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Calendar of Events
February 4, 2012
Saturday Art Crawl with Picture This on 5th
Lisa Haddad’s ‘Pattern Play’ At Picture This Gallery
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February Listings for Tennessee Art League
Fran Werner, Afternoon on the Dunes, oil on canvas, 16" x 20"
Premiere Gallery – Ed Bodnar Ed Bodnar is a Nashville-based photographer who owns and operates his own photography business specializing in commercial, corporate, editorial and portraiture. “From a very early age when I first saw a National Geographic TV episode titled “cameramen who dared”, I have been fascinated with the idea of storytelling through visual media. By the time I was 16 I was shooting portraits and photographing weddings, and started working at one of thelargest photo studios in my home state of West Virginia by 17.
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“After high school I worked my way through college first as a public relations photographer at Davis and Elkins College in WV, then at Lipscomb University in Nashville. While at Lipscomb I was offered the opportunity to photograph my first magazine cover for a professional trade journal, shoot campus concerts of little known artists such as Tim McGraw, and even some of the more well known artists such as Doug Stone.
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“We as humans have this tendency or need even to put things into a box so that we can label it and thus keep our lives organized. Many of my friends, colleagues and even acquaintances tend to tell me that I think outside of those boxes. For me I have difficulty even seeing those boxes because I don’t look at things the way most people do.
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“Beauty is all around us, even in the ugliest, most disheveled, or discouraging of scenes so “Vision” is just a small glimpse of how I see the world. Where some people see something ugly or horrific, I see something beautiful. Where some people are looking at the big picture and see ruin and despair, I look closer and see the potential in the little things. It is my hope that you the viewer will not just see the beauty that I have found in each of these images, but that it will inspire you to go find the beauty in that which others have boxed and labeled as ugly, horrific, or even just ordinary.”
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The exhibit opened in January and will run through Friday, March 2. A reception will be held Saturday, February 4, from 6 – 9 P.M. Artist’s website: http://www.edwardbodnar.com .
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“We as humans have this tendency or need even to put things into a box so that we can label it and thus keep our lives organized. Many of my friends, colleagues and even acquaintances tend to tell me that I think outside of those boxes. For me I have difficulty even seeing those boxes because I don’t look at things the way most people do.
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“Beauty is all around us, even in the ugliest, most disheveled, or discouraging of scenes so “Vision” is just a small glimpse of how I see the world. Where some people see something ugly or horrific, I see something beautiful. Where some people are looking at the big picture and see ruin and despair, I look closer and see the potential in the little things. It is my hope that you the viewer will not just see the beauty that I have found in each of these images, but that it will inspire you to go find the beauty in that which others have boxed and labeled as ugly, horrific, or even just ordinary.”
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The exhibit opened in January and will run through Friday, March 2. A reception will be held Saturday, February 4, from 6 – 9 P.M. Artist’s website: http://www.
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Ethel Smith Gallery – Fran Werner Landscapes Fran is a member of the TAL “Art Seen” Tuesday painting group. The exhibit will open February 4 and hang through Friday, March 2. An opening reception will be held Saturday, February 4, from 6 – 9 P.M.
Ethel Smith Gallery – Fran Werner Landscapes Fran is a member of the TAL “Art Seen” Tuesday painting group. The exhibit will open February 4 and hang through Friday, March 2. An opening reception will be held Saturday, February 4, from 6 – 9 P.M.
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Members Gallery – Artworks by Tennessee Art League members will debut Saturday, February 4. Many mediums will be featured – oil, pastel, watercolor, acrylics, and pen and ink. A reception will be held Saturday, February 4, from 6 – 9 P.M.; the exhibit will run through Friday, March 2.
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Poston3 Gallery – YMCA artEMBRACE The YMCA artEMBRACE Program is a comprehensive, multi-cultural arts education program implemented in YMCA after-school programs in five counties throughout Middle TN. Currently entering into our 6th year, local professional teaching artists are hired to travel to 100+ after school programs each semester to share their talents ranging in a wide variety of visual and performing arts with hundreds of kids all over Middle Tennessee. The artEMBRACE mission: To use art education to positively affect the lives of students, improving their chances to lead constructive and successful lives by developing creativity, improving learning skills and building self-confidence.
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Poston3 Gallery – YMCA artEMBRACE The YMCA artEMBRACE Program is a comprehensive, multi-cultural arts education program implemented in YMCA after-school programs in five counties throughout Middle TN. Currently entering into our 6th year, local professional teaching artists are hired to travel to 100+ after school programs each semester to share their talents ranging in a wide variety of visual and performing arts with hundreds of kids all over Middle Tennessee. The artEMBRACE mission: To use art education to positively affect the lives of students, improving their chances to lead constructive and successful lives by developing creativity, improving learning skills and building self-confidence.
The artEMBRACE Kid’s Exhibit will consist of mixed media including: acrylic paintings on canvas; matted & framed prints; framed self-portrait drawings; and hand sculpted clay creations. A reception will be held Saturday, February 4, from 6 – 9 P.M.; the presentation will run through March 2.
Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. TAL is closed Sundays & Mondays. The Tennessee Art League is located at 808 Broadway. For more information, call TAL @ 615.736.5000, or visit online atTennesseeArtLeague.org. Admission is free and open to the public.
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Founded in 1954 as a nonprofit organization, the Tennessee Art League’s mission is to enrich the lives of artists and the community as a cultural center, educational facility and art gallery. TAL strives to encourage and promote the visual arts through changing exhibitions, workshops, classes and community outreach, and aims to introduce art to non-artists; to excite them in their first experiences of creating and exhibiting art; and to encourage them in continuing and developing their artistic talent in a process of self-discovery.
February 3, 2012
To See as Artists See: American Art from the Phillips Collection Brings Important Works to the Frist
Opening Feb. 3, 2012, To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection features more than 100 works by 75 important artists, including outstanding paintings by Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Adolf Gottlieb and Robert Motherwell. The exhibition will remain on view through May 6, 2012.
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The paintings in the exhibition range in date from 1845–1965 and represent a magnificent survey of American painters and their work. The exhibition begins with great heroes of nineteenth-century American art, including Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins whose works set the course for modern art in the U.S. The exhibition concludes with works by the Abstract Expressionists whose efforts to create a new visual language in the 1940s caused the art world to turn its attention from Paris to New York and made American art a significant global force.
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“Nashville first experienced The Phillips Collection in 2004, with From El Greco to Picasso: European Masterworks from The Phillips Collection, which has been one of the Frist Center’s most popular exhibitions,” said Frist Center Executive Director Susan H. Edwards, Ph.D., “and it is no wonder. The Phillips Collection is one of the nation’s museum jewels. Duncan Phillips was a collector without peer in his time and still has much to teach us about how to appreciate, enjoy and collect art.
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“This is the first time The Phillips Collection has organized a comprehensive selection of its American treasures for exhibition outside the museum. The show has been an international sensation in Roverto, Italy; Madrid, Spain and Tokyo, Japan. Nashville is the first of only two U.S. venues to host the show before it returns to Washington, D.C. To be able to bring such magnificent art to the Southeast is a joy for us,” she concluded.
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The paintings will be arranged in 10 thematic groups: Romanticism and Realism (with works by Edward Hicks, George Inness, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Albert Pinkham Ryder); Impressionism (Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, John Henry Twachtman, William Merritt
Chase, Maurice Prendergast); Forces in Nature (Marsden Hartley, Rockwell Kent, John Marin,
Harold Weston); Nature and Abstraction (Arthur Dove, Hartley, Georgia O’Keeffe, Kent, Marin, Max Weber); Modern Life (Robert Henri, George Luks, Walt Kuhn, Edward Hopper, Guy Pène du Bois); The City (John Sloan, John Marin, Charles Sheeler, Ralston Crawford, Edward Hopper,); Memory and Identity (Grandma Moses, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, Rufino Tamayo); Legacy of Cubism (John Marin, Karl Knaths, Stuart Davis, John Graham, Ilya Bolotowsky); Transition to Abstract Expressionism (Morris Graves, Jackson Pollock, Milton Avery, Alexander Calder); and Abstract Expressionism (Adolf Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston).
The public programs supporting To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection celebrate American art forms from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century and will include lectures, gallery talks, music, art-making workshops, presentations of poetry and readings of the play Red, a work about the life and career of artist Mark Rothko.
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Duncan Phillips and The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1921, nearly a decade before the Museum of Modern Art (est. in 1929) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (est. 1930) opened in New York. From its inception, The Phillips Collection championed the very best in American art and artists. Its in-depth holdings of American paintings are broad in scope, yet cannot be characterized as either encyclopedic or strictly historical. Rather, The Phillips Collection is a reflection of the tastes and friendships of collector Duncan Phillips (1886–1966) who purchased many of the works from the artists while they were still actively exhibiting. Many of the artists became Phillips’ good friends.
A well-regarded art critic in addition to being a collector and museum director, Phillips believed we benefit by giving ourselves over to the direct experience of the work of art. In this way one enters the artist’s world, learning to see as artists see. In his extensive critical writings, Phillips made it clear that he sought “artists of creative originality and of sincere independence.”
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Education
Many of the artists in this exhibition were influenced by and captured in their work some of the biggest changes transforming society during their lifetimes: the rise of industry and new modes of transportation, the growth and electrification of cities and the invention of everyday objects.
Throughout this exhibition, specific paintings will be connected to inventions and innovations that changed the world. These include: the Erie Canal (Arthur B. Davies, Along the Erie Canal, 1890); the electric light bulb (John Sloan, Six O’Clock, Winter, 1912); tube paint (Theodore
Robinson: Giverny, ca. 1889) and acrylic paint (Helen Frankenthaler, Canyon, 1965); skyscrapers (Edward Bruce, Power, ca. 1933); the egg beater and electric fan (Stuart Davis, Egg Beater, No., 4, 1928) and mobiles (Alexander Calder, Red Polygons, ca. 1950).
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Exhibition Catalog
A new publication featuring highlights of The Phillips Collection’s holdings—and most of the works in this exhibition—will be released this month and available for purchase in the Frist Center’s gift shop. Entitled Master Paintings from The Phillips Collection, it includes essays by Eliza Rathbone and Susan Behrends Frank and texts on more than 100 pictures from the Collection.
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Audio Tour
The exhibition is accompanied by an audio tour which brings the “voice” of collector Duncan Phillips into the exhibition. The 35 stops let visitors hear how he described selected paintings, why he collected them and what he loved about them.
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Exhibition Credits
This exhibition has been organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
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Exhibition Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Ocean Way Nashville Recording Studios and Belmont University for their donation of recording time and professional expertise in the production of the exhibition audio tour.
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is supported in part by the Metro Nashville Arts Commission, the Tennessee Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Exhibition-related Programs
Friday, February 3 Curator’s Perspective:
12:00 p.m. “Duncan Phillips: Champion of American Art”
Auditorium Presented by Susan Behrends Frank, Ph.D.,
Free The Phillips Collection
Seating is first come, first served.
In this talk, Susan Behrends Frank, Ph.D., associate curator for research at The Phillips Collection and curator of To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection, will speak about the extraordinary vision of Duncan Phillips. The collector made an institutional commitment at the end of World War I to champion American art and encourage American artists of independent vision who looked beyond the strictures of the academy at a time when other institutions were unwilling to do so.
Founded in Washington, D.C. a decade before the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art opened in New York City, The Phillips Collection has championed the very best American art and artists since opening its doors in 1921. For more than 50 years, until his death in 1966, Phillips promoted the work of living American artists, giving them his
patronage and encouragement when they needed it the most. In so doing, Phillips, and the museum that carries his name, became a significant force in American modernism, advocating for an American art that could find unity in a diversity of voices.
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Thursday, February 9 Adult Studio Workshop: Monoprinting
6:00–8:30 p.m. Guest artist: Mark Hosford
Frist Center Studios
$45 members / $75 non-members.
Cost includes all supplies and gallery admission.
Advance registration required.
Please call 615.744.3355 to register.
Monoprinting is a process in which painting and printmaking processes are used in combination to create one-of-a-kind, unique works on paper. In this introductory workshop, participants will learn the basic process of creating monoprints and monotypes. Participants will be given a tour of To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection to explore ideas for their own prints and will then head back to the studios to explore a variety of techniques and methods using oil-based inks on Plexiglas.
Mark Hosford is also one of the artists whose work is included in the exhibition Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, on view in the Frist Center’s Upper-Level Galleries from February 24 through May 28, 2012 and Metamorphoses: Drawings by Erin Anfinson, Kristi Hargrove, Mark Hosford, and Chris Scarborough, on view in the Conte Community Arts Gallery from June 8 through October 28, 2012.
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Saturday February 11 Kids Club: Through the Eyes of O’Keeffe
10:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m. or 3:00 p.m.
Frist Center Studios
Free. Call 615.744.3357 to reserve a space
Inspired by the exhibition To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection, participants will look closely at objects from nature to create colorful artworks that reflect a larger-than-life scale and the style of American artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Participants will create viewfinders to get “up close and personal.”
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Thursday, February 16 Curator’s Tour
12:00 p.m. To See as Artists See: American Art from The
Meet at exhibition entrance. Phillips Collection
Free with purchase of gallery admission
Join Katie Delmez, curator at the Frist Center, for a tour that surveys American painting from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century.
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Tuesday, February 21* Educator Workshop
9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. To See as Artists See:
$20 for Frist Center members American Art from The Phillips Collection
$25 for non-members.
Advanced registration is required.
Download the teacher workshop registration form at http://fristcenter.org/learn/schools-educators/educator-workshops.
Cost includes all materials, teacher resources, color reproductions, gallery admission, parking validation in Frist Center lots and lunch.
To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection provides an overview of the Phillips’s renowned American collection by highlighting more than one hundred paintings by more than 75 American artists. During this full-day workshop, educators will examine original works of art on a curator-led tour, participate in studio activities and develop teaching ideas for the classroom. Educators will receive related resources and teaching materials including sample lesson plans and color art reproductions. Frist Center educator workshops are open to educators of all subjects, pre-K–12.
* This program will also be presented on Feb. 25.
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Friday, February 24 at 6:30 p.m. REPaloud: Red by John Logan
AND in collaboration with Tennessee
Saturday, February 25 at 2:30 pm. Repertory Theatre
Frist Center Auditorium
FREE but reservations are needed.
To make reservations, call 615.244.4878 or e-mail represervations@gmail.com and
include the date and number of attending in the body of your e-mail.
Tennessee Repertory Theatre’s REPaloud (“Reading Excellent Plays” aloud) series features contemporary, award-winning dramas in a staged reading format. Winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Play, Red paints the vivid picture of master Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko who has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art—a series of murals for New York’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating years that follow, Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant, Ken, in his studio on the Bowery. But when Ken gains the confidence to challenge him, Rothko faces the agonizing possibility that his crowning achievement could also become his undoing. Raw and provocative, Red is a searing portrait of an artist’s ambition and vulnerability as he tries to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting.
This project has been made possible with the collaboration of the Tennessee Repertory Theatre. Since 1985, Tennessee Repertory Theatre has been a critically acclaimed regional theatre, creating the highest quality professional productions and serving as a prime cultural, educational and economic resource within Nashville and Middle Tennessee. The organization produces work that is designed, built and rehearsed in Nashville by highly skilled actors, designers, directors and technicians.
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Saturday, February 25 Educator Workshop: To See as Artists See:
9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. American Art from the Phillips Collection
$20 for Frist Center members;
$25 for non-members.
Advanced registration is required.
Download the teacher workshop registration form at http://fristcenter.org/learn/schools-educators/educator-workshops.
$20 for Frist Center members; $25 for non-members. Cost includes all materials, teacher resources, color reproductions, gallery admission, parking validation in Frist Center lots and lunch.
To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection provides an overview of the Phillips’s renowned American collection by highlighting more than 100 paintings by 75 American artists. During this full-day workshop, educators will examine original works of art on a curator-led tour, participate in studio activities and develop teaching ideas for the classroom. Educators will receive related resources and teaching materials including sample lesson plans and color art reproductions. Frist Center educator workshops are open to educators of all subjects, pre-K–12.
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Friday, March 9 The Art of Songwriting: “American
6:30 p.m. Songwriting in the Twentieth Century”
Auditorium Presented by Michael Lasser
Free Book signing to follow lecture.
Seating is first come, first served.
Michael Lasser will explore the art of songwriting and the way in which songwriters in the first half of the twentieth century created the American popular song through the use of African-American rhythms, European melody and American speech. Representing this diversity through song, Tin Pan Alley (the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century) was quick and shrewd in response to what was going on in the world around them. Their goal was to write hit songs that would appeal to as broad a public as possible. They weren’t poets seeking to express a personal vision of the world but songwriters who were trying to express what they saw and heard within the firm conventions and limits of a popular song. A good song encapsulated a public attitude, belief, value, opinion or dream in 32 bars that, for a month or two anyway, people couldn’t get out of their heads.
Following the lecture, Lasser will be in the Frist Center Gift Shop to sign copies of his book American Songs: Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, which is co-written with Phil Furia. The book explores how creative skills and artistry work together to create lasting songs and invites readers to look behind the popular songs of the last century in order to understand how songwriters and musicians blend words and music with sentiment and melody.
About Michael Lasser
Raised in New Jersey in the shadow of Broadway, Michael Lasser is a nationally known lecturer, writer, broadcaster, critic and teacher.
The songs featured in American Songs: Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley, are the basis for his nationally syndicated public radio program, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, winner of a 1994 Peabody Award. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he is the former theater critic for The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, and for 30 years has spoken at museums and universities around the country. In 2010, he was named a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Rollins College. He is currently preparing a 2-CD set of the early songs of Irving Berlin and is working on a new book, The Song Is Us: Love, Lyrics & American Life, 1900–1950.
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Sunday, April 15 Free Family Day Festival at the Frist
1:00–5:30 p.m.
Free
Enjoy a day of discovery and creativity, filled with art activities, live music and exciting demonstrations. Bring your family and friends to share in a day filled with art and imagination! Exhibitions highlighted during the free day include To See as Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection; Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination; and Answers to Questions: John Wood and Paul Harrison.
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About the Frist Center
Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, located at 919 Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tenn., is an art exhibition center dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, regional, U.S. and international sources in a program of changing exhibitions. The Frist Center’s Martin ArtQuest Gallery (open until 5:30 p.m. each day) features interactive stations relating to Frist Center exhibitions. Gallery admission to the Frist Center is free for visitors 18 and younger and to Frist Center members. Frist Center admission is $10.00 for adults and $7.00 for seniors, military and college students with ID. College students are admitted free Thursday and Friday evenings (with the exception of Frist Fridays), 5–9 p.m. Discounts are offered for groups of 10 or more with advance reservation by calling (615) 744-3247.The Frist Center is open seven days a week: Mondays through Wednesdays, and Saturdays, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m.–9 p.m. and Sundays, 1–5:30 p.m., with the Frist Center Café opening at noon. Additional information is available by calling (615) 244-3340 or by visiting our website at www.fristcenter.org.
Arts & Culture Alliance Presents ‘If Not Now, When?’
“Joe” (acrylic on canvas) by Jake Livesay
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a new exhibition by artists Jake Livesay and Victor Schmidt entitled “If Not Now, When?”. Jake Livesay of Knoxville will show acrylic paintings, and Victor Schmidt of Nashville will display forged steel and brass sculptures. The simple saying “If not now, when?” reflects the artists’ desire to draw attention and enjoyment to their work in the present moment. The exhibition will be displayed at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from February 3-24, 2012 with an opening reception as part of First Friday activities on February 3 from 5:00-9:00 PM.
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Jake Livesay has lived in all four time zones of the United States as well as one in Europe; one of the few identifiable products of his waning wanderlust. He moved to Tennessee in 2005 to finish graduate school in Applied Physics; he has since settled into a life and career as a nuclear non-proliferation researcher at Oak Ridge National Lab. He shares one son, Yuma, with Tovah Greenwood. Livesay tries to paint what he would like to see: colorful, obscure, intricate objects; animals; rhythms; thoughts; and wild guesses. “I hope my technique catches up to my vision of things,” he says. “In the meantime I will try not to allow my ineptitudes to become impediments toward finer expression.” For more information, visit http://jakelivesay.blogspot.
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Victor Schmidt has worked for nearly 40 years as a craftsman-metalsmith in media ranging from small sculptures and drawings to silver jewelry pieces to cast bronze. He studied iron forging with Patrick Boutillier at the Beaux-Arts School in Aix-en-Provence, France; he later studied with Sylvain Hairy and Luc Bonneau concentrating on sculpture and bronze casting at the Beaux-Arts School of Dijon. He lived in New York City for over 25 years, developing sculptural concepts and perfecting metal sculpting techniques while teaching metalworking at Pratt Institute. His work has shown in galleries and juried exhibitions throughout the Southeast and New York and appears in many private collections. “The world of objects can be as mysterious as the world of ideas,” he says. “I try to create a harmony, a bonding where the idea and the object become consenting and inspired partners. The more I work, the closer I feel I am getting to images that need no words and sculptures that need no explanation.” Schmidt now resides in Nashville where he works on metal sculpture full-time. For more information, visit www.victorschmidtsculpture.com
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“If Not Now, When?” will be on display at the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM with additional hours on Saturday, February 4, from 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM. For more information, please contact the Arts & Culture Alliance at (865) 523-7543, or visit the Web site at www.knoxalliance.com.
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About the Arts & Culture Alliance
The Arts & Culture Alliance serves and supports a diverse community of artists, arts organizations, and cultural institutions. The Alliance receives financial support from the Tennessee Arts Commission (www.tn.gov/arts).
February 2, 2012
Nashville Symphony February Events
Ticket information is available at NashvilleSymphony.org or 615.687.6400.
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Marvin Hamlisch
Bank of America Pops Series
Thursday, February 2, at 7 p.m.
Friday & Saturday, February 3 & 4, at 8 p.m.
Nashville Symphony
Marvin Hamlisch, conductor
He’s the man who created the soundtrack for a generation, writing and performing music for A Chorus Line, The Way We Were, The Sting and countless other movies and plays, including the recent hit film The Informant. The consummate entertainer, Hamlisch will pick up his conductor’s baton for a survey of timeless songs from stage and screen. With a musical sweep that ranges from poignant drama to classic Americana, the evening will also feature a special guest or two.
*Concert Sponsors – Hilton Nashville Downtown & Genesco Inc.
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Dr. Atomic & Mr. Haydn
SunTrust Classical Series
Thursday, February 9, at 7 p.m.
Friday & Saturday, February 10 & 11, at 8 p.m.
Nashville Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Jonathan Biss, piano
Haydn - Symphony No. 100 in G major, “Military”
John Adams - Doctor Atomic Symphony
Brahms - Concerto for Piano No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15
Dr. Atomic and Mr. Haydn? Haydn’s 100th Symphony earned its nickname thanks to the martial beat created by the combination of bass drum, triangle and cymbals. Written more than two centuries later, Doctor Atomic Symphony offers a different take on military might: Adapted from John Adams’s opera of the same name, this powerful piece tells the story of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and the dawning of the nuclear era. Renowned for his impressive technique and deeply felt musicianship, pianist Jonathan Biss will join the orchestra for Brahms’s First Piano Concerto, an expansive work rich with lovely details.
Presented by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra League, our free Classical Conversations take place in the Schermerhorn’s Balcony Lobby one hour before all SunTrust Classical Series concerts. Learn more about the music, and engage in a lively conversation with our conductors, guest artists and musicians!
*Concert Sponsor: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP
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Valentines with Johnny Mathis
The Pruett Financial Group of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network Special Event
Tuesday, February 14, at 7 p.m.
Nashville Symphony
Johnny Mathis, vocals
Scott Lavender, conductor
Chances are this will be a Valentine’s you’ll never forget! With his unmistakable voice, Johnny Mathis is responsible for some of the most romantic songs ever recorded. When he joins the orchestra for this one-night-only evening of musical magic, he’ll sing some of his biggest hits and share songs from his latest album of classic tunes, Let It Be Me – Mathis in Nashville.
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Ballet Folklórico de Antioquia, Columbia
Wednesday, February 15, at 7 p.m.
A spectacular show of lights, music and dance! Ballet Folklórico de Antioquia uses movement, brilliant costumes and unforgettable melodies to tell the story of Colombia’s vibrant cultural traditions. From the seductive rhythms of the cumbia to the sublime ritual of the San Agustín dance, these exuberant performers will take you on a moving journey through one of South America’s most enchanting lands.
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Music, Noise & Silence
The Ann & Monroe Carell Family Trust Pied Piper Series
Saturday, February 18, at 11a.m.
Nashville Symphony
Kelly Corcoran, conductor
Magic Circle Mime Company, guest artist
Oh, no! Two meddlesome spirits — Noise and Silence — have taken over the Schermerhorn! Conductor Kelly must bring harmony back to the orchestra, but she’ll need the help of Music, along with a little encouragement from the audience. Featuring the return of the popular Magic Circle Mime Company, this concert incorporates the music of Mendelssohn, Strauss, Grofé and more into a lively theatrical romp.
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Bruce Hornsby
Special Event
Saturday, February 18, at 8 p.m.
Concert presented without orchestra
Twenty five years after winning a Best New Artist Grammy and launching one of contemporary music’s most diverse careers, Bruce Hornsby is still making joyful noise. For this solo performance at the Schermerhorn, he’ll tap into many of the genres that have influenced his artistic output over the years — pop, jazz, bluegrass, country and modern classical music. For all his talents as a singer, bandleader and pianist, he’s a songwriter at heart, committed to portraying his songs in new ways that allow them to evolve and expand.
*Concert Sponsor: KraftCPAs PLLC
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James O’Donnell
Special Event
Tuesday, February 21, at 7 p.m.
James O’Donnell, organ
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear one of Britain’s most outstanding musicians! Organist and choir master at London’s Westminster Abbey, O’Donnell has performed across the globe and recently took part in the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. He’ll present a program designed to show off the awe-inspiring sound of the Martin Foundation Concert Organ.
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Mozart & Copland
SunTrust Classical Series
Thursday, February 23, at 7 p.m.
Friday & Saturday, February 24 & 25, at 8 p.m.
Nashville Symphony
Kelly Corcoran, conductor
Angela Hewitt, piano
Daniel Bernard Roumain - Dancers, Dreamers and Presidents *
Mozart - Concerto for Piano No. 20 in D minor, K.466
Copland - Symphony No. 3
* Nashville Premiere. Commissioned through Sphinx Organization Commissioning Consortium
Two unmistakably American voices: Daniel Bernard Roumain says his inventive musical meditation on the President of the United States “should be listened to, could be danced to, and [is] an orchestral event that must be seen.” Copland captured the soul of the nation in his music, and his Symphony No. 3 incorporates his famous Fanfare for the Common Man. In between these two pieces, Angela Hewitt joins the orchestra to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, one of the composer’s most dramatic works and one of only two he wrote in a minor key.
Presented by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra League, our free Classical Conversations take place in the Schermerhorn’s Balcony Lobby one hour before all SunTrust Classical Series concerts. Learn more about the music, and engage in a lively conversation with our conductors, guest artists and musicians!
*Concert Sponsor: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Best-Selling Author Glenn Meade to Speak at KWG Meeting
Irish novelist and playwright Glenn Meade, author of eight internationally best-selling novels, including “The Second Messiah” (Howard Books, 2011) and “The Devil’s Disciple” (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006), will speak at the Feb. 2 meeting of the Knoxville Writers’ Guild.
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The event, which will be open to the public, will be at 7 p.m. at the Laurel Theater, at the corner of Laurel Avenue and 16th Streets (in Fort Sanders). A $2 donation is requested at the door. The building is handicapped accessible.
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Meade will talk about his life as a writer and his book “The Second Messiah.” The novel centers on the discovery and theft of an ancient Jewish scroll which contains a potentially world-changing message. Protagonist Jack Crane, an American archaeologist, seeks the truth about the scroll, while Israeli and Catholic authorities work to stop him. “Publisher’s Weekly” said Meade “teeters on the edge of genius and sacrilege” with the novel.
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Meade’s books are all international thrillers woven among both heart-stopping current events and recent history. His novel, “Resurrection Day” (Hodder Hb, 2002), seemed to predict the horrors of Sept. 11. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton recommended “Snow Wolf” (St. Martins, 1996) to the then-prime minister of Japan, who became a fan. It is a novel about a covert international plot to execute Joseph Stalin.
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Born in Dublin in 1957, Meade and his wife, Kim, a Speedwell native, live part of each year in Knoxville. Meade met Kim, a doctor of pharmacy, 12 years ago while on a book tour in Washington. They became friends and began corresponding. They married two years ago and now spend a few months a year at a home off Northshore Drive.
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For more information about Meade, please visit www.glennmeadeauthor.com. Additional information about the Knoxville Writers’ Guild can be found at www.knoxvillewritersguild.org.
CHEEKWOOD ANNOUNCES MARTIN SHALLENBERGER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Cheekwood is thrilled to announce a $1 million dollar endowment to fund a new Artist-in-Residence program to be named in honor of Martin Shallenberger as a gift from a private foundation.
Shallenberger was an artist who studied at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington; the Art Students League and National Academy of Design in New York; and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1971, Cheekwood hosted an exhibition of Shallenberger’s paintings of places he visited around the world, including Paris, Florence, Amsterdam and Cologne. After opening his Cheekwood exhibition, Shallenberger left for a summer residency in Eferding, Austria, where he spent July and August. It is a very fitting tribute to this international artist to name an artist-in-residence program after Martin Shallenberger.
“Martin Shallenberger would be so pleased to know that there is now an artist-in-residence program at Cheekwood,” said a spokesperson for the foundation. “He was keenly aware of how difficult it can be for artists, especially ones early in their careers, to find a place to work that is safe and supporting, yet will also challenge them to stretch and grow as artists. ”
Cheekwood has a tradition of exhibiting modern and contemporary art, most recently with its award winning series Temporary Contemporary which focused on emerging artists from the Southeast. The artist-in-residence program will allow Cheekwood to continue its commitment to contemporary art. The program will bring national and international artists to Nashville, have them work here on site, and interact with Cheekwood staff, visitors, and the arts community. Through its gardens and art collections, Cheekwood offers visiting artists a great set of resources to reflect broadly on nature and sustainability within a global art world.
Cheekwood will feature French artist Mathilde Roussel as its first Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence. During her residency, the artist will be working on an installation at Cheekwood featuring Lifes of Grass sculptures that will literally sprout and grow on site. This exhibition also features drawings, sculptures and outdoor fabric installations that play with botany and the human body. Throughout her residency, she will be using studio space at Watkins College of Arts, Design & Film, working with student volunteers, and conducting a student workshop. Her work will also be prominently featured at the annual Antiques & Garden show at the downtown convention center.
About Cheekwood
Cheekwood is a 55-acre botanical garden and art museum located on the historic Cheek estate. Cheekwood exists to celebrate and preserve its landscape, buildings, and art and botanical collections, and, through these unique means provide an inspiring place for visitors to explore their connections with art, nature and the environment. Cheekwood is located at 1200 Forrest Park Drive in Nashville, 8 miles southwest of downtown Nashville. Open Tuesday through Saturday 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.; Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Admission is $12 for adults, seniors $10 and children 3-17 are $5. Parking is $3 per car. For further information call 615-356-8000 or visitwww.cheekwood.org.
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2012 Exhibitions at Cheekwood
Cheekwood has much in store for its members and visitors in 2012, and anticipates a great year for both attendance and noteworthy exhibitions and events. As one of Nashville’s botanical and cultural treasures, the nonprofit organization makes a strategic effort to attract and create exhibitions that engage Nashvillians of all ages.
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Visitors still have a few months in 2012 to catch the exhibit that took Cheekwood by storm in the fall of 2011: Visions of the American West: Masterworks from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. In this large-scale exhibition, Cheekwood explores the American West through fine art and artifacts on loan through a special partnership with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. A “Wild West Weekend” will celebrate the closing of the exhibition on March 3 and 4 with live music, lectures and fun art and crafts activities for the children.
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For the twenty-first consecutive year, Cheekwood will join with the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers to host the Scholastic Art Competition and exhibition. From January 27 through February 19, visitors will have a chance to view the work of Tennessee’s most creative, imaginative, and talented teenagers in Cheekwood’s Museum of Art before the pieces travel to New York to be judged in the national competition.
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As Cheekwood’s grounds jump into full bloom this spring, its exhibitions will change with the season as well. The featured exhibit,Anatomia Botanica, is the work of Mathilde Roussel, Cheekwood’s current Artist- in-Residence. The exhibit will feature drawings and sculptures, as well as installation pieces on display throughout Cheekwood’s grounds. Visitors will find themselves not only surrounded by contemporary art, but exploring the systems and processes that man and nature have in common. Anatomia Botanica will run March 24 through May 13. A family day with live music, lectures and activities will be held on opening day, March 24.
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Beginning March 31, Cheekwood’s Museum of Art will celebrate its long tradition of collecting with its Permanent Residents exhibition, presenting selected treasures by American artists whose works have become part of the museum’s extensive collection of paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts. The exhibition will include Cheekwood’s renowned portrait miniature collection and works by artists including Robert Henri, George Luks, Andy Warhol, Jamie Wyeth and many more. Special galleries will be dedicated to two Nashville-born artists: painter-sculptor Red Grooms and African-American sculptor William Edmonson.
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Cheekwood’s Temporary Contemporary this spring will feature Cross-Reference by Nashville artist Hans Schmitt-Matzen. A combination of library photography and painting, the work in this exhibition provides a mixed-media experience in color and movement, capturing the feeling of panning across spines of books on a shelf. Cross Reference will run March 24 through May 28.
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Visitors to Cheekwood won’t want to miss Every Tree Tells a Story, on display from May 26 through September 3. Organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation, this fascinating exhibition will consist of 25 images by twelve prize-winning and renowned photographers. Just as architecture and other landmarks can be historically significant, the images in this collection will feature the trees associated with historically important people and events that have shaped communities and cultures.
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Cheekwood will showcase seven all-new Treehouses on its grounds in 2012, each designed to represent one of literature’s great works as a part of a summer literature theme. Area architects, landscape architects, and artists will submit designs; winning plans will be chosen by a juried panel and announced on January 27. To protect the botanical garden’s tree collection, designers must attach the structures to the trees without nails, screws, or bolts. The treehouses will be on display from May 26 to September 3.
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As the summer turns to fall, Cheekwood’s beloved Scarecrows! tradition will return as well. These traditional symbols of harvest time will be found hiding all over the gardens and grounds during the month of October, each the special project of a civic group, school class, family or other participating group.
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“Cheekwood’s new strategic initiatives are being realized through the offering of exciting exhibitions, garden events, and public programs aimed at bringing national renown to this Nashville treasure,” said Jane Offenbach, President & CEO of Cheekwood.
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CHEEKWOOD ANNOUNCES 2012 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Cheekwood is known for its beautiful gardens and outstanding art collections and exhibitions. The 55-acre Art Museum and botanical garden also provides exceptional year-round programming for the Nashville community, and recently released its events calendar for 2012.
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“Cheekwood’s new strategic initiatives are being realized through the offering of exciting exhibitions, garden events, and public programs aimed at bringing national renown to this Nashville treasure,” said Jane Offenbach, President & CEO of Cheekwood.
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Cheekwood’s 2012 Event Calendar follows; additional events and programs will be added as the year progresses. All events are free with paid gate admission or Cheekwood membership. For more information, full schedules and details on any event, visit cheekwood.org.
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Ongoing Activities at Cheekwood
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Guided Museum Tours—Saturdays, 1:00 -2:00 p.m.
Explore Cheekwood’s latest exhibitions and permanent displays on a guided tour with knowledgeable docents. Tours are free and no reservation is required; groups meet in the Museum Foyer.
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Tuesdays for Tots—Tuesdays, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m./ Story Time at 10:30.
From September through May, Cheekwood welcomes Nashville’s youngest artists to Tuesdays for Tots Story Time and Drop-in Studio Activity, a special weekly event for little ones. Activities are typically based around the seasons or directly related to one of the Museum’s exhibits, creating a fun way to engage young children in the Cheekwood experience. All supplies are provided and there is no cost with regular admission; the activities are appropriate for ages 2 – 6.
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Lunch and Lecture – Third Thursday of the month, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Topics for Cheekwood’s monthly Lunch and Lecture series include educational gardening presentations and lectures on current exhibits, including a scheduled session with Mathilde Roussel, the 2011 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence at Cheekwood. The $15 fee for members and $25 fee for non-members includes admission to Cheekwood and lunch; advance registration is required.
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Special Events
Wild West Weekend – March 3 – 4
Cheekwood has a special weekend finale planned in celebration of the final days of its Visions of the American West exhibit:
Kids Corral – Extended Saturday AM Arts & Activities
From western-inspired art and craft projects to cowboy sing-alongs, there will be something for every young cowboy and cowgirl!
Guided Tours – March 3, 10:00 a.m. & 1:00 p.m. March 4, 2:00 p.m.
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Cowboy Songs and Campfire Sing-alongs– March 3, 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
The program will be given by Robert Fry, Senior Lecturer of music history and literature at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music; it will feature traditional cowboy songs of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Fry will be accompanied by local fiddler Ben Sanders. Following a brief talk and demonstration, guests will construct folk instruments, learn a traditional cowboy song, and participate in a campfire sing-along.
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Go West: Opera @ Cheekwood – March 3, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
This family-friendly afternoon of music, cowboys and fun will feature members of Nashville Opera’s Mary Ragland Young Artist Program performing beloved favorites of the American musical theater mixed with familiar American classics.
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Live Music – March 4, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
All are welcome to experience another afternoon of live music, this time in the Frist Learning Center courtyard, as Cheekwood bids adios to the Visions of the American West exhibit.
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Family Day – Saturday, March 24
Join us for a day of art, activities, tours, and music in honor of the opening of Anatomia Botanica.
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Cheekwood in Bloom—Weekends in April
Spring is one of the best times to visit Cheekwood and take a front-row seat for the new season’s arrival. This year’s spring blooms will deliver a massive dose of color, with over 22,000 tulips in the gardens; Cheekwood’s programming will be “in bloom” to match:
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Spring Art Hop—April 7, 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Over 20,000 candy-filled eggs will be hidden throughout the gardens in preparation for the egg hunts every half hour at Cheekwood’s 20th annual Spring Art Hop. Visitors will also enjoy arts and crafts, musicians, live entertainment and more.
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KaBloom! – Saturday, April 14
Cheekwood has an entire day planned to celebrate the colors of spring, including family-friendly drop-in studio activities, demonstrations, guided garden tours and fun performances.
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Arbor Day Celebration- Saturday, April 28
Cheekwood is thrilled to have recently been named a certified Level IV arboretum, with over 120 identified species of trees. The organization will hold a public celebration on national Arbor Day with guided tours, art activities, tree climbing demonstrations and more. To add to the excitement, the first 100 people through the gates will receive a free sapling– a little bit of Cheekwood to plant at home.
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Spring Sundays— Every Sunday in April.
Cheekwood’s Sunday visitors will find engaging activities throughout the month of April, including guided museum tours, a special behind-the-scenes look at Cheekwood’s Production Greenhouses, and the Drawing Room Concert Series featuring Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, held in the Museum’s intimate Drawing Room every Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
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Highballs & Hydrangeas– April 13, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Excitement swirls around Cheekwood’s signature Friday night cocktail fling. Guests will mingle on the gorgeous Cheekwood grounds and enjoy live music, light bites from Nashville Originals restaurants and a cash bar. Find more information and advance tickets athighballsandhydrangeas.com.
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Howe Wild! – April 18, 6:00 p.m.
After a major restoration, Cheekwood will celebrate the re-opening of its popular Howe Garden with an evening of cocktails, dinner and a plant auction. The event will be sponsored by the Garden Club of Nashville and held in honor of Mrs. Elizabeth Proctor, who was instrumental in moving the Howe Garden to Cheekwood in 1968; she also gave the lead gift to restore the garden today.
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Wine & Wildflowers – April 19, 6:30 pm
On the evening following Howe Wild! Guests will enjoy a relaxing time with good friends and wonderful wine as Cheekwood celebrates the Howe Garden.
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Howe Garden Opening Celebration – Saturday, April 21, 10:00am – 2:00p
Join us for a day of art, activities, tours, a scavenger hunt and music in honor of the opening of our newly renovated Howe Garden. Mrs. Howe’s lemonade and gingersnaps will be served and tours will be given every hour.
Maypole Dancing – Tuesday, May 1, 11:30 and Sundays in May, 2:00 p.m.
Guests will have a special opportunity to learn a traditional Maypole dance with the Nashville Ballet at Cheekwood. These interactive demonstrations are offered for all ages, from the young to the young at heart. A special May Day Celebration is planned for the May 1 session ofTuesdays for Tots, including a fun spring story and interactive Maypole Dance. All guests are invited to enchanting Maypole Dances and demonstrations every Sunday in May.
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National Public Garden Day – May 11
Cheekwood will celebrate its role in promoting environmental stewardship and awareness, plant and water conservation, and education throughout the community with a day of fun activities. Plans include live music, guided garden tours and an informal Coffee and Conversation with Cheekwood’s President & CEO, Jane Offenbach. Visit nationalpublicgardensday.org to learn about free admission.
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Literary Garden Opening Celebration – Saturday, May 19, 10:00am – 2:00pm
Join us for a day of reading, activities, tours and music in honor of the opening of our new Literary Garden, celebrating the remarkable life of Sigourney Cheek.
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Fitness Fridays –Fridays in June, Gates open at 7:00am
Cheekwood will focus on community fitness in June, opening its grounds early for fun physical activity including Yoga in the Garden, Sculpture Trail Hikes and Stroller Strides. All activities meet at the Visitor Services Center and are free with gate admission.
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Family Night Out – Thursday evenings in June & July, 6:30 p.m.
Families are invited to pack a picnic for this family-friendly program series at Cheekwood, featuring performances, puppet shows, and fantastic night activities for the whole family.
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Highballs & Hydrangeas– August 17, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
For the second time in 2012, Nashville’s young and stylish will mix it up at Cheekwood’s signature Friday night cocktail fling. More information and advance tickets at highballsandhydrangeas.com.
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El Dia de los Muertos, October 27
Cheekwood’s beloved Latin American festival, now in its 13th year, has become Nashville tradition. Guests enjoy lively music and dance, vibrant art activities and authentic Mexican food while learning about the culture of our Latin American neighbors, shopping in the bustling Mexican marketplace, and sampling fine cuisine from local bakeries and restaurants.
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Garden Shows, Sales and Lectures – Year-round
As Nashville’s premier botanical garden, Cheekwood’s plant shows and sales are legendary among avid gardeners. Visit Cheekwood.org for more information on any of the following:
March 31: Native Plant Sale
March 31 – April 1: Daffodil Show
May 3: Community Flower Show
May 5 – May 6: Bonsai Show
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About Cheekwood
Cheekwood is a 55-acre botanical garden and art museum located on the historic Cheek estate. Cheekwood exists to celebrate and preserve its landscape, buildings, and art and botanical collections, and, through these unique means provide an inspiring place for visitors to explore their connections with art, nature and the environment. Cheekwood is located at 1200 Forrest Park Drive in Nashville, 8 miles southwest of downtown Nashville. Open Tuesday through Saturday 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.; Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Admission is $12 for adults, seniors $10 and children 3-17 are $5. Parking is $3 per car. For further information call 615-356-8000 or visit www.cheekwood.org.
Sewanee’s University Art Gallery Presents ‘Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine’
"Smirk," 2009, Aluminum, Plexiglass, LEDs and timer, 30 x 26.5 x 10.5 inches, ED. 3+ AP
Sewanee’s University Art Gallery presents ‘Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine,’ an exhibition of recent work by the internationally acclaimed artist Sanford Biggers, curated by Miki Garcia, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. ‘Moon Medicine’ will be staged in both the University Art Gallery and in the Carlos Gallery of the Nabit Art Building on the campus of the University of the South. ‘Moon Medicine’ opens to the public on Friday, February 17th at 4:30 with a talk by Biggers and Garcia, and a reception in Convocation Hall.
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Biggers is a multimedia and performance artist whose work is by turns playful, thought provoking, and deeply moving. Drawing on influences as diverse as Japanese Zen Buddhist and hip hop culture, he explores identity as a fluid performance and draws attention to the surprising connections to be found between diverse cultures. In ‘Mood Medicine,’ visitors are drawn into a carvinalesque world of music, saturated colors, mirrors, clown make up and dance. This world is both seductive and sinister, and the playful performance of identity is deadly serious – a fact recalled for viewers by the evocation of lynching with recurring tree and rope motifs. In the words of the artist, the exhibition “is a thematic, multi-disciplinary exploration…meant to broaden and complicate our read on American history.”
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On Saturday, February 18th, ‘Moon Medicine’ will be part of the University of the South’s first campus gallery walk. Between 3:30 and 4:30 pm, the public is invited to visit multiple exhibition spaces on campus and to meet artists and curators. In addition to ‘Mood Medicine’ in the UAG and the Carlos Galleries, University Archives and Special Collections is hosting ‘Preserving the Heritage: Fine Art Prints’ by Jonathan Green in its new exhibtion space. Complimentary light refreshments provided. The walk will be followed at 5 p.m. by a wine and cheese jazz recepton in McGriff Alumni House. Space at the evening reception is limited, so please reserve a spot by calling (931) 598-1195. Reception tickets for this event are $30. Payment can be made via the University Art Gallery page – http://www.sewanee.edu/gallery.
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Biggers’ work was recently celebrated in the solo exhibition ‘Sweet Funk: An Introspective’ at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and in the show ‘Cosmic Voodoo Circus’ at the SculptureCenter, New York. Biggers’ installations, videos and performances have appeared in venues worldwide, including the Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and at institutions in China, German, Hungary, Japan, Poland, and Russia. He grew up in Los Angeles, received his BFA from Morehouse University in Atlanta and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the recipient of many awards and grants, including the prestigious William H. Johnson Prize. He was recently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at the Carpenter Center and Visiting Associate Professor of Sculpture at the Office for the Arts, both at Harvard University, MA, and has been on the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth Sculpture and Extended Media program. Biggers is now an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University.
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Miki Garcia has been the Executive Director at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum since 2005, where she cutrated ‘An Expanded Field of Possibilities’ (2009), ‘Glass Love: Contemporary Art and Surf’ (2007-2008), and ‘Marc Swanson: Beginning to See the Light’ (2007) among several other group and solo projects with local, national, and international artists. Previously, Garcia worked at the Public Art Fund, New York, NY and at the Museum of Contemporary Arts San Diego, San Diego, CA. She has also participated as guest curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, and as a lecturer and panelist for various organizations including California Community Foundation, Art Matters Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs. Garcia holds a M.A. in Art History form the University of Texas at Austin, TX and a B.A. in Art History from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Sewanee’s University Art Gallery is located on Georgia Avenue on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennesee. Hours are 10-5 Tuesday through Friday and 12-4 on Saturday and Sunday. Please call (931) 598-1223 for more information, or visit our website at http://www.sewanee.edu.gallery. The Carlos Gallery of the Nabit Art Building is located at 105 Jennerly Road. Both galleries are free, accessible and open to the public.
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‘Moon Medicine’ was made possible in part by the generous support of the Friends of the University Art Gallery and by a Rural Arts PorjectSupport grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission.