Gallery Intern Broadens Her Understanding of Research

Katherine Calvin, a history of art major who will graduate in 2013, discovered the excitement of doing independent research as a Fine Arts Gallery intern last semester. Calvin wrote about her experience in VUpoint, a publication distributed to first-year students to explain “the ins and outs” of Vanderbilt. To read Calvin’s essay, go to http://commonplace.vanderbilt.edu/hosted/VUpoint2012.pdf…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 27, 2012 in Student/Alumni, VRC

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Tracy Miller Named Interim Chair of History of Art Department

A specialist in the ritual architecture of medieval China, Tracy Miller, associate professor of history of art and former director of the Asian Studies Program, is the new chair of the Department of History of Art for the 2012-2013 academic year. Miller, who joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2000, teaches courses in East Asian art…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 24, 2012 in HART, VRC

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Elizabeth Moodey: Color Choices at the Burgundian Court

Within the codes of late medieval dress, artists used color not only to indicate rank or occupation but also to delineate mood or moral character. Elizabeth Moodey, assistant professor of history of art, presented a paper, titled Ledit duc, ledit jour: Color Choices at the Burgundian Court, at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 24, 2012 in HART, VRC

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Event Celebrates Generosity of Tom Brumbaugh and Olen Bryant

Olen Bryant, Alan LeQuire, and Barbara Russell A colossal portrait head of Marian Anderson, internationally acclaimed contralto, from Alan LeQuire’s Cultural Heroes series was the centerpiece of an event honoring Tom Brumbaugh and Olen Bryant on June 24 at the Portland Public Library of Sumner County, Tennessee. Friends from across the region came to pay…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 11, 2012 in Events, HART, Student/Alumni

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Barbara Yontz: Sculptural Installation in Space 204 through June 29

New York and Nashville-based artist, educator, and Vanderbilt alumna Barbara Yontz fascinates viewers with her use of sound, video, and such natural materials as wool and hair in No Going Back, currently on view through June 29 in the Space 204 gallery housed in the Ingram Studio Art Center on the Vanderbilt campus. “These sculptural…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 7, 2012 in HART, Student/Alumni

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Fine Arts Gallery Exhibit Unites Prints and Poetry

Material Glance: A Portfolio of Lithographs by Antoni Tàpies and Poems by Shūzō Takiguchi opens Tuesday, May 29, in the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen Hall. Published in 1975, Material Glance (Llambrec Material) brings together two important creative figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012), one of the most universally recognized…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 25, 2012 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART

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Christopher Johns Lectures at Royal Academy of Arts

Christopher Johns, Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Professor of History of Art, gave an invited lecture at the Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London, on May 15. The lecture, titled Art and Culture in Rome in the 1750s, was sponsored by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art as part of a symposium…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 23, 2012 in HART

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Robin Jensen Examines Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity

What does early Christian imagery reveal about the theological meaning of baptism? Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor’s Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship, addresses this theme in her latest book, Baptismal Imagery in Early Christianity: Ritual, Visual and Theological Dimensions (Baker Academic, 2012). Jensen illumines the theological meaning of baptism by examining the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 23, 2012 in HART

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Vivien Fryd Awarded Visiting Professorship for Fall 2012

Vivien Green Fryd, professor of history of art and chair of the department, will be a visiting professor next fall at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. Fryd was awarded the visiting professorship by The Terra Foundation for American Art. Fryd will teach two courses—American Art Since 1945 and American…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 14, 2012 in HART

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Student Research Symposium Slated for April 18

Angela Romano, Elizabeth Furman, Christi Weinhuff, and Margot Danis are the featured speakers at the second annual Student Research Symposium on Wednesday, April 18, at 7:00 p.m. in Cohen 203, with a reception in the atrium following the event. Paper topics include The Influence of Mathematics on Egyptian and Greek Sculpture (Elizabeth Furman); Ethical and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 14, 2012 in Events, HART

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