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Aisha Cousins is a Brooklyn based mixed media artist. Her current project, DivaDutch, is a series of site specific, participatory public performances executed in predominantly black environments including Bedford-Stuyvesant, (Brooklyn), Brixton(London), and Paris. In 2008, Aisha performed Diva Dutch at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts and she is slated to perform it this year at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.…more

Watkins College will host College Goal Sunday on Sunday, February 22 from 2-4pm. College Goal Sunday is a non-profit program that provides free information and assistance in completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Students and families applying for financial assistance for higher education are encouraged to attend. For more details, visit the official website at : www.collegegoalsundayTN.org.…more

Fine Arts Professor Ron Lambert will exhibit his photography and sculpture in the Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt. This exhibit opens with a Gallery Talk and reception on Thursday, February 5, from 5-6:30pm. For more information about this exhibit or directions to the event, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/sarrattgallery. For more information about happenings in the Watkins Fine Art Department, visit http://watkins.edu/current-students/academic-programs/fine-art. …more

They met as students at Watkins College of Art, Design & Film in Nashville, Tennessee.  Jaime Raybin, Jenny Luckett, Mahlea Jones, Janet Heilbronn, Iwonka Waskowski and Quinn Dukes sensed a connection between their artwork.  Sharing a similar artistic language and a curiosity of materials, all were interested in making work with personal resonance in a conceptual manner. Soon after these creative relationships were apparent, the six came together to create the art group, Off the Wall.…more