• Tell-a-friend

Metro Parks Cultural Arts Department

The Cultural Arts department of Metro Parks includes the teaching and performance areas of dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and the Parthenon, Fort Negley, and Special events. This year over 200,000 people will participate in class, workshop, gallery exhibit, festival concert or performance produced by the Cultural Arts department.

• At-a-
  Glance
• Upcoming
  Events
• Past
  Events
• Video &
  Images

• Contact Info

  Metro Parks Cultural Arts Department

  2565 Park Plaza Drive
  Nashville, TN 37203

  Phone: (615)862-8424

• Current Events

  11/06/09- 12/18/09

  Centennial Art Center Gallery: Annual Holiday Season Art Exhibit and Sale Centennial Art Center

• Upcoming Events

  04/28/10- 05/01/10

  The Elusive Mr. Twain by Carolyn German Two Rivers Mansion

• Past Events

  10/02/09- 10/30/09	Nashville's Internationals III: Artists From Around the World Who Now Call Nashville Home Centennial Art Center
  08/29/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring The Moonlighters Centennial Park
  08/22/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Music City Swing Centennial Park
  08/15/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Debbie Bailes Band Centennial Park
  08/08/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Radio Daze Centennial Park
  08/07/09- 09/25/09	Centennial Art Center Gallery: Lee Hamblen, Joan Lawler and Brenda Stein Centennial Art Center
  08/01/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Usual Suspects Centennial Park
  07/25/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Merchants of Cool Centennial Park
  07/18/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring The Moonlighters Centennial Park
  07/11/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Stardust Centennial Park
  06/27/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Music City Swing Centennial Park
  06/21/09	Father's Day Concert featuring The Nashville Community Concert Band Centennial Park Bandshell
  06/20/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Radio Daze Centennial Park
  06/13/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Bill Sleeter Band Centennial Park
  06/06/09	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring The Moonlighters Centennial Park
  06/01/09- 07/31/09	Centennial Art Center Gallery: Patricia Green, Roberta Winnett Harrison and Timothy Weber Centennial Art Center
  04/03/09	Parthenon Echoes featuring Nashville Recorders The Parthenon
  02/14/09	Jazz from the Heart Concert to benefit Z. Alexander Looby Tribute Project Z. Alexander Looby Theatre at Looby Branch of the Nashville Public Library
  02/06/09- 03/27/09	Exhibition featuring Art Glass by Tom Fuhrman, and A Printmaking Cooperative by Plate Tone Printshop Centennial Art Center
  12/11/08	Parthenon Holiday Recorder Concert The Parthenon
  12/05/08- 12/23/08	Holiday Season Art Exhibition and Sale Centennial Art Center
  11/14/08- 01/31/09	Earth, Air and Water: Photographs by Nancy Hellebrand The Parthenon
  11/14/08- 11/15/08	The View From Jupiter Z. Alexander Looby Theatre at Looby Branch of the Nashville Public Library
  11/07/08- 11/28/08	Pottery, Sculpture and Painting by artists Kathy Carter, R. Lafayette Mitchell and Eva Sochorova Centennial Art Center
  10/03/08- 10/31/08	Nashville's Internationals Art Exhibit Centennial Art Center
  10/03/08	Opening Reception for Nashville's Internationals Art Exhibit Centennial Art Center
  08/09/08	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Debbie Bailes Band Centennial Park
  08/08/08- 08/29/08	Three Exhibitions featuring artists Eric Botbyl, Charlie Doggett and Jane Word Centennial Art Center
  08/02/08	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring The Moonlighters Centennial Park
  08/01/08	Red Caboose Concerts: The Moonlighters Red Caboose Park (Bellevue)
  07/26/08	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring The Usual Suspects Orchestra (Single Swing) Centennial Park
  07/25/08	Red Caboose Concerts: Delmer Holland and the Blue Greek Ramblers Old Time String Band Red Caboose Park (Bellevue)
  07/12/08	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring the Paul Ross Orchestra Centennial Park
  07/11/08- 07/31/08	Cumberland Valley Tennessee Association of Craft Artists Juried Exhibition Centennial Art Center
  07/05/08	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Radio Daze Centennial Park
  06/28/08	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Music City Swing Centennial Park
  06/21/08	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Bill Sleeter Band Centennial Park
  06/20/08	Howard Pink and His Musical Garden Hoses Red Caboose Park (Bellevue)
  06/14/08	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring The Moonlighters Centennial Park
  06/07/08	Big Band Dances in Centennial Park featuring Rory Partin Band Centennial Park Bandshell
  06/06/08- 06/27/08	Three Photographers: Joe Fizer, Randy Muir and Rod Shean Centennial Art Center
  05/02/08	Metro Parks Youth jamBand Concert Z. Alexander Looby Theatre at Looby Branch of the Nashville Public Library
  03/07/08- 03/28/08	Exhibition featuring Dawn Hale, Lucian Nicholson, Mimi Walsh Centennial Art Center
  02/16/08	Becoming Lincoln Fort Negley
  12/07/07- 12/28/07	Holiday Season Exhibit & Sale (Benefits Arts in the Parks) Centennial Art Center
  12/07/07	Metro Parks Youth Jam Band Concert Z. Alexander Looby Theatre at Looby Branch of the Nashville Public Library
  11/09/07	Kiss: Kathryn Irene Sharon Show Centennial Art Center
  11/02/07- 11/10/07	Jungalbook East Park Community Center
  10/19/07	Maureen McCabe - Opening Reception The Parthenon
  10/05/07- 10/26/07	Nashville's Internationals Centennial Art Center
  07/20/07- 09/29/07	The Legend of the Koi: New Paintings by John Hung Ha The Parthenon
  06/02/07- 09/01/07	Big Band Dances Centennial Park
  05/25/07- 09/15/07	A Nashville Neighborhood: Paintings by Tony Teal The Parthenon