Department to Honor HART Graduates at May 12 Reception and Awards Ceremony

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 12, 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 3, 2016 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni

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HART Major Hannah Ladendorf Experiences a Surrealist Play in New York City Through a Downing Grant

This past February, I was fortunate to receive a Downing grant to travel to New York City to conduct research in an atypical environment for an art historian.  In determining my final project for Professor Leonard Folgarait’s seminar on Surrealism, I decided to explore a play I had seen the year before in New York…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on May 2, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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HART Alumnus and Sculptor John Powers Named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow

The allure of the unattainable and its connection to the passage of time have become central to the research of John Powers, BA’01, assistant professor of sculpture at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville, who was recently named a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Drawing from areas as diverse as natural history,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 27, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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HART Major Sujin Shin Visits Houston’s Rothko Chapel Through a Downing Grant

In April, through the Downing Grant, I had the incredible experience of visiting the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas.  Viewing Mark Rothko’s monumental paintings within the chapel and observing the entire layout in person contributed immensely to the creation of my Honors project.  I plan to explore how the concept of the sublime applies to…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 22, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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HART Alumna Stephanie Storey to Talk About Her Debut Novel on April 19

HART alumna Stephanie Storey graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt in 1997 with a fine arts major (now history of art) and a passionate interest in Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Italian Renaissance.  Such an obsession, she claims, ultimately culminated in her debut art historical novel, Oil and Marble, recently published by Arcade/Skyhorse. Storey will…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on April 18, 2016 in Events, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Fine Arts Gallery Event Spotlights Blair School of Music Faculty and Student Composers on March 29

Join the HART department and the University Fine Arts Gallery on March 29 at 7 p.m. for a special evening of music in the Cohen Gallery and the inaugural performance of four short compositions to be presented in conjunction with Close Readings: American Abstract Art from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Collection.  A reception…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 29, 2016 in Events, Fine Arts Gallery, HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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HART Department Awards Five Downing Grants for the Spring Semester

The History of Art Department recently announced the recipients of the 2016 Downing Grants for the spring semester, whose research sites range from Johannesburg, South Africa, to New York City to Houston, Texas. The recipients are Haley Brown, Anna Greene, Hannah Ladendorf, Monica Peacock, and Sujin Shin. The Downing Grant is a competitive award made…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 2, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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HART Professors Leonard Folgarait, Hamilton Hazlehurst Cited in Alumni Survey

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 28, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Applications due February 5 for Downing Grants for HART Undergraduate Research and Travel

HART majors and minors are encouraged to apply for a spring 2016 Downing grant by Friday, February 5.  The department awards these Downing grants for travel to exhibitions and research centers to supplement academic instruction for HART students who are in the Honors Program, senior seminars (HART 4960), or  “W” (writing) courses.  The Downing grants,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 25, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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Jalen Chang Visits Hamburg, Berlin, and Dresden to View Friedrich Paintings on a Downing Grant

Thanks to the generosity of the Downing family and Vanderbilt’s History of Art department, my Thanksgiving dinner this year took place in a hotel room roughly 5,000 miles away from anyone I knew, in between a flurry of museum visits in three different German cities.  At the suggestion of my honors thesis adviser, Professor Christopher…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 13, 2016 in HART, Student/Alumni, VRC

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