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Studio VU starts new season with visiting artist, John Opera
Aug. 26, 2025— The Vanderbilt University Department of Art will start the new Studio VU Lecture Series this fall welcoming artist John Opera to campus this September. Opera’s research explores the physical and conceptual dimensions of photography by focusing on it’s materiality, abstraction, and connection to natural phenomena. Critically examining the medium’s standardized workflows, he challenges its...
Space 204 opens 2025-2026 season with “Studio Sessions,” a department group exhibition
Aug. 7, 2025—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art presents Studio Sessions, a group exhibition highlighting work made by the faculty and staff of the Department of Art including the staff of the Engine for Art, Democracy & Justice (EADJ) program. Spanning two galleries of Space 204, the works exhibited in this exhibition showcase the variety of creative...
2025 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Recipients announced
Apr. 15, 2025—The Department of Art at Vanderbilt University is proud to annouce the recipients of the 2025 the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award and Merit Award. Every spring, the senior art majors finish their senior year experience installing their thesis exhibitions in Space 204, the contemporary art gallery located in the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts...
Where’d All the Time Go? The Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Thesis exhibitions coming to Space 204 in April
Mar. 19, 2025—The Department of Art at Vanderbilt University is proud to announce the upcoming Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Thesis Exhibition coming to Space 204 in April 2025! On April 11, 2025 the EBI Studio Arts Center and Space 204 open their doors to public revealing the culminating installations of graduating senior art majors in Studio Arts....
Update: Studio VU Lecture with Jessica Houston – Postponement
Feb. 19, 2025—Today’s Studio VU lecture with Jessica Houston has been cancelled and is being rescheduled for a later date. The new details will be announced as soon as they are ready.
Space 204 welcomes Yael Vishnizki-Levi and work inspired by motherhood, and the marks of childhood
Jan. 21, 2025—The Department of Art at Vanderbilt University welcomes Yael Vishnizki-Levi to Space 204 in February 2025 with nævus (Birthmarks) – a multimedia project and exhibition shaped around the first stages of motherhood and explores the relationship between being an artist, a mother, and an educator. In the past year, Yael Vishnizki-Levi has been exploring the...
Faculty Spotlight – Haein Kang and Sarah Dunham
Jan. 21, 2025—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art would like to Shine a Spotlight on two faculty who joined our team in the Fall of 2024. Haein Kang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Art Internationally active artist Haein Kang explores uncharted territory at the intersection of art and technology. Born and raised in South Korea during a time...
Studio VU Lecture Series welcomes Jessica Houston in April 2025
Jan. 15, 2025—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art announces multidisciplinary artist Jessica Houston as the next visiting artist in the Studio VU Lecture Series 2024-2025 season in April 2025. Jessica Houston’s lecture “..no footprints, even.” will be presented on Monday, April 14, 2025 at 4:10pm via ZOOM. This lecture is a part of Houston’s campus visit which...
Studio VU Lecture Series welcome interdiscplinary artist, architect, and scholar Pedram Baldari – October 16, 2024
Sep. 18, 2024—Studio VU: Lecture Series and the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University announces the next visiting artist in the 17th season of the visiting artist program. On October 16, 2024, Pedram Baldari will present an artist lecture at 4:10pm in Room 220 of the EBI Studio Arts Center, home of the Vanderbilt University Department of...
Professor Emeritus Mel Zeigler – new projects and Sandhills Institute 10th Anniversary
Sep. 10, 2024—Mel Ziegler (Paul E. Schwab Chair of Fine Arts, Professor Emeritus) has been busy in his retirement from Vanderbilt University as co-director the Sandhills Institute – a civically-engaged art program and residency integrated in and around the agricultural community of Rushville, Nebraska. Ziegler has worked with leading artists forging bonds with the Rushville community of...