Matt Baratz hosts the First Friday event at Local Honey for one main reason – the artistic look. “Back in 2014 when I was a freshman at Belmont, I just kind of approached them, told them I liked the property, the grungy looking vibe,” said Baratz. The name of the event derives from a local artistic festival in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. It happens the first Friday of every month and establishes a starting point for many people. “It was something that I really missed fr

Alternative rock band Arcade Fire premiered its highly anticipated documentary “The Reflektor Tapes” in theatres around the world Wednesday, including Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre. The band’s 2013 album “Reflektor” ditched the angsty, bleak undertones of its previous LP “The Suburbs,” 2010, for dance music, disco balls and ambiguous lyrical references to Greek mythology and Joan of Arc. The album demands the listener’s full attention and so does the documentary chronicling it

Senior leadership decided this summer to convert the Hitch and Massey Performing Arts Center parking lot on 17th Avenue into a visitors-only lot this summer–thus closing its 43 spots to the students and faculty the lot once served. And many of them are not happy about it. “It’s a slap in the face to staff in particular,” said art professor Jim Meaders. Meaders teaches in the Leu Center for Visual Arts, one of the buildings affected by this decision; the others include the MPA

Tori Barnes, freshman (Pictured on the right): “Since we were little, it doesn’t really make sense, but I’ve always been dark and like the moon and she was always the sun. I would always be up all through the night and she’d just be fast asleep.” Cece Barnes, freshman (Pictured on the left): “I was never a daytime person though.” TB: “No, I was just always the moon and she was the sun.” This article is the second in a weekly series hosted by the Belmont Vision, reported by Ni

“All the tattoos I have have stories. She’s shattered to represent society and how people think you have to fit into this perfect shell but you don’t have to in reality. Everyone thought she was the perfect woman but in reality she was shattered. I think, to me, it’s more or less something that’s an expression in a way that nothing otherwise could be expressed. A lot of faith and religion actually teach that you should wear your beliefs on your skin, so for me, that’s art th

History and art buffs alike gathered in the Leu Art Gallery Wednesday night to discuss the  power of propaganda and portrayal of the public figure through history. “Pierce, Schafer, and Sherraden: A Conversation About Political Art,” run by panel members Daniel Schafer of Belmont’s history department, James Pierce of the graphic design department and Jim Sherraden, master printer and curator of Hatch Show Print, focused on various forms of political art in America and Russia,

The theme of the night was collections, the Leu Center faculty gathered in Gallery 121 Thursday evening to share what they considered worthy of “putting on the wall.” Curated by sculpting professor John Watson, “Artists Collect Art” was an art show centered on the private collections of art professors at Belmont. The show covered a wide variety of mediums from sandstone statues of Hindu goddesses to a laminated paper deck of handmade Star Wars Uno cards. The underlying theme

Wednesday morning, inside the Leu Visual Arts Center, an awards ceremony was held for the Annual Student Art Show. Around 90 students entered their work into the show showing off different skills. There were categories for photography, sculptures, digital images and more, and they were judged by faculty members. “Their criteria were presentation and, in a lot of cases, skill and execution of the work. More of technique, you know, how good of a drawing was it according to thei

Matchboxes, compact mirrors, pocket watches, old costume jewelry and vintage pins make up Brooke Griffith’s jewelry line, Glen and Effie. The junior art education major has formal art training, but she also has an aptitude for creating unusual art, both of which make a combination that she takes to another level with her interest in fashion. “I’ve always thought in shapes and colors and forms. It just makes sense to me; it’s just how my mind operates,” Griffith said. “Every p

The Leu Art Gallery is hosting a regional portfolio exchange through most of October that combines an unique medium, printmaking, with the work of artists in Nashville and on the other side of the country. Its title, “Tributaries,” reflects the project’s conglomeration of prints from the South and Mountain West, said gallery director Jessica Owings. “[It’s] the place where two forces come together and meet,” she said, “just as the artists from both studios did for the creatio

When 16 Belmont drawing students were given a final project last semester, they never expected it to turn into what they called a social experiment. The assignment developed by former Belmont professor James Darr required each of the students to draw one section of a photograph and then combining it all to make one collaborative image. Students said it not only tested their artistic abilities, but also the group’s willingness to work together. Their collaborative grid-drawing

When sophomore Lindsey Button found an email from late-night host Conan O’Brien’s “Team Coco” in her inbox late one night, no one was more surprised than she was. The request was even more astonishing. Team Coco asked for a portrait of O’Brien Button had done in high school art class more than a year ago, to be shown at the Time Warner Center in New York City, the skyscraper home of CNN studios and on “Conan,” the flame-haired talk show host’s nightly show. “I remember the fi

It’s not that shopping can save the world, but the philanthropic fashion Feedback Clothing Co. offers can help struggling artisans in many countries. Feedback, the longest-serving student run-business on campus, keeps that mission as its focus as it adds new lines to the clothing and accessories it carries. “We’re striving to be Belmont students’ first stop for fashion by carrying contemporary offerings at reasonable prices,” said Feedback manager Linda Wu, a senior marketing