Magazine Nashville Art-Oct2013

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Spotlight...................................................................................................................13
The Great Unknowns Johnny Lee Park...............................................16
Russ Harrington The Man Behind the Fame.............................................40
Kirsten Stingle Stories in Sculpture................................................................ 46
NPT Arts Worth Watching..........................................................................................50
Jubilee! African American Art Shines at the Van Vechten Gallery.................. 54
Jim Sherraden Making Impressions..............................................................61
Photography Competition............................................................... 67
Roy Overcast Ribbons of Clay...................................................................... 72
The Interview Bill Ivey Interviews Mayor Karl Dean................................... 75
Southern Festival of Books A 25-Year Celebration of Books......80
The Cumberland Society of Painters ............................. 82
Sarah Jarosz Build Me Up From Bones........................................................ 86
Chip Cooper Positive Negative Space.........................................................90
Field Notes Jeff Hein ........................................................................................ 94
ArtSmart A Monthly Guide to Art Education................................................... 98
Galen Fott An Animated Life........................................................................ 102
Hispanic Heritage Month............................................................. 106
Appraise It.......................................................................................................... 116
Theatre.............................................................104
Critical i............................................................ 110
On the Town.................................................... 112
Beyond Words..................................................117
My Favorite Painting....................................... 118
on the cover : Sam Middleton, Untitled (Amsterdam),
Collage and mixed media, at the Van Vechten Gallery
at Fisk University. Read the cover story on page 54.
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publisher's note
Art Creates a City
dont know about you, but I for one was sad to see those
art deco cars leave the Frist. I went back several times to
experience the show again and the sense of fantasy and wonder
that only perfectly formed sheet metal can evoke. And while I had a
favorite, the Bugatti belonging to the Shah of Iran, I could in a pinch
see myself driving off in any one of them. Oh well.
Featured Artist
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This month we publish the winners of our fourth annual amateur

photography competition. We had double the entries this year and
even had submissions from London, Dubai, India, Iraq, and Canada.
The quality of the work submitted reassured us that there is a long
line of talented amateur photographers waiting in the wings to push
this art form to new heights. You can see the winners on page 67.
Mayor Karl Dean agreed to sit down with author and arts advocate
Bill Ivey to talk about all things Nashville. So if you want to know
where the city is heading and how were going to get there, read the
interview on page 75.
Kudos to Jed Hilly and his team for pulling off an extraordinary
night of music, both old and new, at this years Americana Honors
& Awards show. On the Ryman stage music legends Dr. John,
Stephen Stills, and Duane Eddy rubbed musical shoulders with
newcomers like the Milk Carton Kids, who were sensational, and
South Carolina duo Shovels & Rope. The show, which had the look
and feel of a smooth, rich bourbon, went without a musical hitch
as awards were presented by the likes of Ry Cooder, Billy Bragg,
and master of ceremonies Jim Lauderdale. But ultimately it was
us, the audience, that were the winners. Where else in the world
can you go and hear music of this caliber? Thanks to all for another
unforgettable Nashville highlight.
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The Copper Fox, and
Leipers Creek Gallery
will join together once
again to host their
second 3X3 art event. Set
in historic Leipers Fork
with fire-pit gatherings,
twinkling lights, fine
art, and crafts, the
evening promises to be
enchanting.
Leipers Creek Gallery
will
showcase
work
David Arms Gallery
by Michael Madzo.
Sometimes difficult to describe, Madzos art features luminous
hues, vivid subjects, and his trademark technique of sewing bits
of paintings together,
creating a synthesis of
traditional and textile art.
The Copper Fox will
feature
one-of-a-kind
artisan jewelry by Kristi
Hyde. Each piece is made
by hand and finished
with polish and patina.
Integrated into her jewelry
are gemstones and pearls,
leather, silk, and various
precious metals. Her
modern vintage pieces are
sculptural and fluid with a
lovely organic feel.
David Arms Gallery
will present new works
by the artist. About his
work, Arms says, I never
portray life as easy, but as
a journey worth walking
Leiper's Creek Gallery
to its fullest. Even amid
wars, hate, and brokenness, there is reason to rejoice. Amid
anxiety there is reason to be
still and trust. In this body of
work I deal with all of these
issues while at the same time
seeing light in the darkness.
3X3 in Leipers Fork takes
place Saturday, October 5,
from 6 to 9 p.m.
The Copper Fox
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The Great Unknowns
public art
Johnny Lee Park

Dystopian Mixed Media
by Jennifer Anderson
fter his introduction to
drawing in art class in
elementary school, Johnny Lee
Park became intrigued by the
hard, cold lines of architecture
and motor vehicles. Drawing
buildings and cars, he became
interested in hyperrealism
and felt strongly that if you
couldnt pull it off one hundred
percent you shouldnt do it at
all. Behind his quiet demeanor
lies a stubborn, complex,
analytical mind.
Photo: tiffany bing
During his college years studying for a management degree

he became drawn to graphic design, printmaking, etching,
and lithography and went on to include future study in figure
drawing. The creative epiphany came at a printmaking openportfolio night after which he went on to a graduate degree in
printmaking. Today he continues to share his love of learning
and his vision as an artist with his students as a college-level
instructor in graphic design, photography, and fine arts.
His work incorporates painting, drawing, printmaking, and
photography to create dystopian abstract works of art. An ongoing
theme he explores is the seductive yet horrifying dependence
that technology foists upon us by contrasting the humanity of
the intimate studies of women with heavy industrial realism in
disturbing yet compelling ways. The piece titled Suffer is the first
in the series he is currently working on. It features mixed media
and the impact of negative energy resulting from pending job
loss and a life in transition. The eloquent and mesmerizing pain
is immediate upon viewing.
For more information on Johnny Lee Park and his work
contact jenniferjanderson@yahoo.com.
Take a Tour of the Public

Art Collection
by Caroline Vincent, Public Art Manager, MNAC
id you know that since 2007

when the first Percent-forArt public artwork was installed,
Ghost Ballet for the East Bank
Machineworks by Alice Aycock,
Metro Arts has commissioned
and installed nearly 30 new
works of public art? AND there
are 10 additional artworks in the
process of being commissioned!
Its a very exciting time to live
in Nashville, and our mission is
to make sure every citizen has Christopher Fennell's Tool Fire
the opportunity to experience on display at Shelby Bottoms
Pedestrian Bridge
the creative life, whether that is
through experiencing public art on your daily commute or actively
participating with an artist to create a public artwork or maybe by
serving as a citizen selection panelist.
Why not take advantage of the world-class art collection that is
right in your backyard? We have a handy map on our website
publicart.nashville.gov that links you right to each artwork site.
In addition, we have crafted several tours you can take by bus,
walking, driving, or biking. Once youre out there, let us know
what you think via email, Facebook (Metro Arts), Twitter, or snail
mail. Tag us in your postings #publicart #nashville #metroarts.
Wed love to see you enjoying the art!
You may also get involved by signing up on our website to
participate in future public art selection panels, community
meetings, or meet-and-greets with the artists. If you are an
artist, check out our website to find out more about upcoming
opportunities to create art for your city.
Suffer, 2013, Mixed media, 40" x 30"
For more information, visit www.artsnashville.org.
Mother and Child by Andy Warhol
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The Highwaymen by Kelley Ryan
spotlight
A Day in the Park

Mark your calendar
for the 5th Annual
Art in the Park on
Saturday, October 5, in
Springfield. Presented
by Willow Oak Center
for Arts & Learning
and Springfield Parks
Department, this highly
popular festival features
art and crafts, live music, good food, and a Kid Zone.
The Nature of Wood

Sculpture and Turnings by
Olen Bryant, William Kooienga,
& Brenda Stein with Woodcuts by
Alan LeQuire & Jim Sherraden
William Kooienga
The juried event includes over 50 booths of original arts, crafts,

pottery, handmade jewelry, original paintings, sculpture,
textiles, woodwork, Native American-style crafts, and other
unique items.
Enjoy musical performances by classic rockers Long Run
Band, jazz by Derrell Payne & Seven, flute by Seth Andress,
acoustic guitar by Bennington, and show tunes by Robertson
County Players.
The 5th Annual Art in the Park takes place Saturday, October 5,
from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. at J. Travis Price Park, 4155 Wilkes
Road, Springfield, Tennessee. For more information, visit
www.facebook.com/willowoakAITP.
Bootstraps Fashion Event
Celebrity hosts will be

country musics Danielle
Peck and Titans wide
receiver Damian Williams.
Banquet attendees Jason M. and
Kaneesha D. Martin
The presenting sponsor is
ZUUS Media, and the Fashion Show will be presented courtesy
of Nashville womens boutique, Jamie. Milton White, Style and
Media Director for The Fashion Office, will once again serve as
Fashion Producer of the event.
The Bootstraps Foundations mission is to award scholarships
to deserving young men and women across Middle Tennessee
who, despite severe obstacles and hardships, have achieved
success in high school. Proceeds from the evening will go to
fund Bootstraps scholarships. For more information, visit
www.Bootstraps.org.
susan walker photography
On Thursday evening,
October 17, the Bootstraps
Foundation will host its
second annual Passion for
Fashion Cocktail Party,
Silent Auction, and Fashion
Show in the Ballroom of the
Hutton Hotel.
Brenda Stein
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 12, 6-8pm

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spotlight
Davishire Interiors
Same Space, New Look
fter twenty-eight years in the same location, Davishire

Interiors decided it was time to put their expertise to work
on their own place and give it a facelift. Now they are hosting a
daylong celebration to show us the results!
Weve always done eclectic looks, whether its traditional with
modern accessories or contemporary with antique accents, and
now our showroom reflects that, explained Davishire proprietor
Shirley Horowitz. It looks completely different. It is not so
cluttered, and it has a more homelike feel, which is something we
always try to do for our clients, even if we are furnishing an office.
The new look has
a monochromatic
color scheme with
clean lines and
very inviting living
areas that expertly
blend traditional,
transitional, and
contemporar y
furnishings and
original art. About
the only thing that
hasnt
changed
is the quality of
their
offerings.
Davishire still has
both antique and
new furnishings,
one-of-a-kind accessories, handmade items, and an art collection
worthy of a museum.
Celebrate with Davishire Interiors on Thursday, October 24,
from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at 2106 21st Avenue South.
For more information, visit www.davishire.com.
Introducing
our new
showroom
Celebrate with us!

Thursday, October 24
9 until 9
Beautiful Furniture, Fine Art, Unique Accessories
2106 21st Ave S. Nashville, TN 37212

(615) 298-2670 www.davishire.com
Photo: bo may
spotlight
From left: Rahsaan Barber, Denis Solee, Jeff Coffin
All proceeds from this

lively event benefit
the Jazz Workshop,
which is a cause near
and dear to this years
entertainers.
Photo: MArk alberhasky
Kirk Whalum was

a
board
member,
teacher, and a frequent
performer at the Jazz
Workshop while he
lived in Nashville. Evan
Cobb teaches at the Jazz
Workshop, coordinates
the Summer Jazz Camp
for youth, and runs the
monthly jam sessions.
Sandra
Dudley,
a
Belmont
University
faculty member, has
taught at the Jazz
Workshop for many Kirk Whalum
years and recently
joined the Board of Directors. The Honorary Chairperson for the event
is Ken Roberts, longtime friend and supporter of the Jazz Workshop.
In the past the event has featured foods from around the world, but
this year John Howard of Sargents Fine Catering has created
dishes from the country of Jazzmania! Food stations include: Hey
Mambo Italiano featuring Flank Sinatra and Louis Primavera; Way
Down Yonder in New Orleans offering Satchmo Gumbo and Red
Garland Beans and Rice; Birdland including Struttin with Some
Barbecue and Nat King Cole Slaw; and Sweet and Lovelydesserts.
Lipman Brothers will provide complimentary wine and beer.

Back again this year is the ever-popular live and silent auction,
which includes vacation packages, event tickets, dinner packages,
in-home concerts, original art and more. The signature feature of
the silent auction isSmall Works, a collection of small canvases
by some of the areas best artists.
Sponsors for Jazzmania 2013 include Van Heusen Music
Corporation, the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Arts
Magazine, Sargents Fine Catering, Seale Keyworks, UPS Stores
of Belle Meade and Bellevue, Lipman Brothers, The Factory at
Franklin, WMOT 89.5FM, Jazzy WFSK, McLemore Auction,
Moonlight Sound Company, andParker Designs.
Tickets for Jazzmania 2013 are $100. Corporate
sponsorships and V.I.P. seating packages are also available.
All proceeds from Jazzmania support the operation of the Jazz
Workshop, outreach programs, and a youth scholarship established
in memory of the late Stephen McRedmond, beloved friend and
supporter of the Jazz Workshop.
Jazzmania 2013 takes place Sunday, October 20, from 4 to 8 p.m.
in Jamison Hall at The Factory at Franklin. For more information,
visit www.nashvillejazz.org.
Photo: bo may
et ready for theJazz Party of the Year featuring

dynamic and creative saxophonist Evan Cobb,
supreme vocalistSandra Dudley, and internationally
renowned saxophonistKirk Whalum!
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crawl guide
Jack Yacoubian
n Friday, October 4, enjoy

the Franklin Art Scene
from 6 to 9 p.m. Gallery 202 will
showcase jewelry by Anne Rob
and paintings by Susan Truex.
Damico Frame & Art Gallery
will present Thrills and Chills.
Boutique MMM will host painter
Teresa Townsend Hargis. Bob
Parks Realty will exhibit work
Cynthia Birdsong
by Dorsey McHugh. T. Nesbitt &
Co. will feature work by Laine Barley. Foyers and Beyond will show
mixed-media work by Cynthia Birdsong. OMore College will launch
Outsider Art: The Spiritual and Mysterious Folk Art of the Self Taught.
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On Saturday, October 5, head downtown for the First Saturday

Art Crawl from 6 to 9 p.m. The Arts Company willopen Three
Artists/Three Exhibits, photography by Chip Cooper (see article on
page 90), and painting by Joan Griswold and Brett Weaver. Tinney
Contemporary will unveil With Wings, new work by Jeanie Gooden.
The Rymer Gallery will present Synthetic Harmonies, new paintings
by Whitney Wood Bailey. Tennessee Art League will open five new
exhibitions. Gallery One will highlight new and long-term artists.
At the Arcade, L Gallery
will showcase paintings by
Carol Lena Saffell. Picture
This will open New Orleans:
Remembered,
Revisited,
Remixed by Ken Walls.
WAG, Watkins Arcade
Gallery, will presentIndefinite
Beauty by Luisiana Mera
andEcdysisby Jason R. Reed.
OPEN Gallery, curated
by Lipscomb University
students, will present work
by Nicole Wilson.
Amanda Joy Brown
The Wedgewood/Houston Art Crawl

takes place on Saturday, October
5, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Ground
Floor Gallery will launch Delineated
by Amanda Joy Brown with an artists
reception. Fort Houston will feature
Hard Times, with embroidery artist
Davey Gravy and photographer Nicole
Irene. Cheekwood will join this crawl
during Artober with a Pop-Up Gallery
Libby Byler
featuring work from More Love: Art,
Politics and Sharing since the 1990s.
On Saturday, October 12, visit Second Saturday at Five Points
in East Nashville from 6 to 9 p.m. where Bryant Gallery will open
Garments by Libby Byler with an artists reception.
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Art for Elephants

Online Auction October 126 to benefit
The Elephant Sactuary
he
Night
of
the
Elephant is offering
dimensional
constructions
involved making a silkscreen
print, hand coloring it, and
then attaching cuttings from
a second sheet with adhesive
foam. Several of his works with
related biographical books are
included in the auction.
work by a wide-ranging
group of artists in its
upcoming online auction
and fundraiser. According
to chairperson Patsy Weigel,
the sale will feature pieces
by internationally known
artists such as John Baeder
and Paul Harmon, new work
by Steffon Hamulak and
Kaaren Engel, and unusual
offerings by James Rizzi and
Thomas Rowlandson. Theres
even a cartoon elephant
alphabet by award-winning
artist
Daniel
DUmuk
Aguila.
The Elephant Sanctuary in

Tennessee is the nations
largest natural habitat refuge
developed specifically for
African and Asian elephants.
Since
1995
twenty-four
elephants
have
found
sanctuary in Tennessee, and
Elephant Sanctuary officials
hope to raise enough money
to eventually rescue 100
elephants.
A pair of works by Thomas

Rowlandson, born in the
eighteenth
century,
has
been donated to the auction.
Rowlandson
was
known
for what were then called
comic prints. The J. Paul
Getty Museum says that
Rowlandsons
depictions
of life in Georgian England
exposed human foibles and
vanity with sympathy and
rollicking humor.
The
Elephant
Sanctuary
is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
corporation licensed by the
United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) and the
Tennessee Wildlife Resource
Agency (TWRA).
Open to all, the online

auction begins October 1 and
continues through October 26,
the evening of an invitationPaul Harmon, When Their Ancestors Were Kings, 2013, Enamel and acrylic
on paper, 30 x 22
only, black-tie event also
Known for more contemporary
benefitting
the
Elephant
Sanctuary.
humor, James Rizzi (19502011) was an American pop artist
famous for his childlike style and zany images. His threeTo view and bid on auction items, visit www.elephants.com.
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OneSundayAfternoon, 2013, Hand-pigmented

papers on canvas, 48 x 48
Inhabiting Wonder
at Bennett Galleries
nhabiting Wonder, new works by Anton Weiss and Lisa

Jennings now on display at Bennett Galleries, is an exhibit
not to be missed. The show is an incredible cross section of each
artists current processes and includes sculpture, metal on panel,
and paintings.
The Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri
One Summer:America, 1927

Bill Bryson
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning

author of The Namesake comes an
extraordinary new novel, set in both
India and America, a tale of two
brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely
brilliant woman haunted by her past,
a country torn by revolution, and a
love that lasts long past death.
The author of A Walk in the

WoodsandAt Hometransports readers
to one amazing season in American
life, the summer of 1927. Bryson
captures its outsized personalities,
events, and weirdness with his
trademark eye for detail and humor.
Meet the author at the Southern
Festival of Books onOctober 12.
David and Goliath:

Underdogs, Misfits, and
the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
In this show, the work of each artist complements that of the other.
Weisss abstract expressionistic paintings with their bold use of
color convey a remarkable strength, while Jenningss paintings
and sculptures have an organic, ethereal feel created from torn
hand-pigmented paper, found wood, found stone, and welded
metal resembling twigs and leaves.
Inhabiting Wonder will be on display until October 31 at Bennett
Galleries, 2104 Crestmoor Road. For more information, visit
www.bennettgalleriesnashville.com.
In the tradition of his previous

bestsellers The Tipping Point, Blink,
Outliers, and What the Dog Saw,
Gladwell challenges how we think
about obstacles and disadvantages
by drawing upon history, psychology,
and powerful storytelling.
Remnant 001, 2011, Metal on panel, 60 x 72
The author ofThe Secret HistoryandThe

Little Friend brings us a novel filled
with unforgettably vivid characters,
mesmerizing
language,
and
breathtaking suspense that plumbs
with a philosophers calm the deepest
mysteries of love, identity, and
art. Donna Tartt will be appearing at
Salon@615 onOctober 22.
For more information about these books, visit www.parnassusbooks.net.
at Cumberland Gallery
he group exhibit at
Cumberland Gallery
this
month,
Unique
Visions, presents an array
of artists interpretations
of subjects such as social
history and the myth
of the self. The seven
participating
artists
Julie Blackmon, Craig
Cully, Andrea Heimer,
Mark Hosford, Marcus
Marcus Kenny, Double Vision, 2010 mixed Kenney, Will Smith, and
media on canvas, 24" x 24"
Fred Stonehousework
in varied mediums and have different methods of communicating
their critiques of the human condition. From humor to sarcasm to
horror, these artworks will give you something to think about with
a rich visual feast to enjoy.
Unique Visions opens at Cumberland Gallery with an artists
reception on October 19 and will be on exhibit until November 23.
An Artober event featuring Sideshow Fringe actors is scheduled
for October 24 from 6 to 8 p.m.
For more information visit www.cumberlandgallery.com.
Historic Dulcimer Collection

Davids
Dulcimers:
Instruments from the
Schnaufer Collection
will be one of three musicoriented exhibits opening
at
the
Tennessee
State Museum this
month. This collection
of historic dulcimers
was owned by David
Schnaufer (19522006),
dulcimer virtuoso and
Vanderbilt University
Blair School of Music
faculty member. He Dulcimer genius David Schnaufer, 1996
donated it to the museum shortly before his death.
courtesy of Blair School of Music
Unique Visions
Schnaufer devoted his life to recording, performing, and teaching

the instrument. He assembled his collection through antique-store
finds, private purchases, and trades. With instruments dating
from the early 1800s to the late 1900s, it traces the development of
the dulcimer. The collection includes a variety of hourglass-shaped
dulcimers, a Scheitholt, which is the German predecessor of the
mountain dulcimer, and some rectangular-shaped music boxes.
Davids Dulcimers: Instruments from the Schnaufer Collection,
will be on view through December 29.
For more information visit www.tnmuseum.org.
Building BRIDGES
Vikki Nordstrom, Aspen Afternoon, Watercolor, 12 x 18
Building BRIDGES Through Art, a watercolor and mixedmedia art show, will benefit Bridges Domestic Violence
Center, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to assisting
victims of physical, mental, and sexual abuse.
The exhibit will feature work by artist Gail Mcdaniel and her
students. The reception will include a silent auction, with 100
percent of the proceeds going to BRIDGES, and 20 percent of
the proceeds from the art sold during the rest of the month
will also be donated to BRIDGES.
The Building BRIDGES Through Art event is Saturday, October
12, from 6 to 9 p.m. at CharacterEYES Eyecare and Optical
Boutique in downtown Franklin. www.bridgesdvc.org.
spotlight
Wicked Carving: Lundy Cupp Pumpkin Carver

I
n October, carver and sculptor Lundy Cupp
puts commissions on hold and steps away
from wood to devote his time to carving
pumpkins. Four years ago he developed his
unique technique, and the response has been
overwhelmingly positive.
I have taken my craft into the world of

pumpkin carving and discovered that this fun
and unique way of carving pumpkins captures
the imagination of the young and old. The
fact that this art form comes around only one
month out of the year and the pumpkins last
only a week or so seems to add to this fascination, explains Cupp.
To make his pumpkins last longer he doesnt gut them. Instead he scrapes off the
orange shell and uses clay-sculpting tools to carve the faces. It takes one to two
hours to create a pumpkin, but the more complicated ones can take significantly
longer. Cupp says, . . . the weirder the better. Ive found the stranger the
pumpkins the more people like them.
In addition to corporate events, celebrity parties, and individual orders, Cupp
will give a pumpkin-carving demonstration at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens
and Museum of Art from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 19.
For more information visit www.lundycupp.com or www.cheekwood.org.
For Sale: The King of Desks

Q
ueen Victoria, John D. Rockefeller, Joseph

Pulitzer, and presidents Grant, Garfield, and
Harrison all owned a Wooton Patent Cabinet
Office Secretary. The Smithsonian Institution
purchased a Wooton desk in 1876, and it has been
in use since. The Wooton Secretary is a writing desk,
filing cabinet, letterbox, and safe all in one and
boasts 110 drawers, pigeonholes, and compartments
under one lock and key.
These elaborate desks were designed and patented
by William S. Wooton in 1874 and merged fine hand
craftsmanship with the new technologies of the
Industrial Revolution. The design of the desks provided
an ingenious solution to help the businessman organize.
The Wooton Secretary shown here is made from burl
walnut and birdseye maple and stands about five feet
tall. Though the exact date of manufacture is uncertain,
there is sufficient evidence to suggest it was built during
or before 1880. It is in excellent condition and being
offered for sale by a local artist and collector. For more
information, contact Nashville Arts Magazine at
(615) 383-0278 or info@nashvillearts.com.
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A
s the Art Deco automobiles

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Tulips To Die For

A
ppearances can be deceiving.

In fact, the most beautiful
objects often hide deadly intentions.
This is the inspiration for a suite of
paintings entitled Romantic Notions
presented by artist Terri Jordan at
the Emporium Arts Center gallery
in Knoxville. Jordans narrative,
figurative portraiture plays upon the
idea of contradictions surrounding
appearance by pairing beautiful
women with common but deadly
flowers and plants.
characteristics of the flowers.

Jordan has exhibited in group and solo
shows in New York and the Southeast,
and her paintings are in collections in
the U.S. and Europe. The Agora Gallery
in New York City has said of Jordans
paintings, Much like Matisses
women, Jordans figures are symbolic
statements of serenity, beauty, and
ornament. More restful than Matisses
women, however, Jordan explores a
more understated realm of existence
and privacy.
The artist says of her suite: We often

A percentage of the sales from this
gravitate towards pretty things, covet
exhibit will go toward holiday gifts for
them, and need to have them based
patients of East Tennessee Childrens
on appearances. We fill our homes and
Hospital. Romantic Notions will be on
yards with bright-colored plants and Terri Jordan, Of Sleep and Promise, Oil, 20" x 20"
display October 4 through 25 at The
flowers, often unaware that some of the loveliest ones are also
Emporium Center gallery in downtown Knoxville.
the most deadly. And even when weve heard the myths and facts,
For information on the gallery, visit http://www.
the consequences, human nature still temps some to put beauty
theemporiumcenter.com/galleries.html. To explore works
first. I tell stories in almost all of my work, but I try to be subtle
by Terri Jordan, please visit http://fineartamerica.com/
about it. I hope that after they see the pretty woman [people]
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Hatch Goes to London
hen Jason Brown, new resident to Nashville from London, England, looked for an idea
for his first transatlantic, curated show it was obvious. Hatch Show Print had yet to
have a UK exhibition. For the iconic Nashville letterpress shop this was way overdue.
As co-curator of Hatch Show Print: Nashville Calling at Londons Chelsea Space, Brown takes
120 posters, Jim Sherraden monoprints, and historic ephemera to a new audience. Donald
Smith, Chelsea Space director of exhibitions, and Jim Sherraden have been tremendous
partners in this endeavor, says Brown.
The opening will be a Nashville event in London, serving Tennessee food, Jack Daniels
cocktails, and entertainment with a special performance by Nedski & MojoNed Luberecki
and Stephen Mougin, two of Nashvilles finest. A Hatch poster has been designed for the
show, and a book with an essay by Sherraden will be given to exhibition attendees.
Hatch Show Print: Nashville Calling opens in London November 12 and runs
through December 14. For more information, visit www.chelseaspace.org.
Artober Nashville
ur city offers an incredibly diverse wealth of art, and during the

month of October hundreds of events will showcase this talent.
Nashvilles third Artober celebration includes music, theatre, dance,
visual arts, festivals, family events, classes, workshops, poetry and
literary readings, and film and video screenings.
Photo: Jamie Hernandez and Nossi College of Art
The most ambitious Artober Nashville event is set for October 5 and
6 at The Hermitage, when artist Myles Maillie and hundreds of
volunteers will put the finishing touches on the Community Box
Mural Project, a stacked-box mural structure consisting of more
than 3,000 painted cardboard boxes. Organizers hope to set a
Participants paint boxes for the Community Mural Project
Photo: Reed Hummel
Our goal is to connect Nashvillians to the arts; to make sure

every citizen has the opportunity to experience the creativity that
is thriving in our communities today. Artober Nashville is both a
celebration to showcase our artistic diversity and an effort to
make certain we all participate in some creative activity during
the month of October, said Jennifer Cole, executive director of
Metro Arts.
Nashville Opera performs Carmen
worlds record for the largest cardboard mosaic.

Back by popular demand is the $10 Artober VIP Discount Card.
Throughout the month, discounts and special offers will be available
from the Belcourt Theatre, Cheekwood Botanical Gardens & Museum
of Art, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Dance Theatre
of Tennessee, classes at Fort Houston, Frist Center for the Visual
Arts, Nashville Ballet, Nashville Childrens Theatre, Nashville GLBT
Chamber of Commerce, Nashville Opera, Nashville Symphony,
Picture This Creative Framing & Gallery, Tennessee Performing Arts
Center, and the Tennessee State Museum.
Artober Nashville is being held in conjunction withNational Arts
and Humanities Month, designated byAmericans for the Artsand
theNational Endowment for the Arts.
For more information and a complete schedule of events,
visit www.artobernashville.com.
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The Man Behind the Fame
Photography: hollis Bennett
photography
Loretta Lynn: This was shot right after the flood in 2010 at my Nashville studio. We used an old Cadillac and roses that had been destroyed when my street
became a river.
by Martin Brady
ts been more than thirty years since Russ

Harrington started making a living as a
photographer. Launching his career in 1982, the
Nashville native cut his professional teeth doing

headshots, department-store advertising, weddings,
and model shoots. A few breaks along the way, and by
the early 90s Harrington had embarked on an amazing
stretch of his career that now finds him at the top of
the heap of Nashvilles music industry photographers.
Harrington continues to seek out new horizons, mainly
in New York and Los Angeles, to gain entry into other
areas of show-biz photography. But for now there are
plenty of laurels to rest on, and the Tennessee State
Museum ishonoring Harrington with an exhibit called
Shooting Stars: Celebrity Portraits by Russ Harrington, on
displayOctober 11 through December 29.

Brian Setzer: We shot this at a bar in Los Angeles for the album Wolfgangs Big
Night Out. Brian has to be one of the coolest guys around.
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The sixty-two Harrington works are drawn from his portfolio

of promotional, editorial, and artistic portraits, including more
than 600 album and CD covers, an oeuvre that encompasses
iconic pictures of Trisha Yearwood, Alan Jackson, Keith Urban,
and dozens of other country and Christian music artists. The
exhibit, curated by Renee White, will also feature Loretta
Lynns dress from the cover of her 2004 Van Lear Rose album
produced by Jack White.
Celebrities become models, he says. Its really amazing, and theyre
lovely to work with. What I always say is you have to manage their
timethats the most important thing. Theyve got a million things
Hank Williams, Jr.: I love this daylight shot of Hank.The smoke from the
Cuban cigar made for a killer image.
Brooks & Dunn: My prop stylist friend Shelia B and I got permission to spray
the interior of this old Airstream a wild yellow color. This was a difficult
shot to get, but it is one of my favorites for sure.
to do that week, so its important to be prepared and have things up

and lit and ready to go. Im known for that. It's especially important
with Reba and stars of that caliber. We do a whole pre-light day with
a model, so when Reba walks onto the setBoom!"
Shooting pretty pictures is one thing, then; playing on-the-spot
psychologist quite another. Some artists dont want to do a shoot,
but they know theyve got to, Harrington says. If theyre having a
rough day, then we go quickly, have things lined up, make sure the
food is goodmake it as painless as possible. Its unbelievable how
many days theyre on the road; then they get a day off and the label
throws a photo shoot on them. So you worry that they hate your
Robert Plant: Im glad my finger was on the button when Robert just
reached over and tried to take a bite out of Alison Krauss.What a great
moment.
Grace Potter: Sometimes all you need

is one hard light and a cool pose.
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In the digital world, he says, people just put

a lens on the camera and put it on automatic
without going back to their roots and
understanding optics and focal length and
aperture and depth of field. Thats why a lot of
stuff just looks the same now.
Back in the day, I had a case with about twenty
different films in it and I could pick the palette.
It was, like, this needs to be black and white,
or green, or vivid color, and it was like being
a painter. I had three or four camera systems,
some faster or slower. I really miss those days.
Some of Harringtons favorite images are a
delightfully spontaneous, unposed moment
caught between Robert Plant and Alison
Krauss, plus almost anything with Brooks
& Dunn. I shot the first meaningful image
where Ronnie Dunn was smiling, says
Harrington. He loved that picture. It was
pivotal. Were good friends now.
Harrington has his artistic mantraskeep the
subject moving, look for the angle, etc. If his
subject is photogenic and the location is great,
he can hardly not come up aces.
But I like to think they hire me for my beauty
lighting, he says. You want people to say, call
Russ, cause every time the phone rings it could
be your biggest job ever.
Shooting Stars: Celebrity Portraits by
Russ Harrington opens at the Tennessee
State Museum on October 11 and will be
on displayuntil December 29.Admission
is free. For more information visit www.
tnmuseum.org.
Heather Headley: What a stunning woman . . . makes for an easy day for sure.
gutsand then they call you at the end of the dayand say that was
the best shoot ever.
Well, thats the goal, he chuckles. The ideal thing is to see the
wardrobe before the shoot and to plan backdrops and sets, but
most of the time that doesnt happen exactly as you hope. Theres a
lot of improvisation, depending on the job.
Harrington is just old enough to remember the pre-digital days of
his art. He even used to develop his own photos and send around
expensive portfolios by courier to promote his work. The computer
has changed all that.
Photography: hollis Bennett
Harrington gets huge results, whether hes shooting half days or

full days, in color or black and white, an album cover, or a People
magazine spread. Theres lots of planning, right?
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artist profile
Kirsten Stingle
stories in sculpture
Riding Solo, 2012, Mixed media with porcelain

and vintage foundry mold, 18 x 8 x 27
There has to be sincerity, but you

have to laugh at how seriously
we take our own lives.
Adaptation, 2013, Hand-built porcelain stoneware with multiple layers

of underglazes, slips and stains. Mixed media: porcelain stoneware,
alligator skull, vintage wheels, leather straps, 21x 25 x 21
Nice Kitty, 2012, Mixed media: porcelain stoneware, antique wooden

foundry mold, vintage clock chain, 25 x 15 x 15
irsten Stingles work is whimsical and seductive,

dark and post-apocalyptic. Each ceramic sculpture
is a carefully arranged homage to the female point of view, to

humanitys universal struggles, and to an aesthetic that can only
be described as Steampunk. By tossing in a handful of flotsam and
jetsam, the look is uniquely her own.
Still, Stingles work is even more than the sum of these parts
because it articulates so much at once. Heres what we know about
such complexity: Stingle doesnt believe that her chosen medium
of ceramics demands that she simply turn out beautiful vases. A
vase is lovely, but a figural ceramic sculpture? That is a different
type of wet dust altogether.
Photography: Jerrry atnip
Riveted, 2013, Mixed media: porcelain, vintage riveter, roof nails, vintage
wheels, jackal skull, 19" x 21" x 8"
by Karen Parr-Moody
The discipline of ceramics can straddle the line between artisan

and art, which proved to be a dilemma for Stingle when she
embraced the medium and launched her artistic career. Ceramics
sort of take hold in the craft world, and its hard to find a niche in
the fine-art world, she says. People are used to seeing ceramics
as a pot, something that sits on a shelf quietly and gives them that
beauty. Whereas mine, through telling a story, is trying to evoke a
response from the viewer.
There is nothing quiet about the stories Stingles sculptures tell.
Take Riveted as just one example. Stingle was inspired to create
this piece after discovering an old riveter machine at the Antique

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Archaeology store in Nashville. An image of the iconic Rosie the

Riveter sprang into her mind as she mulled over the strength
women can summon to get the job done. As a double entendre,
Stingle also thought about the word riveted and the idea of being
transfixed by an awe-inspiring subject.
So she took that riveter machine and built from itas she does
for many of her figuresa mechanized form of transport, what
she calls a machine creature complete with a coyote skull at the
helm. It looks like something a Mad Max character might straddle
to traverse the dusty, post-apocalyptic plains.
Does this figure, she of the flaming-red Medusa hair, look intense?
Yes. Is she hunched over her machine, eyes squinted and teeth
clenched as though she might hurl a spiked iron ball? No. This
figure steps back a pace from that particular brand of intensity,
possessing instead a more nuanced strength. Yes, she grips her
post-apocalyptic machine firmly between her thighs. But her face
describes the rapture that belongs to a saint while her hands are
posed as delicately as those of a dancing geisha. Despite being a
true warrior, as Stingle explains, this figure boldly confronts the
possible future with a sense of wonder.
This dance between the delicate and the intense is key to Stingles
work. Stingle, who never formally studied art, achieved a B.A. in
theatre at Ohio University and a masters degree in public affairs
from Columbia University. Her undergraduate studies in drama
boldly temper the physicality of her sculpturesparticularly the
face, hands, and feet. While she spent her childhood viewing opera
and ballet with her mother, an experience she credits as formative,
it was her degree in theatre that emphasized the importance of
gesture.
To that end, Stingle spends a lot of time working on every figures
face, hands, and feet. So much of the emotional powerhouse that
tells the story is in those three areas, she says.
When she builds each figure, by hand and without the use of molds,
Stingle creates details in the face, hands, and feet with a straight
pin. To deepen the color, she uses many layers of underglazes and
slips. It is only after firing the figure that she finishes it through a
variety of methods, including carpentry, sewing, fabric staining,
and welding.
Through each piece Stingle tells a story, which is a skill she gleaned
from her past career in public policy. Before abandoning that
career to sculpt full time, she held a position in which she gathered
the stories of families trying to make the transition from welfare
to work. In doing so, she uncovered the roadblocks such people
came up against.
It just sort of showed me how its the same thing were all dealing
with, she says. How do we provide a better life for our family? The
power of the story moved me.
Stingle also tosses in heaping tablespoons of sly humor to lighten
the tone of her tales. In the figure Escape there are objects,
Horseplay, 2013, Mixed media: porcelain stoneware, antique sewing machine, vintage roller skate strap, 22" x 8" x 24"
Harnessing Dreams, 2011, Mixed media: porcelain stoneware and

vintage clock chain, 24 x 17 x 13
Endangered, 2013, Mixed media: porcelain stoneware, fiber, vintage

millinery feathers, 26 x 11 10
which seem to be balloons, tied to a womans waist. Upon closer

inspection one discovers that they are, in fact, bombs.
I could express it in a heavy-handed way, or I could express it in
a funny way, Stingle says of her stories told through sculpture.
Theyre not high Shakespearean dramas. Theyre more burlesque.
You have to poke fun a little bit, but at the same time youre trying
to be true to the story youre telling. There has to be sincerity, but
you have to laugh at how seriously we take our own lives.
Stingle is represented by the Copper Fox Gallery
www.thecopperfoxgallery.com. www.kirstenstingle.com.
Conquest, 2013, Mixed media: porcelain stoneware, antique barn

trolley, turkey skulls, vintage glass button, 27 x 19 x 13

Defiance, 2012, Mixed media, porcelain stoneware, vintage chain, dog

collar, leather, 13" x 18" x 18"
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hroughout its 40-year history on public television, making

it the longest-running showcase of its kind on television,
Great Performances has provided viewers nationwide with an
unparalleled showcase of the best in all genres of the performing
arts. In celebration of this extraordinary legacy, and to mark its
40th Anniversary, a stellar roster of diverse alumni gathered at
Lincoln Center last November to share their personal stories of
what Great Performances has meant to them, with reminiscences
and performances by Julie Andrews, Audra McDonald, Don
Henley, David Hyde Pierce, Josh Groban, Itzhak Perlman,
Peter Martins, Patti Austin and Take 6, Met Opera star Elna
Garana, and Michael Bubl. The show, Great Performances
40th Anniversary, comes to NPT and PBS stations nationwide
on Friday, October 18, at 8 p.m.
Musical performances and anecdotes are interspersed with

highlights from some of the most memorable Great Performances
of the past, grouped by genre: musical theater, rock, classic and
contemporary drama, classical music, dance, jazz, opera, and
the pop standards from American Songbook.
NPTs dedication to great documentaries on Monday nights
at 9 p.m. continues this month with two stellar films apiece
from P.O.V. and Independent Lens. On Monday, October 7,
P.O.V. brings you Brooklyn Castle, the story of five aspiring
young members of Brooklyn public school I.S. 318s renowned
chess team, winner of more than 30 national championships
the most of any school in the country. On Monday, October
14, director Michael Apted returns with 56 Up, checking in
on the same subjects that he has profiled since Seven Up in
1964. Highland Hospital, a vital part of the city of Oakland,
California, and the surrounding county, sees 250 patients in its
emergency room every day. Waiting Room, via Independent
Lens on October 21, profiles the hospital as it battles its way
through seismic shifts in the nations healthcare system
and weathers a national recession. In the first of a two-part
special, brought to you by Independent Lens beginning on
October 28, The Graduates examines the many roots of the
Latino dropout crisis through the eyes of six inspiring young
students who are part of an ongoing effort to increase graduation

rates for a growing Latino population.
In 1959 when it premiered on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberrys

groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun was the first play to depict the
strength and humanity of an African-American family as they strive
for a piece of the American dream by buying a house in a white,
working-class neighborhood in Chicago. More than fifty years
later, playwright Bruce Norris created Clybourne Park, a sardonic
Pulitzer Prize-winning prequel and sequel that takes place in the
same Chicago house and revisits the questions of race, real estate,
and gentrification in America. Inspired by both plays, Kwame KweiArmah, artistic director of Baltimores Center Stage, penned and
staged a third play, Beneathas Place, which follows two of the Raisin
characters to Nigeria and its post-colonial struggles. With A Raisin
in the Sun Revisited: The Raisin Cycle at Center Stage, coming
to NPT on Friday, October 25, at 8 p.m., viewers get a behind-thecurtain look at the history and legacy of Raisin and the backstage
challenges of mounting the two issue-driven plays simultaneously.
The Emmy-nominated
and Peabody Awardwinning
Craft In
America returns for a
fifth season on Friday,
October 25. Its first
episode, Forge, profiles
exceptional artists who
are working in what
may be the only tangible
example of alchemy
we havethe forging
of metal magically
transformed by fire.
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Mind of a Chef
In the first eight episodes of season two,
Chef Sean Brock of McCradys and Husk
spotlights southern cooking with heritage
varieties of rice, beans and grains.
8:30 PM
Sunday
5:00 am Sesame Street

6:00 Curious George
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7:00 Peg + Cat
7:30 Dinosaur Train
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9:30 Volunteer Gardener
10:00 Tennessee Crossroads
10:30 A Word on Words
11:00 Nature
12:00 noon To the Contrary
12:30 The McLaughlin Group
1:00 Moyers & Company
2:00 Washington Week
with Gwen Ifill
2:30 Expeditions
with Patrick McMillan
3:00 Californias Gold
3:30 Joseph Rosendos
Travelscope
4:00 Americas Heartland
4:30 Rick Steves Europe
5:00 Antiques Roadshow
6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend
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Go inside the life of Chef Vivian Howard,
who, with her husband Ben Knight, left the big city
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8:00 PM
The African Americans

Many Rivers to Cross
Harvard scholar
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
presents this six-hour series
chronicling the full sweep
of African-American history,
from the origins of slavery
on the African continent
through more than
four centuries of
remarkable historic
events up to the present.
Tuesday, October 22
7:00 PM
Frontline
League of Denial
The NFL's Concussion Crisis
In a special investigation, FRONTLINE joins
prize-winning journalists Steve Fainaru and
Mark Fainaru-Wada to reveal the hidden story
of the NFL and brain injuries, drawn from
their forthcoming book.
Tuesday, October 8
8:00 PM
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7:00 Last Tango in Halifax

8:00 Masterpiece Classic
Downton Abbey, Series
Two Part One.
The Paradise, Part Two.
This adaptation of the
beloved French novel by
Emile Zola is a rags to
riches story of a young
woman seduced by the
dangerous charms of the
modern world.
11:00 Tavis Smiley
11:30 Inside Washington

Hartford, CT Hour
Three.
8:00 Genealogy Roadshow
Austin.
9:00 POV
56 UP. Director Michael
Apted has returned to
find the group settling
into middle age and surprisingly upbeat, through
marriage and childbirth,
poverty and illness.
11:30 BBC World News
7:00 Last Tango In Halifax

The Paradise, Part One.
This adaptation of Emile
Zolas novel is a rags to
riches story of a young
woman seduced by the
dangerous charms of the
modern world.
10:00 Bluegrass
Underground
Yonder Mountain String
Band.
10:30 Closer To Truth
11:00 Tavis Smiley
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7:00 Superheroes:
A Never-Ending Battle
Truth, Justice, and the
American Way. Explore
the dawn of the comic
book genre and trace
the evolution of the characters and their ongoing
cultural impact worldwide.
10:30 Last of Summer Wine
11:00 Harvesting
the High Plains
7:00 Latino Americans

Pride and Prejudice/Peril
and Promise. Prejudice
and Pride. The creation
of the proud "Chicano"
identity and an examination of the past 30 years.
9:00 Frontline
Inside Japans Nuclear
Meltdown.
11:00 Legend of
Pancho Barnes and the
Happy Bottom
Riding Club
Tuesday
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7:00 Nature
Saving Otter 501. On a
typical late summer day
a baby sea otter washes
up on the beach in Monterey, California -- hungry, lost, injured.
8:00 NOVA
Making Stuff Faster.
9:00 Raw to Ready
Komatsu.
11:00 Austin City Limits
Phoenix.
7:00 Earthflight, A Nature

Special Presentation
8:00 NOVA
Megastorm Aftermath.
A follow up one year
after Hurricane Sandy.
9:00 NPT Reports:
Childrens Health Crisis
Prevention.
9:30 NPT Reports:
Mental Health.
Juanes / Jesse & Joy.
7:00 Earthflight, a Nature

Special Presentation
Asia and Australia.
8:00 NOVA
Inside the Megastorm.
After a 1900 storm blew
a boatload of sponge
divers off course. they
discovered a 2,000 yearold Greek shipwreck.
9:00 Quest
for the Lost Maya
Jack White.
Wednesday
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8:00 Chefs Life
Strawberry Stay at
Home.
8:30 Mind of a Chef
Seeds. Brocks journey
to find Jimmy red corn
led to a search for lost
crops.
9:00 Doc Martin
11:00 Next Frontier
Engineering the Gold
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7:00 Music City Roots:
Live from
the Loveless Caf
The Jim Lauderdale
Bluegrass Band, The
Blue Dogs and Honeycutters perform.
8:00 Great Performances
Great
Performances
40th Anniversary.
9:30 Light: Bruce Munro
at Cheekwood
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7:00 Music City Roots: Live

from the Loveless Caf
The Hollow Crown:
Henry IV, Part Part 2. In
the aftermath of the
Battle of Shrewsbury,
Northumberland learns
of the death of his son.
The Lord Chief Justice
attempts to separate Falstaff from Prince Hal.
Friday

7:00 Music City Roots: Live
from the Loveless Caf
8:00 Chefs Life
Celebrated female blueSweet Corn & Expensive
grass band Della Mae
Tea.
kicks off this wide-rang8:30 Mind of a Chef
ing night of Americana
Southerners. Sean Brock
music from the Loveless
exposes the world to
Cafe.
Southern cuisine.
9:00 NPT Reports:
The Hollow Crown:
Henry V. The French ambassador brings a chalObesity.
lenge from the Dauphin.
11:00 Who Cares
about Kelsey?

8:00 Pioneers of Television
Superheroes. In-depth
interviews with Adam
West, Burt Ward, Julie
Newmar, Lynda Carter,
Lou Ferrigno, William
Katt and others.
9:00 Pioneers of Television
Miniseries.
11:00 Theodore Roosevelt:
A Cowboys Ride
to the White House
Thursday
Television worth wa tchin g.
7:00 In Performance
at the White House
Vintage San Francisco.
Musica Latina. Gloria Es8:00 Genealogy Roadshow
San Francisco.
tefan joins President and
9:00 POV
Mrs. Obama as they welBrooklyn Castle. This
come a host of today's
public school, that
most celebrated Latino
serves mostly minority
American performers.
students from families
8:00 Frontline
living below the poverty
League of Denial: The
line, is a powerhouse in
NFLs Concussion Crisis.
junior high chess comThe hidden story of the
petitions and having won
NFL and brain injuries.
more than 30.
11:00 Cardboard Bernini
Monday
Superheroes!
A Never-Ending Battle
Tuesday, October 15
7:00 PM
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8:00 Keeping Appearances
8:30 Caf
Out with the Cold.
9:00 Miranda
Job. Miranda heads to
the gym and, after a
fuchsia-face-inducing
workout, decides it's
perhaps not quite for her.
9:00 Old Guys
10:00 Globe Trekker
Buenos Aires City
Guide.
11:00 Doc Martin
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8:30 Caf
Afternoon Tease. Sarah
chases some literary
agents, and the Dobsons spark a heated debate about jam and
cream.
9:00 Miranda
Teacher.
9:30 Old Guys
10:00 Globe Trekker
Southern Mexico.
11:00 NPT Reports:
7:00 Elton John in Concert

A collection of old hits
and new titles in a new
concert.
8:30 Caf
Theres No Place Like
Home.
9:00 Miranda
Date.
9:30 Old Guys
10:00 Globe Trekker
Around The World Panamericana: Incas
& Inquisitions.
11:00 Quest
for the Lost Maya
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7:00 Secrets of Selfridges

Downton Abbey, Season
Two, Part Four.
9:00 Masterpiece Class
The Paradise, Part Five.
10:00 Bluegrass
Underground
Beausoleil Avec Michael
Doucet.
10:30 Closer to the Truth
Whats in a Resurrection?
11:00 Tavis Smiley
7:00 Secrets of
the Tower of London
Downton Abbey, Season
Two Part Three.
The Paradise, Part Four.
10:00 Bluegrass
Underground
Steeldrivers.
Is Free Will an Illusion?
11:00 Tavis Smiley
7:00 African Americans:

In the Fire (1861-1896.)
Examine the most tumultuous and consequential
period in African American history: the Civil War
and the end of slavery,
and Reconstruction's
thrilling but tragically
brief "moment in the sun."
8:00 Jim Hendrix:
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The Age of Slavery
(1800-1860.) After the
American Revolution,
was a time of tremendous opportunity. But for
most, this era represented a new nadir.
8:00 War of the Worlds:
American Experience
9:00 Frontline
The Retirement Gamble.
11:00 Moving with Grace
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The Black Atlantic
(1500-1800.) The truly
global experiences that
created the African
American people.
8:00 NPT Reports:
Aging Matters
End of Life.
9:00 Frontline
Hunting the Nightmare
Bacteria.
10:00BBC World News
11:00 Held Hostage
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The Paradise
Sunday, October 6
8:00 PM
Raw to Ready
Wednesday, October 16
9:00 PM
7:00 Lawrence Welk

8:30 Caf
Fragile Handle With
Care. Everyone wants to
know how Sarah's meeting with the literary agent
went.
9:00 Miranda
Excuse. A Pride And
Prejudice party
9:30 Outnumbered
10:00 Globe Trekker
Around the World Pacific Journeys.
11:00 Doc Martin
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Live from
the Loveless Barn
Performances by The
Dirt
Daubers,
The
Owsley Brothers, The
Memphis Dawls, Gypsy
and Humming House.
Moby Dick from San
Francisco Opera. Jay
Hunter Morris stars as
Captain Ahab.
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8:30 Caf
A Note to Follow.
9:00 Miranda
Holiday. Miranda decides she needs to be a
bit reckless and wild and
so decides to book a
holiday at the local hotel
down the road.
9:30 Old Guys
10:00 Globe Trekker
Around the World Pacific Journeys.
11:00 Doc Martin
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Live from
the Loveless Caf
Robin & Linda Williams,
Scott Miller, The Whiskey
Gentry, Japanese country queen Tomi Fujiyama
and Tiller's Folly take the
stage.
8:00 Raisin
in the Sun Revisited
9:00 Craft in America
Forge.
Nature
Saving Otter 501
Wednesday, October 16
7:00 PM

8:00 Chefs Life
Cracklin Kitchen.
8:30 Mind of a Chef
Louisiana. Sean and historian and food writer
John T Edge visit Middendorf's Restaurant,
where cooks create a
catfish chip.
9:00 Doc Martin
11:00 Sitting Bull:
A Stone in My Heart
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7:00 Nature
Wolverine: Chasing the
Phantom.
8:00 NOVA
Making Stuff Colder.
9:00 Raw to Ready
Mack Truck. A heavy
hauler vital to commerce
must operate in every
condition from sub-zero
cold to triple-digit heat.
Vampire Weekend/Grizzly Bear.
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8:00 Chefs Life
Pimp My Grits.
8:30 Mind of a Chef
Rice. Sean visits Anson
Mills, where Glenn
Roberts is blazing a trail
to reintroduce the world
to the Carolina Rice
Kitchen.
9:00 Doc Martin
11:00 Serengeti Mara
A Memoir
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Animal Odd Couples.
8:00 NOVA
Making Stuff Wilder.
9:00 Raw to Ready
Bentley. It's a century-old
obsession to find the
right raw materials to
build a car that is fit for
both king and race car
driver.
The Lumineers / Shovels
& Rope.
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Junk in the Trunk 3.
Dallas, TX Hour Three.
9:00 Independent Lens
The
Graduates/Los
Graduados. The challenges facing many
Latino students.
11:00 American Graduate
Translating the Dream.
11:30 American Graduate:
Graduation by the Numbers.

Miami Beach, FL Hour
Three.
Dallas, TX Hour Two.
The
Graduates / Los
Graduados. This twopart special examines
the many roots of the
Latino dropout crisis
through the eyes of six
young students.
11:00 Last Will & Testament
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One.
Two.
The Waiting Room / Let
Me Down Easy. Highland Hospital, in Oakland,
California,
is
stretched to the breaking
point.
11:30 Plainspirits
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7:00 Secrets of
Henry VIIIs Palace
Downton Abbey, Series
Two - Part Two.
The Paradise, Part
Three.
10:00 Bluegrass
Underground
Ben Sollee.
Why is Free Will a Big
Question.
11:00 Tavis Smiley
exhibit
Walter Williams, Roots Southern Landscape, Mixed media on wood board
Jubilee!
African American Art Shines at the Van Vechten Gallery

by Cass Teague | Photos by Jerry Atnip
ictor Simmons is a very happy man these days. He is
responsible for the art that moves through the galleries at

the historic Fisk University campus in North Nashville. As curator
of both the Carl Van Vechten and Aaron Douglas galleries there,
as well as overseeing the universitys art collection all over the
campus and beyond, he is in the midst of a very exciting time ten
years into the job.
101-piece Alfred Stieglitz Collection, donated by Georgia OKeefe,

was going to be shared with the Crystal Bridges Museum in
Bentonville, Arkansas, as part of a well-chronicled financial
arrangement to benefit the university, he began the task of
reshaping the collections historic homethe Carl Van Vechten
Galleryfor a new generation with a different kind of identity that
would be inclusive of, but not exclusive to, the Stieglitz Collection.
When it became very clear to Simmons that Fisk Universitys
This is a great opportunity for Fisk and a new beginning for the
gallery. Its a real turnaround for us, says Simmons. The Stieglitz
Collection for decades has occupied the greatest part of the space
in the universitys Van Vechten Gallery, a free-standing, twolevel building, and with its departure this summer, Simmons and
his colleagues have put in motion a plan to display some of the
incredible pieces from the institutions vast repository of over
4,000 works of American, African American, and worldwide art,
including paintings, photographs, and sculptures, some of which
have been recently acquired, and many which have not been on
exhibition for decades and, in some instances, have never been
publicly displayed.
In contemplating this inaugural exhibition at the repurposed
Van Vechten Gallery, which chronicles the progression of African
American Art from the founding of the University in 1866
through the present, Simmons chose a big tent approach. A
recurring theme presented itself: that of Jubilee as a celebration
of beginnings, freedom, and creativity. I started out looking at
about 800 works, says Simmons. There are some that are absolute
classicsthe Aaron Douglas works, the Henry Ossawa Tanner
masterpiece The Three Marys. You cannot do an exhibition like this
and not include these works. I began to divide the piles into the
must-haves, the ought-to-haves, the hope-to-haves, and the willget-to-haves. And then I started to think about what themes I
wanted to address. Three years gave me a lot of time to do research
with the help of students and others . . . to create a concept . . .
themes and sub-themes. We homed in on Heroes, City and Country,
Acknowledging Africa, and Religion and Spirituality.
Jubilee! occupies both levels of the Van Vechten Gallery. On the
Arthur Leroy Bairnsfather, George Washington Carver, Oil on canvas
A group of people who came out

of slavery and within a very short
period of time begin to reflect on
who they are, what their history
is, how they fit in this country,
as well as, how they want to
claim it and shape it.
first level, Albert Alexander Smiths Raising of the Bell and William
Edward Scotts Haitian Market, a coming together of the sacred and
the profane, set the tone for the caliber of the exhibit. William
Dorings portrait of Maggie Porter, who was born into slavery,
attended Fisk, and traveled the world singing with the original
Jubilee Singers, is a poignant reminder of the historical legacy the
university holds in African American culture.
Albert Alexander Smith, Raising of the Bell, Oil on canvas

Works by William Henry Johnson such as Harlem Rooftops, Malvin

Gray Johnsons The Sailor, Romare Beardens The Last Supper and
Easter Sunday, Leroy Bairnsfathers George Washington Carver
portrait, and Building Thee More Stately Mansions by Aaron Douglas
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Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Three Marys, Oil on canvas
will leave you spellbound. Also featured are works by Hale

Woodruff, Leonard Baskin, Leon Hicks, Stephanie Pogue, and
Tennessee siblings Beauford and Joseph Delaney.
The lower level of the Gallery is dominated by more modern works,
large abstract paintings, repouss, and a large hanging installation.
Dean Mitchells Hatshepsut from Budweisers The Great Kings and
Queens of Africa series, one of several available to the gallery, is on
display along with the artistic visions of Ted Jones, Greg Ridley,
and James Miles. William T. Williams' Do You Think A Is B? is
displayed along with Nelson Stephens Imani Impulse.
Simmons sees the Van Vechten Gallery as an integral part of
Fisks educational mission for its students and the community.
We are a university and we teach, so our collection is not just for
the aesthetic enjoyment, but for what we can do to support the
education of our students.
He believes the gallery is in a unique position to tell a story of
American and African American art in a depth that most galleries
Claude Clark, Market Place, Oil on canvas
and museums in this country simply cannot. Fisk has

been collecting these things and been a home for these
kinds of things almost since the beginning of its history,
which is incredible when you think about that. This is an
incredible story to tell. A group of people who came out
of slavery and within a very short period of time begin to
reflect on who they are, what their history is, how they
fit in this country, as well as how they want to claim it
and shape it.
...our collection is not just for

the aesthetic enjoyment, but
for what we can do to support
the education of our students.
Fisk is a pioneer . . . right in the forefront of the

development of on-campus art and galleries in the
South, not just at HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and
Universities). Artwork Number One is the 1873 portrait
of the Jubilee Singers, says Simmons, commissioned by
Queen Elizabeth, who gave Nashville the name Music
City, USA in response to hearing the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
Fisk was African American art; it was ground zero, and
it forms the foundation of why were so strong today. The
real story to tell is the way that Fisk graduates continue
to support the gallery, a world-class collection. The
exhibition continues throughout the year at Fisk.
Jubilee! is currently on display at the Carl Van
Vechten Gallery at Fisk University. For more
information visit www.fisk.edu.
Aaron Douglas, Building Thee More Stately Mansions, Oil on canvas
William Edward Scott, Haitian Market, Oil on canvas

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Making Impressions
by Jason Brown
im Sherraden is a gracious and modest man.

Since the age of 16 he has been determined to make
a living in the creative arts, and now success has brought
him recognition as both a lyricist and a printmaker.
As another historic property of the Country Music Hall of
Fame and Museum, Hatch Show Print will move across
Broadway to its new home in the expansion of the museum
in October. Sherraden is preparing for the arduous move and
passing over the daily management of the shop into the safe
hands of Celene Aubry. He will remain as Master Printer.
Im in his home studio surrounded by the ephemera, blocks,

inks, and tools of an artist who has dedicated his career to
the old techniques. For almost thirty years he has been the
manager, chief designer, archivist, and curator of Hatch
Show Print, turning it from a letterpress shop in decline
into a world-renowned business while at the same time
preserving its history. Former employees have moved on
to found the Isle of Printing, Fat Crow Press, and Sawtooth
Printhouse, keeping the traditions of printmaking very
much alive in Nashville.
Temari, Woodcut, 6" x 6"
His time spent working with Fjeld in Norway gained awards and
an opportunity to discover the woodcuts of Munch, Kirchner, and
other European Expressionists. This experience inspired the series
of intricate, black-and-white Scandinavian woodcuts that are still in
production today and are available at LeQuire Gallery on Charlotte
Avenue.
In 1992, test prints through the presses led to the discovery of an
overlaying of images, text, and color. Influenced by Dutch artist
Hendrik Werkman, a contemporary of Mondrian and Escher, and
urged on by old friend and sculptor Alan LeQuire, he explored the
Aztec Plain, Woodcut, 11" x 6"
It was while studying for an English degree that he enrolled in a

printmaking course, and he devoured it, fell in love with it. This
resulted in his first Artist Book published in 1982. Following a
positive review in The Tennessean, Sherraden submitted to various
magazines, achieving further success with publication in the
literary art magazine New Blood, sharing space with the poet and
writer Charles Bukowski. His most recent Artist Book Blades of
Trees (ed.18), a collaboration with Celene Aubry, is a combination
of woodcuts old and new and a nod to Walt Whitman, with whom
he shares a birthday.
Partnerships are essential to Sherraden. In early 80s Nashville he
was introduced to both the archives of Hatch and the Norwegian
singer/songwriter Jonas Fjeld. He had a source and inspiration for
his artworks and a melody writer for his lyrics, which he believes
taught him discipline, making him a better printmaker. Its
knowing when you are done and working within a confined space.
Three Faces, Linocut, 12" x 12"
Hands Hills Houses, Woodcut, 11" x 8"
possibilities of the monoprint. This creative exploration coincided

with a movement in graphic design against the perfection of
digital type. Visits to the print shop from the seminal graphic
designers Charles Spencer Anderson and David Carson resulted in
Carsons inviting Jim to design a cover for his alternative rock n
roll magazine Ray Gun.
Since the first series of monoprints, Sherraden has gone on to
design and print over 2,500, each signed and numbered. The
monoprints are a collaboration between Jim, the work of previous
designers, and a print shop with over one hundred years of history.
The iconic blocks and photo plates featuring images of Elvis,
carnivals, and advertising slogans were used as themes. Small
blocks of eyes, mouths, and shoes were elaborated upon and recarved by Sherraden, then used in repetition to make patchwork
designs. Collectors of the traditional Hatch Show Print poster were
soon visiting lower Broadway in search of new monoprints.
Photography by Bob Delevante
Green & Blue Quilted Cuban, Woodcut/linocut, 14" x 14"
5 x 5 Quilted Cuban, Woodcut/linocut, 17" x 17"
I print in the warm months and cut blocks in the cold months.
Having acquired some antique Cuban, pre-Castro wood blocks,
Sherraden took the small designs and incorporated them into his
own art.
Hatch drives you to have a central theme.
The successful Cuban series with images of houses and hills, flora
and fauna was inspired by the balance found in quilts, Native
American art, Moroccan pottery, and Dutch tiles. He unveils
to me his latest piece from this series. Its a patchwork design
with woodblock prints cut, arranged, and mounted on a multidimensional wood base, then hand finished with a brayer. Over
thirty-three years of printmaking have given him the confidence
and lack of fear to add these finishing touches and use his own
work this way.
Majorca, Woodcut, 13" x 13"
Crazy Quilt, Woodcut/watercolor, 42" x 44"
The Crazy Quilt is his most challenging project to date. In the

true tradition of quilting, fragments of his woodcut prints are
painstakingly pieced together and supported top and bottom by a
wooden dowel. This extremely labor-intensive process results in a
grand but light-handed and seemingly fragile artwork measuring
43 x 43. Sherraden promises similar pieces in the future.
Im handed an exquisitely cut woodblock from his new series based
on the Temari Ball, a complex construction of Kimono threads
popularized in Japan. These delicate woodcuts will be hand
finished in watercolor for showing at LeQuire Gallery along with
other new, multidimensional quilted pieces.
New ideas continue to flow from Sherraden. He references the

woodcuts, gathers fresh blocks to cut, and sees larger pieces ahead.
As he walks me to my car and thanks me for my time, Im
thinking about his songwriting awards, Silver Medal from the
Nashville Chapter of the American Advertising Federation and the
Distinguished Artist Award from the State of Tennessee.
The new Haley Gallery within the Country Music Hall of
Fame and Museum will feature his monoprints.
New woodcuts by Jim Sherraden can be seen at LeQuire
Gallery in the group show The Nature of Wood: Sculpture and
Turnings by Olen Bryant, William Kooienga, and Brenda Stein
with woodcuts by Alan LeQuire and Jim Sherraden. Opening
reception Saturday, October 12. www.lequiregallery.com
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Photography Competition 2013
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Thomas Keller, Brentwood, TN, The exposure was made through a dust-covered windowpane. The
story: sometimes, those who wish to help others find themselves also abandoned.A benevolent light
picks out the subject while the ladder offers hope and a way to reach higher.
First Place ($500 cash) Second Place ($250 Durys gift card) Third Place ($250 Durys gift card)
undreds of photographs filled the submission inbox for

this years amateur photography competition sponsored
by Nashville Arts Magazine and Durys. We defined an amateur
as a person making less than 30 percent of their income from
photography. The photographs arrived from around the world
London, Dubai, India, Iraq, and Canadabut despite the global
interest in the competition nine of the ten who placed are from
Nashville. Judges Norman Lerner, Jerry Atnip, Christine
Rogers, John Guider, Anthony Scarlati, Stacey Irvin, and

Lawrence Boothby were charged with the task of culling the
photographs. Over the course of a day filled with discussion, tough
decisions, and dramatic cutting, the top ten emerged.
nd
Lyle Jackson, Nashville, TN, Sea Oat Leaf After years

of shooting sunsets and waves, Ive turned my attention
elsewhere. These are sea oat leaves along the shore.
This years editors pick is an image that stayed through to the last
round. We enjoyed the whimsy of the moment captured and just
had to include it.
rd
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Sally Bebawy, Nashville, TN, Incomplete Portrait It doesnt

do her justice, but this is a picture of Mrs. Samia Metry, my lovely
mother. When times change, shes always gracefully strong.
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Honorable
mentions
Judit Pap, Nashville, TN, Starry Night The image is called Starry Night because Van
Gogh and his work are a great influence on how I see art, and I wanted this image to be a
tribute to him. I made this image with my iPhone and processed it in Lightroom.
Neal Bowen, Antioch, TN, Singapore Smoke A smoke

break on a long walk through Singapore with my Indonesian
cousin-in-law that I just met.
Sarah Faith Taylor, Nashville, TN, Solitude It seems I breathe best in the middle of nowhere. Its just me and the birds.
Rita J Maggart, Nashville, TN, Oh Dorothea

After I took this photograph of a Dorothea Lange
image, I found that my hands were caressing her
head and neck. I am a big fan of her work.
Graham Gerdeman, Nashville, TN, A terraced vineyard in Switzerland. Hundreds of intersecting lines
and angles and almost shocking, yet soothing, primary colors. The ivy below seems to be clawing its
way up to the grapevines above (who wouldnt?), separated by stone and a road that looks like it was
slashed there by a sword. And a bright-red sentry.
Kim Whilhite, Paoli, IN, On Guard The photo is of wild horses on the Outer Banks of North
Carolina. I enjoy photographing the horses and capturing their strength and beauty.
EDITOR's
CHOICE
Graham Gerdeman,
Nashville, TN, This
shot was taken from
aboard the ferry on
Lake Geneva as it
pulled in to dock.
The surreal beauty
of the scene was
stunning. The boy,
man, and swan on
a small beach were
seemingly oblivious
to one another. A
single shot was taken
just as the boy flung
his rocks into the lake.

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Mike Gannon, Nashville, TN, Late Night Dinner I pulled

into a Wendys on the way home.When I looked in the
steamed-up window, I knew I had to get the shot.
Kato Kinder,
Nashville, TN,
Lost and Forgotten
This photograph was
taken while I was
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Santa Cruz Mountains,
listening to a coyote
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of light and shadow
as the afternoon sun
was
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to
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Ribbons of Clay
by Wendy Wilson | Photography by Rob Lindsay
oy Overcast started making pottery because he thought it

looked easy. An art student at MTSU, he happened upon
other art students in a pottery studio and told himself it would
be a piece of cake.
I didnt realize how challenging and frustrating it is, he recalls.
But Overcast is not one to walk away from a challenge. He stuck
with it, and now has been at it for forty-four years.
Overcast, who has an exhibit this month at Belle Meade
Plantation, has enjoyed an unusually successful career
combining his artistic talents with business savvy. A Shelbyville
native, he was the son of an auto mechanic and housewife who
taught him the value of hard work and being smart with money.
Years ago, he owned a production studio at 12th Avenue and
Linden, where he had more than a dozen people working for
him and made clay works for Cracker Barrel, Bloomingdales,
and Opryland Hotel.
Overcast also has been a regular at the spring Tennessee
Association of Craft Artists Fair at Centennial Park since
it started in 1972, never missing a single year. He makes it a
point to be up and walking around his tent talking to potential
customers as they survey his work.
Pottery ready for glazing
He has repeat customers, often famous ones, that make it a

tradition to visit him every fair, says Teri Alea, executive director
of the Tennessee Association of Craft Artists (TACA). He is fun to
have around and has a lot of knowledge and experience.
Today he works alone in a studio at his Brentwood home, which he
has shared for twenty-eight years with his partner Ralph Dipalma.
Nestled in a woodsy area, the home is filled with Overcasts artwork
as well as that of other potters and also basket weavers. He has two
cats, Guapo and Leiko, and credits Leiko with helping him develop
his signature lopsided coffee mugs. One day, Leiko knocked over a
tray of unfinished mugs and instead of considering them ruined,
Overcast liked the effect. He started making some of his mugs that
way on purpose.
His coffee mugs will be in the Belle Meade exhibit, as well as honey
jars, platters, pots, and jugs and winged vases inspired by the
sculpture Winged Victory at the Louvre.
Besides working in his home studio, Overcast gives demonstrations
for children at historic sites and parks and teaches a class at The
Clay Lady's Studio. The students are adults with varying skill
levels looking to unwind from stressful jobs. Like he once did,
they wrestle with throwing on the wheel, centering and pulling up
the clay. But once thats accomplished, Overcast says, they can be
flexible, have fun, and even turn mistakes into design elements.
You can create and do anything with it, he says.
An opening reception for Roy Overcast will be held Thursday,
October 3, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Art Gallery at Belle
Meade Plantation in the visitor center gift shop. The exhibit
runs October 3 through October 31. The gift shop is open
Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is no fee to visit the gift shop. Belle
Meade Plantation is located at 5025 Harding Pike, Nashville
37205. For more information visit www.royovercast.com
and www.bellemeadeplantation.com.
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The Interview
Mayor Karl Dean Sits Down
with Bill Ivey to Talk About
Art, Growth, and Gridlock
Ivey: Lets start with your school years. Was there any kind
of arts scene?
Dean: When I was in high school, they offered art history. But
it wasnt certainly a focus of the city. There wasnt a large arts

community in Gardner, Massachusetts. My main cultural reference
was always the library. It was in an old house, which was converted
into the public library. It was a house where encyclopedias would be
in an old dining room. It was a beautiful place; I spent a lot of time
there. I always felt I got a good education when I was in Gardner.
Ivey: You went to college in New York, at Columbiaa
beautiful campus on the Upper West Side . . .
Dean: It was a huge change going from a city of 17,000 to a city
of 8 million. And Columbia is right in the city. So obviously you

need to take advantage of the different cultural institutions. I
did. I went to Lincoln Center. I would go to plays. You could get
standing-room tickets back thenbefore Broadway prices really
took offfor around ten dollars.

I went to museums frequently; Columbia really encouraged it.

Columbia is one of the holdouts that have a whole system based
upon humanities. You have a literature requirement, which is a
year. You have a semester of art humanities, a semester of music
humanities. In Central Park, I loved the sculptures and statues of
famous people. I still love walking through Central Park.
Ivey: That whole experience with Columbia, obviously,
was of value to you. How do you feel about forcing young
people today to be more engaged in arts and humanities?
Do you think that were drifting in the wrong direction with
STEM and test scores?
Dean: Its a complicated issue. I certainly think its important for
kids to have a strong basic education, and I think STEM is part of
that. But I dont regard the arts as an educational frill. I dont know
how a person could be well rounded and achieve all that they can
achieve unless theyre exposed to the arts. I dont think a person
has to necessarily be making art, but that opportunity needs to be
available.
Youve got to understand the role of art in

history and in literature, or you just have huge
blanks. And for me, its important that our
schools offer both visual arts and music.
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If we dont do that, and if we dont continue to make that part of

education, were going to be a far less rich society than we are.
Ivey: On your watch, Nashville has really emerged as a
national, maybe even an international, creative center.
Dean: One of the things that really struck me when I was running
for mayor was that the music industry is so important to our city;
it means so much to us in so many different ways. Obviously, its
huge in creating jobs and creating wealth and expanding our tax
base. But it really makes our city unique. Richard Florida has
written about the creative class, and
I really think cities that are going to do

very well over the next couple of decades are
going to be cities that attract creative people,
because they bring all the energy, and they
bring the ideas.
The other thing I think has been a big success is our initiative for
affordable housing for artists. The Ryman Lofts, which is sixty
units, is for all types of artists. There are visual artists there;
there are quilt-makers; there are obviously lots of musicians and
songwriters. Id like to live there.
Ivey: Just to follow up, where do you think we are in terms
of the standing of arts in elementary and secondary
education? Do you think its a question of playing
defense against the push toward sort of core disciplines
and standardized testing? I mean, or is it advancing?
Dean: I think its defense. There are two dangerous convergences
going on right now. Weve gone through this recession, and local
government is obviously still feeling it. Local governments, when
they make decisions about what they cut in school, tend to look at
arts as one of the first things to go. Then you have this increased
interest in core education, STEM, the importance of testing, and
it could be seen by advocates of testing that arts only take time
away from teaching core subjects.
One of the things that the music industry wanted to do was to
give back to the city, and their focus was education, so we created
this program Music Makes Us. I think because of Music Makes
Us, Nashville stands out. Were being recognized as a city that is
actually investing more in music education; were not pulling back.
Over a period of time, we will have innovative music education
programs at all levels of public education and an opportunity
for any student who wants to play an instrument, and to pursue
music, and also to have that appreciation factor, where you get
that well-rounded student. And I think thats really one of the
most important things that weve done.
Ivey: What do you think about using your influence, or even
public policy, to get arts more engaged in completely
different sectors of the economy or of the community?
...If youre not busy being born, youre

busy dying. And Nashville is always
busy being born; were rethinking
and doing things differently, and art
is just a huge, huge part of that.
Folks are coming to Nashville and their capital is their ability to

create a song, their ability to perform a song, to produce a song,
to do lighting, to manage a tour. Any mayor who thinks about
how cities evolve would die to have that presence and influx of
creative peopleits just a huge asset.
For example, transportation. Could the Amp (bus rapid

transit) have the arts all over it?
Dean: I certainly would envision the Amp stations having public
art. Just as weve done with our bike racks, we have put a lot into
having artistic bus stops. I try to ride the bus a few times a week
every week, and its a good time to appreciate art or to appreciate
things around you or to look at things in a different way.
Ivey: How do you feel about urban architecture? You have
the new convention center that turned out (something
of a surprise to me) as a pretty aggressive piece of
architecture.
Dean: I was obviously involved in the very beginning. One of
the fears everyone has about a building that big in a city is that
it becomes a box, or that it kills pedestrian interest in walking
around it, or its just not friendly. And that was on our minds at
the very beginning. My goal was to have something that did not
appear to be a box, or what you see a lota nice front to it and
then three sides are just walls. We spent a lot of money on art for
that building; it certainly would not be nearly as attractive inside
if you had all those barren walls and you didnt have the variety
of thought-provoking art pieces. People who see it see a unique
building and a special building, and I think that helps sell the
building to conventions.
Ivey: One of the things that come up from time to time

would be a zoning issue that might make it hard to come
up with an adaptive use, to put something of a gallery
or performing arts organization into something that was
originally built for another purpose.
Im no expert on this, but there are pop-up

store fronts and galleries and things, and
obviously there are certain safety standards
that have to be met by any building that
the publics involved with, but we should
be creatively thinking of ways to make it
possible to use those buildings but also then
to encourage the creation of art communities.
For the visual arts in particular, anybody starting off (there may
be some rare exceptions) is not going to be coming in with a lot of
money. I mean, theres not going to be a huge capital investment,
and I would hope that the city would do what we can to make
it work. And then, if it does work, you get this energy, and
somebody else comes in and youre saving neighborhoods; youre
saving buildings; youre making the city more appealing.
Ivey: Lets talk a little bit about the major cultural

institutions. Youve got the Country Music Hall of Fame,
Cheekwood, the Frist Center, Nashville Symphony, Ballet,
Opera, and so on. What do you think they owe the city?

Bill Ivey is director of the

Vanderbilt University US-China
Center for Education and
Culture and is a principal in
Global Cultural Strategies, a
policy consortium.
What should they be bringing to that total mix of the arts

in Nashville?
Dean: I think they all do an outstanding job in providing
opportunities for Nashvillians and visitors to our city to

experience all different forms of really great art. These institutions
are true partners in the community, especially in a way that is
special to meproviding educational opportunities for children
and youth. Youll often see the Country Music Hall of Fame and
Museum, the Frist, and our other great cultural institutions
with educational booths at community events. The Symphony
does terrific programming where they bring in instruments
for students to try out. Just like a good corporate citizen whos
involved in the city, they are involved in furthering arts and
culture in Nashville and enriching the lives of our citizens. They do
it for fundraising and to promote memberships, but they also do it
because being engaged in the community is the right thing to do.
Ivey: And what about the opposite? What do you think the
city owes them? Is there some special kind of responsibility
to our six or seven big institutions?
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Dean: Right. At various times the city has been involved with
different arts projects. Mayor Bredesen was clearly very involved

with the Frist; he was very involved with the Hall of Fame project.
Mayor Purcell was involved in the land for the Symphony. Those
are all things that, when the city can be supportive and find ways
within its financial constraints, have a lot of appeal to me, because
I think they offer a lot for the city. The Arts Commission has its
own formulas as to how they disperse grants, and theyre not going
to be in the position to be the major benefactor of any one of those
institutions.
But I want to be supportive as I can. Just think about it, we just
went through this whole thing with the Symphony.
Losing the Symphony would have been a really

big deal. It would have been a real black eye for
the city. It would have been a bad thing, and so
I take that pretty seriously.
Ivey: Lets talk a little bit about the TV show Nashville. You
have to be one of the people on the very front lines of how
the world perceives Nashville through that TV lens.
Dean: I always tell them that my life is nowhere near as
interesting as the mayors life on that show . . . But from my
perspective, number one, its an important thing for Nashville
in terms of the music industry because of the attention it brings,
but also to Nashvilles role, which I think will increase in time,
as a center for film and for production, which I think also has a
positive effect on the arts community. Nashville is seen each week
by some 7 or 8 million people, in the United States, and then its
seen in 15 countries. In terms of putting our city out there as a
place to visit, I could never even dream of doing a budget where
you could pay for that. And the city looks great on the show.
Nashvilles a great city to begin with, but its especially attractive
in the helicopter shots at the beginning and the various places
around town. It also reflects a bit of the diversity of the music
scene here now. The Avery character is a rocker, and Nashville has
in reality become a very strong rock community with the Kings of
Leon and Jack White and the Black Keys, and then you have the
Symphony, and you have the country music and everything else.
Its a good thing for the city; I mean, its a good thing for the city.
Ivey: Youll be known probably as a transportation and
education mayor. What are some of the other things that
you want as part of your legacy?
Dean: The thing I care about the most is education. Its the
hardest issue, and its the hardest one to have an impact on, so
thats whats most important to me.
If I had to pick a favorite thing (whatever Im working on generally
is what I get obsessed with), I really love the program weve done
with the libraries and the schools, called Limitless Libraries, where
weve opened up all the public library resources to our schools.
We recently opened a new, transformed school library at Wright
Middle School, which is just a beautiful thing. I think the library
should be the coolest building in the school. To me, its everything,
because no matter whether youre doing arts or whether you want
to be a mathematician or youre going to be a political scientist, its

where you go to dream that anythings possible; all the good stuff
is all around youthe books. That means a lot to me.
Im pretty passionate about transportation. If we dont get transit
right as a city, if we dont move forward, I think we get left behind.
The cities that were most compared to are clearly Charlotte and
Austin, and were literally a decade behind them when it comes
to transit. All the studies show that in five years the commute on
West End will essentially double. Thats just leaving everything
alone and saying were not going to change anything. The Amp
will make that drive in 17 minutes.
I perceive that people are nervous about change, but this is one
of those things where there is no status quo to preserve because
if we do nothing, there will be gridlock. Traffic will get worse and
worse and worse. Its not going to be frozen in time. This citys
growing; its going to continue to grow, and so the choice is do
we recognize that we have to do something and then start taking
affirmative steps to protect our future or not?
I love cities, and I think cities will ultimately

work only if people can get around and be
connected to each other. Transit is vitally
important for that.
Ivey: In your career in public service, have you always had

an interest in art as something that is meaningful or did it
click in at some point?
Dean: I think its always been meaningful. When I go to a city,
I almost always go to the museum. When I was writing my little

bit [for Nashville Arts Magazine] about my favorite painting (that
I own, not in the world), it got me thinking about my relationship
to art. Here in my office, Ive got Thomas Moore, Abe Lincoln,
Neil Young, and then I have one Carl Yastrzemski. [He gestures
to paintings and framed photographs.] My relationship to art is
almost more motivated by my interest in history and in literature.
I dont know if I have a great visual sense. I think when I react to a
piece, its more what it makes me think about or what it means in
the context of other things.
Ivey: Youre comfortable having Nashville as a creative
center and as an arts city being part of your legacy?
Dean: Definitely. I dont think I deserve that, but what a great
thing to even have your name mentioned in the same sentence

with arts and creativity. Ive had the good fortune of being mayor
during a lot of positive things that have happened in Nashville.
Ive also had the opportunity to serve when we had the deepest
recession since the Depression and the biggest flood since who
knows when, so there have been real restraints on what you can do
fiscally. I would like to do more. There are lots of institutions doing
really creative things that I think itd be great for us to support
if we could. Any great city has got to embrace arts and creativity;
if it doesnt, it wont be great. Im a big believer in the Bob Dylan
line that if youre not busy being born, youre busy dying. And
Nashville is always busy being born; were rethinking and doing
things differently, and art is just a huge, huge part of that.
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A 25-Year Celebration of Books

by Tim Henderson, Executive Director of Humanities Tennessee | Photography: courtesy of Humanities Tennessee
s the leaves begin to change colors and the summer

heat begins to wane, large striped tents and crates of
hot-off-the-press novels will overtake Legislative Plaza for
the Southern Festival of Books, a fixture of fall in the South.
For three days each October, more than 250 of the nations top
authors annually flock to the Athens of the South to lead book
talks, sign their latest bestsellers, and mingle among the more
than 20,000 book lovers in attendance. This years event marks
the monumental 25th anniversary year of the festival on October
1113 at Legislative Plaza and the Nashville Public Library.
The annual festival dates back to 1989 and has since fondly been
coined A Celebration of the Written Word. It is among the oldest
of literary festivals in existence and one of the most influential,
inspiring the creation of similar events across the nation. Each
year, the festival continues to grow, and this one is no exception.
This years exciting lineup of authors includes notables such as
Albert Gore, Bill Bryson, Chuck Palahniuk, and Rick Riordan, as

well as Southern favorites such as Ron Rash, Sena Jeter Naslund,
and Clyde Edgerton. As a nod to the festivals noteworthy
anniversary, seven authors that participated in the first Southern
Festival of Books in 1989 will return for the 2013 festival: Roy
Blount Jr., Allan Gurganus, Bobbie Ann Mason, Jill McCorkle,
Cathie Pelletier, Lee Smith, and Alana White.
While the rooms of Legislative Plaza and the Nashville Public Library
host book talks throughout the weekend with a record-breaking 312
authors and performers in attendance, the plaza itself will come to
life with exhibitor booths and happenings at the popular activity
stages. The Chapter 16 Stage will become a platform for Tennessee
writers, readers, and performers to share their works, while the
Caf Stage will reflect Music Citys claim to fame, featuring a stellar
lineup of popular musicians and local favorites.
As the love of reading is often born in the heart of a child, the
Southern Festival of Books pays special attention

to childrens activities throughout the weekend.
The Youth Stage highlights storytellers, musicians,
poets, songwriters, hands-on crafts, and classic
book characters to encourage reading, creating,
and sharing stories. Special features at this years
anniversary event include a visit from the Wimpy
Kid Bus that allows fans to view Diaries of a Wimpy
Kid trailers, grab some Wimpy Kid goodies, and
take photos with the colorful cast of characters
depicted on the bus. There will also be a birthday
party for another classic turning 25 this year
Waldo, of Wheres Waldo fame. The next scene to
be on the lookout for Waldo will be on Legislative
Plaza as the pages from this popular series come
to life in Nashville and festival attendees have
the chance to participate in a Wheres Waldo
scavenger hunt. Visits from acclaimed childrens
book authors will be scheduled throughout the
festival, including Kevin Henkes who plans to
bring his well-known friend Lilly (and her purple
plastic purse).
The weekend is guaranteed to be a hit among
readers of all ages, celebrating the written word and
bringing the pages of the nations best works to life
right here in Nashville. Its an event 25 years in the
making that has kept the love of literature alive in
our community and introduced generations of new
readers to the joy of reading. In honor of all the
nights youve stayed up late flipping pages to see
what happens next, Humanities Tennessee invites
you to the 25th annual Southern Festival of Books
for the next chapter in a series of great festivals.
Festival hours are Friday, October 11, noon
until 6 p.m.; Saturday, October 12, 9 a.m. to
6 p.m.; and Sunday, October 13, noon until
5 p.m. www.humanitiestennessee.org.

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The Cumberland
Society of Painters
Juried Exhibition
October 3 November 1 at Richland Fine Art
by Sally Schloss
Photograph: Jerry Atnip
n a recent interview on NPR, the figurative artist Eric Fischl, now 59,
disclosed his frustration about what had been taught to him in college
abstract art and modernism, to the exclusion of everything else. He said he
never felt completely satisfied by it. When he discovered representational art he

found a conduit for expressing the deepest emotional parts of himself, and even
though it was out of fashion, he began his lifelong career committed to this form
of self-expression. Today his paintings sell for millions.
Anne Blair Brown, Before the Rush, 2013, Oil on canvas, 16" x 20
Anne Blair Brown, Show Chair
The Cumberland Society of Painters was formed eighteen years ago

with the mission of promoting their passion for traditional painting
through teaching. The eight members of the society can easily identify
with Fischls experience and ardor, having faced similar journeys;
rejecting art teaching practices of the 1960s and 70s and embracing
traditional art in all its manifestations: plein-air, figurative, cityscape,
landscape, seascape, and still life. They discovered each other through
their shared respect and love for such historic painters as John Singer
Sargent, Sorolla, and Anders Zorn, to name but a few. In a collegial
way, they have been learning from and inspiring each other and
practicing what they preach.
We traveled and painted together, said Paula Frisbee. We did
workshops together. We were all former students of Dawn Whitelaw
and had become friends. Driving back from a trip together, we had
the idea that if we formed a society, we could promote our ideas.
Roger Dale Brown, Rock Walls and Creek, 2013, Oil on canvas, 24" x 30"
Member artist Roger Dale Brown expresses it this way: Art is

a process, and we all continue to study and work to improve.
Our members are all students of art and want to pass along the
information we have to the next generation of painters.
In her artists statement, Anne Blair Brown uses the word intimacy
to portray the connection she feels in the process of making art.
Painting from life creates an intimacy with the subject that I just
cant get from a photograph.
Paula Frisbee is trying to catch the light as well as document what
she sees before it disappears from the world.
When I see light falling against a womans face, says Michael Shane
Neal, shadows of lavender and blue cast by a rose bush in the
garden, or a twinkle in the eye of an elderly man that gives insight
into his youth of long ago, I am driven to interpret the world around
me in paint.
Dawn Whitelaw, Brief Encounter, 2013, Oil on canvas, 16" x 20"
On October 3 through November 3, the Cumberland Society of

Painters will hold their first juried exhibition at Richland Fine Art
Kevin Menck, Trout Stream, 2013, Oil on canvas, 12" x 24"

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Pam Padgett, Boothbathed, 2013, Oil on canvas, 11 x 14
in Green Hills, featuring twenty-two artists from across the country. The society
members will also have their own work on display. The nationally known, Californiabased artist Peggi Kroll-Roberts is the exhibit judge. Her work will also be shown.
It will be a feast of talented, highly skilled painters who represent the breadth of
traditional art excellence in one major exhibit.
We talked about wanting to showcase traditional artists for a long time, said Dawn
Whitelaw. We want to shift the perception about the Southeast, and Nashville in
particular, to our being a serious, major contributor to the national art scene. It is
our hope that we can make this an annual tradition.
Coming full circle, Pam Padgett speaks to what she sees as a growing desire in people
to learn to paint. The academy is still neglecting to teach people the disciplines of
drawing, creating perspective, and atmospherethe fundamental rules of line and
composition. If you want to break the rules later on, then at least know the rules. The
best thing we can do to advance traditional art is to teach it. Exhibits like the one
we are mounting in October help educate people. When they see the range of what is
being done, what can be done, and when they emotionally connect, they get it. And
its fun. Painting is hard fun. If all the electricity were to go out tomorrow, the artists
wouldnt complain. It would just give us an excuse to get out in the world and paint.
The Cumberland Society Juried Exhibition 2013 is open October 3
to November 1 at Richland Fine Art. For more information visit www.
cumberlandsocietyofpainters.org and www.richlandfineart.com.
Paula Frizbe, Barrett Park, 2013, Oil on canvas, 14 x 11
music
by Holly Gleason | Photography by Buddy Jackson
arah Jarosz, 22, has never heard Miley Cyrus nor

listened to Blurred Lines, Robin Thickes controversyladen song that was named
Song of the Summer 2013.
banjo explains. [Studying poetry] set me free. When I came back

to songs, I was in a freer place. I didnt feel that pressure to fit into
a structure.
Her previous records2008s
Song In Her Head and 2011s
Follow Me Downwere etched
interiorscopes that felt like a
dusky alto cross of Shawn Colvin
and Alison Krauss. With Bones,
Jaroszs acoustica has found
an integration that provides a
heavier kind of weightlessness,
and her voice has grown richer,
deeper in places, brighter in
others.
With her wide-open face, equal

parts Modigliani Madonna and
low-light Vermeer, shes very
serene about this fact.
Having just completed Build Me
Up From Bones, her third album,
and her degree at the New
England Conservatory, Jarosz
attention has been on music
just not the pop culture zeitgeist.
Music, not sensationalism,
is what matters to the young
woman who signed a record
deal at 16, was nominated for
a Best Country Instrumental
Grammy for Mansinneedof
a year laterand has New York
Times economic columnist Paul
Krugman writing her mash
notes in lieu of his usual Friday
morning op-ed piece.
Recording on her school breaks

during the final semester of NEC,
Jarosz and myriad-Grammywinner Gary Paczosa worked
from a trio template rather than
stacking layers of overdubs.
Space became a full-blown
presence in the arrangements.
Im not on a crusade to bring

back art for my age group, she
offers. But Ive been doing
this music and following music
through my lifeand trying to
push beyond what I know.
That push is what balanced
her recording career with the
prestigious NEC, where she
absorbed the classical structure
of Ravel, Stravinsky, and
Debussy, as well as intense
studies
of
contemporary
American poets Charles Olson,
Adrienne Rich, Gertrude Stein,
and Ann Marie Waldrop.
Sarah Jarosz
Build Me Up
From Bones
It can be felt. Her own work,

especially Rearrange The Art, Over The Edge, and Anything
Else, more than hold their ground with a plucked cello and
voice rendition of Bob Dylans Simple Twist of Fate and Joanna
Newsoms staccato wow The Book of Right-On.
Poetry is a completely different process than [writing] lyrics, the

woman whos proficient on mandolin, guitar, and clawhammer
We went in with a real vision.

Including the trio I play with was
a big thing sonically; that energy
comes through. There were also
a lot of give and take moments
where I play something, then
[violinist] Alex [Hargreaves]
will play something from the
energy . . . or [cellist] Nathaniel
[Smith] will.
As for her voice, once so

shimmeringly
haunted
on
Radioheads
The
Tourist
recorded with the Punch
Brothers, that deepening has
a sultriness that transfixes.
A voice can change a lot in
four years. I took private voice
lessons at NEC with Dominique
Eade, studying technique and the different ways I can use my
instrument. And in a way, Gary, a voice teacher in the studio, hes
always pushing me to breathe in certain ways.
Jarosz, who balances her love of Wilco and the Decembrists with
her parents love of Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, and Bob Dylan, is
subtly weaving the jazz she picked up at NECOrnette Coleman,
Billie Holiday, and Abbey Lincolninto her

evocations and explorations of what melody
can carry.
Blazing a progressive musical future with
strong roots, she recognizes shes lucky to
have a label that both supported her desire to
get her degree and allowed her to find her way
musically.
When I started, I had the freedom to be the
artist [I wanted to be] and follow that vision.
I normally say [its] Americana, or I can say
its folk or acoustic. I dont think it fits in
bluegrass, when people try to put that tag on
it . . . And its evolving.
Thats what I want to do: to transform
myself while still being me, pushing the
boundaries every time and getting out of my
comfort zone. In some ways, texturally and
sonically, Ive never recorded anything this
sparse.
That evolution, which has attracted guests
ranging from co-writers Darrell Scott and
Jedd Hughes to Dan Dugmore and Crooked
Steels Aoife ODonovan, will find the Austin,
Texas-born songwriter able to truly tour for
the first time. Moving to New Yorks Upper
West Side, her adventure continues.
My audience has been middle-aged NPR
people, she confesses. In the last year, its
been getting younger. There are musicians in
my scene and musicians from other scenes,
and its so energizing. I feel like I can be
anything; getting out of my comfort zone.
She pauses. Ive done the four years, gotten
the bachelor of music degree. This is real. Its
my life now. Ive graduated, turned 22, and
come to Nashville to finish this CD. Now it
begins . . .
"Build Me Up From Bones" on Sugar Hill
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photography
positive negative space
chip Cooper
by Daniel Tidwell
A luminous full moon balances on the tip of a spire . . . a massive

sphere is poised atop a triangle . . . twin spires keep watch at sunset,
while cascading steps and scalloped roof lines laze in the stark
midday sun. These bold visual ruminations on architectural
planes are part of Chip Coopers evocative new series of work
An Architectural Soliloquy on view at The Arts Company in
Nashville from October 5 through November 15, 2013.
Cooper is perhaps best known as a color photographer.
For years, through a series of photographic essays, he has
documented the landscape, architecture, and people of
the Southern United States. Most of my career has been
devoted to photographing a sense of place, says Cooper.
Through the numerous shows and photography books
I have done, I have tried to define the South . . . using
landscapes, details, and abstracts, as well as people,
to help tell the story.
In recent years, Coopers focus has shifted from
the Southern landscape to the streets of Cuba. In
2012 he published Old Havana: La Habana Vieja
in collaboration with Cuban photographer
Nestor Marti. His Cuban photos are richly
saturated with color, reveling in the vibrant
atmosphere and street life of Havana.
Cooper began working with Marti in
2008, walking the streets and capturing
the essence of old Havana in what Philip
D. Beidler describes in the book as a
dance of the photographers. Working
together, working separately . . . one
finding a shot, the other facing
elsewhere, both finding a subject
simultaneously, yet working
completely different angles,
writes Beidler. Coopers newest
project will focus on Cuban
peasants, enabling him to
shoot both landscape and
street, and I could not be more
excited.
The current show of black-and-white architectural photography had

its genesis in a series of conversations with Arts Company owner
and curator Anne Brown. Brown and Cooper took a wide-ranging
look at the scope of his work, which includes commercial work, book
projects, and fine art photography. Much to Coopers surprise the
works that kept coming to the fore were the black-and-white images
in his portfoliospecifically photos from a commercial shoot at a
vacation community on the Florida coast called Alys.
For Cooper, the new series of photos has been a throwback to his
photographic rootsin particular to the work of Paul Strand and
Walker Evans, whose works Cooper cites as major influences. In
many ways color photography can be more forgiving than the
more exacting medium of black and white, where the tonality and
richness of color have been stripped away.
Cooper has been amazed at the range of color that can be achieved
though a black-and-white pallet. It has been exciting for me to
not use color as the primary item to sustain an image but to rely
upon light, contrasts, shapes, and lines, he says. The negative and
positive space can now become the essence within the image, a very
quiet feeling letting shapes and textures dominate the image.
Its difficult to look at contemporary black-and white-photography
without thinking of some of the giants in the field such as Alfred
Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Robert Frank, or Ansel Adams. The
photographs that comprise Coopers Architectural Soliloquy have
been stripped of the humanistic visions of photographers like these.
What one is left with is the pure formality of the composition

elegant, visually ravishing images from a manufactured reality.
Chip Cooper's exhibit An Architectural Soliloquy is on
exhibit at The Arts Company until November 15. For more
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The Rais ing of La zaras, 2006, Oil on Canvas, 102 x 78
Facing the Mob, 2006, Oil on Canvas, 60 x 48
Field Notes
A Local Look at Global Art
Jeff Hein
Classical to Contemporary
by Betsy Wills
spend an awful lot of time trolling the Internet searching for artists
to feature on my blog, Artstormer. The parade of still lifes, wacky recycled
sculptures, photographs, and abstract acrylics would make your head spin. I say
this to underline the jaw-dropping, heart-stopping reaction I had when I first
encountered the work of Jeffrey Hein.
There is no mistaking the fact that he is a modern-day master. His works are
anything but derivative, although he employs the most classical techniques.
His subjects are painted from life, meaning no photographs or modern-day
camera obscura devices are employed. Moreover, he has spent years studying
the skeletons and muscle tissues of the human body (think Leonardo here!).
Convenient Charity, 2011, Oil on canvas, 64 x 40
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.
Aside from his obvious skill, he injects each work with brilliant composition,
color, and nostalgia. Some of his work is religious in nature, while other pieces
are brightly adorned subjects that seem to harken back to the 70s. Many of his
subjects are dressed in outfits that appear to be both flammable and fashion
backward. Just thinking about them makes me want to do the Hustle.
After stalking him on the Internet, I finally tracked down his phone number in
Salt Lake City, Utah, where he runs a highly respected atelier. Jeffs commitment
to painting from life rather than photographs differentiates him from most other
artists but also limits the number of pieces he can produce each year, putting
him in the slow food category of visual arts. Fortunately I was able to get on his
waiting list and now, four years later, have a wonderful portrait of my daughter.
Consumed, 2010, Oil on canvas, 96 x 72
The Beamans, 2011, Oil on canvas, 64 x 52
artist bio
Jeffery Hein is primarily known for his photorealistic paintings, but he also draws,
sculpts, and makes films. He received his degree from the University of Utah and
continues to work in Salt Lake City. In 2007, he opened the Hein Academy of Art, a
small school modeled after the masters workshops of the Italian Renaissance. The
curriculum focuses on academic art training and building skills that enable young
artists to bring together creative ideas, good design, and solid craftsmanship.
Heins early work consisted mostly of portraits, but his latest series reveals his
interest in narrative painting and traditional themes from the history of art. He is
represented by Wendt Gallery and has exhibited across the globe: USArtists Show
in Philadelphia, Bridge Art Fair London, and the New York Armory Show. For more
information about Hein and his work visit www.jeffhein.com.
Death of Caroline Reeder, 2007, Oil on canvas, 50 x 56

Girl in Orange, 2010, Oil on canvas, 48 x 60

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Blair concert series 2013-2014
The Vanderbilt Choral Department presents a centenary tribute

to one of the 20th centurys most significant composers,
Benjamin Britten
This concert event takes place at West End United Methodist
Church, home of the largest pipe organ in Tennessee.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 29
West End United Methodist Church (2200 West End Ave.)
VanderBilt Symphonic choir, Blair chamBer choir,
Blair childrenS choruS & VanderBilt community choruS
Tucker Biddlecombe, conductor Polly Brecht, organist
All concerts at the Blair School of Music are free and open to the public unless
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a monthly guide to art education
State of the Arts

by Rebecca Berrios, Community Engagement Manager,
Metro Nashville Arts Commission
rtober Nashville is celebrating its third

anniversary and has already grown to be one
of the largest arts and culture celebrations in
the South. For the entire month of October artists,
businesses, organizations, art lovers, and patrons
come together with one goal in mind: to celebrate
and experience the richness and diversity that makes
Nashville a cultural mecca.
Last year over 350,000 Nashvillians participated in the festivities that
included nearly 1,000 arts and cultural events of every kind. Befitting
National Arts and Humanities Month as designated by Americans for the
Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, Artober Nashville allows
the creative sector to celebrate and collaborate.
Josh Rowe makes a portrait for Our Town
To further our interests in

engaging every Nashvillian
in the arts, this year Metro
Arts is offering an Art of
the Word workshop series
as a pilot program to
provide a neighborhoodfocused
arts-education
initiative.
Neighborhoodbased arts activities foster
a more inclusive and
accessible environment for
cultural experience and
participation and ultimately
a more vibrant environment
for the arts to flourish.
The Art of the Word workshops are free to the public and will be hosted at
the Southeast Branch Library. Professional artists will teach bookmaking,
creative writing, calligraphy, and printmaking techniques to teens and
adults. Students will be invited to display their work in a virtual gallery
exhibit that will be displayed on www.artsnashville.org.
The workshop series will end on October 17 with the new Our Town: A
Portrait of Nashville project. This public art project is also funded
by Metro Arts and features printmaker Bryce McCloud, who helps
participants draw and make a portrait via his mobile printmaking art cart
that he then transforms into an original letterpress print.
Workshops are free and open to the public, and supplies are included.
Pre-registration is required for calligraphy, spoken-word, and sketchbook
workshops. No previous experience is required.This series is made possible
by an Arts Education Community Learning grant from the Tennessee
Arts Commission and support from the Nashville Public Library.
For more details and to register visit www.artobernashville.com.
Singing with Many Voices

by Lisa Venegas
ducators know: Singing is not only a joy for children; it also

has many other benefits. Kelly Corcoran, Director of Chorus and
Associate Director of Orchestra for the Nashville Symphony, says, The
benefits of singing cannot be argued. We know that singing in a chorus, no
matter your age, has a positive impact on health, offers up a community of
support and friendship, and opens our eyes and ears to different cultures,
times, and places. Choral singing for children in particular can bolster
confidence and change a young persons life!
Which is why, on August 13, Choral Arts Link (CAL) hosted more than
forty area educators and music-education advocates in downtown
Nashville to discuss the importance of enhancing and adding music
development programs. CAL, a not-for-profit organization created by
local, retired music educator Margaret Campbelle-Holman, offers Middle
Tennessee students the opportunity to develop artistic and leadership
skills through choral training and provides teachers and music-education
supporters with the knowledge and professional network necessary to
build upon present music programs in Davidson County public schools.
To learn more about CAL and its programs, please visit www.
choralartslink.org.
On October 8, Stephanie Pruitt, amazing poet and the founder of

www.NoStarvingArtist.net, will present Write Your World. In this
workshop teens will read, listen to, write, and perform poems and spokenword art.
On October 10, artist and art educator Lesley Patterson-Marx will teach
teens how to make their own sketchbooks using everyday materials such
as duct tape.
The Art of Chinese Calligraphy will be offered to adults on October 15
by Jen-Jen Lin, founder and director of the Chinese Arts Alliance of
Nashville.
Laurie Schell, Walter Bitner and Marty Monson at Choral Arts Link reception
Nashville School of the Arts:

Passionate Expression
by DeeGee Lester | Photography by Tiffani Bing
elevision has given us a skewed image of schools for the

arts as places of high-energy young people with egos on
steroids, trampling one another on the road to stardom.
The reality is different, says Oceana Sheehan, Assistant Principal
for Nashville School of the Arts.
I dont see a lot of competitive behavior being played out here,
Sheehan says. Were building a community in the classroom
in which students develop as individuals as well as a part of the
whole. Our teachers do a great job of taking students who come to
us from different placesthe thirty-three Metro middle schools,
as well as private and home-school learning environmentsand
help them to create a cohesive unit that can collaborate, problemsolve, and build a performance.
John Pagonis, Advanced Piano
Executive
Principal
Dr.
Gregory Stewart elaborates.
Professional ability with
regard to quality instructional
expertise abounds at NSA.
The education professionals
employed here are masters
at developing and utilizing
extrinsic motivators towards
an intrinsic desire for student
achievement. Our philosophy
is an overshadowing belief
that the integration of
artistic passion in addition to
academic development affords
undeniable comprehension
and mastery throughout every
area of study.
Savannah Vawter, Advanced Ballet
performed onstage with the world-famous Chieftains. From the

Battle of the Bands and talent shows to competitive classes such
as the Swing Band, the Pops Ensemble, and a new capstone dance
piece in which students audition and create their own dance
company and choreography, the arts repeatedly provide a more
enriched educational experience.
Beyond the immediate educational value, NSA teachers and
students see the long-term benefits for Nashville, with the
school providing a powerful springboard for growing arts in the
community. Sheehan easily expresses the greatest value of the
arts: It connects with the heart.
For more information, visit www.nsahs.mnps.org.
NSA students are selected through a rigorous audition process.

That process is competitive. For the current academic year 850
students auditioned for 180 slots. Each of the 690 NSA students is
passionate about their artacting, dance, music, and visual arts
and each is focused on exploring ways to express and communicate
that passion. Some will become professionals; others will teach,
while others will apply their creativity and skills for innovation to
business, technology, and other fields.
These students must meet the curriculum standards expected of
all MNPS high school students. And then they must go beyond what
is expected. With eighty performances each year, it is not unusual
for students to rehearse for hours after the close of the school
day. Such devotion to their craft requires students to overcome a
variety of challenges including transportation to/from rehearsals,
the need for additional performance venues, and the need for
greater access to state-of-the-art technologies.
Still, NSA students can wow us. Last year, NSA Madrigal Singers

Jennifer Halteman, AP Studio Art
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Teacher Leaves Lasting

Impression on Wariner
by Rebecca Pierce
ost people know that country

music singer and songwriter
Steve Wariner has fourteen
number-one hits and has won
numerous awards for his music
and humanitarian efforts. What
most dont know is that he studied art
extensively in high school, and, before
he became Dottie Wests bass player, he
had plans to further his art instruction
at Ball State University.
This month the country music favorite
will be a part of three music-oriented Steve Wariner
exhibits at the Tennessee State Museum. Wariners Watercolors:
Paintings by Steve Wariner will showcase his favorite paintings.
Growing up in an artistic family gave Wariner an early start in expressing
his creativity, but it was his high school art teacher, Gordon Morrison,
who took a chance on him and encouraged him to pursue art. It is so
very important for teachers to really encourage creativity in students. I
cant imagine not having Gordon in my life. My freshman year, he saw
something in me and suggested I change my study hall so I could be in
his class for two periods, which I did for four years. His class was one I
couldnt wait to get to. He ended up really trusting me too. Sometimes he
would give me the keys to his car and tell me to go up to Potters Bridge,
one of those old covered bridges, and paint, Wariner explained.
Ive never done a proper arts show, so this is going to be great. I would
give anything if Mr. Morrison was still around to come to my show.
In September, Wariner released his newest album It Aint All Bad. It isnt
great grammar, but it is great music, he says.
Wariners Watercolors: Paintings by Steve Wariner will be on view
October 11 through December 29 at the Tennessee State Museum.
For information visit the museums website at www.tnmuseum.org.
Churchwell's Monday Mix:

Learning is FUN!
by DeeGee Lester | Photography by Tiffani Bing
an you imagine the impact on your own educational experience

if museum professionals had visited your school every week,
bringing with them all sorts of interesting objects to explore and
sharing their expertise and enthusiasm? Thats the weekly experience
of students at Robert Churchwell Elementary Museum Magnet through
an innovative program called Monday Mix. Moving beyond the confines of
traditional education, second-year principal Jahi Rohrer points out that
students are exposed to myriad learning experiences that enrich the core
curriculum, broaden their horizons, and beckon for a more critical and
creative eye.
Educators and curators from
organizations as varied in scope
as Fort Negley, Belle Meade
Plantation, the Parthenon, and Mr.
Bond the Science Man converge
on the school for two hours each
Monday to interact with eager
young minds. Its a noisy invasion
of animals, antique toys, and art
for hands-on exploration amid the
oohs and aahs and occasional
whats that? And its an early
introduction to the rich variety of resources available to them as they
continue through Metro schools. The program enriches children and fulfills a
major goal of teachers.
Every teacher wants to send students forward with a love for learning,
problem solving skills, and a motivating fascination for the world,
says science teacher Anna Handy. At Robert Churchwell, we have the
opportunity to actually show our kids that learning happens in varied
settings, in varied ways, and that the world, and specifically Nashville, is
an intriguing place. The Monday Mix gives our students an opportunity to
interact with artifacts, demonstrations, animals and more from inspiring
organizations and adults in the Nashville community. Most importantly,
Rohrer points out, children learn that Learning Is Fun!
Moore's Barn, Pen and ink, watercolor, 13 5/8 x 19
For more information, visit www.mnps.org/Page52689.aspx.
by Wendy Wilson
tudents from across

Middle
Tennessee
will get a taste of Latin
American dance this
month when New Yorks
Ballet Hispanico comes
to TPAC. The group will
perform October 23, 24,
and 25 for school students
in Metro and neighboring
districts as part of the
TPAC Education season.
The annual series is
designed to make students
more curious about the
theatrical arts and see
how performances relate
to what theyre learning in
social studies, literature, and other classes.
Photo: Christopher Duggan
Founded in 1970, Ballet Hispanico is a Manhattan-based dance

organization that runs a dance school as well as an extensive
outreach program that sends dancers across the globe to
showcase their talents and teach others about diverse Latino
dance traditions. Choreographers represent the styles of a
variety of countries, including Mexico, Spain, Brazil, Argentina,
and Venezuela among others.
The hour-and-fifteen-minute performance at TPAC will feature
a fusion of classical, Latin, and contemporary dance. Its not
traditional ballet at all, says Eduardo Vilaro, artistic director for
Ballet Hispanico and a native of Cuba. Its a whole new experience.
After the performance, students will have a chance to ask the
dancers questions. Vilaro says he loves to engage with students,
who often are overwhelmed by the athletic ability of the dancers
Photo: paula lobo
and the costumes.

More than anything,
Vilaro
wants
his
audience to gain an
appreciation for the
multi-dimensionality
of dance, which contrasts
to the two-dimensional
world of television
and computer screens
that is generally more
familiar to students.
Ballet Hispanico
Roberta Ciuffo West,

TPACs executive vice
president for education and outreach, says students will be encouraged
to learn, as well as to celebrate with the dancers the vibrancy and
passion of their art.
Often a choreographer can capture and convey powerful
messagesincluding those of a specific culturejust as well as an
author or composer, she says.
For more information, visit www.tpac.org/education.
Cheekwood: Oh, Baby!

by DeeGee Lester
rts pure joy has

never been so
obvious. The play
group has never been
so playful. Cheekwoods
innovative Baby Art
Experience combines both
in a delightful program
for babies 12 to 24
months. Every artist
must thrill and every
neatnick must cringe at
the sight of a room full of smiling, laughing, diaper-clad babies covered
in paint.
No worries. These kids are dressed for mess, according to Kelly
McGinnis Terrell, Cheekwoods Youth and Community Coordinator.
All of the materials and supplies are non-toxic and washable for quick
cleanup. You can leave the mess at Cheekwood.
Photo: paula lobo
But this is more than just play in the paint. Each week offers a theme,
incorporating something new; offering babies a variety of experiences
with art. One week may offer printmaking with toy cars or stamps, while
the next may involve the color and sound of art made with water bottles
covered with bubble wrap that pops when rolled over paper.
The half-hour Thursday morning classes give babies a unique

opportunitya sensory, fine-motor art experience as well as
the opportunity to interact with other little friends, Terrell
says. Classes began in September and will continue through May 2014.
Although registration is encouraged, walk-ups are welcome.
To register, or for more information, visit www.cheekwood.org.
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Photograph: John Guider
Photo: Erika Goldring
artist profile
Galen Fott
An Animated Life
by Joe Pagetta
ts what you find, and what you do with what you find, that
is the art form, says Galen Fott, animator, puppeteer, actor
and many more thingsover an iced power tea in a Hillsboro Village

coffee shop on another schizophrenic Nashville summer day. Looking
for perfection is kind of silly.
Fott is discussing his latest project, Cosmo Swazzle and the Perfect Hat,
an interactive animated film he is developing with illustrator David
Vordtriede for tablet and touchscreen devices. In the film, Cosmo, a
young puppeteer, is preparing for the Ted Todman Talent Time show,
to be broadcast live on TV that night. Cosmo plans to debut his new
puppet, Gus. The puppet is perfect, says the
voiceover narration. He can dance! He can sing!
But Cosmo is certain it needs one more thing.
That one more thing is the perfect hat, and thats
where you, the interactive viewer, come in.
You have to make a choice for him, and depending
on which way you go, thats the way the story
goes, says Fott, describing the films multiple
possible endings. So perfect is what you make it.
Still from Cosmo Swazzle and the Perfect Hat

Theres a little of Fott in both Cosmo and Gus,

and a lot of Fott in the films framework. Born
and raised in Clarksville, Tennessee, Fott got a
BFA in Theatre Performance from the University
of Memphis in the 80s before acting in regional
theatres throughout the country. In Houston he
met the woman who is now his wife; they moved
to New York City in 1990, and Fott continued to
operating what were very high-tech puppet/costumes.

Like in Big Bird, my hand was held up over my head,
operating the bear's mouth and eyes, recalls Fott.
Inside the bear's nostril was a tiny camera, connected
to a monitor strapped to my chest. This was the ONLY
way to see; there were no peepholes in the costume or
anything! A great experience.
Still from I Want My Hat Back
perform in regional musical theatre. But New York has a way

of sending you down different streets, sometimes in search of
different hats, even if you dont know it.
I would walk by the Henson townhouse (aka the Muppet
Mansion on East 69th Street) and think wow, there it is. Ive
always wanted to do that. How do you do it?
Fott wrote a passionate letter to Henson Associates, got
in, and his puppetry career began. Jim Henson had passed
away by then, and legendary Muppeteer Frank Oz was not as
active in the Sesame Street day-to-day, but the gig was still a
It was also in Florida that Fotts old friend from New

York, Brian Maffitt, enlisted him to create training
materials for digital animation software. Fott got
the animation bug, and in the early aughts, moved
to Vancouver, British Columbia, to study computer
animation at VanArts. On his return to the states a year
later, he founded Bigfott Studios, where he has gone
on to create over a dozen animated films with Weston
Woods Studios, adapting some of Scholastics most popular childrens books.
Among them are Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend, Im Dirty, The Gym Teacher
from the Black Lagoon, and most recently, Jon Klassens I Want My Hat Back,
which had its world premiere last month during a retrospective of Bigfotts
films at the Belcourt Theatre.
In a career that has included wearing a number of hats, from actor and singer
to puppeteer and animator, Fott has had his share of highlights, including a
memorable time directing Joanne Woodwards voiceoverhes also worked
with Stanley Tucci, Sean Hayes, and Steve Buscemibut the biggest thrill
remains satisfying that compulsion to perform.
It threads all the way through to animation, he says. Its an impulse to
perform, to create characters, to create something other than yourself. Youre
somewhat limited as an actor by your voice, by your physical being. With a
puppet you can go a little beyond that. The puppet can look like anything, but
you still have your voice. With animation, the sky is the limit. If anyone can
draw it or model it on a computer, you can bring that character alive.
Galen Fotts video puppetry work was recently seen in the Wishing Chair
Productions/Country Music Hall of Fame production String City: Nashvilles
Tradition of Music and Puppetry at the Nashville Public Library. Learn more at
www.bigfott.com and www.grundoon.com.
Still from I Want My Hat Back
dream come true. He started like most young puppeteers do,

doing right hands of characters and background characters.
He worked on the 25th Anniversary Special on ABC, an
attraction for Sesame Place, and the "Don't Forget to Watch
the Movie" policy trailer for Sony and Loews theaters. He also
got to work on the "Lights, Camera, Imagination" 3D movie
shown at Sea World and Busch Gardens parks and got to
assist on workshops with Jane Henson (Jims widow), Kevin
Clash, and Rick Lyon.
A singing gig led Fott from New York to Orlando in the mid
90s, where he continued to do some work for Henson, most
notably in the personal appearances of two different bears:
one the title character from Bear in the Big Blue House, the
other the Coca-Cola Polar Bear, built and maintained for
Coke. As the latter, he toured Central and South America,

Still from Cosmo Swazzle and the Perfect Hat

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Photo: John Jackson
theatre
Kevin Hamrick, Jackie Johnson-Tidwell and Vali Forrister of Actors Bridge Studio
Hey, my father has a barn...
Not one but two

new theatre
spaces to play in!
CBB has 56 seats theatre-style (or 33 in a cabaret setup)
by Jim Reyland
epending upon whom you ask, youll hear a variety

of ideas on what it takes to produce quality theatre.
Some will say you need a great script delivered by wonderful actors
with an amazing set. Others will speak about strong direction
and a comprehensive marketing plan. The truth is that you need
all these things, but none of them are necessary if you dont have
a place to play. You need a theatre space. You need a place to go
and set up lights. Fortunately, Music Citys long-suffered lack
of ready theatre spaces has just gotten a little better. Two arts
organizations, Actors Bridge Ensemble, and Metro Parks, have
recently acquired new spaces to further support our ever-growing
theatre arts community.
Actors Bridge Ensemble, a long-standing part of Nashvilles theatre arts
scene, has set up their new studio at LeQuire Gallery at 4304 Charlotte
Avenue.LeQuire Gallery is owned by Alan and Andre LeQuire.Alan is
best known for his colossal sculptures Athena Parthenos, the largest
indoor sculpture in the Western hemisphere, and Musica, one of the
largest bronze figure groups in the world. Actors Bridge Studio at
LeQuire Gallery will house acting classes, rehearsals, First Time
Story Nights, and Act Like a GRRRL workshops.Their professional
theatre season will continue to take place at the Belmont University
Troutt Theater complex and at the Darkhorse Theater.
We have spent more than a decade at Neuhoff in Germantown.
We loved being pioneers in the neighborhood along
with Lori and Roger from the Nashville Jazz Workshop.
While we will miss our Neuhoff family, we are so excited
to be joining the amazing creative vibe happening on
Charlotte, said producing artistic director Vali Forrister.
Carolyn German and her amazing team over at the Metro Nashville
Photo: rick malkin
CBB recently provided space to Tennessee Performing Arts Center

Educations partnership with Theatre Tout a Tracs production of Pinocchio.
A few of Nashvilles finest actors were part of the reading, which was
translated from the shows original French. Here Pinocchio (Mary Tanner
Bailey) becomes wary of the sly Fox (Patrick Waller) and Cat (Keri Pisapia).
Parks Music and Theater Department have also announced a

new theatre space. The Centennial Black Box Theater, with
fifty-six seats theatre style or thirty-three seats cabaret style, is
located inside Centennial Park, in the Centennial Arts Activity
Center. It is designed specifically to serve small audiences with
unique performing arts opportunities, including play readings,
avant-garde music experiences, intimate theatre offerings, vocal
cabarets and much more. Carolyn says, We currently create our
own programming and bring in outside offerings. We anticipate
that by early 2014 we will have the ability to rent the space for
other organizations to use. Updates and latest show information
can be found at www.nashville.gov.
Photo: John Jackson
Actors Bridge offers ongoing actor training in the Meisner

Technique plus supplementary classes in audition technique,
acting for the camera, and voice and movement. Classes have
begun at the Charlotte location. To see the Actors Bridge studio
visit www.vimeo.com/72199407.
Hayley Rose Mauer,Lara Giordano and Abel Munoz

The film version of Jim Reylands new play, STAND, performed
across Tennessee in 2012 as The Stand Project, is now available
to stream at www.writersstage.com. Watch The STAND Film
starring Barry Scott and Chip Arnold and directed by David
Compton and consider a donation to support Room In The Inn!
jreyland@audioproductions.com
Tennessee Womens Theater

Project Presents: Voices of
Nashville
Voices
of
Nashville:
Immigration
and
Community is an original documentary theatre
play by Christine Mather and Sara Sharpe. It
explores the experience of immigration in our
region through the eyes of Nashvilles new
Americans. The playwrights interviewed a
number of immigrants of different economic
and educational levels and blended their
stories into composite characters. Voices of
Nashville follows the immigrants' experiences
before and since their arrival here and brings
into focus the talents, the aspirations, and the
creative and cultural energy that they bring to
the community.
See Voices of Nashville October 420, 2013,
at the Z. Alexander Looby Theater. Tickets are
Adults $15, Students and Seniors (60+) $12.
All seats $10 Thursday evening. www.twtp.org.
Following the Looby run, TWTP will present
Voices in community centers, churches, social
organizations, and schools across Middle
Tennessee.
Photo: Courtesy of The Frist Center
Destellos Culturales
Hispanic Heritage Month

By Cat Acree
he landscape of Nashvilles population is changing,

and fast. Nashville has a Hispanic population of over 60,000,
composing 10 percent of the total population, and its growing.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, from 2000 to 2010, Davidson
Countys Hispanic population increased by over 130 percent. With
Americans observing National Hispanic Heritage Month from
September 15 to October 15, there is no better time to celebrate
the citys diversity, specifically the histories, cultures, and
contributions of Americans with Latin American heritage.
Nashvilles celebration of Hispanic heritage.

Previous standout events at TPAC include a free performance
by Sones de Mxico, specializing in regional folk music and
dance styles from various regions of Mexico, and a performance
by Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitian, which Cisneros describes as
the Britney Spears of mariachi. The Frists exhibit Exploring
Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection featured
archaeological artifacts from the ancient Americas, including
metal works, sculptures, and jewelry that are so beautiful in
A number of initiatives throughout Nashville have creatively

and actively provided the Hispanic community with outlets for
cultural expression and opportunities for engagement with the
arts. Cheekwoods Da de los Muertos celebration, now in its
fourteenth consecutive year, is a distinguishing highlight in
Photo: Courtesy of Cheekwood
According to Ramn Cisneros, publisher of La Campana, the

largest Spanish-language newspaper in Nashville, art is the key.
The globalization of the city is something we have to prepare
for, Cisneros says. One of the other things that [could keep us]
behind is our capacity to be inclusive and to accept other people. I
think art is the common language. Its very easy to talk to people
through art.
Cheekwood, Dia De Los Muertos
The Frist has also

featured
Destellos
Culturales, a nonprofit,
local folkloric ballet
company composed of
dancers of all ages. The
Nashville
Symphony
has featured the dance
troupe Ballet Folklrico,
a visual feast from
Colombia, and the Gipsy
Kings, to name a few.
I am overjoyed by the Human Effigy Pendant, John Bourne Collection

way these entities have
reached out to different ethnic groups in Nashville, especially our
Latino population, Cisneros says. They have found ways to bring
art to every segment of Music Citys rapidly changing demographic.
To understand how important these initiatives are for the
Nashville Latino community, Cisneros says frankly, If you were
living in South Korea, and they bring, I dont know, Jackson 5 or
Rascal Flatts or something like that, thats the kind of thing it
did for the people.
But it goes much deeper than providing Hispanic communities
with elements of home.
It is important to note that these initiatives serve a dual purpose:
They not only benefit a growing minority population, but they
also deliver the art and history of Latin American cultures to the
rest of the Nashville population. Here in Nashville, our cultural
institutions are dedicated to celebrating Hispanic heritage.
Destellos Culturales
The Frist Center
Music at the Frist: Pablo Garzon and Friends

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
September 27, October 3, October 4 6 to 8 p.m.
Experience the splendor of Hispanic music with lush rhythms

of tangos from Argentina, bossa novas from Brazil, pasillos
and bambucos from Colombia, joropos from Venezuela,
waltzes from Peru, boleros from Mexico, and guaranias from
Paraguay, among others. www.fristcenter.org
TENNESSEE ART LEAGUE and HISPANIC CHAMBER

OF COMMERCE
First Saturday Art Crawl, Downtown Nashville
Hispanic Visual Art Showcase
October 526
A curated show by Bolivian professor and artist Jorge Mendoza

featuring work by local and international artists.
The Frist Center
Destellos Culturales Performance

Sunday, October 6 2 p.m.
I think art is the common

language. Its very easy to
talk to people through art.
Ramn Cisneros
Photo: The Frist
Photo: The walters art museum, Baltimore
nature that they have

turned into art pieces.
Destellos Culturales de Nashville is a folkloric ballet company

and nonprofit that promotes appreciation, participation,
and patronage of the arts. www.fristcenter.org
TPAC
Ballet Hispanico
October 2325 10:30 a.m.

Open to grades 512. These performances guide students
through a variety of Latin, classical, and modern dance
that evoke the rhythm and spirit of Latino culture.
www.tpac.org
salsa restaurant and The Latin American

Chamber of Commerce
Masquerade Latino Dance Party
TPAC Sones de Mxico
Photo: Courtesy of TPAC
Saturday, October 19 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Featuring the best mix of salsa, bachata, merengue dance
music. Masquerade Prize. www.salsarestaurantnashville.com
Cheekwood
14th Annual EL DIA DE LOS MUERTOS Fall Festival
Saturday, November 2, 2013 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Enjoy a day filled with traditional arts and crafts, music, and
dance filled with cultural significance. www.cheekwood.org
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tune in
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visual art scene
The Arts Company

theartscompany.com
Local Color Gallery

localcolornashville.com
The Parthenon
parthenon.org
Bennett Galleries
bennettgalleriesnashville.com
Midtown Gallery & Framers

midtowngallery.com
The Rymer Gallery

therymergallery.com
Bryant Gallery
bryantgallerynashville.com
Richland Fine Art, Inc

richlandfineart.com
Tinney Contemporary
tinneycontemporary.org
Cheekwood Botanical
Garden and Museum of Art
cheekwood.org
Sarratt Gallery
at Vanderbilt
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by Joe Nolan
ot everybody likes collage. In fact, it seems like
people either love it or they hate it. Such dichotomies are

common when it comes to various practices and techniques in
the visual arts. Like performance art and abstract painting,
collage is simultaneously reviled and praised for its defining
characteristicsits borrowed imagery, its cut-and-paste textures.
I happen to love collage in all of its forms across every discipline,
so it was easy for me to enjoy Tom Judds recent exhibition at
Cumberland Gallery.
Judds work presents found objects and the artists own oil painting
Tom Judd, Tulips,2009, Oil on canvas, 36 x 38
in compositions that juxtapose seemingly unrelated imagery into

spare narratives that connect the various elements into tiny story
arcs that aim to capture fleeting moments and memories. Its
not overly conceptual, but his work has a pleasant nostalgia that
doesnt droop into pure sentimentality, and his varied materials
and techniques give his art a purposeful sensibility that is
sometimes lacking in the work of less-discerning practitioners of
visual assemblage.
Judds Washington includes a black-and-white copy of a photograph
of the titular first president on the text-covered pages of a book.
The elements are assembled on a gray-blue canvas that Judd
paints over with a gorgeous, sinewy flower that culminates in a
voluptuous red blossom. The piece is framed with lengths of
vintage wooden yardsticks. Washington is my favorite of the show,
but History Explained is the exhibitions most ambitious work. In
this assemblage of hardback book covers, Judd paints over History
with a background of blocks of color that highlight the paintings
subject: an Asian elephant waving its tail. The pachyderms form is
separated from itself by the quadrants formed by the book covers,
and I was immediately put in mind of the Indian story of the blind
men trying to describe an elephant from their limited points of
view. Judd gives us a simple allegory for the pasted-together story
of history in the form of a very well crafted work of art.
Judd shares Cumberland gallery for this Recent Works show with
Washington artist Jim Phalen. The two bodies of work complement
each other extremely well, and the overall effect is a quiet, lovely
display of colorful figures and textures that feels like the perfect
goodbye to a sleepy summer art season just as Nashville begins
to move into an autumn art schedule that promises to be both
frantically busy and intensely challenging. Cumberland Gallery will
be upping the ante themselves with the opening of Unique Visions,
which will be their contribution to the citys Artober celebration.
For more info about Tom Judd visit www.tomjuddart.com,
and for Jim Phalen visit www.jimphalen.com. Find exhibit
Jim Phalen, Red Wall, 2013, Oil on panel, 38 x 23
information at www.cumberlandgallery.com.
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on the town with Ted Clayton
lex for Flowers was the setting

for a lovely afternoon cocktail
gathering
in
celebration
of
their
one-year
anniversary. Host
couple Jane Dudley Gene Kamarasy and

and
Dewayne Lee Robinson - Ilex Party
Johnson were front and center welcoming Jane
and Billy Coble, Lee Robinson and Gene Kamarasy, Johnna Watson,
David White, Nancy Russell and Patsy Weigel, Tony Rose Sr.,
Shirley Harvey, Holly Anderson, Janice and Newt Lovvorn,
Elaine and Bruce Sullivan . . . yes, you got itthe A-Plus social
peeps.Congratulations to Jane and Dewayne. Im looking forward
to many more brilliant cocktail gatherings in the near future!
Sandra Lipman and

Eleanor Willis Sunday
in the Park Kickoff
Chairs Sylvia Bradbury

and Ann Dobson Sunday
in the Park Kickoff
Frank Bass and Larry Wieck

Sunday in the Park Kickoff
Tis the season to kick off all the

glorious events that will take place in
the next few months in the fall social
season. Topping the list was the
launch ofSunday in the Park, which
will be held later in October in the
Warner Parks.Chairs Sylvia Bradbury
and Ann Dobson, quite the duo
indeed, greeted committee members
Sandra Lipman, Clare Armistead,
Laura Landstreet, Rosie and Reed
Trickett, Larry Wieck, Ellen Martin,
Frank Bass, Amy Marsalis with
hubby, Keith Simpkins, and Larry
Trabue. Jeannette Whitson hosted
this evening of summer delight, both
poolside and in her knockout killer of
a house, designed by the hostess.The
highlight of the evening was the look
on the faces of fellow patrons when
Cathy Jackson and I emerged from
the powder room together, and no,
Clay was not present. A super great
kick-off to what Nashvillians feel
is the leading fall event, where they
can show off in their new fall attire.
Great Balls of Fire: Jason Bradshaw, Theresa Menefee, and Bob

Dealjust when I thought they could never top TPAC Gala
Chairs Jason Bradshaw, Theresa

Menefee, Bob Deal TPAC Gala
Janice Lovvorn, Billy and Jane Coble, Elaine Sullivan - Ilex Party
2012, here they come again with a rock and rolling TPAC Gala
2013.This years themed gala was Million Dollar Quartet, the hit
Broadway musical inspired by the spontaneous recording session
when Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis met
at Sun Records in Memphis in 1956. The Queen of Rockabilly
Wanda Jackson with her band the Dirt Dobbers brought the house
down after a delightful dinner, and the desserta miniature,
chocolate baby grand pianorock-and-rolled me over!
The Applause Award Honorees were Dale Allen and Nissan North
America.Toe tapping to the 50s and 60s hit tunes were Elizabeth
and Lynn Greer, Anna and Gif Thornton, Jana and Ansel Davis with
Kate Grayken (dressed to kill with cowgirl boots), Stephani and Ed
Ryan, Barbara and
Jack Bovender with
son and daughterin-law Richard and
Sara, Michelle and
Stephen Frohsin,
Dana and Bond
Oman, Elaina and
Ansel and Jana Davis, Kate Grayken, Chrissy
Ronnie Scott, Cathy
and Bill Hagerty TPAC Gala
and Doug Hall,
Rhonda Small and
Eleanor Whitworth,
as well as Jonathan
Pinkerton.
And the dcor! Phillipe
Chadwick
outdid
himself with the table
dcor. Great balls of
fire were reproduced
with arrangements
Sara, Richard, Barbara

Bovender TPAC Gala
Gif and Anna Thornton, Lattie Brown and

David McQuiddy TPAC Gala
Grant and Suzanne Smothers, Meredith and Scott

Burns, Michelle and Stephen Frohsin TPAC Gala
Kix Brooks, Caye David, Barbara Brooks Jalan-Jalan
of rose balls with flames shooting from the center of each

table. Chandeliers were embellished with old 45s and sequined
guitars . . . Well, all I can say is that this evening would have made
Johnny, Jerry Lee, Carl, and Elvis mighty proud. Only at TPAC!
Anita and Larry Cash along with Marci and Stephen Houff hosted
the first-ever patrons gathering for this gala at the Houffs lovely
home a few weeks prior to the gala.
Nashvilles best-kept secret, Jalan-Jalan, hosted a most
impressive cocktail preview party of owner Caye Davids new
shipment from Southeast Asia.After her first visit to Bali in 1996,
Caye fell in love with the people, the antiques, and the textiles of
the area.This event was held at Cayes three-thousand-square-foot
showroom, where entering is like stepping into another world and
culture, viewing creative vignettes showcasing museum-quality
artifacts and textiles. Speaking of textiles, Cayes collection of
Indonesian ikat and
other hand-woven
fabrics is the largest
private collection
in North America.
Caye scours several
islands each year
for one-of-a-kind
treasures.
Keith Merry, Kelley and Reid Estes Jalan-Jalan
John Hallman, Ellen Torrence, April Crook,

Caye David Jalan-Jalan

One of my favorites
at this annual party
is the supremely
fantastic salmon
that Caye has flown
in and prepared
to perfection by
Brooks and Bert
Mathews. Enjoying
this Asian fare
were Kelley and
Reid Estes, Barbara
and Kix Brooks,
Keith Merry, Tom

Repass, Stacey and
Taylor Rhodes,
Kathy
Dozier
(Kathy purchased
an
Indonesian
cowbellnow
do you think
the Asian cows
respond to an
Asian bell better
than a American
bell? LOL), Leigh
Hendry,
Mary Ed and Stephani Ryan TPAC Gala
Anne and Steve Nyquist, Lynne Holliday, and Cayes lovely daughter
April Crook. I must mention that Caye and I were in the original
graduating class at OMore College of Design, and I am just amazed
at how much knowledge, taste,
and culture we came away with!
OK, the rest of my column is
going to read like Food & Wine
magazine. First off was a birthday
celebration of my friend Darren
Cioffi, a local philanthropic kind of
guy. Being a fan of Food Networks
Chopped, where chefs face off
against the clock using mysterybasket ingredients, Cioffi decided
to give the concept a Nashville and
charitable twist, as well as a birthday
celebration, all in one evening. The
chefsChef Jay Daigle of Flemings,
Chef Abe Tsavalakoglou of the Music
City Tippler, Chef Garrett Pittler of
Chelsea Bistro, and Chef Toffer Jacob
of Oprylandall were competing
for their charities of choice. I was
honored to be a judge along with
Heather Byrd and Leigh Nash, seated
in the kitchen of Boxwood Hall,
Cioffis antebellum Brentwood home.
Ronald and Brenda Corbin

TPAC Gala
Marci and Stephen

Houff TPAC Gala
Not my usual Sunday evening fare:

I was served alligator, emu, mol
with seaweed, just to give you an
idea, while the one hundred guests
enjoyed heavy hors doeuvres from
the four participating restaurants, Dana and Bond Oman
accompanied, of course, by wine TPAC Gala
from J. Lohr Vineyards and Wines.After the judges chopped the
first three chefs, the winner was Chef Garrett Pittler. I must share
with you that for the final course, the dessert, the mystery-box
ingredients given to the two remaining chefs included a cigar!
Chef Abe decided to smoke while preparing his dessert course.
Chef Garrett blew the cigar smoke into a crystal wine glass,
quickly turned it over and placed it on the service plate in front of
the judges, and instructed them to smell and take in thesmoky,
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programs that educate and inspire, as well as supporting culinary

scholarships.The chefs were Chef Richard Jones of Green Door
Gourmet, Nashville; Chef Wally Joe of Acre, Memphis; Chef
Daniel Lindley of St. Johns Restaurant, Chattanooga, and Chef
Coby Lee Ming of Harvest, Louisville.This dinner was . . . well,
let me just give you an idea of my favorites: for Hors doeuvres,
Honey-whipped Goat Cheese Mousse and Macerated Figs on
Brioche. Course One favorite, Yuzu-glazed Salmon on MisoCorn Puree. Course Two, Jolly Barnyard Chicken with Eggplant,
Jerusalem Artichokes, Heirloom Peppers, and Arugula. Course
Three, Smoked Pork Confit and Pork Belly Rillons. Course Four,
Amaroo Hills Emu Fanloin and Pate with Eucalyptus Honey
Brioche (for never having emu in my life, I sure got my share that
week), followed by the Dessert favorite, Chocolate and Peanut
Butter Cremeaux.
Winning Chef Garrett Pittler Chopped
Host Darren Cioffi and Ashlie

Mothershead Chopped
Pam and Jeff Kuhn Chopped
woody fragrance before

consuming his incredible
dessert course. Now that
is talent, folks. Happy
Birthday, Darren. What a
great Nashville evening,
and may there be many
more to follow. By the way,
Chef Garretts charity
of choice was Vanderbilt
Childrens Hospital.
My
culinary
journey
continued
with
an
evening at the Grange
Barn at Green Door
Gourmet Farm, hosted by
Sylvia and Al Ganier. The
Golden
Harvest
Dinner was a benefit
honoring
the
James
Beard Foundation, which
celebrates, nurtures, and
honors Americas diverse
culinary heritage through
Anna Mowry, Chef Richard Jones, Pam Tillis Golden Harvest Dinner
Kem and Marilyn Hinton, Ellen and John Lea Golden Harvest Dinner
Pam Tillis was the

evening Celebrity
Host, welcoming
Ellen and John
Lea, Jane Haynes,
Marilyn and Kem
Hinton, Lisa and
Junius Ellis, Gayle
and Bob Patterson,
Judy and Tom
Foster,
Steve
Sirls and Allen
DeCuyper. It was
a great culinary
evening honoring
James Beard. I do
think I shall use my
Weight Watchers
free pass this week,
for stepping on the
scales after this
week is not going
to happen! Cheers!
Emily West, Christian Staehely, Leigh Nash,

Stephen Wilson Chopped
Kathy Konrad, Phillip Sibley, Audrey Hinson,

Jack Hinson Chopped
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Joseph Wolins
(American, 19151999)
orn in 1915 in Atlantic City, New Jersey,

Joseph Wolins initially studied art at New
York Citys National Academy of Design in 1935

under Leon Kroll. However, his greatest artistic
influences came from the opportunity to study in Europe
in 1937. There he became particularly influenced by the
works of the Italian Renaissance painters Piero della
Francesca and Giotto.That travel also afforded him the
unique opportunity to study the then-contemporary
European art exhibited at Pariss 1937 Exposition
Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie
Moderne (International Exposition Dedicated to Art
and Technology in Modern Life). Among the modern
works being exhibited, for the first time, at that Paris
exposition were Picassos Guernica, Calders Mercury
Fountain,andFernand Lgers The Transfer of Forces.
Joseph Wolins died on November 3, 1999, in New York. His

paintings and drawings appear frequently at auction, and
his work is well represented in the permanent collections
of museums worldwide, including the Smithsonian,
New York Citys Metropolitan Museum, and the Butler
Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio.
Thisportrait was acquired by the owner through a family
member and is more figurative than most of his known
body of work.This calm beauty would carry an estimate
of $200 to $300 at auction.
Untitled, circa 1955, Pastel on paper
All photos by Jerry atnip
Upon returning home to the New York area, Wolins

became associated with the Works Progress
Administration Federal Arts Project of 19351941
(WPA). While the art of the WPA era is frequently
associated with traditional regional views and social
realist imagery, such as the shantytowns of the Great
Depression, Wolinss approach typically involved
experimentation with aspects of Cubism, Impressionism,
and Modernism, obviously inspired by his time abroad.
In the following years Wolins had numerous one-man
shows and participated in many group shows, receiving
honors and awards along the way.
Linda Dyer serves as an appraiser, broker, and consultant in

the field of antiques and fine art. She has appeared on the
PBS production Antiques Roadshow since season one, which
aired in 1997, as an appraiser of Tribal Arts. If you would like
Linda to appraise one of your antiques, please send a clear,
detailed image to info@nashvillearts. com. Or send photo to
Antiques, Nashville Arts Magazine, 644 West Iris Dr., Nashville,
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Things seen in traffic . . .

Photo: Anthony Scarlati
All occAsions
FeATurinG
dont know if its other cities or just Nashville.

But lately Ive been noticing a lot of unusual things
while stuck in traffic. Take yesterday, for instance. I was
inching along Harding Pike (just before it turns into
West End Avenue) in late afternoon traffic, minding my
own business, when I noticed a man driving a burgundy
motorcycle with a matching sidecar containing three Yellow Labrador
Retrievers, who, in their goggles (and matching red scarves), looked like
they were having the time of their lives!
I couldnt believe how well-behaved these dogs were. They couldve easily
jumped out of the sidecar, but there they sat, ecstatic to be moving through
traffic in the open air. Like they were thirsty and the air was water.
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At one point, the man and his dogs were directly in front of me, so I snapped
a photo of them using my iPhone. The photo came out okay, but it didnt
show the goggles. So I tried maneuvering my car, accelerating to get in front
for a better angle. But then another car slipped in between me and the man
with the dogs, which had me thinking I might lose them altogether. Then
I saw the man make a right turn onto a side street. Imagine my surprise
when I, too, took a right turn down that very same street.
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Sir, do you mind if I take a picture of your dogs? I asked, trying to be

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My favorite painting
My grandmothers love for art and the joy of

finding something that spoke to her inspired
my love affair with the art experience.
Maggie Bond
Product Manager, Nfocus Magazine
Photo by Anthony Scarlati/location courtesy of Husk Restaurant
y favorite painting is . . . not actually a painting

but a needlepoint tapestry of the famed Moulin
Rouge: La Goulue, embroidered by my late grandmother,
Gertrude Frank. She was an avid art lover and inspired me to
begin collecting at a young age.

My grandparents home was an archive of their adventurous
travels, documented by their collection of art. As a child I
would sift through their hotel and restaurant matchbooks
from afarthe real kind with wooden matchsticks carefully
placed in origami-like boxes. Each represented a journal of
stories and often was accompanied by a work of art from a
market or an artists studiopaintings, ceramics, works on
paper and more.
My grandmothers love for art and the joy of finding
something that spoke to her inspired my love affair with the
art experience. She had wonderful advice about collecting:
Every year, buy at least one piece of art that you love. Not
something that matches a room, but something you love,
that really reaches out to you.
I began following this advice at seventeen and now have
a treasury of pieces Ive acquired from memorable times.
Some favorites include a Russ Faxon bronze from the 2003
Artists for Oasis fundraiser, a hand-screened lampshade
from a boutique in Florence, Italy (interesting bringing
that back on the plane), a dozen or so pieces from lovely
characters in Jackson Square, New Orleans, a Jennifer
Padgett painting from Ron Yorks gallery York & Friends,
and two Jack Spencer pieces from Carol Steins Cumberland
Gallery, purchased fifteen or so years ago. The latter two
were a gift from my grandmother.
Gertrude Frank, Moulin Rouge: La Goulue by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Wool

needlepoint, circa 1970, 24" x 30"
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