{"id":1397,"date":"2024-12-12T20:11:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2024-12-12T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T20:20:10","slug":"space-204-welcomes-back-2023-hamblet-award-recipient-for-january-2025-solo-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/space-204-welcomes-back-2023-hamblet-award-recipient-for-january-2025-solo-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Space 204 welcomes back 2023 Hamblet Award Recipient for January 2025 solo exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Vanderbilt University Department of Art \u00a0proudly welcomes back the 2023 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Recipient, Adam Alwan, for a solo exhibition in Space 204 (January 2025).<\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-401\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-401\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/02\/IMG_5454a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/02\/IMG_5454a.jpg 864w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/02\/IMG_5454a-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/02\/IMG_5454a-768x581.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Queer Bodies,&#8221; 2023, installation view, Adam Alwan 2023 thesis exhibition, EBI Studio Arts Center, Vanderbilt University Department of Art, Nashville, TN.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Adam Alwan<\/strong> is a queer multidisciplinary artist from Glenview, Illinois. He attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, majoring in Art &amp; Human and Organizational Development. His thesis exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/adam-alwan-exhibit\/\">Queer Bodies<\/a> awarded him the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award &#8211; allowing him the financial support to take the following year post graduation to travel and make art. His return to Space 204 and the EBI Studio Arts Center will culminate in an exhibition featuring the work created during his award year.<\/p>\n<p>Alwan writes about his studio work as &#8220;revolving around the themes of care, growth, and change, with considerations of nature and the queer community.&#8221; He often utilizes plants in his installation as a suggestion of this growth. Inspired by his time with his grandmother, Alwan uses mediums from his childhood as vehicles to address experiences in his adult life. Alwan employs photography, installation, sculpture, and other mediums to speak to our innate desire for empathy and connection. The root of Alwan\u2019s artistic practice uses his lived moments as a foundation to engage with the public and prompt our own self-reflection.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1401\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1401\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/12\/12200619\/04babi-window_a-679x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/12\/12200619\/04babi-window_a-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/12\/12200619\/04babi-window_a-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/12\/12200619\/04babi-window_a-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/12\/12200619\/04babi-window_a-1019x1536.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/12\/12200619\/04babi-window_a-1358x2048.jpg 1358w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2024\/12\/12200619\/04babi-window_a-scaled.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">REAL\/HEAL 2025 Adam Alwan exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His upcoming exhibition, <em>REAL\/HEAL<\/em> is a multi-media presentation driven by the passion of his grandmother in October of 2023 and the anniversary of his father&#8217;s passing in 2013. \u00a0During his travel through Europe, Alwan felt a great physical distance from his family, an ever-growing span of time between the passing of his grandmother and the present, as well as deepening gaps in his memory. Utilizing familial photographs, objects, textiles, and practices to explore memory rooted in his personal vulnerability &#8211; losing a loved one, forgetting, and surrendering oneself.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>REAL\/HEAL<\/em> opens on Thursday, January 9, 2025 in Space 204 with a reception from 3pm to 5pm in the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center located at 1204 25th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information please email the Vanderbilt University Department of Art at <a href=\"mailto:artdept@vanderbilt.edu\">artdept@vanderbilt.edu<\/a> and follow the department on instagram at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vanderbilt.art\/?hl=en\">@vanderbilt.art<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vanderbilt University Department of Art \u00a0proudly 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 &amp; Human and Organizational Development. 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