FRIST CENTER summer camp assistant application

Opportunity to serve as a Summer Camp Assistant. Art-making skills and prior camp experience are a PLUS!

VISIT:

http://www.fristcenter.org/site/calendar/eventdetail.aspx?cid=346

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APPLY TO BECOME A SUMMER CAMP ASSISTANT

WEATHER UPDATE! Frist Center Agora project

DUE TO WEATHER, the AGORA Project at the Frist Center has been cancelled for January 29th. The Agora project will begin NEXT Tuesday, February 4th at 5:00pm.

In the spirit of the Greek agora (place of assembly), and in
conjunction with the Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece exhibition,
Thursday and Friday evenings will offer visitors to the Frist Center for the
Visual Arts an opportunity to take place in an art making and art exchange
project in the Frist Center’s own agora, the Grand Lobby from Friday, Jan. 29
–
Friday, Feb. 26, 2010.

On these evenings, from 5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m., there will be art making
supplies available in the lobby, as well as tables set up for visitors
to leave a work of art, exchanging it for one on the table. Members of
the Frist Center staff and the College Advisory Committee are contributing
the first works in this Artful Exchange. Visitors are invited to make a
piece of art and exchange it for one on the tables in the Frist Center’s Grand
Lobby.

This activity is free.

“This is a fun activity that we hope will encourage celebratory and
collaborative art making,” said Andee Rudloff, Frist Center community
relations manager. “Our College Advisory Committee is eager to reach
out to their peers on college campuses+ to experience the Frist Center. This
is one way for them to do that.

Want to participate in the Frist Center's Agora project??
Please contact Andee at 615-744-3351 or arudloff@fristcenter.org

Frist Center Senior Monday and FREE Day Jan 18, 2010

Frist Center
Senior Monday and FREE Day
Monday, January 18, 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, admission to the galleries will be FREE for all visitors on Monday, January 18.

This Monday is also a Senior Monday and in addition to free admission, seniors will receive a 15% discount on purchases in the Frist Center Gift Shop and Café during the day.

Docent guided tours will be offered at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., and WAMB's Harry Stephenson will be broadcasting live from the Grand Lobby at noon.

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Free Lecture at Frist Center "Thomas Hart Benton: An Epic Life"

Lecture at Frist Center
"Thomas Hart Benton: An Epic Life"
Thursday, December 17, 6:30 p.m.
Auditorium, FREE

Thomas Hart Benton was not only a famous American painter, but he was also a notable writer, musician, and spokesman for American country music. While best known as the leader of the “American Scene” movement of the 1930s, he also had a notable early career as a Modernist in Paris and was the teacher of the abstract painter Jackson Pollock. Join Henry Adams, author of the principal biography of Benton, as he reviews the trajectory of Benton’s life, and travels, which ranged from Gertrude Stein’s Paris to the highways of the American West.

Henry Adams is the author of Thomas Hart Benton: An American Original (Knopf, 1989) as well as the recent book Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock (Bloomsbury Press, October 2009).

Gallery Talk: Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song - Frist - 11-18-09

Gallery Talk: Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song
Wednesday, November 18, Noon
Included with gallery admission, Members FREE
Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Join Katie Delmez, Curator at the Frist Center, for a tour of Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song.

Exhibition Description:
In conjunction with the Nashville Public Library’s call for a city-wide celebration of beloved author Mark Twain, the Frist Center will present a selection of drawings and watercolors narrating Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by another promoter of American narratives and everyday life, Thomas Hart Benton.

A second section of the exhibition will focus on another source of inspiration for the artist—one particularly appropriate for Nashville—folk music and musicians. Benton’s lifelong admiration of Americana music is well known, yet works of this subject matter have not yet been assembled as an exhibition.

Gallery Talk: Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Circle of Early American Modernists - Frist - 11-14-09

Gallery Talk: Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Circle of Early American Modernists
Saturday, November 14, 11:00 a.m.
Included with gallery admission, Members FREE
Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Vivien Fryd, Ph.D., professor and chair of the history of art department at Vanderbilt University, will examine the art of the early American Modernists associated with the so-called Stieglitz circle—painters Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Joseph Stella, and Charles Sheeler as well as photographers Gertrude Käisebeir, Anne Brigman, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Steichen. The styles, themes, and historical contexts of these modern visual images will be examined, focusing especially upon themes of sexuality, the city, spirituality, and nature.

Gallery Talk: Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Times - Frist - 11-12-09

Gallery Talk: Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Times
Thursday, November 12, 7:00 p.m.
Included with gallery admission, Members FREE
Frist Center for the Visual Arts

Join Mark Scala, chief curator at the Frist Center, for a tour of Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of fine Arts, Boston, which includes superb examples of some of American Modernism’s greatest artists, such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Charles Sheeler.

Job Opportunity-Youth & Family Educator - Frist

Youth and Family Educator (Full-time, Exempt)


Date Effective: October 9, 2009

Supervised by: Director of Education and Outreach

The Environment: The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is a major art exhibition center that opened April 2001 in Nashville’s historic downtown post office building. The development of the Frist Center is the result of unprecedented community involvement and cooperation from the public and private sectors which developed this institution that now serves as a hub of Nashville’s flourishing arts community. The Center does not have a permanent art collection. Rather, the Center is committed to bringing top-quality exhibitions to the region, to community outreach, and to education programs and activities.

The Board of Trustees of the Frist Center is firmly committed to the Center. The Board is broadly diverse, comprising of corporate leaders of national renown, public school educators, working artists, community activists, and collectors.

The city of Nashville is steadfast in its commitment to the arts, as evidenced by the explosion of new galleries, important art exhibitions at the city’s existing institutions, and the formation of new visual and performing arts organizations. This growth is raising awareness of the arts to new and exciting levels in the city.

Job Summary: The Youth and Family Educator is responsible for the development and successful implementation of all programs related to youth and family learning at the Frist Center including the Martin ArtQuest, Kids Club, Family Days and Summer Art Camp. The Martin ArtQuest Gallery, the Frist Center’s interactive education gallery, is an integral component of the Frist Center visitor experience and has highly public visibility. Working with the Director of Education and Outreach, the Youth and Family educator sets the educational and philosophical approach to Youth and Family art education, supervises and directs daily operations, assessment, and renewal of the Martin ArtQuest Gallery. S/he is also responsible for developing content for other youth and family programs, budgeting, evaluation, and some grant writing, The Youth and Family Educator supervises and schedules the Assistant Educators for ArtQuest, teaching assistants, interns, volunteers, and any on-call educators or contract artists involved with these programs.

Essential Job Functions:

· Develop the art activities and learning concepts for individual stations in ArtQuest using appropriate art education principals, curriculum, or theories. These may be in support of art education principles or in support of specific exhibitions themes and concepts

· Responsible for the successful operations of ArtQuest including ordering of supplies, contracting appropriate vendors, management of technology and interactive components, and installation of temporary exhibitions and original works of art in ArtQuest.

· Plan, implement, and monitor the annual and long-range budget for ArtQuest and collaborate with development staff to seek foundational and grant support.

· Supervises ArtQuest staff and volunteers, including Teaching Assistants, interns, and on-call educators.

· Work in ArtQuest periodically to ensure direct knowledge of the daily operations and to develop appropriate assessment tools.

· Write and supervise production of all written support materials and installation texts and graphics using a variety of teaching strategies and approaches to address various learning styles, implement valid and reliable learning assessment strategies to evaluate ArtQuest.

· Develop youth and family programs in support of specific exhibitions or general art education principles using appropriate and current art education curriculum or theories.

· Manage and implement special educational events and festivals including Family Day and other related youth and family activities and events.

· Develop and manage art camps for youth – which includes identifying and managing camp personnel, overseeing content development and studio management, developing publicity materials, ordering supplies, supervising reservations, payment, and day-to-day operations of camp.

· Ensures programs are offered in a safe learning environment for visitors of all ages.

· Works collaborative with the Director of Education and Outreach, educators and curators, and has the leadership ability to ensure the successful implementation and execution of projects and to supervise a diverse staff.

· Develop and maintain positive relations with a wide range of people and organizations both inside the Frist Center and outside the Center, including visitors, volunteers, vendors, interns, contract artists and cultural organizations.

· Some evening and weekends required.

· Accept projects as assigned by supervisor.

Education: Requires a Master’s degree or above in art education, museum education, art history or related discipline, and teaching experience as visual art educator.

Work Experience: Must have 3-5 years of experience in a museum or school environment.

Skills and Abilities:

· Knowledge of current object-based pedagogy, curriculum, and teaching strategies for art education, art history, and museum education;
· Knowledge of interactive galleries in art museums;
· Knowledge and experience in current hardware, software, and museum resources;
· Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work directly with casual museum visitors, teachers, and students;
· Supervisory experience;
· Ability to contribute creatively in a team-oriented workplace;
· Strong organizational skills and ability to organize and inspire organization in the work of others;
· Ability to work effectively with public and staff on a personal level, with tact and diplomacy;
· Well-versed and at ease in computer all current applications;

Physical Requirements for Essential Functions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Demands may include:

· Lifting materials up to 25 pounds.
· Stooping, bending, kneeling
· Standing for long periods of time.
· Working at computer for long periods of time.

Interested candidates should send their resume, references and salary requirements to:

Frist Center for the Visual Arts
919 Broadway
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
Fax: (615) 244-3339
Attention: Sheri Horn, Human Resources Manager

Or E-mail shorn@fristcenter.org

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Gallery Talk on Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris - Frist - 10-29-09

Gallery Talk on Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Thursday, October 29, 7:00 p.m.
Included with gallery admission
FRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS

Join Katie Delmez, curator at the Frist Center, for a tour of this Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris.


Exhibition description:
Including more than 120 photographs by such artists as Man Ray, Eugène Atget, Brassaï, Hans Bellmer and André Kertész, Twilight Visions celebrates Paris as the literal and metaphoric foundation of Surrealism. In addition to examining the revolutionary social, aesthetic and political activities of the movement between the world wars, the exhibition focuses on works—predominantly photographs as well as select films, books and period ephemera—that evoke the mystery of the chance encounters experienced by the Surrealists as they wandered through the labyrinthine city streets.

Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts with guest curator Therese Lichtenstein, Ph.D.

Family Day @ FRIST - FREE - 10-18-09

Family Day @ FRIST
Sunday, October 18, 1:00–5:30 p.m.
FREE

The Frist Center invites you, your friends, and your family to enjoy a fun-filled day of art activities, live music, and exciting performances!

Check out Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which features amazing examples of American Modernist paintings and photographs. Stroll through Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song to see Benton’s original illustrations for Mark Twain’s books Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and drawings, prints, and paintings from Benton’s lifelong admiration of folk music and musicians. Top off your day with a visit to the Upper-Level Galleries to explore the exhibition Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris, which includes photographs that evoke the mystery of the chance encounters experienced by the Surrealists as they wandered through the labyrinthine streets of Paris.


Events and Activities
Family Day programs are offered on a first-come, first-served basis and are appropriate for all ages.

Musical Petting Zoo with Instrument Demonstration
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Rechter Room (Main Level)
How well do you know your instruments? Join the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum as they introduce you to a world of music. Bang a drum, strum an autoharp, and pick a banjo! The Musical Petting Zoo offers budding musicians an opportunity to try unusual and familiar instruments. Instructors will be on site to offer guidance. At the beginning of the program a professional musician will demonstrate a selection of instruments.

Live Music: Westbound Rangers
1:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4:30 p.m.
Grand Lobby
Be swept away into a world of music as you listen to Nashville’s own Americana band! The Westbound Rangers are an acoustic group formed here in Nashville to preserve and promote music from the past while infusing it with a new, unique sound.

Wood and Strings Theater presents Backwoods Ramblin’
1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Auditorium (Main Level)
Come check out this main stage marionette production! Through the enchanting arts of puppetry and music, fun and humorous folklore, scenes, and music of the Appalachian hill country will spring to life!

Story Time
1:45 and 4:00 p.m.
Art Library and Resource Center (Upper Level)
Listen and let your imagination go as a Frist Center educator reads the children’s book Nature's Paintbox: A Seasonal Gallery of Art and Verse, written by Patricia Thomas and illustrated by Craig Orback.


Art Activities

The Essence of Nature
1:00–5:30 p.m.
Studio A (Upper Level)

Come explore the abstract qualities of the natural world using Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings as your muse. Create your own nature-based imagery as you experiment with various materials and the use of light and color!

Illustrations! The Art of Telling a Story
1:00–5:30 p.m.
Studio B (Upper Level)

Grab a pen, a piece of paper, and try your hand at illustrating quotes from Mark Twain’s novels just as Thomas Hart Benton did!

Fantasy Postcards
1:00–5:30 p.m.
Studio C (Upper Level)

Take a step back to 1930s Paris and create your very own fantasy postcard just like the ones Surrealist artists produced and collected in France.

Martin ArtQuest Gallery
1:00–5:30 p.m.
Visit the Martin ArtQuest Gallery, located on the upper level, for more exciting hands-on art activities, including several that were inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
by the Surrealists as they wandered through the labyrinthine city streets of Paris.

Artist's Forum: Ron Lambert and Lesley Patterson-Marx - Frist - Free - 10-15-09

Artist's Forum: Ron Lambert and Lesley Patterson-Marx
Thursday, October 15, 6:30 p.m.
Rechter Room, FREE

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 a part of the dialogue about the artistic process.

Presenting Artists: Ron Lambert and Lesley Patterson-Marx

Working mainly in video and sculpture, Ron Lambert investigates the intersection between psychology and the environment. He received his MFA from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University and has taught at Cornish College of the Arts, Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, and Alfred University, where he received an excel¬lence in teaching award in 2008. Ron is currently an assistant professor at Watkins College of Art and Design in Nashville, Tennessee. His work has been published in Shaping Space (Third Edition), and Color (Third Edition), both by Paul Zelanski, as well as in the exhibition catalogue People Doing Strange Things With Electricity. Ron has shown at the Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle, the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in Georgia, the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, the Lexington Art League, the Soil Collective in Seattle, and several university galleries around the country. Ron's work has won awards at Artworks Gallery in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri. His work is in the Joseph Vascovitz collection and in the collection of the Tacoma Art Museum. He is cur¬rently represented by Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle. To see examples of Ron’s work go to: www.ronlambertart.com.

Lesley Patterson-Marx was born in 1975 in Louisville, Kentucky. She became obsessed with art in high school and took Saturday classes through the Louisville Visual Art Association. An Art teacher led her to the Summer Art Workshop for high school students at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. She eventually attended college at Murray State, where she received her BA in Fine Art in 1997. She then moved to nearby Paducah, where she was a working artist and teacher for nearly two years. She left Paducah in 1999 to pursue an MFA in studio art at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Upon graduation in 2001, she was invited by one of her instructors, Judy Chicago, to work on “At Home, A Kentucky Project,” in Bowling Green, Kentucky. While living in Bowling Green, Lesley began teaching in Nashville, commuting daily to Watkins College of Art and Design as an adjunct instructor. Upon completion of the “At Home” project, she moved to Nashville and was eventually hired as a full-time instructor and gallery director at Watkins, where she worked from 2001 to 2006. In 2004, along with students and friends, she helped found Plate Tone Printshop, a non-toxic, fine art community printshop. In the fall of 2006 she began teaching as a part-time instructor at University School of Nashville, where she currently teaches book arts and printmaking to high school students. The artwork of Lesley Patterson-Marx has been featured in several publications, including Readymade Magazine, Craft Magazine, and New American Paintings MFA Annual. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries including Wendy Cooper Gallery in Madison, Wisconsin, and Cynthia Broan Gallery in New York City. She had shown regularly in Nashville at Tag Gallery before it closed. To see examples of Lesley’s work go to: www.lesleypattersonmarx.com.

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Lecture: "Georgia O'Keeffe: Photography and an American Icon" Frist - Free 10-9-09

Lecture: "Georgia O'Keeffe: Photography and an American Icon"

Friday, October 9, Noon
Auditorium, FREE

No artist has been photographed from the beginning to the end of a career as frequently and consistently as Georgia O’Keeffe, whose image was captured by many of America’s most well-known photographers: Ansel Adams, Philippe Halsman, Yosuf Karsh, Arnold Newman, Alfred Stieglitz, Todd Webb, and Andy Warhol to name only a few.

Join Barbara Buhler Lynes, Ph.D., curator at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Emily Fisher Landau Director at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, as she explores the significance of the two opposing personas that these photographs constructed of O’Keeffe during her lifetime, and the degree to which the medium of photography played a key role in defining her as one of America’s leading art celebrities.

This lecture is offered in conjunction with one of our newest exhibitions Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

See a complete list of programs relating to this exhibition.

Oliver Herring and Call for Contemporary Artists Gallery Submissions - Frist

Oliver Herring
October 2, 2009–January 31, 2010




New York-based artist Oliver Herring collaborates with friends and strangers in the creation of his sculptures, performances, and video art. This exhibition includes figurative works in which the artist first makes photographic close-ups of his subjects’ entire bodies. He then sculpts the form of their bodies out of polystyrene. The photographs are cut into jigsaw puzzle-like shapes and adhered to the sculpted figures, lending the uncanny quality of a photograph seen in the round. Herring manipulates the color and value contrasts in his photographic fragments, giving the sculptures a camouflage-like surface, emphasizing the inherent artificiality and social masking that are a subliminal consequence of photography.

Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.


2009 Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery Exhibition Sponsor:
Welling LaGrone and Morgan Keegan


Location: Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery



How can I have my art exhibited at the Frist Center?

The Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery is a space in the Frist Center that is dedicated to the work of living artists. The space is booked approximately five years in advance, and the Exhibitions Department entertains proposals throughout the year for exhibitions in that space. Review the CAP Gallery Submission Guidelines and send proposals to:

Exhibitions Department
CAP Gallery
919 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203

Due to the volume of proposals submitted, patience is requested.

http://fristcenter.org/site/exhibitions/exhibitiondetail.aspx?cid=690


Andee Rudloff
Community Relations Manager
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
919 Broadway
Nashville, TN 37203
Phone: (615) 744-3351
Fax (615) 744-3993

www.fristcenter.org
arudloff@fristcenter.org

Twilight Visions Film Series @ Frist - FREE

Twilight Visions Film Series
Surreal to Reel: Paris on Film featuring

Un Chien Andalou and L'Atalante

Friday, September 25, 6:30 p.m.

Auditorium, FREE

In conjunction with Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris, the Frist Center is partnering with the Belcourt Theatre and Vanderbilt University’s International Lens film series and French and film departments to offer a three-part series of Surrealist and Poetic Realist films.

The film series, Surreal to Reel: Paris on Film, will start this Friday at the Frist Center with the screening of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s well-known and influential film Un Chien Andalou. This 17-minute film follows no conventional plot, but takes viewers through a dreamlike narrative from the wayward minds of two important Surrealists. Directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, 1929, 17 minutes. 35mm. Not Rated.

The second film, L'Atalante, tells the story of a newlywed couple living together on a barge. It illustrates the turbulent nature of learning to live with the one you love and presents realistic yet magical images of peasant and working class life. Directed by Jean Vigo, 1934, 89 minutes. 35mm. Not Rated.

Dudley Andrew, the R. Selden Rose Professor of Film and Comparative Literature and co-chair and director of graduate studies of film studies at Yale University, will introduce these two films.

ART MAKES PLACE discussion at Frist - Sept 17, 2009

Please join us Thursday, September 17th, 6:30 - 7:30 pm at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts as Adrienne Outlaw presents the seventh and final project of the year-long program ART MAKES PLACE: contemporary artists make community-oriented, temporary and performance-based art for public spaces, or AMP.

Working with neurologists, ethicists, lawyers, philosophers, doctors and historians, Outlaw is making a multi-part artwork about the ethics of pharmaceutical cognitive enhancement. On the 17th, she will lead a conversation with a panel of experts debating the ethics of healthy people taking prescription drugs to enhance brain power. Audience members may participate in the conversation.


Participants invited to the Frist Center conversation include four distinguished scholars from Vanderbilt University.

Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Professor of Law and Pediatrics, Ellen Wright Clayton, Ph.D., J.D., M.D., is an internationally respected leader in the field of law and genetics. Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy, Nita A. Farahany, J.D., M.A. & Ph.D., focuses on the legal, philosophical, and social issues arising from biosciences, particularly related to behavioral genetics and neuroscience. Dr. Howard Kirshner is a Professor of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Hearing and Speech Sciences. Board certified in vascular neurology, he is also Vice Chair for the Department of Neurology and Director of the Vanderbilt Stroke Center. Interested in the social and cultural impacts of technological change, Chancellor's Professor of History Michael Bess, Ph.D, is currently working on his fourth book entitled "Icarus 2.0: Technology, Ethics, and the Quest to Build a Better Human." Interested in bioethical issues developing with the rapid advancement of technology, cross-disciplinary artist Adrienne Outlaw exhibits internationally in public art collections, galleries and museums. She holds an MLAS from Vanderbilt University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.



Outlaw considers the talk at the Frist Center as the first public phase of her piece titled "The Enhancer." During the summer she met with small groups of teenagers, college students and professionals to discuss ideas behind the work. In these smaller talks, many people admitted taking or knowing someone who has taken non-prescribed drugs such as Ritalin to help them focus. The Frist Center talk kicks off the public phase of her project. The next phases include a conversation about drugs and creativity, an informative and participatory blog, 1000 brain-shaped, hand-held viewfinders distributed to the public, and an interactive installation for the AMP exhibit at the Nashville Public Library, which opens Oct. 14th.
Encouraging partnership between artists and the public, AMP projects address the artist's role in society and how artists help to create a sense of place and identity within a society. Projects, which began last fall, have each started with a lecture/workshop with public school students, continued with participation from Vanderbilt University and the larger Nashville community, and result in a temporary artwork presented in public spaces throughout Nashville. AMP culminates in fall, 2009 with a catalogue and an art exhibition at NPL main gallery.

AMP is organized by the Nashville Cultural Arts Project and has as its collaborative partners Metro Nashville Public Schools, Frist Center for the Visual Arts and Vanderbilt University. AMP funding and assistance comes from Metro Nashville Arts Commission, Vanderbilt University, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation and FCVA.

Adult Printmaking Workshop Frist; August 1-2, 2009

Adult Printmaking Workshop
Frist

Part I: Saturday, August 1, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Part II: Sunday, August 2, 1:00-4:00 p.m.

$50 members; $60 non-members (cost is for both days of the workshop and includes all supplies and gallery admission)

Call (615) 744-3355 to register


Mary Pat Tuner, a Nashville-based artist and visual arts instructor at Lipscomb and Belmont Universities, will lead this two-day workshop in conjunction with the exhibition Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration. The workshop will begin with a tour of the exhibition, during which participants will discuss some of the techniques Chuck Close uses to create his prints. After the tour, the discussion will continue while participants spend the rest of the weekend in the studios learning how to make linoleum block relief prints.

Freedom Quilting Bee @ Frist July 24, 2009

On Friday, July 24th, from 6 - 8 pm in the Frist Center lobby, meet members of the Freedom Quilting Bee for an informal social hour.
Freedom Quilting Bee members will share the history of their community, their connections to the craft of quilting, and their visions for the future.

The Freedom Quilting Bee is a nationally-recognized quilting cooperative established in 1966 in Alberta, Alabama as an outgrowth of the civil rights movement. When local people lost their incomes, and sometimes their homes, after registering to vote, women banded together to put their skills to use in order to earn family income and build community. Today, the Freedom Quilting Bee remains one of the oldest cooperatives in the country.

The Freedom Quilting Bee and ASK Apparel, a Nashville dyeshop and clothing company focused on revitalizing the use of plant-based dyes, have partnered for a three-day workshop on natural dyeing with plant and earth-based materials. The quilters welcome discussion of projects old and new.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is located at 919 Broadway, Nashville, TN. For further information on the Freedom Quilting Bee or ASK Apparel, please contact Sarah Bellos of ASK Apparel at info@askapparel.com, or 615.306.3154, or visit www.askapparel.com.
For further information about the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, please contact 615.244.3340

Art Making in the Lobby @ Frist: Free: Wednesdays in June 2009

Art Making in the Lobby
Wednesdays, June 10, 17 & 24, 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Grand Lobby, FREE


Drop in, be inspired, and create your own work of art in the Grand Lobby throughout the day on these select Wednesdays in June.

June 10
Featured activity: Twilight Cityscapes
Create your own nighttime cityscape.


June 17
Featured activity: Summertime Lanterns
Create you own festive summertime lantern.


June 24
Featured activity: Dot Portraits
Create a portrait similar to the ones artist Chuck Close makes.

Frist Center Kids Club @ Frist: June 13, 2009

Frist Center Kids Club
Saturday, June 13, 10:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m., or 3:00 p.m.
FREE

Kids Club members will GO GREEN using colorful recycled materials and natural fibers to create decorative, handmade paper bowls.

Reservations are strongly suggested. Walk-ups are welcome as long as space is available. Please note, even if you are a current Kids Club member, it is important that you make a reservation. Call 615.744.3357 to make your reservation.

ARTini on Museum Architecture Exhibition @ Frist: June 12, 2009

ARTini on Museum Architecture Exhibition
Friday, June 12, 7:00 p.m.
Included with gallery admission, Members FREE

Join Kim Jameson, evaluation and community engagement director at the Frist Center, for a conversation about a few works in Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings.

During your visit, enjoy music in the Grand Lobby featuring Bone Therapy (trombone choir) & Quintessentially Jazz, an ensemble comprising keyboard, guitar, bass, drums and vocals, who will be playing from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.