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’m not usually stuck for words. By that I mean I can normally find something appropriate to say about almost anything. That is until I walked in to Tinney Contemporary during last month’s art crawl. On display the work of Jaq Belcher. I have seen her magnificent work before. Intricately cut paper designs that cast artful shadows that seem to dance and reform right before your eyes. But that’s not what rendered me speechless. No. That experience awaited me in the back room where Belcher had installed a piece called Lunar Codex. Walking in you could hear the collective jaw drop. I’ll say no more. You can see it on page 30, or better still, get down to Tinney and see it for yourself. Trust me on this one. Inside this edition you’ll find our 2015 Gallery Guide. We have tried our hardest to include all the galleries old and new, of which there are many. If we have omitted your gallery please let us know so that we can include it online and in next year’s guide. We hope that you’ll find this guide useful in navigating your way around the wonderful art galleries in town. Also this month we launch Abstract Nashville, our new photographic series that starts on page 76. Let us know what you think. Paul Polycarpou Publisher
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Memento Mori Death in Art & Illustration Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery • Through May 23
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emento Mori – Looking at Death in Art and Illustration examines various perspectives on the nature of death and our attempts to memorialize the dead in order to give their lives meaning. Through the combined resources of the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery, the Eskind Biomedical Library Special Collections, local museums, and several private collections, this exhibit offers an interdisciplinary approach to the understanding of the role of death and mourning in society.
Artwork and illustrations that span the last four centuries explore themes such as the Danse Macabre or Dance of Death, the medieval allegory of Death’s equalizing power. Deathbed scenes, images of the living mourning over those they have lost, and memorials to those who have passed remind us that the end of life is often a time when family and loved ones gather together. The exhibit includes works by artists such as Ivan Albright, Andrea di Bartolo, Enrique Chagoya, Sue Coe, William Edmondson, Hans Holbein, Käthe Kollwitz, Georges Rouault, Thomas Rowlandson, Stephen Tourlentes, Andreas Vesalius, Werner Wildner, and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.
Willem Van Swanenburg, Death and an Arrow About to Strike the Man Down, 1609, plate 4 from Allegory of the Misuse of Worldly Property, after Maarten van Heemskerk, Engraving
The oldest work on display, dating from 1555, is a second edition manuscript by Andreas Vesalius, de humani corporis fabrica (On the fabric of the human body), which was the authoritative book on human anatomy for several centuries. This seminal example of medical illustration shows that, for many centuries, “medical exploration took place most frequently in the domain of death,” as Holly Tucker, one of the exhibition’s co-curators, writes in her book Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution. Like many of the works on display, this manuscript is a blend of historic, artistic, and scientific study. The exhibition also includes a rich and varied display of cultural pieces surrounding death and mourning. Among the most striking are a silk mourning dress dating from 1909, a simple tombstone carved by the famous African American sculptor William Edmondson, and a death mask of the physiologist Jan Purkinje.
Memento Mori – Looking at Death in Art and Illustration was organized by the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery and co-curated by Joseph Mella, director, Holly Tucker, professor of French Studies and professor of Biomedical Ethics and Society, Christopher Ryland, assistant director at the Eskind Biomedical Library, and James J. Thweatt, coordinator for historical collections at the Eskind Biomedical Library. Enrique Chagoya, La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte (The Prodigious Life of Death), 2003, Lithograph
Memento Mori – Looking at Death in Art and Illustration remains on view through May 23 at the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery. For information and gallery hours, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery.
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Nashville is one of few cities to have a Consul General of Japan. Motohiko Kato’s involvement here, and the annual Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival, demonstrate the strong friendship between our city and Japan. This year, the city celebrates the planting of more than 700 Japanese cherry trees over seven years in our city’s parks, public areas, and neighborhoods.
“Every year we get bigger and better,” said Festival Director Ginger Byrn. “It’s such a nice day for friends and family of all ages to enjoy being in Downtown Nashville while learning about Japan and Japanese culture.”
Events start with the Cherry Blossom Walk hosted by the Sister Cities of Nashville and continue with daylong entertainment such as taiko drumming, a cosplay contest, and the 2nd Annual Pups in Pink and Adoption Parade by the Nashville Humane Association. A “Taste of Japan” showcases Japanese food vendors as well as Nashville food trucks with special menus just for the event. The “Ginza Marketplace” and “Artist Avenue” are also available for shopping. Children and their parents are invited to make crafts at Nashville Arts Magazine’s booth.
The Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival takes place Saturday, April 11, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. at Nashville Public Square Park on the front lawn of the Metro Courthouse. Parking is available at the Metro Courthouse for $5, and there is a coach service from LP Field. Admission is free. For more information, please visit www.nashvillecherryblossomfestival.org.
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The street has changed dramatically, as has the focus of what we show at Tinney Contemporary. We represent museum-collected, mid-career, contemporary artists from all over the world. Our goal is to continually expose Nashville’s burgeoning collector base to art that is interesting, valuable, and life enhancing. Our global family of artists come from all over the US, Australia, England, Cuba, France, South Korea, Canada, Colombia, and Egypt. Just as Nashville has become a destination alternative to Los Angeles and New York for the music recording industry, so have we become a vital destination for art galleries and collectors. The 5th Avenue of the Arts Downtown neighborhood excitedly awaits the opening of the art-centric 21c Hotel, the Ace Hotel, the Riverfront Development Outdoor Amphitheater, and other creative projects. The positive trajectory of the 5th Avenue Downtown Art scene is reaching an ineluctable tipping point. We at Tinney Contemporary are proud to be a vital participant in its evolution. by Susan Tinney Owner, Tinney Contemporary Gallery 18 | April 2015 NashvilleArts.com
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Upper School Art and Photography Show April 9 – May 5 Patton Visual Arts Center Artists’ Reception: April 9 from 5 -7 p.m.
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fter a hugely successful inaugural year, Art on the West Side Fine Art and Craft Show and Sale returns to the Gordon Jewish Community Center (GJCC). “My co-chair, Rhonda Wernick, and I wanted to rekindle the classy yet comfortable atmosphere of last year’s event and to continue to make it well rounded in its offerings of visual art and crafts by some of the region’s best artists,” explained Ron York. The juried show features paintings, glass, jewelry, wood, pottery, sculpture, and textiles from more than 50 artists. Among them are Polly Cook, Marilyn Wendling, Streater Spencer, Paige Morehead, Lauren Dunn, Lisa McReynolds, Christina Cohn, Clay Kottler, Linda Hobdy, Debe Dohrer, Paula Barnett, Charlie Hunt, and Gabriel Greenlaw.
Upper School Advanced Placement Studio Art Exhibit April 16 – May 5 Marnie Sheridan Gallery Artists’ Reception: April 16 from 5 -7 p.m.
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A crowd-pleaser last year, impressionistic painter David Nichols is this year’s featured artist. Through light and deliberate brushstrokes, Nichols captures the essence of his subjects, which include figures, landscapes, and city scenes. The Friday prior to Art on the West Side, Nichols will lead a workshop, Landscape Impressions, for intermediate and advanced painters. Proceeds from the show support art programming and scholarships at the Gordon Jewish Community Center, a not-for-profit facility providing the entire Nashville community with formal and informal education and physical fitness, recreational, and cultural activities.
The second annual Art on the West Side Fine Art and Craft Show and Sale opens with a cocktail reception and preview sale on Saturday, April 18, from 6 until 9 p.m. The event continues on Sunday, April 19, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and includes Children’s Activities provided by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. For more information visit www.nashvillejcc.org and www.facebook.com/artonthewestside.
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Friday, April 3, from 6 until 9 p.m.
With over 30 venues participating, the Franklin Art Scene happens in historic downtown Franklin. Gallery 202 is featuring plein air painter Tiffany Foss, a member of the Chestnut Group. Jack Yacoubian Fine Jewelry and Art Gallery is exhibiting Works on Paper by artist Mike Martino, who uses traditional printmaking techniques with a contemporary edge. Shuff ’s Music and Piano Showroom is showcasing impressionistic paintings by Susan Elizabeth Jones. Paul Crommelin Studio is h o s t i n g p a i n t e r To m Vaughn. The Franklin Visitor Center is showing paintings by Carol Moon. Par ks is presenting acrylics and watercolors by Elaine Jackson. Franklin Juice Bar is featuring new paintings by Denise Michelle. Pedego Franklin is presenting fine art photography by husband and wife nature photographers Lisa and Susan E. Jones – Shuff’s Music and Piano Showroom Ricky Smith.
First Saturday Art Crawl Downtown Saturday, April 4, from 6 until 9 p.m. T he Ar ts Company is presenting The World of Brad Sells: Sculptor in Wood featuring small bowls to large figurative sculpture. Tinney Contemporar y is hosting a c losing reception for Hidden Light, a solo exhibition of new works by Jaq Belcher (see page 30). The Rymer Gallery is featuring Herb Williams: Call of Couture composed of thousands of crayons in different themes of high fashion, along with several paintings. Downtown Presbyterian Church is exhibiting a guest group show by senior art students from TSU curated by Jonathan Lisenby.
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interactive installation by Katie Hargrave and Brett Hunter. WAG is presenting The Video Show, an exhibition of video works by current Watkins students curated by Morgan Higby-Flowers.
Hatch Show Print’s Haley Gallery is showcasing re-strikes of original posters from the collection alongside the original print blocks, as well as Master Printer Jim Sherraden’s monoprints. The Community Corridor at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is showing Michael Weintrob’s InstrumentHead photography.
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Zeitgeist is exhibiting Hidden in Plain Sight by Bunny Burson. David Lusk Gallery is unveiling Variations on a Theme, an exhibit of new paintings by Mark Bradley-Shoup (see page 36). Seed Space is showing Naming the Line Between, drawings and animations by Dannielle Tegeder. 444 Humphreys Pop Up Gallery is hosting Fragments of the South, a group show of works originating from Instagram feeds b y D a n i e l H e n r y, Price Harrison, and D ustin Lane. Julia Robert Scobey – Fort Houston Martin Gallery is featuring Paperwork, a collection of mixed-media works on paper by Megan Kimber, Merrilee Challis, Rachel Briggs, and Julia Martin. The Packing Plant is presenting LOVERBABIES, collaborative video work by Clarissa Rose Peppers and Nick Hay. CG2 Gallery is showcasing recent work by Mark Hosford. Fort Houston is exhibiting a variety of work by Robert Scobey. Ground Floor Gallery is featuring Dispatches from the Borderlands by Jeremy Entwistle and Barbara Schreiber and curated by Evelyn Walker. abrasiveMedia is hosting Danny Broadway and his colorful and atmospheric paintings (see page 90). Channel to Channel is showing silkscreen work by Cynthia Sukowatey. Track One is presenting Conscious Camouflage, new paintings by David Anderson and Ann Catherine Carter. Sherrick & Paul Gallery is exhibiting Ninety Nine and the Nine, portraits by Katy Grannan (see page 45).
East Side Art Stumble
Saturday, April 11, from 6 until 10 p.m.
The brand new East Side Art Stumble makes its debut near the corner of Gallatin Road and West Eastland Drive. So far, participating venues include K T Wolf Gallery, Sawtooth Printshop, POP Nashville, Plan Left, M ain Street Art Gallery, Red Arrow Art Gallery, and The Idea Hatchery.
On Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m. UnBound Arts is featuring work by Jon Stone and Stephen Watkins at Riverwood Mansion. NashvilleArts.com
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Nashville Fashion Week isn’t just for fashion people; it impacts a broader audience across the creative community as fashion transitions into a local industry. “We help fuel that fire,” Richardson adds. “The community is stronger together, building collaborations, partnerships—great things come from this week.” This year’s Tuesday opening night Nashville Designer Showcase features known local designers Amanda Valentine, Eric Adler, Maria
“What makes Nashville honestly different is that it’s not charging designers to participate. I don’t know if people realize that,” says the talented Silver, excited to show the audience her casual-chic line with its wearable, retro-70s vibe for the fourth year. “Here, it’s about talent, not money. I think that’s kind of fantastic.” PHOTOGRAPH BY TONY HAYES
“This year there’s an even bigger emphasis on the Nashville Fashion Forward Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. The Fund is why we do what we do,” Richardson says.” Nashville Fashion Week provides support and local resources across every aspect, every genre of our fashion community. We raise money to provide experiential growth opportunities. So far, the Fund has given away $10,000, and thanks to the fact that it’s a permanent endowment, it will continue long after we are gone.”
Silver, and Truly Alvarenga —and emerging, Ashley Balding, Leslie Stephens, and Van Hoang.
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Nashville Fashion Week April 7–11
Wednesday and Thursday offer up local accessory (jewelry, bags, shoes) designers and a special fashion-art show at Mitchell Gold featuring artist Herb Williams’s Call of Couture crayon series and a silent auction. Friday night brings another night of fashion shows, with ready-to-wear designers, including Vanderbilt grad Timo Weiland, on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge. Saturday kicks off with expert industry panels at City Winery followed by the second annual Fashion Forward Gala at The Rosewall. Six awards have been added to this year’s schedule, including Clare Armistead as the first Fashion Forward “Style Icon.”
Nashville Fashion Week helps bring gifted new designers to the local market, puts their names on our radar, promotes photographers, models, and other creative people, and provides a chance for all of us to network and change the community for the better. Oh, and maybe hit a really great party or two. For more information, visit www.nashvillefashionweek.com.
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The Pirates of Penzance ilbert and Sullivan’s comedy The Pirates of Penzance features all the clever wordplay, famous melodies, and hilarious situations typical of the great musical duo. “Since the show premiered 135 years ago, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance has proved itself to be a timeless comic blockbuster with all audiences,” said John Hoomes, Nashville Opera General and Artistic Director. “This operetta, featuring rough-and-tumble yet kind-hearted and bumbling pirates, has become a landmark show in the theatrical world of music and comedy. Full of catchy melodies and topsy-turvy plot twists, The Pirates of Penzance offers a great evening of entertainment for the entire family.”
One hour prior to curtain, director John Hoomes is presenting the popular Opera Insights discussion on the Orchestra Level. Admission is free to all ticket holders. Both the Nashville Opera Guild and Nashville Opera’s Young Professionals group, FORTE, are hosting Pirates of Penzance themed parties prior to the Saturday night performance.
The Pirates of Penzance takes place on Thursday, April 9, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, April 11, at 8 p.m. at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Andrew Jackson Hall. Tickets start at $26 and are available through the Nashville Opera and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center Box Office. A limited number of “pay-what-you-can” seats are available through the Opera. For more information, visit www.nashvilleopera.org.
Dean Anthony, who has established himself as a dynamic stage director with his energetic, gritty, and physical stage productions, directs the Nashville Opera’s production. Maestro William Boggs conducts the Nashville Opera Orchestra, and Amy Tate Williams leads the 29-member Nashville Opera Ensemble. The world-renowned cast includes baritone Craig Irvin as Pirate King, mezzo-soprano Maria Zifchak as Ruth, baritone Curt Olds as Major General Stanley, bass Aaron Sorensen as Sergeant of Police, soprano Hanna Brammer as Mabel, tenor Christopher Nelson as Frederic, baritone Alex S oare as S amuel, and mezzo-soprano Christine Amon as Edith. 28 | April 2015 NashvilleArts.com
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Magic City Art Connection Birmingham, Alabama • April 24 through 26 Just a few hours from Nashville, Magic City Art Connection makes for an ideal Artful Day Trip for the entire family. Be forewarned, however—this contemporary art festival offers so much art and culture that you may want to make a weekend of it. Named a Top 20 Southeast Event, Magic City Art Connection is celebrating its 32nd year at Linn Park in downtown Birmingham. With 215 juried, contemporary artists from around the country, over 20,000 works of art will be on display, including painting, sculpture, clay, 2D and 3D mixed media, glass, jewelry, wood, photography, fiber, drawing/pastel, watercolor, computer generated art, furniture, metal works, and printmaking. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW GL AS S
In addition to art, Magic City Art Connection offers 30 interactive workshops for young people and children at the Imagination Fe s t i v a l . V i s i t o r s c a n participate in individual artistic activities and large-scale art projects in visual art, wearable art, architecture, music, dance, and theatre.
In the Asphalt Café on the southern end of Linn Park, take a break from art collecting and grab a seat at Centre Stage where you’ll enjoy live music performances in many genres, including acoustic, jazz, classical, folk, rock, bluegrass, techno improv, and more. Magic City Art Connection takes place April 24 through 26 at Linn Park in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. For more information, visit www.magiccityart.com.
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Tinney Contemporary • Through April 18
Jaq Belcher, Lunar Codex, Suspended hand-cut paper piece, 12,673 cuts, and a floor piece containing 70,000 paper seeds
Who Are You (detail), Hand-cut paper, 2,925 cuts, 23” x 36”
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alk into Tinney Contemporary’s current exhibition, Hidden Light by Jaq Belcher, and you find the entire gallery filled with large-scale paper cut installations. In the play of light and shadow created by shapes and folds that alternately recede and emerge, complex patterns appear. By varying scale and alternating the style of cut, up to six in each form, Belcher creates geometric and dynamic three-dimensional landscapes from a singular medium, the paper itself. For each work Belcher begins with an unblemished sheet of white paper, a pencil, and countless X-Acto blades. She then ruptures the surface of the paper, slicing thousands of pointed oval shapes based on the intersection of two spheres that she calls seeds. Often Belcher incorporates the seeds that are released from the cutting as part of the work, as in Lunar Codex where thousands of these pieces are arranged in patterns on the floor under it. Jaq Belcher’s Hidden Light is on view at Tinney Contemporary through April 18, with a closing reception slated for April 4 during the First Saturday Art Crawl Downtown. For more information, please visit www.tinneycontemporary.com.
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he Tennessee Art League (TAL) has partnered with arts entrepreneur Joey Amato in the launching of Nashville’s latest art gallery, Music City Fine Art. Housed within TAL’s newly renovated space on downtown’s 5th Avenue of the Arts, Music City Fine Art aspires to become one of the city’s top destination galleries by featuring the work of both celebrated and celebrity artists.
In addition to his role as publisher of Nashville’s UNITE magazine, Joey Amato is also the Senior Vice President of Emerging Media at Relevant Communications, a fine-art public relations firm that represents a diverse roster of artists, ranging from famed pop artist Peter Max and photorealist painter Doug Bloodworth to celebrity artists Jane Seymour, Mick Fleetwood, and Rick Allen of Def Leppard. Amato has also secured over two dozen works by such renowned artists as Chagall, Miró, Picasso, and Dalí, all of which are available for acquisition at the gallery. The pairing of Music City Fine Art (MCFA) with the Tennessee Art League provides a unique opportunity to enhance the sixty-year-old nonprofit organization’s mission of promoting the work of emerging artists through exhibitions and sales, as well as classes and workshops. In discussing MCFA’s concept, as both a gallery and cultural activities space, Amato explained that “the gallery will focus on local artists, both visual and performance based. In the near future, MCFA in conjunction with the Tennessee Art League will begin a weekly songwriters night, as well as open up the space to cultural and non-profit organizations free of charge. We will also be hosting a variety of other events throughout the year, ranging from fundraisers to networking mixers.”
Nashville arts scene, Amato pointed out that “5th Avenue of the Arts has always been one of my favorite streets in Nashville ever since I relocated here in 2011. The energy and vibe that the street takes on during the Art Crawl is indescribable and adds to Nashville’s flair as a vibrant arts community. I believe MCFA offers a bit of a unique twist, as many of the other galleries tend to feature one or two artists each month, whereas we will exhibit many artists at a time.” Among the major exhibitions Music City Fine Art has already scheduled for the gallery are Peter Max (May 2015) and the Art of John Lennon (September 2015). Visit Music City Fine Art during the First Saturday Art Crawl Downtown. For more information about Music City Fine Art visit www.musiccityfineart.com.
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Music City Fine Art’s location at the center of downtown Nashville’s art district seems an ideal fit for Joey Amato. When asked for his thoughts on how MCFA might further enhance the burgeoning
Marc Chagall, Athene & Telemachus, Lithograph in color, 22” x 15”
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n 1980, there were few female entrepreneurs in the art world. Nonetheless Carol Stein and her partners had the vision to open Cumberland Gallery, featuring limited edition prints and posters. Shortly after opening, they found that there was a strong pool of local and regional artists that were worthy of representation. The focus of the gallery shifted to unique works of art and moved to its current location in Green Hills. Carol assumed sole ownership of Cumberland Gallery in 1985.
Today, Cumberland Gallery represents a talented group of established and emerging artists from Tennessee and across the Southeast, along with well established, nationally recognized artists who work in a variety of media, including painting, works on paper, photography, and sculpture. What sets these works apart is the broad range of style and format as well as excellent quality and execution—the hallmark of the gallery. The 35th Anniversary Show is an homage to the artists, collectors, and patrons whose support has enabled Cumberland Gallery to celebrate 35 years and features new work by artists who have played an integral role in the shaping of this flourishing gallery.
“Cumberland Gallery has seen a huge tsunami in the appreciation of visual arts over the past 35 years, and I have been pleased to be a part of the sophistication and education that has resulted. I am grateful to my family of artists and clients in observing this milestone. Sometimes calling an art gallery a business is an
Craig Cully, Big Kiss, Orange Swirl, 2014, Oil on panel, 18” x 18”
oxymoron; it takes survival grit . . . I look forward to the next milestone,” remarked Carol Stein.
The 35th Anniversary Show opens with a reception on Saturday, April 11, from 6 until 9 p.m. at Cumberland Gallery and will be on view through May 9. For more information, please visit www.cumberlandgallery.com.
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CUMBERLAND ON CANVAS An Art Show and Sale by The Chestnut Group Benefiting the
Cumberland River Compact The Bridge Building, Third Floor 2 Victory Avenue 37213
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Chestnut Group Artists Tiffany Foss and Mike Moyers
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year ago the Chestnut Group, a nonprofit alliance of landscape artists dedicated to the conservation and preservation of vanishing landscapes in Middle Tennessee, decided to do an art show to benefit Cumberland River Compact, which exists to improve the health and enjoyment of the river. “We partner with organizations who have similar missions, and we like to take a year to paint their properties so we can capture all four seasons. For the last year we have been up and down the Cumberland River painting from different locations,” Rachel Blair, Executive Director of The Chestnut Group, explained. Last month a contingency from the Chestnut Group set up their easels and painted at the Cumberland River Compact’s offices in the Bridge Building, which overlooks the Cumberland. Some of the painters went outside the building to work because they normally paint en plein air, but others painted inside, viewing the scenic vistas through a wall of windows. “It was wonderful. They came with their paints and a potluck lunch and set up for the day. It was a convivial atmosphere, and they obviously enjoy working together. It was interesting to see such entirely different paintings from the same spot,” enthused Harriet Warner, Board Member of the Cumberland River Compact, who along with Chairman Paul Sloan and Executive Director Mekayle Houghton facilitated the painting event.
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The Chestnut Group’s Cumberland on Canvas Art Show and Sale benefiting the Cumberland River Compact takes place on Friday, April 17, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Saturday, April 18, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 2 Victory Avenue in the Lucius E. Burch III River Center on the third floor of the Bridge Building, adjacent to the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge. There will be a Happy Hour on Friday from 5 until 7 p.m. For more information, visit www.cumberlandrivercompact.org and www.chestnutgroup.org.
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Sunday Times Gas Station in Spiny Sea Urchin, 2012, Oil on panel, 12” x 21”
Variations on a Theme Mark Bradley-Shoup Goes Flat Out David Lusk Gallery • Through May 2 by Joe Nolan
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ark Bradley-Shoup’s work ranges from representational paintings of buildings and other architectural structures to abstract, geometrical images to mixed-media collages. The artist will be showing a cross-section of his varied work at David Lusk Gallery this month, but viewers should not expect to be confused—no matter the approach, Bradley-Shoup’s work is shot through with a love of vivid colors, an obsession with flat, shallow picture planes, and an abiding interest in the discarded and overlooked. Bradley-Shoup is a full-time professor in the art department at University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, where he has been teaching for the last decade. He keeps a studio space in his home where he makes his work, applying oils to paper or wooden panels.
“I’m playing with different materials and doing representation, abstraction, and mixed media—it’s really three distinct bodies of work,” he says. “A lot of the forms that I pick are not beautiful forms, what we usually consider beautiful. I’m intrigued by awkward architecture and structures that we learn not to see.” Dumpsters, blank billboards, and gas pumps are all subjects in Bradley-Shoup’s representational panels. For the artist, these subjects speak to notions about disposable culture. The structures are recognizable, but also unrealistic. “I do my best to strip away all the debris to put the subject into a spotlight,” he says. “It takes a lot of steps to make it simple and strip it down to color, plane, shape. I had one gentleman at an opening say, ‘They’re so real’. I asked him what he meant, and that’s when he
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Appropriate Utopia, 2014, Oil on panel, 48” x 48”
told me he was a [video] gamer. In a sense, they look real like digital models look real, but I could not make them any flatter.”
In his representational work the artist’s oddball subjects are also rendered in intense extremes of light that illuminate his empty, isolated-seeming scenes with an ironic, sun-drenched melancholia. This same kind of sunlit sadness can be found in the paintings of Edward Hopper—especially those devoid of that artist’s wan-faced figures. A Hopper painting of a sun-blasted white house in Cape Cod was featured in the Frist Center’s Real/Surreal exhibition last year because of the way the painting simultaneously presented a realistic scene while also imbuing it with the eerie emptiness that’s often equated with the term “Hopper-esque.” Bradley-Shoup’s representational paintings, on the other hand, are thoroughly unreal, and the sadness they evoke has more to do with the
dissatisfactions of the artificial than the felt brooding of Hopper’s doom-filled rooms. Bradley-Shoup’s paintings aren’t expressionistic affairs marked with gooey brushstrokes and gravity-defying layers of paint, but they are painterly and postmodern in their self-conscious compositions which never try to create an illusion of reality, but instead point directly at themselves as paintings that ask questions about the medium by laying bare their own underlying mechanics—the colors, shapes, and lines that create his flat picture planes. His abstract panels push his reductionist aesthetics even further, liberating his subjects into nearly total abstraction. While he is quick to point out that his work speaks to discarded and forgotten aspects of our culture, it’s much more interesting to think of him as a painter
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Brushed Orange Billboard in LaFonda Deep Olive, 2014, Oil on panel, 24” x 24” Golden Gallon in Blue Chalk Sky, 2012, Oil on panel, 16” x 20”
who paints about painting, and the abstract pieces in the exhibition show a natural evolution from the representational panels and are even more successful as aesthetic explorations.
It’s in the artist’s multimedia collages that his interest in disposable culture finally comes to the foreground. “When I make the collages, I’m using materials that are no longer used: thrown-away magazines, thrift store books, 45 record sleeves. These are all things that are either overlooked or no longer required by the culture,” he says. These works take on a sculptural presence that further emphasizes the artist’s preoccupation with objects that become culturally invisible, and these collages are Bradley-Shoup’s most effective means of communicating that message. “The other day a friend told me, ‘I saw a garbage can and I thought of you’. I took that as a huge compliment,” says Bradley-Shoup. At its best, the painter’s work offers the gift of awareness, whether of the built environment that surrounds us or of painting itself. And that’s not something anyone is likely to throw away. Mark Bradley-Shoup’s Variations on a Theme is open at David Lusk Gallery through May 2. For more information please visit www.davidluskgallery.com/nashville.
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their images, but many would-be pirates can be deterred with visible symbols of protection. Some technologies can even drive Internet traffic to your website! Consider these options: • Add a watermark
• Anyone can use the copyright symbol on or adjacent to a work. To be most effective, format it this way: © 2015 Amy Artist • Imbed your URL and other copyright information in QR codes or other digital fingerprint technologies (like the one here: www.thinglink.com).
BLOCK IT The bottom line on blocking is that where there’s a will, there’s a way around it. Still, using mechanisms that make it harder to pull your work from the Internet is a way to protect it. Here are some methods you can try:
Protecting Your Work Online
• Disable right click: stops people from saving images to their computer with the right click menu.
• Shrink wrap: adds a transparent cover to the photo. When an infringer tries to copy the image, they copy only the transparent cover.
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• Splice: cuts the image into small sections but displays them as one coherent image.
“It’s like the Wild Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.” – Steven Wright
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o one can deny that the Internet is a powerful tool for artists; however, it is also a fertile ground for theft for those who truly believe that there are no rules online. This article aims to provide basic information about the ways you might be able to protect your work online, but first thing is first: don’t post anything online unless you’ve read the host’s terms and conditions! You might be surprised by what you find. Some platforms stipulate that they have complete rights to use the original works you put on their sites. The benefits artists reap from developing an online presence likely outweigh the risks, but savvy artists should consider taking some of these precautions:
REGISTER IT The best defense is a good offense. Instead of waiting for a problem to come up, be proactive and register your work before sharing it online. You can register for a federal copyright online at www.copyright.gov/eco/ for a $35 fee, and the process is fairly straightforward. If you are a photographer, paying $35 for each image you capture may be cost prohibitive, but you do have options. Myows (www.myows.com) is an online platform that allows users to upload original works (audio, video, code, text, etc.) to its secure servers where they are time/date stamped and stored for evidence of authorship. Myows can also help you search for and remove unauthorized copies of your work.
MARK IT There are many ways to mark your work to let others know you are serious about protecting it. Some artists protest the use of measures such as watermarking because it alters the look of
POLICE IT There are many sites that can help you track your work to make sure it is not being used by someone else. For photos, try:
• Tineye (www.tineye.com)
• PicScout (www.picscout.com)
• Google Image Search’s “Search by Image” function For blogs and other web content, use: • Copyscape (www.copyscape.com)
Some services can run searches for you continuously and send you alerts if anything comes up as an infringement. Copyscape even has free banners that you can post on your site to let others know that you are taking active steps to protect your work.
CHOOSING WHEN TO SHARE IT If your work is something that you would like to share, consider licensing it with Creative Commons. Sign up for free at www.creativecommons.org and choose from one of six easy licenses you can offer to the public. If you find that your work is being used without your permission, you can always take action. Anyone can file a “takedown notice” under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or send a cease and desist letter to the infringer. If you would like legal help, consider contacting the Volunteer Lawyers and Professionals for the Arts (a program of the Arts and Business Council) at vlpa@abcnashville.org. For more about the Arts & Business Council, please visit www.abcnashville.org.
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Ironware International Forged by a Creative Community by Mary Addison Hackett | Photograph by Eric Brown
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reparing for this story, I had no idea the humble fax machine would play such an important role, and yet, without it, the partnership between designer and President Karin Eaton and Pierre Picard, a master blacksmith with a fax machine, might not have come to be. That, and Karin’s fluency in a second language (French), which she was quick to point out is an indispensable skill. No surprise then that collaboration and communication are key principles marking the success and longevity of Ironware, the transatlantic company whose nuts-and-bolts name gives only a hint of what you might expect before walking through the door.
It began with a shared passion for art and design. The original forge was founded over fifty years ago in Normandy by master blacksmith Pierre Picard. Fast forward to the 80s in Nashville, where Karin Eaton has opened a French antique store in Hillsboro Village with her mother and sister after having lived and worked in Paris as a fashion model. On a fortuitous buying trip to France, Ms. Eaton spotted the unique ironwork of M. Picard. After hours of conversation, some test marketing in Memphis, and with the encouragement of her husband, an exclusivity contract was signed. Today, Atelier Picard in Normandy is run by second- and third-generation family blacksmiths Thierry and David Duboscq and is one of only twelve forges designated by the French government as an “Atelier d’Art.” The Nashville studio, located
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Studio Manager Andrew Eaton and Paul Korhnak placing the glass panels in the Galina Lantern
Norma Branch finishing the Benedicte Chandelier
Ione Chandelier and Nikki Sconces
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Octavia 8 Light Chandelier
Custom 3 tiered Cassiopeia
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Nikky Table
(right) Beauregard Frame with antiqued convex mirror and convex lens (below) Gisele 4 Light Chandelier in gold leaf finish
on the edge of the Berry Hill neighborhood, is almost as rich in tradition, with a staff of trained artisans and administrators that function like a close-knit family—some of whom have worked with Karin for over seventeen years. The first Ironware collection in 1988 was based on M. Picard’s unique interpretation of traditional European and Provencal designs. Since 1991 Karin has added to the collection with her own designs. She builds on the skills of these remarkable blacksmiths and incorporates simple forms to produce a contemporary approach. The demands of architects and interior designers for custom work create a collection that is constantly changing. Among some of the current designs being hand-finished during my tour were several chandeliers and a gorgeous lighting fixture with a hand-blown glass orb designed by nationally known glass artist Curtiss Brock, who also heads the glass program at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, Tennessee. Lanie Gannon, an artist in her own right and a name familiar to the Nashville arts community, has been influential in designing many of the custom finishes that the company is known for producing. Before arriving in Nashville, each piece is hand forged one at a time in a small village in Normandy. The first 878 designs were M. Picard’s. The most recent 200-plus designs are the result of Karin’s passion for collecting images and objects that inspire her. A background in art
history and anthropology comes in handy as well. She credits her studio manager with being a brilliant draftsman who helps perfect her designs before they’re sent to France. At the Atelier Picard, second-generation blacksmith Thierry Duboscq works on the prototype, emails photos to Nashville, and through correspondence, nuances of the design process are worked out. The prototype is then shipped to Nashville where adjustments are made, if needed. Before being added to the collection, pieces often undergo further scrutiny in the form of feedback from employees as well as artist friends and showroom owners across the country. Before leaving the Nashville studio, each piece is stamped with the signature of the Atelier Picard. Throughout our discussion, Karin’s enthusiasm and respect for the collaborative process is evident: “Each piece has so much physical connectivity to individual intelligence and ability,” she tells me. “It’s people’s lives.” In a short treatise she has written on art and design, Eaton says, “The major formative and continually inspiring source for my work is the creative spirit of M. Pierre Picard. Working with him has taught me the importance of taking pleasure and finding humor in the process of creation. This makes doing the work a solace for the soul.” Pierre Picard, the master blacksmith who, over twenty-seven years ago, was the first person in his small village with a fax machine, just recently passed away. No doubt the spirit of his work will live on through the creative vision of Ms. Eaton and the community of uniquely skilled artisans working at Ironware. Visit www.ironwareinternational.com for an online catalogue and more information about Ironware.
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As I See It
The Black Box Part II
Marie-Virginie Berbet, Little Black Box. Empathy Box, 2008, PMMA, light-diffusion-control film, LEDs, and plethysmographic sensor, 8” x 10” x 8”
by Mark W. Scala
In the Ka’aba—the black architectural cube in Mecca that is the focus of the hajj, or global Islamic pilgrimage—the black box has spiritual connotations. German artist Gregor Schneider’s evocation of the Ka’aba, combined with his reference to the mystical black paintings of Kazimir Malevich, established a link between different cultures, encouraging empathy instead of distrust. The Ka’aba’s most sacred element is a stone, believed by some to be a meteorite, which was once white but is now stained black by the sins of the world. Expiation is offered to those who touch it. With the sacred stone of Islam, touch becomes a means of fulfillment and renewal. French designer Marie-Virginie Berbet’s The Little Black Box. Empathy Box (2008) ties this metaphysical aspect of touch to a therapeutic device that recalls the scientific concept of the black box. Inspired by the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick’s 1987 story “The Little Black Box,” which involved the simulation of emotions and the widespread use of telepathic communication,
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Berbet’s elegant object contains a light that pulsates at the touch of the user’s fingers. Its purpose is to measure the interaction of brain and heart—how changing emotions lead to altered heart rhythms. The user can affect the rhythm and intensity of the light through breathing and meditation, exercises that bring, as the designer says, the “feeling of the heart beating into the hands . . . a singular interaction between [the] user and his own feelings.”1 The Little Black Box. Empathy Box brings attention to the layered mysteries of this simple form, which integrates the psychological, social, and spiritual in equal measure. Endnotes
1. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Interactive exhibition page for The Little Black Box. Empathy Box, at www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/ objects/145511/. PHOTOGRAPH BY JERRY ATNIP
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s discussed last month, “the black box” is often a tabula rasa onto which we can project our fears, desires, and imaginings. For scientists and engineers, the black box is a term for a device or system in which inputs of stimuli and outputs of reaction are processed behind an opaque surface, which does not permit observation of the instrument’s inner workings. In aviation, it contains the record of a flight that, after a crash, if it cannot be found, becomes a symbolic coffin, haunting us with a promise of answers that will never be fulfilled.
Mark W. Scala Chief Curator Frist Center for the Visual Arts
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The Ninety Nine and the Nine
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n 2009, acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Katy Grannan began what would become an ongoing exploration into the fringe communities and individuals along Highway 99 in California’s Central Valley. The stretch encompasses Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, and other cities similarly linked in American history to the Great Depression and the eastern Dust Bowl exodus.
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Gail and Dale, Pacifica, 2007, Archival pigment print, 41” x 51”
Her exhibit The Ninety Nine and the Nine currently on view at Sherrick & Paul is comprised of two photographic series, which document her studies of the people and environments she observed.
The Ninety Nine color portrait series captures this notoriously desolate and unforgiving landscape through its present day inhabitants. Her subjects are framed against the stark white light of high noon and appear attentive yet devoid of sentimentality. The black-and-white images of Grannan’s complementary Nine series step back to place her subjects in context along South 9th Street in Modesto—small, semi-itinerant camps formed at the edges of urban environments where abandoned lots and anonymous motels meet exposed riverbeds.
Katy Grannan’s work is included in the permanent collections at MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Whitney. Her exhibit at Sherrick & Paul marks the first major showing of this Berkley resident’s work in Nashville and in the South at large. The Ninety Nine and the Nine by Katy Grannan is on exhibit at Sherrick & Paul through April 25. For more information, please visit www.sherrickandpaul.com. To see more of Gannon’s work, visit www.katygrannan.com.
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Honoring the forty-six-year tradition of quality, the offspring of the Sinking Creek Film Festival has now expanded to a ten-day duration, running April 16–25 to meet the film fans’ ever-eager demand produced by the success of Nashville’s current boom.
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very year, the Nashville Film Festival functions as a prismatic selection of films, curated from a wide array of selections into the optimal experience for movie fans. Every year brings impressive results and leaves the question, “How can next year’s film festival be better?”
2014 Nashville Film Festival (clockwise from top): Seth Green meets with fans; Carey Preston, Nicole Kidman, Famke Janssen, and Beth Grant on the Red Carpet; Kris Kristofferson and Joe Pagetta
structures that will support the independent production and the independent artist. In the awkward spot between the void left by the Nashville Screenwriter’s Conference and the growing period of the Nashville Film Television Transmedia Council, the film festival’s stability should be appreciated now more than ever. “We have a focus on trying to help Tennessee creatives,” says Crockett. “We really want to help Tennessee people become successful, so there are some new things that we’re going to be revealing soon.”
Crockett explains that the current agenda for the Nashville Film Festival has three priorities. The first includes screening a wide array of already finished projects that now incorporate the category of the web series into shorts, features, documentaries, and animated films. The second priority is the continued success of the screenwriting competition, which started last year and now provides a full lineup of panels and workshops. And the third priority is the relationship of music to video, through a showcase of audio that connects musicians to supervisors who can place their content in television and film. “We’re trying really hard to turn Nashville into a market. Someone who’s a distributor, we want them to think about Nashville instead of other festivals. We want them to think about coming here and checking out some of the incredible films that we have and offering them a distribution deal.”
“We’re very lucky to live in a community that is extremely supportive of the arts,” shares Ted Crockett, Executive Director of the festival. “Because of that, and because Nashville’s profile has increased so much [the number of ] people and businesses relocating here, everything has gotten elevated with our reputation.”
The expansion of the festival includes not only its duration, but its mission statement. This year has seen a legitimized need for
The 2015 Nashville Film Festival runs April 16 to 25. For tickets, event information, and an up-to-date lineup of screenings, be sure to visit www.nashfilm.org. Check www.nashvillearts.com for coverage before the festival with film reviews as well as Q&As with filmmakers.
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Nashville Film Festival’s specials Welcome to Me (above) and Adult Beginners
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Justin Stokes is the founder of the MTSU Film Guild, a student organization which functions as a production company for student filmmakers. He is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and social media manager.
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Teachers Training Teachers on Public Art and Civil Rights by Anne-Leslie Owens, Public Art Project Coordinator, Metro Nashville Arts Commission
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hy do teachers participate in professional development days? Just like their students, teachers are lifelong learners. On February 25, area educators had a chance to explore Nashville’s Civil Rights public art project, Witness Walls, at a free professional development day at the Nashville Public Library. The participants learned about Nashville’s public art collection and the library’s Civil Rights Room, had a Q&A with artist Walter Hood, and took away some exciting new interdisciplinary lessons to use in the classroom. Some even got their hands dirty casting concrete in found molds!
The library’s Andrea Blackman with teachers at the lunch counter in the Civil Rights Room
A partnership between Metro Arts and the Ayers Institute for Teacher Learning and Innovation at Lipscomb University, this teacher training program creates project-based lesson plans centered on Nashville’s public art. This year, with funding from the Tennessee Arts Commission, a cadre of six area teachers focused on Witness Walls by artist/landscape architect Walter Hood. Witness Walls, due to be installed next to the historic Metro Courthouse later this year, commemorates Nashville’s role in the Civil Rights Movement and uses period images from Special Collections at the Nashville Public Library. Working together over several months, the cadre teachers created and refined standards-aligned lesson plan units that explore public art and so much more. The lessons reflect the various subjects taught by the cadre members, middle and high school English/language arts, physics, social studies, US history, and visual arts. The six customizable lessons designed by the cadre are available free for download and can be found at www.lipscomb.edu/ayers/metroarts. For more information about the Civil Rights public art project and Nashville’s entire public art collection, visit publicart.nashville.gov. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @metroarts1 and Facebook at Metro Arts. Project hashtag is #witnesswalls. 50 | April 2015 NashvilleArts.com
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Long Live the Artist!
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by Rachael McCampbell
’ve heard it said that Picasso painted right up to his death at age 91. Since he began before he’d reached his teens, that would constitute a very long art career. Most of us, though, have a good four to six decades to work. An exception is Grandma Moses, who began at 78, had her first exhibit at MoMA, and worked for over two decades . . . but I digress. The question is, how do we maintain long careers in the arts?
To explore longevity, I visited a former teacher and local treasure, 79-year-old abstract expressionist painter Anton Weiss, in his studio in Pegram, Tennessee. He was working on a six-foot painting in yellow tones—a sunny break from the gray skies outside. In his dark sweater and contrasting shock of white hair, he doesn’t look his age. And when he talks excitedly about his art, the clock retreats even more. He’s ageless.
Anton Weiss at work in his studio
painting that inspires him each morning; it’s his profound teacher. He speaks of his canvases as if they are living things: “It’s not what you put on the canvas but what comes off of it. They inform me, not the other way around.” Selling art does not motivate Anton. It’s that eternal challenge to improve his craft that keeps him going. There’s no expiration date on this sort of desire. There are other artists who are inspired to paint into old age because, quite simply, they are never satisfied with what they’ve created. I could have done better, they say, and stare wistfully at a blank canvas, envisioning the ever-elusive perfect painting.
Anton’s “real career,” as he calls it, began forty-five years ago. He painted representational art and portraits, but studying under Hans Hoffman in New York, he was deeply influenced by the freedom and looseness of the abstract expressionist’s work, and he has been exploring that genre ever since.
Human beings seem to live longer, happier lives if we have a strong purpose—something that makes us want to jump out of bed and begin our day. I’ve noticed that artists who thrive in this business have this quality in spades. For Anton, it’s the actual process of
Anton Weiss is represented by Bennett Galleries. For more about him visit www.bennettgalleriesnashville.com/AntonWeiss. Harpeth Art Center/Mud Puddle Pottery Studio offers workshops and private lessons with Weiss, visit www.mudpuddlepottery.com. PHOTOGRAPH BY RON MANVILLE
Anton Weiss, Light Field #13, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 46” x 46”
The carrot before the horse varies from artist to artist, but my guess is that for most painters the answer to longevity and how to stay relevant as an artist is based on one simple concept—the desire to grow. In Anton’s case, you can feel his commitment to his process. Although he turns 80 next month, he’s still curious, trying new approaches to painting, and seeking answers only his art can give him. “This is not a passing fancy,” he chuckled. “I’m going to do this until I die.” Long live Anton!
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Rachael McCampbell is an artist, teacher, curator, and writer who resides in the small hamlet of Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee. For more about her, please visit www.rachaelmccampbell.com.
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Lera Lynn Takes A Trip Down The Avenues from Laurel Canyon to Music Row
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To be honest, I’m not a very big fan of narrative videos,” confesses Lera Lynn. “For the most part, I prefer more abstract or performance videos. That seems to be what people are really interested in these days anyway.”
This may surprise those who have come across the Gothic enactment of her award-winning song “Bobby Baby” on YouTube. Shot for $200 in a single afternoon, it depicts her murdering and burying an errant beau one night in a cemetery. Swigging from a bottle of whiskey, alternately wailing, caressing, and finally belting the poor guy with a shovel, Lynn’s psychotic avenger is a far cry from this winsome young artist smiling and sipping from a cup of steaming tea at Edgehill Cafe. “The funny thing is,” she confides, “the song isn’t about me killing and burying someone at all. It’s actually about my father and his life. But this was all the idea of the guy who shot and directed it, Brett Vaughan. I thought, man, that’s really dark. But then I was like, who cares, you know? There’s a million ways to interpret everything.”
artists who had previously been musicians but joined the circus because there’s no money in the music business,” she says with a knowing grin.)
Recently Lynn performed for the first time on The David Letterman Show, braving both the icy temperature the host prefers in his theater and the knowledge that she was suddenly singing live before millions of viewers. “I chose this dress made, basically, of tissue paper,” she recalls. “And when Dave said ‘Lera Lynn’, it was like, ‘Don’t look at the camera! Don’t look at the monitor! Smile! Try to look like you’re having fun! Don’t shiver!’ “
She has dabbled for the first time in the Nashville art of co-writing, with Todd Lombardo and Joshua Grange among her partners. “Most recently, I met someone and jumped into his car to write,” Lynn notes, deadpan. “His name is Ben Arthur, and he does this series for Acoustic Cafe wherein he picks up an artist and, as they drive somewhere, they write a song. He picked me up from my house, and we wrote a song on the way to Memphis. We recorded it later that day at Sun Studios.”
B o r n i n H o u s t o n , Ly n n n o w c a l l s Nashville home. About three years ago, after a decade of studying and gigging in Athens, Georgia, she decided it was time for a change. “I was just ready for a challenge, for some new scenery and places.”
Lynn also cut her latest, crowd-funded album The Avenues out of town, partly because Grange, the producer, works mainly from his studio in Los Angeles. But she also felt she might better attain the “country noir” sound with which she is associated somewhere far away from Music Row.
“What attracted me to Nashville when I was feeling it out and thinking about moving here was that everybody is very interested in meeting each other and networking and working together,” she explains. “That’s very refreshing because music can be very competitive. There is competition in Nashville, but I think everyone sees that you can still compete and help each other out.”
That said, her latest video is: (a) filmed in Nashville, (b) not narrative, and (c) premiering April 2 on www.nashvillearts.com. Shot at Cotton Mill Live, the live-music loft on the east bank of the Cumberland, it’s a straight-ahead documentation of Lynn and her band—Joshua Grange playing deep, moody twangs on baritone guitar, Lex Price doing smoky fills on acoustic bass, and Tommy Perkinson wielding mallets and brushes to coax a muffled groove from his drums—backing her vocals on “I’m Your Fool” before maybe thirty invited friends.
So she checked off her options. New York? Too cold and expensive. What about Austin? It was too far away from things that mattered to her. And Los Angeles . . . well, it was Los Angeles. That led her to Music City, though not just by default.
Since putting down roots here, Lynn has blossomed, creatively and professionally. She has toured with Punch Brothers, Joan Osborne, Todd Snider, and k.d. lang, performing in venues throughout the United States and the UK. In April, she launches her own headlining tour. Garrison Keillor has welcomed her repeatedly onto A Prairie Home Companion, upping her participation from a song on her debut to more recently doing several solos, a couple of duets, and acting with him in a skit. (“It was about two trapeze
“The West Coast really does color country music very interestingly,” she muses. “That’s not to say I don’t like the Nashville sound, but for the songs I was recording, they’re not so much country as Laurel Canyon.”
“‘I’m Your Fool’ is one song that is not meant to be a narrative video. Just the performance is enough—although,” she adds with a sly look, “if someone wanted to use it in a film, I wouldn’t turn it down.” For more information about Lera Lynn, visit www.leralynn.com.
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ennessee Craft—now celebrating 50 years since the original founding of the Tennessee Artist-Craftsmen’s Association in 1965—sets high standards. When you speak of true craft artists, divorce yourself from the notion of stuff made with kits or Popsicle sticks and hot glue and think of an incarnation of fine art. When talking about Tennessee Craft, the artisan fair that fills Centennial Park each spring with gifted producers and happy customers looking to purchase their work, that’s an even greater truth. What craft means is the handiwork of true artists, in a variety of mediums, from pottery to paintings, from hand-dyed fibers to wood.
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The Art of Craft
The persistence of craft references a past time, before mass-produced plastic disposables were the norm, when ordinary people made or bought things made by hand with the intention that a bowl, a teapot, a toy, a piece of furniture be beautiful and distinctive as well as functional. Tennessee Craft, under various names, has spent half a century reminding us we can still have the beautiful-functional, and we can support great talents by doing so.
TACA, now Tennessee Craft, came about in the mid 1960s through the auspices of a handful of craft enthusiasts. The zeitgeist of the era produced a reinvigorated interest in the work of craftspeople across the country. In 1972, the group was chartered as a non-profit and the first Craft Fair held under the guidance of former head Pat Deaver, herself a pottery artist.
She points out what happens when you understand the difference between a mug or tea pot made by a craft artist—with the balance, the fit of the handle, the drip-free spout, and the artistry gone into it—versus a mug picked up at the mega-mart. It has a different value, a greater appeal and aesthetic. Many of us understand that because of visiting Tennessee Craft’s annual fairs. Deaver says in 1972 an old swimming pool in the park was demolished and the area rebuilt as the Centennial Art Center. The first craft fair coincided with the opening, featuring some 70 to 80 vendors spread out along the roads rambling through the trees. The idea was so new that some of the invited artists showed up without even RSVPing for the fair.
Alice Merritt, who headed TACA from 1988 to 2005, says that the state as a whole was divided into chapters using the geographical development districts established by the Tennessee Planning and Development Region and allowing for craftspeople to be connected to each other. “Local meetings became quite important to our success,” she says. By 1978, the fall fair was established, because there was great demand for it, and since spring was limited strictly to Tennessee-based artists, fall allowed artists in from other states, widening the variety of what was available. Today, eight chapters continue this work. The current executive director, Teri Alea, says things have developed very organically since. The rules are strict—the artist must be present with his/her work, and all fairs are limited to items made from raw materials, no kits, models, or anything like that. It’s part of what makes the fair different.
“When you buy a craft, you buy a piece of that person,” says Deaver. “A large part of our job is educating the public about what goes into a work of art.”
“The community was truly involved,” says Deaver. “That was the key to getting everyone out that first year. We reached out to well known, influential people who backed the arts in the community, and they had receptions, meetings in their homes. Third National Bank (now SunTrust) got behind us. And Clara Hieronymous, the arts editor at The Tennessean, promoted us. As the fairs continued, she’d visit the fair on Friday and report on Sunday, and whomever she reported on sold very well that day. We relied on those relationships; they were so beneficial to us.”
By 1973, they began using a jury system to determine which artists—all from within Tennessee—would be asked to participate. That fair featured some 200 exhibitors, a limit they had deliberately set. That, according to Deaver, was about the time the Tennessee Arts Commission also decided to add a craft division, first headed by Lewis Snyder, a Murfreesboro teacher, assisted by Roy Overcast, with whom they’d build a relationship. Over the years, the TACA acronym came to be Tennessee Association of Craft Artists and now Tennessee Craft.
This year, Tennessee Craft also enjoys the patronage of Tennessee’s First Lady, Mrs. Crissy Haslam. “Tennessee Craft has added to Tennessee’s rich traditions in fine craft for 50 years,” she says. “Their creativity and enthusiasm for preserving the skills and knowledge of fine craft is important, so that future generations can enjoy this unique part of our state heritage.” Since 1972, Tennessee Craft has shared a passion for craft with the state. Since 1965, they’ve encouraged artists. Let’s hope they spend the next 50 years with just as much success and more.
The Spring Tennessee Craft Fair will be held at Centennial Park May 1–3. For more information visit www.tennesseecraft.org.
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Tennessee Craft College Bridge Scholarship Recipient Centennial Park • May 1–3
ennessee Craft is known for its support of artists. One aspect of this can be found in the full-time scholarships (two to each) it offers in summer 2015 to the Appalachian Center for Craft and to Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. In addition, the College Bridge Program provides vendor education, advice, and a booth space for up to four emerging student artists. This year, that includes Adam Kirby, a ceramics artist, sculptor, and recent graduate of UT-Chattanooga. Kirby’s pieces showcase his work with alternative methods of shaping clay. Using something other than a wheel and traditional tools impacts it—literally. His distinctive pieces feature ceramics he made by taking raw clay pieces to a gun range and shooting them, shaping and exploring the plasticity of the materials with striking results.
“When you shoot fresh, wet clay, it immediately reveals the ballistics, and it’s an aggressive method,” he says. “The clay has lots of memory. I want to expand viewers’ horizons, make them change their expectations about what they [will] see, what things are meant to look like. Clay is amazing. You mold this thing from the ground, and it lasts for centuries.” Kirby adds that the College Bridge program helped him in other ways, allowing him to connect with other artists post-college and find help firing his pieces before he had a studio. Now, having had those advantages, he looks forward to opening his own new studio space to other young artists in need of that extra help themselves. Visit www.tennesseecraft.org/scholarship-winner-adam-kirby for more information about the scholarship program and Adam Kirby.
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Local Color Gallery • April 25
ocal Color Gallery is commemorating their 25th Anniversary with the opening of Coloring, featuring new work from Kim Barrick, one of the gallery’s longest running artists. According to Brooke Robinson, Local Color’s owner, the evening will be “a celebration of loyal collectors, fantastic artists, and amazing ar t.” In addition to the featured show, all of the Local Color artists will have new work on display, including Eric Buechel, the gallery’s newest artist, Wendy Adams, Susan Bates, Chriss Hardy, Thalia Kahl, Bitsy King, Joel Knapp, Gay Petach, Barry Stein, and many more. Since 1990 the award-winning L ocal Color Galler y has been a source of Tennessee
art, representing over 30 regional artists working in a variety of media and styles. Robinson is passionate about her artists and their work, saying, “I think there is so much talent in Tennessee that we are the luckiest gallery on the planet, because we have so much talent to choose from. I like to think we have something for everyone from photographic, impressionistic, photo realistic, contemporary to traditional.” Local Color Galler y offers oil, acr ylic, pastel, and watercolor along with a discriminating dash of sculpture, pottery, and jewelry.
Eric Buechel, The Task at Hand, Oil on canvas, 30” x 40”
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Local Color Gallery’s 25 th Anniversary Celebration and o pe n i n g o f the ex hib itio n C o l o r i n g t a ke s p l a c e o n April 25 from 5 until 8 p.m. For more information, please visit www.localcolornashville.com.
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Insight, Oil on canvas, 36” x 26”
Nancy Depew
Explores the Curiosity of Nature Haynes Galleries • Through April 11
by Gracie Pratt
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hen asked what inspires her work, Nancy Depew had one answer: “curiosity.” The work of this New Jersey-based artist lives up to its initial impulse, reflecting the mystery and intricacy of nature with fluid portraits of lush woods and meticulously detailed single flowers. Her subjects are captured with precision and are simultaneously delicate and robust.
Depew’s work bridges the gap between traditional realism and contemporary style, with pieces ranging from miniatures, like Gem at 7 x 8.5 inches, to expansive forestscapes like Pulse, which measures 44 x 64 inches. Haynes Galleries is currently featuring seventeen pieces, with a variety of sizes and natural subjects.
Illumination, Oil on panel, 25” x 34”
Depew’s curiosity is often piqued by objects as personal as the ones in her own garden, like the white peony featured in her floral still life Touch. “I found the white peonies languishing in a hedge row on my home’s property when I moved in fifteen years ago. They all feel like old friends,” she says. Her work is intensely personal because of its association to objects
that she knows and loves, yet she tries to distance herself from the object when she paints. It is not the object she is trying to replicate in her work, rather an experience. “I am not interested in documenting the flower for its own sake,” she says. “I am interested in the collaboration between myself and that flower. Artists have used
flowers as subject matter in still life paintings for hundreds of years, and yet it would be a terrible mistake to believe that their potential to be used as a means for delving into the nature of human experience has been exhausted. I use the flower as a vehicle, loaded with all the implications a living organism embodies. It provides me with a means for channeling something internal, fragile, and elusive that no other subject could accomplish.” Depew also proves herself skilled in capturing the human form, as she does articulately in her painting Insight. This painting features a nude woman, eyes closed, head tilted upwards. It is a pensive piece, reflecting on the mood that the subject’s point of view evokes. The painting has a dual focus. The flowers occupy as much of the portrait as the woman does, reinforcing Depew’s sense of interconnectedness between the human form and nature. She says, “We are not separate from nature, but part of it.”
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Depew’s work hinges on her commitment to what she calls the “visual idea.” Defining
it, Depew says that “our day to day experience is [primarily] visual and has little or nothing to do with words or logical thought.” When she paints, Depew tries to forget about verbal communication. Instead, she says, “I use visual imagery and combine it with my own experience to investigate the intuitive aspect of the subject. I manipulate visual information to explore a metaphysical terrain. I dig into the nature of experience.” Depew received her Master of Fine Arts f rom the State University of New York in Albany and has since had an impressive artistic career. She is a teacher and a renowned speaker, presenting at schools such as Princeton University and Savannah College of Art and Design. Over the past three decades, Depew’s work has been featured in over eighty combined solo exhibitions and group shows across the country, and this is the second time her work has been displayed at
Haynes Galleries. Depew is eager to speak about the appeal of such a gallery: “It is every artist’s dream to be able to exhibit where their work will be truly understood and appreciated, as I believe it is at the Haynes Galleries.” Haynes Galleries offers a sophisticated space for viewing Depew’s work. An interesting component of Depew’s art is that it responds to her initial curiosity without killing it. It entices viewers. Her exhibit at Haynes Galleries offers an opportunity for viewing her work in person, and Depew’s hope is that her work will encourage viewers to have their own unique experience. Nancy Depew’s vignette show Nancy Depew: Figures, Flowers & Forests will be on display at Haynes Galleries until April 11. The gallery is located at 1600 Division Street on the Music Row Roundabout in Nashville and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or by appointment. For more information, visit www.haynesgalleries.com.
Revelation, Oil on canvas, 48” x 34”
Pulse, Oil on canvas, 44” x 62”
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Russ Faxon Casting Moments in Time by Jane R. Snyder
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rms arching skyward, The Entrance, a pair of eight-feet-tall bronze sentries, stands guard outside Selah Studio in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. An hour southeast of Nashville, it is a distance well worth traveling to meet sculptor Russ Faxon. His blue-gray eyes may remind you of a Siamese cat, but the artist’s handshake has the strength of a massive lion behind it. That strength is crucial to transport Russ’s expressive bronze sculptures from his imagination to the casting foundry then on to their final installations.
“I design, develop, and create limited edition and unique figurative bronze sculpture for private clients, corporations, universities, non-profits, and state governments. My works range in size from table models to monumental. The sculptures are eclectic, from fantasy to realistic, depending on the applicable need for expression of a particular concept.” Russ mastered the art of “lost wax” bronze casting at the Mariani Foundry in Pietrasanta, Italy. Whether tender or bold, his concepts take, on average, nine months or more to
The Signing, 2006, Private residence, Nashville, TN
complete. During that journey, Russ will assume many roles: sketch artist, concept presenter, welder, clay modeler, mold maker, assembler, metalsmith, carpenter, transportation planner, logistical engineer, project director, and people manager. He shoulders them all with an abiding passion. “On commission work, you try to find out what people’s goals are so that you can achieve that for your client. It’s really a service industry. Unless you have such patronage that everyone just loves what you do and buys the hooey out of it,” he said with a grin. “With commission work, when someone gives an artist an idea and lets them go with it, they can really do something special.” Planted in his backyard are haunting, weather-beaten armatures of earlier works that command attention. An endless array of hand tools, machines, drawings, mannequins, plaster models, and maquettes overflows his studio. You can almost see Russ’s fingerprints on every item. In between projects, the talented sculptor occasionally teaches classes in the crowded space. “Artists are all in our own little world. I almost envy those in the music business who can share in collaboration rather than having some independent possession over what we create. We all have a need for collaboration and critiques to make our work better.” His compelling designs often include multiple figures, but before I even asked him how those pieces differ from other commissions, Russ answered that question. “I love interaction. Having a singular figure just doesn’t have the communication skills two figures do, what they are saying and doing.”
Anticipation, 1983, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, TN
Oh, Roy!, 1993, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN
One example is a life-size piece Oh, Roy! Located in the Ryman Auditorium, it depicts the friendship between Grand Ole Opry icons Minnie Pearl and Roy Acuff. Thousands of country music fans have been photographed standing beside this duo, and, I expect, they would be just as thrilled if Russ is asked to produce a smiling Little Jimmy Dickens to join them. Western Kentucky University, Russ’s alma mater (B.A. in Art Education, 1973), features five of his sculptures on its campus. They include a life-size figure of Korean War casualty Sgt. 1st Class Robert Guthrie, which stands beside the Guthrie Bell Tower. “What is it about a soldier who will go to a foreign country, not know anything about them, and fight or die for that country? They are extremely special people. The design is Robert stepping out going towards the war, an American flag in his left hand to show patriotism and the Eagle Scout badges he won as a boy peeking out of his duffle bag. He is looking back toward home, but his movement is moving forward away from home.” Created to honor the memory of a little girl whose death led to a law that requires youngsters to be seated on the rear seat in cars, Blowing Bubbles represents a beloved childhood pastime. You can see it in between the chapel and school of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville.
Danny Evins, Uncle Herschel and Stella (detail), 1999 and 2013, Cracker Barrel Corporate Headquarters, Lebanon, TN
Blowing Bubbles (detail), 2001, St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, TN
Robert Guthrie, 2002, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Isabelle and Calvin, two loving figures on a granite bench, graces the grounds of Alive Hospice. A sensitive work, it provides emotional respite for caregivers and family members who pass by or stop to rest or renew themselves for a few private moments.
Driving home, I pictured the sculptor’s strong, long-fingered hands. They could have modeled for Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) whose sculpture still astonishes art lovers nearly a century after his death. I wouldn’t be surprised if Russ Faxon’s talent for casting moments in time is equally admired one hundred years from now. For more information, visit www.russfaxon.com.
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Figures in Russ Faxon’s studio
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Russ Faxon at work in his studio
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Banning Bouldin Has Given Nashville Something to Talk About— A New Dance Language With Its Own Accent by Cat Acree | Photograph by Hunter Armistead
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here are a number of reasons for the unexpected success of New Dialect, Nashville’s emerging contemporary dance collective, but it all comes down to Artistic Director Banning Bouldin, who recognizes two very important things about dance. It is a universal language and therefore one of the most accessible art forms—but a lot of people don’t think of it that way. So even though Nashville native Bouldin started New Dialect exactly when the local arts landscape was hospitable to change, she never predicted the overwhelming level of support.
Like so many dancers before her, Bouldin fled Nashville in 1998 to pursue the type of fusion dance modeled at Julliard, which offers the best techniques from the past and the best tools from the present to propel the evolution of choreography. “We need people on this planet who devote themselves to the preservation of said techniques or said approaches,” Bouldin says, “but we also desperately need people who are interested in gleaning from them, peeling them back, digging in to find uncharted territories, so the art form can continue to evolve, and so that we also have a voice in the present tense of what dance is right now.”
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New Dialect performing Fight/Flight
After entering the Julliard BFA program and then traveling the globe with a Stockholm dance company, Bouldin returned to Nashville in 2009, when “the city was ready.” In April 2013 she established New Dialect, intending to focus on providing relevant training for dancers, choreographers, and teachers who want to pursue careers in the field of contemporary dance. But in June 2014, Centennial Park invited New Dialect for an ongoing creative residency, which provided the opportunity to plan their first performance. They debuted at OZ in August 2014, expecting an audience of 150 to 200 people. Almost 700 attended, pressed together with standing room only.
“I was anticipating having to till through a little more concrete to get traction,” Bouldin says, “but the timing has been so right for many burgeoning contemporary art organizations in Nashville right now. There’s such a hunger from the public to see this sort of work.” Starting in April, New Dialect performs two original works with INTERSECTION, Nashville’s new contemporary music ensemble, for their debut at the Platform. Bouldin has designed a work called Murmurations for the twelve-minute Concordanza, which vacillates between “vast spaces of time, almost as if you’re listening to the sound . . . of cosmic harmony” and abrasive, idiosyncratic outbursts that transform New Dialect dancers into a twitchy, agitated hive as
Banning Bouldin performing Emin
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Following the OZ success, commissions began pouring in. The Frist asked them to participate in their Kandinsky retrospective; TedXNashville invited them to open their CREO conference, and OZ commissioned the upcoming Trisha Brown retrospective at Zeitgeist.
Every weekend in May for OZ’s Trisha Brown retrospective, New Dialect will perform Brown’s 1968 installation Planes at Zeitgeist, with three dancers climbing and traversing a wall while aerial-view projections cover their bodies. For a more intimate New Dialect experience, Private Edition is hosting a fundraiser for the company on April 16, with 10 percent of sales benefiting the company. Also, New Dialect rehearsals are open to the public at the Centennial Park Arts Center, Monday through Friday, noon to 3 p.m. Bouldin wants contemporary dance to be accessible for as many people as possible and recognizes that buying a ticket to a contemporary dance performance requires the ability to take a risk. Stripping away any remaining elitism, affordable ticket prices enable potential audience members to feel more comfortable taking that chance.
says Bouldin. “Inside each language we have our own accents, our own dialects, that have to do with where we’re born, the experiences we had, where we moved, who our partner was.” Body language is no misnomer. This is a new voice for Nashville, but we all have bodies, so our mother tongue must be the same. All dance photographs courtesy of OZ Nashville. Support New Dialect at their fundraising event Cocktails, Cosmetics, & Contemporary Dance at Private Edition on Thursday, April 16, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. See the group perform Planes at Zeitgeist most Saturdays in May. For more information and event details visit www.newdialect.org.
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“There are people on this planet who have taken it upon themselves to learn more than just their mother tongue, so they can communicate with a wider variety of people,”
Ana Maria Lucaciu and Banning Bouldin performing Emin
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they swarm and swoop again and again. The second work, B-Sides, which will accompany the “almost sentimentally melodic” Eleven Studies for Eleven Players, is a compilation of some of Bouldin’s favorite choreography that had to hit the cutting-room floor in previous works.
New Dialect performing Fight/Flight
Art in Formation
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Stirrings from the Nashville Underground
Kathryn Edwards, founder of The Other Booking
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cattered all over town in basements and back patios is a different breed of performance space. House venues seat as few as fifteen people and play host to bands too new or too challenging for the likes of the Exit/In or the Mercy Lounge. Kathryn Edwards, founder of The Other Booking and former resident at the influential house venue The Other Basement, is one of the city’s most passionate and tireless house show promoters, and she doesn’t get a dime for it. With all the headaches of show booking, such as disrespectful showgoers, rowdy or demanding bands, and poor turnout, Edwards has considered quitting, but she goes on. “Someone has to book bands for there to be a thriving scene. And then there is the under-representation of women and people of color that I can assist with and inspire someone like me to feel involved.” That under-representation can make women and people of color feel alienated in a scene with so many all-white, all-dude bands. Edwards recounts, “Some dirty punk saw me standing next to our PA board and asked me, while peering around the room at the white males there, who was going to be running sound. I’m no guru with mixing, but turning up loud in a basement isn’t exactly rocket science, and that was insulting.” The problem isn’t simply which bands get booked; it’s also the lack of diversity in club ownership and in media staffs. As for this, Edwards says, “My voice against a wall isn’t powerful. I really wish more people would start to question why—when they look around at the new hip Nashville or underground music scene—it’s a blizzard.”
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Visit www.facebook.com/theotherbooking to learn more about The Other Booking. Tony Youngblood is the founder of the Circuit Benders’ Ball, a biennial celebration of free culture, art, music, and the creative spirit. He created the open-source, multi-artist, scalable “art tunnel” concept called M.A.P.s (ModularArtPods.com) and runs the experimental improv music blog and podcast www.TheatreIntangible.com.
Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats Country Music Hall of Fame • Through December 2016 by Stephanie Stewart-Howard
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Curator Michael Gray says the Nashville Cats represent the second wave of major session musicians in the city’s history, on the heels of the famous A Team in the 40s and 50s. The Cats exhibit offers the CMHOF a unique vantage point to consider how both country and rock/folk music makers affected American music culture and to celebrate musicians from wildly different backgrounds in a polarized era coming together. Most notable is the tie between these artists and ABC’s cutting edge The Johnny Cash Show from 1969–71, filmed at the Ryman and showcasing socially aware, often-controversial artists.
COURTESY OF MART Y STUART AND THE CMHOF & MUS EUM
“Dylan and all the rest came in a politically charged time, and Nashville had a reputation as conservative—but the musicians were stylistically capable of producing any style of music,” says Gray. “We knew we wanted to talk about Dylan and everyone who came in his wake. There’s no question their work influenced so much, including 1970s Southern California country rock, like the Eagles and Americana and other styles today.”
Johnny Cash used this custom-made Grammer guitar on his TV show
He adds, “Bob Dylan has been analyzed to death, but this is a fresh angle to that story, never fully
Randy Scruggs, Earl Scruggs, Bob Dylan, and Gary Scruggs in Carmel, New York, c. 1972
explored.” The exhibit includes photos, film, and sixteen listening booths at the center, allowing visitors to sample the work of each of the featured session musicians. “These musicians were so versatile, so talented, they were the draw for Dylan and others.”
Among the artifacts featured are the 1950 Fender telecaster guitar Charlie Daniels played on Nashville Skyline, stage costumes by Manuel, Kenny Buttrey’s drum kit, Norbert Putnam’s 1965 electric base (played on hundreds of recordings), the original song manuscript for the Johnny Cash-Bob Dylan collaboration “Wanted Man,” and Gray’s favorite, a 1967 pedal steel guitar played by Lloyd Green, including on the Byrd’s 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Green, Gray points out, was playing for Tammy Wynette, Charlie Pride, and Johnny Paycheck at the same time.
Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats runs through December 31, 2016. For more information, visit www.countrymusichalloffame.org.
COURTESY OF RON CORNELIUS AND THE CMHOF & MUSEUM
These musical collaborations are celebrated in a new show at the Country Music Hall of Fame (CMHOF), Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats, which offers up images, artifacts, film, and recordings to showcase this extraordinary time in music history.
COURTESY OF SONY MUSIC ARCHIVES AND THE CMHOF & MUSEUM
n 1966, Bob Dylan released Blonde on Blonde, an album started in New York but recorded mostly in Nashville. It began a boom in collaboration between Nashville’s best session musicians, among them David Briggs, Kenny Buttrey, Fred Carter Jr., Charlie Daniels, Lloyd Green, Ben Keith, Norbert Putnam, Jerry Reed, and Buddy Spicher, and the greats of folk and rock music from the East and West Coasts and Europe—The Byrds, Joan Baez, Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel, Paul McCartney, and more. The results would be some of the greatest albums of the era.
Bob Johnston, Leonard Cohen, and Ron Cornelius, early 1970s
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n 1844 British artist J.M.W. Turner painted what is now a famous blurred train traveling through an obscured countryside in Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway. The new, highly distorted style represented the literal swiftness he witnessed as the machine moved past, but it also communicated the changing landscape around England brought on by the industrial revolution. The transition from old to new was happening rapidly, and artists of all kinds—painters, writers, musicians, dancers, photographers—were left to find a new visual vocabulary to represent the spirit of the time. Many of them found abstraction.
Nashville’s rapid population growth has brought about increased need for infrastructure. Buildings are being torn down daily and replaced with what we will all come to recognize as a new Nashville. With our skyline and neighborhoods in flux, we were reminded of Turner’s abstract approach to capturing his shifting society. The editorial team at Nashville Arts Magazine has decided to launch a photography series entitled Abstract Nashville in which we periodically send out a photographer to highlight abstract details of our city. Tom Keller (tpkeller2@juno.com), one of our previous photography competition winners, is the first to take on this assignment. We hope you enjoy his perspective. You’ve probably never seen these familiar spots in quite this way. Look at them now. They might be gone tomorrow.
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Favorites, Porcelain, stoneware, silver leaf on an acrylic base
Catherine Moberg Takes Trompe L’oeil Ceramics to a New Level Fool Your Eyes at Haynes Galleries Through April 11 by MiChelle Jones
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atherine Moberg worked with beloved trompe l’oeil ceramicist Sylvia Hyman for six years and effectively became the artist’s eyes and hands at the end. Now Moberg is ready to show her own work, making her local debut in the Objets d’Art show at Haynes Galleries. Moberg continues many of the traditions she began with Hyman, while adding her own subject interests and take on the medium. “Not everybody understands it,” Moberg said of trompe l’oeil sculpture. “They’ll say, well, this is just a basket of oranges.” But really the pieces are clever visual puns, 3-D narratives that sometimes incorporate hidden aspects visible only when peering inside a basket or box.
Moberg is using the same kiln she and Hyman used, now installed at the Clay Lady’s new space where she also has a studio. She received a lot of equipment from Hyman’s family and also finished Shards and Discard, the piece they were working on at the time of the elder artist’s death in 2012. Working solo after being part of a team hasn’t required a big adjustment, Moberg said. “I love to be in the studio; it’s quiet. I listen to NPR and just do my work.” She called her first piece simply Favorites. There are a few familiar motifs: a shoebox holding several items, including a silk-screened book and sheet music. Every item, however, has a special meaning for Moberg. The shoes were a favorite pair. The book of poems by
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e.e. cummings represents one that Moberg’s husband sent her while they were dating. The sheet music also reflects Moberg’s life. “Sylvia used her generation of music, Tin Pan Alley, so I wanted to do my generation,” Moberg said. “I did The Beatles’ ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Mr. Bojangles’.” Treasures includes a clay version of the 1950s Girl Scout box she used to store treasures in as a young girl. Paris features a small shopping bag from a famous Parisian patisserie, a city map, a Zagat guide, and a few macaroons. Moberg made dozens of macaroons while perfecting her recipe for shape and color, and they are placed around her house like tantalizing treats. A few in mint green and pastel pink are stacked on a porcelain saucer ringed in gold in Moberg’s treehouse-like living room. More are arranged vertically in front of a small dessert box on a sideboard in the dining room. Farm Fresh Free Range Eggs in a Rustic Bowl was inspired by an old Martha Stewart Living article about Aracuana eggs. Moberg used an egg mold from Hyman’s collection, as well as several she bought herself, and then experimented with stains to find the colors she wanted. The beautifully tinted creations, along with one golden egg, now fill a bowl that looks more wood-turned than made of hand-formed clay.
Hope: Whatever Evils Abroad, Hope Never Entirely Leaves Us, Porcelain, stoneware, and gold leaf with acrylic cover on a linen base
Eggs fill a small basket in another of Moberg’s pieces. To construct the container she first made and fired spokes, handle, and circle bottom and then assembled them as one would a straw basket. Her convincing basket technique is also on display in An Art That Is Performed on a Four-Count Rhythm Between Ten and Two O’Clock, a piece depicting a few essentials for fly fishing, including a tan hat trimmed with lures, a rod, and a basket containing a can of lures. Moberg created the hat using a template she made by disassembling an actual hat. “I call myself a maker of things, and in this exploration of clay I’m continuing to make things in this new medium,” Moberg said. “I enjoy that, and I enjoy having an idea pop into my head and figuring out how I can make it.” Catherine Moberg’s art will be on exhibit at Haynes Galleries as part of Objets d’Art through April 11. For more information about her, visit www.cathymoberg.com and www.haynesgalleries.com.
An Art That is Performed on a Four-Count Rhythm Between Ten and Two O’clock, Stoneware and porcelain
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THE EUROPEANS
The Ancestor, 2001, Chromogenic color print
Famed Photographer Tina Barney’s Anonymous Portraits Provide a Peek Into the Lives of the Rich and Famous Frist Center for the Visual Arts • Through May 10
T by Jerry Atnip
ina Barney began her photographic career in the mid 1970s capturing images of her family and friends in New York and New England. In the 1980s, she started using an 8 x 10 view camera and developed a more directed style of portraiture. Between 1996 and 2004, she traveled to Austria, Italy, England, Spain, France, and Germany to create her series The Europeans, a look at the inner circle of the Old World elite. Her work has been exhibited and collected by major institutions around the world, and she was the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1991 and the 2010 Lucie Award for Achievement in Portraiture.
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is presenting a selection of twenty-one photographs from The Europeans concluding on May 10. Jerry Atnip spoke with Tina Barney about the creation of this monumental body of work.
Jerry Atnip (JA): After years of successfully photographing your own world, you ventured overseas to begin The Europeans project. How did that come about? Tina Barney (TB): Well, I was getting sort of tired of photographing the same thing from 1977 to 1996. Some friends had suggested that I look into the American Academy in Rome. While I was there, people would say things like, “You should go to Austria because my husband’s sister is there, and she is married to an Italian.” A lot of times it would domino in that sort of way. I then got interested in going to other countries. JA: How orchestrated were the sessions? TB: Not as much as you would think. When I got to Europe, the people were much more formal. They weren’t intimidating, but there were intimidating situations physically: the immense rooms, the high ceilings, the formality and elegance of everything. There was no way I was going to push these people around. I also began to realize that they had a very strong sense of themselves and how they wanted to pose and how they wanted to display themselves.
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card or the family portrait where they are lined up in a row. There is a very typical look as to how that is done in America and possibly in Europe as well. JA: Did you allow your subjects to be participants in the process: the pose, the gestures, the expressions? TB: Sure. That’s what I mean when I say I got there and didn’t really tell them what to do. There is a fine line between directing them and not directing them and letting them be what they are. But I do need to tell them what to do for the sake of the composition and the lighting. There is a lot of direction in that respect. JA: Have you ever been surprised later by what you’ve captured? TB: Oh, sure. That’s the best part of photography. That’s the great pleasure and joy of it. It is sort of like magic when it happens. Father and Sons, 1996, Chromogenic color print
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JA: The Europeans series features the wealthy few. How do you think regular people view and relate to them? TB: I have no idea, but I think it’s kind of like them watching Downton Abbey. These people are symbols of what people work for or what they dream to be. JA: From a mentor viewpoint, what would you like to share with emerging photographers? TB: Put down your camera and look
around. Look at art and think.
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Tina Barney: The Europeans will be on exhibit at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts through May 10. For more information visit www.fristcenter.org.
The Antlers, 2001, Chromogenic color print
I’m not sure about this and I’ll never know, but I think this has a lot to do with the history of portraiture that had been handed down through the culture in European countries.
JA: So, you found that to be a difference between Europe and America? TB: I think that in the US not that many people have their portraits made. They’ll have snapshots made for the Christmas NashvilleArts.com
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Through May 10 Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House invites you to immerse yourself in Old World opulence through a curated collection of paintings, furniture and other treasures from the meticulously designed early-1700s home of England’s first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole. Next, explore the visual richness of aristocratic living in Tina Barney: The Europeans, a collection of the renowned American photographer’s journey through the elite inner circles of Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. HO U GHTO N HA LL P LATINU M SP ONSOR
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Exterior view of Houghton Hall, Norfolk, England. Photo by Nick McCann
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n last month’s column, I challenged myself to use the pieces and parts pictured in that article to create a new piece of furniture. Design is largely a matter of taste. I had to decide whether to create a modern piece, a period piece, or marry the old and the new to find a common ground. I chose the last, a repurposed use that is far from the original intent for its parts.
When I wrote last month’s column, I had no idea what the piece of furniture for this month’s column would look like. After several ideas landed in the trash can, I drew a piece that achieved all my design goals. The small antique pieces evoke the various periods that they were originally created in. The new case houses the period elements inside a modern component. The piece is also repurposed, as the elements are no longer associated with their original utility.
The finished piece is a credenza. I used a wooden positive mold as a drawer pull and plumbing hardware as a drawer pull. I sliced a stair spindle in two to use it as a corner treatment. There are cornice blocks used as drawer fronts as well as the front of a National cash register and a carved Chinese panel. Three of the drawers are used as found. I used an ornate, carved table leg as panel decoration. In an effort to maintain the theme of an eclectic mix, I
used both old and new wood to create some of the drawers. The new, exotic veneers that I chose would not have been available when their companion hardware pieces were created. This helps achieve the common ground I was hoping to achieve.
My biggest challenge was in editing all the exciting choices. There were so many fantastic elements that could be created into drawer fronts. The same was true with the wide range of interesting choices for drawer pulls. As I started to put it all together, it became clear that the complex drawer fronts needed a tame pull, and vice versa. There was too much competition between the two. One has to dominate in order to pull off the design. So, the biggest difficulty was in restraining myself from using too many pieces and parts. In truth, this provided the opportunity to showcase some beautifully simple pieces of wood, both old and new.
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I used a pallet-knife painted finish on the case and a simple, slab top. This tied it all together and gave the old elements a clean, new surface from which to shine. The result of this past month’s work can be seen in the following photos. For more infor mation about Rusty Wolfe please visit www.finerthingsgallerynasvhille.com.
Rusty Wolfe is a painter, sculptor, furniture designer, and entrepreneur. His works are available at fine art galleries around the country and locally at Finer Things.
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en individuals who represent the best in arts and culture in Tennessee were given the 2015 Governor’s Arts Awards during a ceremony at the Tennessee Executive Residence Conservation Hall last month.
Distinguished Artist Awards went to country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn, opera singer Mary Costa, blues singer-songwriter B.B. King, gospel musician Dr. Bobby Jones, and novelist Cormac McCarthy. This award is reserved for Tennessee artists of exceptional talent and creativity who have influenced directions, trends, and aesthetic practices on a state and national level.
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“We want to congratulate the recipients for their incredible work adding to the rich cultural heritage of Tennessee,” Governor Haslam said. “Their dedication, leadership, and contributions to the arts have enhanced our way of life and will continue to influence Tennesseans for many years to come.”
Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle
Folklife Heritage Awards were presented to Bill Henry, a whittler and woodworker, and Jack Martin, a fourth generation broom maker and owner of Hockaday Handmade Brooms. The award honors significant achievements within art forms that are rooted in the traditional or ethnic cultures of Tennessee.
Arts Leadership Award recipients were Bill May, Executive Director of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Scott Niswonger, a philanthropist and champion of the arts, and Stax Museum of American Soul Music. This accolade goes to individuals and organizations that advance the value of the arts in Tennessee communities.
Established in 1971, the Governor’s Arts Awards is produced by the Tennessee Arts Commission, the state arts agency whose mission is to cultivate the arts for Tennesseans and their communities. Visit www.tnartseducation.org/events/2015-governors-arts-awards for more information on the 2015 Governor’s Arts Awards winners.
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Danny Broadway Rhythm and Hues All the Way from Memphis
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anny Broadway is observant and gracious. Even as we meet during one of his regular travels between the landscapes of Memphis and the city streets of Nashville, he’s generous with his time as an artist and thoughtful about his work and its role in the general community and greater art conversation. In much of his work, Broadway seeks the universal language of color and our connection to natural forms, symbolic hues, and atmospheric influences. Drawn to the outdoors, Broadway’s fascination with landscape follows through his work, whether as the main focus through memory explorations, as a backdrop for his figurative works, or even in the smallest foundations for color choices. “When it’s winter, my palette becomes colder—blues, whites—and when it warms up, my work also responds to those changes.”
The seasonal experience and Broadway’s colorful approach create a base language for a universal connection, and his sweeping hues and emblematic figures engage a drama of shared memory, drawing from a pool of universal history and symbolism. “I work from history, from beauty,” says Broadway, “to honor what happened and re-envision it.” Frequently he is drawn to photographic images that spark a personal connection with his own past, and his intense process of drawing, painting, and editing creates not just a conceptual sense of archaeological time, but a textural process of charcoal, paint, stamps, and patterns that reflects the layers of history and the evidence of time passing. “Often I try to capture a sense of their everyday lives, to preserve the values and experiences I see within the photos and within my own life.” In modernizing these transformative
The Meeting, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 48”
images—his figures are ambiguous and stylized, evoking an archetypal everyman—Broadway explores his own family stories, childhood memories, and personal symbols through a larger historical narrative, while leaving room for others to come into the story in their own interpretations.
Throughout his visual explorations, Broadway strives for the personal, intimate connection. “The ideal purpose of the work is that when someone looks at it, I imagine they would create their own title for it and bring in their own story. As an artist, if you’re willing to listen, people can give you a better meaning.” This openness to the audience is important, stresses Broadway, who speaks deeply of the need for artists to invite dialogue with audiences in order for them to create a sense of ownership, value, and community about art-making. “You invite others into the conversation, and it becomes more interesting. I’m very conscious of the conversations happening around me.” Bridging into a universal dialogue also drives his gallery, Broadway Studios, to serve as a creative community hub, facilitating area conversation through independent film screenings, classes, and connective events, and through his diverse painting series, he strives to connect viewers to the similarities between all of us. “I want a person to look at the work and connect with it, regardless of who they are or where they came from. We are all human; we all have the same feelings. As artists, we have a responsibility to document these emotions and connections.”
Going Home, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 48”
View more of Broadway’s work online at www.dannybroadway.com; visit him in Memphis at Broadway Studios, or see his work in person at abrasiveMedia on April 4 during Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston, www.am-wh.com.
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It’s an exciting time for Nashville Theatre. New companies are opening in and around Nashville all the time, and everything from experimental scripts to the classics is getting a fresh treatment and a brand new understanding. Meanwhile, many of the
ACT 1’s first season in December of 1989 consisted of T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral in association with the Ninth Avenue Players at Christ Episcopal. In 2015, a hundred productions later, ACT 1 continues to receive high praise from critics and audience members alike, and its productions and performers are recipients of multiple prizes and awards. They even brought to their stage the talents of award winning Tricia Cast (The Young and the Restless) for the 2008 production of Born Yesterday.
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grand guard like ACT 1 continue year after year (25-plus now) to lead the way. Season after season they captivate us with first-class productions of remarkable plays and musicals, both new and old.
Daddy’s Dyin’ (Who’s Got the Will?), January 2015 COURTESY OF ACT I
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n talking with the dedicated artists at ACT 1 (Artists’ Cooperative Theatre) the first thing you realize is that they simply love the theatre, and they want everybody else to love it too. To them, it’s not only about educating the public to all of the possibilities under the lights, but also introducing the next generation of theatre artists to the history and scale of the greatest form of entertainment we have to offer, the Theatre.
The thing I love about ACT I is the thing I love about theatre; you have the diversity that melts away the shackles that bind us in everyday life.
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The Night of the Iguana, March 2011
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, March 2010
Over the years ACT 1 has presented classic dramas like King Lear, Oedipus Tyrannous, and A Doll’s House; wonderful historical plays like The Crucible, Inherit the Wind, and The Miracle Worker; modern classics like A Streetcar Named Desire, Biloxi Blues, and To Kill a Mockingbird; and Pulitzer Prize-winning shows such as The Shadow Box, The Subject Was Roses, and Anna and the Tropics. They are equally proud to have continued to include all aspects of theatre, including comedies like Daddy’s Dyin’: Who’s Got the Will?, Blythe Spirit, and Hay Fever, as well as great musicals/operettas such as Hair, Pirates of Penzance, and Company.
accepted to be anyone and to take risks. ACT 1 encourages this through the wide range of comedies and dramas. ACT 1 allows us, as directors and actors, to push the envelope.” In May, ACT 1 stays current with the award winning Take Me Out, written by Richard Greenberg and directed by Joy Tilley Perryman. Take Me Out deals with the public announcement that star player Darren Lemming is gay. “I am extremely interested in exploring this power of names,” says Perryman. “Why the things we call ourselves matter so much. White, black, gay, straight, butch, femme, smart, dull, popular, introvert. What do all these words mean anyway? I also want to make audience members squirm a bit. “ACT 1 and all of their associated artists believe that the most important functions of theatre are to describe and comment upon the human condition, to examine the tragedy and comedy of what we are, and perhaps to suggest what we ought to become. Drama, which evolves out of this function, fulfills the highest purpose of theatre. It provides for the type of meaningful examination that must survive as a major part of theatre. We are proud to continue to embrace topics like bigotry, homosexuality, sexism, mental illness, and grief.” ACT 1 (Artists’ Cooperative Theatre) – It’s where to go to love theatre. Take Me Out runs May 1–9 at the Darkhorse Theater. Tickets are available at www.ACT1online.com. Thursdays and Sundays, high school students with IDs get in free, as ACT 1 feels that encouraging our youth to attend productions may inspire them to love the theatre. Jim Reyland’s STAND, starring Barry Scott and Chip Arnold and voted Best New Play by the Scene in 2013, returns to TPAC September 24–27 to kick off its HCA National Tour. www.writersstage.com
David McGinnis has been involved with ACT 1 for the past fifteen years and has directed several successful shows. “In the theatre, it’s
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ctors Bridge Ensemble has commissioned Artistic Director Vali Forrister and well-known local playwright Cynthia Harris to create a new play based on oral histories of women who have come to Nashville to reinvent themselves. The concept grew out of conversations between Harris and Forrister about how Nashville’s current “IT City” status attracts newcomers looking for a fresh start at life. Harris and Forrister seek stories from women of all ages, races, faiths, cultures, sexual identities, gender expression, and socio-economic backgrounds. The script that is created from these interviews will receive its world premiere production as part of Actors Bridge Ensemble’s 20th Anniversary Season in 2016. Woven together, these stories will create a rich tapestry of life experiences to inspire audiences of all backgrounds and help fulfill the Actors Bridge mission to create new work that encourages Nashville to care more about our neighbors and ourselves. The two are currently recruiting women interested in being interviewed as part of the project. If you have a story, a pre-interview survey is available online at www.goo.gl/mRJUpR.
Playwright Cynthia Harris and Artistic Director Vali Forrister
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POETRY IN MOTION CELEBRATES YOUTH POETS ON CITY BUSES PHOTOGRAPH BY ABBY WHIS ENANT
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ashville’s participation in the national Poetry in Motion® program gives a platform for Metropolitan Transit Authority’s (MTA’s) youth ridership to have a voice through poetry and features their work as public art to enhance the bus-riding experience for the city’s 800,000 monthly riders. Created in 1992 by the Poetry Society of America, Poetry in Motion® was designed to showcase classic and contemporary poetry in public transit vehicles. The program has appeared in more than thirty cities, including Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City, and made its Nashville debut in 2012.
This April advertising spaces in all city buses will be transformed into mobile galleries as the Metro Nashville Arts Commission (Metro Arts) partners with MTA to bring the Poetry in Motion® program here for the fourth year.
Metro Arts also engaged the MTA Youth Action Team to get involved by co-sponsoring a contest for Nashville’s youth poets, ages 13–17, to submit entries in response to the theme “Where Are You Going?”
MTA youth action team, Students from left to right: Vincent Harris, Vera Aluoch, Jamal Quarles, Dominique Polk, Okey Ohanaka, Al’Tashia Jordan, and Carsan Parham (not pictured: Braxton Coleman)
and 30 Days of Transit. Metro Arts proudly congratulates the following poets: Eboni Croney, Age 17, Nashville School of the Arts Quincy Harris, Age 14, Hunters Lane High School Andrew Pelham, Age 13, Meigs Academic Magnet Middle School Aidan Sullivan, Age 17, Hume-Fogg High School Taleya Turner, Age 15, Hillwood High School Original works are also being featured by Nashville’s first Youth Poet Laureate Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay and finalists Cassidy Martin and Lemuel Robertson. The custom posters displaying the poems were designed by Hannah Burchard, a student at Nossi College of Art.
Led by Oasis Center, the Youth Action Team is an organized group of diverse high school students who use their voice and skills to increase youth ridership for Nashville MTA by serving as ambassadors, helping identify key transportation issues, developing action strategies for change, and promoting youth transportation independence.
Youth Action Team representative Jamal Quarles commented, “We felt the Poetry in Motion® program would be a fun way to get youth interested and involved in bus-related activities. We also felt those who participated and/or won the contest would be inclined to ride the bus to see their poetry displayed. We hoped they would then inform their friends and family about their poetry being on some of the buses, which would also give them incentive to ride.”
In celebration of 30 Days of Transit, an awareness-building campaign for public transit each April, Transit Now Nashville is presenting a community fair at the Nashville Farmer’s Market in partnership with Team Green, Oasis Center, Metro Arts, and groups promoting health and wellness. At this free, family-friendly event attendees will have an opportunity to hear participants in the Poetry in Motion® program perform their pieces live. The winning poems can be viewed on www.artsnashville.org, along with more information about the Poetry in Motion® program and the transit event.
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STEAM: THE ADVENTURE IS NOW by Sandra Harris
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Robyn Sellers, the Art2STEM Coordinator for Adventure Science Center, is enthusiastic when she talks about STEAM: “Art2STEM incorporates the arts into the programming—creating STEAM. The approach we take is one of discovery. We aim to unveil how the arts are embedded in STEM subjects, projects, and careers, rather than focus on each separately. For example, our E-Waste Art Module begins with a bundle of used electronics, and we deconstruct them using screwdrivers, wrenches, pliers, etc. We discuss what e-waste is and how it’s a worldwide concern. Students sort through the electronics and set aside parts for use in their projects, then design a functional artifact using those parts. The finished product is an E-waste Art piece to be proudly displayed. The group also visits a local business to meet professionals employing their artistic skills in STEAM careers. Meeting professionals
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hat’s the latest acronym to buzz its way into our minds? STEAM! That stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. Some places to find STEAM in our community? See any of Adventure S c i e n c e C e n t e r ’s f i v e A r t 2 S T EM * after-school clubs (at Bailey, Isaac Litton, John Early, Thurgood Marshall, and West End middle schools) as they weave the Arts into their programs—creating STEAM.
Adventure Science Center’s Art2STEM clubs visit Griffin Technology for real-world engagement with STEAM professionals
in the workplace gives students experience in how the skills they are learning are being utilized.”
where participants learned more about how electricity powers the homes and buildings in Nashville.
Club leaders plan, create, and implement modules that provide students with real-world engagement. The Art2STEM club at Thurgood Marshall Middle School, led by Dr. Deborah L. Smith, recently completed a few sessions that focused on simple circuits. Using cardboard boxes, students designed buildings based on a holiday theme. They also added lights that were powered by a circuit inside their buildings. The series culminated with a field trip to Nashville Electric Service
Art teacher Anna Torrence guided the Art2STEM club at Isaac Litton Middle School through a project centered on photography. “It is the perfect blend of science and art,” she commented. Club members created pinhole cameras and explored digital photography and digital editing. They also took a field trip to surrounding parks (like Shelby Park and the walking bridge at Cumberland Park) to take pictures. And for the big finish, Ms. Torrence led the students through a module focused on the art of lighting. From there, the students created their own photo studio and used their do-it-yourself (DIY) lighting to take photos for the prom!
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The goal of Art2STEM is to increase the number of students enrolling in STEM-focused Academies, which are offered in many MNPS high schools. Participation is free. For more information, contact Robyn Sellers (rsellers@adventuresci.org).
The Art2STEM club from Thurgood Marshall Middle School on a field trip to Nashville Electric Service
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*Art2STEM originated as a grant from the National Science Foundation to Alignment Nashville; with community partners Adventure Science Center, MNPS, PENCIL Foundation, Tennessee Tech University, and Edvantia. It is now operated by Adventure Science Center in collaboration with Metro Nashville Public Schools. Current funders: Dan & Margaret Maddox Charitable Fund, Women in Technology of Tennessee.
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VSA TENNESSEE GOES TO WASHINGTON by Rebecca Pierce | Photography by Tiffani Bing
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SA Tennessee is a statewide nonprofit that provides opportunities for people with disabilities to participate in the arts. The organization is an Affiliate of VSA International, which is a program of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts created by former Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith. This summer, during a reception at the United States Capitol, VSA Tennessee will present to Ambassador Smith an International Quilt made by people with disabilities from all over the world. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of VSA International, which coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, VSA Tennessee, led by Executive Director Lori Kissinger, coordinated an International Art Exchange involving VSA affiliates in 38 countries and 36 states. Since last autumn these affiliates have partnered with one another in the creation of 40 art projects. For example, VSA Tennessee facilitated a program in which East Tennesseans with autism spectrum disorders and youth selected by the Vietnam Autism Network exchanged letters and photographs of their local mountains.
“When the idea came up there were so many pieces and details to coordinate. Volunteers from several departments at MTSU and our lead intern, Hannah Holladay, an Organizational Communication major, really helped pull things together. Without MTSU this wouldn’t have happened,” Kissinger explained. The International Quilt will be on display at the US State Department on the “walk of the Secretary of State” in June and July. During a reception at the Capitol on July 26, it will be presented to Ambassador Smith. Visit www.kennedy-center.org/education/vsa for more information on VSA International. For more information on VSA Tennessee, visit www.vsatn.org.
All of the lesson plans, photos, and videos that result from the various exchanges will be compiled into a repository website that will be launched publicly 40 days prior to the International Celebration, which takes place in Washington, DC, in July. “These 40 programs have been incredible, and there have been so many fun and neat side stories coming out of the various activities—people making connections and people finding talents they didn’t know they had,” marveled Kissinger, who is also an Instructor in the Department of Communication and Organizational Communication at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). For the final and largest project, 74 VSA Affiliates from all over the world worked together to make a quilt for Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith. Each country or state created their own quilt square and sent it to VSA Tennessee. In late February the quilt was sewn together by individuals with disabilities, under the direction of Professor Lauren Rudd and the MTSU Human Sciences Department. 102 | April 2015 NashvilleArts.com
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Let’s take a moment to talk about a clear, streamlined vision of an evening. Picture a line of transparent dining tables, abutted like glassy boxcars on a train, running down the heart of the Laura Turner Concert Hall floor. A stage whose “backdrop” consists of vertical video panels flashing monochromatic photos of party guests. A featured wall of boxwood, inset with the benefit’s logo.
Anne Elizabeth McIntosh and Vicki Horne
Larry and Elizabeth Papel
But the black-tie gala wasn’t just about charm and good looks: The entertainment was absolutely spot on. Nashville Ballet company dancer C hr istopher S t uar t choreographed original works performed by the corps dancers. The pieces were set to music performed live on stage by Clare Bowen of ABC’s Nashville and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member John Oates. Nashville Ballet CEO Paul Vasterling was clearly pleased as punch by the result.
Worth noting is that, in addition to 400 guests plus 20 Dance Committee members for the $600 per person main party, the evening drew nearly 220 to its Late Party. That event had a $125 tariff and featured cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a seat at the performance.
John and Nancy Cheadle
Chair men Melissa Mahanes and Kerri Cavanaugh pulled off a strikingly beautiful evening on March 7 at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center where hundreds enjoyed an evening of fine dining and dance to support Nashville Ballet education programming.
“We wanted to do something fresh and different—especially after the winter we’ve had!—and have a modern garden party with some classic elements,” Mahanes said. Chairman Melissa Mahanes with husband David Mahanes
She noted that they collaborated with Syzygy, an events company based in the DC area.
Bravo to Nashville Ballet, which appears to have locked on—with consistency—to a formula that is appealing to the ever-elusive Snappy Young Things. Meta events associated with this, the 26th annual Ballet Ball, included a festive party for ladies, gents, and table hosts committees in early February at Twelve|Twelve in The Gulch.
The chairs based their concept on the color green, then worked with moss, boxwood, glass, and acrylic to capture a clean, verdant, and modern look.
Nashville’s Mark O’Br yan worked within a green-and-white palette of tulips, ranunculus, ferns, and hydrangea, which were tucked into plate glass containers.
Martha Vester, Clare Bowen, and Brandon Young
Sandra Lipman with living statue
That event was followed by an ice-stormrescheduled Patrons Party at Corinne and Brock
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Aimee and John Oates
Steve Sirls and Trey Lipman
Donnie and Elizabeth Nichols with Barby and Govan White
Kidd’s home in late February. Joining the Kidds and chairs were keen Ballet supporters, including Nancy and John Cheadle, Laurie and Steven Eskind, David Mahanes, Mike Schlosser, Jennifer and Gus Puryear, Lisa and Dan Slipkovich, Dallas and Fleming Wilt, Sharon and Todd Sandahl, Josephine and John Smithwick, Christy and Brian Waller, Shea and Doug Ghertner, Sarah and Rick Reisner, Elaina and Ronnie Scott, Barbara and Rick Turner, and Margie and Bert Dale.
Elizabeth James and Jay Joyner
Michelle and Stephen Frohsin and Monica Cintado-Scokin
Vivian and Luis Fernandez
Patrick and Ellen McIntyre with Meera Ballal and Seenu Reddy
Amber Humphrey, Amanda Ragle, Beth West, and Allison Smith
Lucie Carroll, Nick and Libby Sieveking
Rosemary and John Dickerson
swan ball design reveal Photography by Jeremy Ryan
“And I am tellin’ you I AM goin’….” In case you haven’t heard, Swan Ball 2015 is going to be a doozy with “Dreamgirl” herself Jennifer Hudson as the evening’s entertainment. Leave it to chic and popular SB chairmen Kathleen Estes and Barby White to go all out for their iteration of the annual white-tie ball. It’s scheduled for June 6 this year.
The hot skinny on the show attracted plenty of “oohs” and “ahhs” from committee members who recently gathered at Stephanie and John Ingram’s house for the annual Swan Ball Unveiling Party. On top of the Hudson news, the chairs divulged that New York-based event maestro David Stark is designing the evening using the theme “Timeless Elegance.”
Swan Ball Chairmen Kathleen Estes and Barby White
Stephanie Ingram and David Stark
Other details: Paolo Costagli is the jeweler; Kristin Winston is catering, and The Atlanta All-Stars is the dance band.
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Arts Worth Watching Spring is here (finally) and we’re showering you with excellent programming. We’ll bring you music, take you around the world, and explore Tennessee history with a new NPT original documentary.
BROADWAY AND BEYOND
AN NPT ORIGINAL We’re premiering Reconstruction: A Moment in the Sun, the latest in our Tennessee Civil War 150 documentary series, Thursday, April 23, at 8 p.m. This NPT original production covers the turbulent post-Civil War years and features reenactments and interviews with acclaimed historians.
This month’s music offerings cover a lot of stylistic territory. Friday, April 3, at 8 p.m., Live from Lincoln Center presents Billy Porter: Broadway & Soul. The Kinky Boots star performs songs from his latest album and the various genres that inspired him. At 9 p.m. that night, Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert airs on Great Performances. The platinum-haired singer performs selections from The Great American Songbook and Nostalgia, her latest album. Expect to hear “I Put a Spell on You,” the song Lennox nailed during her 2015 Grammy appearance with Hozier. Live from Lincoln Center showcases another versatile talent Saturday, April 10, at 8 p.m. In Norm Lewis: Who Am I? the Broadway and TV actor (Phantom of the Opera, Scandal) sings operatic, gospel, and cabaret selections.
Globe Trekker’s 14th season features new episodes set in Asia and Europe. Saturday, April 11, at 11 p.m., Zay Harding explores Dharavi, the large slum made famous by the movie Slumdog Millionaire, then later checks into the swanky Taj Palace Hotel. He also tries pole yoga and meets Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson. Megan McCormick visits several Polish cities in the episode airing Saturday, April 18, at 11 p.m. Harding is back Saturday, April 25, at 11 p.m. to brave Vietnam’s rail system with stops in Hanoi, Hue, the DMZ, and Ho Chi Minh City. Closer to home, The National Mall – America’s Front Yard, chronicles the history and symbolism of the memorial-lined expanse at the heart of our nation’s capital. This is the first in a series of documentaries about American institutions and airs Tuesday, April 21, at 7 p.m.
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Local ties include Zac Brown Band’s appearance on Live from the Artists Den Friday, April 24, at 11 p.m. and Jack White’s on Austin City Limits Thursday, April 29, at 11 p.m.
CLASSICAL MUSIC AND DANCE
Hampton Court Palace (from Inside the Court of Henry VIII)
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There’s more than just great music in American Masters – Jascha Heifetz: God’s Fiddler. There’s also incredible 16-mm footage of Heifetz’s apartment in St. Jascha Heifetz Petersburg just before caricature by the Russian Revolution, Al Hirschfeld his early social life in New York City, and his travels throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Japan. A i r i n g Fr i d a y, April 17, at 8 p.m., this profile of Heifetz includes interviews with Itzhak Perlman and other famed musicians.
America’s Ballroom Challenge, a three-week comprehensive look at competitive dancing, begins this month. Watch the 25 featured couples waltz, tango, cha-cha, and mambo Friday, April 24, at 8 p.m.
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Tony and Grammy Award winner Billy Porter, star of the Broadway hit Kinky Boots, performs songs from his latest album and other favorites
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For fans of historical travel we have Inside the Court of Henry VIII airing Tuesday, April 7, at 8 p.m. The program visits the castles and palaces where Henry lived and uses art and other relics to tell the story of a life filled with power, intrigue—and matrimony! Before you watch this, be sure to tune in Sunday, April 5, at 9 p.m. for the premiere of Wolf Hall, a new series based on Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels. Going back even further in time, historian Jonathan Phillips traces the development of Christianity in Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine, beginning Sunday, April 5, at 10 p.m. Stunning scenery and centuries-old masterpieces are featured in the six-part series that takes viewers from Jerusalem to Constantinople. We hope you’ll support quality public television this April. Go to www.wnpt.org and click on the “donate” button.
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am Sid the Science Kid Peg + Cat Curious George Curious George Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Word World Sesame Street Tennessee’s Wild Side TN Capitol Report (April 26) Volunteer Gardener Tennessee Crossroads Nature Washington Week with Gwen Ifill noon To the Contrary pm The McLaughlin Group Curious Traveler Family Travel Globe Trekker California’s Gold Wild Photo Adventures America’s Heartland Rick Steves’ Europe Antiques Roadshow PBS NewsHour Weekend pm Charlie Rose: The Week
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Masterpiece Wolf Hall Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis portray Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, respectively, in this adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker-prize-winning novels. #wolfhall Sunday nights beginning April 5 9:00 pm
Rory Kennedy’s Oscar-nominated documentary about the final days of the Vietnam War. #VietnamPBS Tuesday, April 28 8:00 pm
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7:00 Antiques Roadshow Birmingham, Hour 3. 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Biloxi, Hour 1. 9:00 Independent Lens The Homestretch. Three smart, ambitious Chicago teens brave frigid winters, high school pressures and homelessness as they fight to build a future. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 In Spite of Darkness: A Spiritual Encounter with Auschwitz
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7:00 Call the Midwife Season 4, Episode 3. A malnourished pregnant woman disappears. 8:00 Mr. Selfridge on Masterpiece Season 3, Episode 3. Agnes and Henri call it quits; Harry and Nancy reach an understanding. 9:00 Wolf Hall Episode 2. 10:00 Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine 11:00 Tavis Smiley 11:30 Scully/The World Show
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7:00 Twice Born – Stories from the Special Delivery Unit A close-up look at spinal surgery on a baby in the womb. 8:00 Inside the Court of Henry VIII Danger and intrigue in the court of England’s most famous king. 9:00 Frontline The Trouble w/Chicken. Dangerous pathogens in meat. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine
Nature Animal Homes Wednesdays, April 8 - 22 7:00 pm
7:00 Antiques Roadshow Birmingham, Hour 2. 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Billings, Hour 3. 9:00 Independent Lens Little Hope Was Arson. Ten East Texas church burnings in 2010. 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies – A Conversation Ken Burns and Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee with Katie Couric.
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7:00 Call the Midwife Season 4, Episode 2. New nurse Phyllis Crane has trouble fitting in. 8:00 Mr. Selfridge on Masterpiece Season 3, Episode 2. Harry attends a fateful auction. 9:00 Wolf Hall Episode 1. Cardinal Wolsey is stripped of his powers. 10:00 Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine 11:00 Tavis Smiley 11:30 Scully/The World Show
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7:00 Nature Animal Homes: The Nest. The variation of materials and styles in bird nests. 8:00 NOVA Emperor’s Ghost Army. NOVA tests the power of weapons buried with the terracotta army of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di. 9:00 Nazi Mega Weapons Hitler’s Megaships. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Austin City Limits
7:00 NOVA Alien Planets Revealed. How NASA’s Kepler telescope looks for planets. 8:00 Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies Finding the Achilles Heel. The complexity of the cancer cell; a NASCAR mechanic and a 6-year-old receive pioneering immunotherapy treatments. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Austin City Limits
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7:00 Tennessee Crossroads 7:30 Volunteer Gardener 8:00 Jewel in the Crown The Towers of Silence. 9:00 Midsomer Murders Destroying Angel, Part 1. A hotel owner’s death sets off a series of untimely ends for his heirs. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine Will Barry Go Septic? 11:00 No Evidence of Disease Oncology surgeons form a rock band.
7:00 Tennessee Crossroads 7:30 Volunteer Gardener 8:00 Jewel in the Crown The Day of the Scorpion. 9:00 Midsomer Murders Garden of Death, Part 2. The murders pile up pending the demolition of a memorial garden. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine The Pony Set. 11:00 Southern Belle The 1861 Athenaeum Girls’ School in Columbia, Tenn.
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10 7:00 Music City Roots: Live from the Loveless Cafe Southern spoken word artist Minton Spark & Deer Tick. 8:00 Live from Lincoln Center Norm Lewis: Who Am I? The Phantom of the Opera and “Scandal” star sings opera, cabaret and gospel. 9:00 International Jazz Day 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Front and Center
7:00 Music City Roots: Live from the Loveless Café Blues veteran Bobby Rush and the North Mississippi All-Stars. 8:00 Live from Lincoln Center Tony- and Grammy-winner Billy Porter of Broadway hit Kinky Boots. 9:00 Great Performances Annie Lennox: Nostalgia Live in Concert. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Front and Center The Fray.
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7:00 Lawrence Welk Show Mardi Gras. 8:00 Keeping Appearances 8:30 Brian Wilson and Friends: A Soundstage Special Event The Beach Boys cofounder performs classics and songs from his new album. 9:30 Aging Matters: The Economics of Aging 10:30 Music Voyager Memphis Mojo. A musical tour of Memphis. 11:00 Globe Trekker Mumbai City Guide.
7:00 Lawrence Welk Show Salute to Sinatra. 8:00 Keeping Appearances 8:30 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You 10:30 Music Voyager Eastern Tennessee: Cradle of Country Music. 11:00 Globe Trekker Around the World – Pacific Journeys: Tonga to New Caledonia. Zay makes stops in the independent Kingdom of Tonga, Fiji and New Caledonia.
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7:00 Call the Midwife Season 4, Episode 5. A Christian Science couple refuses medicine for their newborn. 8:00 Mr. Selfridge on Masterpiece Season 3, Episode 5. Gordon skirts scandal. 9:00 Wolf Hall Episode 4. Cromwell puts pressure on the nobility and the church. 10:00 Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine 11:00 Tavis Smiley 11:30 Scully/The World Show
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7:00 Call the Midwife Season 4, Episode 4. Sister Winifred sees Poplar’s seedy side. 8:00 Mr. Selfridge on Masterpiece Season 3, Episode 4. Princess Marie acts. 9:00 Wolf Hall Episode 3. It falls to Cromwell to arrange a marriage between the king and Anne Boleyn. 10:00 Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine 11:00 Tavis Smiley 11:30 Scully/The World Show
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NOVA The Great Math Mystery Wednesday, April 15 8:00 pm
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7:00 Nature Animal Homes: Animal Cities. Animal communities. 8:00 NOVA Invisible Universe Revealed. A 25th-anniversary look at the Hubble Space Telescope. 9:00 Nazi Mega Weapons The Siegfried Line. One of the greatest fortifications of all times. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Austin City Limits. The Shins/Dr. Dog.
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7:00 Tennessee Crossroads 7:30 Volunteer Gardener 8:00 Jewel in the Crown Travelling Companions. 9:00 Midsomer Murders Electric Vendetta, Part 2. Barnaby deals with more odd murders. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine Getting Barry’s Goat. 11:00 Pulling Out All the Stops Young musicians vying for first place in the Longwood Gardens Organ Competition.
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7:00 Lawrence Welk Show Irish Show. 8:00 Keeping Appearances 8:30 Masterpiece Mystery! Grantchester Part 3. A woman dies after telling Sidney someone wants her dead. 9:30 Masterpiece Mystery! Grantchester Part 4. A murder reveals the depths of homophobia in Cambridge. 10:30 Music Voyager Tennessee Special. 11:00 Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Vietnam.
America’a Ballroom Challenge Fridays, April 24 - May 8 8:00 pm
7:00 Music City Roots: Live from the Loveless Cafe Honoring country icon Eddy Arnold. 8:00 America’s Ballroom Challenge International Standard and International Latin. 9:00 Voces on PBS El Poeta. Mexican poet Javier Sicilia started an international peace movement. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Live from Artists Den The Alabama Shakes.
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7:00 Antiques Roadshow Santa Clara, Hour 3. 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Biloxi, Hour 3. 9:00 Independent Lens Kumu Hina. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine The Missing Bus of Mrs. Avery. 11:00 Sand Creek Massacre The 1864 attack on Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians in the Southwestern Colorado Territory is revisited through oral histories.
7:00 Day the ’60s Died A 45th-anniversary look at May 4, 1970, the day four students were shot dead at Kent State. 8:00 Last Days in Vietnam: American Experience Rory Kennedy’s Oscarnominated film about the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:30 Standing on Sacred Ground Islands of Sanctuary. Hawaii and Australia.
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7:00 Antiques Roadshow Santa Clara, Hour 2. 8:00 The Draft How the draft divided American society in the 1960s and ’70s. 9:00 Dick Cavett’s Vietnam Interviews from the iconic Dick Cavett Show with archival footage and material from the National Archives. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:30 Reconstruction: A Moment in the Sun TN Civil War 150
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7:00 The National Mall – America’s Front Yard 8:00 My Lai: American Experience The 1968 My Lai Massacre of 300 unarmed civilians by a company of American soldiers. 9:00 Frontline American Terrorist. An investigation of David Coleman Headley. 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Standing on Sacred Ground Fire and Ice.
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So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed JON RONSON In the age of social media, a small mistake can get blown up way beyond proportion as outrage sparks and spreads instantly throughout the online mob. (Ever seen a celebrity get attacked on Twitter?) What does that shaming behavior say about humanity? And what does it do to the person who gets shamed? Is it far too easy to ruin lives these days? From the internationally bestselling author of The Psychopath Test comes this fascinating, unique—even funny—study of public shaming and how it has evolved over time. Meet Ronson at Parnassus on April 14.
Vanderbilt Symphonic Choir and Vanderbilt Oratorio Orchestra Tucker Biddlecombe, conductor With Amy Jarman, soprano, Thomas Mulder (Blair ‘12), tenor, and Jonathan Retzlaff, lyric baritone
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Bunny Williams on Garden Style BUNNY WILLIAMS In 1998, Bunny Williams published a book called On Garden Style, which established her as an expert in garden design. In this new volume—Bunny Williams on Garden Style—Williams offers a glimpse into some of the most brilliantly designed gardens on earth. Pleasant to look at for its gorgeous photography and useful for Williams’s plant lists, reading guide, and tips on how to design garden space that suits your personal taste, this book is a must-have for anyone who loves flowers, trees, gardening, or landscape design.
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hat’s in a name? Well, a lot, if you’re counting syllables. There’s Evangelina and Caledonia. Then there’s Adelicia, as in Adelicia Acklen, the famous plantation owner-socialite who lived in Nashville in the 1800s. But my all-time favorite five-syllable name is Andromedia. I have heard of only one person named Andromedia, and that was Lee Noel’s mother. Lee was a fellow student at Vanderbilt who played halfback on the football team. Lee still lives in Nashville, and every now and then I run into him at the Produce Place. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANTHONY SCARLATI
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Multi-syllable names seem to be a Southern phenomenon. I doubt you’ll find any Adelicias or Andromedias north of the Mason-Dixon line. Where I come from in South Carolina, people love multi-syllable names so much they often will take a one-syllable name like George, and, by the sheer will of their Southern accents, stretch it out into four syllables—Gee-AW-wad-juh. I didn’t actually meet Andromedia Noel until years after I graduated from Vanderbilt. I had just renovated a house, and my mother had come to Nashville for a visit. As it turned out, Todd Jones was being installed as the new minister at the First Presbyterian Church on Franklin Road. Mother and Todd were close friends, since Todd had previously been minister at my family’s First Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg. This was 2002. I was fifty-three years old. By then, Mother had accepted the fact that I no longer attended church. So we struck a deal; I would drive her to Todd’s swearing-in, and then pick her up afterward. I almost felt guilty as I watched my eighty-year-old mother disappear into that large, cavernous church all by her lonesome. But deep down I suspected that Mother, being Mother, would somehow be fine.
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Mother was among the last to emerge from the church, as I waited out front in my Land Rover in the midday March sun. At six feet tall, she was easy to spot in a merry group that included a petite woman who looked to be about her age. “Marsh, I believe I’ve found a better deal,” she said. “I’m having lunch at the Club with Andromedia Noel. You know Andromedia, don’t you? She’s good friends with Ernestine Carmichael.” At that point, I could only laugh. I mean, throw my mother into any cross section of humanity, and she will find her people! As I recall, I drove home and changed clothes as fast as I could, before dashing to the Belle Meade Country Club in time to meet Mama and Andromedia for lunch. I saw Andromedia only a time or two after that. Once, when she came to my house to walk through my garden. But just for the record, if a more positive, generous-spirited human ever walked the face of the earth, I have yet to meet them. In short, Andromedia Noel was as unique and uplifting as her name. www.tallgirl.com
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My Favorite Painting
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never would have imagined that my favorite painting would be a six-foot-tall rat spray-painted on the side of a building. I have been collecting art and working as an art advisor for the past decade. I help people build collections by artists like Calder, Warhol, and Haring, but when British graffiti artist Banksy came to San Francisco in 2010, I was immediately intrigued.
The painting has been exhibited in Miami, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. It’s my favorite painting because I have never seen a painting generate this much passion and discussion amongst the public. It has become one of the most recognized pieces of street art in the world. This rat reinforces the merit of voices oppressed by greed and injustice. It has helped change street art from art that is vilified to art that is appreciated. www.Facebook.com/BJgreifArt
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Artist Bio | BANKSY Banksy creates some of the most popularly recognizable street art, but is also one of the most enigmatic individuals. Little is known about the actual man behind the paint, and that is for a reason. In part, Banksy remains anonymous because he wants the power of the political and social subjects he presents across the world to stand alone as universal messages, not tied to the artist’s position in life. The nature of the street art medium falls under the controversial veil of vandalism, and therefore
impermanence is always a factor. The result, however, is that people are forced to see the work and, to Banksy’s benefit, talk about it before and after it is destroyed. He infuses familiar cultural images such as the Mona Lisa, London “bobbies,” politicians, etc., with social satire to shocking and humorous ends. Since his fame has grown, the British artist’s work is preserved, and he has had numerous museum and gallery exhibits, but the man himself remains a mystery.
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Banksy left six large paintings on buildings across San Francisco. City officials considered the paintings vandalism and ordered their immediate removal. I saw the tremendous impact these paintings had on residents of the city, so I decided to save one of the paintings. The process took six months, but I was able to remove and preserve The Haight Street Rat. I have received offers from private collectors exceeding $750,000 for the painting but have rejected all offers, instead opting to share it with the public.
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