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Student-run Studio CRB produces amazing music
Saturday, May 18th, 2013Student-run Studio CRB produces amazing music Click above or here to see the VUCast segment on the Curb Center’s Studio CRB! Arts and science student Branden Sanders had a vision when he came to Vanderbilt—to make recording great music more accessible and affordable. Now this Curb Scholar is making that dream a sweet-sounding reality. Click More…
Submit an Innovation Grant Proposal today!
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013“Art of the Cell Phone.” “Emotivity in Cloth.” “Imagining Transformative Justice from the Inside Out.” Just few Innovation Grants project titles from 2011-2013. Innovation Grants give Vanderbilt faculty, staff, and students opportunities to produce original ideas and harness their creativity as a force for positive social change. Submit your 2013-14 proposal before May 31st!
Tepper to present Keynote at South Arts Performing Arts Exchange, Sept 23-26
Monday, May 13th, 2013Assistant Director Steven Tepper will present “Right Sizing the Arts: Understanding the Human Dimensions of 21st Century Markets” at the annual performing arts booking, showcasing and professional development conference, Performing Arts Exchange (PAE), managed by South Arts and hosted by a different eastern city each year. With Music City as a backdrop, this talk will explore More…
Clayton begins filming for Coursera course on gaming
Thursday, May 9th, 2013Mike Martin from Digital Commons and Jeff Baltz and Chris Nold from Technology Support Services capture Dr. Clayton’s “Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative,” a new Coursera course from Vanderbilt University. With Jay Clayton, and graduate students Deann Armstrong, Killian Quigley, Don Rodrigues, and Chelsea Land.
Tepper delivers commencement address at Penn State
Thursday, May 9th, 2013Steven J. Tepper delivered the commencement address on May 4th for Penn State University’s College of Arts and Architecture. You can read his full speech here.
Tepper, Pitt release leading report on double majors
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013Sociologists Richard Pitt and Steven J. Tepper have just released the results of a national study that examines the rise of double majoring on university and college campuses. With some institutions seeing rates of double majors at or above 50 percent, this timely report explores why students double major, what types of double majors are More…
Registration now open for 3 Million Stories
Monday, October 22nd, 2012“Three Million Stories: Understanding the Lives and Careers of America’s Arts Graduates,” is a national conference hosted by Vanderbilt University in March, 2013. The conference brings together arts funders, policy-makers, educators, researchers, artists, journalists, graduates of arts programs, active participants in the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP), and other individuals with an interest or More…
Second Annual Creative Practice Bootcamp Aug. 31
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012The Curb Creative Practice Boot Camp offers a unique opportunity for faculty, staff, students, and Nashville community members to experiment alongside each other as they strengthen their creative capacities. The Curb Bootcamp focuses on creative practice—hands-on workshops that enable participants to experience the joy, the messiness, the range of decisions and trade-offs involved in creative More…
Come out swingin’: Tepper says art most relevant when people care enough to fight over it
Friday, July 13th, 2012Nothing stirs the ol’ juices like a good fight. Whether it’s the Thrilla in Manila, the ’Dores vs. Kentucky or a heated election, people come together over fights and contests. And that’s good. According to Steven Tepper, so it is with the arts. Read more in the spring 2012 edition of Arts and Science Magazine.
Vanderbilt Curb Center teams up with Indiana University to release the first annual report of the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project
Friday, June 22nd, 2012Arts Graduates Find Their Way to Jobs and Satisfying Lives Findings from a national study released this week show that Americans with arts degrees are generally satisfied with their educational and career experiences. For example, nine of ten (87%) arts graduates responding to the survey who are currently employed are satisfied with the job in More…
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