The Curb Center at Vanderbilt

All are welcome to RSVP for a poetry and collage workshop facilitated by and ! See the link in bio for additional information. If you can’t make it on September 24, an additional November workshop date will be announced soon. We hope to see you there!

Calling all artists in Middle Tennessee! Our spring juried exhibition “Resilience + Adaption” is open for submissions. Submit your work (link in bio) by October 27th for a chance to win a prize and a feature in our spring exhibition.

1st Place: $2,000
2nd: $1,000
3rd: $500

Artist/activist John Sabraw working with the Curb Scholars.

Huge congratulations to the cast and crew and playwrights and on the gorgeous premieres of Blue Blood Red Knot and Daphne and Florence, directed by Dr. Leah Lowe. If you missed last night’s shows, you can catch them Saturday at 2 and 7:30 and Sunday at 2.

Together with The Science Communication Media Collaborative Grand Challenge Initiative and , The Curb Center is proud to introduce the Vanderbilt Eco-Grief Initiative, a collaborative inquiry into the emotional landscapes of living through climate change.

Eco-grief is a term for the complex emotions—sorrow, guilt, terror, and complicity, among others—that consideration of the climate crisis and environmental degradation evoke. The Initiative, which centers artistic responses to climate change, grows out of the recognition that the feelings surrounding the evolving crisis and the difficulty of achieving consensus on how to address it are often overwhelming, making necessary conversations challenging to manage. Through theatre performances, a visual art exhibition, and guest speakers, the Eco-Grief Initiative aims to catalyze emotional reckoning as an avenue to candid dialogue, innovation, and lasting impact.

Visit the link in our bio to learn more about the Initiative, and stay tuned here for opportunities to get involved.

Are you a Vanderbilt graduate student with an idea for a public-facing creative project? Applications are now open for the 2024–2026 cohort of the Curb Center’s Public Scholars Program. Public Scholars receive a two-year $2500 grant, training in arts-based community engagement methodologies, and access to Curb Center space and resources. Applications are due September 8. Visit vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/public-scholars to learn more and apply.

Congratulations, Ardelan! So fun to see the Curb Scholars at the Vanderbilt graduation ceremony!

Amaris and I at Geodis Park- happy Vanderbilt graduation, Curb Scholars!

Veins of Life
Clay
Elizabeth Martin

This platter received its intricate vein pattern from an actual paulownia leaf before being fired and glazed. Veins bring life and nourishment to leaves, to us, and to life all around us.

Lost
Photography
Jeff Frazier

At a time when the empty streets of the city were more isolating than the back roads and quiet pathways of the forests and woods of Tennessee I found my pandemic companion. These hardwoods and hollows were quiet and non judgmental and therefore welcoming during this surreal time when the world seemed to be doing its best to implode with political and societal violence and madness.

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A DOUBLE POST: PAINTING & POETRY

Pain
Painting
robert bruce scott
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'Pain' is the central piece in a triptych of paintings. The works were created and based upon feelings I had as the global, Covid-19 pandemic blanketed the Earth. Between Elation and Despair lie three feelings, which I returned to again and again; Pain, Joy, and Sorrow. The pieces look similar to each other because they all are coming from the same place; Fear.

This Is What I Mean When I Say I Love You
Poetry
Michelle Izmaylov

They say in science that the human body replaces itself with a new set of cells on average every seven years, so it seems someday we will both become new people who have never met...(continue reading at http://ow.ly/mgsf50LovZA)