Open 10 am - 4 pm Today

Research

What is Kluge-Ruhe exploring today? Find out here.

We are committed to a robust program of academic research and publication on artworks in our collection and artworks by visiting artists. This research is authored by:

  • Indigenous and non-Indigenous art scholars, usually writing commissioned essays for exhibition publications
  • UVA or other university students taking courses in Aboriginal art and culture or curatorial studies
  • High school students enrolled in our Young Art Historians program developing college and career readiness skills
  • Kluge-Ruhe staff

To browse research and exhibition catalogs, scroll to the bottom of the page. If you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist, curator, arts worker, or you work in our field and you would like physical copies of one of our publications, please email Eleanore Neumann (ern5sx@virginia.edu) and we will send it/them to you!

To learn about other collaborations we’ve done with artists, art centers and other museums and cultural institutions, including past events, exhibitions, and residencies, please visit the Explore Page.

reSearch Highlights

“Aesthete and Scholar: Two complementary influences on the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia.”

by Margo Smith AM

“Big Corroboree Dreaming by Shorty Lungkarta Tjungarrayi”

by Laura Bendick and Gauri Prakash

Djambawa Marawili

All Research & Catalogs

Open 10 am - 4 pm Today

The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia acknowledges the Monacan Nation, the traditional owners of the land and waters upon which it stands.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this website contains the names and images of deceased people.