Fine Arts Gallery

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

Summer 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

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 conjunction with “Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice,” a trans-institutional series of virtual conversations and artistic collaborations,… Read More

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 that Samuel H. Kress collected, and subsequently gifted to almost 100 institutions. The Kress Foundation donated twelve Renaissance… Read More

The acquisition of library resources for scholarship and teaching known as “collection development,” is a complicated process that strikes a balance between access and ownership. Factors, such as price, budget, availability, and licensing, increasingly impact the libraries’ abilities to provide the most relevant and useful set of resources for our… Read More

Amico AspertiniItalian (1472/75–1552)A Baptismal Ceremony, ca. 16th centuryTempera on panel24 1/2″ x 29 1/2″The Samuel H. Kress Collection, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery1979.0648P The Artist’s Workshop in Medieval and Renaissance Europe: Curatorial and Collections Fellowship with the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery… Read More

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Professor of Fine Arts, Emeritus, Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst, who passed away on November 12, 2020, at the age of 95. Hazelhurst earned his bachelor of arts cum laude (1949), master of fine arts cum laude (1952) and doctor of… Read More

Visit the virtual exhibition here. Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery January 19–April 29, 2021  Cohen Memorial Hall 1220 21st Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203 TitleWall_PFTHumor_PFTMayMilton_InstallPainters_PFTPFT_Gallery2 The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to present Pressed for Time: Five Centuries of Prints from the Jack May… Read More

Artist Unknown, Helmet or Cap Mask of the Gelede Society in the Yoruba TribeArtist Unknown, Africa (Zaire, Babuba or Lele)Artist Unknown, Africa (Nigeria, Yoruba People)Artists unknown, Africa (Eastern)Artist Unknown, Africa (Ivory Coast)Artist Unknown, Africa (Nigeria)Artist Unknown, Africa (Benin)Artist Unknown, Africa (Zaire)Artist Unknown, Africa (Congo)     In summer… Read More

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 the public and held via Zoom on Friday, October 30, 1:00pm CDT Join us for… Read More