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Alright, y’all ready to get krrrazy?! Not even kidding, Art After Hours is basically the equivalent of a rave for fine arts. All the hottest galleries around town are staying open extra, extra late (5 – 8pm) for all of you party-holics, and they’re sure to celebrate with some special events, food and/or drink and even some new openings. This is Nashville’s finer culture at it’s best, and just a great opportunity to engage with a remarkably impressive community while the sun sets.

Art After Hours, presented by the Nashville Association of Art Dealers, takes place all around town with several prominent galleries, including, but not limited to: Cumberland Gallery (Green Hills), Gallery One (Belle Meade Galleria), LeQuire Gallery (Charlotte Avenue/Green Hills), Local Color (on Broadway), Midtown Gallery (on Broadway), Zeitgeist (Hillsboro Village), Bennett Galleries (Green Hills), Richland Fine Art (Green Hills), and Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery. Emily suggests checking out the Arcade downtown or Hillsboro Village for some art crawl fare, but I also want to highlight a very special event going on at Belmont University’s Lou Center for the Visual Arts.

A special exhibition, “Quick Read, Message Received: The Poster as a Vehicle for Social Commentary” from Nashvillian Kristina Graham has been on display for several weeks now, and her closing reception will be a part of this months Art After Hours event. In addition to a series of works by Graham, the exhibition also features celebrated artists Milton Glaser, Luba Lukova, Kelsey Freeman, Favianna Rodriguez and Jorge Arrietta. From Kristina’s artist statement: (more…)

I haven’t written a post about Art After Hours since they either changed publicists or got rid of them completely. So now I sadly don’t get a bunch of pretty pictures in my inbox that I can send along to you.

However, I still wanted to tell you all what’s up.

Art After Hours is a basically an art crawl. You walk or drive around to different art galleries, visualize what that awesome painting will look like above your TV, drink some free wine, socialize, and repeat. This happens every first Thursday of every month. It goes from 5-8pm and it’s always a lot of fun. Even I sometimes buy things when I go on art crawls.

So, where does this happen? The easy answer is “all over the city” but it’s mainly focused around the Arcade downtown and in Hillsboro Village. Here’s a list of some of the bigger galleries participating:

• Cumberland Gallery (Green Hills)
• Gallery One (Belle Meade Galleria) 
• LeQuire Gallery (Charlotte Avenue/Green Hills)
  
• Local Color (on Broadway) 
• Midtown Gallery (on Broadway) 
• Zeitgeist (Hillsboro Village) 

I would mostly just stroll around those areas. After all, art galleries tend to be grouped together. However, if you want a map of all the galleries, here it is!

Have fun, be safe, stay warm.

-Emily

In the past I’ve given a lot of attention to NAAD’s Art After Hours. For several months I wrote about a lot of the major galleries, most of which are downtown, and didn’t give much thought to the other smaller, individual communities.

Eventually I started getting emails about something called the Hillsoboro Village Art Walk that also took place on the first Thursday of every month. I figured I was just being told about the same event twice, but then I received some pictures of the event and realized that, though it was connected to Art After Hours, it was completely its own thing in Hillsboro Village.

As some of you know, I’ve spent a lot of time in the Belmont/Vanderbilt Area, and that of course includes Hillsboro Village, so I was surprised I’d never even heard of this before. Apparently I don’t get out as much as I like to think I do. I must fix that.

Judging from the pictures the Art Walk is so much more than free wine and a bunch of artists trying to sell you their stuff. It really is a community get-together. The pics I saw showed a really significant crowd of adults and children alike and live music everywhere. It looked like a lot of fun and I imagine is a great place to meet some cool people.

I don’t really want to just blindly give you some highlights of what will be happening because I honestly don’t know what the highlights are. I’m not familiar with many local artists. Anyway, I don’t think that’s the point of the Art Walk. I think that the idea is that you wander around and discover new things, and if I sat here and gave you a list of things to hit then what’s the point of it?

There’s one thing I will tell you though, Boscos is the featured local shop this month and they’ll be raffling off a prize bag with some Boscos swag, a free beer dinner, and a pair of hand-made glass earrings by featured artist Meredith Edmondson. So I say go and get yourself entered, then check out the rest of the festivities.

The Hillsboro Village Art Crawl is Thursday October 7th (and every first Thursday of the month) from 5-8pm.

Happy walking. I hope to see you there.

-Emily

FINER THINGS - Laughing Skeleton by Matthew Cox

By now I’m sure most of you know the drill. On the first Thursday of every month the art dealers in Nashville leave their galleries open late and give you free wine. You get to walk around and look at cool and not so cool artwork. You may even find something you want to buy, but it’s not just about buying stuff, it’s about enjoying local art with your community. The event takes place from 5-8pm. Here are some of the higlights.

• The Cumberland Gallery (Green Hills) presents Artist Interview: the irreverent Robert Durham. The second installment in an ongoing series, this event features a discussion with the long-time Nashville painter, in an interview format, exploring the theories and processes of his work.  The discussion will begin at 6:30PM. Gallery One (Belle Meade Galleria) will showcase several new works by figurative sculptor Chad Await, a third-generation wood carver with works in the collections of Disney, Caesar’s Palace, entertainer Usher, and the Alabama Supreme Court
• LeQuire Gallery (Charlotte Avenue) is hosting Finer Things Gallery with a special benefit event during its “on the road” tour. Many of the artists represented by Finer Things have donated their work to be sold and 100% of all sales of work by Finer Things artists will go to support rebuilding the gallery.
• Local Color (on Broadway) celebrates the Fourth of July weekend with a Mexican Fiesta night including Sangria refreshments
• Zeitgeist (Hillsboro Village) opens the second of three summer ensemble exhibitions, entitled Right to Assemble. The exhibits showcase luminaries from the Nashville artist studio, university, and independent art scene. This month’s show features diverse artwork by Derek Cote, Todd McDaniel, Kristi Hargrove, Andrew Smaldone, and Ruth Zelanski.
• LeQuire Gallery (Green Hills) work by master potter, Tom Turnbull
• Parthenon, East & West Galleries (Centennial Park) continues the exhibition Hidden Gems: A History of Collecting at the Parthenon. Artwork from its permanent collection, the exhibition tells the story of art collecting at the Parthenon, which has its roots in the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
• Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Downtown) offers free music in the Grand Lobby. This month, Fuzzmuzz, a.k.a. Winston Harrison, is an electro-acoustic, ambient artist who will be recording this performance for a new CD

And, as always, some samples of what you’ll see in the galleries this Thursday.

CUMBERLAND GALLERY - Tall by Dane Carder

Again, it’s time for Art After Hours, which is held the first Thursday of every month at the various art galleries around town from 5-8pm. It’s always a great time, with lots of art, wine, and company. What else could you want on a Thursday evening?

There is a little spin on things this month. Just like so many other events have done, Art After Hours will be doing what they can to help victims of the recent flooding. 10% of all art sales will go towards helping the community.

Here are the highlights of Art After Hours:

• The Cumberland Gallery (Green Hills) will host a series of discussions with artists in an interview format during the summer months.  The various artists will be exploring the theories and processes of their work, beginning with Nashville painter Dane Carder.  The discussion will begin at 6:30 p.m.
• Gallery One (Belle Meade Galleria) will be showing the surrealist paintings of California artist Jeff Faust.  His acrylic on canvas paintings feature odd juxtapositions – a combination of clouds, ropes, leaves, eggs, and other objects and settings that hint at some form of narrative
• LeQuire Gallery (Charlotte Avenue) continues its exhibition, Influences of White, featuring paintings and sculptures inspired by the color white from Maggie Rose, Lori Putnam, Somers Randolph, Ben Caldwell, Alan LeQuire, Marti Jones Dixon, and Joshua Bronaugh. Tom Turnbull also joins the group with a new collection of porcelain pottery featuring a special white-on-white glaze created exclusively for this exhibit. As a special treat, hors d’oeuvres en blanc will be served.
• LeQuire Gallery (Green Hills) will be featuring handmade paper books in all sizes (starting with 1” books) by Claudia Lee
• Local Color (on Broadway) continues its exhibition of new works by Sandee Sander and Anita Westerberg.  In addition, artists Charles Cox, Lee Hamblen, and Emily Miller will be featured.  These artists lost their homes in the Nashville flood and for this evening, 100% of their art sales will go directly to these artists
• Zeitgeist (Hillsboro Village) opens the first of three summer ensemble exhibitions, entitled Right to Assemble.  The exhibits will showcase luminaries from the Nashville artist studio, university, and independent art scene.  This month’s group show features diverse artwork by Nicole Baumann, Mark Bynon, Shannon Clarke, Joe Saunders, and Patrick Schlafer.

And some images:

LOCAL COLOR - Road Less Traveled by Brenda Hasty

Just like every first Thursday of every month (unless there’s a crazy snowstorm) it’s time for Art After Hours. From 5-8pm art galleries will be open, serving refreshments while you check out some incredible art. Here are the highlights:

• The Cumberland Gallery (Green Hills) continues its exhibition of new works by Ahren Ahrenholz and collages by John Fraser
• Gallery One (Belle Meade Galleria) celebrates the gallery’s fifth year anniversary showcasing a selection of work by many popular gallery artists, including Rebecca Ruegger, Thomas Monaghan, Jean Hess, and Lorraine Glessner
• LeQuire Gallery (near Sylvan Park) continues Haitian Contemporary Art featuring the artwork of Haitian artists Guidel Presume, Armond Fleurimond, Emales Delis, Telfort, Rosaria, Estevenson, and Metellus.  A second shipment of work has just arrived!  The gallery is donating 75% of sales to the artists and to the NGO (Lambi Fund or Fonkoze)
• Local Color (on Broadway) is featuring new works from local artists Leslie Gilbert and Brenda Hasty
• Zeitgeist (Hillsboro Village) opens Terraform, Harry Gold’s latest body of bronze, steel, and concrete work continuing his exploration of balance/imbalance and human relationships to planet Earth
• Tennessee Art League & Galleries (Downtown) presents dual exhibitions Color Through Time by Nashville artist Noriko Register featuring 23 vibrant works in oil and acrylic, and Shouts and Whispers, works in oil by Nashville artist Stephanie Helmey
• Auld Alliance Gallery (Westgate Center, Hwy 100) offers artist Jennifer Padgett, who will present a painting demonstration and discuss her approach to composition.  Refreshments will be served
• Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery (near Hillsboro Village) celebrates the opening of Vanderbilt’s newly renovated and expanded galleries by presenting Eye & Mind:  A Legacy of Art Collecting at Vanderbilt University, illustrating the breadth and depth of the collection, now in its 53rd year

For more information visit www.ArtAfterHours.net

Click the link below to see a sneak-peek of the art in the galleries

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This Thursday from 5-8pm is Art After Hours, an event brought to you by NAAD. Tonight art galleries in Nashville will stay open late and provide refreshments. It’s a lot of fun. Here are some details:

• Zeitgeist in Hillsboro Village opens Hush the Static, Justin Terry’s latest body of work and features lyrical abstract paintings which subtly reference ideas of temporality and mark the muted yet incessant flux of time.
• The Cumberland Gallery in Green Hills previews an exhibition of new works by Ahren Ahrenholz and collages by John Fraser, and will offer a book signing of Paper Chess by Kell Black.  Books will be available for purchase at the gallery.
• Finer Things Gallery next to the Fairgrounds features Tennessee artist Linda Johnson’s latest series of works entitled “Day Dreaming,” conceived through a variety of pleasurable moments that she has taken from her distorted childhood memories… most of which have no defining lines or boarders.
• Gallery One in the Belle Meade Galleria will be showcasing a new exhibition entitled Tender featuring the mixed media-work of Michelle Firment Reid.  Her artwork incorporates lyrical handwriting as a vanishing commentary.
• LeQuire Gallery near Sylvan Park will exhibit Haitian Art featuring the artwork of Haitian artists Guidel Presume, Armond Fleurimond, Emales Delis, Telfort, Rosaria, Estevenson, and Metellus.  The gallery is donating 75% of sales to the artists and to the NGO (Lambi Fund or Fonkoze).
• Local Color on Broadway is featuring new works from local artists Leslie Gilbert and Brenda Hasty.

Other open galleries include Bennett Galleries, HA Gallery at Hanging Around, Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery at Tennessee State University, The Parthenon, Richland Fine Art, among others.

As always, here are some pictures of works that will be on display during the event:

-Emily

PS,
I’d like to apologize for accidentally referring to NAAD as NAAP. I probably wrote NAAP because I wanted one at that moment. I will also resist the urge to laugh at my own joke.

Once again, it’s time for Art After Hours, where many art galleries in Nashville are open from 5-8pm and will be serving refreshments. It’s a lot of fun, you should check it out. Here are some of the highlights:

• The Cumberland Gallery in Green Hills will host a fundraiser for Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee with a show entitled Food Feeds People.  All artwork is food related and a portion of sales will be donated to Second Harvest.  In addition Paulette Licitra, publisher and editor, will read from Alimentum -The Literature of Food – the only literary magazine dedicated to the literature of food. She and other writers will begin their readings at 6:30 p.m. Donations of non-perishable food items will be requested at the door
• Gallery One in the Belle Meade Galleria will be featuring works by over 25 gallery artists
• LeQuire Gallery near Sylvan Park showcases Alan LeQuire’s Cultural Heroes to honor Black History Month.  This event includes the opportunity to view the initial construction of the 40″ wooden armature of LeQuire’s newest addition to the Cultural Heroes series
• Local Color on Broadway continues “Large Works,” featuring large scale pieces from gallery artists
• Zeitgeist in Hillsboro Village opens the 2010 schedule with a new works on paper show featuring artists Patrick DeGuira, John Folsom, Brady Haston, and Tim Hussey
• The Arts Company downtown previews “Jubilation: The Obama Inauguration,” a series of iconic  photographs documenting last year’s inauguration, by Lou Outlaw (aka. Dr. Lucius Outlaw, Associate Provost at Vanderbilt), featuring a conversation with Dr. Outlaw at 6:00 p.m. about this historic occasion, accompanied by his photographs of Nashville’s Freedom Riders.

Other open galleries include Bennett Galleries, HA Gallery at Hanging Around, Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery at Tennessee State University, The Parthenon, Richland Fine Art, among others

Once again, it’s time for Art After Hours! This Thursday art galleries in Nashville will be open from 5-10pm and will be serving refreshments so you can enjoy some cool art with other people. Here’s some more info for you:

• Zeitgeist in Hillsboro Village presents a works on paper show titled “Zeitgeist on Paper” featuring gallery artists
• Auld Alliance Gallery in Westgate Center, Hwy 100 features artist and art teacher Lori Putnam, who will present a brief talk on the value of original art, and the gallery will present a jewelry trunk show by Fox and Vixen and Co.  The entertainment provided by musician and vocalist Kirstie Lane
• The Cumberland Gallery in Green Hills previews a new show entitled Young Turks, featuring the works by three Nashville talents, Dane Carder, Jeff Green, and Max Shuster.  While these three young men hail from Nashville, they each have a unique and distinct vision.  They will be present to discuss their work
• Gallery One in the Belle Meade Galleria continues “A River,” a special all-media exhibition aimed at raising awareness of our precious rivers in Tennessee.  A portion of the proceeds from all sales will benefit the Harpeth River Watershed Association (HRWA), with an additional direct contribution made to HRWA by the gallery
• LeQuire Gallery near Sylvan Park will feature 91-year-old Beverly Plummer’s wood block prints and Jim Sherraden’s latest woodblocks from his “Cuban” series
• Local Color on Broadway presents “Large Works,” featuring large scale pieces from gallery artists
• The Arts Company downtown hosts a “Hot Night with the Classics – Hot Chocolate, Hot Cider, and Hot Art,” a post-holiday occasion to launch the 14^th year of presenting art

Other galleries participating in Art After Hours include Bennett Galleries, HA Gallery at Hanging Around, Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery at Tennessee State University, The Parthenon, Richland Fine Art, among others.  Frist Center for the Visual Arts and the Parthenon at Centennial Park present exhibitions with a fee to non-members – Frist Center participates in Art After Hours with free music and lectures.

As usual, behind the cut you will find pictures from the galleries so you can see what you like and focus on hitting up those places.

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Monday

8 off 8th at the Mercy Lounge – 9pm
Here’s the lineup!
1. Max & the Wild Things
2. Will Morgan Holland
3. The Kingston Springs
4. This Modern Station
5. The Zut Alors
6. Bows & Arrows
7. Chris Crofton & The Alcohol Stuntband
8. Cobra Cheetah Tiger Viper

Tuesday

Dia de Los Reyes (The Day of the Kings) at Discovery Center at Murfree Spring – 5-7:30pm
Dia de Los Reyes is a Mexican holiday, and everyone is invited to celebrate it! Enjoy Rosca de Reyes and other traditional foods in the kitchen, along with special art activities in Creation Station.

New Faces Nite at The Basement – 8pm
Woohoo, a free weekly show that we actually know the line-up for! This week brings to you Wailin Canes, Burlap Palace, Jas Patrick, Danielle Bloom, Kill Paris, Shane Lamb and Drew Kennedy! I hope it isn’t bad, because I honestly don’t know any of these people so I can’t vouch for them.

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