HART Department Celebrates A New Beginning With Advent of Fall Semester

The fall semester is officially underway with history of art faculty and students returning to the classroom on August 22. Betsey Robinson, associate professor of history of art, will serve as HART acting chair while Kevin Murphy, chair and professor of history of art, is on sabbatical. Other HART faculty on leave are Vivien Fryd,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 28, 2018 in Events, HART, News, Student/Alumni, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver Surveys Howard University’s Department of Art from 1921 to 1971 in “Callaloo” Journal

Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American art, surveys the history of Howard University’s Department of Art during its first fifty years in an article, “Art Matters: Howard University’s Department of Art from 1921 to 1971,” published in Callaloo (volume 39, number 5) by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Founded in 1921 by James V. Herring…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 27, 2018 in HART, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Former Goldberg Lecturer John Ott Expresses Gratitude to HART Department

John Ott, professor of art history, James Madison University, paid tribute to Vanderbilt’s History of Art department in his article, “Hale Woodruff’s Antiprimitivist History of Abstract Art,” which appeared this spring in the Art Bulletin 100:1 (March 2018). “I owe many individuals my warmest gratitude for their generous support of and incisive feedback on this project,”…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 27, 2018 in HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Exhibit by Middle Eastern Women Artists Celebrates Quest to Build Peace

The Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery will feature the contemporary artwork of Middle Eastern women in an East-West peace-building exhibition opening Thursday, August 30, in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, with a reception from 5 to 7pm in the atrium. I AM: Middle Eastern Women Artists and the Quest to Build Peace showcases the work…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 27, 2018 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Elizabeth Moodey Presents Paper at Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Nashville, home to the United Methodist Publishing House, Thomas Nelson, the Southern Baptists’ Lifeway Christian Stores, and Gideons International (of the ubiquitous Gideon Bibles), is a world center of religious publishing, primarily for mainline Protestants and evangelical Christians. The printing and distribution of the Bible being a major industry, it is not surprising that the…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 10, 2018 in Conferences, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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CNN: “Remembering America’s Lost Buildings” by Kevin Murphy and Other Architectural Historians

CNN recently picked up an earlier story, “Remembering America’s Lost Buildings” (August 31, 2017), from The Conversation in which Kevin Murphy, professor and chair of the history of art, participated. Murphy was among five architectural historians and professors who responded to the question: “What’s one American structure you wish had been saved?” While their responses…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 10, 2018 in HART, News, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Features “Joyce Tenneson–Botanical Beauty” Through August 18

Joyce Tenneson–Botanical Beauty presents work drawn from two portfolios by the artist, both of which feature atmospheric, poetic photographs of flowers in high contrast with a black background. On view through August 18 in the Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, these are, in effect, portraits of flowers, whether seen…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 31, 2018 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Edward Raymond Kinstler’s Portrait of Eddie George On View in Fine Arts Gallery

The oil portrait of Eddie George that Everett Raymond Kinstler began during a lecture and painting demonstration on March 24 is on display at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery through Saturday, July 14. George, a former star Tennessee Titan turned professional actor, was among those attending a public unveiling ceremony at Cohen Memorial Hall, where he expressed admiration and gratitude for Kinstler’s…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 13, 2018 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Nashville Arts, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Betsey Robinson Named 2018-2019 Mellon Fellow in Digital Humanities

The College of Arts and Science recently announced that Betsey Robinson, associate professor of history of art, is among the Mellon Fellows in Digital Humanities named for the 2018-2019 academic year. Robinson is recognized for her development and utilization of 3-D mapping and modeling techniques in Greek architectural archaeology. The fellowships, administered through the Vanderbilt Center…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 12, 2018 in Digital Humanities, HART, News, Technology, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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Unveiling of Kinstler’s Portrait of Eddie George at Fine Arts Gallery on July 10

*Portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler conducts a lecture and painting demonstration with Eddie George at Sarratt Cinema in March 2018. (YouTube) A portrait of Eddie George by Everett Raymond Kinstler, one of America’s most notable portrait artists, will be unveiled at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery in Cohen Memorial Hall on Tuesday, July 10, at 6 pm. George, a former…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 5, 2018 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC

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