Don’t miss our current and upcoming exhibitions, as well as Martin ArtQuest , an interactive art experience where visitors can draw, animate, paint, create prints, and more! The Frist Art Museum is easily accessible in the heart of downtown Nashville on Upper Broadway, making it the perfect destination for art lovers and curious minds alike. Plan your visit today!

Women have long been at the center of Nashville’s vibrant visual arts community. Especially now, during the city’s current period of growth, an outsized number of local women artists are showing their work across the globe and receiving prestigious grants, residencies, awards, and critical acclaim. Many have also dedicated years, even decades, to teaching or building impactful community organizations.

This exhibition highlights this prominent position of women artists here in Music City and beyond through nearly one hundred artworks spanning painting, sculpture, textile, and installation. Selected works by this intergenerational group of Nashville-based women relate broadly to place—whether conceived of as the view of a garden outside a studio window, the influence of being raised in the American South, a moment in time, or the evocation of an ancestral homeland outside of the United States.