Open for the March 4th First Saturday Art Crawl from 6 - 8pm

The Browsing Room is very pleased to announce a new group exhibition: Daybreak: Showcasing the Artists of Daybreak Arts’ Artist Collective. Co-curated by: A.M. Hassan and Paul Collins. Opening Reception: Saturday, March 4, 6-8pm, Adjacent to the Fellowship Hall.

Open for the March 4th First Saturday Art Crawl from 6 - 9pm

The Red Arrow Gallery is honored to present, Beyond the Dreampond, a solo exhibition with realist painter, Buket Savci. Opening March 4th, 2023, the exhibition continues through Saturday March 25th, 2023.

Buket Savci is an Artist and Turkish immigrant, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings bubble over with bold, bright colors and images of groups of people assembled together, almost in a pile on one another and surrounded by various inflatable toys you would typically find poolside. Buket’s works address longing and the need for comfort and emotional support. She says the dreampond is the celebration of being together and unconditional love. Being able to hope and dream about a better future. 

Open for the March 4th First Saturday Art Crawl from 2 - 8pm

Tinney Contemporary is proud to present A Human Synthesis, a solo exhibition of conceptual works by Wesley Clark, guest curated by Michael J Ewing. 

A Human Synthesis aims to evoke an abstract personal dialogue that exists within the individual; giving way to a singular, human perspective. In my curatorial approach, I couple psychological theories, literary devices, and visual language to shape the exhibition’s cognitive framework through a southern hermeneutical lens.

Open for the March 4th First Saturday Art Crawl from 1 - 9pm

Repair by Beth Reitmeyer

Repair invites our neighbors to bring their objects that need repair and air to COOP. COOP's member artists will lend their skills to stitching, patching, and rejuvenating those well-worn things that are some of favorite things. Artist patches will be available for clothing and fabric. Led by Beth Reitmeyer and COOP's member artists.

Open hours at Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery featuring works on view by their TN Triennial exhibiting artists, Beizar Aradini, Jasmine Baetz, Nuveen Barwari, Habiba El Sayed, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Laleh Mehran, and Kris Rumman.

Curator’s Tour feat. Otobong Nkanga: Gently Basking in Debris

Presented by Mark Scala in the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery

Join Frist Art Museum chief curator Mark Scala for a tour of Otobong Nkanga: Gently Basking in Debris. This tour is presented as part of the Tennessee Triennial’s Nashville Highlight Weekend.

tickets required

Open for the March 4th First Saturday Art Crawl from 12 - 9pm

Louisa Glenn’s work is rooted in color theory. For her 2023 solo show, The Cracks are How the Light Gets In, Glenn brings personal revelations and lessons forth through layering abstract bursts of color - building undulating fields of vibrant epiphany.

Open for the March 4th First Saturday Art Crawl from 12 - 6pm

The Triennial Room is a project space created by Alex Blau, Claudia Padrón Gómez, and Vesna Pavlović, on view at Zeitgeist gallery from February 4 – March 29. The room is the intersection of three distinct artistic practices coalescing around the questions of memory. The experimental architecture space aligns with the Triennial mission to be “a new site of encounters, with yet undefined edges, borders, territories… new cartographies of the mind as well as geographies of the land.” The works included in the room are created in Cuba, Serbia, and Nashville.

Curator’s Tour feat. Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric

Presented by Brandee Caoba in the Ingram Gallery

Join SITE Santa Fe curator Brandee Caoba for a tour of Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric. This tour is presented as part of the Tennessee Triennial’s Nashville Highlight Weekend.

tickets required

Join us on March 4 from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm at Zeitgeist Gallery for an insightful conversation on the future of museums. As we continue into 2023, the museum experience in Nashville and beyond becomes more interactive and self-directed. With that in mind, we are excited to have open conversations with museum leaders, artists, and gallery professionals who look to the future and see shifts to a greater level of visitor control and new methods of audience engagement.

The panel discussion will focus on the idea that institutions do not exist in a vacuum. Their practices and habits, and their structures are all linked to other institutions they interact with and external factors within their radius, such as the art market, educational systems, governments, and funding bodies. These influences can be read within the body language of a specific institution. Therefore, to make lasting change for an institution means to work and invest resources within these external factors, not just changing an interior institutional behavior.

This is an EADJ event.

This performance is an in person art workshop, led by artist Helina Metaferia. It is especially designed for women-identifying BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) who are students, staff, faculty and community members at Tennessee universities, commencing in North Nashville on the campus of Fisk University.

The workshop investigates how histories of protest inform our present day moment, and the powerful yet often overlooked role that BIPOC women (both cis and trans) play in them. The workshop will rely on performative gestures of resilience to explore how institutionalized and systemic trauma gets stored in the body, and provide creative and tangible tools for self-care and communal care to help sustain ourselves. The artist will lead participants through a series of writing, mindfulness, and somatic and performance exercises based on histories of social change movements.

This is an EADJ event.

Curator’s Tour feat. Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood

Presented by Mark Scala in the Upper-Level Galleries

Join Frist Art Museum chief curator Mark Scala for a tour of Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood. This tour is presented as part of the Tennessee Triennial’s Nashville Highlight Weekend.

tickets required

Open hours at the Frist Art Museum featuring works by their TN Triennial exhibiting artists, Otobong Nkanga and Jeffrey Gibson.

tickets required

Open hours at Fisk University Galleries featuring a collection of works by their TN Triennial exhibiting artist, Alicia Henry (Nashville, TN).

The Engine for Art Democracy and Justice program (EADJ) has put together two exploratory exhibition spaces titled "Begonia Labs" and "80/20 Lab" specifically selected for their locations within Nashville. These exhibition labs are attempts to energize parts of the city with non-commercial, exploratory art experiences.

Phase 1 of 80/20 Lab features artwork from talented artists such as Jana Harper, Javier Castro, John Warren, Rod McGaha, Vesna Pavlovic, Jana Harper, Christopher Cozier, and LeXander Bryant. The lead curator is none other than Dr. María Magdalena Campos-Pons, with support from Michael J. Ewing and Simon Tatum as the assistant curators.

This is an EADJ event.

Open hours at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens

In honor of Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR, Cheekwood has acquired a grouping of three aluminum sculptures by Elizabeth Turk for the Ann & Monroe Carell, Jr. Family Sculpture Trail.

Half-price tickets available in celebration of the TN Triennial on Saturday, March 4, advanced timed-entry ticket required.

Open hours at The Parthenon featuring works on view by their TN Triennial exhibiting artists, Houston Cofield, Desmond Lewis, and Lakesha Moore.

tickets required

Join EADJ on March 3rd from 6:00 to 8:00 pm to experience the best of Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurs in Nashville. This event is a part of the Tennessee Triennial's RE-PAIR theme, inviting everyone to participate in the invigoration at the intersection of art and sociability.

This is an EADJ event.

The Engine for Art Democracy and Justice program (EADJ) has put together two exploratory exhibition spaces titled "Begonia Labs" and "80/20 Lab" specifically selected for their locations within Nashville. These exhibition labs are attempts to energize parts of the city with non-commercial, exploratory art experiences.

Phase 1 of Begonia Labs features artwork from talented artists such as Mark Hosford, Jerry Atnip, Farrar Cusomato, Nell, Anthony Suber, and Wesley Clark. The lead curator is none other than Dr. María Magdalena Campos-Pons, with support from Michael J. Ewing and Simon Tatum as the assistant curators.

This is an EADJ event.

The Parthenon’s Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR show will be open for a highlight celebration with free gallery admission on Friday, March 3, from 1-3:30 p.m. CST. The exhibit, feat. Houston Cofield, Desmond Lewis, and Lakesha Moore, runs from Jan. 27 through May 7 as part of Tri-Star Arts’ statewide contemporary art event.

“As Nashville’s oldest museum, the Parthenon continues to embody the city’s ideal as an arts and cultural center, and we are honored to participate in this important exhibition,” says the Parthenon’s curator Jennifer Richardson. “Elevating the voices of local artists, celebrating Tennessee’s cultural heritage, and amplifying thought-provoking perspectives on universal issues is at the heart of what our museum does, so the Tennessee Triennial is a perfect match for the Parthenon.”

We invite you to take a self-guided tour of exhibitions and explore the ArtQuest Gallery at the Frist Art Museum. The Martin ArtQuest® Gallery is the Frist Art Museum’s interactive art-making gallery for all ages.

tickets required

Open hours at Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery featuring works on view by their TN Triennial exhibiting artists, Beizar Aradini, Jasmine Baetz, Nuveen Barwari, Habiba El Sayed, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Laleh Mehran, and Kris Rumman.

Open hours at the Frist Art Museum featuring works by their TN Triennial exhibiting artists, Otobong Nkanga and Jeffrey Gibson.

tickets required

EADJ: Artist Panel Discussion: Tahila Mintz - Women and Water

Join Tahila Mintz (Yaqui), Kimberly Smith (Cherokee) and Nicole Thompson (Seneca), brought to you by the EADJ, for a powerful discussion on the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. This is an issue that affects tribes across the Americas, including those in Tennessee. Artist Tahila Mintz brings together a panel of Indigenous women from the south, north and local territories to explore the interwoven themes of women, water, and policy, and how they relate to the strength and mistreatment of indigenous women.

Tahila Mintz is a Photographer, Medicine Carrier and Founder / Executive Director of OJI:SDA’ Sustainable Indigenous Futures. She works across multiple platforms and organizations to amplify the voices of Indigenous people and the natural world. Her current work focuses on healing and the stories of missing indigenous women in this region. She is a Water Protector and a Land Guardian whose home is in her Yaqui community of Sonora and in upstate, NY. She has invited fellow panelist will share their unique perspectives and experiences, shedding light on this important topic and providing insights into the ways we can work towards justice and healing for indigenous communities. We welcome all who wish to listen, learn, and engage in this important conversation.

This is an EADJ event.

tickets required

Open hours at Fisk University Galleries featuring a collection of works by their TN Triennial exhibiting artist, Alicia Henry (Nashville, TN).

Exhibition Preview for Chronicle of Actions by Vanessa Mayoraz

With Chronicle of Actions, Mayoraz explores the relationship between events and the construction of reality. In this show, her work is the result of an attempt to make sense of the fractured perspective omnipresent in our society and personal lives, echoing Dr. Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: “In order to Re-pair, one must locate what is at fault, in order to heal, one must find the wound. Re-pair is all in love.”

Open hours at The Parthenon featuring works on view by their TN Triennial exhibiting artists, Houston Cofield, Desmond Lewis, and Lakesha Moore.

tickets required

The Parthenon’s Tennessee Triennial Artist Talk is a virtual symposium taking place with Houston Cofield, Desmond Lewis, and Lakesha Moore on March 2 from 6:00-7:00pm CST.

The Parthenon’s Tennessee Triennial: RE-PAIR show features Houston Cofield, Desmond Lewis, and Lakesha Moore and runs through May 7 as part of Tri-Star Arts’ statewide contemporary art event.

“As Nashville’s oldest museum, the Parthenon continues to embody the city’s ideal as an arts and cultural center, and we are honored to participate in this important exhibition,” says the Parthenon’s curator Jennifer Richardson. “Elevating the voices of local artists, celebrating Tennessee’s cultural heritage, and amplifying thought-provoking perspectives on universal issues is at the heart of what our museum does, so the Tennessee Triennial is a perfect match for the Parthenon.”

EADJ Program Presents

Listening: The Fourth String – an introduction to ShahTár

In collaboration with the Tennessee Triennial, Blair School of Music, The Curb Center and Middle Eastern Seminar at Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities

An artistic collaboration between artists, musicians, and community for social change.

This is an EADJ event.