ART: UP CLOSE & PERSONAL - JIM SHERRADEN of Hatch Show Print - April 12, 2010

JIM SHERRADEN SHARES CRAFT OF PRINTMAKING
AT ART: UP CLOSE & PERSONAL, MONDAY, APRIL 12, 2010, AT 6 P.M.

FRANKLIN, Tenn., March 18, 2010—Jim Sherraden, manager, chief designer and archivist at Hatch Show Print®, will share the craft of printmaking during the free educational program of the Arts Council of Williamson County (ACWC), “Art: Up Close & Personal,” Monday, April 12, 2010, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Williamson County Public Library.
Founded in 1879, Hatch Show Print®, in Nashville, is one of America's oldest surviving show poster and design shops. Since 1984, Sherraden has overseen the shop’s transition from a cultural survivor to a widely recognized graphic design icon and destination for letterpress enthusiasts. Now owned and operated by the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, the shop is one of the oldest working letterpress printing operations in America.
Sherraden is the co-writer of “Hatch Show Print, The History of A Great American Poster Shop,” published in 2001 by Chronicle Books and now in its fifth printing. He is also the creator of one-of-a-kind pieces of art called monoprints, based on the shop’s archive, which are collected by individuals and institutions worldwide. He is a frequent speaker and conducts letterpress workshops from coast to coast.
Scott B. Hodes, director of visual arts for the Arts Council of Williamson County, points out, “The lecturers have been asked to share the experiences that have culminated in that artisan being able to fulfill the role of professional working artist in the community, such as background, history, choices and decisions, education and technique, work experience, and artistic and life influences.”
The Williamson County Public Library and O’More College of Design are co-sponsors for this series developed to educate students in the arts as well as those in the community who have an interest in the arts. The lecture series is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
The main branch of the Williamson County Public Library is located at 1314 Columbia Avenue in Franklin. For more information about the event or the Arts Council, visit www.artscouncilwc.org or call
(615) 428-3845.
The Arts Council of Williamson County (ACWC) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) service organization that exists to enrich the lives of the citizens of Williamson County, Tenn., by bringing the arts and people together. The Arts Council envisions a dynamic, lively and diverse arts community, which is accessible to all and which is a major cultural destination.
Hatch Show Print® is located at 316 Broadway Nashville, TN 37201. Media requesting further information should contact Tina Wright at (615) 416-2084 or twright@countrymusichalloffame.org

CONTACT: Lucinda L. Hall
LUCINDA HALL PUBLIC RELATIONS
(615) 377-0771, lhprtn@earthlink.net
or
Linda McLaughlin, Arts Council of Williamson County,
(615) 428-3845, linda@artscouncilwc.org

Art: Up Close and Personal - Bets Ramsey - 3-8-10

"Art: Up Close and Personal" is excited to present nationally recognized
fiber artist Bets Ramsey, of Nashville, who will speak at the free
educational program of the Arts Council of Williamson County (ACWC), Monday,
March 8, 2010, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Williamson County Public Library.

The main branch of the Williamson County Public Library is located at 1314 Columbia Avenue in Franklin. For more information about the event or the Arts Council, visit www.artscouncilwc.org or call (615) 428-3845.

Art: Up Close & Personal: Alan LeQuire - Nov 9, 2009

Art: Up Close & Personal

NOVEMBER
Alan LeQuire, Sculpture, LeQuire Gallery - November 9, 2009


* Co-sponsored by Williamson County Public Library & O'More College of Design *

Williamson County Public Library
(main conference room)
1314 Columbia Pike
Franklin, TN 37064

We are proud to present a new evening series for 2009. Some of the most renowned local artists will share an up-close and personal glimpse into their lives and their work. The evening starts with a powerpoint presentation, followed by a question and answer period.


The series is open to the public and there is no charge to attend.
Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, call 428-3845 or email info@artscouncilwc.org.

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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Nancy VanReece’s “The Pride Portraits” Gallery Talk 10-8-09 noon

What: Nancy VanReece’s “The Pride Portraits” of LGBT faces in history including Del Martin, Phylis Lyon, Urvashi Vaid, Jane Wagner, Lillian Faderman, Lucy Burns, Bayard Rusting showing throughout the month of October as part of LGBT History month along with a Gallery Talk with the artist.

When: Exhibit open October 1-30,
Gallery Talk Thursday, October 8 at Noon.

Where: Office of LGBTQI Life in the K.C. Potter Center.
Euclid, 312 West Side Row

Websites: www.nancyvanreece.com, www.vanderbilt.edu/lgbtqi

Carl Pope Artist Talk TSU 10-1-09

Carl Pope Artist Talk



on his letterpress project
"The Bad Air Smelled of Roses"

(featured in Art Papers Magazine, May/June 2009)



October 1, 6pm

Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery

Main Campus, Tennessee State University




TSU will host two visiting artists for a joint exhibition. Carl Pope's work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Biennial), and MoMA in New York City. His work explores the use of text and language as it informs identity, specifically the black identity.


His project, "The Bad Air Smelled of Roses" is shown as an introduction to his work as he partners with TSU's art galleries and Nashville artists on a collaborative print project (Spring 2010).


Up next: Aisha Cousins' Diva Dutch project, November 5.

for more info see

www.tnstate.edu/gallery

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.

Artist's Forum: Joseph Whitt @ Frist: Free: June 11, 2009

Artist's Forum: Joseph Whitt
Thursday, June 11, 6:30 p.m.
Rechter Room, FREE

Join Joseph Whitt at our next Artist's Forum as he discusses the thoughts and processes behind his work.

Whitt is an honors graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and has taught classes in visual arts at Middle Tennessee State University and New College of Florida, Sarasota. He lives in New York City, and is currently the curator and events programmer at Starr Space, artist Jules de Balincourt's Brooklyn-based performance art venue.

His latest project, Serenades, is built on a series of trades with a highly personal pantheon of artistic heroes, including Nick Currie (a.k.a. Momus), Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner, Drew Daniel of Matmos, and others.

Invitation to Participate in Public Artwork - Art Makes Place

This month ART MAKES PLACE invites you to participate with Mike Calway-Fagen's "Stoop Project." With the idea of making a place for community, Mike has built five large movable stair stoops (see pic below) which we'll be unveiling at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on Friday, May 22nd at 6:30 during his artist talk. Please come!

On Friday, May 22 and Saturday, May 23, we'll be pushing the stoops around Nashville! Would you like to push a stoop? It's easy, fun and a great way to meet new people! People are invited to each take reign of a stoop in 2 hour time blocks, 10am - 6pm. To sign up or get more information, email Amanda by Wednesday, May 20th. We are especially looking for people on Saturday.

Should you have questions Amanda is not able to answer, feel free to contact me at curator@n-cap.org. Visit website below to learn more about our lectures/projects throughout the year.

Thank you,

Adrienne Outlaw

NCAP and AMP Curator

http://www.n-cap.org/amp.html

Alan LeQuire Artist Talk @ Library - May 9, 2009

Tour of Artwork by Alan LeQuire at the Library and Beyond

Saturday, May 9
10:30 AM
Tour begins in the lobby at the Church Street entrance to the Main Library

Join Alan LeQuire as he talks about his work at the Main Library.
Attendees are welcome to tour Nashville on their own to look at Mr.
LeQuire’s other local artwork, such as the Parthenon’s Athena, and are invited to visit his studio from 1-3 pm.

This program is free and open to the public.

Nashville Public Library
615 Church Street
Nashville, TN 37219
(615) 862-5804 x6092

Frist: Artist's Forum: Rocky Horton and Chris Scarborough - May 7 , 2009

Artist's Forum: Rocky Horton and Chris Scarborough
Thursday, May 7, 6:30 p.m.
Rechter Room, FREE

Join artists Rocky Horton and Chris Scarborough as they discuss their work.

In his most recent studio practices, Rocky Horton utilizes different dilutions of photographic development chemicals to paint onto exposed photographs. With these "photo paintings" Horton is commenting on the precarious relationship these mediums have had with each other since the invention of photography in the 19th century.

Chris Scarborough works in photography and drawing to create meticulously detailed images of people who have been manipulated according to the exaggerated characteristics of Japanese anime. His most recent work has developed from this foundation to include the examination of cartoon violence.

During the evening, enjoy jazz music in the lobby from 6:00-8:00 p.m. by Billy Contreras and Buddy Spicher and a stroll through the galleries.


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Artist's Forum @ Frist: Rocky Horton and Chris Scarborough - April 17, 2009

Artist's Forum
Friday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.
Frist Center
Rechter Room, FREE

Artist’s Forum is a program in which local 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.


Friday, April 17
Featured artists: Rocky Horton and Chris Scarborough

In his most recent studio practices, Rocky Horton utilizes different dilutions of photographic developer chemicals to paint onto exposed photographs. With these “photo paintings” Horton is commenting on the precarious relationship these mediums have had with each other since the invention of photography in the nineteenth century. Horton earned an MFA in Painting from the College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including shows at Cheekwood Museum of Art and Zeitgeist Gallery. Horton is currently assistant professor of art at Lipscomb University in Nashville. To learn more about Rocky Horton and to view some of his work visit www.rockyhorton.com.

Chris Scarborough works in photography and drawing to create meticulously detailed images of people who have been manipulated according to the exaggerated characteristics of Japanese anime. His most recent work has developed from this foundation to include the examination of cartoon violence. Scarborough received a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. His work has been included in several national exhibitions, including solo shows at the Foley Gallery in New York City and the Gescheidle Gallery in Chicago. Scarborough’s work is also part of numerous private and public collections, including the Tennessee State Museum. To learn more about Chris Scarborough and to view some of his work visit www.scarboy.net.

Art Makes Place Panel Discussions @ Frist - Remaining Presentations

Art Makes Place Panel Discussions
Fridays March 27, April 17, May 22-- 6:30 p.m.
Studio B, FREE


The Frist Center will be the site for a number of presentations in conjunction with ART MAKES PLACE: Contemporary Artists make Community-based, Public Art in the form of Temporary, Site-specific and Performance-based Artworks.

Art Makes Place is organized by the Nashville Cultural Arts Project, in collaboration with Metro Nashville Public Schools, Vanderbilt University, and the Frist Center, with funding from the Metro Nashville Arts Commission, Vanderbilt University, and the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation.


Additional information about AMP is available at www.n-cap.org/amp.html.


Remaining Presentations


Friday, March 27, 2009
Artist Bonnie Fortune talks about her work with vulnerable populations.


Friday, April 17, 2009
Chicago-based artist Lindsay Obermeyer talks about her "Attachment Project" piece
Location: Rechter Room at the Frist Center


Friday, May 22, 2009
Mike Calway-Fagen


Friday, August 14, 2009
Mel Zeigler


Thursday, September 17, 2009
Adrienne Outlaw

A Life in Art - Talk and Slideshow with Alan LeQuire - March 21, 2009

A Life in Art - Talk and Slideshow with Alan LeQuire

Join us this Saturday, March 21, at 10:30 AM, when Nashville artist Alan LeQuire, best known for his monumental Athena Parthenos, the largest indoor statue in the Western world, presents a slideshow and talk about his artistic development as a nationally renowned sculptor at this special event inspired by the current exhibit, Cultural Heroes, in the Art Gallery at Main Library. Light refreshments will be served.

Nashville Public Library
Conference Center
615 Church Street
Nashville, TN 37219
(615) 862-5804 x6092