Critic's Pick: 'Resilience + Adaptation' & 'Seeds From Svalbard'

A university setting is an ideal environment for art that asks difficult questions. Vanderbilt’s Curb Center is proving that point by hosting two exhibitions that contend with themes of resilience and adaptation in the face of climate change. What’s additionally interesting is how the exhibitions approach their common theme in markedly different ways. Resilience + Adaptation is a group show of painting, sculpture and photography by 10 different Nashville-area artists. The exhibition is the result of a selection process by jurors from Vanderbilt and the Frist Art Museum, and participating artists include Aletha Carr, ILL.SAN, Georganna Greene, Martica Griffin, Meagan Claire Hall, Courtney Adair Johnson, DaShawn Lewis, Stephan Micheletto-Blouin, Martha Morales Purucker and Sarah Spillers. Simultaneously, the Curb Center will host Seeds From Svalbard: Art, Resilience and Adaptation in the Polar North, which is the result of a long investigation into the polar north by Vanderbilt faculty members Jana Harper, Lutz Koepnick and Jonathan Rattner. This work includes experimental film and research-based installations, and will stay on view continuously in Vanderbilt’s Buttrick Hall Atrium until March 6. 

Through April 21 & March 6 at Vanderbilt’s Curb Center

1801 Edgehill Ave.