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Arts Faculty Round Up – Fall 2026
Oct. 29, 2026—Jana Harper – panel discussion at Dyer Observatory November 5, 2026 4:30pm Land Shapes, Skyscapes: Art, Astronomy & Ways of Seeing Join Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory and the Curb Center for an evening exploring how art and astronomy offer different ways of seeing and understanding the world around us. Presented as part of the Curb Center’s...
Black Forest School – Tree Planting with Berg Global Resident Artist Fellow, Eeken Iejeoma – November 2026
Oct. 28, 2026—Vanderbilt University Department of Art presents Black Forest: Nashville. We could use a hand planting trees in Nashville for Black lives with Berg Global Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, artist, researcher Ekene Ijeoma. On November 13 we’ll be at Vanderbilt honoring HBCU Roger Williams College and Black Cultural Center, and November 14 at Hadley Towers honoring Dot Holman...
Studio VU Lectures welcomes artist Fritz Horstman!
Oct. 27, 2026—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art is proud to welcome artist, curator and educator Fritz Horstman as the next visiting artist in the Studio VU Lecture Series (2026-2027 season). Horstman will present his work on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 5pm in Wilson Hall Room 103. Fritz Horstman is an artist, curator, and educator based...
Office Hours, curated by Mac Cooper – celebrates photography through education opening November 7, Arcade Arts Nashville
Oct. 13, 2026—Office Hours: Nashville Photo Educators, Students, and Alumni November 7 – December 19, 2026 Curated by Mac Cooper Arcade Arts Nashville Gallery 65 Second floor of The Arcade in downtown Nashville, between 5th/4th Avenues Opening reception: November 7, 5:00-9:00 Arcade Arts Art Crawl November 14, 6:00-9:00 To learn how to photograph is to learn how...
“Rhythm and Pattern” addresses abstraction in southern contemporary painting with new Space 204 exhibition
Sep. 24, 2026—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art and Space 204 present Rhythm and Pattern, an exhibition exploring abstraction through a southern contemporary lens on October 15, 2026. This exhibition explores the evolving language of abstraction in contemporary painting, bringing together four artists working in Nashville and the Southern region: Alex Blau, Alex Lockwood, Su A Chae,...
*Canceled* Ekene Ijeoma’s Black Forest project continues with upcoming African Soup Kitchen and Mancala Club event
Sep. 22, 2026—A Black Forest School program at Begonia Labs – Vanderbilt University A Black Forest School program at Vanderbilt University Department of Art in collaboration with the Engine for Art, Democracy, and Justice (EADJ) At Begonia Labs, we’ll be presenting the first sessions of African Soup Kitchen and Mancala Club leading up to the 2nd in...
Studio Arts Faculty curated in to Curb Center Exhibition
Sep. 14, 2026—Studio Arts faculty Jana Harper and María Magdalena Campos-Pons are showing work Land Shapes, a group exhibition at the Curb Center at Vanderbilt University – opening Thursday, September 17, 2026. The Curb Center’s exhibition statement: “Landscape is never neutral or purely natural; rather, it is shaped by historical, social, and economic forces. Challenging conventional assumptions...
Quantum Potential Vanderbilt University podcast – featuring guests María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak
Sep. 10, 2026—Quantum Potential is a podcast highlighting a few of the thousands of innovative and interdisciplinary research initiatives taking place at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center each year. In the most recent episode, Provost C. Cybele Raver sits down with María Magdalena Campos-Pons, MacArthur Fellow and Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Fine Arts; and Kamaal...
Upcoming exhibitions featuring Studio Arts faculty
Sep. 8, 2026—Vesna Pavlović and Tamara Reynolds are featured in the upcoming exhibition Obscuring, Revealing | Contemporary Photography in Nashville set open in October at the Leu Gallery in the Lila D. Bunch Library at Belmont University! Obscuring, Revealing | Contemporary Photography in Nashville October 19 – December 04 Reception: October 22 from 4-6pm Leu Gallery in...
Berg Global Fellow Ekene Ijeoma brings “Black Forest” project to Vanderbilt and Nashville Communities
Sep. 3, 2026—For Immediate Release VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ART IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ENGINE FOR ART, DEMOCRACY, AND JUSTICE (EADJ) HOSTS TOWN HALL FOR BLACK FOREST: NASHVILLE WITH FOUNDER AND BERG GLOBAL FELLOW EKENE IJEOMA NASHVILLE, TN — September 2, 2026 — The Department of Art and Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice at...