In a warehouse on 3rd Avenue, you may find a teacher sourcing affordable classroom supplies. Or a kid sifting through scraps, colors and trinkets to find pieces that unleash their curiosity. Or someone experiencing homelessness who’s found a creative outlet — and a community.
While the Frist Art Museum has garnered a reputation for innovation, it’s recently debuted one of its most interactive exhibits yet. Upon entering Venice and the Ottoman Empire, the sounds of crashing waves instantly immerse visitors in the Mediterranean landscape. The exhibit represents the…
Artistic inspiration flows through Nashville as surely as the Cumberland River. While many have traveled to Music City with the hopes of becoming the next great musical creator, a large number of our artists are homegrown. Artists — and the art they create — leave an indelible mark on our so…
Nashville Design Week returns this year to celebrate the brightest creatives within Nashville’s society of producers and innovators. The citywide, weeklong event will include studio visits and a host of discussions about the state of the industry in hopes of growing Nashville’s thriving desi…
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Humans have felt compelled to leave their mark since the beginning of their existence. From cave drawings to what is today known as graffiti — complete with the artist’s tag — the artform has evolved into beautifully composed murals. These designs all have one thing in common, though: They a…
Consider this a PSA: If you share a cool lettering design you find on social media, do not pass go without crediting its creator. Artists like Cymone Wilder will thank you ever so much. By day, Cymone is the Senior Art Director for Global Brand Creative at Amazon Web Services. By night — and…
If you’ve dined at one of Chef Sean Brock’s restaurants, you are liable to recognize Patrick Hayes’ Aberdeen Studio custom furniture and cabinetry designs — about which the renowned chef says, “Aberdeen Studio is as good as it gets. They are the first team I contact when I dream up something…
If you head to Fall Creek Falls to see the changing leaves this autumn, treat yourself to an overnight stay at the beautifully renovated Lodge at Fall Creek Falls. The Lodge is a shining example of how ESa — a renowned architecture design firm — has left its mark on Middle Tennessee. It’s pr…
Whether organizing activities or regulating agricultural cycles, time has always been a product of the human imagination, and the knowledge of timekeeping has long been imperative to society. Even today, how lost would you be without a mobile phone, where a clock is standard issue?
Lipscomb University students and staff have been working “9 to 5” to bring us a first-of-its-kind fashion exhibit — “Dolly Parton & The Makers: My Life In Rhinestones” — coming to Beaman Library’s John C. Hutcheson Gallery from Oct. 31 – Dec. 9. Guests will get up close and personal with…
On a beautiful late-summer evening, supporters of the arts community gathered at The Parthenon for the inaugural Nashville Art Gala. The sensory experience brought together artists and the art-loving community with sights and sounds throughout the evening. The event was the brainchild of AS …
Originally a form of artistic rebellion, Impressionists like Monet, Renoir, Degas and more were known for their bare impressions of form and stunning use of natural light to define the moment they captured on their canvas. Today, Master Artist Roger Dale Brown builds upon the Impressionist t…
If you’re like me and grew up in the Nashville area when a family outing to Cheekwood was your idea of an art crawl, you know how vastly abundant our beloved “Athens of the South’s” artistic landscape has become. Even still, the Belle Meade estate remains a cornerstone within the arts commun…
Mixed media is coming to Cheekwood Estate & Gardens with their newly announced artist in residence Sarah Nguyen. Using a technique reminiscent of Jewish paper cutting — the traditional artwork created by cutting figures into paper — Sarah creates both abstract and recognizable forms with…
While Nashville is known as Music City, it is a variety of performing and visual arts that truly bring character to Nashville. This year we profiled just some of the incredible organizations dedicated to music and movement that elevate the city.
The state of Arkansas is a nature lover's paradise. Filled with natural beauty like the Ozarks in the north and Hot Springs in the center, the state has worked tirelessly to preserve its precious natural landmarks. While The Natural State is a cyclist's paradise with miles of bike paths wove…
Woodcuts Art Gallery on Jefferson Street was founded by Nathaniel “Nate” Harris in 1987 to combine his love of art, woodworking and framing. After graduating from Tennessee State University, Nate made cabinets for Genesco’s Jarman Shoe storefronts. When the woodworking shop in his garage sta…
After graduating from Memphis College of Art, Elisheba Israel Mrozik settled in Nashville in 2007. At that time, North Nashville was still affordable for a developing artist, and she quickly found many like-minded creators in the area.
While Nashville is known as Music City, it is a variety of performing and visual arts that truly bring character to Nashville. This year we profiled just some of the incredible organizations dedicated to music and movement that elevate the city.
While Nashville is known as Music City, it is a variety of performing and visual arts that truly bring character to Nashville. This year we profiled just some of the incredible organizations dedicated to music and movement that elevate the city.
While Nashville is known as Music City, it is a variety of performing and visual arts that truly bring character to Nashville. This year we profiled just some of the incredible organizations dedicated to music and movement that elevate the city.
Born in Chennai, India, Daniel Phoenix Singh found an early fascination with technology and took a clear career path, majoring in computer sciences. Well into his time in higher education, and much later than is typical, Daniel discovered the unexpected — a passion for dance — and decided in…
Fisk University — in addition to being Nashville's oldest institute of higher education and the birthplace of the Fisk Jubilee Singers — is also home to the Carl Van Vechten Gallery. Housed in a beautiful historic brick building on campus, the gallery showcases a collection from prominent Af…
Throughout the growth of Nashville’s artistic community and institutions, art has always found a home across the city. On what was formerly downtown's Fifth Avenue, art galleries began to emerge and led to the birth of Fifth Avenue of the Arts and its subsequent art crawl. This burgeoning cu…
While Nashville is known as Music City, it is a variety of performing and visual arts that truly bring character to Nashville. This year we profiled just some of the incredible organizations dedicated to music and movement that elevate the city.
While Nashville is known as Music City, it is a variety of performing and visual arts that truly bring character to Nashville. This year we profiled just some of the incredible organizations dedicated to music and movement that elevate the city.
While Nashville is known as Music City, it is a variety of performing and visual arts that truly bring character to Nashville. This year we profiled just some of the incredible organizations dedicated to music and movement that elevate the city.
While Nashville is known as Music City, it is a variety of performing and visual arts that truly bring character to Nashville. This year we profiled just some of the incredible organizations dedicated to music and movement that elevate the city.
Daybreak Arts held its 2023 Illuminate Art Gala on Saturday, March 25, 2023 from 5-9PM at Riverside Revival to empower unhoused and housing-insecure artists in Nashville by showcasing and selling their art. The Illuminate Art Gala is a celebration of the power of art to transform lives and c…
Found in Frist’s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery, this exhibit is open through April 23. That closing may seem like a long way off, but it’s only a few weekends away! Don’t miss the opportunity to see a multimedia collection: Otobong Nkanga’s Gently Basking in Debris.
The click of heels echoed as Nashville’s finest flocked up the giant stone steps of the Parthenon for a special sneak peek of the limited-run SEE YOU ME pop-up exhibition, open February 24–26. In partnership with the Centennial Park Conservancy, collaborators Karen Elson and Emily Dorio show…
There is one thing Nashville is becoming widely known for, and that is this town’s abundance of creativity. Music City is now also known for food, film, fashion and art. We consider ourselves extremely lucky to live in such a place where there is always a place to be, and be seen.
Begging for April showers and May flowers already? Tinney Contemporary’s latest collection has debuted, and it’s sure to brighten up your seasonal depression. The Bobby Hotel is in full bloom!
The Nashville Film Festival has announced its lineup of feature-length and short films made about or by Tennesseans. The list is in addition to previous announcements that The Return of Tanya Tucker will be the opening night presentation and that The Year Between, Acidman, Butterfly in the S…
21c Museum Hotels began with the goal of bringing contemporary art to a wider audience. With their first hotel in Louisville, KY the husband/wife team of Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown displayed pieces from their personal collection with the goal of welcoming guests with art that makes vis…
While Nashville welcomes visitors from around the world, a knight from the Renaissance is about the last person you would expect to see wandering the city. But the Frist Art Museum recently shared one such knight’s quest around Music City to find the museum’s newest exhibit, Knights in Armor.
A longtime Nashville favorite, The American Artisan Festival returns to Centennial Park this Father's Day weekend, June 17-19. This will be the 46th year for the city’s longest running outdoor art show, and after a two year break due to Covid, 100-plus artisans from around the country are re…
Few television programs are as universally beloved as Antiques Roadshow. In fact, the show, which airs locally on Nashville Public Television, enjoys nearly 6 million viewers each week. When it was announced that Nashville would be the show’s next stop in spring of 2020 — for the first time …
Peter Pan: Wendy’s Adventure to Neverland
In April 2001, the Frist Art Museum, then called the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, opened in the city’s historic main post office with a novel approach. Rather than house a permanent collection, it would host touring exhibitions from some of the most prestigious collections in the world,…
To close out its 20th year, the Frist Art Museum has opened two new exhibits this week: American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918-1939 and Mary Sibande’s Blue Purple Red.
Cheekwood is introducing a new celebration to its calendar this year. In August, the gardens will host the inaugural African American Cultural Family Celebration.
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