| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | The First TennesseansPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Prehistoric Indian cultures existed in Tennessee through four evolving periods, beginning about 15,000 years ago, peaking between 800 and 1650 A.D. with the Mississippian people, and ending with the ascendancy of such modern tribes as the Cherokee and Chickasaw. Artifacts from the Paleolithic, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian periods are on exhibit. The museum even has a display of bones from a mastodon that roamed Tennessee 10,000 years ago. | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Lucy Dunwody Boehm Porcelain CollectionPresented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksv at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville September 1, 2009 - Ongoing Come see one of the Southeast's largest collections of these fantastic porcelains now installed in a new permanent gallery - the DeWald Gallery of Heritage Hall.
Helpful Information: Children under age 14 must be accompanied by an adult at all times and in all areas of the Museum. Free parking for Museum visitors is available behind the Museum at the top of the hill off South Second Street. Sundays are free for everyone! | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksv | 09/01/09-
Ongoing | Clarksville |
Permanent Exhibit: Hall of Fame RotundaPresented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing The Hall of Fame Rotunda is a special room designed to recognize Hall of Fame members in a style befitting the high honor of membership. Everyone recognized here is an equal. The members' plaques are placed randomly around the room - except for the newest members of the Hall of Fame, whose plaques can be found alongside Thomas Hart Benton's painting The Sources of Country Music. The room is round to ensure that every Hall of Fame... | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
Permanent Exhibit: Sing Me Back Home - A Journey Through Country MusicPresented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Sing Me Back Home is the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s permanent exhibit, an exciting, multi-layered journey through the life of country music.
Through artifacts, photographs, original recordings, archival video, newly produced films, touchscreen interactive media and beautifully rendered text panels, Sing Me Back Home immerses visitors in the history and sounds of country music, its meanings and the lives and voices of many of its honored... | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
The Age of JacksonPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Between 1815 and 1850, Tennessee embodied the spirit of American expansion and politics, with President Andrew Jackson being the central character in the state's development. Displays on Jackson, David Crockett, Sam Houston, and President James K. Polk are included in this section of the museum. | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
AntebellumPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing The Antebellum period of 1840 to 1860 was a time of prosperity and cultural development for many Tennesseans. (Antebellum is from the Latin words ante, before, and bellum, war. It is used to signify the period before the Civil War.) Cities and towns became trade centers, as railroads and steamboats drew people closer together. The increasing prosperity manifested itself in several ways. Artists, whether trained or self-taught, found a ready market for their skills as the rising middle... | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
The Civil War and ReconstructionPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing By 1860 the issue of slavery had become a tinderbox; a moral, social and economic issue which slowly divided the northern and southern states. Tennessee found itself divided when the General Assembly voted to secede. Many people in East Tennessee supported the Union and even fought in the Union Army. Tennessee was the primary battlefield of the Civil War in the west, with more than 400 battles and skirmishes within its borders. Each of the major battles in Tennessee is highlighted with... | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
The New SouthPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Between 1870 and the 1920's, Tennessee experienced great changes fueled by the post-Civil War industrial revolution. Exhibits on women's suffrage, Prohibition, and the Tennessee Centennial Exposition illustrate the state's involvement in social issues of the times. | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
The FrontierPresented by Tennessee State Museum at Tennessee State Museum July 1, 2007 - Ongoing Spanish conquistadors were the first Europeans to reach Tennessee, followed by the French and English explorers, and then by the first white settlers. Armor and weapons from the Europeans and Daniel Boone's musket highlight this era. A frontier cabin, 200-year-old dugout canoe, a grist mill, and a Conestoga wagon all give testimony to life on the frontier. Handmade furniture, a woodworking shop, and a working printing press show the skill of early Tennessee craftspeople. | Tennessee State Museum | 07/01/07-
Ongoing | Nashville |
| Memory Lane (CLOSED) | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville | 03/04/10-
Ongoing | Clarksville |
| Explorer's Gallery (CLOSED) | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville | 03/04/10-
Ongoing | Clarksville |
Challenges and Champions Sports GalleryPresented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville March 4, 2010 - Ongoing Challenges and Champions highlights amazing athletes who have come from Montgomery County. See Jeff Purvis‘ racecar, Wilma Rudoph’s relay baton, Billy Copeland’s street luge, and other exciting mementos of sporting history.
Helpful Information: Children under age 14 must be accompanied by an adult at all times and in all areas of the Museum. Free parking for Museum visitors is available behind the Museum at the top of the hill off South Second... | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville | 03/04/10-
Ongoing | Clarksville |
| Post Master's Office (CLOSED) | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville | 03/04/10-
Ongoing | Clarksville |
| Granville Museum Tours | Granville Museum, Inc. | 01/01/11-
Ongoing | Granville |
Bubble Cave (CLOSED)Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksv at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville August 27, 2010 - Ongoing The Museum is getting an upgrade! The 1898 Customs House Building is being renovated in order to provide an improved environment for both visitors and artifacts. While these improvements are being made the following areas will be inaccessible: Heritage Hall, Memory Lane, and the DeWald, Peg Harvill, and Explorers’ Galleries.
The renovations on the 1898 building will begin on... | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksv | 08/27/10-
Ongoing | Clarksville |
| Indian Artifacts | Sumner County Museum | 08/27/10-
Ongoing | Gallatin |
Then and Now Photos of Gallatin, Westmoreland, Portland and HendersonvillePresented by Sumner County Museum at Sumner County Museum August 27, 2010 - Ongoing This is a wonderful photographic display, featuring "then and now" photos of interest in Gallatin, Westmoreland, Portland and Hendersonville. These are made by Allen Haynes. There are three other photographers displayed here, E.M. Stark, Tippy Crutcher and J.E. Flanigan. The display case shows some of the earlier cameras used by notable photographers. | Sumner County Museum | 08/27/10-
Ongoing | Gallatin |
Civil War MapPresented by Sumner County Museum at Sumner County Museum August 27, 2010 - Ongoing James Willette, a cartographer of the U.S. Army of the Cumberland drew the large map on the wall in 1864. It shows the small city of Gallatin and the surrounding area. It is drawn on waxed linen and is a topographical map as well as showing the elevation in feet from sea level. Look for the circles which indicate the crest of hills. Houses, taverns, roads, churches, crops, cotton fields and timber areas are all shown on this detailed map. But the most interesting thing about the map is: all... | Sumner County Museum | 08/27/10-
Ongoing | Gallatin |
Historic RCA Studio B ToursPresented by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum August 9, 2011 - Ongoing Historic RCA Studio B is one of the world's most important and successful recording studios. More than 35,000 songs were brought to life by the Studio B magic, including more than 1,000 American hits, 40 million-selling singles, and over 200 Elvis Presley recordings (by far more than any other studio). Step into the house of the hitmakers and discover the legend of this Music Row landmark.
Come enjoy a personally guided tour through this world-famous studio located on renowned Music... | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | 08/09/11-
Ongoing | Nashville |
| Student Art Gallery (CLOSED) | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville | 08/27/10-
Ongoing | Clarksville |
German Expressionism: Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of ArtsPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts October 19, 2012-February 10, 2013 This exhibition features works from the Detroit Institute of Arts’ renowned collection of early twentieth-century German Expressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, by artists who belonged to the groups known as The Blue Rider (active in Munich) and The Bridge (active in Dresden and Berlin). The Detroit collection contains major works by Wassily Kandinsky, Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Franz Marc and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
This exhibition was... | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 10/19/12-
02/10/13 | Nashville |
Brian Alfred: It's Already the End of the WorldPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts September 21, 2012-January 13, 2013 A Brooklyn-based video artist and painter, Brian Alfred employs seductive colors, abstract shapes and coolly detached photo-based imagery to address such themes as revolution, vulnerability and government surveillance in contemporary life. Exhibit on display from September 21, 2012 to January 13, 2013. | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 09/21/12-
01/13/13 | Nashville |
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and VideoPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts September 21, 2012-January 13, 2013 Carrie Mae Weems is a socially motivated artist whose works invite contemplation on issues surrounding race, gender and class. Increasingly, she has broadened her view to include global struggles for equality and justice. This retrospective, which is composed of more than 150 objects—primarily photographs but also written texts, audio recordings, fabric banners and videos—will provide an opportunity to trace the evolution of Weems’s career over the last 30 years. Although... | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 09/21/12-
01/13/13 | Nashville |
| Permanent Residents: Artists from Cheekwood’s Collection | Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art | 03/31/12-
12/31/12 | Nashville |
Sutton Homestead & Pioneer Village: The Suttons Best ChristmasPresented by Granville Museum, Inc. at Sutton Homestead & Pioneer Village November 16-December 29, 2012 Enjoy a guided tour of The Sutton Home, Antique Car and Transportation Museum,1950's Service Station, Blacksmith, Grist Mill, and Weave Shops. Also don't miss out on the Ag Museum and Pioneer Village.
The Sutton Home will host a different exhibit each season of the year.
Now Featuring: "The Suttons Best Christmas" | Granville Museum, Inc. | 11/16/12-
12/29/12 | Granville |
| Free Admission Day at Customs House Museum | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville | 12/08/12 | Clarksville |
First Saturday Art Crawl DowntownPresented by Nashville Downtown Partnership at The Arcade December 1, 2012 Every first Saturday of the month, multiple downtown galleries open their doors to avid art lovers as well as anyone else that is just curious to see what the Gallery Crawl is all about. Over 1,000 people attend this very popular monthly event. Most galleries serve free wine and other refreshments. The gallery crawl is a great free night on the town!
The galleries are open from 6:00pm-9:00pm and the Nashville Downtown Partnership provides two free shuttles among the galleries from... | Nashville Downtown Partnership | 12/01/12 | Nashville |
| Free Admission Day at Customs House Museum | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville | 11/10/12 | Clarksville |
First Saturday Art Crawl DowntownPresented by Nashville Downtown Partnership at The Arcade November 3, 2012 Every first Saturday of the month, multiple downtown galleries open their doors to avid art lovers as well as anyone else that is just curious to see what the Gallery Crawl is all about. Over 1,000 people attend this very popular monthly event. Most galleries serve free wine and other refreshments. The gallery crawl is a great free night on the town!
The galleries are open from 6:00pm-9:00pm and the Nashville Downtown Partnership provides two free shuttles among the galleries from... | Nashville Downtown Partnership | 11/03/12 | Nashville |
The Conservancy Gala 2012Presented by Conservancy for The Parthenon and Centennial Park at The Parthenon November 3, 2012 The Conservancy Gala 2012 is the annual fundraiser which benefits two crown jewels in our city, the Parthenon and Centennial Park. We hope you will mark your calendar for an extraordinary evening at the Parthenon on November 3, 2012. This year's Concervancy Gals is Co-Chaired by Betsy and Ridley Wills with Clare Armistead as Honorary Chair.
The tariff is $500 per person, with a special opportunity to support on the Patrons Level.
| Conservancy for The Parthenon and Centennial Park | 11/03/12 | Nashville |
| Artober 2012 | Metro Arts | 10/01/12-
10/31/12 | |
Sutton Homestead & Pioneer Village: Common People in Uncommon Times - The Civil War Experience in TennesseePresented by Granville Museum, Inc. at Sutton Homestead & Pioneer Village September 1-October 28, 2012 Enjoy a guided tour of The Sutton Home, Antique Car and Transportation Museum,1950's Service Station, Blacksmith, Grist Mill, and Weave Shops. Also don't miss out on the Ag Museum and Pioneer Village.
The Sutton Home will host a different exhibit each season of the year.
Now Featuring: A Tennessee State Museum Exhibit - "Common People in Uncommon Times: The Civil War Experience in Tennessee" | Granville Museum, Inc. | 09/01/12-
10/28/12 | Granville |
Metamorphoses: Drawings by Chris Scarborough, Kristi Hargrove, Mark Hosford, and Erin AnfinsonPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts June 8-October 28, 2012 Metamorphoses includes drawings by four area artists, whose tightly-controlled yet mysterious images suggest dissolution—of beliefs, information, even the body itself—and subsequent re-integration into novel forms that convey a sense of renewed possibility. The title was inspired by Ovid’s interpretations of bodily transformations in ancient mythology, but also connects to the Surrealists’ use of art to dissolve the veils of the world by imaginatively injecting... | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 06/08/12-
10/28/12 | Nashville |
| Off The Beaten Path Studio Tour | Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour | 10/26/12-
10/28/12 | Smithville |
Autumn ShowcasePresented by IADT Nashville at IADT Nashville October 26, 2012 IADT-Nashville's Autumn Showcase is a Halloween-themed event featuring a student and faculty art gallery, food, and live music! | IADT Nashville | 10/26/12 | Nashville |
Nashville Internationals VI and Celebrate Nashville Presented by Metro Parks and Recreation's Centennial Art Center at Centennial Park October 5-October 24, 2012 Nashville's Internationals VI: artists from around the world who now call Nashville home. This gallery will take place in the Centennial Art Center which will be open during festival hours (10:00am-6:00pm)on Saturday, October 6 and during regular gallery hours for the remainder of the exhibit which runs from October 6 through October 24. There will... | Metro Parks and Recreation's Centennial Art Center | 10/05/12-
10/24/12 | Nashville |
| Free Admission Day at Customs House Museum | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville | 10/13/12 | Clarksville |
First Saturday Art Crawl DowntownPresented by Nashville Downtown Partnership at The Arcade October 6, 2012 Every first Saturday of the month, multiple downtown galleries open their doors to avid art lovers as well as anyone else that is just curious to see what the Gallery Crawl is all about. Over 1,000 people attend this very popular monthly event. Most galleries serve free wine and other refreshments. The gallery crawl is a great free night on the town!
The galleries are open from 6:00pm-9:00pm and the Nashville Downtown Partnership provides two free shuttles among the galleries from... | Nashville Downtown Partnership | 10/06/12 | Nashville |
Japan 1945: Images by Joe O'DonnellPresented by Tennessee State Museum at War Memorial Plaza and Tennessee Capitol October 6, 2011-September 30, 2012 An exhibition of images taken by the late Nashville photographer Joe O’Donnell in 1945 post-war Japan opens October 6 at the State Museum’s Military Branch. The exhibit, entitled Japan 1945: Images by U.S. Marine Photographer Joe O'Donnell,
will showcase 24 of the most compelling images O’Donnell took while serving in the U.S. Marines Corps in Japan. O’Donnell enlisted in the U.S. Marines Corps in 1943 at the age of 20 and was assigned as a... | Tennessee State Museum | 10/06/11-
09/30/12 | Nashville |
Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert MuseumPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts June 22-September 30, 2012 June 22–September 30, 2012
Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum centers on two major works by John Constable in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the full-size oil sketches for The Hay Wain and The Leaping Horse. These paintings will be displayed with a group of the artist’s small oil sketches and supplemented by an exquisite series of his watercolors and drawings, demonstrating progress from his early works to the pencil... | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 06/22/12-
09/30/12 | Nashville |
| 34th Annual TACA Fall Craft Fair | Tennessee Association of Craft Artists - TACA | 09/21/12-
09/23/12 | Nashville |
Bill TraylorPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts May 25-September 23, 2012 Presented concurrently with the artists of Gee’s Bend and Thornton Dial will be 63 drawings and paintings on cardboard by the self-taught Alabama artist Bill Traylor. Born into slavery in 1854 on a plantation near Montgomery, Traylor began making art at the age of 82. His works are notable for their flat and simply defined shapes and vibrant compositions, in which memories, folk legends and observations relating to African American life are merged. The power and originality of his art... | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 05/25/12-
09/23/12 | Nashville |
| 23rd Annual White Oak Crafts Fair | Arts Center of Cannon County | 09/08/12-
09/09/12 | Woodbury |
| Free Admission Day at Customs House Museum | Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville | 09/08/12 | Clarksville |
Tree Houses Exhibit at Discovery CenterPresented by Discovery Center at Murfree Spring at Discovery Center at Murfree Spring May 26-September 7, 2012 May 26 - September 7, 2012
Spend some time hanging out in the trees! Immerse yourself in an indoor tree house and explore firsthand who lives in trees through stereoscopic viewfinders, tracking clues, natural artifacts, and sound.
The lively setting will have visitors roaming from tree to tree to house as they discover the many habitats that trees provide for animals large and small—and people, too. Visitors will uncover fascinating facts about who actually lives in... | Discovery Center at Murfree Spring | 05/26/12-
09/07/12 | Murfreesboro |
| Treehouses: Great Works of Literature | Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art | 05/26/12-
09/03/12 | Nashville |
Creation Story: Gee's Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton DialPresented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts May 25-September 3, 2012 May 25–September 3, 2012
This exhibition explores parallels and intersections in the works of the world-famous Gee’s Bend quilters and the self-taught master of assemblage art, Thornton Dial. Quilts made by the women of Gee’s Bend, a small rural community southwest of Selma, Ala., feature a sophisticated orchestration of color and eccentric quasi-geometric shapes composing what the New York Times has said are “some of the most miraculous works of modern art... | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 05/25/12-
09/03/12 | Nashville |
Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts at Frist Center for the Visual Arts May 25-September 3, 2012 Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky is fascinated by the subject of the topographical landscape as it has been irrevocably altered by industries that feed the world’s appetite for material goods. Burtynsky finds both beauty and repulsiveness in his depictions of mining, manufacturing, consumption, waste disposal and recycling. Rather than simply decry the human scarring of the land, he acknowledges the conflict between the human need for economic growth and the value of protecting... | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 05/25/12-
09/03/12 | Nashville |
| Bill Traylor Drawings at The Frist Center | Frist Center for the Visual Arts | 05/25/12-
09/03/12 | Nashville |
Every Tree Tells a StoryPresented by Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art at Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art May 26-September 2, 2012 This stunning exhibition comes to Cheekwood from the Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) in Washington, D.C. and features 25 images of 12 different sites in the US and Puerto Rico as captured by prize-winning and renowned photographers. Every Tree Tells a Story focuses on the irreplaceable trees and tree groupings, often associated with historically significant people and events that have shaped the development of communities and cultures. The traveling photography... | Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art | 05/26/12-
09/02/12 | Nashville |
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