Nashville Calendar of the Arts
For Nashville area artists, artisans, crafters....
and everyone looking for art!

www.calendarwiz.com/nashvillecalendarofthearts
(Event submission information provided at the bottom of this page.)

In addition to the art events shown in the online calendar linked above,
below you will find non-commercial middle Tennessee exhibition dates.
They appear in order of opening date.
Updated 8/31/2010

   March 20, 2007 - Ongoing, Cheekwood Museum of Art
   The Matilda Geddings Gray Collection of Fabergé
   Cheekwood's Museum of Art has been selected to house the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation
   Collection, among the world’s most significant compilation of Fabergé pieces.

   The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation is delighted to loan this remarkable exhibit to Cheekwood in
   hopes that many individuals from this region will have the opportunity to cherish these truly exquisite
   works of art,” said Harold Stream. “With its careful harmony of botanical gardens and decorative arts,
   Cheekwood is an ideal home for these fabulous pieces, many of which depict stunning floral
   arrangements. We are pleased to announce this new partnership”.

   Pieces from the Collection have been exhibited worldwide. The Collection includes 57 rare pieces
   highlighted by three Russian Imperial Easter eggs, and a number of important functional items,
   fantasy items and floral works. www.cheekwood.org

   January 16, 2007 - Ongoing, Cheekwood Museum of Art
   William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
   William Edmondson (1874-1951), the son of freed slaves, was born in rural Davidson County and
   moved to Nashville by 1890. Working first at the railroad and then as a janitor at the Nashville
   Woman's Hospital, he lived at 1434 Fourteenth Avenue South surrounded by family and a vibrant
   community. At the age of 57, Edmondson began working with limestone using a hammer and a
   railroad spike. "I was out in the driveway with some old pieces of stone when I heard a voice telling
   me to pick up my tools and start to work on a tombstone. I looked up in the sky and right there in
   the noon day light He hung a tombstone out for me to make," he explained.

   Edmondson carved for 17 years. He said, "I am just doing the Lord's work. I ain't got much style; God
   don't want much style, but He gives wisdom and sends you along." Truly Edmondson drew his
   subjects from his world, both real and imagined. Critters like rabbits and bears, from folktales, Adam
   and Eve from the Bible, and nurses from the Woman's Hospital joined neighbors on porch swings and
   preachers with Bibles in a cast of characters that inhabited his yard. Crafted by a skilled hand,
   Edmondson's sculptures are a testament to one man's ability to transform observation and
   imagination into objects that continue to inspire us today.

   William Edmondson stands among the most important self-taught artists of the past century. As the
   first African-American artist to receive a solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art (1937),
   Edmondson claims a national place in the history of American Art.  www.cheekwood.org

   March 13, 2010 - September 6, 2010, Cheekwood Museum of Art
   The American Impressionists in the Garden
   This exhibition explores the theme of the garden in American art and society of the late nineteenth
   and early twentieth centuries. The exhibition features approximately forty paintings depicting
   European and American gardens by American Impressionist artists along with four bronze sculptures
   created by American artists for the garden.

   The exhibition is broadly divided into three topical groups: “European Gardens” represents garden
   images created by Americans abroad, especially in Giverny, France, which captivated so many
   artists. Mary MacMonnies, for example, rented an old monastery in Giverny, developed the gardens,
   and produced several paintings of them. Works by Childe Hassam and Ernest Lawson, on the other
   hand, depict more urban gardens in and around Paris, providing a contrast to the images of Giverny.
   “Gardens in America” explores the many known gardens painted by American Impressionists,
   including the art colonies of Old Lyme, Connecticut and Cornish, New Hampshire, and various
   gardens, from Charleston, South Carolina, to California. “Garden Sculpture,” a third section, was an
   essential element of garden design, and a few select examples of garden statuary will document
   this important three-dimensional feature within the garden environment.  www.cheekwood.org

   March 13, 2010 - September 12, 2010, Cheekwood Museum of Art
   Video Installation: Soaps, Flukes & Follies
   Humor and a sense of absurdity take center stage in Cheekwood’s next video installation as six
   artists help us laugh at some of life’s most challenging issues. Do-It-Yourself aesthetics, pop culture
   satire, polymorphous role-playing and a good dose of social and political culture busting infect the
   invented worlds of this disparate group. Generationally, nationally and culturally diverse, all share a
   love of humor as a means of teasing out the absurdities of social convention, the need for love and
   comfort, daily rituals and contemporary communication. Identity, as it responds to the changing
   cultural landscape, is the central character in these happenings meet situation comedies meet
   soap operas.  www.cheekwood.org

   March 25, 2010 - October 31, 2010, Cheekwood Museum of Art
   Chihuly at Cheekwood
   Chihuly at Cheekwood features thousands of stunning, hand-blown glass sculptures on display
   throughout the botanical garden at Cheekwood, in various ponds and within the Museum of Art and
   Frist Learning Center. 

   Dale Chihuly is most frequently lauded for revolutionizing the studio glass movement by expanding
   its original premise of the solitary artist working in a studio environment to encompass the notion of
   collaborative teams and a division of labor within the creative process. However, Chihuly's contribu-
   tion extends well beyond the boundaries both of this movement and even the field of glass: his
   achievements have influenced contemporary art in general. Chihuly’s practice of using teams has
   led to the development of complex, multipart sculptures of dramatic beauty that place him in the
   leadership role of moving blown glass out of the confines of the small, precious object and into the
   realm of large-scale contemporary sculpture.  www.cheekwood.org

   March 27, 2010 - January 2, 2011, Carl Van Vechten Gallery, Fisk University
   James Miles, mixed media, West Africa Artifacts, Elliot and Alice Liff Collection
   Fisk University Galleries will display two of its unique collections  featuring original works from alumnus
   James Miles (’74) and artifacts of West Africa in the Elliot and Alice Liff Collection during a special
   reception and celebration in the Appleton Room of Jubilee Hall and in the Carl Van Vechten Gallery.
   The James Miles Collection features seven mixed media works presented on custom frames and
   canvases that address themes of family, faith and teamwork. Miles,  a student of noted artists and Fisk
   professors David Driscoll, Earl Hooks and Walter Williams, is known as the creator of the bronze
   sculptures of W.E.B. DuBois and Aaron Douglas that have become landmarks on the University’s campus.

   The Liff Collection contains over 50 indigenous African artifacts, sculptures and illustrations. The
   collection will be exhibited on the lower level of the Carl Van Vechten Gallery from March 27- June 2.
   The Liff Collection of African Art and Artifacts was donated to Fisk in 1989.

   May 9, 2010 - January 2, 2011, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
   Chihuly at the Frist:
   The most acclaimed glass artist of our time, Seattle-based artist Dale Chihuly is beloved for his
   abstract evocations of sea life, flowers, and other graceful subjects. This site-specific exhibition will
   present selections from a variety of renowned series, among them Seaforms, Millefiori, Macchia,
   Ikebana, and Persians. The Frist Center exhibition will be presented in conjunction with a major
   outdoor installation of Chihuly’s work at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art and a
   theater design for the Nashville Symphony’s Bluebeard. www.fristcenter.org

   June 18 - September 12, 2010, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
   The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947–1957
   An exhibition that transports visitors to the most glamorous fashion houses of Paris and London in the
   years after WWII, opens this Friday, June 18. The exhibition was organized by the Victoria & Albert
   Museum in London, which possesses one of the finest costume collections in the world. Following
   record breaking attendance at its launch in London and its subsequent presentations in Australia, Hong
   Kong, and Canada, The Golden Age of Couture continues its international tour at the Frist Center, the
   exhibition’s only venue in the United States, before traveling to Museums Sheffield in 2011.

   The exhibition celebrates an important decade in fashion history that began with the launch of Christian
   Dior’s famous New Look in 1947 and ended with his death in 1957. The romantic postwar silhouette
   pioneered by Dior scandalized and delighted the public, and ushered in a period of remarkable creativity.
   Dior himself called it a “golden age” for haute couture. He and his contemporaries set a standard for
   impeccable workmanship and design that has rarely been surpassed.  www.fristcenter.org

   June 18 - September 12, 2010, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
   Presence of Absence: The Photographs of Tokihiro Sato
   An exhibition of 13 landscape photographs by one of Japan's most acclaimed contemporary artists.

   www.fristcenter.org

   June 25 - December 31, 2010, Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum
   Photography Exhibit: A Song for America: Twenty-Five Years of  Farm Aid
   A Song for America: Twenty-five Years of Farm Aid features photographs by noted photographers
   Paul Natkin, Charles Riedel and Ebet Roberts. In addition to Farm Aid board members Nelson,
   Mellencamp,Young and Dave Matthews, other artists featured in the exhibit include Brooks & Dunn,
   Kenny Chesney, David Crosby, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, Alan Jackson,
   Jamey Johnson, Kris Kristofferson, Lyle Lovett, Martina McBride, Graham Nash, Tom Petty and the
   Heartbreakers, Bonnie Raitt, Billy Joe Shaver, Ringo Starr, Stephen Stills, Keith Urban, Lucinda Williams,
   Gretchen Wilson and more.  www.countrymusichalloffame.org

   July 10 - October 30, 2010 - The Parthenon
   Spatial Schemes: Observations of Nature: Paintings by Lisa Rivas
   The Parthenon is pleased to announce a new exhibition of artwork by Nashville artist Lisa Rivas.
   Rivas creates large computer-generated prints on rice paper.  "She actively paints with technology,
   layer upon layer, creating a complex environment.  The shapes find their origins in nature manipulated
   with the latest technology," curator Susan Shockley states.

   Rivas visually dives into the landscape she wished to portray, showing us a detail of what is already a
   detail.  She repeats the shape she chooses with delicate and precise drawing.  This is especially
   evident in Las Botanicas, which is a series of 10" x 10" natural shapes arranged in a grouping to create
   a large design, just as the small parts of natures create the larger ecosystem.  Her vitally colored
   images, based on natural forms and shapes, suggest the repetition found in nature.  This concept of
   repetition is well known in mathematics as the Golden Mean.  The Parthenon's architectural proportions
   also conform to the Golden Mean.

   Opening reception: July 16th 6-8 pm)  www.parthenon.org

   July 15, 2010 - November 5, 2010, Metro Arts Gallery
   Works by Taylor Jorjorian & Barbara G. Stokes:
   Opening Reception: July 15th: 5pm, 3:00-4:30 pm.  www.artsnashville.org/gallery

   July 17, 2010 - November 27, 2010, The Parthenon, East Gallery
   Women in Mythology: The Power of the Feminine in Ancient Tales,
   paintings by Rachael McCampbell
  This collection of large-scale, contemporary paintings, which depict goddesses in various scenes from
   Greek mythology, is a perfect complement to the Parthenon, the world famous temple to the goddess
   Athena. McCampbell has chosen to illustrate moments when the mythological women display both great
   strengths and weaknesses, moments of glory and despair. She was first inspired by Greek goddesses
   when she frequented the Getty Museum in her former home, Los Angeles . One statue in particular,
   Leda and the Swan, with its sensuous lines and shapes, inspired her to initiate a series of her own
   interpretations of these myths. “Their stories and struggles are archetypal and timeless and relate to
   women even today. Our examination of the human condition through myths and stories is something
   we never tire of,” McCampbell says.
   Opening reception: Friday, July 23, 6-8 pm www.parthenon.org

   August 6 - September 22, 2010, Centennial Art Center
   Biannual Group Exhibit by members of the Cumberland Valley chapter of TACA
   Centennial Art Center's gallery manager - says, "This exhibit presents works by the best in regional
   creators of fine, handmade crafts..."  She continues, saying that handmade crafts "...are more
   important than ever in today's world.  When a person chooses to buy and use one-of a kind crafts, they
   grow to understand the difference between interacting with an object - be it functional or purely
   decorative - infused with the makers' vision, energy and love versus a mass produced item...  Often,
   there is little or no separation between fine art works and fine craft works..."  As to CV-TACA
   specifically, the Center's Director, Brenda McSurley, says that they are "... a thriving, supportive,
   nurturing local organization that is a major creative force in Middle Tennessee!  We look forward to
   having the members works displayed in our gallery."
   Opening reception: Friday, August 6, 5-7 pm  www.nashville.gov/parks/cac.asp

   August 6 - November 30, 2010, Lake Watauga, Centennial Park
   Floating Sculpture Installation: Heliotrope, David Wood
  Nashville artist and Vanderbilt Professor David Wood has agreed to install his Heliotrope, a piece of
   floating Earth Art, in Centennial Park ’s Lake Watauga for three months.  The piece bears witness
   to our increasing dependence on the daily energy of the sun and commemorates this year’s flooding in
   Nashville by marking a more harmonious relation to water.  

   The piece was briefly installed at the University of Richmond in the spring of 2010 and will be in Lake
   Watauga , in the shadow of the Parthenon, until the end of November.  Wood was particularly drawn to
   this site by the formal echoes of the radial pattern of Heliotrope in the fountains and water features of
   the lake, as well as the circular viewing area. “The radial symmetry of Heliotrope will resonate well
   with the classical vertical lines of the Parthenon,” he said.  

   Heliotrope is made of wood, steel, aluminum, rope and wire and is thirty-six feet in diameter.  It
   consists of forty sixteen-foot wedges joined together in the shape of a sunflower.  Each wedge is
   topped with shiny aluminum discs that sparkle in the sun.
   http://www.nashville.gov/parks/locations/centennial/

   August 13 - September 2, 2010, Hendersonville Arts Council Galleries, Monthaven
   Julian Cole Art Exhibit
   Awarding winning artist, Julian Cole will be presenting over fifty pieces of unique fine art.  All work is
   performed by him, from concept to framed art, both realistic and impressionist.  Cole has an unusual
   style and technique in his work that is unique. Cole has spent a lifetime in the arts.  Earning a Masters
   Degree in Architecture, he moved on to a position as Master Scientific Photographer for N.A.S.A.
   A stint as creative director for an advertising agency took him into filmmaking as producer, director,
   cinematographer, set designer and editor.  Doing work for National Geographic, The BBC, French T.V.
   Italian T.V. and many others, he won several international, national and local awards. Cole  was a
   charter member of the Tennessee Film Commission and produced films for the state and the city.  He
   says “I think everyone will remember Tennessee Trash and Come on Along America for the National
   Tour Brokers Association.”   Upon retirement he has launched a new career in art.  Cole has shown
   and sold his work from New York to L.A.
   Opening reception: Friday, August 13, 6-8 pm  615-822-0789

   August 20, 2010 - September 13, 2010, Arts Center of Cannon County
   Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour Preview
   This show is a collection of the region's finest draft artists featuring works in ceramic, fiber,
   photography, glass and woodworking and wood furniture.  This exhibit celebrates the 10th anniversary
   of the region's finest craft guild and studio tour.  www.artscenterofcc.com

   September 4-September 25, 2010, Tennessee Art League Galleries, Ethel Smith Gallery
   Paintings by Judith Jackson
   Most of Ms. Jackson's paintings feature Tennessee landscapes and waterways.  Ms. Jackson is a Middle
   Tennessee native; three of her works have been purchased by the Tennessee State Museum.  The
   reception for Ms. Jackson's artwork will be held Saturday, September 4 from 6 - 9 P.M.  
   www.tennesseeartleague.org

   September 4-September 25, 2010, Tennessee Art League Galleries, Members Gallery
   TAL Members Exhibit
   A group of recent creations by TAL members will debut Saturday, September 4.  Many mediums will be
   represented - oil, pastel, watercolor, acrylics, and pen and ink.  An opening reception will be held
   Saturday, September 4 from 6 - 9 P.M.  
   www.tennesseeartleague.org

   September 4-September 30, 2010, Tennessee Art League Galleries, Poston3 Gallery
   Thursday Art Salon Painters Exhibit
   An exhibit by the Art League's Thursday Art Salon painters, entitled "Art Salon: An Exhibit of Individual
   Creativity".  The Thursday Art Salon offers a place to paint as a group, participate in creative discussion,
   enjoy artistic critique and find support for one's creative journey.  The group is open to new members
   and to visitors.  An opening reception will be held Saturday, September 4 from 6 - 9 P.M.    
   www.tennesseeartleague.org

   September 4-September 30, 2010, Tennessee Art League Galleries, Second Floor Gallery
   Studio A Artists Exhibit
   Featured artists for September are Ev Niewoehner, Kathleen Haynes, Mary Field Neville, Norb Skalski,
   Peach McComb, and Wendy Latimer. An opening reception will be held Saturday, September 4 from
   6 - 9 P.M.  www.tennesseeartleague.org

   September 4-October 30, 2010, Tennessee Art League Galleries, Premiere Gallery
   Paintings by Refaat Zakhary
   Mr. Zakhary studied in Egypt and spent many years as a partner in a New York architectural firm before
   relocating to Nashville. The reception for Mr. Zakhary's works will be held Saturday, September 4 from
   6 - 9 P.M.   www.tennesseeartleague.org

   September 13-24, 2010, Leu Center for Visual Arts, Belmont University
   Public painting sessions with Jairo Prado
   Colombian-boran artist Jairo Prado will lead a group of Nashville residents and Belmont University
   students in the creation of an 8’ by 16’ collective mural celebrating the university theme of “Giving
   Shape to Airy Nothings: Inventing Communities, Creating Identities.” Prado will direct Belmont students
   and community members in several mural painting sessions. The four panel, portable mural will be
   displayed at various prominent locations during Belmont’s 2010 School of Humanities Symposium,
   sometimes as a backdrop for keynote speakers.    

   The painting sessions will take place in the basement studio classroom and outdoor painting area of the
   Leu Center.  This event is free and open to the public and would not be possible without funding from
   the Tennessee Arts Commission

   The painting sessions will be held Monday, Sept. 13 – Friday, Sept. 24; Mondays – Thursdays from
   5 – 7 p.m.; Fridays from 3 - 5 p.m.   www.belmont.edu/art/leu_art_gallery/

   September 27-October 15, 2010, Todd Hall Art Gallery, MTSU Campus
   2010 TACA Biennial: The Best of Tennessee Craft Exhibition
   Back and better than ever after a brief hiatus, see the best fine craft artists Tennessee has to offer, and
   hear Tennessee’s First Lady Ms. Andrea Conte speak about her appreciation for fine craft, on the
   campus of Middle Tennessee State University.

   Presented through a partnership with MTSU, the exhibit will feature 48 original works of fine craft in a
   variety of media, created by nearly 35 artists from towns, cities and communities across Tennessee.
   Among those who will be exhibiting, visitors will see work from well-known artists such as Sylvia Hyman,
   Craig Nutt and Sherri Warner Hunter.

   TACA has been producing the Biennial exhibition since 1966, beginning one year after the organization
   was founded. The biyearly event not only encourages and promotes the quality and design among the
   state’s fine craft artists, but also provides public visibility and recognition for the quality and diversity of
   craft found in the state. 

   This exhibition is open to the public and free of charge.  Gallery hours are 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. each
   weekday.  The gallery is closed on all state and university holidays.  Opening reception: October 4,
   11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. featuring a lecture by First Lady, Andrea Conte. www.tennesseecrafts.org

   October 1-27, 2010, Centennial Art Center
   Nashville's Internationals V, artists from around the world who now call Nashville home
   Opening reception: Friday, October 1, 5-7 pm  www.nashville.gov/parks/cac.asp

   October 15, 2010 - January 23, 2011, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
   The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay:
   The exhibition includes approximately 100 masterpieces of mid-to-late 19th-century French painting
   from the Musée d’Orsay, a museum in Paris dedicated to the art of the early modern period (1840s
   through the early 20th century). The exhibition provides a broad context for understanding the roots
   of Modernism by combining seminal works by innovators such as Courbet, Manet, Cézanne, Monet,
   and Renoir; Salon painters such as Bouguereau; and artists who moved easily between convention
   and innovation such as Degas, Fantin-Latour, and Whistler.

   While the Musée d’Orsay continues to add works to the exhibition and the checklist has yet to be
   finalized, among the magnificent paintings already confirmed is James Whistler’s Arrangement in
   Grey and Black, Number 1, popularly known as Whistler’s Mother. The exhibition will also include
   works by Eduard Manet, including Le fifre and his portraits of Émile Zola, Georges Clemenceau,
   and Berthe Morisot. There are 11 works by Renoir, including his portrait of Claude Monet, and seven
   works by Degas, including Repetition d’un ballet.  www.fristcenter.org

   November 5 - December 15, 2010, Centennial Art Center
   Staff & Students Holiday Season Art Exhibition & Sale
   Fundraiser for Arts in the Parks. Opening reception: Friday, November 5, 5-7 pm
   www.nashville.gov/parks/cac.asp

   January 21 - May 1, 2011, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Upper-Level Galleries
   William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked
   This Exhibit brings together more than 70 photographs made by the Memphis, Tenn., resident who is
   one of the most influential artists of his generation.  The exhibition includes iconic images from the early
   1970s, important series and portfolios held in the Memphis Brooks collection as well as the rarely seen
   21st Century Photographs.  William Eggleston was a key figure in charting a new course for color
   photography.  Prior to his first exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) in 1976, fine art
   photography was typically black and white, while color photography was used commercially.  By not
   censoring, rarely editing and photographing the seemingly banal, Eggleston reminds us of the inherently
   democratic uses of and wide-spread access to photography.  His images are psychologically complex,
   yet structurally quotidian, drawing attention to the power and beauty of the overlooked. Eggleston’s
   work has influenced subsequent generations of fine art photographers and contemporary artists. 
   www.fristcenter.org

   February 20 - May 29, 2011, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Ingram Gallery
   Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior
   This will be the first major museum exhibition to focus on Vishnu, one of Hinduism’s three major deities. 
   Composed of approximately 150 paintings and sculptures made in India between the second century
   and 1900 A.D., this exhibition will serve as a brief survey of Hindu art styles as well as an examination
   of the Vaishnava (Vishnu-worshipping) tradition. Known as Hinduism’s gentle god, Vishnu is easily
   recognized in paintings because of his blue skin, which legend states is the result of ingesting a
   particularly powerful poison that threatened to destroy the world.  

   The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalog published by Mapin Publishing, an Indian art
   book publishing company.  www.fristcenter.org

   February 20 - May 29, 2011, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Gordon Contemporary Gallery
   Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes
   Simen Johan’s works reflect uneasy connections between humans and other species. His digital
   photographs, which show live or taxidermied animals Photoshopped onto various natural and
   human-made landscape environments, blur boundaries between the real and unreal, animal and
   human and beauty and brutality. His sculptures of taxidermied birds are interwoven with insects and
   foliage, serving in his words as “miniature parasitical ecosystems.”   www.fristcenter.org

   April 15, 2011 - March 27, 2012, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Conte Gallery
   Connecting Cultures: Children's Stories from Across the World
   This exhibition is the result of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and ten diverse local community
   organizations working together on a project that explores the ways art may be used to tell children’s
   stories from a number of cultural perspectives.  Starting with the premise that the stories of children
   simultaneously reflect unique cultural values as well as perspectives that are shared across cultures,
   the stories presented in this exhibition present universal human experiences and concerns that connect
   us, all.   www.fristcenter.org

   May 20 - August 21, 2011, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Upper-Level Galleries
   Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection
   Gather Up the Fragments focuses upon the collection of Faith and Edward Deming Andrews, who from
   the 1920s through the 1960s formed a large and important assemblage of Shaker art and pioneered
   Shaker studies. This comprehensive exhibition includes more than 270 objects—furniture, drawings,
   household objects, textiles, baskets and kitchen implements—and will provide insight into this intriguing
   religious group that valued many ideas that resonate today such as equality, pacifism, community,
   sustainability, responsible land stewardship, innovation, simplicity, and quality in work.  
   www.fristcenter.org

   June 24 - September 11, 2011, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Ingram Gallery
   Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol's Work
   Over the course of his meteoric career, Andy Warhol (1928–1987) used the medium of music to
   transform himself from fan to record album designer, producer, celebrity night-clubber and rock
   impresario. Warhol Live presents a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s work as experienced
   through the lens of music and dance. This exhibition juxtaposes major pieces (Elvis, Marilyn, Liza
   Minnelli, Grace Jones, Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, the Self-portraits and the Campbell's Soup Cans) with
   lesser-known works inspired by music and the performing arts (album covers, illustrations, photos and
   Polaroids), along with films and sound recordings, which provide a visual and aural score to Warhol’s
   extraordinary work and life. The exhibition includes nearly 300 works, including objects and documents
   from the artist’s personal archives.  www.fristcenter.org

   June 24 - September 11, 2011, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Gordon Contemporary Gallery
   Vesna Pavlović: Projected Histories
   This exhibition will include photographs taken in Vesna Pavlović’s native Serbia and the United States
   over the last two decades. Focusing on sites and events of cultural significance, Pavlović examines the
   power of photography to shape the perception of history as an expression of people’s dreams and
   aspirations by projecting and conflating self-images and national ideologies.  The exhibition begins with
   a selection of photographs that were taken in Serbia during the 1990sand explore the failure of utopian
   modernism under Communism while posing questions about the veneer of normalcy maintained during
   the civil war and allied bombardment. It concludes with an installation of recent works that considers the
   values and consumerist ideologies relating to contemporary American life.  www.fristcenter.org

   September 9, 2011 - February 5, 2012, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Upper-Level Galleries
   A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings form Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
   This exhibition, which has received support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, presents twenty-eight
   Renaissance paintings from one of the most renowned Old Master collections in the United States. The
   collection was formed during the mid-twentieth century by the evangelical preacher Dr. Bob Jones, Sr.,
   for display at the university bearing his name in Greenville, S.C. The large number of Baroque paintings
   that Jones acquired tends to overshadow other parts of the collection, and A Divine Light marks the first
   time that the museum’s equally beautiful Northern Renaissance paintings have been the sole focus of an
   exhibition and catalogue. These works of art, which consist of altarpieces and private devotional
   paintings, will be considered in regard to the latest scholarship and theories about the visual culture of
   the Renaissance. Several paintings will undergo conservation treatment in preparation for their
   presentation at the Frist Center.  www.fristcenter.org

   September 9, 2011 - February 5, 2012, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Upper-Level Galleries
   Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Journeys
   The Cuban-born artist María Magdelena Campos-Pons creates photographs, video and multi-media
   installations that tell the story of the survival of African cultures by evoking rites, myths and narratives
   that have evolved through generations. Her work symbolically follows the history of the slave trade from
   her family’s origin in Nigeria to Cuba, where they worked in the sugar industry, to present-day Boston,
   where Campos-Pons now works and teaches.  www.fristcenter.org

   October 7, 2011 - January 8, 2012, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Ingram Galleries
   To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum
   Following the incredibly successful Quest for Immortality exhibition, which came to the Frist Center in
   2006, To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum includes 109 important works
   from the superb collection of the Brooklyn Museum that illustrate Egyptian beliefs regarding the defeat
   of death and promise of the eternal afterlife.  To Live Forever explores the ancient Egyptian belief that
   proper preparation could enable a person to overcome the finality of death. The objects on display,
   including coffins, jewels and statuary from the Brooklyn Museum’s extensive, world-renowned collection,
   introduce visitors to the mysteries of mummification, the funeral procession and rituals that prepared the
   entombed deceased for passage to the underworld, the final judgment of the gods in determining the
   disposition of the soul and the idealized afterlife. The objects in the exhibition were created over a
   period of more than 4,000 years.  www.fristcenter.org

   October 7, 2011 - January 8, 2012, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Gordon Gallery
   Tracey Snelling: Woman on the Run
   Tracey Snelling’s sculptures of vernacular buildings, streets and rundown neighborhoods show a keen
   sensitivity to the psychological tensions and hidden narratives of small town America. A large tableau of
   wooden structures, videos, projections and other mediums, Woman on the Run provides a film-noir-like
   setting for a crime story in which a mysterious woman is sought for questioning in a murder. 
   www.fristcenter.org

Visual Arts Event Submissions

For those with fine art, photography, artisan, craft and museum events you
wish to have included in the Nashville Calendar of the Arts,
please send information to anna@heartofnashville.net  There is no charge
to have your events included in this calendar.

Please note:  This calendar is for visual arts only.
We do not list music, dance, theater or other entertainment arts.