Kevin Murphy Receives Craft Research Fund Grant from Center for Craft, Creativity & Design

The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design (CCCD) has awarded one of eleven Craft Research Fund grants for 2015-2016 to Kevin Murphy, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art.  The $6,500 project grant will provide support for Murphy’s research on Scott Nearing (1883-1893) and Helen K. Nearing (1904-1995)…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on March 2, 2016 in HART, VRC

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Elspeth Dusinberre to Present AIA Lecture on March 1 on the Ancient Persian Empire

Elspeth Dusinberre, chair and professor of classics at the University of Colorado-Boulder, will  lecture on “Power and the Ideal in the Ancient Persian Empire” at the Nashville Parthenon on Tuesday, March 1, at 6 pm.  Her lecture will explore the glories and practices, the rhetoric and realities, of the ancient Persian Empire. When Alexander the Great…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 24, 2016 in HART, Lectures, VRC

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Pakistani Artist Mahwish Chishty Featured in Studio VU Lecture on February 10

Initially trained as a miniature painter from the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, Mahwish Chishty has aggressively combined new media and conceptual work with her traditional practice, emerging as a notable conceptual artist.  As part of the Department of Art’s Studio VU Lecture Series, Chishty will talk about her work on Wednesday, February 10,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 10, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, VRC

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Christopher Johns Edits Volume on the Papacy of Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini

Emerging from a groundbreaking international conference on the papacy of Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (reigned 1740-1758) and its legacy, the anthology Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment: Art, Science, and Spirituality, edited by Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher M. S. Johns and Philip Gavitt, was recently published by the University of Toronto Press. The symposium of 2012 was…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 9, 2016 in HART, VRC

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HART Professors Present Papers at CAA Annual Conference February 3-6

Professors Mireille Lee, Barbara Tsakirgis, and Riyaz Latif travel to Washington, DC this week to present papers at the College Art Association annual conference held February 3-6.  The conference consists of four days of presentations, panel discussions, workshops, special events, and exhibitions exploring the study, practice, and history of art and visual culture. Lee, Assistant…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on February 3, 2016 in Events, HART, Lectures, 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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Betsey Robinson Named to 2016 Class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows

Betsey Robinson, associate professor, departments of history of art and classical studies, is among fourteen outstanding faculty members from across the university recently named to the 2016 class of Chancellor Faculty Fellows.  The class comprises highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from the humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, and clinical sciences, as well as…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 25, 2016 in HART, 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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Archaeologist Margaret Miles to Present Talk on Elymian Segesta on January 22

In addition to delivering the Goldberg Lecture on January 21, archaeologist Margaret Miles, Professor of Art History and Classics, University of California, Irvine, will present a lunchtime talk entitled “Elymian Segesta:  Trojans and Greeks in Western Sicily” on Friday, January 22, at 12:10 pm in 309 Cohen Hall.  Miles will examine the history of Segesta,…

Posted by vrcvanderbilt on January 18, 2016 in HART, Lectures, 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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