06/01/12- 07/27/12 |
Art Making in the Lobby: The Simple Life
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
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| 06/01/12 |
ARTini: Creation Story: Gee's Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 1, 2012
Are you curious about art? Do you want to learn more about the content and concepts behind an artist’s work? If you answered yes to either of those questions, then the ARTini program is for you! ARTinis are designed for everyone—from the novice to the connoisseur—and include informal and insightful conversations that offer a deeper understanding of one or two works of art in an exhibition.
Join Shaun Giles, educator for outreach at the Frist Center, as he leads...
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| 06/02/12 |
Architecture Tour of the Frist Center
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 2, 2012
Coming downtown to the First Saturday Art Crawl? Then start your evening at the Frist Center, as we’ve moved our monthly architecture tour to the first Saturday of each month.
“When was the Frist Center built? Who was the architect? Can you tell me about the floors in the galleries?” These are just some of the questions answered in the Frist Center’s popular monthly architecture tours. Stroll around the Frist Center as you learn more about our landmark...
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| 06/07/12 |
Artist's Forum featuring Michele Lambert and Michael Catalano
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 7, 2012
Artist’s Forum is a program in which Nashville-based and regional emerging and recognized artists discuss the thoughts and processes behind their work. Participants are encouraged to come and be part of a dialogue about the artistic process.
This month’s Artist’s Forum invites artist Michele Lambert and filmmaker Michael Catalano to speak about their artistic processes and concepts, as well as their experiences creating a series of short films with workshop...
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| 06/07/12 |
Music at the Frist: Meltzer Parson Guitar Duo
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 7, 2012
Bryant Meltzer and Michael David Parsons are making their mark in town as songwriters, but during their performances at the Frist Center, they showcase their considerable instrumental talents. Performing original tunes they describe as “instrumental pop,” their music features strong melodies and distinctive rhythms in wordless musical “discussions” between their instruments. Michael Parsons plays rhythm guitar, and Bryant Meltzer plays melody lines on mandolin or...
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| 06/07/12 |
Curator's Tour: Creation Story: Gee's Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
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| 06/08/12 |
Music at the Frist: Fuzzmuzz
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 8, 2012
Fuzzmuzz is an electro-acoustic, ambient artist who took the musical pulses of Miami, New York and LA before settling into the studio in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to record this first solo release, Fuzzmuzz “One.” His music is mesmerizing, poetic and hypnotic with influences as diverse as Pink Floyd, Bill Frisell, Erik Satie and Philip Glass. Winston has a degree in jazz performance from the University of Miami and was a member of the Gabe Dixon Band.
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06/08/12- 10/28/12 |
Metamorphoses: Drawings by Chris Scarborough, Kristi Hargrove, Mark Hosford, and Erin Anfinson
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented 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...
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| 06/09/12 |
Kids Club: Stencil-a-Story
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 9, 2012
Designed for 5–10 year olds, the Frist Center Kids Club offers exciting opportunities for children to discover, explore, and create art. Free membership includes a Kids Club card, rewards for participation, hands-on activities in the Martin ArtQuest Gallery, and monthly projects in the art studios. Featured activity: Create handmade stencils and craft a storytelling artwork! Drawing on the exhibition
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| 06/14/12 |
Artist’s Perspective: Ben Venom “Heavy Quilting”
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 14, 2012
In this lecture, San Francisco-based artist, Ben Venom will discuss his interest in juxtaposing traditional handmade crafts with one of the more extreme musical genres, heavy metal. His work can be described as a collision of Iron Maiden metal ballads with the outrageous stage antics of Ozzy Osbourne. His work is serious, yet attempts to take on a B-movie horror film style, where even the beasts of metal need a warm blanket to sleep with.
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| 06/15/12 |
Film: Manufactured Landscapes
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
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06/15/12- 06/16/12 |
Don’t Be Square: Adult Studio Series—A Two-Part Workshop, Guest Artist: Ben Venom
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 15-June 16, 2012
Presented in collaboration with Watkins College of Art, Design & Film
Join San Francisco-based artist Ben Venomfor a two-day workshop exploring quilt design and construction and challenging the concept that quilting is only the domain of folk art. The workshop will begin at the Frist Center with a tour of the exhibition Creation...
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| 06/17/12 |
Artful tales: "The River that Gave Gifts"
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
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| 06/18/12 |
Senior Monday
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 18, 2012
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts and WAMB-AM present Senior Mondays, a series of events for those who admit their “senior” status. On these days, gallery admission is $5.00 (1/2 price of regular admission) for seniors and there is a special senior parking fee of $2.00 in the Frist Center lots as long as spaces are available. Seniors receive a 15 percent discount on gift shop purchases and on Frist Center Café refreshments purchased throughout the day. Seniors are...
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| 06/21/12 |
Music at the Frist: Geary Moore
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 21, 2012
An accomplished composer, as well as master technician, Geary Moore has performed with a “Who’s Who” of music masters, including George Benson, Jimmy Ponder, Arthur Prysock, David “Fat Head” Newman, Ruth Brown, Jimmy McGriff, Bootsie Barnes and T.S. Monk.
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| 06/22/12 |
Curator’s Perspective: “A Conservative Revolutionary: John Constable and Art History”
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 22, 2012
This lecture contrasts John Constable’s ideas on the history of landscape painting, as revealed by lectures he gave in 1833 and 1836, with critics’ shocked responses to his apparent lack of finish and disregard for formal decorum. It surveys Constable’s posthumous international celebrity as a precursor of the Impressionists, or even a prophet of photography (the daguerreotype was invented 2 years after his death). Ironically, reverence for the old masters seems to have...
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06/22/12- 09/30/12 |
Constable: Oil Sketches from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented 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...
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| 06/28/12 |
Music at the Frist: Mean Mary
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Frist Center for the Visual Arts
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
June 28, 2012
'Mean Mary' James, a Florida native now based in Nashville, began life as a musical prodigy—could read music before she could read words and co-wrote songs at age five. By age seven she was proficient on the guitar, banjo, & violin, and entertained audiences with regular appearances on television and in live performances at venues across the US with her vocal and instrumental skills. Her fascinating life has been one long road show interspersed with TV, radio, and film. She has...
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| 06/29/12 |
Frist Fridays: Sam Bush w/special guest Lera Lynn
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
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| 07/27/12 |
Frist Fridays: Band of Heathens
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
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| 08/31/12 |
Frist Fridays: The Dynamites & Charles Walker
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
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09/21/12- 01/13/13 |
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented 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...
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09/21/12- 01/13/13 |
Brian Alfred: It's Already the End of the World
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented 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.
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| 09/27/12 |
Opera @ Frist w/ Nashville Symphony
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented by Nashville Opera Association
at Frist Center for the Visual Arts
September 27, 2012
Music, Art, and Opera will collide this fall at the Frist! Join the artistic staff of Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera, and the Frist Center for a panel discussion exploring the cultural make-up of Germany during the early twentieth-century German Expressionist movement which spawned a new style of music, art and theatre. The discussion will include examples of art and vocal/musical excerpts, as well as a live musical performance. Panelists include Trinita Kennedy, John...
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10/19/12- 02/10/13 |
German Expressionism: Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Presented 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...
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