Mel Ziegler

Vanderbilt University honored 27 retiring faculty members and one dean for their years of service by bestowing upon them the title of emerita or emeritus faculty during Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony on May 10 at GEODIS Park. Read More

The symbolism of frayed, worn flags in "Flag Exchange" by Mel Ziegler, Paul E. Schwab Professor of Fine Arts, raises questions about the capacity of the American experiment to be sustained through national triumphs and shortcomings, including our own time of divisiveness. Read More

Robert B Talisse will deliver an online gallery talk, “Overcoming Partisan Politics,” hosted by the Frist Art Museum on Friday, May 8. The session over Zoom, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 3 p.m. Read More

Read about recent faculty, staff, student and alumni awards, appointments and achievements. Read More

Vanderbilt's efforts to strengthen humanities education through a partnership with three schools expands to Fisk University, thanks to a $1.93 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Read More

Regina Jose Galindo has invited Nashville's Latino community to participate in the creation of 'Comunidad,' which will celebrate the spirit of mutual support that pervades immigrant community. Read More

The Tang Teaching Museum is featuring Mel Ziegler's multiyear project "Flag Exchange," with 50 weathered American flags and the colorful stories behind them, through Jan. 1, 2017. Read More

Last August, Hannah Stahl won first place in the Westminster Kennel Club’s dog art contest—held several months before the club’s 140th annual dog show, in partnership with the New York Academy of Art—by wowing judges with Lucy, an oil-on-canvas painting of a leaping Staffordshire bull terrier. Read More

A studio arts class taught by Mel Ziegler has created a series of installations called "Dis-connect" at the Central and Divinity libraries that explores how rapid advances in technology have impacted our perceptions of libraries in general. Read More

Thirteen Vanderbilt University faculty members named to endowed chairs were honored for their academic achievements during a celebration Feb. 18 at the Student Life Center. Read More

A new title, “retired faculty,” and accompanying benefits have been created to recognize faculty who end full-time service to the university but are not granted emeritus or emerita status. Read More

Minutes from the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate’s March 12 meeting are now available online on the Faculty Senate website. Read More

An installation currently on display in the courtyard of the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center is the result of a collaboration between Vanderbilt art students and a local sculptor. Read More

Eight students in a class taught by Professor of Art Mel Ziegler have created installations designed to prompt a creative response to the missions of various Hillsboro Village businesses. Read More

The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy presents “On the Edges: Works from Vanderbilt Department of Art Faculty and Staff.” Read More

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

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

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

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 More