Heard Libraries Exhibitions
Library exhibitions listed in chronological order, beginning with the most recent installations.
Brighter and Brighter: The Poetry Prints of Sam Maitin, Spring 2026
Infinite Worlds: Science Fiction and the Future of Humanity, Spring 2026
Seeing Mary Magdalene with Different Eyes, Spring 2026
The Gertrude C. and Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series Pop-Up Exhibits, Fall 2025-present
Here, There, and Yonder: The Limitless Circle of Flannery O’Connor, Summer 2025
Book as Art: Preserving Cultural Heritage and Knowledge, Spring/Summer 2025
Celebrating 150 Years of Evolution at Vanderbilt, Summer 2025
Alive with Pride: LGBTQ Existence and Resistance in Middle Tennessee, Summer 2025
Dark Testament (Traveling Exhibit), Spring 2025
Dare to Grow: 1945 to Present, Fall/Winter 2025
The Tortured Poets Department (Vanderbilt’s Version), Fall/Winter 2024
Vanderbilt Fifth Decade: 1915-1925, Fall/Winter 2024
Please Continue: Literary Correspondence as Conversation, Fall/Winter 2024
Blandings, Jeeves, and Psmith: The Worlds of P.G. Wodehouse, Fall/Winter 2024
The Blair String Quartet, Fall 2024
W.T. Bandy, Baudelaire, and Modern French Collections, Summer 2024
All That Glitters: Vanderbilt Silver and Gold, Spring/Summer 2024, Summer/Fall 2023
The Enduring Legacy of Antoinette Brown: Celebrating 50 Years of Divinity School Lectures, Spring/Summer 2024
Christine Sadler Coe, Spring/Summer 2024
Native American Literature, Summer 2024
Dare to Be, Dare to Do: 1873-1945, Fall/Winter 2023
New Frontiers: Vanderbilt’s Fourth Decade, 1905-1915, Fall 2023
Cherokee and Chickasaw Students at Vanderbilt, 1885–1899, Summer/Fall 2023
“Vanderbilt Self-Portrait” Project, Summer/Fall 2023
Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Fall/Winter 2023
Bricks and Beyond: Edifices of the Owen Graduate School, Fall 2023
V150: The Many Faces of Vanderbilt, Fall 2023
The Blair School of Music: From Peabody to Blakemore, Fall 2023
Alfred Leland Crabb: Pillar of Peabody, Fall 2023
Color & Conflict: Bishop Joseph A. Johnson and Vanderbilt Unviersity, Fall 2023
Reading Between the Lines: The Central Library from Cover to Cover, Fall 2023
Edward Emerson Barnard: Vanderbilt’s First Astronomer, Fall 2023
United in Purpose: 150 Years of Medicine and Nursing at Vanderbilt, Fall 2023
Building a University: Vanderbilt’s Fourth Decade, 1905-1915, Fall/Winter 2023
The Reinvented Life of Belle da Costa Greene, Spring 2023
Tennessee Triennial, Spring 2023
Buildings, Spring 2023
1973, 1983-2013 TV News, Spring 2023
Building a University: Vanderbilt’s Third Decade, 1895-1905, Fall 2022
Benton Chapel/Buildings at Vanderbilt, Fall 2022
The Campus Astronomical Observatory/Buildings at Vanderbilt, Fall 2022
New Arts, New Directions, Fall 2022
“Education, Preparation, Negotiation”: Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. and His Legacy of Nonviolence, Fall 2022
Military Medicine at VUMC in the World Wars, Fall 2022
Miniature and Small Books From the Vanderbilt Libraries, Fall 2022
Evolution of the Ophthalmoscope and of Ophthalmology Pioneers in Nashville, Spring 2022
Big Cheeks: John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, Spring 2022
Isolation for the Ages: Depictions of Leprosy, Spring 2022
Home Sapiens: Finding Belonging in Climate Fiction, Spring 2022
Retrocomputing: Computers Get Personal 1975-1981, Spring 2022
Octavia Butler: Grand Dame of Science Fiction, Spring 2022
2012-2022: A Decade of Library Fellows, Spring 2022
From Golden Type to Double Gilt: Fine Press Books at Vanderbilt’s Libraries, Spring 2022
Nashville: A Pandemic Observed, Spring 2022
Art 1502: Overthink/Understand, Fall 2021
Distinctive Collections Overview, Fall 2021
The Art of Healing, Fall 2021
19th-Century Periodicals: Framing the New American Standard, Spring 2021
Mechanical Engineering Hall: Teaching Engineering in the Age of Steam, Fall 2021
West Side Row: Vandebilt’s First Dormitory, Fall 2021
The American Presidency: Challenges of the Executive Branch, Fall 2021
Building a University: Vanderbilt’s Second Decade, 1885-1895, Fall 2021
Papermaking in Europe and America, Fall 2021
The Revised Common Lectionary, 2020
Fables and Fantasies: The Illustrations of J.J. Grandville, Spring 2020
Found in Cuba: The Ingenuity and Creativity of Ediciones Vigía, Spring 2020
Tending to Popular Thought: What People Read and Why, Spring 2020
G is for Gorey: The Remarkable Worlds of Edward Gorey, Spring 2020
The Daily Diary of the American Dream: The History of Nashville’s Newspapers, Spring 2019
African American First Editions from the 20th Century, Spring 2019
Romanian Revolution in 1989, 2019
Roots, Influences, and Beyond: Christian Hebraism and Bible Translation, 2019
The Making of Art in the Christian Tradition, 2019
Creative Women: Marshall Chapman and Mildred Haun, Summer 2019
Black Studies As (A) Movement: AADS @ 50, Fall 2019
The Iris at Vanderbilt and Peabody, Summer 2019
Our Crowd: Student Life at the University of Nashville, Spring 2019
143 Years of Commencement, Spring 2019
Nikki Giovanni: Black Feeling, Black Talk, summer 2019
The Ides of March: Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” Fall 2019
Thinking 3D: Visualizing the Brain from the Renaissance to the Present</a>, Fall 2019
Strengthening Ties: Cornelius Vanderbilt and The Founding of Vanderbilt University, Fall 2019
All Hallows: Witches, Magic and Things That Go Bump, Fall 2019
Vanderbilt’s Distinctive Collections, Spring 2018
From Listeners to Leaders: A History of Women at Vanderbilt, Summer 2018
The News as It Happened: Journalism in Vanderbilt’s Special Collections, Fall 2018
The Power of Propaganda, Spring 2018
Conserving a Book of Hours, 2018
Banned Books, 2018
Flag Day, 2018
Doctor Frankenstein’s Lab, 2018
Othello, 2018
Welcome Back Students, 2018
Looking Back: Vanderbilt Before 1900, Summer 2018
Vanderbilt Silver, Fall 2018
Vandy Goes to War, Fall 2018
Kirkland Hall, Fall 2018
Banned Books of the Bible, 2018
The American Presidency, Spring 2018
Maladies, Elixers and Healers, 2018
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol, Fall 2018
The Once and Future Book, Fall 2017
Vanderbilt’s Colombiana, 2017
Cultures in Clay: The Shaping of Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations, 2017
Highlights from the History of Medicine Collections, 2017
Tracing the Movement of Populations: American Legacies of Expansion and Removal, 2017
The American Girl Experience: 20th Century and Beyond, 2017
The Shadow of the Sun : E.E. Barnard and the Solar Eclipse, Spring 2017
Tracing the Movement of Populations in Latin America, Spring 2017
Colombian Independence, Spring 2017
Colombia in the 19th Century, 2017
Rebellion and National Building in 19th-Century Colombia, 2017
Colombia in the Early 20th Century, 2017
Spring 2016 Dean’s Fellows, Spring 2016
Book as Art: Medieval Necessity and Modern Invention, 2016
The Art of the Book, 2016
Visible Learning: The Dean’s Fellows Program , 2016
Peabody Abroad; The Korean Project, 2016
Syriac: Preserving an Endangered World Culture, 2016
A Reflection on Seven Years in Divinity Library Exhibit Programs, 2016
30th Anniversary of Susan Gray School; Academics in Action: Celebrating the Human & Organization Development Department at Peabody College, 2016
What’s for Dinner?, 2016
Picturing Our World: Visualizing Data, 2015
Contini-Volterra Photographic Archive, 2015
Picturing Our World: Killer Collections, 2015
Picturing Our World: Vanderbilt Judaica Collection: 70 Years in the Making, 2015
Picturing Our World: History of Recorded Sound, 2015
Picturing Our World: The Depiction of Culture in Children’s Literature, 2015
Picturing Our World: America Looks in the Mirror with Jack Corn, 2015
Picturing Our World: 75 Years of Special Collections, 2015
Visual Systems of Organization, 2015
IMPACT at Vanderbilt 1964-1969, 2015
The Golden Age of Sports Journalism, Spring 2014
The J. Leon Helguera Collection of Colombiana, 2014
The Fight for Freedom: Civil Rights, 2014
The Fight for Freedom: Bill of Rights, 2014
President Kennedy’s Visit to Nashville, 2014
Toni Morrison: An American Literary Treasure, 2013
Dorothy Parks Evins, 2013
The Book as Art: Artists’ Books, 2013
Presidential Inaugural Speeches, 2013
Les Fleurs du Mal, 2013
A Look Back at the History of The Tennessean, Spring 2012
Stage & Screen: The Star Quality of Vanderbilt’s Performing Arts Collections, 2012
God in Music City: The Sounds of Religion In Nashville, Tennessee, 2012
Making Strides: Women as Agents of Social Change, 2012
Baudeliare’s Poe: Selections from the W.T. Bandy Collection, 2012
From A to B, 2012
Come One Along! Lamar Alexander’s Journey as Governor, Fall 2011
The Book as Art: Beautiful Books, Fall 2011
Journalists’ Papers, 2010
Vanderbilt Television News Archive, 2010
The Sixties at Fifty, 2010
Journalists’ Papers, 2010
An Enduring Legacy: The Life of Alexander Heard, 2009
History of the Divinity School, 2001
Documenting Movements: Identity and Popular Culture in Latin America, 1999
Levee Press; William J. Darby; A Bounty Collection; A Collection of Books on Scotland, Its History and Heraldry, the Isle of Skye and the Outer Hebrides, 1999
George Worley Boswell, 1997
At the Forefront of Change: Paris, 1900-1970. Selections from the Pascal Pia Collection, 1997
Rivers of America, 1996
Association of Academic University Presses, 1996
Mark Twain, 1995
Fletcher Brockman’s Missionary Life in Asia, 1995
Edward Emerson Barnard: Star Gazer, 1995
C. B. Notes, 1995