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are still cheaper than at the local multiplex—
general admission is $5. Ticket sales begin 30
minutes before screening time. Titles, dates
and times are subject to change, so call first.
Sarratt Student Center
615/322-2425
www.vanderbilt.edu/sarratt/cinema
What happens during your vacation
at Vanderbilt stays at Vanderbilt. You
can learn belly dancing, or take one of more
than 40 other classes scheduled weekly, in
Vanderbilt Dance Program classes at Memorial
Gym. Offerings include ballet, tap, jazz,
funk, modern, hip-hop, Irish, Spanish,
Bharatanatyam (classical dance of India),
ballroom, swing and Latin, plus Pilates, yoga
and t’ai chi. A single class costs $10, or you
can buy a series. Registration is open to students
and the general public aged 14 and
older. If you don’t want to risk returning
home with a slipped disc, sit back and enjoy
student performances by Momentum or
Rhythm & Roots, two dance companies that
showcase student choreography and their
original works.
Sarratt Student Center
615/322-2471
www.vanderbilt.edu/sarratt/dance
Art, Indoors and Out
Vanderbilt possesses a stellar collection of
art, ranging from European Old Master
paintings and modern American prints to
African, Oceanic and pre-Columbian works.
Totaling more than 5,000 works, selections
from the collection often are showcased in
exhibits inside the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery.
Housed in a red-brick building known as the
Old Gym—imagine playing basketball in this
tiny space—the gallery presents six exhibitions
each year. The gallery is closed during
academic breaks.
23rd and West End avenues
615/322-0605
www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery
“Twelve Campus Types”
For a contemporary spin on art, duck
into the main lobby of the Sarratt
Student Center. The Sarratt Gallery
presents eight to 10 shows annually with
an emphasis on works by emerging
regional and national artists. Annual
events include the Student Art Show, a
juried exhibit held in April in conjunction
with Parents Weekend, and the Holiday
Arts Festival in December, which
features contemporary crafts for sale by
Tennessee artists.
Sarratt Student Center
615/322-2471
www.vanderbilt.edu/sarratt/gallery
For a blast from the past, check out
“Twelve Campus Types” on Rand
Terrace, a piece commissioned in the early
1970s. The bronze sculpture depicts a dozen
human figures ranging from a man with a
briefcase to students in bell-bottoms. There’s
also a Puryear Mims sculpture in the Sarratt
courtyard nearby. The stone sculpture of
three nude females is called “The Three Faces
of Fate” and was commissioned from the
late Mims, a Nashville artist and Vanderbilt
art professor, also in the early 1970s. Two
more works by Mims can be found in Benton
Chapel on the John Frederick Oberlin
Divinity Quadrangle.
“The Three
Faces of Fate”
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