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Spotlight.........................................................................................................................1O Molly and Tom Bedell Any Questions....................................................... 32 Cano Ozgener The Man from OZ..................................................................... 35 As I See The Light Local and International Photographers Share Images
to Help a Nashville Cause....................................................................................................... 42
Susan Lyon A Voyage in Color.................................................................................. 48 Randi Michaels Block Guess Who's Coming to Seder?........................... 53 NPT Arts Worth Watching.................................................................................................. 58 Mark Hosford Hang On!......................................................................................... 62 Dawna Kinne Magliacano Random Acts of Graffiti...................... 66 An Old Master Mystery John Buntin Searches for Answers...............7O ArtSmart A Monthly Guide to Art Education............................................................72 Elizabeth Foster A Very Modern Folktale......................................................... 78 Yeah, but You Didn't....................................................................................... 82 Food Artistry at Etch....................................................................................... 85 Crystal Bridges Museum of Art......................................................... 86 Appraise It with Linda Dyer................................................................... 89 Field Notes James Nares......................................................................................... 9O Theatre.......................................................... 92 Critical i......................................................... 94 Beyond Words.............................................. 95 On the Town................................................. 96 My Favorite Painting.................................... 98 on the cover :
James Nares, Descriptor, 2011, Oil on linen, 78" x 65"
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And yet there is a number that right now made us all give out a collective wow here in the office, and that number is 50. That's how many issues of the Nashville Arts Magazine we have published. Unbelievable! A sincere thank you to all of you for the support and enthusiasm with which you have embraced this magazine. How fitting that in this issue we should feature the work of artist, entrepreneur, art patron, and lover of all things numeric Cano Ozgener. You can read about the Man from OZ and his fascinating journey with art and numbers on page 35. And here's one more number for you: two, as in Two Old Hippies, Molly and Tom Bedell. Meet this creative bundle of energy on page 32. Head down to their store in the Gulch and experience cool before it was cool to be cool. Paul Polycarpou Editor in Chief
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Across the Wire I, Mixed media on canvas, 32” x 38”
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Treasure Hunting
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Atlanta artist Maggie Hasbrouck has created a mystery with a beautiful prize: a painting worth $14,000. Built into the painting’s frame is a locked compartment, and the first person to unlock it will take home Joy Spills Over. The winner will be unveiled to a Nashville audience at her show opening at Gallery One on Saturday, September 7, at 6 p.m.
FREE ADMISSION THURSDAY: AUGUST 29 7pm - Puckett’s Open Mic
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Hasbrouck is known for her hauntingly beautiful dreamscapes: photoencaustic images made by mixing dry pigments into wax, applying them over photography-based images, and then layering with varnishes, which creates texture and depth. In 2010 Hasbrouck published a book called Treasure consisting of twenty-one images of her paintings.
SATURDAY: AUGUST 31
This lovely picture book weaves together nine numbers, one word, and three essential clues that will lead you to unlock the mystery. The correct solution will be comprised of one word (that will gain you permission to try the lock) and a string of nine single-digit numbers that will open the lock. Everything you need to crack the code is in this book.
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The books can be purchased online through Amazon or Lulu, or at Gallery One. Books are also being given away via scavenger hunts in random spots throughout the city. Gallery One and Nashville Arts Magazine, the official media sponsor for the contest, are currently tweeting out clues about the locations of the books. Stay updated on the hunt through Twitter by following @maggiehasbrouck, @GalleryOneNash, or @NashvilleArts. For contest details visit www.mhasbroucktreasurebook.blogspot.com, www.galleryonellc.com, and www.nashvillearts.com.
win THiS PAinTinG Maggie Hasbrouck is known for her haunting photo-encaustic images which are in private and corporate collections around the world. Now you can own this original Hasbrouck (retail value of $14,000) when you join Gallery One and Nashville Arts Magazine in this unique summer scavenger hunt. Someone will take Joy Spills Over home on Saturday, September 7th. Will it be you?
Maggie Hasbrouck, Joy Spills Over, photo encaustic on panel, 48”x54”
Unlock the mystery, solve the riddle and win. For more information, visit Gallery One’s website at www.galleryonellc.com or scan this QR code on your smartphone:
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new works by Maggie Hasbrouck Saturday, September 7, 6–9pm at Gallery One
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Richard Greathouse Two Three-Day Intensives
Nashville native Richard Greathouse lives and works in Florence, Italy, where he maintains his own studio and teaches for the Florence Academy of Art. He completed the painting program at FAA in 2011, and since then he has been teaching there. His teaching responsibilities include drawing and painting the figure from life in the intermediate painting program and in-depth classes in sculptural anatomy. Richard is interested in studying the human figure as a means to develop a visual language. He explains, “The human form, in both its familiarity and variety, provides a priceless tool for artists to build an expressive vocabulary in their work. Good painting and sculpting come from a foundation in drawing, and good drawing is rooted in careful and sustained observation of nature, tempered with an eye for the subject's character. The goal is to create something at once true to nature and true also to the artist's experience.” He will be giving two three-day intensive workshops in Nashville this September, both focusing on drawing the human figure from life. Special attention will be paid to observing the model using a sight-size approach, understanding the basic construction of the human form, searching for the visual rhythms that exist on the model, taking advantage of artistic anatomy, and the use of drawing materials to accentuate line quality and understanding of form.
3rd Annual HERO’S BREAKFAST
Show Your Love for the Nashville Symphony & Ben Folds
Ben Folds and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Lowes Vanderbilt • September 6 • 8:30 am Keynote Speaker: Tony Mendez
The CIA operative who led the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran during the 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis. Author of the book Master of Disguise which the Academy Award winning movie ARGO is based. Book signing with his wife Jonna afterwards
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Male Back Study, 2011, Oil on linen, 16" x 14"
Richard Greathouse’s Figure Drawing Workshops will take place September 5–7 (Thursday–Saturday) and September 9–11 (Monday–Wednesday) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Warehouse 521. Register at jeaniesmith92@yahoo.com. To see more of Richard’s work, visit www.richardgreathouse.com.
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Emmanuela, 2012, Charcoal and chalk on paper, 24" x 11"
Just like the rest of the arts community in Nashville, we let out a huge sigh of relief when we heard the symphony had been spared from the auction block. So now, while the symphony finalizes its 2013–2014 calendar, let’s continue to show our support for this beloved Nashville treasure by purchasing tickets, volunteering, or joining Ben Folds’ Givver.com campaign.
Anyone giving $3 or more through the Symphony’s Tweet to Give effort with Ben Folds (#nsoben) will be entered in a drawing for two tickets to hear the Nashville Symphony perform Ben's brand-new piano concerto. Part of the Aegis Sciences Classical Series performances, Folds’ piano concerto will be performed March 13–15, 2014. The drawing will be held on March 1, 2014, and the winner will be notified by email. For more information, visit www.givver.com/ nashville-symphony.
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Matthew Perryman Jones with SHEL
You Can Never Have Enough
Music, Art and Friends! The Belcourt will have a show August 22 with two great music acts and art. There will be music by Matthew Perryman Jones, a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter known for his raw intensity, passion, and exploration of the soul. He has been described by Performing Songwriter Magazine as a pop/rock talent that follows “in the footsteps of Leonard Cohen and John Lennon." Jones is currently promoting his newest album, Land of the Living, released to rave reviews, as well as a duet co-written and recorded with Mindy Smith called “Anymore of This.” The Belcourt show will also feature friends of Jones: SHEL, a pop/folk group consisting of sisters Sarah, Hannah, Eva, and Liza from Fort Collins, Colorado, Wayne Brezinka, Vincent Van Gogh described as “a vocal group The Other Ear with outstanding instrumental capabilities and an instrumental group with a thrilling vocal attack.” There will also be art by Nashville’s Wayne Brezinka, an award-winning illustrator and designer. Brezinka has worked with Jones on past projects, including the album artwork for Land of the Living as well as CD art for many musicians worldwide. Wayne is known for his highly conceptualized, handcrafted paper collage art and illustration work, made with a combination of vintage and found ephemera, collage, and mixed media. Music, Art and Friends will be at the historic Belcourt Theatre Thursday, August 22, at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.). Tickets are on sale via the Belcourt website, www.belcourt.org, and are $15 in advance and $18 the day of.
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Art & Soul
Celebrates 25th Anniversary Back in 1988 painter, writer, performance artist, and teacher Arunima Orr had an epiphany. What would happen if she opened a studio in Nashville dedicated to artistic growth, creative development, and healing and transformation through the arts? Would Music City support it? That was 25 years ago, and Orr can proudly say her vision has been embraced. Art & Soul is a place—a studio where many kinds of visual art, dance and movement, sounding and voice, writing, poetry, and other creative explorations take place—as well as a space, where a journey of discovery begins when you walk in the door. On Sunday, September 8, 3 to 6 p.m., Art & Soul begins celebrating its 25th anniversary year with the annual Art & Soul Open House and Art Show. This event also celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Art & Soul Artists Cooperative, which was formed to support the physical space when the studio opened its current location in the 12South neighborhood. The cooperative currently has 53 members—it’s one of the oldest and largest artist cooperatives in Nashville.
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Art & Soul is located at 2305 12th Avenue South, Nashville. To learn more about Art & Soul, visit www.eartandsoul.com.
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The Tomato As Art
A Uniter, Not a Divider While people may bicker and squabble over whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable, there is no discussion in East Nashville as to whether it is worthy of inspiring art and music. This August 10 will be the ten-year anniversary of the Tomato Art Fest. Started with 1,000 or so attendees, this event has become so popular that last year an estimated 18,000 came together to celebrate this beloved fruit/vegetable and enjoy the day’s festivities. Tomato Art Fest was founded by Meg and Bret MacFadyen, owners of East Nashville’s Art & Invention Gallery, in 2004. That year, the gallery hosted an art show celebrating the tomato, which Emma Klingbeil, Into the Briny Green they considered the best part of late summer, and planned a few neighborhood events to promote the show. The Tomato Art Fest immediately grew into an annual, signature event for the hip, urban neighborhood of East Nashville. “Bret and I really believe in community,” says Meg, “[and] by reaching out to the community in this way, we believe it really brings back that sense of intimacy that people belong to neighborhoods. This year’s festival will be even bigger and better. New vendors, new and exciting events, and hopefully the best art show anyone’s ever seen.” And don’t forget the Andy Detwiler, Summer Games parade with fabulous tomato-inspired costumes! For more information about the 2013 Tomato Art Fest events and entertainment, visit www.tomatoartfest.com.
Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013 Parade 9am • Festival 10am - 6pm Music Continues Until 10pm! Five Points Intersection in Historic East Nashville Woodland St. @ So. 11th
A Free, Fun, Costume-Friendly Family Event The Best Tomato Art in the Known Universe Tomato 5K Run • Second Line Parade Two Music Stages • Kids Fest • Tomato Recipe Contest Bloody Mary Contest • Red Head Contest More One-of-a-Kind Contests! All East Nashville Fashion Show
And So Much More!
COME OUT & PLAY! www.tomatoartfest.com
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The Undy 5000
Running in Skivvies for a Good Cause If you’ve been waiting for an opportunity to publicly flaunt your briefs, boxer shorts, or panties without getting into trouble, then your time has come! On Saturday, August 17, the 2nd Annual Nashville Undy 5000 5K run will unite individuals, teams, and sponsors who want to raise awareness of colon cancer by running in their underwear. That’s right—drawing attention to your bottom is encouraged! Nashville Arts Magazine is proud to be a sponsor of the Nashville Undy 5000, which is part of a national series of 5K fundraising run/walks presented by the Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA) and local partners whose goal is to
promote screening for colorectal cancer—the third most frequently diagnosed cancer in men and women, and the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Yet colon cancer is 90% preventable when people are screened according to current guidelines. The event also celebrates and creates a supportive community for survivors and their families, caregivers, and others impacted by this disease. The funds raised by the 5K event will be put toward local prevention efforts, research initiatives, and support services. This year’s Undy 5000 will take place at the Walk of Fame Park (Hilton Park), between 4th and 5th Avenue on Demonbreun Street. Registration opens at 7:30 a.m. with opening remarks at 8:40 a.m., and the run itself begins at 9 a.m. Read more information about the Undy at www.undy5000.org.
Saturday August 17, 2013 8:30 am Walk of Fame Park Nashville, TN
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BENEFITING
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Women Exploring Women in Art Perhaps one of the greatest ironies of the art world is that the female form is most often painted by men. And yet, who better to explore the female subject than another female? That’s the question raised by artists Sadie Valeri, Alia El-Bermani, and Diane Feissel in their blog “Women Painting Women.” The online resource and catalog features more than 260 underrepresented women painters working in the figurative tradition worldwide. Many of these artists— including Alia El-Bermani, Ellen Cooper, Alexandra Tyng, Milixa Morón, Susan Lyon, Grace DeVito, Alicia Ponzio, The Lingering Shadows, Renee Foulks, Celeste Ryder, and Bronze on Belgian marble base, Janvier Rollande—are represented 28" x 24" x 12" by Haynes Galleries. Beginning this month, the gallery will exhibit the largest collective show yet by the group: Women Painting Women: A Room of One’s Own. The title is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s famous essay, which maintains that a woman needs personal space, equal opportunity, and poetic license to create art. The artists will use highly skilled yet varied approaches to confront questions of individuality, femininity, beauty, identity, psychology, and humor. “They are helping redefine the feminine influence and muse in contemporary art, and they continually produce insightful and novel work,” says gallery owner Gary Haynes.
First Saturday Art Crawl
Seven Great Years on Fifth Avenue
photo: tiffani bing
Women Painting Women: A Room of One’s Own will be on view from August 23 to October 5 at Haynes Galleries, 1600 Division Street, on the Music Row Roundabout. The opening reception is from 6 to 8 p.m. August 23. The event is free and open to the public. Visit the Women Painting Women blog at www.womenpaintingwomen.blogspot.com. For information, visit www.haynesgalleries.com.
Summer of Art on 5th Avenue of the Arts celebrates the 7th Anniversary of the First Saturday Art Crawl, one of the major monthly art events in the historic entertainment district downtown. Art Crawl participants enjoy rare opportunities to meet and talk with regional and world-renowned artists and to view diverse exhibitions featuring every genre of art. With more than 20 venues participating, including The Arts Company, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, The Rymer Gallery, Tennessee Art League, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Tennessee State Museum, Tinney Contemporary, Art at the Arcade, Puckett’s Restaurant and more, the First Saturday Art Crawl continues to grow and offer increasingly more artistic experiences.
Katie O'Hagan, Hindsight, Oil on canvas, 40" x 48"
A special Anniversary party will be held during First Saturday Art Crawl on August 3 from 4 to 9 p.m. For more information, visit www.5thAvenueOfTheArts.com. NashvilleArts.com
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My Favorite Things, 2013, Oil on canvas, 20" x 60"
Scapes by Susan Simons You won’t want to miss Susan Simons’ new exhibit Scapes. The show includes her more-familiar tablescapes and landscapes, as well as newer works that feature her still life images with landscapes in the background. According to Simons, the combining of tablescapes and landscapes happened accidentally while working on Monteagle Mountain. “I was setting up the table for My Favorite Things and was facing away from the valley. As I was working I saw a reflection of the valley in the window and voila!” Scapes will include 20 to 25 pieces and will feature some smaller pieces that are ideal for table display. “I am very excited to be showing in Bill’s gallery. It is such a lovely place, and East Nashville has become such a happening place. Since I am showing in August when Tomato Fest is happening, a few tomatoes will show up.” Scapes opens with an artist’s reception on Saturday, August 3, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Bryant Gallery, 1113 Woodland Street in the Five Points area of East Nashville. The show will remain on view until September 8. Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. For more information, visit www.bryantgallerynashville.com and www.susansimons.com.
Lighthouse, 2012, Oil on canvas, 24" x 20" 20 | August 2O13 NashvilleArts.com
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Soft Light
Rita Maggart
Photographic Insights A floral designer for over 20 years, Rita Maggart uses her love and knowledge of flowers along with her background in painting to create intimate, almost abstract-looking photographs. Her sepia tone images appear to be sculpted, inviting the viewer to examine the work very closely. Rita Maggart’s new photography exhibit Insight will be on view through September 21 at Scarritt-Bennett Center, the Laskey Building (2nd floor). For more information, visit www.scarrittbennett.org/giftshop/galleryf.aspx.
Eye of the Rose
Photo: Stacie Huckeba
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The Clay Lady’s Graduate Program Danielle McDaniel envisioned a place where artists could come in as beginners and grow into talented professionals. In 2007, she opened The Clay Lady Studio offering classes to adults and children. Three years later, she launched The Clay Lady’s Artist Co-Op & Galleries creating 23 studios and an environment where artists of various skill levels could mentor one another and learn about running an arts business. With the opening of Studio B this month, phase three of Danielle’s vision becomes reality. A third building on the complex, the 7,500-square-foot space features 20 private studios, a soda kiln, and a large classroom.
Studio B will house independent artists with skill levels and businesses that are beyond those of the Co-op artists. Over half of the 20 spots have been rented, four of them by Co-op artists who are ready to graduate and go about the business of art on their own. The classroom space in Studio B will enable Danielle to host more workshops and bring in guest instructors to expand into other fired arts, including PMC (precious metal clay), Glass Fusing, Glass Slumping, and Enameling.
Photo: Stacie Huckeba
With the addition of Studio B, The Clay Lady’s campus will have 33,000 square feet of clay supplies, educational facilities, artist studios, and retail galleries. It’s no wonder the Potters Council chose it for their 2013 national conference, which will draw over a hundred clay artists from around the country for three days in September. The Clay Lady’s Artist Co-Op & Galleries and Studio B will host an official celebration and grand opening on August 17 at their annual Birthday Bash. For more information, visit www.TheClayLady.com.
The Bookmark
A Monthly Look at Hot Books and Cool Reads
Snow Hunters by paul yoon Ann Patchett says of this slim novel: "At first glance Paul Yoon appears to be the perfect miniaturist, but behind every subtle gesture this novel shimmers with a deep and complex history. Snow Hunters is a beautiful and moving meditation on a solitary life." We feel so strongly about this book we have chosen it as our Signed First Edition Pick for the month of August.
Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream by neil young
Dear Life: Stories by alice munro
Now, for the first time ever, Neil Young reflects upon his life—from his Canadian childhood to his part in the sixties rock explosion with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, through his later career with Crazy Horse, and numerous private challenges.
In this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. An astonishing suite of four autobiographical tales offers an unprecedented glimpse into Munro's own childhood. Now out in paperback.
For more information about these books, visit www.parnassusbooks.net.
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Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by scott anderson Lawrence in Arabia definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. This is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present. August 2O13 | 23
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Daughters of Lwala
A Photography Exhibit for the Lwala Community Alliance
Exhibition • September 8 – October 25, 2013
H
arpeth Hall supports girls’ education initiatives in Lwala, Kenya through Nashville-based Lwala Community Alliance by providing uniforms to 1,100 girls as incentives to stay in school. The benefits of keeping girls in school are well documented: higher wages, later age of marriage, higher rates of school enrollment for future children, lower rates of infant and maternal mortality, and, notably, a reduction of HIV. To educate a girl brings life to the whole community. Please join us for the opening of “Daughters of Lwala,” a photography exhibit highlighting these girls who are dreaming of a better future . . . for themselves, their families, and their community.
Opening Reception • Sunday, September 8, 2013 • 3:00 – 5:00 pm
Hours: M – F, 8 am to 4:30 pm • The Harpeth Hall School • 3801 Hobbs Road, Nashville, TN 37215 • 615.297.9543 • www.harpethhall.org
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The Harpeth Hall School • 3801 Hobbs Road, Nashville, TN 37215
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Seed Space
Jalan-Jalan
50 Years of Videoart
Indonesian Antiques • Ancient Modern Design
by Alyssa Rabun In 1963, artist Nam June Paik scattered thirteen television sets around a gallery in Wuppertal, West Germany. Stacked on tables and hanging from ceilings, some televisions were turned off; some showed white noise, and some screened images that were being skewed by U-shaped magnets. This exhibition marked the first of its kind and the international birth of videoart. Seed Space Gallery honors the medium’s 50th anniversary and evolution of videoart by screening Magmart International Videoart Festival’s 100X100=900: 100 Videoartists to Tell a Century. Magmart commissioned 100 videoartists from around the world to tell the story of the 1900s in the scope of 100 video representations. The series begins in 1900 with Iranian artist Alysse Stepanian’s The Magician King & The Apprentice. In black and white, Stepanian borrows from Thomas Edison’s cinematic stop-trick effect, which incorporates stop motion, scene dissolves, and multiple exposures to offer a commentary on power relations of that time—master to slave, male to female, and human to animal.
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The exhibition continues with pieces representing each year in the past century, from Didier Feldmann’s 1929 Wall Street Crash depicting the dramatic decline of the stock market to Giang Nguyen Hoang’s 1997 Tilt describing that year’s devastating crisis in Southeast Asia. Seed Space, located at 427 Chestnut Street, will screen sets of 25 videos on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. according to the following schedule: 1st Set August 5 and 7, 2nd Set August 12 and 14, 3rd Set August 19 and 21, 4th Set August 26 and 28. Visit www.seedspace.org for more information.
Painting the Clouds, 2013, Latex paint, pencil, varnish on wood panel, 3' x 4' Silvia de Gennaro, Joie de vivre, 1907
Welcome to Harry's Nashville He has wanted to do a painting of Nashville for a while, and he’s taken plenty of photographs downtown by the river for reference. Now Harry Underwood’s Painting the Clouds is complete and on view at The Arts Company. “This is the Nashville I know, the retro, Lower Broad area. I tried to get in some of my favorite landmarks because they are disappearing, and since it is my skyline, I moved the buildings around where they are not supposed to be. The characters are fictitious, but the guy on the left is named for my friend Grant Johnson, a local guitar player,” Harry explained.
Mauricio Sanheza, Persistence of Time, 1911
View Painting the Clouds at The Arts Company, 215 5th Avenue North. For more information, visit www.theartscompany.com and www.artbyharry.com. NashvilleArts.com
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Jack Hastings
November 16, 1925-July 17, 2013 As we were going to press, we were informed that beloved artist and writer Jack Hastings passed away in his studio in Sewanee after an extended illness. He is survived by his wife, artist Arlyn Ende. Jack was an engineering genius with a whimsical imagination. He and Arlyn were back-to-the-land farmers, raising goats and practicing sustainable living long before it was the fashionable thing to do. His artistic legacy is enormous, and his body of work influenced many artists. We were fortunate enough to feature Jack and Arlyn in the October 2012 issue of Nashville Arts Magazine, which you can read at www.nashvillearts.com. "Being with both Arlyn and Jack in their studio was a magical experience, their intertwined, art-filled lives filling their walls, shelves, floors, and gardens. Jack lived his life on his own terms. He was a writer, a philosopher, and an explorer, and I was richer for every visit I made to see him and Arlyn. He was a thinker, a doer, and a creator. I've never met anyone like Jack, and I will miss him greatly." - Susan Tinney, Tinney Contemporary
First Fruits, 2013, Wood, twine, yarn, and fabric, 68" x 78" x 23"
J. Kelly Thomas This undiscovered Nashville artist has found strength and purpose through her art. by Jennifer Anderson
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In this peaceful setting Thomas felt a calling to make art. Growing up, Thomas had always thought that making art was something other people did, but after her revelation she began an artistic journey. She didn’t have a clear plan, but she collected branches from the lake and received donated materials. With the branches she built a loom and then hand strung the frame, finding release J. Kelly Thomas and inner strength through the laborintensive, detailed work. She set out at once to recreate the calming vistas that had comforted her at the lake. photo: tiffani bing
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As a way to let go and recharge, J. Kelly Thomas has always turned to nature. She has faced financial challenges for the better part of a year, piecing together enough work to support her three children in a hotel near Percy Priest Lake. The park has become her refuge; the water, the trees, the sticks, and the leaves all liberate her from her daily struggles.
Although not a professionally trained artist, Thomas is able to create work that brings a sense of beauty and calm to the viewer. You must experience this inspiring work. J. Kelly Thomas – Weavings opens Saturday, August 10, 2013, from 6 to 9 p.m. at UnBound Arts, 729 Porter Road, 37206 in East Nashville. The work will be on display through the month of August.
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See and Be Seen The Franklin Art Scene Enters Its Third Year by Stephanie Stewart-Howard
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he Franklin Art Scene, the monthly First Friday art crawl giving Williamson County bragging rights about the gifted artisans it’s producing, commences its third year this month. For Davidsonians who haven’t made the
short drive yet, the experience is well worth it. There’s a different flavor, surely, than what downtown Nashville offers, but the quality remains exceptional.
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According to Jay Sheridan of the Downtown Franklin Association, there are now more than 40 participating locations, branching beyond Main Street over to the Second Avenue Antiques District, including the Franklin Antique Mall as well as gorgeous Gallery 202,
Kelly Harwood, Gallery 202; Nancy Williams, Director Downtown Franklin Assoc.; Michael Damico, Damico Frame & Art Gallery
and over to the western stretches of Columbia Avenue, where remarkable glassblower Jose Santisteban has his studio (and if you haven’t had one of his classes, you’ve missed something). The O’More campus also hosts artists, and visitors can buy a $5 trolley ticket to cover travel for the event if they don’t want to walk in heels or heat. Kelly Harwood, artist and owner at the extraordinary Gallery 202, speaks of the event’s inception: “We initially had a meeting which included Michael Damico, Autumn Bethea, myself, and several downtown-Franklin business owners to develop a way to focus on the local arts community.” The art walk concept allowed them to build enthusiasm for the area and got eyes on the work of artists— and, most importantly, got people buying original work. Co-founder Michael Damico nails the whole point: “I want to encourage everyone to own at least one original piece of art no matter how big, small, or expensive. Original art another fellow human created from the depths of their mind is far more enriching and evokes a deeper feeling than any prefabricated, mass-produced decoration you will ever own.” What the Franklin Art Scene continues to do best is make original works of all sorts readily available in front of buyers’ eyes amid the lively beat of an art crawl. Quite aside from a glass of wine, hors d’oeuvres, and conviviality, the creative work of some damn fine artists can now go home with you with greater ease—a win in a county once known for retail-chain everything, now building a true cadre of originals.
Will Jordan, Carpe Diem
For more information about the Franklin Art Scene visit www.franklinartscene.com. NashvilleArts.com
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Public Art Project to Honor William Edmondson by Van Gill, Public Art Project Coordinator
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he Metro Nashville Arts Commission is pleased to participate in the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency’s (MDHA) revitalization of Edmondson Park. Nestled between 16th and 17th Street on Charlotte Avenue,
the park commemorates the life and work of Nashville’s William Edmondson. Edmondson, who worked as a hospital orderly, did not create his now-famous carvings until the age of 57. Sculpting animals, biblical images, and tombstones out of limestone, Edmondson believed his work was divinely inspired. Although his sculptures were not highly collected until after his death in 1951, Edmondson was, in 1937, the first African American artist to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. In honor of Edmondson’s legacy, the Metro Nashville Arts Commission is commissioning two self-taught artists, Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley, to create site-specific works for Edmondson Park. Trailblazers in Lonnie Holley their own right, the two Alabama natives have been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country. Inspired by adversity and personal tragedies, their powerful work gives voice to communities and cultures oftentimes overlooked. Metro Arts is thrilled to be working with Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley to continue Edmondson’s legacy through public art. Once again Edmondson Park will pay homage to a man who paved the way for so many others and will memorialize one of Nashville’s most influential artists. Park renovation and artwork will be completed and installed in spring 2014. For more information and project updates please visit www.artsnashville.org.
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The Crawl Guide On Friday, August 2, head to Franklin where more than 30 galleries and studios will celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of the Franklin Art Scene. (Spotlight on page 27.) Gallery 202 will feature artist Joe Parrott of Knoxville. Damico Frame & Art Gallery will exhibit abstract oil paintings by Hunt Adams. The Heirloom Shop will showcase works by Dorothy Biggers Harmon. The Franklin Art Scene takes place from 6 until 9 p.m. For more information, visit www.franklinartscene.com.
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On Friday, August 2, from 6 until 9 p.m. enjoy FAM at The Factory in Franklin for a family-friendly event including food, art, music, and dancers. On Saturday, August 3, head downtown to 5th Avenue of the Arts from 4 until 9 p.m. and join in the 7th Anniversary celebration of the First Saturday Downtown Art Crawl. (Spotlight on page 19.) The Arts Company will show Selections from the Art Gallery Vault featuring works by legendary artists Ed Clark and Brother Mel. The Rymer Gallery will continue with their First Annual Directors Choice Juried Exhibition: Units of Measure with additional work by Jeff Green. Patricia Bellan-Gillen's exhibit Disorderly Notions will be on display at Tinney Contemporary. Tennessee Art League Jean Gauld-Jaeger Donna Glassford will showcase works by Jean Gauld-Jaeger, TAL members, and art by children from Micah Academy. See Myles Maillie and the Stacked Box Mural Project at Picture This. For more information, visit www.5thAvenueOfTheArts.com. On Saturday, August 10, check out Second Saturday at Five Points in East Nashville from 6 until 9:30 p.m. and revel in the 10th Annual Tomato Arts Robert Rivera Festival. (Spotlight on page 17.) Art & Invention Gallery will present a spectacular collection of tomato art by a variety of artists. Bryant Gallery will exhibit the work of Susan Simons. (Spotlight on Susan Simons page 20.)
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MB: I have never been handed anything in my whole life. I have worked from when I was thirteen. I’m proud of that. Anything I have done, I made happen. Why Nashville?
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Cano Ozgener The Man from OZ by Carol Caldwell | photography by Hollis Bennett
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rom the moment we first met, Cano Ozgener put a spell on me. The man is a magus. Everything he touches
turns to gold. In his first life, Cano turned himself from apprentice at his father’s business designing jewelry in Istanbul to a brilliant career in the New World at engineering research, and now, in Nashville to stay, he has a collection of Turkish meerschaum pipes unrivaled anywhere on earth. From this obsession must have stemmed his next manifestation as maker and purveyor of fine, handmade cigars. Cano, pronounced Johno, turned the profits from the sale of his cigar empire, CAO, into a sprawling, modern compound seated next to the landing strips at John Tune airport. This alchemist with the golden touch then tapped his magic wand and brought forth OZ Arts, a non-profit organization meant to foster the visual and performing arts in Middle Tennessee.
“I want to show you something,” he says and leads me to a room off the main corridors of this vast complex in which are displayed paintings by his own hand. This is how the now-and-future magus, after near-death experiences with cancer, stem-cell transplants, and finally open-heart surgery, explains it: “After that lifechanging situation, my left brain and my right brain crisscrossed!” Cano relates this with humility and glee. “Because, after that, I wanted to express numbers—I have always loved numbers; I’ll tell you why. I wanted to express numbers in artistic forms. I am very much influenced by the work of Sol LeWitt who uses numbers and letters and geometric figures in his art. I knew I wanted to paint!” His first numbers paintings come from memorizing pyramids of integers at his French Jesuit high school in Istanbul. He sees
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these in his renderings as conceptual art, and so they are. Cano begins to elucidate how these beautifully colored pyramids of numbers work, but his listener suffers a different crisscross problem: you quote numbers and my left brain shuts down. Math is not my strong suit. He tells me, “Here’s how it works: 1 x 9 +2 = 11; then 12 x 9 + 3 = 111, on down the pyramid . . . ” I’m smiling, nodding like I know, but I do not know. It’s only when he switches back to speaking in letters that my brain re-engages.
“You see,” he says, “it was at this point I discovered the gift of synesthesia.” “I know this!” I cry, back in the game. “Nabokov saw letters as colors. Some people do. Some people see certain letters in color.” Cano wiggles in his chair with excitement. “Yes! I had been looking for someone who had it, and there all along, my yoga teacher—you say 2 and she sees
Opus 21 - Number Synesthesia - 1, 2012, Silkscreen printing and oil paint on canvas, 25.5" x 40.5"
red. Ah, but 22, that is another color to her.” So, letters quickly became another synesthetic expression of his on a field of colors that call up the ascending spectrum of the chakra colors.
Opus 30 - Pi Installation, 2013, PVC background with acrylic paint, 56" x 180"
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Opus 54 (a, b, c, d & e) - Divine Proportion, 2013, UV ink on canvas, 9.5" x 15.37" each
colors to the numbers (of pi) and then applied those on 6” x 6” canvases. This installation is the pi, except there are no numbers on it. This work has meaning because there are colors that correspond to 3.1416 . . . ” Cano’s wall installation of bold colors and lengths based on the numbers of pi are artworks he plans as large-scale abstracts for corporations, institutions, and homes. “Keeping, again, the integrity of the pi.”
“You say synes-thay-sia,” I say, “and I say synes-thee-sia.” “Ees my Armenian-Turkish accent,” Cano says. I suggest to the late-inlife painter, beautifully dressed in shades of black and grey, that synesthesia, undoubtedly a gift, is dependent on the see-ers degree of it. Neuroscientists know that the ability can be explained by crossed referrals in the brain. The area for seeing numbers or letters somehow bounces to the place that translates to color perception in the eye. He has been painting numbers synesthetically, because he sees his entire world informed by the power of pi.
OZ is on its way to being a contemporary arts and special events center. Cano is expressing the heartbeat of OZ in paintings of chakra colors with optimisms on top. "Expect the unexpected Opus 28 - Pi Synesthesia with Numbers, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 54" x 54" with panache" is one and "A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and you." He has already worked his “Even with numbers, when I was working with the pi, which is magic on me, and I’m becoming a believer—what if even I could 3.1416, continues like that, there is no end of the pi—I assigned
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turn the base metal of self into gold? “There is another number that is very important,” he says. “The golden number, yes, the golden mean. You multiply height of something by 1.618 to get the perfect proportion for the length. Flat-screen TV tries to come as close to this as possible. This was figured out by Euclid and used by Leonardo da Vinci. This is a different way of using math, with color and proportion.” I’m spiraling back to Hillsboro High School. Mr. Medley’s math class. If I could have seen numbers in colors, I’m just wondering, a few more crucial points to that SAT count, why, it could have been Ivy League for me instead of SEC . . . hedge funds, credit default swaps, extreme investment banking—on and on like the pi I’d be, settled into permanent repeating, decimal representation never ending in dayglo technicolors. I could have been a contender!
Cano Ozgener and Albert Einstein and I are in agreement: mathematics is the queen of all sciences. The world is in fact organized by the power of number. Bertrand Russell said, “With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which numbers hold sway above the flux.” Opus 31 - Expect the Unexpected with Panache (triptych), 2012, UV ink on canvas, 44" x 96" 38 | August 2O13 NashvilleArts.com
For more about Cano Ozgener visit www.oznashville.com/ozgener-gallery.
Opus 37 - Homage to Human Spirit (triptych details), 2013, UV ink on canvas, 44" x 96"
Opus 38 - Pi in Rainbow Colors with Numbers, 2013, UV ink on canvas, 26" x 26"
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If you can dream it, you can do it. - Cano Ozgener
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As I See The Light Local and International Photographers Share Images to Help a Nashville Cause by Stephanie Stewart-Howard
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n the age of Instagram we imagine ourselves photographers, smugly posting online shots of the dog with a coffee cup. The reality, as Nashville art photographer
Jerry Atnip says, is rather different: Natural talent and creative vision blend to create something beyond merely an image. Those gifts were recently displayed at the international photography exhibition at Gallery One, juried by Atnip, along with collectors Jennifer and Billy Frist and photographer/blogger Elizabeth Avedon, to benefit Pastoral Counseling Centers of Tennessee. Using the theme “The Light,” each image makes an arresting commentary on just what light means to the photographer. “Among the four jurors there was a lot of discussion about each photograph. Ultimately, we all agreed on the top favorites. Each
finalist is very worthy. All of them touch me in a unique and profound way,” says Atnip. “What makes fine art photography meaningful to me,” he muses, “is that I get a heightened sense of the usual from it. The sounds, the smells, even what the temperatures are. It’s much bigger than just two dimensional—it’s an overall sensual experience.” In these pages we offer up some of the entrants’ takes on “The Light,” from Javid Tafazoli’s mystical play on the implications of black and white in Iranian culture in the winning Prayers, to Nashvillian Rick Smith’s crisp lines and stark geometric elegance in Storage Tank Stairwell. You won’t find these on Instagram, but they might inspire you to consider more deeply the way you look at the light. www.pcctinc.org
above: Destination – Debashis Mukherjee, Kolkata, India. Two villagers cross a hillock at sunset in Purulia, India. left: Prayers – Javid Tafazoli, Tehran, Iran. All females are expected to cover their hair and wear a dress that covers the body. Only the face, toes, and hands are allowed to be seen. The color of the chador is not important, but most women choose black.
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Homebound – Sudipto Das, Kolkata, India. Camel sellers from remote villages in Rajasthan, India, gather at the fairground yearly to trade camels.
left: Storage Tank Stairway – Rick Smith, Nashville, Tennessee. A formal, geometric study of the play of light across a curved surface.
below: 4 Kids - Afternoon Light – Jim Bradford, Nashville, Tennessee. The long afternoon light and shadows captured for a moment in time this meeting. Curious but cautious, they each explored the commonality of their creation. The lambs and the children approached, turned to back away, and approached again. I was fortunate enough to have camera in hand.
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Immersion – Biswajit Patra, Kolkata, India. Devi Durga, the Mother Goddess, is prepared from clay, decorated and ornamented for five days of worship in Kolkata, India. After that the clay idol is immersed in the River Ganges.
Prayer – Sudipto Das, Kolkata, India. Devotees pray to the Sun God at the River Ganges in Kolkata, India, during a ritual locally known as Chhath Puja (worshipping of Sun God).
Height of Raw – Hung Hoa Lu, Pleiku, Gia Lai, Vietnam. A very hot summer afternoon. No activity anywhere except these children freely joking and playing in the Mud River.
A something in a summer’s day – Mary Anne Mitchell, Atlanta, Georgia. From a series of photographs based on 19th- and 20th-century poetry. This is my interpretation of this line from an Emily Dickinson poem.
Singe Noir – Anne Berry, Atlanta, Georgia. I saw this black monkey at the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in Paris. The emotion that the photograph evokes inspired a collection of portraits of primates in captivity.
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Basket of Vegetables, 2007, Oil on canvas, 16" x 12"
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Susan Lyon A Voyage in Color by Emme Nelson Baxter
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sing her deftly executed take on “realistic impressionism,” Susan Lyon gives fresh perspective to ordinary—sometimes even whimsical—objects and everyday life. Lyon’s subject matter can range from a clutter
of plush toys queued on a daybed to a child’s trusting visage. Yet somehow these pedestrian images, coupled with her technique, feel spontaneous and engaging. Pastel of Keri, 2007, Pastel pencils on pastel sandpaper, lifesize
The 44-year-old artist confesses that she once struggled with what she calls her “more feminine tastes. I feared people would not take a painting of stuffed animals or dolls seriously,” she says. Yet as she conquered her self-consciousness over painting these pleasant subjects, she realized that her work not only made viewers smile but gave them a strong connection. Lyon’s work evokes John Singer Sargent, minus the Edwardianera trappings. She is also inspired by the works by other late artists including the Swedish Anders Zorn, the Russian Nicolai Fechin, Spaniard Joaquin Sorolla, and American portrait artist Cecilia Beaux. Her alla prima paintings are imbued with impressionistic color with confident, sweeping strokes in the background. She begins painting wet on wet and finishes with a wet-on-dry technique. She often juxtaposes scratchy, wide brushwork of thinned paint against fine yet heavy opaque strokes to portray light. While Lyon and her artist husband, Scott Burdick, live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the couple is peripatetic, visiting lands as far-flung as Turkey, Greece, Nepal, China, Africa, and throughout Europe. There, Lyon is inspired by the sites, the museums, the people, the cultures. Typically, she amasses the fruits of these painting expeditions into a collection that they show together at two-person exhibitions.
Yellow Turban, 2013, Oil on canvas, 13" x 12"
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gallery on the Music Row Roundabout. She is also represented by Sylvan Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina; Sage Creek Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico; InSight Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas, and Germanton Gallery in Germanton, North Carolina. Lyon, a Chicago native, was not particularly artistic as a child. She found her calling after seeing a documentary on Georgia O’Keefe. “I was drawn to this intense, dramatic, creative woman and her work,” Lyon remembers. She took a Saturday course at the nearby Art Institute of Chicago and later enrolled in the American Academy of Art to pursue an associate’s degree in advertising. There, she fell in love with her husband and her fine art classes and discovered Chicago's 100-year-old Palette and Chisel Club. Lyon began showing her work there and at age 23 was the youngest member ever to claim top prize in their annual oil painting show. Instead of pursuing a degree, Lyon and Burdick pooled money to hire models and instructors and worked from their home “studios.”
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Dragon and Friends, 2012, Oil on canvas, 17" x 33"
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In 1996, they found themselves unfettered, self-employed, and ready to travel. They remembered an NPR story about the benefits of living in North Carolina, so they packed up, visited a couple of times, bought an old, inexpensive 1865 farmhouse near the Virginia border, and moved. Small brick paths lead to their separate studios in outbuildings. This tobacco country became their new home base . . . the place where they return after visiting remote countries. For the past three years, Lyon has traveled less, busied by entering invitational shows and producing for galleries. Much of her work has been figurative and still life oriented. Lyon finds great joy in taking traditional images and positioning them in a fresh, whimsical way to render a dynamic still life. In other words, it’s not just teacups and silver pots, she says. There’s always a little twist. “That’s the excitement,” she says. “I paint without expectation, because if you expect every painting to be put into a frame, you’ll be disappointed.” Susan Lyon is represented by Haynes Galleries in Nashville. She will be participating in their upcoming exhibit Women Painting Women: A Room of One's Own open August 23–October 5. For more information about the group show read our spotlight on page 19 and visit www.haynesgalleries.com. Expanding Family, 2008, Oil on canvas, 18" x 14"
Life at a Street Market, 2007, Oil on canvas, 24" x 20"
Steaming Tea Namche Bazaar Nepal, 2007, Oil on canvas, 27" x 19"
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Guess Who's Coming to Seder? Randi Michaels Block Finds Redemption in the Theatre by Martin Brady
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andi Michaels Block, author/composer of Guess Who’s Coming to Seder?—a charming musical comedy poised for legit national exposure—set out for more conventional musical success years ago. Yet the
meandering tributaries of her life have converged to suddenly cast her in the somewhat unexpected role of theatre artist. “I’ve taken a circuitous career route,” says Block, who grew up on Long Island and went to college upstate at SUNY-Oneonta, never very far from Manhattan, where she moved when she was 21, ready to explore the possibilities of a serious career as a singer-songwriter. “I can remember driving into the city, as young as five years old, to go to Broadway shows,” Block recalls. “I fell in love with the characters and songs, and they would stick in my head.” But commercial pop songwriting grabbed Block’s imagination at the age of 12, whereupon she reconsidered the cello lessons her parents had encouraged and began to write lyrics and poetry, inspired in particular by Carole King’s Tapestry. “That album hit me like a ton of bricks,” says Block. “I got my first guitar at 13 or 14 and started writing original songs.”
Recording at the historic Record Plant, working with hip New York musicians, and nearly inking a record deal with Atlantic— those were the positives of a career trajectory that eventually led to disillusionment. “I was losing creative control of a hard rock version of myself,” says Block. “I had lost my roots.” Block’s first Nashville flirtation was in 1991. Encouraged by Victoria Shaw, yet another singer-songwriter originally from New York, Block saw her first writers’ round at the Bluebird Café. This impressed her so much that she returned to New York and founded the Songwriter Circle at The Bitter End in Greenwich Village, which continues running today. “It became clear I had to come to Nashville,” says Block, who eventually had a publishing deal or two and a few cuts in Music City and worked as a singer with both Gary Nicholson and The Mavericks. There was even a 1996 step back into touring as a backup singer for Engelbert Humperdinck. Then Block met a playwright at a Nashville party, and they began to collaborate on Secrets of Songwriting, a musical based on Block’s original idea—and her first foray into writing for the theatre.
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“I have a few Jewish friends in Nashville,” Block says, “but they all had their own Seders to go to. So I just thought, since I had never led a Seder, I’d invite people over—all very creative types and, as it turned out, not one of them was Jewish.”
Having lost her parents a few years prior, Block felt she was missing a direct link to her Jewish heritage and decided to host—with her Catholic boyfriend—a Passover Seder.
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The play achieved staged readings at a serious level, then stalled over creative and business disagreements. “It fell apart in 2010,” Block recalls forthrightly. “It was all very frustrating.”
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Lari White sings “Connecticut”
The wine flowed, and the mix of religious observance and lighthearted conviviality ensued. “I was trying to walk the line between being respectful to my heritage and having fun,” says Block. “The upshot was that someone said, ‘This is your next musical!’ I thought, no way I would ever write about this.”
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Three months later, Block had crafted four tunes—first out of the box was the zany “Chopped Liver with Gefilte Fish”—recorded them, and submitted them for the Fred Ebb Award for musical theatre songwriting. The seeds of what was originally entitled Passover: The Musical? proved fruitful, as Block was named a finalist for the award.
Further development awaits, as Block pursues opportunities for future productions or a large-scale collaboration with a production company. Guess Who’s Coming to Seder? seems ideal for an off-Broadway mounting— small in scope, but tuneful and funny and wrapped around an unlikely but very viable premise.
Sandy Flavin leads the cast in singing “All in the Name of Salvation”
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Encouraged further by Nashville-based producer/director Ted Swindley, Block readied her script for an August 2011 reading at the Darkhorse Theater, after which it received a staged reading off Broadway at the York Theatre, a fully staged, two-week run in Tulsa, 2012, and back again to Nashville for its March 2013 presentation to enthusiastic audiences at the Gordon Jewish Community Center, produced and directed by Block.
“I feel this project has been the Little Engine That Could,” says Block. “I’ve been pushing it up a mountain, and I’ve had people support me from places I never could have imagined or even thought of looking. And somehow I feel that my parents have been with me the whole time, because of the people that I have met and the doors that have opened. I could not have asked for any more than I have received. It’s been so humbling.” Block claims she’s a late bloomer. “I’ve had a little success here and there. I never had a hit song on the country charts. I never finished my New York album. But I’ve done amazing things in my life, and I’ve had an incredible journey. And I really believe that everything I’ve learned and experienced has been leading up to what I’m doing now.” Block is currently co-producing Ted Swindley’s new play A Southern Belle Primer (Or Why Princess Margaret Could Never Be A Kappa Kappa Gamma) with sneak previews at the Belmont Mansion in Nashville each Sunday, July 28 through August 25. For more information about Randi Michaels Block visit www.randimichaels.com or www.guesswhatscomingproductions.com.
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Arts Worth Watching At the beginning of the Oscar®-nominated documentary 5 Broken Cameras, Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat buys a camera to record the birth of his youngest son. What he winds up capturing is so much more—the growth of his boy within a deeply personal, firsthand account of life and nonviolent resistance between the residents in Bil’in, the West Bank village where he lives, and the Israeli soldiers and contractors erecting a security fence. Co-directed by Israeli filmmaker Guy Davidi and nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary category at Sundance, the film is an extraordinary document of the power of the human spirit and the value of visual storytelling. It comes to NPT and PBS stations nationwide via P.O.V. on Monday, August 26, at 9 p.m.
While 5 Broken Cameras was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2012, it was The Law in These Parts that took it home. The film by acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz is comprised of a series of thoughtful and candid interviews with some of the Israeli judges, prosecutors, and legal advisers who helped devise the Israeli occupation's legal framework. It’s a tour-de-force examination of the system of military administration used by Israel since the Six Day War of 1967 and a complex picture of the Middle East conflict and the balance among political interests, security, and human rights that has come with it. P.O.V. brings it to you on Monday, August 19, at 9 p.m. Filmmakers know that digital film and editing has changed the game. In Side by Side: The Science, Art, and Impact of Digital Cinema, airing Friday, August 30, at 8 p.m., over 70 filmmakers and industry professionals, including George Lucas, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, James Cameron, Steven Soderbergh, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Robert Rodriguez, and Walter Murch, reveal their experiences and feelings about working with film and digital—where we are now, how we got here and what the future may bring.
The first half of the month, for NPT and many PBS stations throughout the country, it’s drive time, which means plenty of unique and entertaining specials. Highlights include a new Sarah Brightman special, Dreamchaser in Concert, on Tuesday, August 6, at 8:30 p.m. As announced last year in Moscow, Brightman is anticipated to be the first musician to travel to the International Space Station. Her new album, Dreamchaser, is an exploration of her hopes and dreams for the trip. This unique special, based around the futuristic, otherworldly vision behind the Dreamchaser album and world tour, features both new songs and classic favorites, incredible lighting, elaborate costumes, and powerful video imagery. The following night, Wednesday, August 7, at 8:30 p.m., it’s a new show from a public television—and international— favorite. Gloria Estefan: The Standards finds the seven-time Grammy Award-winning superstar performing songs by some of the most important songwriters in pop history, Kern, Chaplin, and Gershwin among them. For this PBS concert special, Estefan performs the songs for the first time, backed by the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra at the renowned New World Center. On Sunday, August 11, at 7 p.m., Scottish singer and songwriter Emeli Sandé, already breaking sales records in her native UK and selling three million albums worldwide, introduces herself to a wider U.S. audience with a PBS special. Filmed at the legendary Royal Albert Hall at the culmination of her fall 2012 tour, Live at the Royal Albert Hall includes performances of all of her hit singles so far, including "Daddy," "My Kind Of Love," "Heaven," "Beneath Your Beautiful," and the international smash "Next To Me." On Tuesday, August 13, at 8:30 p.m., Chris Isaak, an NPT and Nashville favorite, performs hits together with songs from his latest release, Beyond the Sun, from the ACL Live stage in Austin, Texas. Rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson guests.
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THE MARCH Unprecedented in size, the August 28, 1963 March on Washington, a massive demonstration for racial and economic equality, issued a clarion call for racial justice that would help usher in sweeping civil rights legislation and a sea change in public opinion.
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Inside Foyle’s War Take a look at how this enormously popular, award-winning Masterpiece/Mystery! series has captured loyal fans for over 10 years. The special feature interviews with the stars of the series and the people behind-the-camera responsible for them, from the writers to the directors and other production team members.
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7:00 Celebrating North America’s Steam Railways Visit 17 of the continent’s most historic and scenic tourist steam railroads with trips to Alaska, Arizona, New Hampshire, and Dakota South Canada. 9:30 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Moyers & Company
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7:00 Tennessee Crossroads 7:30 Volunteer Gardener 8:00 Omni Health Revolution with Tana Amen, RN & Dr. Da The importance of diet for your health. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last of Summer Wine 11:00 Dr. Wayne Dyer Wishes Fulfilled Dyer offers viewers a detailed explanation of how to manifest that which is most important to them.
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7:00 Farm Story With Jerry Apps 8:30 Gloria Estefan: The Standards 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last Of Summer Wine 11:00 Jimmy Dean Show Country Classics This special includes early appearances by Chet Atkins, George Jones, Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Minnie Pearl, Dottie West and many more.
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7:00 Emeli Sande: Live At The Royal Albert Hall The Scottish singer and songwriter Emeli Sande (“Next to Me”) is breaking sales records in her native UK, with 3 million albums already sold worldwide, and is now taking the US by storm with piles of critical acclaim. 8:00 Downton Abbey Revisited 9:30 Dr. Wayne DyerWishes Fulfilled
7:00 Antiques Roadshow Washington, DC - Hour One. 8:00 60s Pop, Rock & Sou (My Music) Co-hosts Peter Noone and Davy Jones sing their biggest hits focusing on the years 1965 1969. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last Of Summer Wine 11:00 Farm Story with Jerry Apps
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7:00 60s Girl Grooves (My Music) For the first time ever, the girl groups and female singers of the 1960s are featured in archival footage and original performances. 9:00 Rock, Pop and Doo Wop (My Music) A celebration of the bestloved songs from the late 1950s and early 1960s. 11:00 Omni Health Revolution with Tana Amen, RN & Dr. Da
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7:00 Churchill The Lion’s Roar. 1929 to 1939, Churchill was described as a “maverick” and a “fanatic”. 8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! Silk. A legal drama following the rivalries, passions and intrigues of criminal law. 10:00 Bluegrass Underground Sarah Jarosz. 10:30 Closer To Truth 11:00 Tavis Smiley 11:30 Inside Washington
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7:00 In Performance At The White House A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement. 8:00 March The history of the 1963 March on Washington. 9:00 Independent Lens The Powerbroker: Whitney Young’s Fight for Civil Rights. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last Of Summer Wine 11:30 Building The Dream
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Masterpiece Mystery! Lady Vanishes Sunday, August 18 8:00 PM
7:00 Tennessee Crossroads 7:30 Volunteer Gardener 8:00 Doc Martin The Holly Bears a Prickle. 9:00 Lafayette: The Lost Hero The story of the Marquis de Lafayette and his quest to bring democracy to America and France. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last Of Summer Wine 11:00 Secrets Of Henry VIII’s Palace
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7:00 Nature Birds of the Gods. 8:00 NOVA Making Stuff Stronger. From steel to Kevlar and spider silk to carbon nanotubes, a look at the ways in which science and nature work. 9:00 NOVA Making Stuff Smaller. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last Of Summer Wine 11:00 Austin City Limits Alejandro Escovedo/ Trombone Shorty.
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7:00 Antiques Roadshow Tasty Treasures. Antiques and collectibles for and about eating. 8:00 National Parks: America’s Best Idea The Scripture of Nature. The astonishing beauty of Yosemite Valley and the geyser wonderland of Yellowstone. 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last Of Summer Wine 11:00 End Of Life Decisions: An NPT Reports Town Hall
7:00 Antiques Roadshow Billings, Mt - Hour Two. 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Billings, Mt - Hour Three. 9:00 POV 5 Broken Cameras. A deeply personal firsthand account of life and nonviolent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village where Israel is building a security fence. 10:30 Last Of Summer Wine 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Into The Wild: Edison, Ford & Friends
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7:00 Lawrence Welk Show 8:00 Keeping Appearances 8:30 Old Guys 9:00 Lady Vanishes: Masterpiece Mystery! A young socialite suspects foul play when a young woman disappears from a train, in a new adaptation of the classic thriller based on Ethel Lina White’s 1936 novel The Wheel Spins. 10:30 Light: Bruce Munro At Cheekwood 11:00 Globe Trekker
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7:00 Building The Dream A national monument honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. 8:00 Campaign The campaign to defeat California’s Proposition 8 and to defend same-sex marriage. 9:00 Washington Week with Gwen Ifill 9:30 Secession: Tennessee Civil War 150 10:00 BBC World News 10:30 Last Of Summer Wine 11:00 Moyers & Company
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Hang On! There's been a seismic shift in Mark Hosford's apocalyptic Disney World. Linda Leaming braced herself for the aftershock. by Linda Leaming
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he artist Mark Hosford grew up on the plains of Kansas where his fertile imagination, instead of roaming freely, turned inward. To look at the dapper,
trilby-topped college professor, you’d never suspect inner demons or that anything is amiss. But it most definitely is. You can’t look away from Hosford’s deeply disturbing yet masterful prints, animations, and drawings. Something is horribly wrong in his overwrought world of children, monsters, weirdly cute animals, and disemboweled things. For Hosford, this is business as usual. I, on the other hand . . . NA: Your work is playful and visually appealing but dark. Why?
MH: That’s life. Life has that ambiguity. Everything you love has a flip side that can be unsettling. NA: It’s safe to surmise that as a child you had an active imagination. A lot of your work looks like it’s from the viewpoint of the closet in a bedroom. Did you spend time in a closet as a boy?
MH: (laughs) Actually I spent a lot of time in my closet. I was plagued with over imagination. I grew up in a split-level ranch. My bedroom was on the second floor. Huge oak tree branches brushed against my windows at night making shadows that fueled my nightmares, which were vivid. I also watched a lot of horror
movies. I’m the youngest of four. When the oldest saw something, I saw it. I was obsessed. I still am. NA: What do you watch now?
MH: I like movies where an image of a sink dripping is ominous. Years ago Freddy Kruger was an obvious bad guy. Things were less ambiguous. Currently in the genre someone who tortures is in the position of power. That’s confusing and subversive. I can’t watch the Saw movies. NA: There are a lot of drippy things in your art.
MH: I like drippy things. I cut and fried meat at a deli for four years during college. I’ve been a vegetarian for twenty years. I was fascinated. They want customers to see the food prepared, because they want them to think it’s clean and safe. But three inches from what they can see is a bucket of blood. There’s so much illusion. NA: Yikes. That’s disturbing.
MH: I know. I make my work about things I have anxiety about or that I’m uncomfortable about. I mix playfulness with danger and draw myself as a child. I’m a little socio-phobic and introverted. NA: You’re drawn to disturbing things? So you work out your anxiety with your art?
MH: If I see something disturbing, I can’t get it out of my head. I keep at it, because I want to know what’s going on in the world. I
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don’t want to be ignorant. I want to shatter illusions. We need to see things and get angry about them so we can fix them. It’s a way to make sense of who I am. I can never remember a time when I wasn’t neurotically drawing. NA: Your teen years must have been intense.
MH: I was part of the skateboard culture. I was into heavy metal, punk: the Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, Gang of Four, the Misfits. When death metal came out, it was the heaviest, deepest thing I ever heard. For someone confused and slightly angry, it was a way to get all that angst out. I was obsessed with how different things in our society that interested me were part of a camaraderie in being outsiders, those that feel like they start from a lesser place. Everything I do now reflects this. NA: And yet you’re a tenured professor in Vanderbilt’s Fine Arts Department.
MH: I’m an artist first and foremost. I’m visual. I feel strongly about the power of art and what it can do to people. Vanderbilt is a good fit. NA: What do you get out of teaching?
MH: As teachers we want to positively affect students’ lives and instill passion. Academia is super weird. But I was fond of Kafka as a child (laughs). There is a necessity of rules. So it’s absurd, especially for teaching art. NA: What do you do when you’re not teaching?
Neptune, 2010, Screenprint, 28" x 20"
MH: I hole up and draw. Time is my enemy more than inspiration. I have a logjam of ideas and no time to do them. Art is therapy. NA: What does your family think of your art?
MH: My mom enjoys what I do. I was lucky because she pushed me into art. I thought I’d get an accounting degree or something, and she said no, that’s who you are. She is a self-taught artist herself. NA: Why are you drawn to printmaking?
MH: My work in general has references to cartoon or tattoo culture, and there’s a nod to the early prints of German Expressionists. I like how I can take a naive or simplistic drawing and apply it to a sophisticated, technically intense process. It adds sincerity and intensity to the image. It makes it harder to dismiss. Mark Hosford is represented by Cumberland Gallery. www.cumberlandgallery.com
Demos Onoiroi, 2012, Screenprint, 17" x 13"
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Random Acts of Graffiti Or, How a Murfreesboro Stand-Up Comedienne Broke the Rules on Breaking the Rules by Dawna Kinne Magliacano photography by Rob Lindsay Frida’s Night Garden, Mixed media, 24" x 18"
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ention graffiti in a conversation and you will get a mixed bag of reactions, from "it's vandalism" to "it's some of the best art I've seen." I take the art side of the argument
for graffiti. Maybe I'm drawn to it for the same reason I’ve dated some not-so-nice guys in my lifetime. The daring, rule-breaking riskiness of it—the getting-caught-in-broad-daylight sexiness of it. Whether it's all that or merely that graffiti is a colorful urban backdrop, like a tattoo on city walls and is not going anywhere anytime soon, I choose to fully embrace it. Rather than sneaking quick peeks out of a moving vehicle window in cities I traveled through, I began a full exploration of graffiti, otherwise known as street art or urban art, with a goal of infusing some of my own work with the same energy and adrenalin that it seems to possess. Graffiti represents a gritty underbelly of our art world, housing a group of artists willing to risk anything to create a social statement, mark a territory, speak out against an inhumanity, or even simply make a proclamation of love. Good graffiti artists are not honored; they are notorious, often spending nights, weeks, months imprisoned for their work. The United Kingdom artist referred to as Banksy, whose graffiti pieces reflect his dismay at the political climate in Europe and speak out against child labor and environmental issues, remained anonymous for many years until only recently when he was arrested and finally revealed his identity. Authorities labeled him an "art terrorist," yet his work was hugely respected among his peer artists, not to mention some art critics.
Fed Up, Mixed media, 30" x 22"
Graffiti (which means "to write") was said to have started in Philadelphia in the 1960s where an early art duo referred to as
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Cornbread and Cool Earl did some of the first "tagging," which is a form of signature for graffiti artists. In the 1970s to early ’80s, Jean-Michel Basquiat stepped off the streets and into galleries in New York City after being discovered by an art critic and Andy Warhol. Basquiat's tag or signature was a simple, crudely drawn crown and the word "Samo." After achieving the status he enjoyed in the art world, his original graffiti pieces were so sought after connoisseurs literally removed pieces of wall or doors from buildings around New York. Basquiat made small, postcardsized works that he hawked for a couple of dollars each when he lived on the streets. After his fame, these same pieces sold for several thousand dollars each.
Dawna Kinne Magliacano
the value of the work, taking what has been traditionally done on bricks, concrete, wood or stone to paper, canvas, or wood panels.
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Graffiti is art. There is nothing random or temporary about it. I am claiming some of its style in my own art these days.
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I especially love infusing the wild, rule-breaking grittiness and poetry into the poster-sized pieces I am currently working on. I sometimes pretend someone might shout at me to stop what I am doing immediately, in order to find that perfect adrenalin-laced mixture of crimson or blue green. However, I also admit I enjoy having the luxury of time traditional graffiti artists did not have, to add the final small details. For more information on Dawna Magliacano and her work, visit www.dawnamagliacano.com.
Mother Earth Totem, Mixed media, 22" x 30"
Good graffiti contains all the elements of what is typically used to define art—line, form, shape, space, values, color, perspective, texture. What I find impressive with graffiti is the speed at which the artists work, usually while watching over one shoulder, adrenalin pumping, expecting any minute to hear shouts exclaiming, "Hey! Stop! What are you doing there?" If you observe good graffiti closely and quietly, you can imagine the pulse of the artist. Though it appears random, there is nothing random about it. The bold lines, layers of vibrant colors, and poetry of some of the work have tremendous thought and compositional consideration in them. More artists in this genre are, like Basquiat, moving off the street and into galleries as art collectors are seeing
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An Old Master Mystery John Buntin searches for answers.... Who is this lady in black? Is that her husband and son with her? Who painted it, when, and where has it been? And could it possibly be a seventeenth-century Dutch-master painting here in Green Hills? in his own words | photography by Jerry Atnip
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ne cold November afternoon several years ago, I climbed the steps and entered one of New Orleans’ great auction houses. The room was packed with people, the
excitement and electricity in the air palpable. The cadenced cry of the auctioneer brought the gavel hammering down as beautiful and interesting items found new owners and new homes. I was in a good mood, thrilled to be in the Big Easy, and I was ready to buy. In a back room, my eyes locked on those of a lady in black portrayed with her family in a large, gold-framed painting that appeared to be in the great tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. I could not stop looking at it. And even though I'm experienced enough not to let my emotions get the better of me at an auction, I was hooked and I knew it. I decided to bid, and a few nods of the head later I was the proud owner. I couldn't wait to get the painting back to my shop in Nashville and begin my study and research of this enigmatic family. A lot of questions had to be answered: Who is this lady in black? Is that her husband and son with her? Who painted it, when, and where has it been? And could it possibly be a seventeenth-century painting by a Dutch master? There was a lot riding on these answers. If this painting were in fact by a known Dutch artist, the value would increase considerably. If I could establish the identity of the family, that value would increase even more.
Art & Antiques magazine, May 2001
I learned at the time I purchased the painting that it had been auctioned in the past and had been written about in the late 1890s. It had more recently been acquired by a well-known art collector, now deceased. I began contacting art dealers who specialized in Dutch old-master paintings, and, in 2012, I widened my search and began working with Sotheby’s in New York on their upcoming Old Masters auction
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Flemish painting (perhaps by Van der Tempel), The Lady with the Gloves, 1660s-1680s, Oil on canvas, 68" x 50"
scheduled for January 2013. An expert in Old Masters paintings flew into Nashville and confirmed that the painting was indeed a valuable work of art but that more research was needed to determine the artist. Sotheby’s accepted the painting for inclusion in its Old Masters sale and for the next few months assisted me with its research. Unfortunately, the issue of establishing the identity of the family and the artist responsible for the work proved difficult and elusive. During that famous Golden Age of the seventeenth century, the Dutch had gained independence and wealth, and paintings were widely used to record prosperous people and successful or major moments in their lives. There was no doubt that this painting recorded just such a momentous event, but for now that information eluded me. The painting did not reach its reserve at the auction, so back it came to my shop, J. Craighead on Bandywood Drive, where the lady in black and her family would keep me company and keep me guessing. On cloudy, rainy days, I like to read through old issues of Art & Antiques magazine. I found myself drawn to a particular issue, the May 2001 edition, and began instinctively turning the pages. In the middle of this magazine I discovered an article about a beautifully restored villa outside of Florence, Italy, filled with magnificent artwork.
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Suddenly, I almost dropped the magazine to the floor when I saw the photo of a painting with a lady with the same eyes as my lady in black looking at me!
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In fact, it looked like the same family in almost the exact same pose only twenty years later. With all the gusto of Sherlock Holmes with his magnifying glass at the ready, I studied the two images looking for any and all clues I could find—similarities in the brush strokes, use of color, shading, and composition. After weeks of study, I came to the conclusion that this was the same family painted by the same artist. The facial expressions, the body language, even the jewelry is the same. Have a look at the pearl bracelets. What are the chances that two different women had the same piece of jewelry worn on the same wrist? So there you have it. I had, quite by chance, found a companion painting to the one that had captured my attention, my heart, and my wallet. Now, all I have to do is find the owners of that villa in Florence, brush up on my Italian, and go looking for my passport. Stay tuned. See the painting at John Buntin’s shop, J. Craighead, 2225 Bandywood Drive, Nashville, TN 37215. For more information contact jbuntin@comcast.net.
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a monthly guide to art education photo: sophia forbes
State of the Arts by Jennifer Cole, Metro Nashville Arts Commission
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photo: jerry atnip
lose your eyes and think of your typical middle or high school principal. What comes to mind? Samuel L. Jackson with a baseball bat? Someone mildly neurotic or frumpy? Popular culture has created a sense that principals are one part prison guard, one part completely detached skeptic, and one part parent narc. The reality is that principals are leaders, and they lead a rag-tag group of teachers, staff, and students who are united by just one thing—learning together for eight hours a day.
Translating that goal day after day to several hundred humans with different levels of motivation and focus is like giving the St. Crispin’s Day speech every day in fifty different languages on a moving horse. It begs the question, who would take this crazy, amazing, impossible job? When I first met Ted Murcray, I was dazzled by his soft voice and diamondwhite smile. This couldn’t possibly be the principal; he must be the cruise director/ Lisa Reed Preston's math class learns about ratios fantastic community and rates by converting a recipe for 100 servings greeter, I mused. But to the serving size for their group. how wrong I was! Dr. Murcray walks the halls of I.T. Creswell Middle Arts Magnet School, and, quite simply, he is a presence. I once saw him in the span of five minutes ask a student about his family situation, walk into a language arts class and teach an impromptu lesson on compound subjects, and discuss repairs to the orchestra room with the custodian. No baseball bat here.
Lead art teacher Carrie Bryant
photo: sophia forbes
The school rests off Clarksville Highway in Bordeaux and was converted to an arts-focused magnet just six years ago. Despite magnet status, the school still draws nearly all of its 282-student population from the surrounding neighborhoods—some of the lowest income in Davidson County. No matter. At Creswell, Ted is leading a cultural revolution that will reshape the school, the neighborhood, and the students forever. He is re-crafting learning around an Art & Arts Industries framework incorporating art as a main way to learn science, math, language arts, and all core subjects. He’s driving this transformation by something simple—investing in his teachers. In the last six months, Metro Arts has worked with two teams of teachers to create externships focused on how to teach math, science, and language arts through studying and applying classroom
activities to the public-art process. Teachers have observed community public-art panels and installations and have had the opportunity to connect students directly with artists during fabrication. In turn, teachers have helped students design their own art-in-parks plans Principal Ted Murcray, Ed. D. and ideas for artist-designed bike racks. The teachers are on fire, and the students are accessing real-world learning. Teachers are working with TPAC, Tennessee State, and other partners to bring community arts resources alive in the classroom. As we speak, lead art teacher Carrie Bryant is working with us to plan a unit for this fall that will result in not only a show at our gallery but in student interns learning how to plan, curate, and install the actual show in November. (That is math, language arts, and history in one unit plan, by the way.) The teachers at Creswell are learners—they experiment; they work together, and the CULTURE of passion for art mixed with inquiry is electric. That tone permeates the entire school, and that tone is set by the man with the Fixodent smile. As you think about “Back to School” season, I encourage you to reach out to Creswell and lend your talent—whatever it is. I promise you ten minutes with Dr. Murcray will make you want to go back to Middle School or at least restore your faith in the promise of a public education. To contact the school and learn how you can help with its dynamic transformation contact ted.murcray@mnps.org.
Chalk It Up by Rebecca Pierce
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art street fair and part art show, Chalk It Up will include artists booths, plenty of delicious food, and a chalk art competition featuring both established and emerging artists. Home Depot will host a craft area for children, which will have space for children to create chalk art. The purpose of the event is to promote and fund the arts for children in Williamson County. Paula Pike of Wholy Crepe Restaurant in Franklin explained, “I wanted to do something to benefit aspiring artists, so I approached the Arts Council of Williamson County. Their arts education programs have been on hiatus due to funding, so I decided to help stage an event to raise money. The Meridian complex has miles of beautiful sidewalks, making it an ideal spot for chalk art.” A collaborative event between Wholy Crepe and the Arts Council of Williamson County, Chalk It Up will take place Sunday, August 18, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. (rain date August 25) at the Meridian Office Complex in Cool Springs. For more information, visit www.wholycrepe.com or www.artscouncilwc.org.
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Lipscomb Department of Theatre Is Recruiting by Rebecca Pierce | photography by Scott Ellis
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ocal high school performers will get a taste of the red carpet in spring 2014 as Lipscomb University holds its first Nashville High School Musical Theater Awards, hosted by Chuck Wagner, a Middle Tennessee native and Broadway star of Beauty and the Beast and Into the Woods. Lipscomb’s Department of Theatre is currently recruiting Middle Tennessee high schools to participate in the program, which will kick off in November with a Les Miserables talk-back, held exclusively for participating high school students.
Lwala girls huddle over a lesson.
Daughters of Lwala by Rebecca Pierce
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n Lwala, Kenya, educating girls means advancing the life of the whole community. The positive effects include higher wages, better farm productivity, and family nutrition, marrying later in life, smaller family size, lower infant and maternal mortality rates, higher rates of school enrollment for future children, and a reduction of HIV rates. Harpeth Hall understands the power of an educated girl. Alumnae from the school have become neonatal surgeons, singers, authors, scientists, Olympic swimmers, and teachers. Katherine Falk, Development and Communications Coordinator for the Lwala Community Alliance and a graduate of Harpeth Hall, saw the shared focus on girls' education as an excellent opportunity for Lwala to partner with her alma mater. In 2011, Harpeth Hall and the Lwala Community Alliance began a formal partnership centered on Lwala’s girls' education programs. After a group of Harpeth Hall seniors and Head of the School Ann Teaff traveled to Lwala for their Winterim program this February, Harpeth Hall made a formal commitment to fund the Girls’ Uniform Initiative for the next three years, which will provide uniforms to 1,100 girls in the community as incentives to stay in school.
Lipscomb’s goal is to have ten schools from the Greater Nashville area participate, which will involve 300 to 500 students. From November to March, evaluators Lipscomb Academy's spring 2013 production including Lipscomb Theatre faculty, a of The Sound of Music Lipscomb directing student, and local theater professionals, will attend performances at participating schools and write evaluations. These evaluations will be used to determine the first set of awards in 2014. The Lipscomb Department of Theatre will award a $1,000 scholarship to attend Lipscomb to two outstanding students. Lipscomb officials hope to eventually tie the Nashville High School Musical Theater Awards into the National High School Musical Theater Awards, or the Jimmy Awards. For more information or to become involved in the Nashville High School Musical Theater Awards contact Deb Holloway at deb.holloway@lipscomb.edu.
Learn more about the inspirational work of the Lwala Community Alliance and these remarkable girls by viewing Daughters of Lwala, a photography exhibit presented by the Marnie Sheridan Gallery at Harpeth Hall. The show opens with a reception on Sunday, September 8, from 3 to 5 p.m. and continues through October 25. The Harpeth Hall School is located at 3801 Hobbs Road. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.harpethhall.org.
Lwala girl is measured for a new uniform.
Lipscomb Academy's spring 2013 production of The Sound of Music NashvilleArts.com
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In third grade students study native lore and learn about different types of shelters built through the ages. Then they create their own threedimensional shelters such as igloos, tree houses, huts, and teepees using materials found in nature. At this developmental stage, children begin to realize they are separate from their parents, and this exercise helps them to envision how they might live on this earth. In fifth grade the study of pyramids leads to the history of geometry and an understanding of tetrahedrons. By the eighth grade Linden Waldorf students will have written and illustrated more than thirty textbooks on their studies, spent more than five years playing a recorder and a string instrument, acted in eight plays, and built a portfolio of watercolors, charcoal sketches, and geometric drawings.
Ed Haggard drums with 6 – 8 graders, an annual break from string instrument instruction.
"What Waldorf does is so much more than simply incorporate the arts into its curriculum. Rather than just alternate frequently between left-brained, linear activity and occasional right-brained "art projects,” literally almost every aspect of the education brings the two together for whole-brained learning. So math may be learned with rhythmic movement, letters with story, music notation with partnered interaction, and learning blocks with self-written and -illustrated lesson books. In my experience, it creates much more flexible and penetrating minds as well as much more peaceful, happy, and motivated students.” - Dr. Dodge Rea, Clinical Psychologist
Educating through the Arts by Rebecca Pierce | photography by Tiffani Bing
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he Linden Waldorf School is not an art school, but the arts play a central role in the curriculum. Lesson plans incorporate handwork, movement, music, storytelling, drama, drawing, and painting. For example, first graders hone counting skills by knitting with needles they have carved from wooden dowels. During the process they learn determination and the satisfaction that comes from completing a project. The only Waldorf School in Tennessee, Linden Waldorf holds that for students to fully embrace learning, the imagination must be actively engaged. Instead of memorization of standardized information, the emphasis is on a developmental curriculum that is taught artistically. Every teacher creates art and teaches art, integrating it into all subjects.
Sam Grando knits on wooden needles he carved.
Nestled on twelve acres off Hillsboro Road in a space leased from Trinity Presbyterian Church, the school looks like a country home. The walls are painted in Lazure style, which employs natural pigments to replicate colors of nature. On the grounds you’ll find vegetable and flower gardens, which children help plant and tend. What you won’t find at Linden Waldorf are computers, smart phones, and other electronic devices. Students and parents make a pact to limit screen time during and after school. “Some people think it is strange that we don’t have technology in the classrooms, but children are inundated, so being away from all that during school hours is just not bad,” commented Development Coordinator Dana Croy. As a matter of fact, employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, and Yahoo send their children to Waldorf schools. Jadyn Schiffler shows us her shelter project.
The Linden Waldorf School is a member of the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. For more information, visit www.lindenwaldorf.org.
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Cheekwood Bringing Bright Ideas to the Classroom by DeeGee Lester | photography by Mark Pickthall
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ccustomed to enormous holiday light displays, it takes a lot to impress this generation of kids with the notion of an art installation composed of light. But upon arrival at Cheekwood’s Bruce Munro installation, Light, a child’s whiney “Do we have to go?” is quickly squelched, replaced by oohs, aahs, wows, and the age-old art question “How did he do that?” Now the parental easy escape (“He did it with lights, son.”) can be trumped by school art educators’ in-depth descriptions and “you can do it, too” hands-on activities for the classroom.
Nashville Collegiate Philharmonic by Rebecca Pierce | photography by Marty Gay
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uring the summer months, young conductor and Belmont student Elias Salazar and his colleagues did not have an ensemble to be a part of and, therefore, had a hard time keeping their chops up. So Elias decided to see if he could find enough volunteers to form a decent-sized orchestra. With the help of faculty from Austin Peay, Belmont, and MTSU, Elias has recruited nearly fifty musicians from the Middle Tennessee area who are either in college or recently graduated and formed the Nashville Collegiate Philharmonic (NCP). In addition to providing music-making opportunities and bringing more of the classical masterpieces to the Nashville community, NCP is also intent upon showcasing the music of young local composers such as Belmont graduate Patrick Dunnevant and Belmont senior Rusty Jernigan. At set times during rehearsals, NCP reads projects by local composers and offers them feedback, which is a rare and rich opportunity for young classical composers. NCP is in the process of formalizing itself by becoming a non-profit organization, and Elias hopes the orchestra will be able to host several concerts each year, not just in the summer. “The most wonderful aspect of this group is the pure desire to make music together. These are all volunteer players whose only compensation is the joy of performing with other music lovers. This provokes an environment that fosters wonderful attitudes, mutual respect, professionalism, and musical excellence,” Elias maintains.
From 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 4, teachers at all grade levels are invited to participate in the Munro Educator Evening, an awe-inspiring, in-depth exploration of the British artist’s work and process. From the light and sound display of Water Towers featuring 10,000 recyclable plastic water bottles, to the 20,000 lighted glass spheres of Field of Light, teachers will gain in-depth knowledge of artistic creation. Curriculum connections will be made to support classroom teaching with lessons and ideas that spark imaginations and ignite student creativity. “This Educator Evening gives teachers an opportunity to dig deeper into the work, process, and inspiration of Bruce Munro,” says Karen Kwarciak, School and Outreach Coordinator at Cheekwood. “During the program, teachers will tour the exhibition and learn about small-scale, light-inspired projects that can be done in their classroom and school.” The question “How did he do that?” will be answered, while empowered and inspired students will have the opportunity to create their own artistic light designs. The evening will include a guided tour of the exhibition, refreshments, and curriculum materials that can be adapted to different grade levels. Pre-registration is required. The fee is $15 ($12 for Cheekwood members). For more information or to register please contact 353-6973 or kkwarciak@cheekwood.org.
NCP will perform their first concert on Sunday, August 11, at 6 p.m. at First Baptist Church Nashville, 108 7th Avenue South. The show will feature the music of Falla, Grieg, Mozart, Beethoven, and the two Belmont composers mentioned above. The concert will also feature Belmont pianist Madeleine May performing Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, as well as Belmont alumna and soprano soloist Kristen Corley. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/NashvilleCollegiatePhil.
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Elizabeth Foster
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itches eat children, Br’er Rabbit gets into everything, and everyone’s getting poisoned. It’s often best to approach fables like a
child—without judgment, and with a consuming wonder at the fantastical. “The most initial contact you have with art is through the stories that are read to you as a child,” says artist Elizabeth Foster with just the barest hint of a Lowcountry accent. “We grow up with bears that take their babies to school, and all the conflicts get resolved.” The paintings in Foster’s new collection, which opens at 12South’s Two Moon Gallery on August 1, have the weightlessness of a children’s book. There are bears captured in bell jars, great white sperm whales that feel squeezed into their canvases, elephants lifting off with the tiniest of wings, and rabbits dancing around a record player like a woodland carousel. While each painting feels like a scene out of a storybook, the collection’s title, Modern Folktale, comes from the blend of the mythical with the mundane. Says Foster, “What I absolutely love to do in my work is take actual people, real conversations, the everyday and turn it into something a little bit more magical.” In A Meeting in the Middle, two massive grizzlies float eye to eye in little blue and green rowboats, and from an ominous, sodden sky fall two pillars of light, one for each bear. You’d never guess that this peaceful moment was inspired by recent negotiations of terms of Foster’s website. “That’s kind of what folktales do,” Foster says. “They bring life and imagination to the everyday common folk. I’m common folk.” A Relaxing Evening, Alone with My Thoughts, 2013, Acrylic on gesso board, 40" x 30"
Foster is “grounded in reality with one foot, and the other foot’s really grounded in the endless possibilities,” a vision inspired by the work of American regionalist
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The Odd Couple, 2013, Acrylic on gesso board, 12" x 12"
painter Grant Wood (American Gothic), whose strange, provincial landscapes of country folk and rolling hills gave Midwestern life a fabled quality, begging the question, “It’s a real place—or is it?” Foster exhibits a sense of creative freedom encouraged by a long family history of artists. Much in the way that folktales originate as oral traditions, passed down through generations, she inherited a deep appreciation for creative experimentation and staying actively imaginative.
Love Letters Par Avion, 2013, Acrylic on gesso board, 24” x 18”
The Meeting in the Middle, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 18” x 36”
“Creativity was literally just a currency,” says Foster. “I was always hugely encouraged to explore as much and as far as I possibly could with my creativity. And I remember growing up thinking this is something I’m never ever going to let go of. This is something that I need to cherish.” This lifelong commitment to the creative pursuit is Foster’s white whale—literally. Her paintings of sperm whales are a celebration of catching the impossible; they are fishbowls that hold the joy of what can be achieved. “I’m so drawn to the aspect of chasing down ideas,” Foster says, “We’re all seekers and explorers and adventurers.”
The Song That Made the Whole World Dance, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 48” x 36”
But even this intangible search is moored in the everyday. Foster points at Scrimshaw, Sailor of the Deep, a 36” x 60” painting of a topheavy, heavily tattooed whale floating in a choppy green sea, and says, “That’s actually my cousin. He was seeking out his passions. He was grabbing everything with both hands. I felt like he was just roaming the depths of his young life.”
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The Incredible Race, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 36” x 60”
Of all the many surprises in Modern Folktale, the most surprising is the fact that Foster has been painting for only seven years. And though we’ve already seen exciting transformations in her work—her color palette is richer, her characters more reckless—she’ll probably always love forest creatures, and no wonder: Baby rabbits hop up to her as she drinks her coffee in the morning, deer wander down her driveway,
and, “Bless his heart, there was one mangy fox in my backyard . . . and I just wanted to help him or sneak him some dandruff shampoo.” Elizabeth Foster is represented by Art & Invention Gallery and Two Moon Gallery. Modern Folktale at Two Moon Gallery opens Thursday, August 1. www.twomoongallery.com, www.artandinvention.com, www.elizabethfosterart.com
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The next time you comment, "I could've done that!" about an abstract painting, just remember...
by Leigh R. Hendry
Yeah, but You Didn't!
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f your five-word summation of much of the artwork you see these days is, “Oh, I could’ve done that!” then read this immediately.
Over the course of many years, I’d often hear people blithely reject a work of art, which they hadn’t expended the time or energy to create, by saying with a casual wave of the hand, “Oh, I could’ve done that!” Whenever this happened (it was usually in reference to contemporary or abstract art), I would shudder inwardly and think yeah, but you didn’t. So, after more than a quarter of a century of working in the museum field, I started responding. I can’t begin to say how profoundly satisfying it feels to utter the words “yeah, but you didn’t”—always wrapped and delivered sweetly with a smile, of course. But why, you might ask, would one even bother? Because I could sustain my threshold for entertainment with that kind of unthinking dismissal for only a limited period. It’s patently unfair to those who toil daily as working artists, many struggling mightily to just barely pay their bills, to have their output so cavalierly discharged by the often unknowing and uneducated. These kinds of judgments almost always betray the speaker, frequently demonstrating a lack of
Michael Greenspan, Swimmer, 2008, Mixed media on panel, 40" x 46", Cumberland Gallery
knowledge about the subject at hand, while also revealing a potentially empty reservoir of generosity of spirit. Let me add here that I can’t recall ever hearing any real working artist make that kind of derisive statement about any other artist’s work, no matter the medium or the perceived
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kind of images at which we were looking. I replied that while that could be true, I’d never seen any of their work, so it was difficult to determine whether or not that was actually the case. I kindly suggested that they go out and shoot some similar black-and-white photographs and indicated that I’d be most interested in seeing their results. They agreed that they’d do that and seemed excited by the prospect of such a challenge. However, somewhat unsurprisingly, I never heard anything from that potential photographer again. Nor did I ever view any of their black-and-whites. I can only assume that they either never actually attempted to take any images or that their results were not nearly as exceptional or engaging as they’d imagined. Perhaps they found the task to be more daunting than they’d envisioned it might be during the moment when we stood together looking at those incredibly elegant, ethereal photographs.
Robert Delaunay, Premier Disque, 1912–1913, 52.7"
quality. Because here’s what most real artists would say: “Ah, I could’ve done that SO much better!” (They are all so competitive, and rightly so.) The old adage about “it’s the thought/effort that counts” applies here, and not just to the visual arts, but to all creative endeavors from film to music to literature to clothing design to songwriting to whatever you can think of that takes two human hands, an imaginative and energetic brain, and some bit of originality and ingenuity to make it happen. Some time ago, as I was oohing-and-aahing over a collection of what I found to be stunningly beautiful, though seemingly simple, black-and-white photographs at a gallery opening, an acquaintance turned to me and announced with bravado that they could have shot the very
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II), 1912, Oil on canvas, 47 3/8" x 55 1/4"
So, for me, here’s the lesson, friends and fellow viewers: When you do judge, tread lightly, and strive not to be too harsh. Be as kind as possible. Be gentle (like a whisper) and be thoughtful—in a manner that would make the Dalai Lama show his enigmatic smile. Take into consideration that the art of whatever the craft may be has some intrinsic worth and some personal meaning, at least to its creator. Keep in mind that it absolutely merits your respect if only for the simple reason that the person who did whatever you might be so merrily critiquing spent a portion of their finite, valuable time on this planet actually trying to do something. If nothing else, think of it like this: the human being who made this thing that you are sprinkling with such nonchalant disdain, while pronouncing it ‘elementary, my dear’, was responsible for giving you something to think about, even if you hated it or found it lacking in some significant way. And, for that, you owe the artist a gracious, genuine nod of thanks. Because while you could’ve done it, you probably didn’t . . . but they most certainly did.
František Kupka, Amorpha, fugue en deux couleurs, 1912, 83" x 79"
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That girl in a kitchen has a self-deprecating sense of humor, not what you might expect. Her cooking is informed by global tastes, but it is that element of the unexpected that defines Paquette’s food. Consider the Etch Salad, a cumulus of greens laced with shaved fennel, apple, hazelnuts, blue cheese, and champagne vinaigrette. It is a fresh assembly of sweet-sour-salty-savory ingredients. And yet, it’s the tangle of candied orange peel, citrusy and tart, that brings that note of delight, lifting the salad to extraordinary.
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he interior of Etch, the cutting-edge restaurant in the ground floor of SoBro’s Encore building, makes a bold statement in muted tones: This is the place to experience the cuisine of Chef Deb Paquette.
Its expansive dining room evinces minimalist sensibilities. There is a bank of large windows. Warm but subtle earth colors anchor the floor. Neutral walls are sparely decorated with contemporary paintings of botanicals. Lines of black-draped tables are set with jade plants in glass. Before the open kitchen is the gentle curve of the zinc bar, a symmetry and rhythm of place settings: black mats glinting with glass and silver, porcelain bread plates topped with tight-rolled black napkins. Against the backdrop of these serene, monochromatic environs, Paquette’s food comes to the fore: vibrant, assertive, impetuous, luminous. In conceiving each dish, the lauded chef brings more than a harmony of flavors. Colors, textures, and dimension are vital components. With an array of glass and ceramic plates and platters as her canvas, Paquette makes food an art form. Ribbons of vegetables lashed with garlic oil form woven sculptures. A construct of delicate lamb chops towers and leans against phyllo cigars of merguez sausage. Planks of Turkish spiced cobia repose on a beignet surrounded by browned butter oranges, olives, almonds, and capers. A brilliant palette of purées and sauces—red bell pepper-tomato essence, sweet pea pesto, beet sriracha—dots and scribbles and brushes the plates. “I’m a girl in a kitchen,” she says with a shrug. “I don’t dress up. This is how I make things pretty.”
Chef Deb Paquette prepares Ratatouille Crudo
A soup of the day features an uncommon yet remarkable meld: tomatoes and pears. “Both are fruits,” she says, “and their acids work together.” They do. But who knew? The forward tomato purée has a delectable undercurrent of pear sparked with North African aromatics. Paquette takes it a step further, floating a crisp eggplant fritter in the bisque. And then there’s the sandwich filled with what looks like egg salad but is really cauliflower. Its components—aioli, mustard, capers, onions, celery, and olives—all cloak the “curd” in what has the mouth feel and flavor of egg salad but, surprise, no eggs. Indeed, it is an improvement over an egg salad sandwich.
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Her inspiration? “We all have gifts, and I’m grateful that I know what mine is. I like challenges. I like to have fun. I like to find different ways to get excited about food. It’s in my DNA!” she laughs. “Sunday is my day for invention. To read and reflect. I have ideas I need to test,” she says, pointing to the side of her head. “Like this piccata dish using sweet potato.” In fine art printmaking, engraved images are impressed into paper, each indelible, in a repetition almost identical but no two exactly the same. In the culinary arts, the chef creates her plates in similar fashion. The result is ephemeral yet etched into the diner’s memory. Shrimp & Filo
Since 1982, Nashvillians have been treated to the culinary prowess of Deb Paquette. She has made a lasting impression on many cooks, chefs, diners, and eateries over a thirty-year span, garnering local and national recognition for her work. Passionate and dedicated (“and a crazed workaholic”), she is ever in the Etch kitchen making her art. Etch is located at 303 Demonbreun Street, Nashville, TN 37201. www.etchrestaurant.com
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Shares the Fisk Stieglitz Collection until February 2O14 along with a staggering array of American art
20th century gallery Evan Penny, Old Self: Portrait of the Artist as He Will (Not) Be, Variation #2, 2010, Silicone, pigment, hair, fabric, and aluminum
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ost visitors don’t just drop by the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, unless the Ozark region is home.
Otherwise, getting there likely involves a trek—it’s a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Little Rock—but a visit here is worth the effort. Since the museum’s opening in fall 2011, it has transformed the cultural landscape of Northwest Arkansas. The brainchild of Alice Walton (daughter of Sam), the museum’s collection of works by American artists numbers more than 2,000 pieces, around 400 of which are shown at any given time. The museum is approached from the parking level above after encountering Roxy Paine’s Yield, a strikingly realistic, though stainless steel, tree sculpture. Before descending to the museum level via glass elevators or (less inspiring) stairs, visitors should take in the awe-inspiring overview of the complex—a composition in concrete, glass, and steel designed by Moshe Safdie and set among 105 acres of woods and trails.
Walton Ford, The Island (triptych), 2009, Watercolor, gouache, pencil, and ink on paper, 95 1/2" x 132" total
Eight pavilions span Crystal Spring and adjacent ponds; one pavilion holds Eleven, the museum’s airy restaurant (named after the museum’s 11/11/11 opening date) and coffee bar, another an auditorium with 280-degree views. Expanses of glass within the museum allow views of and inside the other buildings as well as courtyards—some with outdoor sculptures—and the surrounding woods. (This natural habitat is also home to deer, possums, armadillos, coyotes, raccoons, snakes, beavers, ducks, and geese, according to Scott Eccleston, director of trails and grounds.) Three and a half miles of trails surround the complex, including cycling and running paths, nature trails, and an art walk. The latter connects with neighboring Compton Gardens and eventually leads to downtown Bentonville, where a 21c Museum Hotel opened in February. Crystal Bridges’ 217,000 square feet of interior space includes galleries with warm wood ceilings made of hand-cut Arkansas pine and light hardwood floors of Arkansas oak. Gallery walls are in a series of colors—mauve, colonial blue, taupe, cream—and as they curve throughout the museum, the spaces offer intriguing combinations of works. For instance, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth’s bronze sculpture The Bubble (1928), a nude dancing with an illuminated, iridescent glass ball, is positioned in the center of a room 86 | August 2O13 NashvilleArts.com
Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, 1943, Oil on canvas, 52" x 40"
As anyone who follows art in Nashville knows, Crystal Bridges now owns a 50-percent stake in the Stieglitz Collection. The 101 pieces of art will be shared between the museum and Fisk University, changing locations every two years, with its initial Bentonville exhibition scheduled through February 3, 2014. After that show in the museum’s temporary exhibition space, works from the Stieglitz Collection will likely be matched with related works from the museum’s collection, according to Diane Carroll, media relations manager.
Uttech (born 1942), Enassamishhinjijweian, 2009, Oil on canvas, 103" x 112"
where it plays off Maxfield Parrish’s The Lantern Bearers (1908). In the painting, six Pierrot figures pose with glowing paper lanterns in a twilight setting. (This painting was acquired by Crystal Bridges in 2006; the Christie’s auction price is recorded as $4,272,000.) The collection includes an impressive survey of art by American artists, including Norman Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter, works by Thomas Hart Benton (namesake of the U.S. Senator from whom Bentonville also derives its name) and Benton’s student Jackson Pollock, Georgia O’Keefe, and sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Works are arranged chronologically beginning with the Colonial period with John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale. Next comes the Federal period where Gilbert Stuart’s portrait of George Washington—a gift for Alexander Hamilton—is paired with John Trumbull’s portrait of Hamilton when the latter painting is in residence. A gift from Credit Suisse, the Trumbull portrait is shared between Crystal Bridges and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Asher Brown Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849, Oil on canvas, 44" x 36"
A gallery of landscapes by Hudson River artists includes Asher Brown Durand’s Kindred Spirits (1840), a vertical painting of Thomas Cole and William Cullen Bryant standing on a ledge overlooking a ravine. The scene was inspired by the eulogy Bryant delivered at Cole’s funeral. “This is the painting that got us into the museum business,” gallery guide Dave Williams said of the picture, which was the first one acquired for the museum. Crystal Bridges also has an eclectic collection Harriet Whitney of contemporary art, including Louise Frishmuth (1880-1980), Bubble, 1928, Nevelson’s painted-wood wall sculpture The Bronze and glass, Night Zag Wall (1969–1974) and Evan Penny’s 94" x 38 3/4" x 26" hyperrealistic Old Self: Portrait of the Artist as He Will (Not) Be, Variation #2 (2010). Enassamishhinjijweian, a large painting by Tom Uttech with a deep, translucent sky and a multitude of birds and forest animals, is a particularly fitting piece for this stunning institution and its equally magnificent setting. The Crystal Bridges Museum of Art is located at 600 Museum Way, Bentonville, Arkansas. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Thursday, and Saturday; till 6 p.m. Sunday, and till 9 p.m. Wednesday and Friday. The museum is closed Tuesdays. A grant from Walmart provides free admission; additional fees may apply to special exhibitions. For information, visit www.crystalbridges.org.
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Peggy Dodds, American (1900–1989), Untitled, Pastel on paper This work by Peggy Dodds represents a commonplace and yet vital depiction of twentieth-century America, the now-almost-vanished rural life and its seasons. The warm colors of the child and the cow, although contrasting with the lovely blue and cool greens, strongly suggest the warm days of summer ahead. Other than her association memberships—the National Association of Women Artists, the Montclair Art Association, the Woodstock Art Association—a few exhibition inclusions, and conflicting birth and death dates, there was very little information to be found about Peggy Dodds, but I had the good fortune to find and speak to her—in his words—"only birth son.” It was a rushed conversation truncated by a poor connection, but he was, at 81 years, able to energetically share some remembrances of his “Momma.”
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Peggy Dodds moved to New York City at the age of 19 to study at the nowrenowned Art Students League, which was founded by artists for artists. She studied with her friend Yasuo Kuniyoshi, the Japan-born artist (1893). Kuniyoshi had come to California in 1906 and then moved on to
the League to study with Kenneth Hayes Miller. Dodds is best known for her portraiture, and it is apparent from her work that she was influenced by Kuniyoshi and Miller. After a couple of failed marriages, Peggy Dodds married Henry A. Williams of Passaic County, New Jersey. As a blended family with five children, they would winter in Paterson, New Jersey, and summer in Woodstock, New York, where they renovated old homes and immersed themselves in the arts community, which at that time included such artists as Andrew Dasburg, Robert Henri, Rockwell Kent, and Leon Kroll. The son shared that they lived across the road from Reginald Marsh and George Bellows and that a portrait of Peggy painted by Eugene Speicher still hung in his home. “It was all great fun.” I asked if his mother considered or behaved as though motherhood was a distraction from her art. Her son emphatically answered, "NO. She was a great mother." In fact, one of his favorite memories was in the late 1930s when he was five: "We drove to Freeman's art supply store in New York City, and Momma bought three life-sized dummies that she would dress up and use as her models. Those models, along with all her other props that included hundreds of dolls, costumes, hats, and masks, are all still there in the studio behind the house. Should the owners of this bucolic scene wish to offer it at auction, it is my opinion that it would carry an estimate of $2,000 to $2,400. Cows have always been a popular subject matter.
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Artist James Nares hangs suspended, creating a single-brushstroke painting.
Catch It, 2010, Oil on linen, 80" x 53 1/2"
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rtist James Nares, originally from London and now residing in NYC, is internationally known for his films, photography, and paintings. In all
of these media, he focuses on themes of movement, rhythm, and repetition. The minimalist, single-stroke paintings featured here are examples of Nares’ concept of recording the moment of the work's creation. To do so, he traces the passage of time and the movement of the paint-filled brush as it crosses the canvas. We spoke to Nares about his iconic paintings and learned a little about the man behind the art, the brushes, the paint, and his trip to Nashville.
How did your single-brushstroke concept originate?
It originated by slowly stripping away everything else that was less interesting to me. That’s what I was left with—it seemed to me that there was enough going on within a single brushstroke to tell a story. Is the work pre-planned or are you working in the moment?
It’s hopefully a perfect mix of both. I’m riding a knife’s edge between design and spontaneity, and I have to have the best of both in order to make a brushstroke. What are the physical challenges of being suspended?
Iron Compass, 2012, Oil on linen, 80" x 38"
That’s gotten a lot of play, but it’s actually quite rare that I make a painting suspended. I usually paint at a large table, standing on the ground. When I do suspend myself, my feet are locked into a kind of extended ladder, and I throw my body horizontally while I make the brushstroke. So I’m actually only suspended horizontal for about four or five seconds at most.
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Radio Row, 2011, Oil on linen, 40" x 80"
Your work seems to have a natural rhythm to it.
Thoughts on Nashville?
There’s definitely a rhythm to the paintings. Rhythm is a strong element, which is a musical connection for me—a hint of music in the paintings.
I love Nashville. I’ve been there a couple of times. We were driving a big Cadillac across country, and we stopped off in Nashville on the first part of our journey. I remember checking into a hotel, and there was music coming from every room. There was music everywhere. It was great.
What about your color choices?
Well, they’re not symbolic. I just try to think of them as colors. Blue is blue. Sometimes if a painting isn’t working I’ll change the color in order to move it along. You make your own brushes . . .
I do! I have to make them because nobody makes brushes like I need. Sometimes I’ll make them by taking ordinary household brushes and chopping them up and then gluing them back together in a different configuration. Do the brushes provide you with certain textures?
Yes. Each brush has a different character. It's a combination of the snap of the bristle, how "snappy" it is or soft, how long it is, how thick it is, and how much paint it will hold. All those things vary from one brush to another.
artist bio James Nares was born in London in 1953, and he now lives in New York City. The British painter, photographer, and filmmaker has exhibited his work in group shows and solo exhibitions around the world. His art is part of numerous public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MoMA. He is represented by Paul Kasmin Gallery. For more information visit www.paulkasmingallery.com and www.jamesnares.com.
A living artist you most admire?
There are so many great artists, but I would say, of my contemporaries, my favorite painter is Christopher Wall.
Betsy Wills admits that she is blissfully ignorant when it comes to art curation and selection. She is, however, an avid art lover and collector and maintains the popular art blog artstormer.com. Wills is proud of the fact that her art does not match her sofa.
Crepuscule, 2012, Oil on linen, 27" x 100"
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Only the Stars Are the Same Nashville Shakespeare Festival Celebrates 25 Summers in the Park by Jim Reyland
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very first production, As You Like It, was an all-volunteer show with a total budget of $500. Fast-forward to 2013, and the Nashville Shakespeare Festival is in full swing, hosting a large complement of community and educational outreach programs. NSF hires fulltime professional actors and stage managers, professional designers and technicians who spin their year-round productions into noteworthy art, all while enjoying audience and community support that has grown exponentially.
The Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s 25th anniversary production will be staged and set in Nashville, "the Athens of the South," and promises to be the best yet, with plenty of green grass and sixteenth-century Elizabethan poetry for friends and family alike. It’s a ticket to the traditional, privileged world of the Athenian upper class, filled with debutantes, gentlemen, cigars, and champagne (represented by “Old Nashville”) and the unlimited and mischievous “Fairy World,” a
Cast of Much Ado About Nothing performing in Shelby Park, 1992
Photo: Jeff Frazier
“This work is immeasurably rewarding to me, because I believe so wholeheartedly in the power of poetry to reflect our humanity,” says Denice Hicks, NSF Artistic Director. “Great plays help people see their potential, stimulate thought and imagination, and provoke meaningful conversations. Shakespeare's language and characters are timeless and always relevant, and the fact that they were created over 400 years ago reminds us that as we are connected to our ancestors, so will we be to our successors.”
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uch has changed since NSF first broke into Shakespeare on the green at Centennial Park in 1988. The
Left to right: Andrew Gumm as Puck, Apolonia Davalos as Titania and Nat McIntyre as Oberon, from the upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Culture comes from within a community, and the art that this community produces creates an essential part of its identity.
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– Denice Hicks, Artistic Director, Nashville Shakespeare Festival
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Aaron Munoz as Macduff in Macbeth, 2013
town of independent record labels, freestyle dance crews, guerilla gardeners, and hip-hop ecologists, where the free spirit revels (represented by “New Nashville”). Add in the “Mechanicals” and their repressed and financially limited world of the hardworking, blue-collar class and devoted tourists, and you have A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Denice Hicks and featuring a who’s who of Nashville’s favorite actors along with a mighty apprentice company. Not only is the Nashville Shakespeare Festival a fine and ready interpreter of some of the greatest language with which mankind has ever been gifted, but they will be the first to tell you they are Nashvillians first and approach all of their work with that joyful spirit. This is truly a festival celebrating their twenty-five-year gift to the Nashville theatre-going community. “So come to the show,” suggests Nashville Shakes. “Be delighted. Find yourself at the park this summer, reflected in the mirror we’re holding up to nature, and enjoy something special your city has to offer.” A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be presented at the band shell in Centennial Park August 15–September 15 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday evenings plus Labor Day Monday. Pre-show entertainment begins at 6:30 p.m. Wonderful food is available on site. Visit www.nashvilleshakes.org for additional information. The film version of Jim Reyland’s new play, STAND, performed across Middle Tennessee in 2012 as part of The Stand Project, is now available to stream at www.writersstage.com. Watch The STAND Film starring Barry Scott and Chip Arnold, directed by David Compton, and, when you’re done, consider a donation to support Room In The Inn. jreyland@audioproductions.com
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A Winter's Tale, 2005
The Tempest, 2010
Les Misérables to benefit the Boiler Room Theatre
The iconic musical will be presented as a special three-performance benefit for the non-profit Boiler Room Theatre from August 8–10 at Liberty Hall in the Factory at Franklin. Ticket prices will range from $29 to $99 and may be purchased by calling the Boiler Room Theatre at 615-794-7744 or ordered online in 2013 at www.boilerroomtheatre.com. For information about corporate sponsorships or volunteer opportunities for Boiler Room Theatre’s benefit production of Les Misérables, contact the BRT Box Office at 615-794-7744 or info@boilerroomtheatre.com.
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Critical i by Joe Nolan
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n the new show at Vanderbilt University's Space 204, the prints of gallery assistant and building/studio manager Jerry Phillips are displayed alongside the sculptural installations of Vandy's Department of Art sculpture and ceramics technician Jeremy Jones.
In Where Do All the Memories Go? Jeremy Jones uses wool, steel, polyester resin, nylon, and wax to create a herd of hermaphroditic creatures that feature both drooping, phallic heads and pink, vaginal orifices. Instruments for Passage speaks to puberty's entryway into physical adulthood as well as the amorous rites of passage that lead us into adult relationships. Jones’ work here is messy and a little repulsive. The installation reminds me of the body horror in the films of David Cronenberg mixed with Mike Kelley's disturbing evocations of childhood—the funny/horrifying ambivalence here is spot on. Jones' Phantom also speaks to personal transformation. The piece includes a full ceramic body cast of the artist—an element that recurs throughout the show. The standing figure is bisected vertically, its separated “back” and “front” sections connected by a network of clinging, white tendrils. Here, Jones evokes the passage of time on a personal scale, reminding viewers that between periods of self-realization we are also subject to extremes of self-dissolution. Jerry Phillips' Somehow, I Guess, like Jones' show, explores personal transformation, but Phillips points a wider lens at his subject, sifting through memory, geography, and ancestry to examine how individuals coalesce out of the experiences and actions of the generations that precede them. In pieces like 8 Seconds from Home and Constant Companion, Phillips features the botanical imagery that appears throughout this large exhibit. The blue,
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Jeremy Jones, Phantom, Body cast and mixed media
bucking mustang in 8 Seconds also makes several appearances. The prints combine overlapping images into dreamy compositions of fish and frogs, handlebars and hobbyhorses, chandeliers and seashells. The symbolism in Somehow is too personal and obtuse to offer up a clear narrative, but while these thoughtfully crafted prints don't really tell a story, Phillips' generous display manages to invite viewers to make his memories their own. Space 204 is located on the second floor of the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center at 25th Avenue South and Garland on the Vanderbilt campus. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All exhibits are free and open to the public. For more information about the show and the artists visit www.vanderbilt.edu/arts.
beyond words by Marshall Chapman
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y phobias concerning hermetically sealed
hotels are well documented. When booking a hotel before hitting the road, the question is invariably raised: "Do the guest rooms in your hotel have windows or balconies that open to outside air?"
A few weeks ago, I found myself talking with a woman named Donna at the Hotel Louisville Downtown. I had stayed in this hotel back when it was a Holiday Inn. The windows had been operable then. But I knew from experience, that didn't necessarily mean they'd be operable now. Hotels oftentimes undergo renovations, resulting in old, operable windows being replaced with new, inoperable ones, which means I can no longer stay in those hotels. Sometimes the old windows are screwed shut, which is why Chris and I travel with tools. "Hi Donna," I said. "I need to know if the guest rooms in your hotel have windows . . . " Before I could finish, Donna interrupted me with, "Of COURSE our guest rooms have windows!" "No, no . . . I meant do they have windows that open to outside fresh air." "OF COURSE OUR WINDOWS OPEN TO OUTSIDE AIR!!" she practically shouted into the receiver with an attitude I was beginning to appreciate. I instinctively liked this Donna and instinctively felt this former Holiday Inn might be my new home-away-from-home in Louisville.
From the Visconti home in Florence to you.
Chris has always been skeptical—at least initially—whenever I discover a new "economical" hotel or motel. Chris's idea of security is armed guards patrolling a parking garage at night. My idea of security is being able to see my car parked just outside the door to my room.
Rembrandt from $145.00 and Van Gogh from $199.00
As we pulled into the parking lot at the Hotel Louisville Downtown, I was still trying to sell Chris on the idea of us staying there, pointing out the new iron fence that now surrounded the parking lot. "Oh, look! They've got a fence now," I said cheerfully, trying not to notice the homeless man making a beeline for the Dumpster by the front door. As it turned out, this old Holiday Inn was now a halfway house/homeless shelter run by a local Christian mission. The old bar off the lobby, now a coffee shop. Everyone we encountered—maids, bellhop, etc.—seemed truly grateful to be working and off the streets. Their laughter rang like music in the hallways.
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After my interview at nearby WFPK, Chris and I returned to our new home-away-fromhome to find a wedding-party photo session in full swing in the parking lot. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words.
photo: Chris Fletcher
Our room was on the ninth floor, one of two floors set aside for outside, paying guests. It was spacious and clean with two beds—a king and a double. The bathroom, which was spotless, had recently been refurbished with new, white porcelain fixtures. But best of all were the two windows on the far side of our room. Both opened to the cool river air blowing off the Ohio in the distance.
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on the town with Ted Clayton
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o I read that Nashville is ranked number thirteen on the country’s "snobby" list. Well I guess it is, because we are the "IT" city, and a city
made up of volunteers giving to so many organizations’ fabulous fundraising events. At the top of this list would have to be "Divas Nashvegas" benefiting the Oasis Center. I must admit I had never attended this wild tent party, but I will never miss it again. Of course Grace Clayton made sure Dad was present along with her cochairs Stacie Standifer and Hugh Howser. Hugh with H Three Events did another knockout job with the tent décor. His description of the décor was, "Remember at Opryland the Old Mill Scream? Well, it is that with earrings! (Only Hugh!) He also reminded me of the days as a kid when his parents would drop him off at Opryland for the day: "Who was going to hurt us, Reba or Minnie? I don't think so!"
Sherri and Marvin Neal – Nashvegas
Clare Bowen, Charles Esten, Beth Hall – Nashvegas
Floating through the hot, humid air at the Evers Farm was music by Chase Dodds, Abigail Rose, and Ryan Barnett. Charles Esten and Clare Bowen of Nashville led the star lineup for the evening entertainment. Enjoying a Southern buffet by Loveless Cafe and decked out in their country social attire were Elizabeth and Charles Barrett, Corinne and Brock Kidd, Brenda and Joe Steakley, Julie and Tommy Frist, Collie Daily, Sissy Wilson, Laura and John Chadwick, John Tighe, Beth, Steve, and Ruth Franklin, and Rose and Steve Shipp. Down to the silversequined tablecloths, oh my goodness, this was certainly a Diva evening in Nashville! Only in Nashville could we be so fortunate as to have an art deco show, Sensuous Steel, in one of the country’s greatest art deco buildings, the Frist Center, formerly the city's main post office. Architects, interior and fashion designers, and industrial designers all came
Brock and Corinne Kidd, Charles and Elizabeth Barrett – Nashvegas
Co-Chairs Hugh Howser, Stacie Standifer, Grace Clayton – Nashvegas
Ruth and Beth Franklin with Abigail Rose – Nashvegas
Margaret Roberts, Bill Eakin, AJ Bentz – Nashvegas
together between the two world wars to create the visual icons of the twentieth century. Thanks to Barbara, Jack, Sara, and Richard Bovender, the lead sponsors, for this oh-so-sensual exhibit showcasing eighteen vintage cars and two motorcycles. I chose the 1934 Bugatti Type 46, La Petite Royale as my favorite of show and one I would gladly leave in. The Royale with its 11'6" wheelbase enabled the majestic, limousine-style automobile at an affordable price, and it could also top 100 mph. I can just see Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in this opulent auto. These cars were not made to be practical but to make an impression, which brings me to my second favorite, the 1929 Cord L-29 Cabriolet. This car was sponsored by Nashville's architectural firm Tuck-Hinton (they also headed the renovation of the Frist Center) and was once owned by the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright once commented that the Cords always looked becoming to the houses he designed. Taking a backseat ride were Marilyn and Kem Hinton, Chase Cole, Judy and Pete Nebhut, Susi Thomas with Becky Griffith (Becky noted that this was the best people-watching event in town), John Baeder, and Robert and Jeanne Dudley Smith. Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles—these beauties were made to impress the best! Elegance and optimism, sexy and sensuous, and with power. Henry Ford must have thought, we have come a long way now, baby!
Kem Hinton and John Baeder – Sensuous Steel
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Co-Chairs Thomas Williams and Anne Clayton, Amos Gott and Vincent Dreffs – Nourish
Keith and Libby Perryman – Nourish
So, have you ever been to a five-course dinner party at the Nashville Farmers’ Market? I didn't think so. This was the scenario for the Second Annual Nourish, a dinner and auction to benefit the Nashville Food Project. Seven nationally noted chefs came together from the Nashville area, Atlanta, and Brooklyn, New York, to create an amazing feast. I knew from the passed hors d'oeuvres of chicken liver paté on toast with smoked peach jam, deviled quail eggs with chow chow, and Tabasco pickled shrimp with bacon chutney on a grit cake, among others, that this was one meal for the records!
of course we all know this lovely house from the ABC series Nashville. Champagne corks were a-popping and wine a-flowing as Grand Cru Chair Ann Eaden welcomed Cathy and Clay Jackson, Cindee and Michael Gold, Jan and Doug McClanahan, Sylvia and Al Ganier, and of course Mr. and Mrs. l’Eté du Vin, aka Nancy and Billy Ray Hearn, J. Karen Thomas with Colette Divine, Deby and Keith Pitts (the Pitts and the Hearns just returned from Italy; think they consumed some wine?) and my nephew, Will Clayton, who said to me, "Wow, this is so much better than the champagne at the SAE House at Alabama!" The guy has to start somewhere, and what better instructor than his Uncle Ted? Remembering a quote from Auntie Mame: "Life is a banquet . . . “ Enjoy, my nephew! Oh by the way, Will is an avid reader of Nashville Arts!
J. Karen Thomas and Colette Divine – Grand Cru
Will Clayton and Sylvia Roberts – Grand Cru
Dinner chairs Anne Clayton and Thomas Williams greeted Amos Gott and Vincent Dreffs, Rob Barrick, Bill Peerman, Tallu Quinn, Libby and Keith Perryman, Gordon Peerman – Nourish Sara and Richard Bovender, Lisa and Bill Peerman, Shirley Zeitlin, Elizabeth James, Pam and Jeff Kuhn, Rob Barrick, Gordon Peerman, and Nashville Food Project Executive Director Tallu Quinn. OK, I admit that after leaving this extraordinary dinner I did have to loosen the belt. The most extravagant menu-tasting party ever: TPAC Gala Co-chairs Theresa Menefee, Jason Bradshaw, and Bob Deal held the seated dinner tasting at the Menefee's farm. Twenty-four lucky guests enjoyed a number of hors d'oeuvres during the cocktail hour consisting of the Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and the Jerry Lee Lewis. The theme of the gala to be held on August 24 is "Million Dollar Quartet.” Oh, the dessert—well I cannot ruin the surprise, but mine was served with a birthday candle. Eagerly awaiting the next course were Lee Ann and George Anderson, Kathleen O'Brien, Anita Cash, Phillip Chadwick, Stephen Houff, Rusty Terry, and Brent Hyams. This is one gala not to be missed. Not only will the dinner be great, but the chairs did such a grand job last year, and they are doing it again! So join me at TPAC on the 24th and be that Million Dollar Baby! Of course there was wine flowing at the above Nourish Dinner, but nothing like the wine and champagne at the Grand Cru Evening, a gathering for the patrons of the l'Eté du Vin, Pour de France, the 34th annual wine auction held last month. (You shall read complete coverage of this great event next month). Sylvia Roberts opened her Nashville mansion;
Nancy and Billy Ray Hearn with Deby Pitts – Grand Cru
Rick and Vicki Horne, Sylvia and Al Ganier- – Grand Cru
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my favorite painting
J.R. Roper General Manager, Lexus of Nashville
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few years ago we held an art show at our house to raise funds for ALS research. Our featured artist was Rolando
Diaz, an artist from Cuba living in Miami. I had an immediate connection to him and his art. I loved his bold use of color, the vibrancy of his work, and, above all, I connected with his spirit. He told me that the color palette for his painting came from the mantel of an old house in Dallas. There’s quiet whimsy in the painting, the pipe, the bowler hat, its hint of English aristocracy—I get it!
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Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience. - Rufino Tamayo
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Rolando Diaz, London Smoke, 2008, Oil on canvas, 36" x 30"
Artist Bio Cuban-American artist Rolando Diaz paints in an abstract-expressionist style. As a young artist he studied the life and art of Willem de Kooning, Pablo Picasso, and Rufino Tamayo, which profoundly affected his aesthetic. Diaz believes that “art is an expression of life,” and his use of bright color palettes, loose forms, and dynamic lines recalls those employed by the Abstract Expressionists. He makes art in private and in public. The works produced in the studio are created quickly, but they are carefully considered and revised. In his performance pieces, Diaz collaborates with musicians to create highly improvised paintings that capture the mood and movement of the music performed live on stage. A philanthropist, Diaz began painting live to raise funds for the poor, and he has continued to perform around the world to provide for the underserved. His work can be found in many public and private collections around the world. He currently lives in Miami. Diaz was featured in the award-winning documentary Recapturing Cuba, which traces his roots and artistic influences in the land his family fled when he was eight years old. Go to www.nashvillearts.com to see it online.
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