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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…
Announcing THATCamp at Vanderbilt
Monday, October 22nd, 2012THATCamp Vanderbilt University will take place November 2-3, 2012 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Center for Second Language Studies, Center for Teaching, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy, and Warren Center’s Digital Humanities Seminar will co-host THATCamp Vanderbilt University. THATCamp Vanderbilt University will hold workshop sessions on Friday, November 2, that will feature hands-on 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…
Discussion on Expressive Life, Creative Practice; Arts Industries Policy Forum, National Center for Creative Aging; Thursday, May 17th, 2:00pm
Monday, May 7th, 2012The Arts Industries Policy Forum will join the National Center for Creative Aging for a first-time discussion on expressive life and creative practice as a new frame for connecting public policy with issues around aging, on Thursday, May 17th at the University Club of Washington, DC, at 2:00 p.m. Bill Ivey and Elizabeth Long Lingo More…
Arts Industries Policy Forum Conference, Accounting for Culture in the Military: Implications for Future Humanitarian Cooperation, Dec. 9, 2011
Thursday, December 1st, 2011On Friday, December 9, 2011, at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., the Arts Industries Policy Forum will host a one-day conference addressing the U.S. military’s efforts to increase its cultural expertise. The conference will be webcast here on Friday. The webcast will begin approximately 10 minutes after the posted meeting time. You will need Windows Media Player to watch the webcast. More…
Robert Levine, The Price of Free: How the Internet is Destroying the Culture Business, Wed., Nov. 2, 4:30pm
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011The fall 2011 Curb Creative Leadership Lecture features Robert Levine. He has written for Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, and the arts and business sections of the New York Times. Levine offers an innovative call to action to guard against further value destruction of the American media. This lecture contributes to the ongoing discussion facilitated by the Curb Center on the vitality of expressive life and creative enterprise in the United States. The lecture will be held in the First Amendment Center Lecture Hall, Vanderbilt University, 1801 Edgehill Ave. More…
Steven Tepper, Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Tepper makes a strong argument that arts protests are good for democracy and not simply collateral damage from the so‐called culture wars. He suggests that the art world has too often tried to silence its critics and that a 21st century approach to arts conflicts requires balancing the needs of artists with the needs of the community. He argues that art is most relevant when people care enough to fight over it. Communities are healthiest when people have avenues for expressing their hopes and fears. Fights over art provide the democratic space to negotiate differing views of community life and community identity. More…
Bill Ivey on Censorship, Clyde Fitch Report
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011As reported previously at the CFR, the National Coalition Against Censorship, together with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School and the School of Visual Arts, held two panels in recent weeks coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the decency clause, the 1990 law requiring that the National Endowment for the Arts weigh “general standards of decency and respect for the diverse beliefs and values of the American public” before determining its grants. More…
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