Exhibits

Before Brown: Higher Education for the "Other"

A virtual exhibition highlighting campuses for the "under-represented" in higher education prior to the landmark decision.

Selected works from the series 4 Girls by Sarah Oehl

Born and raised the eldest of four daughters in New York City, Sarah had the opportunity to observe female development from a unique perspective. Her photographs of family and friends, including the four images on display, explore influences that shape an individual's identity.

Sarah Oehl is a graduate student in the School of Architecture studying Architectural History. She can be reached at so5u@cms.mail.virginia.edu.

Hannah's 16th Birthday, New York, 2000.

Forever Young: Family Portraits by Amber Wiley

This project started the summer of 2000 with the watercolor of the young girl. The two boys and the woman soon followed. These portraits do not represent the subjects as they now appear but as they did as much as twenty-five years ago, capturing the subjects at a younger age. The heavy water color technique is a result of the artist being self taught in painting. The artists has completed ten portraits to date of family and friends employing various media's including prismacolor, watercolor, and pencil sketching.

Amber Wiley is in her first year of graduate school at UVA studying architectural history. She can be reached at anw8g@virginia.edu.

Extending the Legacy: Planning America’s Capital for the 21st Century

The Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library at the University of Virginia is displaying the exhibition, "Extending the Legacy: Planning America’s Capital for the 21st Century,"on long-term loan from the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) in Washington, D.C.

In "Extending the Legacy," the NCPC presents its ideas for the future look and functions of the capital, including the Mall and surrounding areas, 50 to 100 years from now. The exhibition displays these plans in magnificent detail mounted on birch veneer panels and hung around the circular third-level mezzanine floor of the Fine Arts Library. The exhibit also includes past visions of the capital, including the first plans of the city commissioned by George Washington and done by Pierre Charles L’Enfant in 1791 and the McMillan Commission plans of 1901. Together, these two plans outline the Washington, D.C. of today.

A full press release about the exhibit is available.

Previous Offerings

Evening Songs of the Fisherman: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting. An exhibition displaying facsimile reproductions of Chinese paintings of the Song (960-1279) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, on the Bridge, April-June, 2002.

The Selected Works of William Newton Hale, Charlottesville Architect. An exhibition featuring drawings, plans, student work, and artwork by Hale on display on the Bridge at the Library through March 11, 2002.

The Joy That Flows From My Brush, Watercolors by Richard Pullinger. Catalog of an Online Exhibition at the University of Virginia.

Fiske Kimball: Master of the Diverse Arts. An Exhibition Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, September 1995-July 1996.

Owen Jones and The Grammar of Ornament, an online exhibit of decorative borders used in the Fine Arts Library's website, August 1999-August 2000, with a narrative on the life and artistic philosophy of Jones' work.