Arts
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...
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...
Start from Scratch – Space 204 welcomes Jodi Hays in October 2024
Sep. 9, 2024—The Vanderbilt University Department of Art and Space 204 announces the solo exhibition Start from Scratch by Nashville-based artist, Jodi Hays October 17 – November 15, 2024 Hays will present tapestry-like paintings that incorporated materials with a history of resourceful labor and the craft of sewing, quilting, and piecing. Evolving form the collage “aesthetics” of...
Studio VU kicks off it’s Seventeenth Season with artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman
Sep. 3, 2024—Studio VU, the Vanderbilt University Department of Art visiting artist lecture series, will begin its 17th season welcoming artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman to campus on Wednesday, September 11, 2024. Stratman will present a lecture at 4:10pm in Room 220 of the E. Bronson Ingram (EBI) Studio Arts Center. Stratman’s visit is cosponsored by the...
Space 204 welcomes Setareh Ghoreishi with Langs Play exhibition August 2024
Jul. 17, 2024— Langs Play Setareh Ghoreishi solo exhibition August 5-16, 2024 Space 204 and the Vanderbilt Department of Art is proud to have the opportunity to provided time and space to present the recent work of Setareh Ghoreishi – graphic designer and multidisciplinary digital media artist. Her exhibition Langs Play (Language Play) features iterations of laser...
WPLN – THIS IS NASHVILLE features Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (July 15, 2024)
Jul. 16, 2024—You can listen to the recent episode of “This is Nashville” a WPLN News – Nashville Public Radio radio program highlighting the people and city of Nashville, Tennessee – featuring our own Dr. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. She talks with KHALIL EKULONA, This is Nashville host, about her “upbringing, the heart of her love for teaching...