Exhibitions
The Curb Center exhibits the work of visual artists who use their practice to investigate issues facing their communities, animate social change, and celebrate the beauty of being human.
The Curb Center’s galleries are open to the public Monday–Thursday, 10am–4pm, as well as Fridays and weekends by appointment, during exhibition dates. The galleries will be closed November 24–28, 2025, for Thanksgiving break.
We offer guided visits for university courses tailored to curricular goals. To request a course visit to the Curb Center, please contact Rachel Thompson.
Upcoming Exhibitions
HAGOOD: Lanecia Rouse and Ciona Rouse (Fall 2025)
September 22–December 4, 2025
Resilience and Adaptation Juried Exhibition: Spring 2026
Call for Submissions (Due October 27, 2025)
The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University is organizing a juried exhibition of Middle Tennessee visual artists in Spring 2026 with the theme of Resilience and Adaptation as it relates to climate change. We are interested in how regional artists are engaging with the complementary concepts of resilience—a perspective concerned with systemic change, capacity-building, and recovery—and adaptation—incremental and transformational actions that aid communities locally and globally to adjust to the reality of climate change. Learn more about how to submit here.
Current Exhibitions
Currently, The Curb Center is not hosting an exhibition. Fall exhibition announcements are coming soon!
Past Exhibitions
Changemakers of the Twenty-First Century: Selections from Americans Who Tell the Truth (Spring 2025)
Extraction/Interaction (Fall 2024)
Imagining Wholeness: Expressive Art and Well-Being (Summer 2024)
The Glory of the Day: LeXander Bryant Meets Florence Price (Spring 2024)