Department Of Art

Mel Ziegler (Vanderbilt University) When artists Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, now the chair of the Department of Art at Vanderbilt, started out, they sometimes took house-painting jobs to pay the rent. The pair became fascinated by houses, colors, even the names of colors: subjects… Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Department of Art proudly presents two summer exhibitions by art faculty from area colleges. A group show by Middle Tennessee State University professors Barry Buxkamper, John Donovan, Sisavanh Houghton and Michael Baggarly, as well as a solo show by Kimberly Winkle of Tennessee Technical University, will be on… Read More

According to a 2013 survey of graduating seniors, more than half did faculty-guided or independent research during their Vanderbilt careers. Read about five students for whom research has helped shape their undergraduate years. Read More

An installation by Vesna Pavlović, assistant professor of art at Vanderbilt, will open May 22 at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Read More

Can art help define our public spaces? A student-led initiative has explored that question through a series of campus art installations this year. Read More

The 2014 recipient of the prestigious Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award is David Krenz of Spring Hill, Tenn. Read More

Read about faculty, staff and students' awards and achievements. Read More

The Department of Art will open its galleries April 11 to reveal the work of seven graduating art majors, as well as work by other Vanderbilt art students completed this semester. Read More

Filmmakers and scholars will gather at Vanderbilt University April 3-4 to investigate contemporary ways of seeing film and moving images at “Ubiquitous Streams: Seeing Moving Images in the Age of Digital Media,” a line-up of lectures and discussions to be held in venues across campus. Admission is free, but registration is required. Read More

Vanderbilt and StudioVU: The Department of Art Lecture Series welcomes Lane Relyea, author of Your Everyday Art World. Relyea will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, in Wilson Hall, Room 103, on the Vanderbilt campus. All lectures are free and open to the public. Read More

Internationally renowned artist Charles Long will lecture on his work as part of StudioVU: The Department of Art Lecture Series 2013-14. Read More

The recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit, Long has also been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pollock-Krasner Fellowships, two National Endowment for the Arts grants and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant. Read More

The Vanderbilt University Department of Art welcomes to Space 204 a mixed media exhibition by new faculty member Jana Harper. Read More

Read about faculty and staff awards and achievements in the latest edition of "Kudos." Read More

The Vanderbilt University Department of Art is proud to welcome to Space 204 its 2012 Hamblet award winner, Hannah Stahl, and her solo exhibition of stirring portraits inspired by victims of the Holocaust. Read More

Martin Rapisarda will discuss the "Difficult Art" exhibition at the Dec. 4 "Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box: Conversations with a Philosophical Flavor with David Wood" at the Nashville Public Library. Read More

Vanderbilt Associate Professor of Art Mark Hosford and University of São Paulo professor Mario Ramiro led a team of students Oct. 21–29 in Boom Box Bikes, a collaborative project that focused on transforming bicycles into mobile sound systems. Read More

Read about faculty and student awards and achievements. Read More

"Sanford (Ghettobird)," 2012, digital c-print. Photograph by Barron Claiborne. Vanderbilt University and StudioVU: The Department of Art Lecture Series will welcome acclaimed multimedia artist Sanford Biggers on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Biggers will discuss his work beginning at 7 p.m. in Wilson Hall, Room 126. The lecture is free and open… Read More

Conversations/Conversas, a collaborative project platform initiated by Vanderbilt’s Department of Art and the School of Visual Art and Communications at the University of São Paulo, is creating artistic connections with Brazil. Read More