Public Arts

Help Guide Dog Puppies in Training!

We are looking for dog lovers to help support our guide dog puppies during their puppy training period (puppies range from 2 months to 16 months old). Our main needs are sitters (short term care providers for various pups) and raisers (main caretaker/trainer/socializer for one pup for your preferred time period ranging from 2-14 months) but we also need volunteers to be "class helpers", socialize pups on campus, help with social media, organize tabling opportunities, and more. No dog experience required!

Volunteer with the Virginia Festival of the Book!

Meet authors. Engage with readers. Join a celebration! The 2024 Virginia Festival of the Book is looking for volunteers for one of the most exciting events in Charlottesville. We're celebrating our 30th anniversary year with more than seventy events and 130 authors, and we need your help! Most volunteer opportunities take place along the downtown mall area of Charlottesville, though a few are further afield.

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Tents in a field with mountains in the back

Alternative Spring Break Trips

Various Off-Grounds Locations

ASB will conduct our Spring Break trips to Maine, the Florida Keys, San Francisco, Joshua Tree, and Zion during Spring Break. As is our organization's mission, these trips will involve participants conducting service activities for the benefit of the community they are visiting.

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THEIR WORLD AS BIG AS THEY MADE IT: LOOKING BACK AT THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Exhibit: Their World As Big As They Made It: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance

Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library

One hundred years ago, the artistic and political revolutions of the Harlem Renaissance were in full swing. The unmistakable sounds, images, words, and conventions of the era indelibly shaped American culture.

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(Contributed illustration)

Future Arts Center To Be Named for Generous Benefactors

 

A future performing arts center at the University of Virginia will be named for Tessa and Richard Ader, a pair of philanthropists who previously donated $50 million to the University as part of a commitment to bolster music, dance and theater in Charlottesville and Central Virginia.