Curb Center For Art Enterprise And Public Policy

As part of the Curb Center’s spring programming theme “Art and Democracy,” painter Robert Shetterly will be visiting Vanderbilt courses and giving a talk with senior lecturer Jack Crawford during the week of March 17. Read More

See how a group of Vanderbilt student storytellers are weaving AI and imagination to inspire transformational change. Read More

Another exciting weekend of performances exploring emotional responses to climate change will be the final event this semester sponsored by the Vanderbilt Eco-Grief Initiative. Experience mascots come to life, a revival of a beloved 1990s cartoon, a very tense focus group and some old-fashioned school spirit in these two plays developed in conversation with the Vanderbilt community.   Read More

Commissioned by the Eco-Grief Performance Project, a collaborative effort of the Science and Media Grand Challenge, the Theatre Department and the Curb Center, two plays are being performed Sept. 26-19; these works are expressions of complex emotions brought on by living in a changing climate. Read More

Acid mine drainage. Digitally printed legal documents. Drone photographs. Core samples. Appalachian bituminous coal. The artists represented in Extraction/Interaction—the Curb Center’s fall exhibition—use these and other materials to create bodies of work that galvanize responses and resistance to the climate crisis. Featuring the work of Will Wilson, Eliza Evans and John Sabraw, Extraction/Interaction considers how climate grief can transform artistic practice into a mechanism for positive environmental impact.   Read More

Available to graduate students across disciplines, the Curb Public Scholars Program provides a two-year grant of $2,500 for public-facing creative projects, while the Creative Inquiry Grant Program awards various levels of funding ranging from $500 to $2,500 and is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff. Read More

The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy has selected three incoming first-year students and two rising sophomore students for the Curb Scholars Program in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership. Read More

Imagining Wholeness is a culminating showcase of works of expressive art created by participants in the Express Yourself writing workshops at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and in visual art workshops hosted collaboratively by the Curb Center and Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee.   Read More

The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy is pleased to announce Art as Protest, the culminating showcase of creative projects by this year’s cohort of Curb Scholars. On Monday, April 1, 7–9:30 p.m. at the Sarratt Student Center Cinema and Gallery, Curb Scholars will present work spanning visual art, dance, film, fiber arts and creative writing. Each piece offers a unique interpretation of “art as protest”—the theme they have been investigating throughout this academic year. Read More

The Curb Center is pleased to announce the Vanderbilt Eco-Grief Initiative, a yearlong collaborative project that will use art as a tool to investigate the complex set of emotions—sorrow, guilt, terror, complicity and a range of others—that come to mind as we contemplate our changing climate and witness its effects on earthly life. By engaging artists working in a range of disciplines—theater, creative writing and the visual arts—the Curb Center aims to highlight creative work that confronts the emotional dimensions of climate change with the hope that true emotional reckoning might serve as an avenue to candid dialogue, innovation and lasting impact. Read More

Choreographer Allison Orr is visiting Vanderbilt for a weeklong residency at the Curb Center, during which she will be speaking to several classes and leading a community dance workshop in partnership with dance nonprofit New Dialect. Additionally, Orr will offer a public talk on her new book, DanceWorks: Stories of Creative Collaboration at Central Library on Thursday, Oct. 12 from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Read More

A showing of A BODY IN THE O is a part of performance artist Tim Miller’s residency at the Curb Center, and will take place Oct. 2 at 6:30 p.m. The event at the Seigenthaler Center is free and open to the public. Read More

Reverberations will feature National Geographic photographer Stephen Alvarez’s photographs of petroglyphs and pictographs from Europe and North America dating back as far as 35,000 years. The photographs are placed in dialogue with paintings and sculptures by Dustin Mater, who is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. The exhibition will be on view from Sept. 13 to Dec. 1. Read More

The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy selected four incoming first-year students for the Curb Scholars Program in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership. Read More

The Pulitzer Prize–winning drama Sweat by Lynn Nottage is being performed on both the Fisk and Vanderbilt campuses in April, thanks to a new arts partnership created by the universities’ theatre departments. The show will take place at Vanderbilt’s Neely Auditorium April 13–15. Read More

Padma Raghavan has been reappointed in her role as vice provost, and her title has been updated to vice provost for research and innovation, by Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver. Read More