Department Of Art
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Vanderbilt art professor noted for experimental pieces dies
Donald H. Evans, a Vanderbilt University professor of art and art history, emeritus, who developed a national reputation for ambitious and interdisciplinary work that often included epic-scaled events, died May 6. Read MoreMay 9, 2013
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2013 Hamblet Award recipient named
Vanderbilt’s Department of Art has announced this year’s recipient of the prestigious Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award: Hanna Yarbrough Rodgers from Collierville, Tenn. Read MoreApr 19, 2013
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Kudos: Read about faculty, staff and alumni awards, appointments and achievements
Read about faculty, staff and alumni awards, appointments and achievements. Read MoreApr 10, 2013
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Department of Art Senior Show 2013
Senior Show 2013 will be on display to the public from Friday, April 12 until Friday, May 10, in Space 204, the second floor gallery in the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center, 25th and Garland, on the Vanderbilt campus. Read MoreMar 29, 2013
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Department of Art to screen ‘Dread Spawn (Head Wrong)’ Nov. 28
A still from "Dread Spawn (Head Wrong)," courtesy of Annamarie Ho. The Vanderbilt Department of Art will present a video screening of Dread Spawn (Head Wrong), a remake and reinterpretation of the 1984 film Red Dawn, at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, at the E. Bronson Ingram… Read MoreNov 6, 2012
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‘Dark Matter’ and ‘Slow No Dust’ to open at Space 204
"Green River #2" by Nicole Lavelle Dark Matter, a science fiction-inspired group show of photography by art collective Lakes Were Rivers, and Slow No Dust, an exhibition of photographic prints and collages by Portland, Ore.-based artist Nicole Lavelle, will be on view Nov. 1–30 at Space 204… Read MoreOct 24, 2012
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Ecological art installation opens in Vanderbilt library café
The importance of bees and Tennessee native flowers in local food production is a major theme of a new art installation at the Vanderbilt University Central Library’s Food for Thought Café. Read MoreSep 27, 2012
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Vanderbilt sponsoring events in conjunction with Carrie Mae Weems exhibition at Frist
"Carrie Mae Weems: Afro-Chic" (video still), 2010. (courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) Vanderbilt University will host programming on campus and sponsor an event at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in conjunction with the opening at the Frist of Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades… Read MoreSep 18, 2012
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Vanderbilt sponsoring events for opening of Carrie Mae Weems exhibition at Frist
"Carrie Mae Weems: Afro-Chic" (video still), 2010. (courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York) Vanderbilt University will host programming on campus and sponsor an event at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in conjunction with the opening at the Frist of Carrie Mae… Read MoreSep 13, 2012
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Space 204 kicks off fall season with exhibitions by Applebaum, DeFord
"Other Places" by Nick DeFord Vanderbilt University’s Department of Art kicks off the fall season with two new exhibitions in the Space 204 gallery. Mind Reader by Sarah Applebaum and The Other Side by Nick DeFord will open Thursday, Aug. 30, and continue through Friday, Oct. 5. An opening reception will… Read MoreAug 16, 2012
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Acclaimed painter and printmaker to open StudioVU series
From "First Spring Thunder," a collection by Hung Liu. Acclaimed painter and printmaker Hung Liu will open the 2012-13 season of StudioVU: The Department of Art Lecture Series on Wednesday, Sept. 19. Liu will lecture on her work from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Wilson… Read MoreAug 13, 2012
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Pavlović’s ‘Search for Landscapes’ reaching audiences in D.C., around the world
“Search for Landscapes,” 2011, by Vesna Pavlović. Search for Landscapes, Assistant Professor of Art Vesna Pavlović’s installation using 35 millimeter slides of one family’s long-ago travels as well as antique slide projectors to evoke the nature of memory and decay, is currently on view at G Fine Art in… Read MoreJun 18, 2012
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Hosford featured in ‘Metamorphoses’ exhibition at Frist
Mark Hosford (Steve Green/Vanderbilt) Works by four Nashville-area artists – including Vanderbilt Associate Professor of Art Mark Hosford and alumna Kristi Hargrove – will be on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Art’s Conte Community Arts Gallery June 8-Oct. 28. Metamorphoses,… Read MoreMay 18, 2012
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Endowed campus beautification fund allows major art acquisition
Sculptor Mark di Suvero's "Tumbleweed," before it was transported and installed on Vanderbilt's campus. (Image provided) Vanderbilt University has acquired a signature piece of art created by renowned American sculptor Mark di Suvero. The piece, Tumbleweed, was installed April 30 on the lawn between the… Read MoreApr 30, 2012
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Stahl named recipient of prestigious Hamblet art award
"Wearing Memory," 60"x48" oil on canvas, 2012. (image courtesy of Hannah Stahl) Vanderbilt’s Department of Art has announced this year’s recipient of the prestigious Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award. Hannah Stahl, the daughter of Mary Jane Sorentino and Jim Stahl of Providence, R.I., will receive a… Read MoreApr 17, 2012
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Senior art show opens April 13 with reception, awards
The massive doors between the galleries of Space 204 will slide back on Friday, April 13, revealing the hard work of Vanderbilt’s graduating studio art majors. Senior Show 2012 will be on display to the public from April 13 to May 11 in Space 204, the second-floor gallery in the… Read MoreApr 6, 2012
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Department of Art’s Senior Show 2012 opens April 13 with reception, awards
The massive doors between the galleries of Space 204 will slide back on Friday, April 13, revealing the hard work of Vanderbilt’s graduating studio art majors. Senior Show 2012 will be on display to the public from April 13 to May 11 in Space 204, the second-floor gallery in the… Read MoreMar 27, 2012
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Former visiting artist’s grape hyacinth project now in bloom
(John Russell/Vanderbilt) Acclaimed Cuban artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, in collaboration with the Vanderbilt senior art majors and other volunteers, participated in a campus art project last October, when they planted 4,400 grape hyacinth bulbs, mapping out Campos-Pons’ hometown. Outline of the artist's Cuban hometown, courtesy Google… Read MoreMar 27, 2012
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Hoffman to discuss ‘Biennials and Curatorial Ambivalence’ in Frist lecture
Jens Hoffman Jens Hoffman, director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, will discuss “Biennials and Curatorial Ambivalence” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 15, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. The lecture, to be held in the center’s auditorium,… Read MoreMar 14, 2012
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‘Apparent Light’ opens at Space 204
"Seattle Sky" by Rebecca Cummins The movement of light is explored through image sequences and installation in the newest Space 204 exhibition. Rebecca Cummins’ Apparent Light, on display March 1-29, investigates what she calls “the sculptural, experiential and sometimes humorous possibilities of light and natural phenomena.” A public reception… Read MoreFeb 28, 2012