NASHVILLE, TN – A groundbreaking art history course titled “Visionary Voices: African American Artists Building Connection Through Culture” is set to offer an enlightening exploration of African American art and its profound connections to culture and community. Hosted at the Frist Art Museum on Thursday, March 28, 2024, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m., the event marks the beginning of a three-part series meticulously designed to deepen the understanding of African American visual narratives. Registration is required for those wishing to attend, with pricing set at $10 for members and $15 for non-memb ..read more

By PAIGE PFLEGER Henry L. Jones is hunched over, unfurling a 9-foot canvas on the floor. “I’m going to hang it like a banner,” he says, unrolling it. “I’ll show you.” The painting will hang on the back wall of the gallery inside the Parthenon, opposite an equally massive piece by painter Omari Booker. Where Booker thrives in realism, Jones leans into more abstract art. “And this is another one of my pieces here,” Jones says, walking across the room. “It’s dedicated to Monroe Street.” He stops in front of a red, yellow and purple painting and remembers a summer in the 1980s. He was doing ..read more

Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)-The Frist Art Museum will host a celebration of Black History Month at the Frist Art Museum After Five event Thursday, February 22, 2024, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The event will feature live music, engaging tours, and delightful experiences in the galleries and Frist Café. Features include: Music by Nick Tabron who makes music that encompasses sounds from slide guitar and lively, upbeat production to stripped down, soulful performances—just his powerful vocals accompanied by guitar. Pulling from personal experiences and the call to spread positivity, Tabron seeks ..read more

Atlanta, GA — Hammonds House Museum’s Exhibiting Culture: Highlights from the Hammonds House Museum Collection features artwork from some of the world’s premiere African American artists and will be on view through January 30, 2022. Guests of all ages are learning about and exploring the art in the ambiance of this beautiful 1857 Victorian home. Not only are visitors interested to see so many diverse images and styles of artwork from abstract and traditional to contemporary, but they are delighted to see a lot of art created by women. “When I was selecting works for this exhibition, I knew th ..read more

NASHVILLE, Tenn. /PRNewswire/ — The Frist Art Museum presents Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, the first major museum exhibition devoted to the rich yet understudied subject. Featuring approximately 80 collage works, Multiplicity explores the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United States. Conceived and organized by Frist Art Museum senior curator Katie Delmez, the exhibition will be on view in the museum’s Ingram Gallery from September 15 through December 31, 2023, before traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and an additional ve ..read more

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Mira Lehr founding “Continuum,” one of the country’s first-ever women artist collectives Featuring all new works by Lehr never exhibited before, on view now through April 20th at the Hotel’s new 16th floor gallery space Panel discussion event about Women in the Arts will premiere the worldwide release of new 400-page international volume about Mira Lehr by Skira Editore, one of the world’s leading art book publishers The eco-feminist artist Mira Lehr (photo by Michael E. Fryd). The Kimpton EPIC Hotel, one of Miami’s leading boutique hotels, presents a new a ..read more

On Thursday, October 7th, 2021 at 10am Frist Art Museum will present a media sneak peak of American Art Deco, an exhibition to commemorate some of the finest national murals that celebrate the United States and all its diversity!   Conceived as a family-friendly place full of curious people, the Frist Art Museum’s mission continues to present and originate high-quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities. Thursday, October 7th 10:00 a.m. The tour of American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918–1939 will be led by Catherine ..read more

Alma W. Thomas: Everything Is Beautiful provides a fresh perspective on the artist’s long, dynamic life (1891–1978) and multifaceted career that was defined by constant creativity. This major retrospective traces her journey from semirural Georgia to Washington, DC, to becoming the first Black woman to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York when she was eighty in 1972. On view will be an unprecedented number of Thomas’s joyful and colorful abstract paintings—the titles and forms of which express her interest in flora and fauna, music, space travel, and spiritu ..read more

NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune) – Nashville Repertory Theatre (The Rep) enthusiastically returns to the stage with its season opener, RAGTIME. Following the suspension of its 2019-2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic, the city’s premier regional theater is presenting the Tony Award-winning musical story of three families’ stories that intertwine into a tapestry of a rich and restless New York City during the turn-of-the-century. The production will be performed at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s James K. Polk Theater, 505 Deaderick Street, from Thursday, November 11th throu ..read more

By Joseph Golder The works of Austrian artist Ida Maly, who was murdered by the Nazis in 1941, are on exhibit through Sept. 1, 2022, at the Lentos Art Museum in Linz, Austria. Maly was an Austrian impressionist and modern artist born in Vienna in 1894. The Lentos exhibition marks the 80th anniversary of her death at the hands of the Nazis at Hartheim Castle. The castle was “one of six gassing installations for adults established as part of the ‘euthanasia’ program,” according to the U.S. Holocaust Museum. It is where German authorities carried out the last gassing of inmates. Ida Maly, self ..read more