VISUAL ART & MUSEUMS

July Listings for Tennessee Art League

Premiere & Ethel Smith Galleries – Ev Niewoehner, Musical Expressions. Ev (Everett) Niewoehner was born in rural Iowa and at age ten moved with his family to Colorado. He graduated from Fort Collins High School and later earned history degrees from Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado. He also studied art at several universities. After teaching at the high school level for four years, he owned and operated an art gallery in Los Angeles. Teaching opportunities brought him to Tennessee where he taught for twenty one years.

In 1999, Niewoehner retired from teaching which allowed him to concentrate on his first love, oil painting, an activity at which he is working full time. Although working with a number of genres, it has been the subject of music which has dominated the bulk of his body of work. Niewoehner has exhibited in a number of galleries and art centers in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Nashville, Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta, Rome, GA, Estes Park, CO, and Dickson, TN. He is a member of the Arts Council of New Orleans, the Oil Painters of America, the Hendersonville Arts Council, the Tennessee Art League and Nashville Artist Guild. Niewoehner lives in Nashville where he maintains his studio. He has a daughter who lives in Nashville and is a teacher with Metro schools.

Image: Jazz Combo, oil on canvas, 30" x 40"

Members Gallery – Artworks by Tennessee Art League members will debut Saturday, July 7th. Many mediums will be featured - oil, pastel, watercolor, acrylics, and pen and ink.

Poston3 Gallery – Wednesday TAL Art Group (TBA). "The Wednesday Class," the Tennessee Art League's only ongoing instructed art class, is having its first exhibit. The members of this class receive individualized instruction, based on their artistic goals and experience. Works in oil, pastel, charcoal, watercolor and graphite, created by Jean Carter Wilson, Diana Springfield, Jean McGee, Dick Murphy, and their instructor Geralda Shockey will be in the Poston Gallery. Subjects presented will include mostly portraiture, but also animals and landscapes. (Photo features work being presented at an unveiling ceremony by Nashville Mayor Karl Dean. Bailey was a native Tennessean and the first performer - ever - at the Grand Ole Opry.)

Second Floor Gallery – Studio A Group's featured artists for July include Fran Werner, Jamie Sanderlin Parks, Jason Erwin, Noriko Register, and Vinci Kolodziejski. A diverse selection of subject matter and of artistic mediums will be presented.

The exhibits will open Saturday, July 7th. A reception will be held the evening of the 7th from 6:00pm-9:00pm; the work will hang through Friday, August 3. 

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.