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Spotlight.........................................................................................................................1O Kenton Nelson This Side of Paradise.................................................................. 33 Colleen Kerrigan Visas and Vistas................................................................ 4O Jonathan Stone The Subtlety of Nudity.......................................................... 46 Ndume Olatushani Free at Last................................................................. 5O Clothes Make the Lady In Studio Tenn's Latest Production.............. 55 NPT Arts Worth Watching................................................................................................ 6O Street Art Graffiti in Belle Meade............................................................................... 66 ArtSmart A Monthly Guide to Art Education..........................................................7O Callie Khouri Creates Nashville..............................................................................76 The Nashville TV Show Art on Set............................................................... 78 Nathan Pacheco Stepping Out....................................................................... 82 Berlin Calling Conceptual vs. Commercial Art...................................................... 86 Joshua Bell and Edgar Meyer Double Down at the Schermerhorn.... 96 Theatre..................................................... 92 Critical i.................................................... 98 Beyond Words.........................................99 On the Town......................................... 1O2 My Favorite Painting............................ 1O6 on the cover:
Kenton Nelson, Why Not?, Oil on canvas, 60" x 48"
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Congratulations to Jane O. MacLeod for the vibrant vision she brings to Cheekwood. Her staff and Munro's team from England have worked very hard to create this visual feast that may well qualify as the ninth wonder. Go see for yourselves and be prepared to be speechless. And speaking of wonders, the Music City Center opens this month with several events planned to celebrate the occasion. We were fortunate to be taken on a tour of the art in the center with consultants Rich Boyd and Brian Downey. The works of forty-eight local and regional artists as well as seven commissioned artists make up the present collection. On June 1, Nashville Arts Magazine will sponsor a reception to honor all the artists represented. Read about the collection on page 26. Finally, I draw your attention to another wonder, this time human. Ndume Olatushani spent twenty-eight years in prison, twenty of those on death row, for a crime he did not commit. While incarcerated, he taught himself to paint. I recently had the pleasure of meeting this soft-spoken, gentle soul and was astonished to find a man without anger or resentment for the injustice that fell upon him. You can meet him and his art on page 50.
Brian Nash, Flip Flops Yellow, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 36”
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Alex Lockwood Plants a Garden of Lottery Tickets by Alyssa Rabun | photography by Anthony Scarlati
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lex Lockwood's desk drawers and studio counters are overflowing with scratch lottery tickets, but he’s not a gambler. This local artist scavenges for discarded tickets
on street corners and outside of neighborhood bodegas to use in his sculpture series Garden. The series came to life two years ago on the streets of Brooklyn, where Lockwood was living at the time. “There were used lotto tickets all over my neighborhood—outside of liquor stores, on sidewalks, and around overfilled trash cans. I was attracted to their bright colors and designs and became obsessed with finding as many as I could,” says Lockwood.
After months of foraging, Lockwood’s collection grew to thousands of tickets. He began folding, layering, and stacking them into cactuslike sculptures. Rather than using glue or an internal structure, Lockwood folds each ticket to fit like puzzle pieces that naturally hold shape. Each piece includes an impressive 800 to 1,500 folded tickets, and when “planted” together as a series, the collection of multi-colored, circular works resembles a crop of patterned flowers and succulents. Lockwood harvests tickets from New York, New Jersey, and Tennessee, each state offering tickets with a unique look. “All of those colors are attractive for a reason. They are designed to catch your eye. Tennessee tickets have solid, bold colors. New Jersey tickets are shiny. The colors in my pieces work really well because the material I am using was made to draw you in and seduce you,” says Lockwood. Although Lockwood is swimming in lottery tickets, he makes a point of not playing the lottery. Working so closely with the material and gambling subculture has helped him to pinpoint sociological contradictions within the system. “I am very aware of how much money is spent on the lottery, often by the lowerincome communities, with little to no return,” says Lockwood. Each ticket he uses is associated with the same story. The buyer is hopeful for the big win and buys a ticket, is disappointed over losing, and trashes the ticket. “I am making something pretty out of materials that represent repeated disappointments.” The Garden series is on view at the Target Gallery in Washington, DC. For more information about Alex Lockwood visit www.alockwood.com.
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spotlight artists from eleven states will be featured with additional consideration shown to artists from the Nashville area. The art2wear Nashville indoor art festival will be staged May 24–26, 2013, at Vanderbilt University’s Commodore Ballroom. The Preview Gala will be Friday, May 24, 5 to 9:30 p.m., with hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, strolling musicians, and the first chance to see and buy the wearable art. Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door. The Grand Showcases will be Saturday, May 25, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, May 26, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. There will be live demonstrations by the artists, as well as door prizes and more! Tickets are $10.
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Wearable Art at the Commodore Ballroom It’s no surprise to find that Nashville’s artistic inclinations extend far beyond the more traditional genres and into the world of fashion, but sometimes it takes a great event to raise awareness. The art2wear events are being staged by the ArtWorks Foundation with two goals: to develop public appreciation for fine crafted clothing, jewelry, and accessories and to create a stronger market for the artists involved. To this end, the talented artists in the art2wear festival are juried through a national arts festival portal. In all,
The Commodore Ballroom is located in the University’s Student Life Center at 310 25th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240. There is free parking on campus in the main garage (25th Ave. S. and Highland Ave.) and at all campus meters. All proceeds benefit Vanderbilt’s Sarratt Art Studios’ Summer Programs for Children. Advance tickets are available at art2wearnashville.eventbrite.com.
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Lerner and LollyDee
A Fusion in Fashion The Arts Company celebrates The Art of Fashion through an innovative exhibition pairing classic fashion photography by Norman Lerner with vintage fashion apparel and accessories by LollyDee Collections. A self-taught photographer, 85-year-old Lerner was one of the most highly sought-after fashion photographers throughout the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. He is known for his striking compositions in which he places his models in dramatic and unusual locations, such as on a huge lamppost at Idlewild Airport (shown here), on the cab of a two-ton truck, or on a stack of wood lifted into the sky by a cherry picker. Inspired by Lerner’s photographs, Laura Camien and Deb Burton Calagna of LollyDee will present a couture line of clothing and jewelry created specifically for the event. With a sentimental nod to the Lerner era, Laura and Deb will use pieces of vintage garments and jewelry and refashion them into one-of-a-kind creations stylish for today.
owner of The Arts Company. “Lerner had the eye to shoot fashion photos using abstract designs with a human element, and here we have the perspective of timeless fashion seen through the visual arts on the walls and in person.”
“The Art of Fashion combines Norman Lerner’s photographs and LollyDee designs, literally comparing fashion 50 years ago and today,” said Anne Brown,
A live fashion show will launch the exhibition during the First Saturday Art Crawl, May 4, from 6 to 9 p.m. The Art of Fashion continues through June 14 and will be on view during regular gallery hours, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, visit www.theartscompany.com.
Norman Lerner, Model On Lamppost at Idlewild Airport
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Vanderbilt’s Art Majors Present Senior Show 2O13 photo: jerry phillips
Marking an annual rite of spring, the massive doors between the galleries of Space 204 were slid back to reveal the Senior Show of Vanderbilt University’s graduating studio art majors. The eight participating seniors are Ariela Atwell, Julie Choi, Daniel Litzow, Wenhao Liu, CJ Rhoades, Helen Robinson, Hanna Rodgers, and Adriana Salinas.
Hanna Rodgers, moment/ of suspension/of disbelief, Interactive installation with kite, swing and projected images
“In addition to making tremendous strides in the quality and depth of their work this year, these students have put together an interesting array of exhibitions, including painting, photography, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and installations,” said Mark Hosford, acting chair of the Vanderbilt Department of Art.
In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, the prestigious Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award was presented to Hanna Rodgers of Collierville, Tennessee. Established by Clement H. Hamblet in honor of his wife, the $25,000 Hamblet Award is meant to provide the means for travel and independent art activity for one year, culminating in an exhibition at Vanderbilt. Helen Robinson of Darien, Connecticut, was the recipient of a $10,000 award.
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Senior Show 2013 will be on display until Friday, May 10, in Space 204, the second-floor gallery in the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center, 25th and Garland on the Vanderbilt campus. All Space 204 events are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, with special Saturday and Sunday hours noon to 4 p.m. for the duration of the exhibition. For more information, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/arts.
Helen Robinson, Sunset Grille, Oil on canvas, 40" x 60"
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New Art Showcase For one night only, the inaugural art show and event i am Art Nashville will showcase local artists, artisans, musicians, and dancers. The event is the brainchild of artist and arts supporter Tanya Radic of Radical Art, who wanted to celebrate her 60th birthday and the arts simultaneously. “This is a celebration of life through art and art through life,” explained artist and organizer Christine Buchanan. “Tanya approached me to create this event, and we intend to transform it into an annual arts event.” Participating artists include Cynthia Birdsong, Heather Brothers, Christine Buchanan, Weldon Godfrey, Eric Hay, Andrea Jacobson, Jeremy Jones, LTR Pottery, Gwyneth McEuen, Keely Moore, Tanya Radic, Denise Regan, Jeremy Jones, Can You See Lucie Rice, Pablo Scruggs, Ash Sivils, My Thoughts?, Mixed media Lisa Stevens, Toni Swarthout, and Jonathan Wheeler. Entertainment will include music by ukulele artist Kirabelle Frabotta, Belly Dance and Gypsy Music Troupe Umbra A'Shadi, and a movement performance led by dance artist Erin Law.
Toni Swarthout, Sunny Side Up, Acrylic on board, 16" x 20" Sponsored by Radical Art, i am Art Nashville coincides with downtown Nashville’s First Saturday Art Crawl on June 1. Festivities begin at 6 p.m. and will continue until 11 p.m. The event takes place at the W. O. Smith Music School, 1285 8th Avenue South. It is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.iamartnashville.com.
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Fine Art & Antiques Auction Saturday, May 18, 2013
Featuring the estate of Margaret Wemyss Connor of Nashville and items from other Southern estates and fine collections - over 700 lots
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Colley Whisson Down Under Comes to Leiper's Creek Gallery
The internationally acclaimed modern master Colley Whisson, one of Australia’s finest young impressionistic painters, will exhibit 25 works at Leiper’s Creek Gallery. Having grown up in semi-rural surroundings, Whisson has an appreciation for nature and the outdoors that is obvious in his work. He aims to tell a visual story with clarity and sophistication, but he is also driven to distort and abstract as much as he can while still maintaining the realistic intent. Whisson has long believed that “it’s not what you paint but how you paint it.”
Native American Sterling
Warren Sheppard, Venice
J.M. Wright, 17th Century
Sporting Art
Whisson’s exhibit opens with an artist’s reception on Saturday, May 18, from 6 to 9 p.m. and runs through June 1. Leiper’s Creek Gallery is located at 4144 Old Hillsboro Road in Leiper’s Fork. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. For more information visit www.leiperscreekgallery.com.
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About her exhibits, gallery owner Lisa Fox states, “The shows at Leiper’s Creek Gallery are large and comprehensive. I designed it that way. If people are going to commit to coming out here, I am going to make it worth their time.” Prior to the opening of the exhibit, Whisson will lead a presentation on Thursday, May 16, at 6:30 p.m. For reservations and more information, email Lisa@leiperscreekgallery.com.
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David Braud Eyes Wide Shut “The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.” – Cicero
It is this observation that inspired David Braud to create a series of portraits that should make you look a little differently at the concept of the face. Braud, a photographer and teacher who lives in Franklin and teaches photography at O’More College of Design, uses his extensive experience to examine the typical portrait by first displaying, over a two-week period, the portraits with eyes closed, then showing the same faces later with eyes open. What emotions are invoked when we look at someone’s features, and can our perceptions change over time? If the most expressive element were muted, would it cause you to reexamine the messages you may read in someone’s appearance? “Our faces are unique and strange and beautiful,” Braud states. “This series of portraits capitalizes on that fact. As we look around at the faces of those living on this little plot of earth at this particular time, we remember our
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shared humanity—the frailty, brokenness, and longing, but also our extant joy, the anticipation of deeper charity, and our hope for purer vision.” The portrait series will be on display through May 15 at the Starbucks at 5 Points in Franklin, 438 W. Main Street. To view more work or inquire, please visit www.DavidBraudPhotography.com.
Classical Guitar Festival at MTSU The 13th Annual Tennessee Guitar Festival will feature performances and master classes by some of the finest guitarists in the United States, including Ben Bolt, Carlos Castilla, Richard Todd, and Silviu Ciulei. “Performing and judging at the Guitar Festival continues my quest of inspiring other guitarists to persevere and keep alive the beauty and splendor of the classical guitar,” said Bolt, who has studied and performed throughout Europe and South America. The Tennessee Guitar Festival and Competition takes place May 30 through June 1. Evening concerts begin at 8 p.m. and are free and open to the public. All concerts and master classes will be held in the Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building, MTSU Campus, Faulkenberry Drive. For more information, visit www.TennesseeGuitarFestival.com or www.benboltguitar.com.
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Picture This on 5th invites you to view the winners of
Kathy Chester Studio’s 2013 Student Art Show The top 3 winners in every medium and age category will be on display during the
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At Picture This on 5th #44 Downtown Arcade Come see the next crop of emerging Nashville artists at Picture This on 5th, located in the Arcade in space #44, and browse through all of the art galleries on 5th Avenue and in the Arcade.
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Children’s Ballet with a Spanish Flair In its performance Señoritas y Toros, Nashville Ballet combines excerpts from ballets Paquita and Ferdinand the Bull to introduce children to movement and music. In Paquita, children will see the art of classical ballet with tutus, pointe shoes, and Spanish sass. With bright, colorful costumes inspired by cubist Pablo Picasso, Ferdinand the Bull tells the story of a peaceful bull who wants only to smell the flowers in the meadow, making him unfit for bullfighting. During an interactive portion following the performance, the audience can learn to dance like Ferdinand. “Families and children of all ages will enjoy the short run time, small audience size, audience participation component, and fun stories in Señoritas y Toros,” explained Sharyn Mahoney, Nashville Ballet Director of Artistic Operations. Señoritas y Toros will be held at The Martin Center for Nashville Ballet, 3630 Redmon Street, May 11 through 19. For show times and to purchase tickets, visit www.nashvilleballet.com.
Shakespeare on the Lawn Enjoy a reprise of the critically acclaimed and hugely popular show The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), directed by Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s Artistic Director Denice Hicks. Starring the celebrated 2009 Shakespeare in the Park cast—Brad Brown, Ben Reed, and Christopher Campbell—the 90-minute performance summarizes and skewers all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays and is full of witty banter, goofy pratfalls, and plenty of irreverent fun. The Shakespeare Festival will perform at the Gaylord Opryland Special Events Lawn over Memorial Day weekend, May 25 and 26. General admission tickets are $10. Pre-show entertainment will run from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., and the show will run from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. For more information visit, www.nashvilleshakes.org or www.marriot.com.
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Maya's Notebook by isabel allende The New York Times bestselling author returns with a startling and surprising new book—a novel of suspense and a contemporary coming-of-age story narrated by an American teenage girl who falls into a life of drugs and crime and must escape before it's too late. Allende will be appearing at Salon@615 on May 3.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by david sedaris
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria! by julia reed
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. Come meet this #1 New York Times bestselling author at Parnassus on May 31.
"Not since Everything Is Illuminated have I read a first novel so ambitious and fully realized. If this is where Anthony Marra begins his career, I can't imagine how far he will go." – Ann Patchett. Meet the author at Parnassus on May 11.
Julia Reed, author and columnist for Garden and Gun, is a master of the art of eating, drinking, and making merry. In her newest book, Reed takes the reader on culinary adventures in places as far flung as Kabul, Afghanistan, and as close to home as her native Mississippi Delta and Florida's Gulf Coast. Meet the author at Parnassus on May 5.
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Ten & Two @ Two Moon Michael Griffin and Tracie Grace Riesgo were the winners of Two Moon Galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent competition and show. The call for entries drew 75, including emerging and established artists and every level in between. Of those, ten were juried into the Ten & Two exhibit. Two works from each of the ten, who ranged in age from 18 to 70-something, went on display for one night in early April. Show attendees determined the winners by purchasing a $5 ballot to vote for their favorite two of the ten. Monies raised from ballot sales went to the artists to offset expenses. The grand prize for Griffin and Riesgo is their own show at Two Moon Gallery and a feature story in the September issue of Nashville Arts Magazine. The exhibit will be on display September 5 through 23. For more information, visit www.twomoongallery.com.
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The Tents Are Up! 42nd Annual TACA Craft Fair
This year’s TACA Craft Fair will showcase more than 190 artisans offering time-honored and contemporary crafts created with clay, fiber, glass, metal, paper, wood and more. For the first time in its celebrated history, the fair welcomes artists from several surrounding Southern states. This year David Fox of The Copper Fox Gallery and Paul Polycarpou of Nashville Arts Magazine will present a Best of Show award. Additionally, TACA is partnering with The Clay Lady’s Co-Op, Platetone Printshop, and the Tennessee Association of Woodturners to offer live demonstrations of artists in action. There will also be hands-on activities for children at the Publix Kids’ Tent. The 42nd Annual TACA Craft Fair takes place May 3, 4 and 5. Hours are Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.tennesseecrafts.org.
Glass Blower Takes Top Spot
Samuel Meketon
Every year, the prestigious NICHE Awards competition honors technical excellence and innovation in fine craft design by students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, and certificate art programs in the U.S and Canada. This year 18 student winners and 80 student finalists received recognition, including winner Samuel Meketon of Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, Tennessee, for the entry Inspired by Chinese Vessels in the category Glass: Functional.
Meketon says: “Recently I’ve found myself obsessed with trying to replicate some of the more complicated archetype forms found traditionally in clay. All of these pieces are created in opaque black glass, partially to show the viewer the beauty of the silhouettes, but also because there is something very simple and elegant when you choose just the right tone of black glass.” See more of Sam’s work at www.glassartists.org/sammeketon.
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Sarah Murphree by Justin Stokes
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n the first event of its kind the Nashville Film Festival partnered with The Arts Company and Nashville Arts Magazine to launch the Nashville Unveiled – Take One Video Contest. This competition
provided an experimental platform for up-and-coming filmmakers, encouraging artists to inventively use cell phone cameras and whatever resources available to capture the impact visual arts have made on Music City. Entry to the contest was free of charge and open to Tennessee residents, highlighting the latest chapter of cinema enhancing the landscape of the city. The winning film, screened during April's First Saturday Art Crawl, celebrated the seventh year of The Arts Company’s being the Official Destination for the Nashville Film Festival Preview, adding another exhibit to the already colorful 5th Avenue of the Arts. Anne Brown, owner of The Arts Company, spoke of the creative energy of the contests. “It's incredible; there's so much activity just kind of hidden and you don't know about it. We're seeing all kinds of visual art from other cities, but Nashville's talent base gives us a great resource,” Brown said. She also echoed that music was the mastermind behind making our city unique.
Sarah Murphree
Still from Nashville Takes the Art Scene
Overseeing the contest was Executive Director of the Nashville Film Festival Ted Crockett, who praised the entries of Nashville Unveiled for creating so much from so little. “Who wouldn't want to be around that kind of creative population?” Crockett said. The first-place winner of the contest was the short film Nashville Takes the Art Scene. The film was directed by UT Knoxville graduate Sarah Murphree, who sees the film as “a piece where people could laugh and appreciate the arts, celebrating the spirit of country." Sarah's prizes for the competition included a gift basket, a full-festival laminate for the Nashville Film Festival, a $500 gift certificate redeemable at 5th Avenue of the Arts, an article in Nashville Arts Magazine, and a year's membership to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.. For more information about the Nashville Film Festival visit www.nashvillefilmfestival.org. 24 | May 2O13 NashvilleArts.com
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he personality of art in Nashville is Southern hospitality at its most provocative: It’s accessible and welcoming, yet forward thinking. With the opening of the Music City Center
Andrew Saftel, Circle of Days, Acrylic, collage and found objects on panel, 60" x 120"
(MCC) on May 19–20, Nashville gains a “front porch” in SoBro (South of Broadway) and debuts its newest art collection: nearly a hundred pieces of commissioned and acquired art that function as an introduction to the city’s cultural landscape. “This is such iconic architecture,” says Rich Boyd, art consultant for the Music City Center Art Program. “We wanted to really create a collection . . . that would complement the architecture, that would entertain, educate, engage the visitors that come here and also—and this is very critical—put the spotlight on the cultural, creative energy that exists in Nashville.”
Beth Galston, Sound Wave, Aluminum, acrylic, LED lights
The Music City Center clocks in at over two million square feet— just under sixteen acres including the roof—and its vastness has already cast a colossal presence over downtown. A building this big requires big art. “Everything you do is super-sized or on steroids,” says Senior Project Manager Larry Atema, who immediately recognized the necessity of commissioned pieces that were “so big or so special or unique to that location.” Before the convention center had even taken form, the Convention Center Authority and the Metro Arts Commission gave the public art program budgetary priority alongside projects such as sustainability (including solar panels and a rainwater collection tank) and hiring small and women-owned businesses.
Charles Clary, Flameobic Opulation, Hand cut paper on panel
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We just wanted to put together a collection that represented the best art from the region’s best artists. We have a mix of photography, abstract painting, mixed-media pieces, drawings—a lot of different styles.” Considering the overwhelming size of the convention center, the current art collection won’t even begin to cover the majority of open wall space. “What is here is a permanent installation, but this building is so large,” Boyd says. “There are so many areas that can accommodate more art. One of my recommendations as a consultant is, do not let it stop here. Let it keep growing. It will be Nashville’s newest cultural treasure.” For many visitors, the Music City Center's art collection will be their first impression of Nashville’s music and art scenes. Thanks to the Metro Arts Commission and people like Atema, Boyd, and Downey, it’s a first impression Nashville can be proud of. A series of free events will be held throughout the day on June 1 including tours and presentations by the seven commissioned artists. Nashville Arts Magazine will sponsor a reception to honor all of the artists in the MCC collection. From there, join the First Saturday Art Crawl on 5th Avenue. Visit www.nashvillearts.com for a complete list of all of the artists in the MCC collection. www.nashvillemusiccitycenter.com Alicia Henry, Intimacy and Peace, Mixed media (acrylic, clay, dye, fabric, graphite, pen, paper, yarn and thread) on canvas, each canvas 36" x 36"
Of the $2 million budgeted for art, $1.2 million went toward eight large-scale commissioned works by seven artists. The remaining portion of the budget sponsored sixty-two acquired works by local artists. The MCC Citizen Selection Panel, composed of Nashville artists and professionals, and the MCC Public Art Committee considered over four hundred applications and sent recommendations for the seven commissioned artists to the mayor-appointed Convention Center Authority. From that original pool of applications, the Public Art Committee also recommended forty-eight artists for the list of acquired art.
Carrie McGee, On This Ground, Rust, pigments, oil and UV printing on transparent acrylic, 96" x 180" x 4"
The seven commissioned artists were asked to create works that not only enhanced the building, often stretching through multiple floors and adorning sunlit atriums from floor to ceiling, but also reflected the artist’s vision of Nashville. “What we think the art does is reflect who we are as a people and our culture and our cultural heritage,” Boyd says. “The artists were not given a theme, no ‘this has to be music.’” It seems impossible, however, to disconnect Nashville’s cultural identity from its musical roots, so visitors to the MCC will note what Boyd calls “visual music,” especially in the repeating imagery of the sound wave, found in the carpet and the undulating roof. While the commissioned artists hail from all over the U.S., the acquired works are from a 250-mile radius of Nashville. All but four acquired artists are Tennessee residents. Says Brian Downey, who assisted Boyd in the consulting process, “With the acquired work, we didn’t want a theme.
Art consultants Brian Downey and Rich Boyd
Left to right: Megan Lightell, Quiet Evening, Heavy Rain, Passing Through, Oil on canvas, 48" x 96" each
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We average 1,800 to 2,000 people every month at the downtown art crawl . . . and I think that got the attention of the city.
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all them gatekeepers, instigators, or doyens of the Nashville art scene. The creative collaboration of Anne Brown of The Arts
Company, Jeff Rymer of The Rymer Gallery and Susan Tinney of Tinney Contemporary has steadily transformed 5th Avenue into the Avenue of the Arts, and this spring’s renovations will finally allow the streetscape to match their impressive vision. Brown, Rymer, and Tinney’s defining influence derives from weekly meetings when they swap ideas, coordinate schedules, and talk with gallery owners from all over town. Says Anne Brown, “That’s what the music community used to do on Music Row. They’d walk next door and talk to each other, work with each other, and we’ve done the same thing.” These meetings inspired the Art Crawl and Collectors Night, and they are the motivation behind 5th Avenue’s much-anticipated transformation. It has been more than fifty years since the street was renovated, so while money was already allocated for infrastructure improvement—electricity, sidewalks, the works—Brown, Rymer, and Tinney recognized the possibility of turning an upgrade into a statement while sticking to the original budget. Due to the success of the Art Crawl, Mayor Karl Dean was immediately receptive. Says Jeff Rymer, “We average 1,800 to 2,000 people every month at the downtown art crawl . . . And I think that got the attention of the city.”
Tinney Contemporary, Hyunmee Lee, Noon
The Rymer Gallery, Herb Williams, Nashville Skyline
The 5th Avenue of the Arts will become a “complete street” with new lighting (goodbye, giant generator-powered light tower), outdoor seating, pop-up outdoor galleries, and homegrown restaurants. Anne Brown describes the new ambience as “the small-town flavor of Nashville in the middle of an urban area.” The effects of the makeover will extend all the way to the new Music City Center, where visitors at the opposite end of 5th Avenue will be able to see eight curtains of lights with an irresistible glow not unlike Lower Broad’s honky-tonks. Says Susan Tinney, “Those of us on this street who have visualized this transformation for years are excited that our time is finally arriving.” On June 1, Mayor Karl Dean turns on the curtains of lights, and Nashville’s arts district will have never looked better. For more about the galleries on 5th Avenue visit www.theartscompany.com, www.therymergallery.com, and www.tinneycontemporary.com.
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A Response to the 2O1O Nashville Flood by Caroline Vincent, Public Art Manager
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s we reach the third anniversary of the Nashville flood, those who experienced it pause to remember how their lives or the lives of their friends or family changed that rainy weekend three short years ago. Life moves on, but
Historic Downtown Franklin
we don’t forget the tragedy and trauma caused by that moment in time. After the flood waters dissipated and our citizens began to put the pieces back together, the mayor’s office approached the Arts Commission and asked us to explore a thoughtful way to honor the lives and homes lost as well as the amazing spirit of our community. We determined a series of neighborhood-based public artworks rather than a single monument was a greater way to honor the experiences of individuals and the neighborhoods, who were each affected in unique ways. We designated the project Watermarks and set out to commission six public artworks in the most flood-affected neighborhoods. An open regional call to artists was conducted, and ultimately six finalists were chosen. Each finalist was paired with a neighborhood for a series of community meeting and input sessions that informed their final designs. Each artwork will be installed by June in various parks throughout the city: Harpeth Knoll Park – Craig Nutt: Bench Mark Antioch Community Center – Michael Allison: Liquid 615 Two Rivers Park – Derek Coté: Pier Shelby Bottoms Park– Christopher Fennell: Tool Fire Hartman Park – Buddy Jackson: Emergence West Park – Betty and Lee Benson: Anchor in the Storm In this space over the next few months, look for more on each of the Watermarks sculptures and artists. For dedication events at each of the parks, check our website www.artsnashville.org. Also, there you will find a downloadable curriculum guide with lesson plans and an in-depth look at each sculpture.
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The Crawl Guide Friday, May 3 Presented by the Downtown Franklin Association, the Franklin Art Scene, from 6 until 9 p.m., includes 30-plus free locations for enjoying art. Jack Yacoubian Jewelers will host revered artist Paul Harmon, who will be on hand to sign copies of his latest book, Paul Harmon: Crossing Borders. Gallery 202 will feature abstract painter Julie Harvey. At Frothy Monkey see Fire by Jennifer Ives and photographs by Nashville native Warren May. Bob Parks Realty will exhibit the work of Shirley A. Barker, known in the arts community as an instructor in the Japanese art of manga. For more information on the Franklin Art Scene, visit www.franklinartscene.com.
Saturday, May 4 Thirteen locations in the heart of Donelson will participate in the semi-annual Donelson Art Crawl, from 6 until 10 p.m. Enjoy a variety of artists and artisans, including Duane Chambers, Mary Crow, David McCullars, Raul Morales, Michael Kavanaugh and many more. Free shuttles will make continuous loops to all locations. In lieu of admission, donations will be collected for the art departments of Donelson and Metro Public Schools. For more information, visit www.donelsonartcrawl.com. David McCullars
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Friday, May 3 FAM at the Factory in Franklin, from 6 until 9 p.m., is all about food, art, music, and fun. This month will include Latin music with salsa dance teachers upstairs in Imagine. gallery + academy and on Artist Row. Imagine will also feature the Women Painters of the Southeast 2013 Exhibition.
Elizabeth Foster
Check out Second Saturday at Five Points in East Nashville, from 6 until 9:30 p.m., for fine art, antiques, books, new and vintage clothing, carefully curated gifts and artisan wares. Bryant Gallery will host a group show including Donna Rizzo. Art & Invention will showcase paintings by Elizabeth Foster.
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From 6 until 9 p.m., 5th Avenue of the Arts and the Arcade will offer a profusion of openings and exhibits. Imagine Gallery The Rymer Gallery will present emerging artists Carly Witmer and Will Penny in Prismatic. The Arts Company will open two new exhibits: Personal Geometries: Sculpture and Paintings, a new series by Brad Wreyford, and The Art of Fashion. (See our spotlight on The Art of Fashion on page 12.) Tinney Contemporary will continue their exhibition of new works by Anna Jaap in the front gallery and Carla Ciuffo in the rear gallery. Craig Brabson Fine Art Photography will exhibit his traditional "Wet Prints," photographic works of art printed on archival Cibachrome paper. Picture This on 5th will display the winning works from students of Kathy Chester Studio’s 2013 Student Art Show. Gallery of Andy Anh Ha will show new and existing pieces from his Will Penny large body of award-winning work.
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Darryl steele, a glorious sky, 10 x 14, watercolor and gouache on Paper
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artist profile
Kenton Nelson This Side of Paradise by Carol Caldwell
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nyone who has ever fallen for Southern California ticks off a list of similar lusts: it’s the mountains and the valleys and the Pacific ends of the earth. It’s the jacaranda, bougainvillea, and the sexy, sunlit palm fronds, the seductive weather, and,
yes, it’s the beautiful people. But cut to the chase: it’s the light. If it hadn’t been for the luscious gold light that lies all over the sinuous landscape like lay lady lay, there wouldn’t have been the movies. Kenton Nelson, Pasadena painter and mosaics maker, loves the light, the skies, his beautiful life, his place in time, the people he paints, and the cinema. “Just this morning, I was thinking how much under the influence of film I am—dramatic lighting, setting the stage. I really want a posed figure, and I am aware they are somewhat wooden and posed. That is my bent. I art-directed fashion photography for a while. One of my favorite photographers was Louise Dahl-Wolfe. I was greatly influenced by ads of the 1950s also. They’re all very hopeful and a little bit ridiculous. I’m utterly under the influence of that. My mother loved Fred Astaire, the old black-and-white movies. Those ’50s Doris Day Technicolor pictures. These have informed my viewpoint.”
After the Blue Sirocco, Oil on canvas, 48" x 72"
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Five Again, Oil on canvas, 36" x 36"
Curbside, Oil on canvas, 72" x 36"
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Pasadena, though, as you Californiaphiles must know, is not El Lay. Pasadena is old money and old blood and pretty nigh onto perfection. Kenton Nelson’s viewpoint reflects this. “They say paint what you know. I’m painting in a vernacular from my youth. My lifetime and my vision—where I prefer to be.” His figures live in a perfect world, utopian, past and future perfect, only something so . . . oddly eerie shadows their immaculate perfection. There are strange things going on just off to the side, and you can’t help but guess it. “Perfection is disturbing,” the artist says.
Such a Sight, Oil on canvas, 48" x 48"
Mending, Oil on canvas, 40" x 30"
“My early influences were writers like John Cheever. He takes us away from where we are to Shady Hill. The cocktail parties I grew up with—Mom would come out looking like a million bucks—so glamorous. We can’t help but appreciate things that have to do with our lifetime. F. Scott Fitzgerald—he breaks my heart. A contemporary writer I love is Raymond Carver. His stories leave you on the edge of the precipice. He makes a suggestion and lets you go on with it. That’s what I want to do in my work. Hitchcock was one of my favorite moviemakers because of the way he suggests things. “There is something about the viewer, or the voyeur. I like the idea of there being an audience, the observer participating in a painting. A writer friend and I were sitting around one day, and he said, ‘I’ve come to realize that I am only 50 percent of the equation.’ I thought, cool! The viewer has to be part of the experience.”
Sown, Oil on canvas, 36" x 36"
Diligence, Oil on canvas, 48" x 60" NashvilleArts.com
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Competition, Oil on canvas, 36" x 72"
Kenton Nelson’s paintings are big. “This is harkening to billboards. Walking through a square in Salzburg years ago, I saw big ads stuck in the center of the square. Those huge blowups at the street level— there’s an aspect of that that’s unsettling. The scale. I started out smaller, and there’s an intimacy to that. But now . . . my paintings are a real workout. On YouTube there’s one of my huge paintings. They are very specifically Southern California. How unique and beautiful our light is. What I’m doing is my ideal, which is not everyone’s ideal.” Nelson’s uncle was the Mexican muralist Roberto Montenegro. He has taken of late to producing murals on buildings in Pasadena in mosaic. His grandfather was Norwegian, like Nelson appears to be, and his grandmother was a Mexican flamenco dancer. “Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo were married in my uncle’s garden. I spent a lot of time as a child in Mexico City. Yes. You can’t get around the fact that my paintings and mosaics are influenced by my uncle and Rivera, Siqueiros, Murillo, and Orozco, plus American muralists of the WPA period. The thing about murals is they are there for everyone, and they last pretty much forever.” Pretty much. Barring a rift on the San Andreas Fault, that is, and what happens if we slide off the edge of the picture into the other side of paradise.
photo: courtesy of artist
A limited amount of Kenton Nelson’s art will be on exhibit at Cumberland Gallery during the month of May. Inquiries about Kenton Nelson's work can be directed to Cumberland Gallery or to the artist's representative, Scott Westervelt. kswestervelt@earthlink.net www.kentonnelson.com www.cumberlandgallery.com
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Tennessee Landscape (ca. 1910)
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Tennessee Valley Authority Mural Study (TVA) (ca. 1935) BOTTOM: Iron
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Tennessee Valley Authority Mural Study (TVA) (ca. 1935) by Walter Simpson Parke (American, 1909 - 1994) Gouache on board, 15 ½” x 27 ¾” (board).
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Lady in the Garden
(ca. 1910) by Cornelius Hankins (Tennessean, ca. 1864 - 1946) 18” x 13” (canvas), 26” x 21” (frame), signed lower left, oil on canvas, 22k gold leaf hand-carved frame.
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Pennsylvania Winter Nocturne
(ca. 1920) by Christian J. Walter (1872 – 1938) One of the artist’s best renderings. Oil on canvas, 22” x 27” (canvas), 31 ½” x 36 ½” (frame), signed lower right, 22k gold leaf hand-carved frame.
Boat in From Baltimore (ca. 1929) by Edmund Marion Ashe (American, 1867 – 1941) Oil on board, 24⅛” x 26” (board), 30⅝” x 32 ½” (vintage frame), signed lower right.
On the Hill
(Easton, Pennsylvania, ca. 1929) by Walter Emerson Baum, A.N.A. (American, 1884 – 1956)
One of Baum’s masterworks. Oil on canvas laid on board, 32” x 40” (canvas), 40 ½” x 48 ½” (handcarved gold leaf frame), signed lower left. Painting exhibited at the National Academy of Design & The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Colleen Kerrigan
It is fascinating to me that there are still people, in pockets around the world, that are seemingly unaffected by modern technology and the changes that it brings. – Colleen Kerrigan
Visas and Vistas
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by John Guider
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hen many people plan a grand vacation they may dream of a moonlit dance along the promenade of a large oceanic vessel, the warm rejuvenating rays of the sun while reclining on the white sand beaches of the Caribbean, or the soft clinking of wine glasses while nestled in a secluded bistro along the Champs Élysées. That’s
not Colleen. When others are at the boutiques checking out the latest in shipboard casuals, Kerrigan is shopping for DEET and making sure her immunizations for typhoid and cholera are current. She’s scanning the State Department advisories for possible outbreaks of malaria and dengue fever, because Colleen dreams of dancing with the ghosts of the past, brought to life by the practitioners of distant cultures who, because of their isolation, have remained true to their heritage. She willfully ventures to places where it is more important to see than to be seen.
Since 2006, Colleen has made it a point to travel to remote locales, separated from the rest of the world by long expanses of desert, high mountain ranges, and abject poverty that most of the world considers too inconvenient to infiltrate—places with names like Siem Reap, Gunghou, El Jadida, and Hoi An. The journeys can be rigorous, the lodgings sparse, and the amenities few. The towns lie in regions where in a medical emergency it may be impossible to get help. It would be unlikely that the local doctors could speak English, and the facilities are far from current. Having extraction insurance is a must. Her days are long. Every photographer knows that the first light might be the best, especially if the fog and the morning mists are in play. Yet the festivals may last far into the night. Rest is at a premium. And the work doesn’t stop there. Colleen usually returns with over 5,000 images, and the labor of the edit can last longer than the journey itself.
VIETNAM Many of the fishermen along the coast use round wooden boats that have bamboo basketry on the bottom. This man was straightening out his net after a day of fishing.
MYANMAR, Inle Lake It is common practice for young boys to be sent to monasteries for their education. Once they turn 18, they can decide if they will dedicate their lives to the monastery or leave to pursue other work.
We as the viewers of her work are the beneficiaries of her passion. Her spirit is kindred to the likes of Earhart and Goodall, for through her photography she educates us, enlightens us, and challenges us to break the restraints of our comfort zone and strive to live life to its very fullest. For more information about Colleen Kerriganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photography visit www.colleenkerriganphotographs.com.
CHINA, Guizhou Province I was walking through a small town when I heard noises coming from inside an enclosed courtyard. I looked inside and saw two of the village women practicing their traditional dance, with the family pigs for an audience.
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GUJARAT, Bhuj A typical scene at a village well—women walk from their homes, carrying their empty water vessels. They laugh and chat as they fill each other’s containers.
MYANMAR, Bhamo Bhamo is a river town along the Irrawaddy River. There is a large, open-air market there where people from the surrounding area come to stock up on produce and other goods for their villages. I caught this woman as she was leaving the flower market loaded with flowers. The yellow on her face is Tanaka powder that is used for such things as sunscreen, moisturizer, and acne reduction.
MYANMAR, Irrawaddy River I was struck by the way the sun played off of the hull and by the way the man was walking down the submerged plank.
KOLKATA, INDIA I happened to be in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, during Holi, which is a big Hindu holiday, celebrating the onset of spring and rebirth. People take to the streets, where colored dye and perfume are thrown on each other to signify the colors of spring. Here a man and his young son were walking home after the celebration.
MOROCCO, Chefchaouen These two men sat to discuss the day’s business wearing the traditional hooded coat made of wool called a Jalaba.
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This summer Metro Arts will present an exhibit of 3-D works featuring Nashville artists exclusively from the Artist Directory it co-manages with NowPlayingNashville.com. Featured artists: Edward Belbusti, Aletha Carr, Diana Johnson, Shana Kohnstamm, Troy Lacey, Anthony Novak, Elizabeth Sanford, and robert bruce scott. Assemblage with Hand by Aletha Carr
Gallery Location: 800 2nd Ave S., Nashville, TN 37210 Phone: 615.862.6720 • Email: arts@nashville.gov Free and open to the public www.artsnashville.org
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Jonathan Stone The Subtlety of Nudity
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hough he confronts an occasional landscape or two, the terrain Jonathan Stone most frequently explores in his paintings is that of the human body. Stone’s latest
series of figurative oil paintings opened at Franklin’s Gallery 202 last November and features the mottled, almost camouflage-like application of paint characteristic of Stone’s pictures. His color palettes range from the cool umbers and blues of Recognition to the vibrant reds and blues of Time is the Fire. Hot or cool, the human figure is the key element. “I try to do figures that are in sort of contemplative or introspective poses. That’s why that show’s called Process of Intuition. The figures look like they even might be partially asleep or meditating,” Stone said during a conversation about his work. The idea, he said, is to convey “a moment between things that are happening.” This approach is a testament to the continued influence of the Abstract Expressionist paintings Stone saw during visits to the
Whitney when he was growing up in New York City. In the mid 1990s, also in New York, he studied figurative art at the Art Students League and delved into “European traditions of artistic anatomy and gesture and the discipline of painting the figure,” Stone said. This kind of thinking about the human figure is similar to sculptor Alan LeQuire’s approach, Stone added. He has in fact studied with LeQuire (there’s a YouTube clip of Stone at one of the drawing workshops). “I’m trying to bridge a gap between modern expressionism and a classical approach to the figure,” he said. The expressionism comes in the way he paints (fast and spontaneously, from the shoulder, not the wrist) and his use of thick brushstrokes. “They’re not just an anatomical study; they’re not just a journalistic approach to capturing the figure. They’re meant to be powerful compositions,” Stone said of his paintings. He begins with a canvas covered in color—orange, blue, red, or
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green—and then adds varying values of complementary colors. This is one way he adds energy, a word he uses frequently when discussing his work. Cropping the figure and focusing in tightly on his subject, framing the view so that hands or feet run into or off the edges of the painting, also creates energy and moves the viewer’s eyes around the canvas. While his palette varies between four and five groupings of colors, Stone’s handling of the paint does not: He premixes it, then puts it straight onto the canvas. “A lot of time when oil
Recognition, 2008, Oil on canvas, 36" x 24"
Time Is the Fire, 2012, Oil on canvas, 60" x 40"
painters paint, they’re sort of pushing the paint around the canvas, blending it. I don’t do that at all,” Stone said. “The paint is very thick and it has a lot of streaks, kind of a 3-D sort of quality.” Close up the final compositions are abstract-like swirls of thickly applied paint that come together in dappled patterns as one moves farther away.
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When I’m painting live and fast, I’m trying to capture my energy at the same moment that I’m trying to capture the energy and emotion of the model, so it’s an existential kind of thing, really, when you think about it.
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Jonathan Stone is represented by Gallery 202. For more information visit www.jonathanstonearts.com and www.gallery202art.com.
Arrival, 1999, Oil on canvas, 18" x 24"
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Ndume Olatushani
Spent 20 years on Death Row for a crime he didn't commit. Today, he is a free man catching up on life, family, and his art. This is his story. by Molly Secours | photography by Jerry Atnip
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n October 1, 1983, 26-year-old St. Louis native Erskine Johnson was celebrating his mother’s birthday with about thirty relatives. What none of them
could have ever imagined was that night, while they were honoring their matriarch, a murder committed 398 miles away in Memphis, Tennessee, would shatter their lives. Being the seventh of eleven children, Johnson was surrounded by siblings, cousins, and close relatives who lived in the area. It was the last time he would celebrate his favorite holiday— his mother’s birthday—with those he loved most. Within several months following the murder, Johnson was tracked down, charged, convicted, and sentenced to death for the crime—even though he had never before set foot in the state of Tennessee. Stunned and disoriented, Johnson discovered from a Memphis attorney—who was initially retained to represent him—that after some initial inquiry it appeared that Memphis authorities were under pressure for a conviction and had their sights on Erskine Johnson as the murderer. It was a done deal. Unfortunately the attorney was reluctant about being embroiled in a political battle, and Johnson was forced to hire counsel from out of state. The trial began December 1, 1985, and in spite of all the witnesses willing to testify that Johnson was in St. Louis during the murder, none of them were called to the stand. Six days later—after hearing only one witness claim to have seen
As if the gods’ insatiable thirst for suffering was not yet satisfied, in 1987 Ndume’s life crumbled even further after learning that his mother, the woman who knew of his innocence and never wavered in her faith that justice would prevail, was killed in a car accident along with an 8-year-old niece. “I was truly a broken man. I hit rock bottom,” says Ndume. And that’s when he started painting, a hobby that would ultimately change the course of his life. Soft-spoken and with a calm demeanor, Ndume recalls: “After my mom’s death I decided I couldn’t be hurt anymore. I started drawing and eventually taught myself to paint.” While spending twenty-four hours in an enclosed space might drive some mad, Ndume says painting freed his mind and his spirit. “Through my artwork I lived outside of prison. I didn’t paint my surroundings. I painted people I would like to meet— mostly women and children. The people came to me.”
Tracking the Dream, Oil on linen, 20" x 24"
Johnson—the all-white jury deliberated less than four hours and found him guilty of murder. In less than two hours the same jury imposed the death penalty. For the next twenty-eight years Johnson (who changed his name in the late ’80s to Ndume Olatushani) lived in maximum-security prisons—and for twenty of those years was confined on death row inside a 6’ x 10’ cell.
Day Dreaming, Oil on linen, 30" x 20"
In 1991 Ndume started corresponding with a young college graduate named Anne Marie Moyes who was organizing a death row art show and who was mesmerized by his paintings. Through letters and visits they eventually fell in love, and through being familiar with the details of the case, Anne Marie discovered that reading law briefs came easily to her and enrolled in Vanderbilt Law School, where she would finish first in her class. “He was always upbeat. Imagine it. He was sitting on his bunk painting, propped up in a tiny room where he couldn’t stretch two arms out sideways,” says Anne Marie. Canvases needed to be small and no oils were allowed, and Ndume relied on whatever supplies were sent from the outside.
Braving the Storm, Oil on linen, 30" x 24"
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After working diligently on Ndume’s behalf, Anne Marie convinced a New York law firm to work pro bono, and in 1998 Ndume’s death sentence was overturned. Due to the appeals process it would take another six years before he was actually moved from death row. After twenty-eight years of imprisonment, Ndume is a free man living in Nashville with his wife, Anne Marie, and their adopted child. And while he was offered zero compensation for twenty-eight years of wrongful incarceration, Ndume assures me he is extremely grateful for a part-time job at the Children’s Defense Fund and to be painting. When asked if he is bitter or angry about the stolen years, Ndume smiles and offers: “I let go of anger a long time ago. In letting go of anger, I freed myself.” What is particularly poignant (and a common trait) in the faces of those who appear in Ndume’s work is gentleness—portraits of imaginary strangers kind enough to penetrate iron and steel to remind him of his true nature. One of Ndume’s paintings, titled Tracking the Dream, depicts an African hunter and a spirit woman dancing in a field. “He thinks he’s tracking a lion, but it turns out it’s his soul mate he’s been chasing the whole time. It’s the hunter becoming the hunted.” Glancing sideways, Ndume offers a knowing glance as if to make sure the irony is understood. Molly Secours is a writer, filmmaker, and activist and is currently celebrating five years remission from cancer by gazing skyward and dancing on demand. www.mollysecours.com and www.lastinglegaciesvideo.com
Black Man Rise Up Boldly, Oil on linen, 30" x 24"
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Clothes Make the Lady in Studio Tenn's Latest Production by Karen Parr-Moody | photography by Anthony Matula
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oing from guttersnipe to grand lady is achievable through crisp elocution and enchanting gowns, as anyone familiar with My Fair Lady knows. Quite possibly none
other than Cecil Beaton, who created the costumes for the 1963 film starring Audrey Hepburn, could have better transformed Eliza Doolittle in such fitting fashion. Beaton himself was a social climber who intimately understood the milieu into which Doolittle, a cockney flower peddler, was thrust.
And when Studio Tenn Theatre Company brings My Fair Lady, directed by Matt Logan and co-directed by Kim Bretton, to the stage May 16 through June 2 at the Franklin Theatre, the clothes will once again make the lady. Actress Laura Matula, as Doolittle, will wear a collection of gowns that aid her in the social rise that Professor Henry Higgins orchestrates. Logan, Studio Tenn’s Artistic Director, has taken up the task of conceptualizing the stage versions of Beaton’s extravagant confections. He is also in the process of hand stitching the gowns, in the couture tradition, to ensure that their lace and ruffles speak volumes. “Design-wise it’s a heyday,” Logan says as he sits on the front porch of a Nashville coffee shop. “It’s just an extravagant heyday. What is beautiful is that the costumes are art. They’re moving art.” Logan’s eyes are as blue as the waters of Bora Bora, and his wavy black hair is tousled, as it will be when he also takes on the role of Higgins. He envisions a different kind of professor, younger and more in the mold of Sherlock Holmes than the persnickety Higgins of past stage and film versions. Due to a casual—some might say insensitive—wager he makes, Higgins, an expert in phonetics, conducts a social experiment in which he transforms Doolittle into a
gentlewoman fit for a society ball. “All too often, he’s too dapper,” Logan says of the typical treatment of Higgins on stage and screen. “And he’s a rebel to society. He’s that rich kid who doesn’t care. So we’re going to play with my hair being wild and curly, and I’ll wear an overcoat and scarf.” But for Doolittle, Logan will stay truer to type. The whippet-thin Hepburn was a vision in Beaton's fanciful costumes, as the star of Studio Tenn’s version will be in those stitched by Logan. The costumes will simply be tweaked for the stage and body type. “Beaton’s costumes, the color palettes he used, the ideas . . . I’m going to be embracing all that,” Logan says. “I’m just not copying them perfectly.” Logan worked in costume design on Broadway in New York for five years. Like Beaton, who was a photographer, set designer, diarist, and costumer, Logan wears many hats. He is an illustrator, director, actor, and, in addition to costume work, he has sewn clothes for Nashville designer Jeff Garner of Prophetik. For My Fair Lady, Logan has created five gorgeous costumes that transport Doolittle from the grubby environs of Covent Garden to the haunts of those to the manor born. He was assisted by milliner Anna Zeitlin, who studied in London, along with wig designer Sondra Nottingham and wardrobe supervisor Terrah Trimble. 56 | May 2O13 NashvilleArts.com
Logan refers to the notion that Higgins, along with his fellow linguist Colonel Pickering, conspires to improve Doolittle’s social standing on a lark. “They are insensitively creating a woman as a challenge, and it’s brutal,” he says. “There’s no emotion. They’re completely creating a person from scratch and disregarding the human that was there to begin with. So at its core it’s a Frankenstein story that becomes a love story.” Some might argue that Beaton’s confections were simply a camp way of tweaking society’s nose. But with their overabundance of froth and lace and their waspish waists, they were silent witnesses to the Edwardian era, a time when women, while on the cusp of independence, were still bound into strict society roles. “When Eliza was selling flowers, she was as free as could be,” Logan says. “She could work, she could make money, even though it was the tiniest amount imaginable. If she did great, people applauded. If she didn’t, people looked the other way.” But, he notes, as she goes through the process of becoming a “lady,” her body is stiffened with seams that sculpt her into an hourglass and corsets that restrain movement. “She says in the script, ‘What am I fit for? What have you left me fit for?’” When it comes to being fit, My Fair Lady is tailored beautifully for the stage in Logan’s deft hands, as theatergoers will gleefully discover. My Fair Lady runs May 16-June 12. Tickets are now on sale at www.studiotenn.com and the Franklin Theatre Box Office at www.franklintheatre.com.
The iconic gown for the Ascot Racecourse, with its over-the-top hat, is likely the most memorable of the gowns Hepburn wore in the film. Logan has stayed true to most of its elements, including that black-andwhite bow at the shoulder, which he has accented with a delicious hot-pink ribbon. The hat is a sweeping arc of pink, black, and white (topped by a massive white feather, naturally). For the Embassy Ball, the white gown Beaton designed had an empire silhouette, was beaded throughout, and was worn with long, white gloves. Logan tweaked his version by keeping the bulk of the bling on the bodice while retaining those delicate lace cap sleeves. The final costume seen in the Doolittle wardrobe is an ultra-feminine pink ensemble covered in ruffles. While Beaton accented his costume’s jacket with a huge rosette on the front, Logan scatters smaller rosettes across the front and back. “It’s my favorite,” he says. “It’s Galliano-meets-Chanel inspired.”
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Arts Worth Watching Does art have a role in war? If so, what is it? The Ghost Army, coming to NPT on Tuesday, May 21, at 7 p.m., offers one possible— and stunning—answer. During World War II, a handpicked group of American GIs undertook a bizarre mission to create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the Nazi German Army as their audience. The U.S. 23rd Headquarters Special Troops used inflatable rubber tanks, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy again and again, often right along the front lines. This little-known unit’s knack for trickery was crucial to Allied success in World War II, but their top-secret mission was kept quiet for nearly 50 years after the war’s end. Using archival footage of this top-secret unit, dozens of still photographs, paintings, and sketches created by “ghost army” soldiers during the war, as well as interviews with veterans of this special unit, The Ghost Army tells their extraordinary story for the first time on film and demonstrates the power of creativity and of the WWII soldiers who found a unique way to employ it to save lives. Perhaps thanks to pop artists like Jason Mraz and Train, the ukulele is having a bit of a moment. But this is no toy instrument. It has a storied history and, in the hands of a master, is capable of producing incredibly complex music. Jake Shimabukuro (pronounced she-ma-BOO-koorow) is one such master. Through jaw-dropping performances of improbable compositions like the Queen classic “Bohemian Rhapsody” shared by millions on YouTube, the inspiring and inventive musician has transformed all previous notions of the instrument’s potential. In intimate conversations with Shimabukuro, Life on Four Strings, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura
and airing on NPT Friday, May 10, at 8 p.m., reveals the cultural and personal influences that have shaped the man and the musician. On the road from Los Angeles to New York to Japan, the film captures the solitary life on tour: the exhilaration of performance, the wonder of newfound fame, the loneliness of separation from home and family. Independent documentary fans have had an incredible season of Independent Lens to revel in this season, and the quality continues Monday nights at 9 p.m. this month with three new films, including an Academy Award nominee. On Monday, May 6, it’s Seeking Asian Female, the touching love story between an aging white man and the Chinese bride he finds online. May 9 brings the Academy Award-nominated The Invisible War, an expose of the epidemic of rape and sexual assault and its cover-up within the ranks of the U.S. military. Following a Monday night break to give room to American Masters to profile legend Mel Brooks on May 20, Independent Lens returns Monday, May 27, with Detropia, which follows the efforts of Detroit residents working to create a radically new post-industrial city.
Sunday nights in May come with a fun new half-hour series celebrating the fresh, innovative work of film-school students from major institutions like NYU, Columbia University, UCLA, USC, and the University of Texas that has wowed audiences at Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Telluride, and SXSW. Film School Shorts, airing Sundays at 10:30 p.m. beginning May 12, offers a selection of shorts grouped together around a central theme or topic, including Okay, Cupid (May 12), Growing Pains (May 19), and Letting Go (May 26).
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Breathing new life into the traditional civics lesson, Peter Sagal (host of NPR’s Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me) travels across the country on a Harley Davidson to find out where the U.S. Constitution lives, how it works and how it doesn’t; how it unites us as a nation and how it has nearly torn us apart. Tuesdays, May 7 - 28 8:00 PM
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7:00 Lawrence Welk Show 8:00 Keeping Appearances 8:30 Old Guys 9:00 Doc Martin Martin is in London to meet with Robert Dashwood, who is leading the selection process for the prestigious London surgeon's job that he has applied for. 10:00 Celtic Thunder Mythology The group returns to its roots at the Helix Theater in Dublin.
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7:00 Blenko Behind The Scenes 8:30 Matthew Morrison: Where It All Began Live From the Bushnell The Glee star sustains a modern sensibility as he wins over the audience with American standards and dance. 9:30 70s & 80s Soul Rewind (My Music) More classic soul, R&B and dance from the 1970s and early 1980s. 11:30 Inside Washington
7:00 National Memorial Day Concert Join Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna in honoring the service of our men and women in uniform. 8:30 National Memorial Day Concert 10:00 Bluegrass Underground Scott Miller. 10:30 Film School Shorts 11:00 Tavis Smiley 11:30 Inside Washington
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7:00 American Masters Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel. A profile of the Gone with the Wind author. 8:30 Burt Bacharach’s Best (My Music Presents) Through archival footage and clips from the 1960s-1970s, original artists perform Bacharach’s hits. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Great Performances Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy.
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7:00 In Performance at the White House 8:00 Constitution USA with Peter Sagal Built to Last? Consider the systems that have kept the Constitution healthy for more than 225 years. 9:00 Frontline Outlawed in Pakistan. A rape victim in Pakistan’s justice system. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Pacific Heartbeat
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7:00 The Ghost Army American GIs of WWII tricked the enemy with crafted illusions. 8:00 Constitution USA with Peter Sagal Created Equal. Changes created by the Fourteenth Amendment. 9:00 Frontline The Untouchables. Wall Street leaders who have escaped prosecution. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Pacific Heartbeat
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7:00 Tennessee Crossroads 7:30 Volunteer Gardener 8:00 Tennessee Civil War 150 Rivers and Rails. Their role in the war. 8:30 Tennessee Civil War 150 Looking over Jordan. 9:00 Grand Canyon Serenade 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 3 Steps to Incredible Health! with Joel Fuhrman
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7:00 Nature The Himalayas. 8:00 Nova Deadliest Tornados. Learn how we can protect ourselves and our communities. 9:00 Nova Deadliest Earthquakes. investigations that may lead to a breakthrough in predicting earthquakes. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Austin City Limits Radiohead.
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7:00 Tennessee Crossroads 7:30 Volunteer Gardener 8:00 Doc Martin 9:00 Rebel Loreta Velasquez, a woman and a Cuban immigrant, secretly served as a soldier during the Civil War. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Secrets of the Manor House What life was really like in the great British manor houses.
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7:00 Nature The White Lions. Two rare white lion cubs journey to adulthood. 8:00 Nova Secrets of the Sun. Our nearest star. 9:00 Secrets of the Dead Airmen and the Headhunters. Airmen shot down in Japanese-occupied Bomeo in WWII. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Austin City Limits Arcade Fire.
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7:00 Antiques Roadshow Louisville: Hour One. 8:00 70s & 80s Soul Rewind (My Music) More classic soul, R&B and dance from the 1970s and early 1980s. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Blenko Behind The Scenes Go into the heat and heart of the Blenko glassworks to see how the beautiful, all-handmade, glassware is created.
7:00 Antiques Roadshow Seattle: Hour Three. 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Vintage Atlanta. 9:00 Independent Lens Detropia. Discover how Detroit residents are ready to create a radically new post-industrial city. 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Alaska’s Marine Highway The history and preservation of Alaska Marine Highway.
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7:00 Antiques Roadshow Seattle: Hour Two. 8:00 American Masters Mel Brooks: Make A Noise. A profile of the incomparable actor, director, writer and comedian. 9:30 Old Guys 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Pacific Heartbeat A new anthology series that provides a glimpse of the real Pacific — its people, cultures, languages and music.
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Artist Gregory Kirschenbaum works with real metal pigments and polymers on canvas. He has been compared to Andy Warhol by New York Magazine. In this image, Gregory uses oxidized metal pigments on canvas to create a beautiful urban scene. Kirschenbaum is best known for The Iron Workers Statue from Ground Zero and Rockefeller Centre.
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We want to encourage people to talk about art and the ideas it can promote. – Owners, 734 Jackson Boulevard
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et ready for a surprise if you drive down Harding Place near Belle Meade Boulevard past the ultra modern, Larry Woodson-designed white house on the corner of Jackson and Harding. The new mural painted on the front of
it will rock your world and, depending on how you feel about an enormous Asian face amid the Southern colonial columns and half-timbered Tudors of Belle Meade, you’ll either love it or hate it. The owners collaborated with Seattle graffiti artists Joey Nix and Jeff Jacobson, commissioning them to paint their visions on the outside of the house. Internationally known videographer Chris Word documented the creation of the piece. Nix and Jacobson spray-painted
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the mural, called Timeline, over six days. Their intent is to represent how the past moves into the future, how one affects and builds off the other. They use symbols of Europe (a turn-of-the-century lady in profile), machines of the industrial revolution, and Asian technoculture to represent time and its passage. Vivid, hyperrealist images convey movement and freshness. It’s a narrative with a sense of mystery, a puzzle in a picture. “These symbols are subjective,” says Nix. “We expect people to make their own interpretations.” Timeline is the artists’ second collaboration on the house. The first, Gateway, created last year, contained esoteric geometric symbols, the face of a Native American, and flying whales and
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was featured in local and national media. Lately, Jacobson and Nix’s murals have gained traction internationally. Together they recently completed a large billboard in Seattle advertising Microsoft's launch of Windows 8. Jacobson has just returned from London, after being commissioned to paint Facebook's London HQ. Nashville Arts sat down with the home’s owners to chat. NA: Graffiti in Belle Meade? What is this world coming to?
OWNERS: We want to encourage people to talk about art and the ideas it can promote. On this go-around, we thought it helpful to start a Facebook page (outside734) so that people could engage in a conversation about the art. NA: I’m engaged. Why tag your house?
OWNERS: One of the reasons that graffiti art resonates with us is because often the message is outside the established community. Champions of this medium include artists like Banksy in England and Shepard Fairey here in the U.S. He’s the artist who became famous for his Obama campaign poster. Until recently, artists like them were excluded from the community, traditional art galleries, and showrooms. Socially they have been deemed unpalatable and uncontrollable for fear that their philosophies may be antiestablishment. NA: What do you get out of it? Is there an underlying agenda?
OWNERS: We’re doing it for fun. We’re not opening a gallery or starting a business. We truly love all art forms, from the classic to ultra-contemporary. Even if we don't get it, we try to respect the artists’ right to their voices.
was that he felt he was being held hostage by the advertising of multinational corporations, on billboards and in other advertising media. He calls it “brandalism.” NA: Why do you think the medium is so challenging for some? Is it because of this anti-establishment idea, the idea that the art is made by outsiders?
OWNERS: Yes, partially. Many of us don’t even know we’re uncomfortable. It’s not traditional. It’s a different kind of art. You don’t go somewhere and see it on purpose. Also, this is Belle Meade. People don’t expect to see it here. But whatever anyone says about the form or the art, Nix and Jacobson are the best at what they do. This level of hyperrealist imaging with spray paint is world class. NA: How did this start? How did you meet the artists? Can you describe the process?
OWNERS: We met them in Seattle where they were painting a mural. We loved their work and hit it off. After we showed them a picture of the house, we started talking about what we could do together. NA: How long will you keep it?
OWNERS: No idea. For more about the artists, visit Jeff Jacobson’s blog at www.weirdocult.com and Joey Nix’s blog at www.joeynix.wordpress.com. Join the conversation at www.facebook.com/outside734.
NA: What are people’s reactions?
OWNERS: We get so many comments. People drive by the house. They put notes in our mailbox. The overwhelming response has been positive and encouraging. People seem to appreciate the effort. NA: And the neighbors?
OWNERS: They have been extremely supportive. We love this neighborhood. NA: On Facebook someone said they “didn’t want to be held hostage by someone else’s taste.”
OWNERS: It certainly speaks to the power of art that an image could hold you hostage [laughs]. Ironically, Banksy’s early message
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ne of my favorite childhood books is E.L Konigsburg’s 1967 classic From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, where two erstwhile suburban kids plot to run away and hide in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Along the way, they discover an unknown Michelangelo sculpture and through research and observation unlock a new fragment of history. This kid’s dream of finding something unknown, being a sixth-grade Indiana Jones, is happening right now at John Early Museum Magnet Middle School. In March, John Early (JEMMMS) became the first middle-school museum recognized by the Tennessee Association of Museums and the American Alliance of Museums. The cornerstone of this designation is the school’s collection of over 8,000 artifacts acquired from the Scarritt-Bennett Center. The artifacts hail from four continents and represent cultures all over the world. The far-ranging collection, curated by students and teachers, includes jewelry, costumes, hats, shoes, pottery and pottery shards, dolls, ceremonial masks, armor, sculptures, toys, baskets, musical instruments, tools, headdresses, and much more. JEMMMS is a shining example of inquiry and project-based learning that is the nucleus of the state’s new rigorous Common Core Standards. Rather than read about geography, culture, and ritual, the Junior Curators club at John Early reviews an artifact, considers its fragility, determines its social and cultural purpose, and catalogs it through measurement, writing, and sketching. Simply, the act of looking at a basket or an arrowhead synthesizes science, math, English, and history in a real world and innovative context. No need for the annual museum field trip—John Early students are acting as docents, preparing gallery talks, working directly with instructional volunteers and the more than thirty institutional partners from the State Museum to translate everyday objects into out-of-this-world learning.
Photo: Kina Cleveland
John Early Museum Magnet Middle School is always looking for volunteers and artifact donors, so if you would like to join in on the fun, please contact Becky Verner or Lyndell Edmonson via email at rebecca.verner@mnps.org and lyndell.keys@mnps.org.
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Fifth grade docent, KeMayeysa Buford, informs visitors about African tribal instruments.
John Early Students Passing on Knowledge by DeeGee Lester
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ashville's newest museum embraces some unusual notions: the small, gloved hands of children can handle artifacts with care; kids can serve as knowledgeable and enthusiastic docents; and young minds can envision and create engaging exhibits and assist in the development of a collection policy. With professional recognition from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the Tennessee Association of Museums (TAM), and the Inter-Museum Council of Nashville (ICON), the students and faculty at John Early Museum Magnet Middle School recently celebrated the grand opening of Tennessee's first officially sanctioned museum within a school. Following the closing of Scarritt-Bennett’s Hartzler Towner Multicultural Museum in 2011, museum officials began looking for new homes for its collection of over 10,000 artifacts, including African masks, exotic musical instruments, baskets, traditional Japanese costumes, textiles, pottery, and dolls from around the world. A chance meeting between Rebecca Verner (John Early Instructional Designer) and Steve Gately (Research Librarian at Scarritt-Bennett) led to further discussions that resulted in the donation of a major portion of the collection to the museum magnet school. Children’s natural attraction to objects and their stories and the unique experiential learning environment offered at John Early provided an appealing museum home for the treasured collections. In reaching out to the magnet school, Bob Tyson, Director of Education and Connections at the Center, said, “Promoting cross-cultural education, understanding, and relationships is at the heart of Scarritt-Bennett’s legacy. This donation ensures that legacy will stay alive—and in the hands of students—for years to come.” By any estimation, it was a bold move. Placing cultural artifacts from around the world under the stewardship of middle school students would normally send terror through the ranks of museum professionals. But two years into working with the museum magnet, the forty-one museum partners of John Early applauded the donation and welcomed the venture.
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people learn that with that access also comes the responsibility of caring for the stories and objects. Coverstone recognizes a shared responsibility, saying, “When we [adults] are really ready to build a future for all the people of Nashville, we will need to release the power to our children, secure in the knowledge that they know how to dream, build, and share stories that will set the direction for their work and ultimately build the Nashville where we will grow old.”
Photo: Kina Cleveland
For more information, visit www.johnearlyms.mnps.org.
Photo: Kina Cleveland
Japanese hand embroidered silk tapestry, Samurai Warrior on horseback, a wooden sailing vessel, Geisha girl and a ceremonial dancer.
African headpiece, believed to be a mask, is used for ceremonies and religious rites.
In workshops led by Dr. Bren Martin and the Public History Program at Middle Tennessee State University, teachers and students learned and followed professional museum accessioning procedures for inventorying, cataloguing, crating, and moving artifacts from one museum location to another. The university and museum magnet partnership includes continuing support services in critical areas such as artifact handling and exhibit display using museum-quality display units. Throughout the process, John Early faculty and students have taken seriously their new role as cultural stewards and educators. The museum magnet school concept offers students an opportunity to explore curriculum connections, to place what they learn in the bigger picture, to develop critical thinking and communication skills, and to see the relevancy of what they learn. Students are empowered with a potential to impact their community. ICON president Jeff Sellers reminded students that through the museum magnet learning experience, “You are not just being educated; you are becoming educators.” In remarks at the John Early Museum grand opening, Alan Coverstone, Metro Schools Executive Officer for Innovation, acknowledged “the power of our collective stories and artifacts” to our sense of community. “We build and create a world of artifacts that constitute our contributions to our shared lives in community. But the importance and memory of our work belongs almost exclusively to those who will carry our stories into the future.” With a learning environment enhanced by the presence of interesting artifacts from around the world, students have access to the repeated moments of discovery enjoyed by museum professionals. But these young
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New Horizons
Antioch Art Students by Rebecca Pierce | photography by Tamara Reynolds
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espite being on the fringe of the city, Antioch High School has made remarkable progress in developing opportunities for students to become a part of the Nashville art community. As in many schools, funding for the arts remains a struggle, but with support from Cheekwood Botanical Gardens, a partnership with the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, and donations from Antioch's local businesses, the AHS Art Department is blossoming and bringing more art to the Antioch area. Liz Savayvongthong played violin as a youngster and has been drawing since seventh grade. Preferring to work alone, she is very serious about her work and applies the same discipline she learned studying music. She has tried every medium but always comes back to pencil and pastels. In her piece Stressed she wanted to convey the feelings that accompany stress. “Most people hide their feelings when they are around others, but then when they are alone the feelings come out,” she explained. Liz is currently finishing her AP portfolio and looking at colleges. Though she isn’t sure what direction her art will take in college, she is considering becoming an art teacher.
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Tristan Higginbotham, Fallen Clown, 2011, Watercolor on paper, 8" x 10"
Liz Savayvongthong, Stressed, 2011, Graphite on paper, 13" x 18"
Art has always been a part of Tristan Higginbotham’s life, and she is open to wherever her creativity takes her. She’s been awarded a full scholarship to the Governor’s School and will spend a month at Middle Tennessee State University this summer. Though she is a bit nervous she says, “I’m excited because I will be totally immersed in art, and I won’t have to worry about anything else. I am still trying to figure out my style, and I think this opportunity will help me develop and move into my own.” Tristan participated in the Frist Antioch Community Exhibition, F.A.C.E., helping to put together an exhibition using the same processes employed by the Frist Center. A junior, Tristan will continue with AP art next year.
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Nathaniel Oboh elected to take Art 1 his freshman year because he thought it would be a fun and easy class. With a rather sheepish grin he explained he discovered he could indeed draw but that art class wasn’t very easy, especially once he began AP Studio Art. “Beginning in the fall, Nathaniel has made quantum leaps in his skills, vision, and artistic voice,” his instructor enthusiastically remarked. Often he chooses his subject matter from someone or something right next to him like a classmate across the table. He looks for interesting angles and strong contrast, which he renders in pencil adding color near completion. Nathaniel will submit an AP portfolio. He’s been accepted to MTSU, plans to major in engineering, and hopes to become a mechanical engineer. A participant works on carving a block.
Frist Center's Stop. Take Notice! by DeeGee Lester
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eens perceive and interpret their community and its issues in powerful ways. They understand that what they create can, ultimately, add new voices that can inspire change. Now through August 25, visitors to the Frist Center's Conte Community Arts Gallery are invited to explore the reinterpretation by teaching artists Chris Cheney, Michael Lapinski, and Laura Wallace of four teen art installations. In the latest contribution to the Stop. Take Notice! public art initiative, launched last fall by Frist Center educators, the current exhibit expands student art concepts that boldly address local issues.
Nathaniel Oboh
The project provided high school students an opportunity to create interactive works of art that were installed at partner community organizations: the Nashville Public Library's Main Branch Teen Center, the Oasis Center, the Martha O'Bryan Center's Top Floor program, and the Cane Ridge YMCA “Latino Achievers.” In this artistic, public platform, the teens creatively addressed issues impacting their lives. Life-size sculptural pieces provide visual commentary on the pressure for perfection and maintaining a flawless facade before the world. The pieces of personal and collective piñatas express views on the impact of violence. The moveable wooden leaves of a life-size tree silhouette reflect life's positive and negative choices. A sixteen-foot collograph block allowed students to cut and transfer symbols and letters spelling out community issues. The reinterpretation of these works by teaching artists expands the platform for public exchange of ideas and experiences that was opened by the teen artists.
Nathaniel Oboh, Shoes, 2012, Graphite on paper, 16" x 20"
“As a relatively new teacher, I am just starting to experience the joy of watching students continue through our art program,” explained art instructor Emma Lancaster. “The three students featured are a few of those I've had the pleasure of teaching for two or three years. Liz and Tristan were two of the five students to jump on board working with the AP Studio Art curriculum last year. Though we didn't have a designated class time and I wasn't certified until November, their excitement and determination to progress artistically were inspiring and allowed us to continue growing the art program. Nathaniel was first in my Art II class last year and somewhat reluctantly joined AP Studio Art this year but has flourished in the rigorous course.”
For more information, visit www.fristcenter.org.
“It's been amazing watching these students take initiative and produce high-quality artwork,” Lancaster concludes. For more about Antioch High School visit www.antiochhs.mnps.org.
The group works to ink their large collagraph for printing.
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Art Camp
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n the back of the LeQuire gallery on Charlotte Pike in his own personal workspace, sculptor Alan LeQuire has been offering workshops to adults for some time. Three years ago he decided to expand his mentoring, offering a week-long summer camp that would expose children 7 to 10 to a different medium each day. The Artist-ADay Camp is taught by some of Nashville’s most recognized artists and has to be one of the most fun art camps any kid could attend.
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Louise Kohler’s son Max has been to the camp for the last two years and will go again this summer. “Max loves going to the LeQuire Studio, and when I heard they were doing the camps [and] would have a different artist do a different art every day of the week, it sealed the deal. My husband and I are both really big art fans, and we truly believe it’s inspirational for children to actually be up close and personal and involved with artists. The artists they’ve had have been so talented and inspirational with children.” And what does Max himself think about the camp?
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I thought it was really cool. My favorite was taking a rock and carving it in the shape of a dinosaur head, and I got to work on a collage that turned out to be a bowl. This summer I want to make some more collages and carvings, but I’m also hoping we make things out of metal, ’cause that’s really fun.
Sculptor Alan LeQuire
” Artist Greg Decker
The camp isn’t a blast just for the kids. Jim Sherraden, who is best known for his work at Hatch Show Print, will be teaching a class again this year. “I enjoy the art camp so much. This is my third year, and I’m happy to teach printmaking to young children. Someone did it for me when I was a child, and I’m happy to return the favor.”
Max Kohler works the clay
There will be two weeks of Artist-A-Day camps for 7 to 10 year olds, as well as a week for kids 10 to 12. In addition to LeQuire and Sherraden, featured artists include Annie Freeman, Ben Caldwell, and Brenda Stein. For more information, visit www.lequiregallery.com.
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he whole time I lived here,” says Oscar-winner Callie Khouri with a degree of wonder, “all I could think was why am I here, what am I doing here? I’d think this makes no sense; there’s nothing here for me…’”
Pausing in the cheap-veneer Winnebago with the Styrofoam-beige shag carpeting, expensive console-mounted sound system, and the mirror ringed in large lights for applying make-up, she takes it all in. “Now I know why—I was doing research! I was around all these talented people, and none of my talents fit with anything they did. So, here I was . . . They [every aspect of her Nashville life] all seemed to be dead ends. And then, it all dumps into this.” “This” would be Nashville, ABC’s expensive prime-time weekly soap/drama that centers around several crossroads, not just in the country music industry but the dynamics of local power and politics, the bubbling under other musical genres, ageism, addiction, and, yes—because it’s network—sex. 76 | May 2O13 NashvilleArts.com
Laughing, she shakes her head. The Texas-born, Kentucky-raised Khouri has always defied conventional wisdom. Having studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, she wrote her first script while working as an assistant at a video production company. That little script became Thelma & Louise, which captured the imagination of director Ridley Scott before landing the statuesque blonde on the cover of TIME and ultimately winning her 1992’s Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. The tale of a fed-up waitress and her timid best friend trapped in a suffocatingly dreary small-town marriage going on the lam for a weekend adventure was anything but conventional at the time. But it struck a resonant chord with America. This wasn’t a feminist manifesto; it was feminism lived, as well as a hero’s journey shared by two friends, who just happened to share the double XX genetic coil. Nashville, seemingly a classic lots-of-money-and-betrayal proposition, follows suit. Using the genuine conflicts, cold-blooded powerbrokers, and actual realities of the entertainment business, Khouri committed to exhuming the humanity beneath the decimal places and high-gloss hair toss needed for prime time. Tours not selling, young artists who’re fluff that flex sex over talent, business folks who look at the bottom line and miss the content, as well as backstories driven by poor choices . . . all drive Nashville. And the music—overseen by iconic producer/artist/ visionary T Bone Burnett—strives to raise the bar on what mainstream country can stomach. “When my agent started talking to me about this, I kept saying no one is going to buy the kind of show about Nashville I’d want to make,” Khouri remembers. “But they kept insisting we take the meetings . . . ” Steve Buchanan, president of the Grand Ole Opry, had a vision. R.J. Cutler, known for cutting-edge documentaries including The War Room and September Issue, seemed to understand the heart and grit Khouri was seeking. A meeting with Lionsgate, “where I never thought they’d go for it,” turned into meetings with several suitors. Two networks seemed committed. Still Khouri, who’d always found a way to examine the sexual politics and stereotypes beneath her quixotic story lines and brilliant dialogue (like “You should’ve thought of that before you married someone whose nickname in college was Hounddog,” Kyra Sedgwick’s sister in Something To Talk About chides the cuckolded Julia Roberts), didn’t want to be saddled with a long-term TV series obligation to churn trash-and-tabloid storylines. Thankfully, ABC—with its commitment to the Country Music Association Awards and CMA Music Festival special, plus Reba McEntire’s Malibu Country—recognized the intrigue beneath the glitter of Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, and Shania Twain. Though erratic airing has made developing a state of must-see Wednesday-night viewing elusive, Entertainment Weekly and People both cited Nashville as among the year’s best TV. “I wanted to get it right,” she says. “Because no matter where I go, there is so much music here that exists only here! All the artists I
love, you can’t hear on the radio. Well, maybe Elvis Costello from time to time. But that’s a part of what makes Nashville Nashville— and it creates this dynamic, too.” Which is why, beyond building an exact-replica Bluebird Café on a soundstage in East Nashville, Khouri plucks venues like the 5 Spot and Two Old Hippies to host smaller artists and shows, sets scenes in the writers rooms at publishing companies, and takes on the cinderblock anonymity of what people don’t see backstage at the big arena shows. Khouri understands the lives of the struggling and superstar musician, because she’s been there with her friends. Reputedly the Thelma in Thelma & Louise, Pam Tillis met Khouri when she was showcasing as a rock act at the Exit/In long before country stardom, and the singer/songwriter was struck by how worldly “the waitress” bringing her a Coke was. “She read books and saw films and had thoughts,” Tillis remembers. “I was starved to have someone like that in my life. When we’d finish running around, doing the things kids do at that age, we’d sit up and talk and talk all night. It was amazing.” Tillis, who would go on to win the CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, had a parallel rise, where the waiting was, most definitely, the hardest part. Visiting her friend in L.A. while working on a pre-stardom album, Khouri asked her to read some of what she’d been working on. “I’m no literary person,” Tillis acknowledges, “but I was floored. The dialogue she was writing . . . it was awesome. And then, well, I’m having a couple of #1s, and she’s on the cover of TIME, so I couldn’t compare, but I’d seen where she started.” Callie Khouri is a long way from the Exit/In and her impossible dreams. These days, she shuttles from Nashville to L.A., midwifing her series and keeping her eyes on the details—getting the story right, making sure great music is cast, being true to her characters. Once upon a time, she’d have a year to deliver a script, but now she often has two weeks to turn around an episode, while developing a story line that unfolds over multiple weeks. “It used to be solitary,” she explains. “But now I have a roomful of writers whom I can talk things out with. There’s always somebody who has an idea of what to do.” Not that Khouri doesn’t see where she’s headed.
In a tangle not unlike real life, Nashville offers the reality under the reality people think they know. “I’ve had a lot of people who have careers tell me, ‘That’s just how it is!’ I can’t think of a better compliment.” For more information about Callie Khouri visit www.imdb.to/14HHCkv.
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Rayna’s Bedroom
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Here we are in the mayor’s office, and outside the Bluebird, or inside Sylvia Roberts’ Belle Meade home. The sets aren’t the real places, but the resemblance is uncanny. My visit is in the company of production designer Jeff Knipp and art buyer Trish Tallon-Blanchard, whose job is to create a sense of our Nashville for Nashville. Watching television, we don’t put much thought into design, but the production designers create visual continuity in the sets for the viewer. Likewise, Jeff and Trish make sure that the world you see in Nashville couldn’t easily be mistaken for New York, Miami, Dallas, or D.C. It is quintessentially Nashville. That might sound easy but it’s not, especially when it comes to choosing art for the show. Each piece of art needs not only to match and blend in a set, but to create an overall sense of the character whose home or office it hangs in and a sense of mood within a space. Examine the pieces you see hanging in Rayna’s Belle Meade home: Knipp sees those pieces reflecting the whole of Rayna’s character, for whom he envisions golden, honey tones and overall warmth. In addition, they need to fit what’s been defined as her taste, tending toward the traditional, sophisticated, yet not overly formal. “Rayna’s a collector,” asserts Knipp. “Some of the pieces in her home might have belonged to her mother.” The décor defines Rayna, with abundant clocks and mirrors reminding us of the passage of time, the understanding that Rayna is a grownup, established star, not an up-and-coming girl diva.
Maddie’s Bedroom, Peter Kuttner, left: Melodies II, right: Melodies III
While much of the furniture on the set came from Bradford’s and Sprintz, the art is a different story. Knipp, Tallon-Blanchard, and their staff scoured the city to find the right pieces to put in the right places. A great example of how the process works might involve looking at the painting in the sitting room of a softly colored tree painted by Greg Decker, a Nashville artist represented by LeQuire Gallery. “I knew Greg from my time working at Vanderbilt,” says TallonBlanchard. “When I saw this piece, it just felt right. I liked the tree metaphor implying growth and shelter.” Three more Greg Decker pieces hang in Rayna’s bedroom and its environs.
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Rayna’s House, Murat Kaboulov, top: Girl in White, bottom: City Scene
Lamar’s Office Hallway, Charlotte Terrell, Landscape
On another wall, a sleek, eerily beautiful abstract by Cathy Lancaster (from Bennett Galleries) keeps that sense of warmth but underlines Rayna’s sense of the contemporary. In contrast, on a wall outside the sitting-room door, you catch a glimpse of a midcentury modern work with a European flavor, this by Russian-born Murat Kaboulov, also from LeQuire Gallery. In visual shorthand, this tells us Rayna is well traveled and has a sense of the value of what she has. The soft watercolor with bold, black outlines marks the piece in its time. While some galleries and artists donate work for long-term use, others allow the show to make giclées and size the work to meet the needs of the set. The hope is that the artists will have opportunities to sell more work. Make no mistake, audiences copy art and furniture from the big and small screens as much as they copy hairstyles and clothing. Knipp and Tallon-Blanchard concentrate on building relationships with local artists and galleries, from folks like Graham S. Duthie, whose Nashville Triptych I, II, III hangs in Lamar’s “mayoral” office, to Leiper’s Creek Gallery and Stanford Fine Art Gallery. The generosity of these individuals and businesses makes the intense local nature of the set’s art possible. Were they to demand huge rental fees, it would break the relatively modest art department budget.
Rayna’s House, Den, Cathy Lancaster, Homochitto River
is, so she creates what she thinks it might be,” says Knipp, telling me he chooses cool blue and gray tones for Juliette. You can see this in art like Ed Nash’s crisp abstract Transforming, Patrick Brown’s grayed modernist pieces, or photographs from Jerry Atnip’s Panhandling series that hang in her house and in her dressing room. “Every episode is a study in the relationship between art and commerce,” Knipp says. “It’s all about a budget.” Budget or no, Knipp, Tallon-Blanchard, and their team create a wondrous world for us every Wednesday. Let’s hope they get to keep on doing it. For more information about Nashville and to watch clips of the show visit www.abc.go.com/Nashville.
Rayna’s House, Greg Decker, Tree of Life
To understand how detailed the choices are, look at the walls in Rayna’s daughter Maddie’s room. Here, framed vintage prints from Art Deco-era fairy-tale books (Trish’s doing) share space with three very different and dramatic pieces by Nashville artist Peter Kuttner. One is a lush floral, while the other two, entitled Melodies II and Melodies III, suggest song notes in rich color on a cool white background. To contrast characters, check out Juliette’s house, where the art matches Knipp’s vision of her environment: “. . . colder, harder, beautiful but not comfortable. She really doesn’t know what a ‘home’
Mayor’s Office, Graham S. Duthie, Nashville Triptych I, II, III
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Maravilhoso echoes a Brazilian fan in Portuguese. And then there’s the American equivalent of marvelous: Geesh Nathan! Alright already!!! These comments, sampled from Pacheco’s YouTube pages, illustrate how his “classical-crossover” style—his melding of classical opera and contemporary pop to encompass everything from
Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” to Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”—crosses not only musical genres but geographical and linguistic boundaries as well. The center of all that international attention is, surprisingly, not in an opera mecca like New York or Milan but in Nashville. Pacheco moved here about a year ago so his wife could be near her family in Huntsville, Alabama, and because Middle Tennessee reminds him of Virginia, where he grew up. His was a typical all-American upbringing. “I definitely had a love for music, but I wouldn’t consider myself a music geek,” he recalled. “I was really into sports as well. I was in the glee club, but it was not like they make that out
to be [on Glee]. I played in a high school band. I learned the guitar by learning Dave Matthews and Pink Floyd. I think that’s why I didn’t decide to do just strictly opera and leaned more toward a crossover style that blends opera and even folk and all these other elements.” His mother, a piano teacher, started him on piano and violin, but he didn’t discover opera until his sister, who is five years older, began studying opera in high school. Still, his movement toward classical voice was gradual. “I got involved in the high school choir, high school musicals, started gravitating more toward singing than toward violin, started taking classical voice lessons for fun,” he said. “As I got more involved in it, I listened to recordings of The Three Tenors and later Andrea Bocelli. I was really inspired by this type of singing. It came a little at a time. I studied it. I performed it.” Although The Three Tenors (the opera “super group” of Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras) and Bocelli had proven that there was a lucrative place in popular music for operatic voices and classical repertoire, Pacheco maintained a broader interest in music through his first years at Brigham Young University. Then, while he was studying abroad in Italy, he had a career-defining experience.
PBS followed up with two specials featuring Pacheco solo: Introducing Nathan Pacheco Live in Concert and Nathan Pacheco – Christmas. The Disney Pearl Series label signed Pacheco and released his debut CD in 2012. The album showcases the full range of Pacheco’s artistry as he moves easily from English (“Don’t Cry,” which he co-wrote) to Spanish (“Oyela,” which he also co-wrote) to French (“Que Amore”) to Italian (“Caruso”). Pacheco performed in Nashville as part of Yanni’s group, but he made his solo debut in his new hometown with a concert in April at TPAC. With a new baby, he admits he doesn’t get out on the town much, but he’s looking forward to taking advantage of all that Nashville has to offer musically. Although he is now the standard-bearer of the classical-crossover genre, Pacheco doesn’t see himself as an evangelist for opera-inspired music. “I wouldn’t consider myself as trying to convert people,” he said. “I love this style of music because it reaches me, but I also believe a lot of people really enjoy this music once they’re exposed to it. “Whether it’s in the classical-crossover realm or pop,” he added, “my goal is to write great songs or to find good cover songs and put together good concerts with music that moves people, because that’s what it’s all about.” For more information about Nathan Pacheco visit www.nathanpacheco.com.
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Through a friend of a friend, he landed some auditions in Los Angeles, one of which led him to Ric Wake, whose production credits range from Mariah Carey to Marc Anthony. Wake was working with the Greek composer Yanni, whose synthesis of classical and New Age music made him an international star in the 1990s. An instrumentalist, Yanni was looking for singers for a new project. With Pacheco, Yanni got much more than a great voice. He also got a songwriter who contributed lyrics and additional music to Yanni’s tunes. Yanni Voices introduced Nathan Pacheco to the world, first on a PBS special in 2008 and then on an album in 2009.
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Berlin Calling Berlin Art Critic Kirstin Hall Travels to Nashville's Art Galleries and Compares the Conceptual to the Commercial
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n every field there exists opposition such as in politics, religion, etc., and every day this dissent becomes more and more polarized. Although not as volatile as political unrest,
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this inevitable schism also prevails in the realm of art. Working as an art journalist in Berlin, Germany, I have seen conflicts and opposing viewpoints in the art world on a daily basis although generally these are ignited by financial issues (who is becoming a “sellout”) or perceived censorship (which is the equivalent of dropping a Mento into a liter of Diet Coke in a city ruled by extreme liberalism). However, I have never seen such a discrepancy between what is considered “good” and “bad” art since I took a holiday trip to my mother’s Southern roots in Tennessee and ventured into the Nashville art world.
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Der Strich Exhibition, June 2011
Kaffe Burger, Video still
Although I have never actually been a resident of Nashville myself, I feel a very deep connection with the city, having traveled back and forth two to three times a year with my family on the ritual Thanksgiving/Christmas/Easter holiday pilgrimage. I have been to the Grand Ole Opry, eaten real Tennessee BBQ, and gone to a show at Tootsie’s, but I am ashamed to say my knowledge of the art scene was limited entirely to day trips on my grandmother’s yearly membership pass to the Frist. That is why this year I decided to venture out on my own to talk to some Nashville artists to get the inside track on the city’s art scene. My quest took me to the doorstep of several galleries in the Nashville area and one local artist I will call Steve. Although I know my encounters cannot reflect the vast array of art and artists found in Nashville, I considered them soft indicators of “what sells” in the local marketplace. The art that I observed during my trip, although displaying great artistic talent, is the epitome of everything modern contemporary artists in Berlin hate—realism, kitsch, and oftentimes adopting techniques used by overtly identifiable artists such as Dali and Gauguin. This brings us to the fundamental divide between Nashville and Berlin art: the commercial versus the conceptual. But just as Berliners could never fathom buying a painting of something as unoriginal as a flower portrait or cityscape, many in the Nashville art world would be appalled by some of the overly
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Sexist, Graffiti on wallpaper
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2011. A man engages in an interactive exhibit.
conceptualized, obscure contemporary artists in Berlin, artists that Steve referred to as â&#x20AC;&#x153;wannabes throwing paint at a canvas on a wall.â&#x20AC;? In truth, throwing paint at a wall is about the most concrete art form you could hope to find on a given day in Berlin.
outlandish art I have seen in Berlin, but that would be far from the truth. From taxidermy sculpture to the most extreme political street art in existence, you name it, we have it all. But it seems the one thing we lack in Berlin, or at least pretend not to recognize, is commercial art.
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Take for example an art performance I attended during Berlin Fashion Week in the basement of an abandoned warehouse turned nightclub Urban Spree. The installation consisted of a girl running around and reading a monologue, which I can only assume was a depiction of the mind of a person suffering from multiple personalities disorder, with a naked man sitting in the corner wrapped entirely in Saran Wrap except for his exposed genitals. I would like to classify this bizarre encounter as the most
A couple dressed identically at Berlin Contemporary Arts
This is not to say that technique is not held in high regard by Berliners; it just means that there is an unwritten rule that it is unacceptable for an artist to create something merely beautiful. To develop a collection, there must be a unique, dynamic concept and a consistent message behind the work. After the differences between the artistic markets of Berlin and Nashville become overwhelmingly apparent to me, I am left with the perplexing question: which situation is most desirable? Now the true bewilderment commences. On the one hand, the Nashville art scene is still in its infancy whereas the Berlin art scene is the product of hundreds of years of cultural upheaval, so perhaps the Nashville art scene has yet to acquire a mature artistic palette? But then again, is a world really better where art critics have become so jaded towards commercial art that they sometimes overlook talented artists just for a lack of conceptual substance? It is hard to say. However, I think right now the horizon looks bright for Nashville as the city evolves from a primarily music capital to a cultural epicenter for all arts. Only time will tell what the future artistic climate will be. Kirstin Hall is a freelance writer currently living in Berlin. See more photographs of art from Berlin at www.hunterarmisteadfineart.com.Â
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after an amazing eleven-year run at London's Dominion Theatre, the story and music of Queen come to town in the Queen/Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You, November 12– 17. When 2014 breaks, so will Ghost, a sparkling new musical based on the Academy Award-winning film, February 25 through March 2. And as everybody knows, Whoopi movies made into musicals never get old, so Sister Act sings and dances its way here March 11–16. From Memphis to New York and back to Tennessee, Million Dollar Quartet rolls in May 6–11, and if all that Broadway magic isn’t enough, the TPAC series closes 2014 with one of the most inventive productions ever staged, War Horse, June 3–8. The 2013-14 Broadway Specials include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast September 24–29 and Wicked March 26 through April 20. Also gracing the TPAC stage are special presentations of Studio Tenn’s A Christmas Carol December 12–22 and “I Love Lucy” Live On Stage, January 14–26.
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Spring Awakens at Street Theatre Spring Awakening celebrates the unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with power, poignancy, and passion. Winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Spring Awakening takes its inspiration from one of literature's most controversial masterpieces—a work so daring in its depiction of teenage self-discovery it was banned from the stage and not performed in its complete form in English for nearly 100 years. Spring Awakening runs May 10 through 26. Tickets are $18 for adults and $16 for students and seniors, and group rates are available. For specific show information and to purchase tickets, visit www.streettheatrecompany.org. Performances are at Street Theatre, 1933 Elm Hill Pike, just off the Briley Parkway. The show is rated R for mature themes, sexual situations, and language. PHOTO: Christopher Bosen
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and we’re proud of the role TPAC plays in the thriving and vibrant creative community that is receiving such well-deserved attention,” O’Brien says. “Each season, our goal is to provide audiences with the best of Broadway’s cutting-edge storytelling, family-friendly entertainment, and pop culture-filled blockbusters. We begin and end next season with two of the most awarded Broadway productions in recent memory, one of which is returning to Nashville and a debut show we’ve been pursuing for some time. It’s a season packed with new musicals, long-awaited returns, and some of the most jaw-dropping artistry being presented on stage. We can’t wait to share it with you.” For information on tickets for the 2013–2014 HCA/TriStar Broadway Series, visit www.tpac.org/broadway. You may also visit the TPAC Box Office at 505 Deaderick Street in downtown Nashville.
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Claire Kaputska and Caleb Marshall
Olde Worlde Theatre Presents Babes in Toyland In Toyland you will meet Mother Goose, Little Bo Peep, the Three Little Pigs, Old King Cole, Santa Claus, and more. You'll enjoy the comic antics of the lovable pair of bumbling goofballs, Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee. And you'll boo the most crooked man in town, Silas Barnaby, and his creepy friends from Bogey Land. They all coexist in the magical village of Toyland. This family-friendly story comes to life on the Belcourt Theatre stage in Olde Worlde Theatre’s signature style, with black-light sequences, cool music, whimsical costumes, pantomime, and comic twists to delight audiences of all ages. Saturdays, May 4, 11, 18 and 25 at 10 a.m. General admission is $8 at the Belcourt Theatre, 2102 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212. For information and tickets, visit www.oldeworldetheatre.com.
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Joshua Bell and Edgar Meyer Double Down at the Schermerhorn, May 3O - June 1 by Bob Doerschuk
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wo of Nashville's musical treasures— world-renowned bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer and Giancarlo Guerrero, the ebullient, Grammy-winning Music Director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra—have long been talking about finding a project they could undertake together. Though inevitable, this was
not something to be rushed and so for years remained a matter more of conversation than resolution. Until now, thanks to another close association sustained by the MacArthur Award-winning bassist. Violinist Joshua Bell and Meyer have been friends since they met as students at Indiana University. But unlike Guerrero, Bell has worked closely with Meyer on several projects, perhaps most notably on Short Trip Home, a collection of chamber pieces that also included two bluegrass masters, mandolinist Sam Bush and guitarist Mike Marshall. It had been a while since they'd collaborated, though, when Meyer decided to send an email to his friend.
Both agreed, and Meyer composed his Double Concerto for Violin and Double Bass as a triple commission with the Nashville Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic. The latter two institutions have already presented the work, with the BSO conducted by Michael Stern on July 8, 2012, followed five days later by a performance at the Aspen Music Festival with Robert Spano, and with three more at the Hollywood Bowl July 17–19 with the L.A. Philharmonic, under the baton of Ludovic Morlot. Nashville audiences will therefore hear an interpretation of the 27-minute work that has been seasoned somewhat onstage. “The differences will
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“I asked Joshua if he would like to do a double concerto with the two of us,” Meyer remembers. “I thought it was about time. And I also mentioned to Giancarlo that maybe this would be something we could do.”
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be small,” he ventured. “But they'll come a little bit from Josh's strong overview. If he does something in the middle of the second movement, he's thinking about how it's going to change the way the third movement begins.
I can feel him adjusting to everything I do, and I hope I'm adjusting to everything he does. So we're evolving the piece, but it's in a pretty unspoken manner. We don't have big, long talks about it, which in music can be ideal: Every once in a while, you'll look up and say, 'Well, that worked!'” Meyer has composed for specific musicians, including a Violin Concerto for Hilary Hahn. When writing with Bell in mind, however, his process isn't about fashioning the music to his strengths. “It's almost the opposite,” he explained. “Because of all the things that Josh can do, I don't have to worry about what I write.” Still, there are elements in the Double Concerto that complement Bell's temperament. “There's an inner logic to his approach,” Meyer notes. “When he plays measure 3, he's got measure 280 in mind. And he's a fairly lean-sounding player; he doesn't hold notes out and vibrate them, as classical players go. That works much better for this music.” Their mutual appreciation for rhythm is evident as well throughout this composition. The first movement begins with an urgent eighth-note pulse played by strings, over which Bell plays
the opening theme in his instrument's middle/upper register. Then Meyer makes his entrance, with deep, long growls that seem to catapult the violin to the peak of its range. The contrast is almost physical; Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed likened it to an “elephant-and-fly partnership.” But immediately after making that impact, Bell and Meyer apply the pulse in the opening measures to fuel spirited interactions, some of which open to other instruments but many of which keep the focus tight on what the two soloists have to say. By the end of the third movement, the orchestral palate has broadened and the rhythmic momentum peaks just before the bass and violin turn contrast to unity in their final statement. “Growing up with primarily a classical background, the biggest lesson I learned outside of classical music was the primacy and importance of rhythm,” Meyer says, who has written for and played with artists as diverse as Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Mark O'Connor, and Yo-Yo Ma. “In general, as rhythm goes, the bar is higher outside of classical music. Rhythm is what this piece is about. That's the heart and soul of it.” The final chapter in the early story of the Double Concerto brings us back to Meyer's debut performance with the NSO's Guerrero. “To be terribly honest,” the bassist and composer admits, “because this is the first time that Giancarlo and I have worked together, we'll be starting it off like a jam session. We'll have a lot of fun.” See Joshua Bell and Edgar Myer with the Nashville Symphony May 30 to June 1. www.nashvillesymphony.org www.joshuabell.com www.edgarmeyer.com.
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John Fraser uses book pages, book covers, and bits of paper to create minimalist collages that speak to geometric abstract painting. Featuring tight compositions of lines and planes, Fraser’s work doesn't scream for attention. I could imagine harried gallerygoers passing right by these quiet, sparse works—but that would be their loss. Like an actual book, Fraser's pieces pull you into their details, their flashes of color and the odd bits of print that speak for his long-gone volumes. Fraser's books are found objects often in bad disrepair, and his juxtapositions of the organic shapes of ripped and ruined book spines alongside perfect pages elevates the beauty and presence of each while also speaking to a book's capacity to engage us in a sensual experience through the decidedly left-brain exercise of reading. Old books also bring to mind questions of provenance, and these constructions resonate with the stories these books used to hold, but also with the stories of the people that once held them.
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he two new exhibits at Cumberland Gallery have a lot in common: One show references painting while the other features it, and both remind me of the old adage that less is often more.
Kit Reuther, Pink, 2013, Oil and cloth on canvas
If I were to assign a book title to Kit Reuther's show at Cumberland it would be A Tale of Two Exhibitions. The painter has created some rather massive, colorful canvases featuring bold marks, but the strongest works are smaller, quieter palimpsests—their marks covered over by calm fields of color. The titular shrubbery of Hedgerow is represented by a horizontal swatch of rough material painted over in a blue bar. Above it, a blotch of a black bird floats in an off-white sky. Pink features a similar off-white covering on the lower half of the canvas while the top of the piece is engulfed in a pale-pink blush. They mingle in the middle in a cacophony of dancing brush strokes. What Remains by John Fraser and Recent Works by Kit Reuther will be at Cumberland Gallery through May 25. Kit Reuther, Hedgerow, 2013, Oil, graphite, and textiles on canvas
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he W. O. Smith Music School is the musical home to hundreds of low-income children and young adults from every part
One of the many fundraisers for the school, The Birdhouse Thing, now in its twelfth year, is one of the most exciting auction events I attend. Each year I arrive early and leave late, searching for the perfect birdhouse to add to my collection. My buddy Steven Greil said, "I have so many houses now I am donating back to the school.” This year’s house, titled Roll On, is a miniature reproduction of a vintage 1948 camper/ trailer designed by the great artist Barbara Coon. This fabulous birdhouse is the exact model and color of the first camper my brother Neal and I purchased a few years back, so of course I had to have it. Our real-life camper was so small the question was, how many Claytons can you get in a tiny camper? Well, upon its delivery a few Christmas Eves ago, we actually got ten Claytons in it, as we are a close and Bob McGill – Birdhouse Thing loving family, lol. of the Nashville community.
Becky Gardenhire and Heather Hubbard chaired this event, welcoming Jennie Smith and James Gooch, Sally Huston, Marlene and Bob Moses, Elaine Wood, Melissa and David Mahanes with son Charlie, Maddi and Chris Keaton, Annette Eskind with Heloise Kuhn (these two beautiful birds don't miss an event), Joni Werthan and Larry Jessen, Pam and Jeff Kuhn, Sandra and Larry Lipman, Doris and Dennis Wells. Jeff and Pam Kuhn – Birdhouse Thing Cong rats, W. O. Smith Music School. I among many others had such a great evening, birds of a feather sticking together! Speaking of auctions, I always wonder if folks really use the trips, hotel packages, and other luxury items they bid on and win at the many events here in our fine city. The answer is yes, they do. My good friend Steve Wood purchased at last year’s l'Eté du Vin wine auction a trip including the once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a fighter pilot for a day. Steve reported back to me that he did go to San Antonio, flew his combat mission in the fighter aircraft, and is home safely to remove that from his bucket list. I
Jennie Smith and James Gooch, Sally Huston – Birdhouse Thing
Gary Haynes, John Starbuck, Kim Zimmer, Scarlett Scales-Tingas – O'More Show House
am sure his wife, Joyce, is happy that is over. Just wait, Steve, I hear this year on the auction you may go to Mars!
Mark Simmons and Deb Tallent – O'More Show House
Kathleen Evers and Celeste Oxford – O'More Show House Marlene Moses, Bob Sillers, Elaine Wood – Birdhouse Thing
Edie Maney, Barbara Coon, Jerry Fink – Birdhouse Thing
Melissa, Charlie, David Mahanes – Birdhouse Thing
Eloise Pitts O'More was a lady of small stature, but a lady of giant knowledge, taste, and culture. She gave me, a member of the first graduating class of the O'More College of Design, the knowledge of how to use the taste in design I was born with to have a most successful career. Long years have passed since graduation, and as a veteran designer I must say how proud I am of the Inaugural O'More Show House that opened last month in Franklin. The designers, all O'More alumni, did an outstanding job creating a home, something different from years past where show house designers tried to show all their talents in one room, yours truly included. Continuity and charm flowed from room to room in this home. Believe me, the O’More Inaugural Show House was an example of today's busy family life, realistic and most comfortable.
JoAnne Haynes led the alumni design group, which included Roger Higgins and Ann Shipp, Dana Goodman, Jennifer Markanich, Jonathan Savage, Vicki Edwards, Mark Simmons and Deb Tallent, Louise Kitchell and Linda Brown, Jennifer Jones, Kathleen Evers, Kathy Sandler, Kim Zimmer, John Starbuck Jr., and Scarlett Scales-Tingas. Traditional Home magazine partnered with the design group for their 2013 National Show House Tour. Once again I shall state, this was a show house of taste and comfort; the adjective "opulent" was not a thought. Mike and Gail Johnson, Danny Anderson – O'More Show House
A preview party, held on the O'More campus the evening prior to the opening, was chaired by Kathy Sandler and Donna Daniels, with their committee consisting of Jay Sheridan, Danny Anderson, Jayne Williams, and Rebecca Stilwell. I just know that Mrs. O'More was looking down from her Heavenly Mansion with pride!
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Dorothea, Crystal, Andre Churchwell – Symphony Fashion Show
High fashion flowed on the hightech, slick, black runway for the Symphony Fashion Show held at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center last month. To begin, the lovely Allison DeMarcus hosted the evening with cochairs Elizabeth Broyhill and Elizabeth Dennis. Before I get too far into my story, let me tell you Executive Committee Chair Sandra Lipman stole the show with her new (and great looking, I may add) hairstyle. I guess a lady like Sandra, who has chaired every event held in Nashville, can do what she wants when she wants. "I just always wanted to try this, so I got in the chair and away Earl went!" Sandra whispered to me. Sutton Costanza, Sandra's daughter, said, "Mom did what? Dad is not going to be pleased with this!" Well, Larry looked most happy with Sandra's new do, as he always does.
Colleen and Ted Welch – Symphony Fashion Show
Monique Lhuillier, considered one of the leading fashion designers in terms of design, quality, and innovation, once again delighted the patrons. Lhuillier's signature silhouettes provoke the femininity, allure, and style that have made her famous for capturing the essence of sophisticated luxury. Oh, how Nashville social ladies love sophisticated luxury! The new fall 2013 collection was inspired by opulence and drama, using art deco motifs and rich jewel tones in hues of malachite green, amethyst, and oxblood. My Favorite of Show were the lace cigarette pants shown with tulle overlays. I could just see Rosalind Russell as the flamboyant, exuberant character Mame Dennis in the 1958 comedy film Auntie Mame. "Life is a banquet” (a quote from Mame), and yes indeed, Nashville ladies love a banquet! Now I must say the professional models that graced the runway were lovely, but come on folks, Nashville has the most beautiful, sophisticated ladies in the country, so why bring in the pros when we have the likes of Jennifer Parker, Dara Russell, Johnna Watson, Janet Bentz, Lake Eakin, Frances Spradley, Jennie McCabe, Robin Patton, Sissy
Joyce Hitt and Terri Frost – Symphony Fashion Show
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Wilson, Deby Pitts, Dallas Wilt, Mary Carol Friddell, Vanessa Falk, Jennifer Frist, Vicki Horne, Laurie Eskind, Joyce Vise, Marlene Moses, Brenda Steakley, Joy Roper, Stacey Rhodes, Laura Allen, Starling Davis, Jessica Bracken, Sandy Tyrell, Anna Shaub, Susan Andrews, Martha Ingram, Suzanne Smothers, Linda Ervin, Colleen Welch, and Amber Chapman. All these women would be an asset to any runway fashion show, as they were that evening as patrons.
Sandra and Larry Lipman, Jennifer and Jamie Parker – Symphony Fashion Show
Chairs Elizabeth Broyhill and Elizabeth Dennis – Symphony Fashion Show
So where were the hubbies? Well, after all, this was a ladies’ fashion show, but there were a few gents that did escort their ladies that evening, including Ted Welch, Jere Ervin, Billy Frist, J.R. and Jameson Roper, Benjamin Sohr, Andre Churchwell, Mark Kelly, Jamie Parker, and Billy Ray Hearn. Speaking of Billy Ray, his most entertaining wife, Nancy, who by the way
Jere and Linda Ervin – Symphony Fashion Show
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was smashing in a teal-blue cocktail suit, summed up the entire evening: "We're styling for the style show!"
Jake Nemer and April Watkins – CASA Fundraising
Deby and Keith Pitts – CASA Fundraising
The evening entertainment was by Karen Elson and LEAGUES, with an after-party light supper under tent. A few weeks prior to the show, Peggy and Randy Kinnard hosted a marvelous patrons party at their home. Beautiful women in gorgeous attire, great runway show . . . I just cannot wait to see how many of these Monique Lhuillier gowns I will see at this year’s Symphony Winter Ball. With a click of the heels I was there, at the Red Shoe Party benefiting CASA. "There's no place like home" was the theme of this outstanding evening. CASA provides trained community volunteers to advocate for the best interests of children who come to the attention of the court system primarily as a result of abuse or neglect. This was my first
Diana and Stan Kania, Tim and Shannon Breedlove – CASA Fundraising
Trudy and Whit Clark – CASA Fundraising
time to attend this annual event. Lordy lordy, never have I seen so many pairs of red shoes in one gathering—on both men and women. I had forgotten how popular red tennis shoes were in my youth. This was the shoe of choice by most of the guys.
Dave, Beth, Cal Alexander – CASA Fundraising
Carolyn Nash, Rick and Vicki Horne – CASA Fundraising
Suzanne Smothers, Jennifer Solesby, and Brande Thomas chaired the event, and what a trio of go-getters they are. They certainly know how to throw one heck of a party. Suzanne, always in style, danced the evening away in killer red-sequin cowboy boots. Joining Suzanne and handsome hubby, Grant, on the dance floor were Deby and Keith Pitts, Trudy and Whit Clark, Beth and Dave Alexander with son Cal, Diana and Stan Kania, Shannon and Tim Breedlove, Linda and Jere Ervin (Jere got his fancy stepping shoes in New York City!), April Watkins and Jake Nemer, and Carolyn Nash. Dance they did, to the band Shake, Shake, Shake!
Grant Smothers, Brian and Kristen Junghans – CASA Fundraising
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my favorite painting
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Although I thought for a time that I wanted to be an architect, I graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University in 1994. After graduation I enjoyed working in the Nashville art scene representing various artists for about three years. Now I’m going back to my love of architecture as a real estate agent, and I’m excited to see how people incorporate art into their homes. I’m focused on building my own art collection and am attracted to outsider art. I have acquired works by many local artists such as Harry Underwood, Cindy Wunsch, Harold Krauss, Creason Clayton, Aaron Grayum, Cheryl Stewart, and artists from around the country such as Kent Youngstrom, Dolan Geiman, Mark Traughber, and Yvonne Miller. Artist Bio Hayden Lowe was born in Nashville and is currently in 8th grade at Ensworth. She has always been creative and interested in art. She draws, paints, dances, does photography, and acts in school drama productions. In 2008, Hayden studied art with Cindy Wunsch and was inspired by her style and her cheerful approach to art. Hayden made Wish in 2009 at the age of 9. From her mentor she learned to layer paint, stamps, and found objects onto a canvas. To create the reflective surface she pours resin onto the surface and uses a blowtorch to remove all bubbles. Hayden says, “Art is a way of expressing myself, and it allows me to put my feelings and emotions onto canvas.”
Hayden Lowe, Wish, Mixed media on canvas
Of all of the art I have collected, Hayden Lowe’s Wish is my favorite because I enjoy cheerful, positive art. The words on the work are "I wish you all the joy that you can wish." She is skilled at expressing herself through her art in ways that are often difficult with words. The objects she incorporates in her assemblage, such as diary entries, ticket stubs, photos, and poetry, have personal meaning to the artist, but everyone who comes into my home has a different connection to those same objects. I love that art can mean so much to people and want it to be available to all ages, races, and denominations. I am currently serving on the Metro Arts Grant Review panel to determine awards for after-school art programs, and I hope that I will be able to give more opportunities to other young artists.
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Dancing Figure Whistle (detail), Colima, Mexico, 300 BCE–200 CE, earthenware, 9 1/8 x 6 5/8 x 4 in., The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, gift of John Bourne, 2009 (2009.20.29), Photo © The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
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