Society in 1923.

Twenty prints are highlighted, including eight from his “Proun” portfolio, which he intended as a prototype for future mechanical and architectural designs, and 12 from his “Victory Over the Sun” portfolio, created to commemorate Kasimir Malevich’s 1913 futurist opera of the same name.

Contemporary artist Hideyo Okamura recreated Lissitzky’s 1923 Berlin “Proun” room in the UVa Art Museum.

Turner will answer the question, “What is a ‘Proun?” and discuss how Okamura’s use of El Lissitzky’s geometric designs defies visual gravity. The museum is at 155 Rugby Road.

For more details, call 924-3592.

Second Street goes on TV

Second Street Gallery has introduced “New Art,” a television program that presents interviews with exhibiting artists and footage of their installations.

These short films will be aired on Charlottesville Cable Access (Channel 13) at 8:30 p.m. Friday evenings.

Viewers will learn about about nationally known artists whose work is on view at SSG.

Abridged videos will also be available for view on YouTube.

For more information, call 977-7284.

Have lunch with the artist

Les Yeux du Monde Gallery will host Feast on Art, featuring Shelby Fischer at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Sandwiches, fruit salad and bite-size cookies, made with food by local artisan producers, will be served.

For reservations, call 973-5566. reservations and payment must be made 48 hours in advance.

The lunch with the artists costs $10.

From staff reports