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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.

Curb Center Exhibitions

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

September 10th - December 10th, 2026

Land Shapes

Land Shapes highlights the work of Vincent Pomilio, Roxanne Bartel, Lanecia Rouse, Jana Harper, and Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons, whose treatments of landscape represent their diverse backgrounds, locations, and media. Artworks were selected by students in the course Exhibiting Historical Art—The Abstract Landscape, taught by Professor Kevin Murphy in spring 2026. The course traced the development of landscape painting in the United States, from the eighteenth century when the realist influence of European landscapes was definitive, to the manifestation of American nationalism—specifically in the depiction of iconic American scenery by the Hudson River School—to abstract representations of the environment spurred by twentieth-century modernism.  

Exhibition Info

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Guided Tours at the Curb Center

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 Vanderbilt courses tailored to curricular goals. Facilitated by Curb Center staff, course visits are learner-centered experiences aimed at fostering observation, listening, and critical thinking skills. Course visits are open to all disciplines. To request a course visit to the Curb Center, please contact Rachel Thompson.

Past Exhibitions

Voices of Resilience

The exhibition highlights the lived experiences of Nashvillians whose stories illuminate the intersections of climate, community, and the solutions we build together to face climate impacts and challenges. Through photography, oral history, and mixed-media art, the exhibit invites visitors to reflect on resilience as both a personal and collective practice.

Resilience + Adaptation

This exhibition highlights the work of ten Middle Tennessee visual artists engaging with the concepts of resilience and adaptation that aid communities locally and globally in adjusting to the reality of climate change

HAGOOD: Lanecia Rouse and Ciona Rouse

HAGOOD invites you to the land, to the home, and to the table the Rouse sisters have set. There, we encounter and contemplate the necessary quest into past connections that make us human today.

Seeds from Svalbard

In summer 2025 Vanderbilt faculty Jana Harper, Lutz Koepnick, and Jonathan Rattner traveled to Svalbard to pursue a project on art and climate change in the Polar North.

Changemakers of the Twenty-First Century

A celebration of Americans who have shaped the world over the past twenty-five years through diverse forms of protest.

Extraction/Interaction

A consideration of how grief can transform artistic practice into a mechanism for positive enviornmental impact.

The Glory of the Day: LeXander Bryant Meets Florence B. Price

A photography exhibition by LeXander Bryant exploring the legacy of Florence B. Price, the first African-American woman to haver her composition performed by a major U.S. orchestra.

Reverberations: Roots of the Cedar Tree

A series of photographs by Stephen Alvarez from the Ancient Art Archive alongside contemporary paintings and sculptures.