Exhibits

Don’t miss seeing From Golden Type to Double Gilt: Fine Press Books at Vanderbilt Libraries, which runs through August 28, 2022, in Vanderbilt’s Special Collections and University Archives Library on the second floor of Central. The libraries’ collection of fine binding was formed from a gift in memory of Nettie… Read More

2012-2022: A Decade of Library Fellows Online Exhibition In spring 2012 Dean Connie Dowell established the first library fellowship, with a little bit of extra funding and a lot of hope.  Since then, over 230 students have completed library fellowships, now known as the Buchanan Library Fellowship Program, named… Read More

[Optic Disc Edema], Susan H. Wilkes, 1932. Susan H. Wilkes Collection. Vanderbilt University History of Medicine CollectionsThe History of Medicine Collections has collaborated with Dr. Karla Johns and the Vanderbilt Eye Institute on a new exhibit on the evolution of the ophthalmoscope and of ophthalmology pioneers in Nashville. Along with… Read More

Artists, writers, models and creatives met, partied, and worked in the cafes, bars and restaurants of Montparnasse, the 14th arrondissement of Paris. In the early 20th century, artists drawn to Paris dreaming of success included Picasso from Spain, Modigliani from Italy and their friend Tsugouharu Foujtia from Japan. Foujita enjoyed… Read More

What’s old is new again. In 2020, a group of retrocomputing enthusiasts published Nox Archaist, a new role-playing adventure game for the 1983 Apple IIe computer. Why would anyone write 8-bit games for an obsolete platform released nearly forty years ago? In this exhibit, located in the Stevenson Science and… Read More

Octavia Butler: Grand Dame of Science Fiction Central Library Lobby May-July 2022 Octavia Butler (1947-2006) was an American science fiction author.  In her early publishing career, she was one of the few Black women authors in a field dominated by white men.   Extremely shy as a child, she… Read More

Join Buchanan Library Fellows Amelia Day, Hope Graham, Farrah Hasan, Rae Larrinaga, Chandler Quaile and Julia Tilton this Friday, April 29 at 4 p.m. in Central Library 2nd Floor Gallery for the opening of their exhibit Home Sapiens: Finding Belonging in Climate Fiction. Humans are “home-sapiens.” Humanity’s need for belonging… Read More

Images move us. Photographs can often capture the lived reality of our world in ways that come to define our collective memory and they do so in a way that is both religious and political. Vanderbilt Divinity School invites you to a virtual event that brings together community artists, theologians… Read More

Vanderbilt Libraries is pleased to announce the opening of From Golden Type to Double Gilt: Fine Press Books at Vanderbilt Libraries, on view February 14 through May 30, 2022 on the 2nd floor of Central Library, in Special Collections and University Archives. Modern fine press book design began with artist… 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