News and Events



Spring 2010:

 
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Summer-Fall 2009:

 
December 2
The Curb Center Dedication. The Curb Center at Vanderbilt held a dedication celebration hosted by Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos in honor of Mike Curb and the Mike Curb Family Foundation. The evening’s keynote speaker was Rocco Landesman, Chair of the NEA. Invited guests included Mike and Linda Curb, members of the Curb family, Curb Music executives, Mayor Karl Dean, and a select group of Nashville business and creative community leaders. Musical guests included performers from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt.
 
July 20
Bill Ivey and Curb Center Associate Director for Policy Paula Cleggett hosted an Arts Industries Policy Forum on “Democratizing Access to Books.”  A representative from Google responded to Bill’s queries.  The forum was held at the Newseum’s Knight Conference Center, in Washington, D.C.
 
July 6
Curb Center Director Bill Ivey was the keynote speaker at this Demos conference, “Enabling the Expressive Life.”  The discussion centered on a collection of essays that examine the role of culture and cultural policy.  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
 
July 1
Curb Center at Vanderbilt (Nashville) Office moved. 
New address:
The Curb Center at Vanderbilt
1207 18th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37212
New phone number:  322-CURB (2872)
New fax number: 322-8165  
 
June 18
Bill Ivey opened the Annual Convention of the Americans for the Arts.  He discussed the position of the arts in a challenged economy while highlighting potential opportunities for the arts in a new presidential administration. Seattle, Washington. http://www.americansforthearts.org/events/2009/convention/schedules/plenary.asp

June 2

Curb Center Director Bill Ivey joined cultural critic Lewis Hyde to converse about the basis and prospects for cultural rights in the 21st century at the Getty Center.  Los Angeles, California  http://www.getty.edu/visit/calendar/days/06022009.html  
 

Spring 2009:

 
May 21
Bill Ivey participated in a panel discussion on Arts Inc. with arts patron and advocate Agnes Gund and Americans for the Arts President and CEO Robert Lynch.  Ovation TV Senior Vice President, Marketing, Gaynor Strachan-Chun will moderate the program.  The Core Club, New York City.
 
May 12
Curb Center Director Bill Ivey and Associate Director for Policy Paula Cleggett hosted the Arts Industries Policy Forum.  Ken Paulson, president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum, Newseum and Diversity Institute, was the guest conversationalist.  Washington, D.C
 
April 20
Curb Center Director Bill Ivey participated in a Nashville Film Festival event:  Protecting - or Losing - Cultural Rights in Our Democracy: A Conversation with Bill Ivey.   Veteran filmmaker Curt Hahn, best known for feature films No Regrets {Janine Turner}, Two Weeks (Sally Field), will interview Bill at the Green Hills Cinema, 3:30 PM
 
April 16
 Heather Hensman Kettrey presentsed "Guilty Pleasures: The Role of the Confession in the Missing Discourse of Female Sexual Desire," as part of the Culture and Creativity Workshop series.  Curb Center Conference Room, Buttrick Hall 123, 11:30 a.m.
 
March 26
Anastasia Curwood, Assistant Professor of African Diaspora Studies, spoke on her latest research as part of the Culture and Creativity Workshop series.
Curb Center Conference Room, Buttrick Hall 123, 11:30 a.m.
 
March 12
Curb Center Director Bill Ivey spoke on his role as Team Leader for President Obama's Transition Team for cultural agencies:  National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.  The discussion was part of the Culture and Creativity Workshop series.
Curb Center Conference Room, Buttrick Hall 123, 11:30 a.m.
 
March 11
Curb Center Associate Director Steven Tepper spoke at the Nashville Downtown Public Library on "Engaging Art:  The Future of Arts Participation in America."  His presentation covere the changing ways in which people are accessing and interacting with art and how the traditional arts may need to adapt to changing audience demands.
615 Church Street, 4:30 p.m.
 
March 2
Curb Center Associate Director Steven Tepper visits the Lied Center at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS,  for a discussion on Engaging Art:  The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium, 4:30 p.m.
 
February 12
Dr. Elizabeth Long Lingo
“Stars & the Big Fish: Negotiating the Core & Periphery of a Cultural Production System”
11:30am – 1:00pm
Buttrick 163
 
February 11
As guest speaker, Curb Center Director Bill Ivey addressed cultural policy at the Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 
January 29
Sociology Professor Dan Cornfield led the next Culture & Creativity Workshop, Curb Center Conference room (Buttrick 123), 11:30 – 1:00 p.m.
 
January 28
Bill Ivey joined former Chairmen of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to discuss the history and future of the Grammy awards.
Los Angeles, CA.
 
January 26
Bill Ivey participated in a colloquium, “Moving Forward A New Role for American Arts and Artists in the Global Age,” New York University
New York, New York
 
January 20
Curb Center Director Bill Ivey discussed the future of arts and public policy at the Sundance 2009 Film Festival, Park City, Utah.