The Frist Center Releases Schedule for September Through November

Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, located at 919 Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tenn., is an art exhibition center dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, regional, U.S., and international sources in a program of changing exhibitions. The Frist Center's Martin ArtQuest Gallery features interactive stations relating to Frist Center exhibitions.

Gallery admission to the Frist Center is free for visitors 18 and younger and to Frist Center members. Frist Center admission is $10.00 for adults and $7.00 for seniors and military and college students with ID. Thursday and Friday evenings (with the exception of 2010 Frist Fridays), 5:00–9:00 p.m., admission is free for college students with a valid college ID. Discounts are offered for groups of 10 or more with advance reservation by calling (615) 744-3247. Special pricing will apply during the exhibition of The Birth of Impressionism.

The Frist Center is open seven days a week: Mondays through Wednesdays and Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Thursdays and Fridays, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; and Sundays, 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., with the Café opening at noon. Additional information is available by calling (615) 244-3340 or by visiting our Web site at www.fristcenter.org.

Below is the schedule from September to November:

Friday, September 10
Films at the Frist: To Catch a Thief
7:00 p.m.
Auditorium
Free

Grace Kelly is remembered not only as one of the leading Hollywood actresses of the 1950s, but also as a style icon both on and off the screen. In To Catch a Thief, her last film for Alfred Hitchcock, she dons a knockout wardrobe courtesy of Paramount Pictures' legendary costume designer, Edith Head. Whether wearing capri pants and headscarves or elegant ball gowns Kelly's style and fashion influence were wholly reflected in this film.

About the film:
To Catch a Thief tells the story of a retired jewel thief, John Robie, living a blameless life on the French Riviera. When a series of jewel robberies begins to take place on the Riviera, Robie is the natural suspect. Starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1955. 106 minutes. 35mm. Not Rated.

Saturday, September 11
Kids Club: Mad Hatter
10:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m.
or 3:00 p.m.
Frist Center Studios
Free
Reservations are strongly encouraged.
Call 615.744.3357 to reserve a space.

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 Martin ArtQuest Gallery, and monthly projects in the art studios. Featured activity: Inspired by The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957 exhibition, Kids Club members will channel 1940s and 1950s hat makers to create their own fashionable headwear.

Monday, September 20
Senior Monday
10:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts and WAMB-AM present Senior Mondays, a series of events for those who admit their "senior" status. On these days, gallery admission is $5.00 (1/2 price) for seniors and there is a special senior parking fee of $2.00 in the Frist Center lots as long as spaces are available. Seniors receive a 15 percent discount on gift shop purchases and on Frist Center Café refreshments purchased throughout the day. Seniors are invited to enjoy a live radio broadcast by WAMB's Harry Stephenson in the Grand Lobby and live music provided by Snappy Pappy from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Special gallery talks and other activities are scheduled all day.

September's Senior Monday will begin a weeklong Celebration of the Arts Across Fifty Forward. Coupled with the activities and opportunities always offered on Senior Monday, September 20th will also feature an exhibition in the Responding to Art Gallery (outside of ArtQuest) of artworks that Fifty Forward and senior community artists have created in response to the Dale Chihuly exhibition currently on view at the Frist Center. This new Responding to Art Gallery exhibition will be on view September 17-November 1, 2010.

Thursday, September 23
"Art and Opera: From Monarchy to Modernity"
6:30 p.m.: Reception with hors d'oeuvres and cash bar
7:00 p.m.: Program begins
Auditorium
Free and open to the public; however, pre-registration is strongly encouraged.

Art and opera will join forces this September at the Frist Center! The program "Art and Opera: From Monarchy to Modernity" will explore how the French Revolution altered the social and political landscape of France during the late eighteenth century and paved the way for the Impressionists of the nineteenth century. Enjoy an evening of performances by some of the high caliber International Artists in Nashville Opera's upcoming production of Andrea Chénier along with a sneak preview of the Frist Center's Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay exhibition.

About the opera: Andrea Chénier

Set against the roiling backdrop of the French Revolution, Umberto Giordano's sweeping love story of an opera was even bigger than La Bohème at its premiere. This pot-boiler spins a fictitious story about a very real poet, André Chénier, and his dangerous ideas. Poignant vignettes paint the heartrending story of the revolutionary (whose name is Italianized to Andrea) and his dear Maddalena, whose tender hopes for love in a better world are extinguished at the guillotine. Acclaimed set designer Kris Stone, who wowed Nashville with her Don Giovanni, is creating a new production for this opera. Performed in Italian with projectEd English translations.

The Patricia and Rodes Hart Production of Andrea Chénier will be performed in the Andrew Jackson Hall at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center on the following dates:

Thursday, October 7, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 9, 2010, 8:00 p.m.

About the exhibition: The Birth of Impressionism

The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay includes 100 masterpieces of mid-to-late nineteenth-century French painting from the Musée d'Orsay, a museum in Paris dedicated to the art of the early modern period (1840s through the early 20th century). The exhibition provides a broad context for understanding the roots of modernism by combining seminal works by innovators such as Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir; Salon painters such as Adolphe-William Bouguereau; and artists who moved easily between convention and innovation such as Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

This Exhibition is organized by the Frist Center for Visual Arts with gratitude for exceptional loans from the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.

The Birth of Impressionism is a specially ticketed exhibition.

Saturday, October 2
Bonus Kids Club!: Crafting for a Winter Wonderland
10:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m.,
or 3:00 p.m.
Frist Center Studios
Free
Call 615.744.3357 to reserve a space.

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 hands-on activities in the art studios each month and in the Martin ArtQuest Gallery every day. Featured activity: Kids club members will create holiday keepsakes to share with family and friends. Using a variety of materials and processes, participants will create holiday cards; if they choose, they may then submit their designs to be considered for use on the Frist Center's 2010 holiday card!

Thursday, October 7
State of the Art: Contemporary Lecture Series
featuring Alfredo Jaar
6:30 p.m.
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.

Born in 1956, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. Jaar analyzes, reflects, and responds to contemporary socioeconomic issues through installations, texts, photographs, films, and public interventions. He investigates real life tragedies, including genocides, epidemics, and famines, along with the ways mass media dilutes the information it presents to the public regarding such adversities.

Jaar's work has been shown extensively around the world, including the Biennales of Venice (1986,
2007), São Paulo (1987, 1989), Moscow (2009), and Documenta (1987, 2002) in Kassel. Important individual exhibitions have been shown at Musée des Beaux Arts, Lausanne (2007); MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2005); The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1992); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992).

Jaar has created more than sixty public interventions around the world, and more than fifty monographic publications have been published about his work. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985, a MacArthur Fellow in 2000, and in 2006, he received Spain's Premio Extremadura a la Creación.

Saturday, October 9
Kids Club: Sassy Skelly Masks for Dia de los Muertos
10:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m.
or 3:00 p.m.
Frist Center Studios
Free
Reservations are strongly encouraged.
Call 615.744.3357 to reserve a space.

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 hands-on activities in the art studios each month and the Martin ArtQuest Gallery. Featured activity: Kids Club members will learn about Dia de los Muertos (the Mexican Day of the Dead) by creating paper artworks that connect to holiday traditions. Participants will decorate a skull mask while learning about how departed loved ones are remembered during this festive celebration.

Saturday, October 16
The Marlene and Spencer Hays Lecture Series: Panel
Discussion Featuring lectures by Stéphane Guegan, curator, Musée d'Orsay and Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman, Department of Nineteenth-century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Moderated by Elizabeth Easton, director, Center for Curatorial Leadership
10:00 a.m.
Auditorium
Free

"Manet versus Impressionism" presented by Stéphane Guegan, curator, Musée d'Orsay: A key figure of the New Painting and Spanish taste of the 1860s, Édouard Manet changed his style after 1871, a pivotal year in French history that Victor Hugo designated the "terrible year." The evolution in Manet's style has raised many interpretive misunderstandings that continue today. The Birth of Impressionism offers the possibility of looking at this problem from a new perspective.

"The French Taste for Spanish Painting and the Development of Early Impressionist Painting," presented by Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman, Department of Nineteenth-century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art

In 1838, King Louis Philippe of France inaugurated the Galerie Espagnole at the Louvre, placing on view his extraordinary collection of hundreds of Spanish paintings, which left an indelible impression in France. By the 1860s, the French taste for Spanish painting was perceptible at each Paris salon. This talk will examine the ways in which the masters of Spain's Golden Age-Velázquez, Murillo, Ribera, El Greco and Zurbarán-influenced nineteenth-century French artists including Delacroix, Courbet, Millet, Degas, Renoir, and, most notably, Manet.

Saturday, October 30
Adult Plein Air Painting Workshop
Instructor: Lori Putnam
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Vaughn's Gap Field Station at Edwin Warner Park
$60 members/$80 non-members
Call 615.744.3355 to register

Paint in the open air just like the Impressionists! This one-day workshop is designed for all skill levels and will utilize oil paints to explore ways of depicting the changing outdoor light. Plein air painter and instructor Lori Putnam will lead the workshop, which will take place at Edwin Warner Park. To learn more about Lori and view some of her work visit www.loriputnam.com.

Thursday, November 11
The Marlene and Spencer Hays Lecture Series: "From
the Bastille to the Commune: France's Long
Nineteenth Century"
6:30 p.m.
Auditorium
Free

Michael Bess, Ph. D., Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, will explore the succession of revolutions that marked France's history: 1789, 1830, 1848, and 1871; the gradual spread of industrialization and capitalist enterprise, along with the concomitant rise of bourgeois society; the Weber thesis about the slow consolidation of national identity; neoclassicism and romanticism in culture and the arts; international politics and war; and finally, the trauma of the 1871 Paris Commune.

Friday, November 12
Artist's Forum: Kristina Arnold and Derek Coté
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 part of the dialogue about the artistic process.

About the artists:
Kristina Arnold was born and raised in Arlington, Virginia, and received a degree in community health from Brown University. Upon graduation she moved to Nashville to pursue a career in public health, working as a research associate in the department of Preventive Medicine, a division of Pharmacoepidemiology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After five years she returned to her first love and pursued her MFA in painting from the University of Tennessee. She has worked in collections management for the Frank H. McClung Museum in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the Parthenon Museum in Nashville. In 2005 she joined the faculty of Western Kentucky University's Art Department where she teaches and serves as the Gallery Director.

Arnold's fellowships include the Individual Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts for the State of Tennessee in 2005 and an Individual Artist Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women in 2007. She has been an Emerging Artist in Residence at Pilchuck Glass School, a visiting artist at the Worcester Center for Crafts, and an artist in residence at the Municipal Gallery in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Arnold's current work draws conceptually from her former background and interest in public health. As primarily an installation artist, her work often fills the space of a large room. She considers these works walk-in paintings; by suspending matrices of cells, neurons, and tissues in her installations, she creates fabricated environments that envelop the viewer in the biological microcosm of the body. To learn more about Kristina Arnold and to view some of her work visit www.kristinaarnold.com.

Derek Coté
As a former explorer, frustrated architect, and aspiring social examiner, Derek Coté, who was born in Québec, Canada, and currently resides in Nashville, studied at Western Washington University and Virginia Commonwealth University, where he received his BFA and MFA in Sculpture and Extended Media respectively. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Scope Art Fair in New York and Miami, Exit Art and Roebling Hall in New York, Marmara University in Istanbul, Marc DePuechredon Gallery in Basel, and Artwave Radio in Athens, Greece. In addition, Derek was included in the 2007 Young Sculptors Competition; received a professional artist fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, development support grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission; and will be an Artist-in-Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art during
the summer of 2011. To learn more about Derek Coté and to view some of his work visit www.derekcote.com.

Saturday, November 13
Kids Club: Light, Line, and Landscape
10:30 a.m., 1:00 p.m.
or 3:00 p.m.
Frist Center Studios
Free
Call 615.744.3357 to reserve a space.

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 hands-on activities in the art studios each month and in the Martin ArtQuest Gallery every day. Featured activity: Inspired by Birth of Impressionism, participants will explore the beauty of Impressionist landscapes and use printmaking techniques to create their own panoramic masterpieces.

Thursday, November 18
The Marlene and Spencer Hays Lecture Series:
"Painters of 'La Vie Moderne' " Presented by Gloria
Groom, David and Mary Winton Green Curator of
Nineteenth Century European Painting and Sculpture,
Art Institute of Chicago
6:30 p.m.
Auditorium
Free

Whether to celebrate or condemn the new Paris that emerged after the devastating Franco-Prussian war (1870-71), the painters who would come to be known as the Impressionists took on the changes- technological, geographical, social, and psychological-that characterized the capital and its suburbs. To do this they created a new visual vocabulary that forever transformed the ambition and meaning of painting. This lecture will look at several key works painted by the Impressionists during the 1870s and 1880s to address their responses and challenges to "the modern."

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