SE02 | Holding Impact: Art, Science, and the Tasks of Contemporary Museums

SE02 | Holding Impact: Art, Science, and the Tasks of Contemporary Museums

You can listen to this and other episodes on Spotify | Apple | Google Podcasts.

Hosted by Lutz Koepnick

Amie Esslinger’s site-specific installation Holding Impact is currently on display in Cohen Memorial Hall on the campus of Vanderbilt University. In this program we will hear from Amie and from Amanda Hellman, the director of Vanderbilt’s Art Gallery, about Amie’s artistic process, the probing questions Amie’s work asks about the relation of contemporary art and advanced science, the unique opportunities afforded to university art museums to incite research and curiosity, and the pleasures second graders bring to art venues.  

Holding Impact is open for public viewing Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and by appointment, until May 15, 2024:
Vanderbilt University Art Gallery, Cohen Memorial Hall, 1220 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203

For more Information, please visit:

Amie Esslinger’s Homepage

Vanderbilt University Art Gallery: @vandyfinearts