Frist Center Announces Calendar Of Events For 3/1-5/17 2009

Frist Center for the Visual Arts announces their Calendar of Events March 1-May 17, 2009

Free Jazz on the Move Series Continues, March 15 and April 19

The Nashville Jazz Workshop and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts present the popular series, Jazz on the Move, that feature a combination lecture and performance, presented by some of Nashville's top jazz artists and educators. The programs take place on a series of Sunday at 3 p.m. in the auditorium. All performances are free and open to the public. This series is made possible by an Arts Builds Communities (ABC) grant from the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission in cooperation with the Tennessee Arts Commission.

March 15: The Life and Music of Billie Holiday with Connye Florance
April 19 The Life and Times of Thelonious Monk with Bruce Dudley
Free Admission for College Students Thursday and Friday Evenings, 5-9 p.m.

College students may now enjoy two free evenings each week at the Frist Center. Each Thursday and Friday evening, admission is free for all college students with a current student ID.

March 2009

Thursday, March 5 Music in the Grand Lobby

6 - 8 p.m. Teri Reid, keyboard

Free

On Thursday evenings, the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. Visit the Frist Center café and choose from a variety of beers, non-alcoholic beverages, as well as a selection of red and white wines. Bistro seating is offered, so visitors can relax and enjoy music performed by jazz pianist and vocalist Teri Reid.

Thursday, March 5 Gallery Talk: Paint Made Flesh

7 p.m. Talking Bodies: Connections Across Disciplines

Meet at the Information Desk

Free with the purchase of gallery admission

Dr. Ellen Armour, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter associate professor of theology and associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, will discuss the ways in which paintings by Alice Neel, Leon Golub, Eric Fischl and Hyman Bloom play on the boundaries between inside and outside. According to Dr. Armour, each image startles by rendering visible what skin protects and contains, to some extent showing the interior as bodily and/or psychic space. Each of these images does so by contemplating some form of bodily suffering. She will consider this in light of contemporary treatments of death and dying, both in general and in current wars.

Friday, March 6 Architecture Tour

6:30 p.m.

Meet in the Grand Lobby

Free with gallery admission
Grab some refreshments at our cash bar and stroll around the Frist Center as you learn more about our landmark building from one of our always-engaging docents.

Friday, March 6 Music in the Grand Lobby

6-8 p.m. Godwin Thompson Duo

Free

On Friday evenings, the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. Visit the Frist Center café and choose from a variety of beers, non-alcoholic beverages, as well as a selection of red and white wines. Bistro seating is offered, so visitors can relax and enjoy music performed by the Godwin Thompson Duo.

Saturday, March 7 Frist Center Kids Club: Shields of Heraldry

1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Meet in the Upper-Level Foyer

Free

Call (615) 744-3357 to reserve a space.

Featured activity: Inspired by Medieval Treasures, Kids Club members will devise a heraldry symbol to represent their family and a shield on which to proclaim it. Designed for 5-10 year olds, the Frist Center Kids Club offers exciting opportunities for children to discover, explore, and create art. Free membership includes a Kids Club card, rewards for participation, and a variety of hands-on activities in the art studios and the Martin ArtQuest Gallery. Kids Club is sponsored by Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, the Pruett Financial Group.

Sunday, March 8 Nashville Early Music Ensemble:

2 p.m. "Music of the Court and Chapel Before 1600"

Auditorium

Free

The Nashville Early Music Ensemble will perform music from the medieval times in conjunction with Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Thursday, March 12 Off the Wall Lecture Series: "Jonah and the Shepherd:

6:30 p.m. Early Christian Symbols of a Blessed Afterlife"

Auditorium

Free

Dr. Robin Jensen, Luce Chancellor's professor of the history of Christian worship and art at Vanderbilt University, will present the second lecture in the Off the Wall lecture series in conjunction with the Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition. Most surviving early Christian art comes from a funerary context-paintings on the walls and ceilings of catacomb chambers and stone reliefs on private tombs. Among the iconographic motifs in these contexts, Jonah and the Good Shepherd were the most frequently represented. While their appearance was adapted from popular pagan iconography, these figures were endowed with special Christian significance. This lecture will consider the enigmatic Jonah and Good Shepherd statuettes from the Cleveland Museum of Art by exploring their possible origins and intended functions.

Thursday, March 12 Music in the Grand Lobby

6-8 p.m. Lisa Webb

Free

On Thursday evenings, the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. Visit the Frist Center café and choose from a variety of beers, non-alcoholic beverages, as well as a selection of red and white wines. Bistro seating is offered, so visitors can relax and enjoy music performed by keyboardist and vocalist Lisa Webb.

Friday, March 13 Films at the Frist: Frankenstein (35mm print)

7 p.m.

Auditorium (A Friday, the 13th special!)

Free

Based on Mary Shelley's masterpiece novel, this 1931 adaptation introduces Dr. Henry Frankenstein, a mad and obsessed scientist, who creates a human monster by piecing together body parts. The monster terrorizes the Bavarian countryside after being mistreated by Frankenstein's assistant and society as a whole. Boris Karloff gives a memorable performance as the monster in this Universal Studios production. Directed by James Whale, 1931, 71 minutes.

Not Rated.

Friday, March 13 Music in the Grand Lobby

6-8 p.m. Wayne Avers

Free

On Friday evenings, the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. Visit the Frist Center café and choose from a variety of beers, non-alcoholic beverages, as well as a selection of red and white wines. Bistro seating is offered, so visitors can bring refreshments to the Grand Lobby to relax and enjoy music performed by guitarist Wayne Avers.

Saturday, March 14 Frist Center Kids Club: Shields of Heraldry

1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Meet in the Upper-Level Foyer

Free

Call (615) 744-3357 to reserve a space.

Featured activity: Inspired by Medieval Treasures, Kids Club members will devise a heraldry symbol to represent their family and a shield on which to proclaim it. Designed for 5-10 year olds, the Frist Center Kids Club offers exciting opportunities for children to discover, explore, and create art. Free membership includes a Kids Club card, rewards for participation, and a variety of hands-on activities in the art studios and the Martin ArtQuest Gallery. Kids Club is sponsored by Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, the Pruett Financial Group.

Sunday, March 15 Jazz on the Move:

3 p.m. The Life and Music of Billie Holiday, with Connye Florance

Auditorium

Free

This popular jazz performance and education series, presented by the Nashville Jazz Workshop and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, features programs that focus on a significant jazz style, artist or period in jazz history. A combination of lecture and performance, the programs are presented by some of Nashville's top jazz artists and educators. Billie Holliday was one of the great vocalists in jazz, with a distinctive style and voice that has no equal. Vocalist, educator, and actress Connye Florance will lead a performance and discussion that will provide insight into the music and life of this legendary jazz artist.

Jazz on the Move is supported by an ABC (Arts Builds Communities) grant from the Metropolitan Arts Commission in cooperation with the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Thursday, March 19 Music in the Grand Lobby

6-8 p.m. Sutton/Graves Duo

Free

On Thursday evenings, the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. Visit the Frist Center café and choose from a variety of beers, non-alcoholic beverages, as well as a selection of red and white wines. Bistro seating is offered, so visitors can relax and enjoy music performed by the Sutton/Graves Duo.

Friday, March 20 ARTini: Medieval Treasures from the

7 p.m. Cleveland Museum of Art

Meet at the Information Desk

Free with purchase of gallery admission

Join Anne Taylor, curator of interpretation at the Frist Center, as she leads an informal conversation on one or two works of art in this exhibition. Complete your evening with music in the Grand Lobby, martinis at the cash bar, and visiting with friends.

Friday, March 20 Music in the Grand Lobby

6-8 p.m. Mario DaSilva

Free

On Friday evenings, the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. Visit the Frist Center café and choose from a variety of beers, non-alcoholic beverages, as well as a selection of red and white wines. Bistro seating is offered, so visitors can relax and enjoy music performed by guitarist Mario DaSilva.

Saturday, March 21 Gallery Talk: Paint Made Flesh

11 a.m. Talking Bodies: Connections Across Disciplines

Meet at the Information Desk

Free with the purchase of gallery admission

Dr. Dana Malone Kennedy, assistant professor of English at Watkins College of Art, Design and Film will present a gallery talk in the Paint Made Flesh exhibition titled, "I've . . . shed my skin/This is the new stuff" (lyrics from Peter Gabriel's song "Sledgehammer"). Dr. Kennedy will focus on the use of the body in the poetry of Anne Sexton, who also speaks of shedding skin as an approach to the divine. However, Sexton and feminist theorists have more to say about the body, and Dr. Kennedy will give feedback on paintings toward that end, including Susan Rothenberg's Orange Break, Daniel Richter's Duisen, Cecily Brown's Figures in a Landscape, and Jack Levine's 35 Minutes from Times Square.

Saturday, March 21 Frist Center Kids Club: Shields of Heraldry

1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Meet in the Upper-Level Foyer

Free

Call (615) 744-3357 to reserve a space.

Featured activity: Inspired by Medieval Treasures, Kids Club members will devise a heraldry symbol to represent their family and a shield on which to proclaim it. Designed for 5-10 year olds, the Frist Center Kids Club offers exciting opportunities for children to discover, explore, and create art. Free membership includes a Kids Club card, rewards for participation, and a variety of hands-on activities in the art studios and the Martin ArtQuest Gallery. Kids Club is sponsored by Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, the Pruett Financial Group.

Saturday, March 21 Adult Workshop: Illuminated Manuscripts, Part 1

10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Frist Center Studios

$50 members; $60 non-members (cost is for both days of the workshop)

Call (615) 7443355 to register for workshop.

Michele Herbert, artist and co-owner of Shimai Pottery, will lead participants in a two-day workshop in which they will create their own illuminated manuscripts similar to the ones seen in the exhibition Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Sunday, March 22 Adult Workshop: Illuminated Manuscripts, Part 2

1-4 p.m.

Frist Center Studios

$50 members; $60 non-members (cost is for both days of the workshop)

Call (615) 744-3355 to register for workshop.

Michele Herbert, artist and co-owner of Shimai Pottery, will lead participants in a workshop in which they will create their own illuminated manuscripts similar to the ones seen in the exhibition Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. This is the second class of a two-part workshop.

Thursday, March 26 Music in the Grand Lobby

6-8 p.m. OTTO

Free

On Thursday evenings, the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. Visit the Frist Center café and choose from a variety of beers, non-alcoholic beverages, as well as a selection of red and white wines. Bistro seating is offered, so visitors can relax and enjoy music performed by OTTO, comprising some of Nashville's most talented and accomplished musicians. The unusual instrumentation includes steel guitar and vibes which sound fabulous in the Frist Center's resonant Grand Lobby.

Friday, March 27 Music in the Grand Lobby

6-8 p.m. Snappy Pappy

Free

On Friday evenings, the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. Visit the Frist Center café and choose from a variety of beers, non-alcoholic beverages, as well as a selection of red and white wines. Bistro seating is offered, so visitors can relax and enjoy music of the ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s performed by Snappy Pappy, led by WAMB radio personality Harry Stephenson. Dancing permitted!

Friday, March 28 ARTini: Paint Made Flesh

7 p.m.

Meet at the Information Desk

Free with the purchase of gallery admission

Join Hans Schmitt-Matzen, associate exhibitions designer at the Frist Center, as he leads an informal conversation focusing on paintings by Jenny Saville and Lucian Freud that are included in the Paint Made Flesh exhibition. Complete your evening with music in the Grand Lobby, martinis at the cash bar, and visiting with friends.

Saturday, March 28 Frist Center Kids Club: Shields of Heraldry

1 p.m.-2:30 p.m.

Meet in the Upper-Level Foyer

Free

Call (615) 744-3357 to reserve a space.

Featured activity: Inspired by Medieval Treasures, Kids Club members will devise a heraldry symbol to represent their family and a shield on which to proclaim it. Designed for 5-10 year olds, the Frist Center Kids Club offers exciting opportunities for children to discover, explore, and create art. Free membership includes a Kids Club card, rewards for participation, and a variety of hands-on activities in the art studios and the Martin ArtQuest Gallery. Kids Club is sponsored by Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, the Pruett Financial Group.

Sunday, March 29 Family Day: Medieval Treasures

1-5:30 p.m.

Free to all
Enjoy a fun-filled day of excitement with friends and family including special art-making activities, storytelling, live music, and dance performances.

The Society of Creative Anachronism will be on hand through the afternoon in the Grand Lobby for discussions of medieval armored combat, fiber arts and illumination.

Medieval Dances are scheduled hourly in the Rechter Room, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
The Centennial Recorder Consort will perform in the Grand Lobby at 1:30 and 3:00 p.m.
Upstairs, in the Art Library and Resource Center, younger visitors will enjoy Story Time: Magic in the Margins: a Medieval tale of Bookmaking, with sessions at 1:45 and 4:00 p.m.

Medieval Combat Monty Python Style will be demonstrated and taught by Nashville Children' s Theatre teaching artist Eric Pasto-Crosby in the auditorium at 2:00 and 3:30 p.m. Visitors will learn hand-to-hand "combat" moves and put them together in Monty Python-esque skits.

Art activites, including the creation of medieval medallions, reliquaries, and illuminated letters will be available through the afternoon in Martin ArtQuest and Studios A, B and C on the Upper Level.

Family Day Sponsor: Nashville Parent

Education Programming Sponsors: Metro Nashville Arts Commission and the Tennessee Arts Commission

April 2009

Thursday, April 2 Music in the Grand Lobby

6 - 8 p.m. Billy Contreras and Buddy Spicher,

Free (jazz fiddlers extraordinaire)

The Frist Center welcomes two of the world's greatest fiddlers, Billy Contreras and Buddy Spicher to our Music in the Grand Lobby series. Ask any jazz fiddler in the world who is the brightest new talent on the scene, and the answer is highly likely to be "Billy Contreras." Ask any session player who is the greatest session fiddler who ever played, and the answer is likely to be "Buddy Spicher." Hear these two greats perform in the intimate setting of the Frist Center's beautiful Grand Lobby.

Friday, April 3 Architecture Tour

6:30 p.m.

Meet in the Grand Lobby

Free with gallery admission
Grab some refreshments at our cash bar and stroll around the Frist Center as you learn more about our landmark building from one of our always-engaging docents.

Friday, April 3 Films at the Frist: Gattaca (35mm print)

7 p.m.

Auditorium

Free

Vincent is one of the last "natural" babies born into a genetically engineered world. Considered an "In-Valid" because of myopia and a heart condition Vincent is destined to live his life as an underclass of humans, useful only for menial jobs. With his dream of traveling to space as his inspiration, he goes underground and assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete-a "Valid". Vincent becomes recognized as a top candidate for space travel at Gattaca Aerospace and is put into the queue for the next mission. Everything is seemingly going his way until the flight director is brutally murdered at work. A clue left at the crime scene may be Vincent's undoing. Starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin and Jude Law. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol; 1997; 106 minutes; Rated PG-13; 35mm.

Friday, April 3 Music in the Grand Lobby

6- 8 p.m. The Contrarian Ensemble

Free (guitar, mandolins, fiddle, accordion, recorder, percussion)

The delightful Contrarian Ensemble performs an eclectic variety of dance music from the 1300s to the present, including traditional tunes from the U.S., the British Isles and Europe, as well as original compositions by Contrarians Mark Wingate and Chris Moore. The group often performs reels, jigs and waltzes for contra dances in the region. Dancing is welcome and encouraged!

Saturday, April 4 Teen Workshop: Oil Painting and the Figure

10 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Frist Center Studios

$40 members; $50 non-members

Call (615) 744-3355 to register
Terry Thacker, a Nashville-based artist and professor and chair of the fine arts department at Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, will lead participants in a discussion about some of the artists included in Paint Made Flesh, with a focus on the artists' use of oil paint to depict the human body. Participants will then move to the Frist Center studios where they will create their own figure paintings during a session with a clothed model.

Saturday, April 4 Gallery Talk: Paint Made Flesh

11:00 a.m. Talking Bodies: Connections Across Disciplines

Meet at the Information Desk

Free with the purchase of gallery admission

Portrait paintings offer us close encounters with the faces and bodies of their subjects. But because portraits are the product of prior face-to-face contact between artists and their sitters, they also make claims about the ways the intimate encounter of flesh with flesh can be represented in a painted image. Gregg Horowitz, associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, will examine the ways the transformation of fleshly encounters into paint has, over the course of the past century, become an increasingly less reliable means of leaving an identifiable record of the sitter. He will explore this topic through paintings by Willem De Kooning, Lucian Freud, and John Currin.

Thursday, April 9 Music in the Grand Lobby

6 - 8:00 p.m. Billy Contreras and Buddy Spicher

Free

In jazz circles, Billy Contreras is widely considered the finest jazz violin player who ever laid bow to string. He was mentored by talents no less than fiddle great Mark O'Connor and legendary Nashville session player Buddy Spicher. Expect to hear straight-ahead jazz standards, Texas swing as well as original compositions from these two musical greats. Spectacular music in a spectacular venue.

Friday, April 10 Music in the Grand Lobby

6- 8 p.m. Billy Contreras and Buddy Spicher

Free

Acoustic music afficianados can remember a few extraordinarily memorable nights in a Nashville club that no longer exists. The great Nashville session fiddler Buddy Spicher was joined by a brilliant young jazz prodigy who left the appreciative audience slack jawed. Billy Contreras is now regarded by many as the finest jazz player breathing, and Buddy is an iconic legend. Hear them together again... where else, but Music in the Grand Lobby at the Frist Center.

Thursday, April 16 State of the Art: Contemporary Lecture Series

6:30 p.m. featuring Andrea Zittel (Image available)

Auditorium

Free

The State of the Art lecture series is designed to bring nationally and internationally renowned critics, curators, and artists to Nashville to share their perspectives on current issues and ideas in contemporary art.

Conceptual artist and designer Andrea Zittel conducts experiments that simplify the everyday tasks of our lives. Using her own life as inspiration, she constantly examines and improves her relationship to her domestic and social environment, and ultimately the environments of others as well. Part artist, architect, environmentalist, crafter, nutritionist, engineer, and designer, Zittel possesses an everlasting enthusiasm for her projects.
Zittel received a BFA in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University and an MFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions in the United States and Europe, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial and her 2005 comprehensive survey Andrea Zittel: Critical Space organized by the New Museum and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Zittel received the 2005 Smithsonian American Art Museum's annual Lucelia Artist Award. The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and Joshua Tree, California, where her A-Z West enterprises is located.

Thursday, April 16 Music in the Grand Lobby

6- 8 p.m. The Storm Kings

Free

Come enjoy the music of the Storm Kings, a Nashville based ambient fusion quintet influenced by artists including Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, and Mark Isham. Feel free to bring beverages and snacks from the café to the lobby to enhance your listening experience.

Friday, April 17 Artist's Forum: Rocky Horton and Chris Scarborough

6:30 p.m.

Rechter Room

Free

Artist's Forum is a program in which Nashville-based and regional emerging and recognized artists discuss the thoughts and processes behind their work. Participants are encouraged to come and be a part of the dialogue about the artistic process.

In his most recent studio practices, Rocky Horton utilizes different dilutions of photographic developer chemicals to paint onto exposed photographs. With these "photo paintings" Horton is commenting on the precarious relationship these mediums have had with each other since the invention of photography in the nineteenth century. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions, including shows at Cheekwood Museum of Art and Zeitgeist Gallery. Horton is currently assistant professor of art at Lipscomb University in Nashville.
Chris Scarborough works in photography and drawing to create meticulously detailed images of people who have been manipulated according to the exaggerated characteristics of Japanese anime. His most recent work has developed from this foundation to include the examination of cartoon violence. His work has been included in several national exhibitions, including solo shows at the Foley Gallery in New York City and the Gescheidle Gallery in Chicago. Scarborough's work is also part of numerous private and public collections, including the Tennessee State Museum.

Friday, April 17 Music in the Grand Lobby

6- 8 p.m. The Contrarian Ensemble

Free (guitar, mandolins, fiddle, accordion, recorder, percussion)

Delightful community music band the Contrarian Ensemble performs an eclectic variety of dance music from the 1300s to the present, including traditional tunes from the U.S., the British Isles and Europe, as well as original compositions by Contrarians Mark Wingate and Chris Moore. They often perform at contra dances in the region, playing traditional and contemporary reels, jigs and waltzes. Contra and folk dancers particularly welcome!

Saturday, April 18 Adult Workshop: Oil Painting and Figure - Part 1

10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Frist Center Studios - Upper Level

$50 Frist Center Members; $60 non-members (cost is for both days of workshop)

Cost includes all supplies and gallery admission.

Call (615) 744-3355 to register.
Terry Thacker, a Nashville-based artist and professor and chair of the fine arts department at Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, will lead this two-day intensive figure painting workshop. On Saturday, the program will begin with a discussion of the works on view in the Paint Made Flesh exhibition, with the focus on the way artists employ a wide range of painterly effects to suggest the temporal properties and cultural significance of human flesh. Participants will then move to the Frist Center studios where the discussion will continue during a figure painting session with a nude model. On Sunday, participants will continue working in the studio with the model.

Sunday, April 19 Adult Workshop: Oil Painting and Figure - Part 2

1:00 - 4 p.m.

Frist Center Studios - Upper Level

$50 Frist Center Members; $60 non-members (cost is for both days of the workshop)

Cost includes all supplies and gallery admission.

Call (615) 744-3355 to register.
Terry Thacker, a Nashville-based artist and professor and chair of the fine arts department at Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, will lead this two-day intensive figure painting workshop. On Saturday, the program will begin with a discussion of the works on view in the Paint Made Flesh exhibition, with the focus on the way artists employ a wide range of painterly effects to suggest the temporal properties and cultural significance of human flesh. Participants will then move to the Frist Center studios where the discussion will continue during a figure painting session with a nude model. On Sunday, participants will continue working in the studio with the model.

Thursday, April 23 Music in the Grand Lobby

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Billy Contreras and Buddy Spicher

Free

In jazz circles, Billy Contreras is widely considered the finest jazz violin player who ever laid bow to string. He was mentored by talents no less than fiddle great Mark O'Connor and legendary Nashville session player Buddy Spicher. Expect to hear straight-ahead jazz standards, Texas swing as well as original compositions from these two musical greats. Spectacular music in a spectacular venue.

Friday, April 24 ARTini: Seeing Ourselves: Photographs of Safe

7:00 p.m. Haven

Meet in the Grand Lobby

Free

Join Andee Rudloff, educator for outreach at the Frist Center, as she leads an informal conversation about one or two works of art in this exhibition. Complete your evening by relaxing in the Grand Lobby with beverages from the café and visiting with friends.

Friday, April 24 Music in the Grand Lobby

6- 8 p.m. Billy Contreras and Buddy Spicher

Free

Buddy Spicher hailed from Wheeling, WV, home of the Wheeling Jamboree, and ended up in Nashville on some of the most important recordings in the last 50 years, including Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline. In the early 90s, he took on a brilliant young student fiddler, Billy Contreras. Hear a legend and a legend in the making when Billy and Buddy play for Music in the Grand Lobby. Spectacular music in a spectacular venue.

Saturday, April 25 Adult Workshop: Enameling - Part 1

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Frist Center Studios

$50 members; $60 non-members. (cost is for both days of the workshop)

Cost includes all supplies and gallery admission.

Call (615) 744-3355 to register.
Nashville-based jewelry artist Susan Thornton will lead this two-day enameling workshop in which all skill levels are welcome. Participants will visit the Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition to examine and discuss some of the enameled artworks on view. Participants will then head to the Frist Center's studios to create their own enameled works. Everyone will take home a finished piece indicative of the enameled objects included in the exhibition.

Sunday, April 26 Adult Workshop: Enameling - Part 2

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Frist Center Studios

$50 members; $60 non-members. (cost is for both days of the workshop)

Cost includes all supplies and gallery admission.

Call (615) 744-3355 to register.
Nashville-based jewelry artist Susan Thornton will lead this two-day enameling workshop in which all skill levels are welcome. Participants will visit the Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition to examine and discuss some of the enameled artworks on view. Participants will then head to the Frist Center's studios to create their own enameled works. Everyone will take home a finished piece indicative of the enameled objects included in the exhibition.

Sunday, April 26 Concert

3:00 p.m. - Auditorium The Nashville Flute Choir

Free

The 16-member Nashville Flute Choir will inspire and delight presenting a special concert from their eclectic repertoire.

Thursday, April 30 Off the Wall Lecture Series:

6:30 p.m. Court and Courtship in Medieval Burgundy

Auditorium

Free

The Valois dukes of Burgundy (1364-1477) ruled an increasing number of lucrative territories beginning with one duchy in eastern France and expanding into the southern Netherlands. Along the way they developed a reputation for wealth and display that eventually eclipsed their French royal relatives and the rest of Europe's courts. Dr. Elizabeth Moodey, assistant professor of art history at Vanderbilt University, will investigate examples of Burgundian luxury goods in ivory, alabaster, gold, and vellum, and explore some of the delights and obligations of living well in the late Middle Ages, for a glimpse of the occupations and preoccupations of court life.
Dr. Moodey has recently completed a new book on the Crusade at the Burgundian court, which will be published in 2009 by Brepols.

Thursday, April 30 Music in the Grand Lobby

6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Trio San Rafael

Free

Rafael Vasquez fronts this remarkable Nashville-based trio that performs a variety of styles infused with rhythms borne of his San Antonio roots. He and his band and trio have performed at events throughout the region, and most recently Rafael has become involved in education through his appearances at Belmont University and Metro Nashville Public Schools. Come enjoy Tejano, conjunto and norteño music!

May 2009

Friday, May 1 Architecture Tour of the Frist Center

6:30 p.m.

Meet in the Grand Lobby

Free

Did you ever wonder about the significance of the icons in the Frist Center's Grand Lobby or marvel at the beautiful and unusual floors in our galleries? Join us and have your questions answered. Grab some refreshments at our cash bar or café and stroll around the Frist Center as you learn more about our landmark building from one of our always-engaging docents and enjoy some live music at the conclusion of your tour.
Friday, May 1 Films at the Frist: The Picture of Dorian Gray (35mm)

7:00 p.m.

Auditorium

Free

Dorian Gray is obsessed with appearances, especially his own. To capture his handsome and youthful looks he has his portrait painted. Leading an immoral and corrupt life, Dorian's features do not change, but his portrait reveals the evidence of his sins. Desperate to hide his true self he locks the portrait away. However, he cannot hide his unchanging appearance and mysterious behavior, which begin to attract suspicion. Based on Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel. Starring Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Donna Reed, and Angela Lansbury. Directed by Albert Lewin; 1945; 110 minutes; 35 mm. Not Rated.
Saturday, May 9 Frist Center Kids Club: The Illuminated Page

Sessions at 10:30 a.m.,

1:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.

Frist Center Studios

Free

Call (615) 744-3357 to reserve a space.

Please note: Frist Center Kids Club moves to three sessions on a single Saturday each month beginning in May.

Designed for 5-10 year olds, the Frist Center Kids Club offers exciting opportunities for children to discover, explore, and create art. Free membership includes a Kids Club card, rewards for participation, hands-on activities in the art studios each month, and the Martin ArtQuest Gallery. In May members will learn about the process medieval craftsmen used to produce books and the illuminated manuscripts contained within them. Each participant will then write a story and illustrate his or her own illuminated page.
Friday, May 15 ARTini: Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland

7:00 p.m. Museum of Art

Meet at the Information Desk

Free with purchase of gallery admission

Join Stefanie Gerber Darr, educator for public programs at the Frist Center, as she leads an informal conversation about one or two works of art in this exhibition. Complete your evening relaxing in the Grand Lobby with beverages from the café and visiting with friends. (Free live music from 6-8 p.m.)
Saturday, May 16 Adult Workshop: Illuminated Manuscripts - Part 1

10 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Frist Center Studios

$50 members; $60 non-members (cost is for both days of the workshop)

Cost includes all supplies and gallery admission.

Call (615) 744-3355 to register.
Michele Herbert, calligraphy artist and co-owner of Shimai Pottery, will lead participants in a two-day workshop in which they will create their own illuminated manuscripts similar to the ones on view in Medieval Treasures.
Sunday, May 17 Adult Workshop: Illuminated Manuscripts - Part 2

1-4:00 p.m.

Frist Center Studios

$50 members; $60 non-members (cost is for both days of the workshop_

Cost includes all supplies and gallery admission.

Call (615) 744-3355 to register.
Michele Herbert, calligraphy artist and co-owner of Shimai Pottery, will lead participants in a two-day workshop in which they will create their own illuminated manuscripts similar to the ones on view in Medieval Treasures.

Current Exhibitions
Seeing Ourselves: Photographs of Safe Haven

Conte Community Arts Gallery

Continues through May 3, 2009
Featuring 22 color and black and white photographs taken by members of homeless families while living at the Safe Haven Family Shelter, the exhibition provides insight into the human side of homelessness. Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Presenting Sponsor: William N. Rollins Fund for the Arts of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. Funded in part by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission and the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Paint Made Flesh

Upper-Level Galleries

Continues May 10, 2009
Featuring approximately 40 works created since the 1950s, primarily in Europe and the United States, the exhibition will focus on artists of three generations whose depictions of the human figure denote biological, psychological or spiritual volatility. Includes work by Picasso, Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville, Julien Schnabel and others. Organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.
Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art

Ingram Gallery

Feb. 13-June 7, 2009
Presenting approximately 100 works of art, including rare examples of ivories, enamels, sculpture, paintings and illuminated manuscripts from the third through the 16th centuries, this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view these extraordinary treasures outside of Cleveland. The Frist Center for the Visual Arts gratefully acknowledges the following exhibition sponsors: 2009 Platinum Sponsor: HCA Foundation on behalf of HCA and the TriStar Family of Hospitals; 2009 Gold Sponsor: First Tennessee. Design Sponsor: www.highbrowfurniture.com

Mike Hoolboom: Imitations of Life

Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery

Feb. 13-June 7, 2009
Toronto-based independent filmmaker Mike Hoolboom's Imitations of Life integrates images drawn from mainstream cinema, newsreels and science fiction films. Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery 2009 Sponsor: Welling LaGrone and Morgan Keegan

 

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