Art Notes

Judith Leemann returns to UVa

The University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Art and the Art Students Society are sponsoring a lecture and studio visits by artist Judith Leemann.

Leemann’s lecture, “Patterning a Practice,” will be 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Campbell Hall, Room 160. During her visit, she also will lead studio critiques in sculpture classes.

Leemann is an artist, educator and writer. She holds an MFA in fiber and material studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor’s from UVa, where she was an Echols Scholar and Aunspaugh Fellow (1993-94) in photography and sculpture.

She teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She was assistant editor of the anthology “The Object of Labor: Art, Cloth, and Cultural Production.”

Her recent projects include “flockstep,” a commissioned public video projection, and “discontinuous, not unrelated,” a research-based exhibition at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.

For information, call 924-6138.

Science and art mix in ‘project’

The University of Virginia Science and Art Project will present “The Art of Diagnosis: What Can Abstract Art Tell Us About the Anatomy of Disease?” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday in the atrium and room 2005 of the School of Medicine’s Medical Research Building 5.

The event will include an exhibit of 400 abstract images, followed by a program with opening remarks by Tom Skalak, UVa vice president for research, and presentations by Julie Davis Turner, associate professor of microbiology, and artist Brydie Ragan. A discussion and brainstorming session about research possibilities will follow.

Ragan, who is collaborating with Turner on “The Art of Diagnosis” project, has explored the relationship between scientific inquiry and abstract art since 2001. The “Art of Diagnosis” is her exploration of the illumination and potential for cross-fertilization among the conceptual views of one suffering physical morbidity.

The event is free and members of the University community and general public are welcome to attend. For information visit the project Web site: http://www.virginia.edu/sciartproject/

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Oakland hosts photographer

Oakland — The Nelson County Museum of History will hold a talk at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and feature never-before-seen photographs and movies taken in the days following the 1969 flood caused by Hurricane Camille.

Brower York, a photographer from the Waynesboro News-Virginian, will tell about his experiences, and other residents whose families took photos and movies will present and talk about them.

Admission to the talk is $5. Family members of flood victims and children 12 and younger will be admitted free.

Oakland is on U.S. 29, about four miles south of Lovingston. For more information, visit www. historicnelson.org.

‘Reading Rainbow’ honors kids

Local artists are invited to join area authors, teachers, and community members to honor the creative students who participated in the 15th annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest.”

The awards celebration, sponsored by WHTJ Charlottesville PBS, will be 10 a.m. Saturday at the Carver Recreation Center near the historic Downtown Mall.

This year, children in kindergarten through third grade submitted nearly 200 stories for consideration, with topics ranging from traveling chinchillas and coral reefs, to family vacations and friends. The top-ranked stories will be featured and read at the ceremony. The contest celebration is part of the Virginia Festival of the Book’s Family StoryFest, and every student who entered the contest will receive a certificate of achievement signed by actor LeVar Burton.

Charlottesville-area judges volunteered their time and reviewed the local stories, looking for originality, creative expression, storytelling and integration of copy and illustrations.

First-place stories from the WHTJ Charlottesville PBS contest will be entered in the national Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest, along with winners from other public television stations across the country.

Now in its 25th season, “Reading Rainbow” has received international acclaim for its goal of developing positive reading habits, skills, and attitudes among children, and it has garnered more than 150 awards, including 20 Emmys (eight for “Outstanding Children’s Series”), a Peabody, eight CINE Golden Eagles, seven Parent’s Choice Awards, and three international Prix Jeunesse Awards. The NAACP has twice honored Burton with its Image Award for his role on the show.

WHTJ Charlottesville has a studio and office on theDowntown Mall. WHTJ can be seen on cable channels 7, 200, 201 and 220 and on digital channels 41.1, 41.2 and 41.3.

Migration moves to Facebook

Migration: A Gallery now has a page on Facebook.

The space will be used to promote new artists, new works, events and special editions.

For more information, visit www. migrationgallery.com or call 760-1968.

From staff reports