Rebecca VanDiver’s Modern and Contemporary African Art Class Visit Fisk University Art Galleries

“Fisk instagrammed my class visit earlier this week, ” said Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American art. “Super exciting and we had a great conversation about potential team research to conduct going forward.”

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 10, 2017 in HART, HART in Nashville, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Reception and Tribute Honoring Barbara Tsakirgis Held at the Nashville Parthenon

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park hosted a reception and tribute honoring Barbara Tsakirgis, associate professor of classical and Mediterranean studies and history of art, on Monday evening, October 24, at the Nashville Parthenon. A leading scholar of Greek art and archaeology and Vanderbilt…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 26, 2016 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, VRC

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Rebecca VanDiver Moderates Panel on Images of Ferguson at Southern Festival of Books on Saturday, October 15

Rebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American Art, will moderate a panel entitled “The Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography: Images from Ferguson” on Saturday, October 15, from 3 to 4 pm as part of the annual three-day Southern Festival of Books in downtown Nashville. The panel, held at the Nashville Public Library, features Pulitzer…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 11, 2016 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, VRC

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HART Alumnus and Sculptor Alan LeQuire to Unveil Tennessee Women’s Suffrage Monument on August 26

Nearly a century after Tennessee became the 36th state—the last state needed—to ratify the 19th Amendment giving all women the right to vote, HART alumnus and local sculptor Alan LeQuire will unveil his large-scale public monument to suffragists on Women’s Equality Day, Friday, August 26. The formal ceremony will be held from 11 a.m. to…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on August 23, 2016 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Millie Fullmer Reflects on Her Lazenby Library Fellowship at Cheekwood

Beginning in January of this year I embarked on a part-time, six-month fellowship as part of a historic initiative to reinstate Cheekwood as an American country era estate.  A furnishing plan was created for the purpose of researching and reviving interior elements of the residence as they were originally intended by the Cheek family and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on July 4, 2016 in HART, HART in Nashville, VRC

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“Book as Art: Medieval Necessity and Modern Invention” Exhibit Curated by HART Students

Illuminated manuscript (literally “hand written”) books are arguably the most characteristic objects of the European middle ages. They preserved a culture’s visions, adventures, religious rituals, and hard-won knowledge in books that were entirely handmade simply because there was no alternative. Contemporary artists, working in a culture dominated by mass-produced books and digitized content, are revisiting…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 13, 2016 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Christopher Johns to Lecture on Francisco Goya and the Alba Family at the Frist Center for Visual Arts

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes began his career as a painter in service to the Bourbon royal family and to a select cluster of noble families, including the Floridablanca, the Osuna, and especially the Alba.  In his noon lecture on April 7 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Christopher Johns, Norman L. and…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 6, 2016 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, Lectures, VRC

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Riyaz Latif Opens Conference with Talk on the Narrative Worlds of Islam in Ink, Silk and Gold

Riyaz Latif, Mellon Assistant Professor of History of Art, will give the keynote talk on Thursday, January 7, at 6:30 pm at the opening event of the College Book Art Association’s National Conference held at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.  His talk, entitled Narrative Worlds of Islam in Ink, Silk and Gold, will…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 5, 2016 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, Lectures, VRC

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Faculty Discuss Cultural Destruction in Syria on Local TV Program

Inside Politics host Pat Nolan discusses the cultural destruction in Syria with Professors Betsey Robinson, Art History and Classics, Richard McGregor, Religious Studies, and David Michelson, Divinity School, on Friday, October 2, at 7:00 pm on CBS affiliate WTVF News Channel 5, Nashville (Xfinity channel 250 and 1005). It will also be aired via live…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on October 2, 2015 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, VRC

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HART Alumnus Alan LeQuire to Discuss “Musica” on September 26

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on September 25, 2015 in Events, HART, HART in Nashville, Lectures, Student/Alumni, VRC

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