Crowd-Sourcing with a Human Face

Visual Resources staff recently attended the “Cultural Heritage at Scale” symposium sponsored by Vanderbilt University Libraries. The event was open to scholars of any description and the crowd was a mix of the science-minded and humanities-minded alike. The “big idea” that directed the symposium was “crowd-sourcing with a human face”, and talks revolved around how…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 7, 2017 in Conferences, Events, HART, Technology, VRC

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History of Art Graduates and Families Honored at Reception in Cohen Hall

Kevin Murphy, chair of the History of Art department, faculty, and staff honored the HART majors and minors and their families at the department’s annual reception for graduating seniors in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall. Earlier in the day, the Class of 2017 had attended the Senior Day address of Ken Burns, historian and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on June 2, 2017 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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X-Peri and the Dada Effect: Readings of Contemporary Experimental Writing

Presented in conjunction with Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery’s current exhibition is X-Peri and the Dada Effect: Readings of Contemporary Experimental Writing, an event to be held in the gallery on Thursday, May 18, at 7 pm in Cohen Hall. Joining Nathan Spoon, X-Peri‘s associate editor, will be X-Peri contributors Samantha Prychodko, Jamie Thurman, and Alex…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 18, 2017 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Department Celebrates HART Graduates at Reception and Awards Ceremony on May 11

History of Art majors and minors and their families and friends are invited to attend the department’s reception and awards ceremony for our graduating seniors on Thursday, May 11, from 2 to 4 pm. The event will be held in the atrium of Cohen Memorial Hall on the Peabody campus, and awards will be presented…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 8, 2017 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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“American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson” Exhibit Opens April 28

American Modernism at Mid-Century: The Work of Morris Davidson is the first comprehensive survey of a little known yet important twentieth-century American artist, presenting new research into the significance of his life’s work and using it as a lens to view many iterations of abstraction practiced from the 1930s through the 1970s. On view in…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 28, 2017 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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VRC Staff Reports On Highlights of Visual Resources Conference

At the end of March, I attended the Visual Resources Association’s 34th Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, along with Visual Resources Center Director Millie Fullmer. This year’s conference theme was “Unbridled Opportunities”, a theme which played on the horse racing history of Kentucky but also addressed the rapid changes occurring in the visual resources field…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 11, 2017 in Conferences, Events, HART, VRC

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Jeffrey Collins to Focus April 13 Goldberg Lecture on Development and Dispersal of Incense Boats

Beginning in the late fifteenth century, the spread of European merchants and missionaries in pursuit of new territory was accompanied by an unprecedented tide of Western material culture, including objects and implements associated with Catholic Christianity. Among the most striking was the silver incense boat or navicula, typically crafted of silver and closely modeled on…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 10, 2017 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver Presents Talk at Denison University as Part of Vail Lecture Series

Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of history of art, presented a lecture on April 3 at Denison University, which was part of the Vail Lecture Series and sponsored by the Art History and Visual Culture Program. VanDiver addressed “States of Emergency: Water as Metaphor and Agent of Black Trauma in Kara Walker’s 2006 ‘After the Deluge’…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 10, 2017 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Students of Betsey Robinson Present Papers at Undergraduate Writing Symposium on March 26

Students Cates Saleeby and Maggie Cassidy presented papers in the panel on “Meaning in the Ancient Italian Peninsula,” in the Undergraduate Writing Symposium held Sunday, March 26, in the Commons Center with reception afterward at the John Siegenthaler Center on the Peabody campus. In “A City Decorated with Clues: An Exploration of Roman Graffiti,” Cassidy…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 5, 2017 in Conferences, Events, HART, Lectures, Student/Alumni, VRC

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John Janusek to Present “Skywatchers of the Ancient Americas” at the Wond’ry on Wednesday, April 5

Learn about the “Skywatchers of the Ancient Americas” with John Janusek, associate professor of anthropology, on Wednesday, April 5, at 3 pm in room 202 of the Wond’ry. In anticipation of the August 2017 solar eclipse, various ongoing activities and date-specific events related to the solar eclipse will be held across Vanderbilt’s campus. Janusek’s presentation…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 4, 2017 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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