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Vanderbilt Art student collective exhibited work in local art scene with “Reclamation”
Feb. 27, 2024—For the month of February, the students in the mixed media class taught by Vadis Turner, Lecturer in Art, exhibited works curated for group exhibition at Turnip Green Creative Reuse, the Nashville base store and art center that aims to diverts usable material from our landfill for creative endeavors through their business model. This is...
Studio VU welcomes The Little Friends of Printmaking to Art Dept, March 2024
Feb. 22, 2024—The Studio VU Lecture Series 2023-2024 and the Vanderbilt University Department of Art is pleased to announce the next visiting artist to the Vanderbilt campus. The Little Friends of Printmaking, the art collective will be on campus March 26-29, 2024 working with students in the EBI Studio Arts Center. An artist talk is scheduled for...
Raheleh Filsoofi receives Tennessee Arts Commission Grant
Feb. 15, 2024—Raheleh Filsoofi, assistant professor of art and Steinert Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Race, Racial Justice, and Social Justice, has been awarded a Tennessee Art Commission Grant for her project, “The Resonance of the Lands: Finding Identity and Place in Tennessee Through Clay, Music, and Community.” The program involves mapping and extracting clay from various...
María Magdalena Campos-Pons wins MacArthur Fellowship
Feb. 15, 2024—María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Art, receives a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship “We are incredibly proud of Professor Campos-Pons and her exquisite body of work,” Chancellor Daniel Diermeier said. “Her melding of cultures, mediums and artistic traditions has made her a unique and powerful voice showing how personal and historical perspectives can blend into...
Art students create Vanderbilt Self-Portrait project for 150th anniversary
Feb. 15, 2024—As Vanderbilt’s 150th anniversary approached, recent graduates Allen Zeng, BA’23, and Richard Zhang, BA’23, set out to capture the essence of the university by photographing its community members. Collaborating with Professor of Art Vesna Pavlović and librarian Yvonne Boyer, the two developed the “Vanderbilt Self-Portrait” project, which is now supported by a Sesquicentennial Grant from...
Un Earth – exhibition by Angus Galloway coming to Space 204 February 2024
Jan. 22, 2024—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art and Space 204 is proud to Un Earth, a new exhibition by Angus Galloway. The exhibition is on view February 15 thru March 7, 2024 in Space 204, the exhibition space located on the second floor of the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center. An opening reception is scheduled...
Space 204 welcomes alumni in January 2024
Dec. 20, 2023—We are so excited to welcome back Navya Thakkar to Space 204 to start our exhibitions schedule in 2024! Navya is the 2022 Recipient of the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award and spent the last 1.5 years following graduation traveling, making art, and enter her graduate studies at Pratt. “Breaking the 5th Wall” explores Thakkar’s...
Vanderbilt Self-Portrait project celebrates university sesquicentennial with exhibition in EBI Studio Arts Center
Nov. 13, 2023—VANDERBILT SELF-PORTRAIT Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 4:00-6:00 PM EBI Studio Arts Center1204 25th Avenue South2nd floor – Room 210 Come and see the show, have your portrait taken, and grab a gift bag! “Vanderbilt Self-Portrait” is a photography project that captures the image and essence of Vanderbilt through the faces of its community members. Supported by Vanderbilt...
Studio VU welcomes Saya Woolfalk on November 8, 2023
Nov. 6, 2023—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art and the Studio VU Lecture Series 2023-2024 welcomes inter-inter-discplinary artist Saya Woolfalk to campus on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 as a visiting artist lecturer. Woolfalk will present a talk on her work/studio practice and meet with senior art majors for her two day visit. About the artist: Saya Woolfalk...
Space 204 welcomes “To Whom It May Concern” exhibition by Vitus Shell
Sep. 13, 2023—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art is proud to welcome a new exhibition, To Whom It May Concern, by mixed media collage artist, Vitus Shell to Space 204 in October 2023. To Whom It May Concern presents the recent works of Louisiana artist, Vitus Shell focusing on the black experience while giving agency to the community through powerful imagery...