Visiting Artists in the Classroom
To inquire about scheduling an artist-in-residence for a class visit, please contact Rachel Thompson.
Lanecia & Ciona Rouse
Exhibition Opening:
September 18th
4:30-6:30 pm
Kindred Collage and Writing Workshops: September 24th, 4:00-6:00 pm and November 1st, 11:00-2:00 pm
Inaugural Berg Global Artist-in-Residence Fellow Lanecia Rouse will be collaborating with her sister, Nashville poet Ciona Rouse, on a semester-long exhibition housed at The Curb Center. Titled HAGOOD, this exhibition explores familial connection, Black Southern landscapes, and Toni Morrison’s concept of Rememory, which also serves as The Curb Center’s Fall 2025 theme.
Lanecia Rouse is a multifaceted visual artist whose work includes collage, photography, abstract painting, curation, writing, and teaching. Her work has been exhibited by University Museum of Texas Southern University, Reynolds Gallery, Second Street Gallery, and Zeitgeist Gallery among others. Her work was featured in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, which debuted at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN, from September to December 2023, before traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
Ciona Rouse is a poet, editor, and author of Vantablack, a chapbook from Third Man Books (2017). Her work has appeared in Oxford American, Wildness, Booth, The Account, Still, Talking River, Gabby Journal, Matter: a journal of political poetry and commentary and elsewhere. She served as a resident poet for the Nick Cave: FEAT exhibition at Frist Art Museum, culminating in a poem called “We,” which was named 2018’s “Best Poetry Performance” by Nashville Scene.
Adam W. Sadberry
October 27-28th
Performance with Pianist Nathan Cheung: October 28th
7:30 pm at Turner Hall
The Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt will be hosting Flutist Adam W. Sadberry for a two-day residency in October that will culminate in a performance at Turner Hall. Sadberry will be visiting The Curb Center to speak to the undergraduate Curb Scholars and will give a flute masterclass to Vanderbilt student musicians.
Adam W. Sadberry is an educator, advocate, and flutist who has previously been hosted by the Hollywood Bowl, Merkin Hall, Harlem Stage, Phillips Collection, Barnes Foundation, Chamber Music Detroit, Newport Classical, University of Chicago, Chautauqua Institution, and the Eastman School of Music, among other venues. Sadberry's music explores his relationship with his late grandfather, L. Alex Wilson, a prolific journalist with connections to the Civil Rights Movement.