Fine Arts Gallery

The Fine Arts Gallery is closed March 5 – March 13, 2022 for spring break, and will re-open Monday March 14, 2022. Read More

We invite you to visit the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery for these March events: Exhibit Tour, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, Noon – 1:00 p.m. (the second* Tuesday of the month) Join gallery staff for a guided tour of the current exhibition Skyscraper Gothic: Medieval Style & Modernist Buildings… Read More

Working with history of art senior lecturer Susan Dine, thirteen students are cataloging woodblock prints from an 1860s album made in Japan. Their digital project unpacks these brightly-colored prints of kabuki actors and urban life. Each print required four experts’ work: the designer, the engraver, the printer, and the publisher,… Read More

Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Skyscraper Gothic: Medieval Style & Modernist Buildings, on view February 14–May 22, 2022. The exhibit is co-curated by Kevin D. Murphy, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, professor and chair of the department of History of Art… Read More

If you missed the November 10 Sympathetic Magic artists panel discussion, the video recording is now available. Sympathetic Magic: Works of Faith, Healing and Transformation contrasts Christian imagery with ritual objects from China, pre-Columbian North America and modern art as a means to explore ritual. The contemporary artists… Read More

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Fall Semester Buchanan Library Fellowship: Understanding the Fine Arts Gallery Collection using Wikidata and AI This project will introduce the Fellows to Wikidata, the knowledge graph that anyone can edit. We will work to improve and add to the metadata in Wikidata about Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery works using spreadsheet-based… Read More

Hilary A. Craiglow, who has led the Walker Management Library for more than a decade, has been named interim university librarian. Craiglow’s appointment, effective July 1, was announced today by Vanessa Beasley, vice provost for academic affairs and dean of residential faculty. Read the full article >… Read More

Vanderbilt University deeply values the neighbors, community partners and visitors who make the campus community so vibrant. The Fine Arts Gallery, the History of Medicine Collections and the Special Collections and University Archives Library never stopped providing online access to collections and online reference throughout the… Read More

Fall Buchanan Library Fellowship: The Art of Healing The Art of Healing Exposition is a series of shows and events around the theme of the use of creative expression as part of the healing process. Two fellows will research art and archives in the Vanderbilt Jean & Alexander Heard Library… Read More