Department of Music

Application Information - Applications deadline has been extended until Friday 10/18 at 9pm

The Music Arts Board of the University of Virginia is looking for student members interested in creating and planning a large-scale music artist residency. You don't have to be a music major to apply! Past members have gained valuable skills in arts administration, event planning, and marketing through their leadership on the Arts Board.

The Music Arts Board is composed of around twelve students (including two student co-chairs), and faculty/staff advisors from the Music Department and Student Engagement. Student board members include both students from the Music Department and UVA students at-large, to be determined based on those who apply. Past Music Arts Boards have brought artists including 9th Wonder, Philip Glass, Herbie Hancock, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Fred Frith + Evelyn Glennie, Bobby McFerrin, and Meredith Monk.

Click here to apply for the 2020-2021 Arts Board; Applications deadline has been extended until Friday 10/19 at 9pm. All applicants will be notified once student members have been selected. If you have any questions, please email musicartsboard@virginia.edu. For more information on the Arts Board program, see the Student Engagement website.

Co-chairs: Amelia Bailey (undergraduate) and Becky Brown (graduate)

Tentative timeline & expectations

Fall 2019:

• October 18th: application deadline Applications deadline has been extended until Friday 10/18 at 9pm
• October 21st - October 31st: in-person interviews with potential board members
• November 1st: board members selected
• Last two weeks of November: two board meetings for introductions and initial list of artists

Following years:

• Spring 2020: board meets weekly to determine a chosen artist and determine what their residency should contain
• Late Spring 2020: board meets weekly to begin the contract process, plan programming, establish sub-groups
• Fall 2020: board and/or sub-groups meet weekly to finalize contract process, and begin promotion and advertising
• Spring 2021: board meets weekly to finalize residency and its events, implement those events, and host the resident artist

About the UVA Arts Board

The Arts Board of the University of Virginia is a student-run board whose mission it is to present an outstanding artist, performance, and/or exhibition each year in a three-year rotation that includes music, visual arts, and drama. The program was created to raise students’ awareness of and appreciation for the arts. Its purpose is three-fold:

• To produce an arts event that will raise awareness of the arts and be an event that will have an impact on the student body,
• To involve students in the presentation and administration of a national/international-scale arts event and residency, and
• To provide an opportunity for students to interact with the arts presenter(s) selected to perform/present/exhibit.

The Arts Board is a cooperative effort between the McIntire Department of Music, the McIntire Department of Art, The Fralin Museum of Art, the Department of Drama, Vice Provost for the Arts, the Office of the Dean of Students, Student Activities, and the University Programs Council. The Arts Board is composed of twelve students and two faculty members. The student members include six from the presenting department, two students representing the arts from University Programs Council, and four students at-large. The faculty advisors include a representative from the presenting department and an advisor from the Office of the Dean of Students Student Activities.

General Information

The Arts Board project has a three year rotation: Music, Visual Arts and Drama.

• Drama in 2019-20 (planning to begin in 2018-19)
• Music in 2020-21 (planning to begin in 2019-20)
• Visual Arts in 2021-22 (planning in 2020-21)

The presenting department can either propose at least three projects to the Board for decision or can choose to allow the Board to come up with the project ideas as well as select the project.

If the department chooses to make the proposals, they are generally artists who would further the goals of the department while fitting within the intended purpose of the program: accessibility, residency, and ability to work together with and engage students.

Once proposals are made (whether by the department or developed by the Board), the Board determines the best project based on accessibility (connection to students across Grounds), availability of the artist(s), artist ability to relate to and work with students and focuses on a residency rather than a single performance.