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January 8 , 2001

Artistic Exploration - ASIA

Photographer Stacey Irvin, a 1998 graduate from Vanderbilt, journeyed through China, Tibet, Nepal and Pakistan over a four-month period, beginning in spring 2000. Winner of the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award in March of 1999, Irvin received a $16,000 grant to use toward a year of travel and artistic exploration. Many of the photographs from her travels will be featured in an exhibit at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery Jan. 11 ­ Feb. 1, 2001. What follows is an abridged, first-hand account of the first two months of her trek across Asia.

Photos and story by Stacey Irvin

 

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VIPPS leads way for Nashville's forthcoming Civic Design Center

by Tara S. Donahue

After three years of discussion and planning with various community organizations, local universities and the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, the Nashville Civic Design Center will begin operations in January, Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell announced last month.

Purcell described the new center as the "creative conscience" to shape the city's future by serving as a resource center and forum for neighborhood activists, builders and planners to work together to help develop Nashville's urban environment.

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Retired, Sullivan finds more 'time to dance'

by Skip Anderson

On a snowy December morning, Walter Sullivan quietly brought to a close his 51-year career at Vanderbilt.
Sullivan

"I turned in my final grades on the way to this interview," theretiring professor of English said, smiling. "I'm through."

The role Vanderbilt has played in Sullivan's life, however, goes far beyond that of an employer. He graduated from Vanderbilt in 1947, and began and ended his career as an educator at his alma mater, where he also met his future wife.

 

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