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Emily Weiner

Sympathetic Magic: Works of Faith, Healing and Transformation | August 26, 2021–January 30, 2022

Throughout history and across the planet, people have invariably created objects promoting faith, healing and transformation. Sympathetic Magic presents objects from Vanderbilt University Collections alongside works by modern and contemporary… Keep reading

Anatolian amulet with an eye design, date unknown. Collection of Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, 1994.366

New Banner on Campus by Carrie Mae Weems: “The Vaccine Is Our Best Shot Against Covid-19!”

With the arrival of the Covid-19 vaccine, artist Carrie Mae Weems created a new image for partners in her project RESIST COVID TAKE 6! Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, in… Keep reading

Banner on building reading The Vaccine is our Best Shot Against Covid-19

Kress Collection Digital Archive Launches! (Vanderbilt’s Paintings Included.)

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is excited to share news of the Kress Collection Digital Archive, a comprehensive archive and database for the nearly 3,500 works of European art… Keep reading

Kress Collection Digital Archive Landing Page

African Art at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery

  In summer 2020, the Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries and Fine Arts Gallery launched a team project to begin to comprehensively photograph works in the Fine Arts Gallery collection…. Keep reading

Helmet or Cap Mask of the Gelede Society in the Yoruba Tribe

Zoom Q&A with Michael Alec Rose and Ali Smith, moderated by Leonard Folgarait

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery presents: A Q&A with Ali Smith and Michael Alec Rose Moderated by Leonard Folgarait, Professor of History of Art This talk was open to… Keep reading

A Q&A with Ali Smith and Michael Alec Rose Moderated by Leonard Folgarait, Professor of History of Art Friday, October 30, 1:00pm CDT via Zoom

Carrie Mae Weems’ RESIST COVID TAKE 6! | Postponed to 2024

    Vanderbilt University is partnering with Fisk University, the Frist Art Museum and Millions of Conversations to host “Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice,” a trans-institutional series of virtual conversations and artistic collaborations focused… Keep reading

Banner on building reading The Vaccine is our Best Shot Against Covid-19

The Fine Arts Gallery reopens its doors this fall with “Dream for Light Years”

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to (finally!) present Dream for Light Years, a two-year collaboration between California-based painter Ali Smith and Blair School of Music professor of composition… Keep reading

Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery receives Kress Foundation award

The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery has been selected among spring 2020 applicants to receive support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for an exhibition of medieval and Renaissance artworks…. Keep reading

Follower of Domenico Ghirlandaio (possibly, Giovanni Battista Bertucci), St. Sebastian, ca. 1510, Italian (1475–1525), Tempera with oil on panel, 19 5/8 x 16 1/8 inches, The Samuel H. Kress Collection,, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, 1979.0655P

In Vanderbilt News: Visit ‘Dream for Light Years’ visual/musical exhibition online

Dream for Light Years, a two-year collaboration between Ali Smith, a California-based contemporary artist, and Michael Alec Rose, professor of composition at the Blair School of Music, can now be enjoyed online…. Keep reading

Ali Smith Dream for Light Years, 2020 Oil on canvas 80 x 100 inches

Press for “Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom” at the Fine Arts Gallery

Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom at Vanderbilt University was widely reviewed, with features in The Nashville Scene, the Tennessean, Burnaway, The Afro-Hispanic Review and on News Channel Five, among many other media sources…. Keep reading

Visionary Aponte Exhibition review in Burnaway: The Voice of Art in the South

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