Department Of Art

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 More

(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 More

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 More

"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 More

"And Then It all Came Back to Me" by Trenton Doyle Hancock Wildly imaginative, multifaceted artist Trenton Doyle Hancock will lecture on his past and future work at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, on the Vanderbilt campus. His lecture, to take place in the Stevenson Center, Room 4327, is part… Read More

"Seattle Sky," by Rebecca Cummins. Image courtesy of the artist. The movement of light is explored through image sequences and installation in the newest Space 204 exhibition, Apparent Light. On display from Thursday, March 1, though Thursday, March 29, 2012, Rebecca Cummins’ work investigates what… Read More

  "Search for Landscapes, 2011," photographic installation (courtesy of Vesna Pavlović) Vesna Pavlović, assistant professor of art, will open Search for Landscapes, her first solo exhibition at Zeitgeist Gallery, from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2. The exhibition will feature her ongoing project “Search… Read More

"And Then It all Came Back to Me" by Trenton Doyle Hancock Wildly imaginative, multifaceted artist Trenton Doyle Hancock will lecture on his past and future work at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, on the Vanderbilt campus. His lecture, to take place in the Stephenson Center, Room 4327, is part… Read More

Works by Eric Ehrnschwender. Image courtesy of Vanderbilt University Department of Art The Vanderbilt University Department of Art is proud to welcome a solo exhibition of sculptural ceramics by Vanderbilt alumnus Eric Ehrnschwender, recipient of the prestigious Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet award in… Read More

Mel Ziegler (left) and Will Rigby with the new welding equipment. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Art/Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt’s Department of Art recently received a generous gift of welding equipment from Will Rigby, a Vanderbilt alumnus and the 2011 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Merit… Read More

"Administrative Trial and Error," part of the Secrecy Series by Michael Aurbach (image courtesy of the artist) Michael Aurbach, professor of art at Vanderbilt, has received the 2011 Award for Outstanding Exhibition and Catalogue of Contemporary Materials from the Southeastern College Art Conference. In 2010,… Read More

Assistant Professor of Art Amelia Winger-Bearskin's design is one of 10 finalists in the State Your Plate contest. Tennesseans for the Arts, the statewide advocacy group that supports the Tennessee Arts Commission, has announced the 10 finalists selected for State Your Plate, the… Read More

(image courtesy of Zineb Sedira) Zineb Sedira, whose work expands the conceptual, historical and spatial parameters of photography and videography, will give a Studio VU Lecture Series: The Department of Art 2011-12 lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in Furman Hall, Room 114. A reception with the artist and an Art Papers… Read More

(istock photo) Artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, in collaboration with the Vanderbilt senior art majors, will participate in a campus art project Monday Oct. 17 in which 5,000 blue hyacinths will be planted in a shape mapping out the cuban hometown of the artist. All are welcome to… Read More

"Thinking of It" by María Magdalena Campos-Pons One of the most significant artists to emerge from the Cuban post-revolutionary era will lead a faculty discussion about race in her native country on Wednesday, Oct. 12. María Magdalena Campos-Pons, who is a visiting artist on campus Oct. 9-18,… Read More

"Search for Landscapes, 2011," photographic installation (courtesy of Vesna Pavlović) Vesna Pavlović, assistant professor of art at Vanderbilt, is featured in the 12th Istanbul Biennial, one of the most prestigious exhibitions of contemporary art in the world. Pavlović’s “Search for Landscapes, 2011” is on display through Nov. Read More

"The One that Carried Fire," 2011 (courtesy of María Magdalena Campos-Pons and the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami) Renowned artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons will speak at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, in Cohen Memorial Hall, Room 203, as part of the StudioVU Lecture Series. The series, sponsored by the… Read More

Tracy Barrett (Vanderbilt) Tracy Barrett, senior lecturer in Italian, has written Dark of the Moon, a re-telling of the Theseus myth for young adult readers, published by Harcourt Children’s Books. Leonard Bickman, the Betts Chair and professor… Read More

Fiber, glass, wood, clay and metal meet fine craftsmanship in a new group exhibition opening in Vanderbilt’s Space 204. Read More

Vanderbilt University’s Space 204 will kick off its fall season with another kick-off of sorts. Coop Curatorial Collective’s inaugural exhibition, My mind is telling me know but my body is telling me yes, will be on display Thursday, Aug. 25, though Friday, Oct. 7. Read More