Curb Center

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

Vanderbilt University, Pepsi, Hoopbus and Metro Nashville Parks and Recreation unveiled a revamped outdoor basketball court June 15 at the Watkins Park Community Center. The mural on the court honors the legacy of Perry Wallace, BE’70, the Vanderbilt student-athlete who integrated Southeastern Conference varsity basketball. Read More

The humanities, creative expression and artistic inquiry at Vanderbilt are poised to see new engagement, reach and impact spurred by increased investments through the university-wide Discovery Vanderbilt initiative. Read More

The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy and Vanderbilt’s Master of Public Health Program will open the Art of Healing Exposition on Friday, Sept. 17, featuring works from the World Health Organization’s Art to Act for Health initiative as well as Nashville-area artists. Read More

The Nashville Jazz Workshop and the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt will participate in the Juneteenth Jazz and Art Live Experience from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 19. The event will feature a community art exhibit, children’s interactive art zone, music and more. Read More

The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy and Metro Arts Thrive will present “The Role of the Artist in Crisis and Recovery,” a roundtable discussion with three local artists. Curb Public Scholar Emily Habeck has been exploring the event's theme as part of her graduate course work and will moderate the discussion on April 21. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy and Metro Arts will host a free virtual event, “The Role of the Artist in Crisis and Recovery,” on Wednesday, April 21, at noon CT. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy has won a grant to expand its Racial Equity in Arts Leadership program, in cooperation with the Metro Nashville Arts Commission. The $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts will enable the REAL program to expand and deepen its programming. Read More

Join the Curb Center at Vanderbilt for a virtual discussion with New York Times bestselling author William Deresiewicz, whose new book explores changing ideas about the nature of art and the role of the artist in society—from Music Row to Silicon Valley and much more. 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

Professor Miriam Lense of Vanderbilt's Music Cognition Lab and Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy will be the featured guest June 2 on "Music and Mind Live," a new webinar hosted by renowned soprano and arts and health advocate Renée Fleming. Read More

In seventh grade Eve Moll was an active dancer, but then a diagnosis of adolescent scoliosis in her spine threw her for a curve—literally. Read More

What you do in college has a surprising impact on your ability to sustain a career in the arts long-term, according to a new report co-authored by Alexandre Frenette, assistant professor of sociology and associate director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy.  Read More

"REMAND" tells the firsthand, true story of how Henry and Jim, separated not only by an ocean and thousands of miles but also differing cultures and life experiences, met and worked together to inspire justice reform for an entire country. Read More

Halfway, a short play by Tom Angland adapted from true stories of citizens returning from prison to society, will be performed as part of the Vanderbilt Curb Center’s Form of Reform exhibit. Read More

The Curb Center at Vanderbilt will host an opening reception for its newest installation, "The Form of Reform," which showcases paintings, drawings, sculpture, leather work, jewelry and writings from Tennessee’s death row population. Read More

Aubrey Bergauer, founding executive director of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Center for Innovative Leadership, will deliver a guest lecture at Vanderbilt on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Read More