Events
Throughout the year, the Curb Center hosts performances, artist talks, workshops, and other special events for the Vanderbilt community and the public at large. In addition to our rotating exhibitions and related programming, we sponsor events for Vanderbilt-affiliated groups and our community partners. If you are interested in reserving space at the Curb Center, please contact David Wilson.
Highlighted events from the past year can be viewed here.
Workshop | Mindful Drawing with Bill Doan, PhD
The Curb Center | 1801 Edgehill Avenue
Thursday, May 23, 2024 | 3:00–4:30 pm
Drawing mindfully grounds us in the here and now. In this workshop, facilitated by Bill Doan, PhD, we’ll explore drawing as an embodied process that orchestrates a deep connection between body, mind, and spirit where the quality of the drawing doesn’t matter. All are welcome to the Curb Center for this workshop, as well as the opening reception of Imagining Wholeness, Expressive Art and Well-Being, to follow at 4:30 pm.
William Doan, Ph.D. is a past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a Fellow in the College of Fellows of The American Theatre. Doan has co-authored three books and several plays. He has created solo performance projects at a variety of venues across the U.S., and abroad. Current work includes the performance piece, Frozen In The Toilet Paper Aisle of Life, part of a larger project, The Anxiety Project, which includes multiple short graphic narratives published in the Annals of Internal Medicine/Graphic Medicine and Cleaver Magazine. He is a Professor of Theatre in the College of Arts and Architecture, and Director of the Arts and Design Research Incubator at Penn State. Doan served as the Penn State Laureate for 2019-2020. His collaboration Inhale, Exhale, Draw, a short animated film, was been selected as a finalist in the World Health Organization’s Health For All Film Festival, 2021. Sticks and Stones, his newest animation collaboration has been selected for thirteen festivals nationally and internationally to date garnering multiple awards.
Opening Reception | Imagining Wholeness: Expressive Art and Well-Being
The Curb Center | 1801 Edgehill Avenue
Thursday, May 23, 2024 | 4:30–6:30 pm
Please join us for an opening reception in celebration of the Curb Center’s summer exhibition, Imagining Wholeness: Expressive Art and Well-Being. Imagining Wholeness draws on the expressive arts to explore diverse cancer experiences and the healing power of belonging to a creative community. This exhibition brings together written work created through Express Yourself, a writing workshop offered jointly by the Curb Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Ingram Cancer Center; selections of visual art from studio workshops collaboratively facilitated by the Curb Center and Gilda’s Club of Middle Tennessee; and work by professional visual artists whose lives have been affected by cancer. Imagining Wholeness elevates the personal experiences of those living with or supporting a loved one through cancer and demonstrates the power of the expressive arts in navigating illness.
This reception is free and open to the public. Please RSVP on the Events@Vanderbilt page. We hope you can join us for this festive gathering!
Exhibition | Imagining Wholeness: Expressive Art and Well-Being
The Curb Center | 1801 Edgehill Avenue
Friday, May 24–Friday, June 28 | 10:00 am–4:00 pm
Imagining Wholeness draws on the expressive arts to explore diverse cancer experiences and the healing power of belonging to a creative community. This exhibition brings together written work created through Express Yourself, a writing workshop offered jointly by the Curb Center and Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Ingram Cancer Center; selections of visual art from studio workshops collaboratively facilitated by the Curb Center and Gilda’s Club of Middle Tennessee; and work by professional visual artists whose lives have been affected by cancer. Imagining Wholeness elevates the personal experiences of those living with or supporting a loved one through cancer and demonstrates the power of the expressive arts in navigating illness.