Prologue

Edwin Wilson, BA'50, recounts his journey in theatre, from Nashville to New York, in a memoir, Magic Time: Notes on Theatre & Other Entertainments (Smith and Kraus, 2020). Read More

The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have acquired a collection of rare photographs of, and by, the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., ’71—a pivotal figure in the history of the civil rights movement and Vanderbilt University. Read More

Confronted by the strangeness of the French language as a first-year student, an alumnus draws solace decades later from what he learned at Vanderbilt Read More

A series of trans-institutional courses designed through the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities is using Vanderbilt’s campus as a living lab, giving students—future historians, architects, archaeologists, curators and engineers among them—unique hands-on experiences. Read More

Multidisciplinary researcher Robert Barsky has added a new approach to his studies on migration with the launch of "Contours Collaborations." The digital journal is sharing stories about borders and border crossings through the lens of art. Read More

Ediciones Vigía, a publishing house in the town of Matanzas, Cuba, began to create handbills and invitations in 1985 for local cultural events. Displayed through March of this year, these works now can be enjoyed again in the online exhibit Found in Cuba: The Ingenuity and Creativity of Ediciones Vigía. Read More

Overcoming daunting challenges is routine for Blake-Anthony Johnson, BMus’12, who in May became CEO of the Chicago Sinfonietta, a pioneering organization in the orchestral world committed to diversity and parity for all. Read More

A selection of recent accolades awarded to faculty and alumni Read More

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery has been selected among spring 2020 applicants to receive support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for an exhibition of medieval and Renaissance artworks. Read More

A two-year, $17,000 National Endowment of the Arts research grant will support a Vanderbilt analysis of how the characteristics and practices of more than 500 local arts agencies help or hinder their efforts to expand access to the arts in their communities. Read More

Edwin Wilson (Lauren Lyons) Edwin Wilson lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an apartment that overlooks Central Park. He and his late wife, Chic, who was an interior designer, bought it in 1967, when they were newlyweds and Wilson was teaching in the… Read More

Edwin Wilson (Lauren Lyons) Edwin Wilson lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an apartment that overlooks Central Park. He and his late wife, Chic, who was an interior designer, bought it in 1967, when they were newlyweds and Wilson was teaching in the… Read More

Edwin Wilson (Lauren Lyons) Edwin Wilson lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an apartment that overlooks Central Park. He and his late wife, Chic, who was an interior designer, bought it in 1967, when they were newlyweds and Wilson was teaching in the… Read More

Edwin Wilson (Lauren Lyons) Edwin Wilson lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an apartment that overlooks Central Park. He and his late wife, Chic, who was an interior designer, bought it in 1967, when they were newlyweds and Wilson was teaching in the… Read More

Edwin Wilson (Lauren Lyons) Edwin Wilson lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an apartment that overlooks Central Park. He and his late wife, Chic, who was an interior designer, bought it in 1967, when they were newlyweds and Wilson was teaching in the… Read More

Edwin Wilson (Lauren Lyons) Edwin Wilson lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an apartment that overlooks Central Park. He and his late wife, Chic, who was an interior designer, bought it in 1967, when they were newlyweds and Wilson was teaching in the… Read More

Edwin Wilson (Lauren Lyons) Edwin Wilson lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an apartment that overlooks Central Park. He and his late wife, Chic, who was an interior designer, bought it in 1967, when they were newlyweds and Wilson was teaching in the… Read More

Edwin Wilson (Lauren Lyons) Edwin Wilson lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an apartment that overlooks Central Park. He and his late wife, Chic, who was an interior designer, bought it in 1967, when they were newlyweds and Wilson was teaching in the… Read More

Edwin Wilson (Lauren Lyons) Edwin Wilson lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an apartment that overlooks Central Park. He and his late wife, Chic, who was an interior designer, bought it in 1967, when they were newlyweds and Wilson was teaching in the… Read More

Edwin Wilson (Lauren Lyons) Edwin Wilson lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in an apartment that overlooks Central Park. He and his late wife, Chic, who was an interior designer, bought it in 1967, when they were newlyweds and Wilson was teaching in the… Read More