Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum
- 400 Worrell Drive
- Charlottesville, VA 22911
- Phone: (434) 244-0234
- Email: kluge-ruhe@virginia.edu
- Fax: (434) 244-0235
- Website: Click to Visit Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum
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Smoke Free Environment:
General
- Addl Info Tour Planners: We offer a free guided tour every Saturday at 10:30 am.
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Free Admission:
- Address: Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library, UVA Grounds
- Location: Auditorium of the Harrison Institute and Small Special Collections Library
Categories: Arts
The 1988 exhibition Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia at the Asia Society Galleries in New York catapulted Aboriginal art onto the world stage. Dreamings was the first major introduction of Aboriginal art to American audiences and represented a major turning point in its international reception. Anthropologist Fred Myers describes it as... more
- Address: 400 Worrell Drive
- Location: Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum
- Dates: Recurring weekly on Friday until July 5, 2019
Categories: Arts
Beyond Dreamings is a colorful selection of artworks from Kluge-Ruhe’s permanent collection and includes eight artworks on loan from significant private collections in the United States, in media ranging from painting and photography to wooden, porcelain and fiber works. Thirty years ago, Indigenous Australian art was catapulted onto the world... more
- Address: 400 Worrell Drive
- Location: Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
- Dates: Recurring weekly on Saturday
Categories: Arts, Family, University of Virginia, Historical, Educational
Join us for a free, guided tour of the only museum in the world that is exclusively dedicated to Indigenous Australian art! While drawing on traditions that are hundreds and thousands of years old, Indigenous Australian art is contemporary, and exhibitions included a diversity of artworks, from paintings on bark and canvas to sculpture and films.... more
- Address: 400 Worrell Drive
- Location: Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum
- Dates: April 13, 2019
Categories: Arts
Melbourne-based Barkindji artist Kent Morris will give a guided tour of Unvanished, his exhibition of digitally constructed photographs. His artwork explores the relationship between contemporary Indigenous Australian identity and the modern built environment, highlighting the resilience of Indigenous people in the face of constantly changing... more
- Address: 400 Worrell Drive
- Location: Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum
- Dates: April 18, 2019
Categories: Arts
Australian Aboriginal artist Kent Morris will discuss his art career in conjunction with Unvanished, an exhibition currently on display at the Kluge-Ruhe Collection. Morris, a Melbourne-based Barkindji artist, constructs digital photographic collages that explore the relationship between contemporary Indigenous Australian identity and the modern... more