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The Curb Center at Vanderbilt
1207 18th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37212
615-322-2872
The Curb Center is a national policy center conducting research and fostering dialogue that examines the practices, laws, regulations and norms shaping creative enterprise and expressive life in America.
The Curb Center also is a leader in the national movement to make creativity and expressive life central to campus life and the undergraduate experience. As catalyst of Vanderbilt’s Creative Campus initiative, the center translates ideas into practice and reflects on our experiences to provide an action research perspective to this burgeoning field.
Several core principles underlie this work:
The Curb Center seeks to identify and strengthen the public interest related to creative enterprise and expressive life.
This aim includes considering whether Americans have access to diverse creative content; whether new and emerging artists or art forms have opportunities to connect to audiences; whether citizen creative expression is supported; and whether existing laws and regulation impede or facilitate the ability of citizens to discover, use and share our nation’s storehouse of cultural heritage–from films to sound recordings and published writing.
The Curb Center takes a broad definition of the system of creative enterprise and expressive life.
The Curb Center moves away from narrow definitions focused on traditional cultural sectors and agencies to consider the entire system of creative enterprise and expressive life in the U.S.—from amateur to professional art making, small nonprofits to large commercial media companies, spontaneous street festivals to highly choreographed exhibitions. The Curb Center recognizes the importance of decisions and activities that impact our cultural system—in settings as diverse as music studios, hushed museums, art foundation board rooms or the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
The Curb Center recognizes the importance of bringing different voices and perspectives together.
Creative insight and critical assessments are not solely the purview of the lone genius—instead they emerge through bringing together diverse perspectives and expertise. The Center sponsors meetings and conferences, and publishes articles and books that foster dialogue and debate around the challenges and opportunities facing a healthy and vital system of creative enterprise and expression.
Our Signature Programs
The Curb Center’s Washington-based Arts Industries Policy Forum offers a one-of-a-kind, non-partisan forum for engaging career governmental leaders in discussions of how regulation and legislation might directly or indirectly affect the vitality of America’s cultural life and system of creative enterprise.
The Curb Center’s Program in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership is a unique curricular and programmatic experience designed to prepare students to lead and navigate an increasingly complex system of creative enterprise and expression in the U.S. and abroad. The Program is the cornerstone of Vanderbilt’s Creative Campus initiative.
The Curb Center also is a leader in the national movement to make creativity and expressive life central to campus life and the undergraduate experience. As catalyst of Vanderbilt’s Creative Campus initiative, the center translates ideas into practice and reflects on our experiences to provide an action research perspective to this burgeoning field.
Several core principles underlie this work:
The Curb Center seeks to identify and strengthen the public interest related to creative enterprise and expressive life.
This aim includes considering whether Americans have access to diverse creative content; whether new and emerging artists or art forms have opportunities to connect to audiences; whether citizen creative expression is supported; and whether existing laws and regulation impede or facilitate the ability of citizens to discover, use and share our nation’s storehouse of cultural heritage–from films to sound recordings and published writing.
The Curb Center takes a broad definition of the system of creative enterprise and expressive life.
The Curb Center moves away from narrow definitions focused on traditional cultural sectors and agencies to consider the entire system of creative enterprise and expressive life in the U.S.—from amateur to professional art making, small nonprofits to large commercial media companies, spontaneous street festivals to highly choreographed exhibitions. The Curb Center recognizes the importance of decisions and activities that impact our cultural system—in settings as diverse as music studios, hushed museums, art foundation board rooms or the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
The Curb Center recognizes the importance of bringing different voices and perspectives together.
Creative insight and critical assessments are not solely the purview of the lone genius—instead they emerge through bringing together diverse perspectives and expertise. The Center sponsors meetings and conferences, and publishes articles and books that foster dialogue and debate around the challenges and opportunities facing a healthy and vital system of creative enterprise and expression.
Our Signature Programs
The Curb Center’s Washington-based Arts Industries Policy Forum offers a one-of-a-kind, non-partisan forum for engaging career governmental leaders in discussions of how regulation and legislation might directly or indirectly affect the vitality of America’s cultural life and system of creative enterprise.
The Curb Center’s Program in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership is a unique curricular and programmatic experience designed to prepare students to lead and navigate an increasingly complex system of creative enterprise and expression in the U.S. and abroad. The Program is the cornerstone of Vanderbilt’s Creative Campus initiative.
