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Art, Indoors and Out
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for
Research on Human Development presents
four excellent exhibits annually that celebrate
the artistic skill and diversity of people
with disabilities. The Center also has a permanent
collection of 18 or more works by
persons with disabilities. One of the annual
exhibits is “Creative Expressions,” which runs
mid-October through December and is cosponsored
by the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
and the Nashville Mayor’s Advisory
Committee for People with Disabilities.
Peabody campus, MRL Building
21st Avenue South and Edgehill Avenue
615/322-8240
Art at the Kennedy Center
You’ll find another art gem in the foyer of
the Hobbs Laboratory of Human Development
(also part of the Kennedy Center).
Titled simply “Peabody, 1968,” the commissioned
work by the late American artist Ben
Shahn interprets the human condition in a
scene depicting two human figures on either
side of a large sun-like face. One figure rises
as if in triumph over the challenges of life; the
other figure plummets downward in despair.
Just outside the main entrance of the Hobbs
Laboratory is “Come Play,” a metal sculpture
by the late Katherine Haven depicting stylized
human figures dancing in a circle. Four children
at play beckon an isolated fifth child to
join them. The work was inspired by the late
Nicholas Hobbs, psychologist and Peabody
professor, and his pioneering philosophy for
treating emotionally disturbed children.
S u m m e r 2 0 0 5
Learning
Vacations
Combine your Vanderbilt visit with
an art class or workshop. Classes
at Sarratt Art Studios are open to
all Vanderbilt students, staff, faculty, alumni, and
other members of the Nashville community. Choose
pottery, watercolor, stained glass, darkroom techniques,
jewelry, drawing, bookmaking or mosaics, to
name a few. You can also master the fundamentals
of making glass beads on a torch or learn principles
of interior design. Other classes teach batik fabricmaking
and hand-tinting of black-and-white photographs.
There are weekend sessions during the year,
as well as summer adult studio-art classes and
workshops that run mid-June through July. Summer
class fees are $110 for alumni and family members
and $120 for the Nashville community. Classes also
require a lab fee that varies according to the class.
Sarratt Student Center
615/343-0491 or 615/322-2471
www.vanderbilt.edu/sarratt/art
Elsewhere on campus, Vanderbilt Law
School has a collection of 11 pieces of
outsider art on display. The collection includes
two pieces by the late Homer Green, a Nashvillearea
artist whose painted wood animal sculptures
are included in collections around the
world, as well as works by wood-carver Alvin
Jarrett and painter Robert E. Smith.
There’s also plenty of art on the Vanderbilt
University Medical Center campus, ranging
from “The Sea Garden,”an interactive mural
by Nashville artist Lanie Gannon in Vanderbilt
Children’s Hospital, to an enormous glass
bowl by Dale Chihuly, the father of contem-
“Come Play”
porary glass art, in the lobby of the Eskind
Medical Library. Don’t miss sculptures in
the Chapman Quadrangle, a secluded parklike
area with works by Maurice Blik, Joe Sorci,
Lin Swensson, Buddy Jackson and Bill Doak.
Other notable works of art include “Flying
Torso” by Alan LeQuire, BA’78, located
behind the Eskind Library. Another LeQuire
is “Portrait of Margaret Branscomb,” a fetching
life-size bronze of the wife of Chancellor
Harvie Branscomb, open book in hand, beneath
a magnolia tree behind Neely Auditorium.
The Sculpture Garden adjacent to the terrace
of Peabody Library also features beautiful
landscaping around three sculptures.