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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....
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 Haein Kang (Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art) is a new media artist, educator, and researcher who explores the unknown. She holds a PhD in...
The 2024 Recipients of the the Hamblet Award and Merit Award annoucement
Apr. 18, 2024—The Department of Art at Vanderbilt University is proud to annouce the recipients of the 2024 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...
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...