Arts
Peripheral – Samara McLain
Apr. 18, 2025—Peripheral Samara McLain Samara McLain, a sculptor and painter originally from Southeast Iowa, is currently pursuing degrees in Studio Art and Earth & Environmental Science at Vanderbilt University. She has had work featured in publications such as The Vanderbilt Review and on display at the Iowa Governor’s Mansion, Iowa State Fair, and Vanderbilt University...
Helping Hands – Shannon Felder
Apr. 18, 2025—Helping Hands Shannon Felder Shannon Felder is a senior at Vanderbilt University studying Elementary Education and Studio Art. Her art explores topics of early schooling, community engagement, and childhood. Her primary medium is textile art that relies on collaboration and audience participation. Shannon is inspired by the resilience of children and the potential of...
pẹlẹ o – Ifedolapo Ayewale
Apr. 18, 2025—pẹlẹ o Ifedolapo Ayewale 2025 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Recipient Ifedolapo Ayewale (they/them) is a Nashville-based multimedia installation artist whose work focuses on deconstructing and rewriting communication as a medium. Explored through their video work, photography, fashion, and performance, Ifedolapo pulls from both sociocultural and art historical roots, examining the intersection between their first-generation...
Mothers and Daughters and Mothers Again – Paulette DeJarnette
Apr. 16, 2025—Mothers and Daughters and Mothers Again Paulette DeJarnette 2025 Merit Award Recipient Paulette DeJarnette, 2025 Hamblet Merit Award Recipient Paulette DeJarnette is an art undergraduate student working primarily as a graphic designer at Vanderbilt University. Throughout her time at Vanderbilt, she has created work chiefly pertaining to the intersection of blackness and femininity. Through...
2025 Senior Show
Apr. 16, 2025—Annually, the Spring semester brings the graudating senior art majors to Space 204 and expands the exhibitions spaces to several rooms. This year is no different as Vanderbilt University Department of Art showcases fifteen young artists and their Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Thesis Exhibitions and Competition. Where’d All The Time Go?! Featured artists include: Shannon...
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....
Series of performances scheduled for the nævus (Birthmarks) Space 204 exhibition
Feb. 27, 2025—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art announces a series of performance events in collaboration with Yael Vishnizki-Levi and her exhibition nævus (Birthmarks) currently on view in Space 204, Blair School of Music students, The Vanderbilt New Music Society, and local artist/musician Reza Filsoofi in March 2025. In the spritit of the collaboration and play that...
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...
Space 204 welcomes back 2023 Hamblet Award Recipient for January 2025 solo exhibition
Dec. 12, 2024—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art proudly welcomes back the 2023 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Recipient, Adam Alwan, for a solo exhibition in Space 204 (January 2025). Adam Alwan is a queer multidisciplinary artist from Glenview, Illinois. He attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, majoring in Art & Human and Organizational Development. His thesis...