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Illustrations of Fritz Eichenberg Featured in Fine Arts Gallery Exhibit

The Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery celebrates the opening of Fritz Eichenberg – Artist of the Book with an opening reception on Thursday, January 16, from 5 to 7 pm in Cohen Hall on the Peabody campus. The exhibit, curated by Joseph S. Mella, gallery director, will remain on view through February 27. The focus of…

Posted by on January 13, 2014 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, VRC


Chris Strasbaugh Awarded 2013 VRAF Project Grant

Chris Strasbaugh, director of the Visual Resources Center in Vanderbilt’s History of Art department, has received one of two 2013 Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) grants recently awarded by the Board of Directors. The amount of the award is $1500. Strasbaugh and his colleagues plan to continue their development of the open source DIMLI: Digital…

Posted by on December 16, 2013 in HART, Technology, VRC


Mireille Lee Awarded Visiting Senior Fellowship at CASVA

Mireille M. Lee, assistant professor of the history of art, has been awarded a Visiting Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA). Founded in 1979 and housed in the National Gallery of Art’s East Building, CASVA is a research institute that fosters study of the production, use, and cultural…

Posted by on December 9, 2013 in HART, VRC


Rebecca VanDiver Featured in Frist Lecture Series on December 2

In partnership with Vanderbilt University’s Office of Community, Neighborhood, and Government Relations, “Food for Thought: Visualizing America through Art by African American Artists and Norman Rockwell” is a three-part lecture series held at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and presented by Vanderbilt professors who are exploring issues about what it means to be…

Posted by on December 2, 2013 in HART, HART in Nashville, Lectures, VRC


Free Coffee Available in the VRC Now Through Final Exams

As the fall semester comes to a close, the Visual Resources Center invites students, faculty, and staff to join us for a free cup of coffee—or two or three—in Cohen 134. Coffee will be available throughout the day for the next three weeks, beginning Monday, December 2. Pour yourself a cup and dash to class…

Posted by on December 2, 2013 in HART, VRC


Elizabeth Moodey Presents Paper on Unpublished Prayerbook

Elizabeth Moodey, assistant professor of history of art, presented a paper at an Index of Christian Art conference held October 25-26 at Princeton University. The conference, entitled Manuscripta Illuminata: Approaches to Understanding Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts, focused on illuminated manuscripts and included papers on books ranging from impressive, heavily gilded Ottonian service books to a…

Posted by on November 14, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC


Kevin Murphy to Participate in “Soundscapes” Conference

The rise of digital media over the last few decades has dramatically changed the way in which we make and consume sound within the contexts of our everyday lives. Whether we play ongoing music streams at home, freely reassemble audible objects with the help of our computers, listen to a diverse range of prerecorded sounds…

Posted by on November 13, 2013 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC


Hilary Gopnik to Deliver AIA Lecture on November 5

Hilary Gopnik, co-director of the Naxçivan Archaeological Project at Emory University, will deliver a lecture about Alexander the Great in the far reaches of his empire on Tuesday, November 5, at 7 p.m. in the Nashville Parthenon at Centennial Park. Her lecture, entitled On the Edge of Alexander’s World: The Unfinished Palace at Oğlanqala, Azerbaijan,…

Posted by on November 1, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC


Amy McNair to Deliver Goldberg Lecture on November 7

Amy McNair, professor of Chinese art, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas, will present the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Lecture in Art History on Thursday, November 7, at 4:10 p.m. in 203 Cohen Hall. Her lecture is entitled “Heroic Abandon: The 1300-Year Life of Yan Zhenqing’s Imperial Commissioner Liu Letter.”…

Posted by on October 29, 2013 in HART, Lectures, VRC


Three VU Professors Receive SEC Visiting Faculty Travel Grant

Betsey Robinson, associate professor of history of art, Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor’s Professor of the History of Christian Art and Worship, and David Michelson, assistant professor of early Christianity at the Divinity School, received a grant from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Visiting Faculty Travel Grant Program to participate in a regional workshop on Cultures of…

Posted by on October 28, 2013 in Events, HART, VRC


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