Join us for a special evening of conversation with five celebrated artists featured in In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century, an exhibition spotlighting the central role women have played—and continue to play—in shaping Nashville’s visual arts community. Jane Braddock, LiFran Fort, Lanie Gannon, Carol Mode, and Marilyn Murphy will share insights into their decades-long artistic practices, the evolving landscape of the city’s art scene, and the deeply personal connections between their work and the notion of place.
Begin the evening with a live musical performance by Timbre Cierpke in the Grand Lobby from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m.
The museum will remain open until 9:00 p.m. to allow guests time to visit the galleries after the conversation.
Schedule of Events
5:15–6:15 p.m.: Music in the Grand Lobby with Timbre Cierpke
6:30–7:30 p.m.: Artists’ Conversation: The Foremothers
Exhibition catalogues will be available for purchase at this program!
In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Kathryn E. Delmez and Laura Hutson Hunter
Published by Vanderbilt University Press; hardcover; 168 pages
Published in conjunction with In Her Place, this exhibition catalogue charts a network of artists working at a high caliber with deceptively specific criteria—they are all women, and they are all based in Nashville, Tennessee. Working with diverse styles, subjects, and media, the artists of In Her Place are legion. They include a Tehran-born sculptor making vessels out of Tennessee red clay, an artist from Arkansas working with cardboard and references to unsettling histories, and a Nashville-born painter whose images of civil rights–era sit-ins read just as poignantly in 2026 as they would have in 1960. If anything ties these artists together, it is not their gender or their location, but rather their shared ingenuity and the comfort with which they subvert.
Image: Marilyn Murphy. Call in the Night, 2018. Graphite on paper; 22 x 30 in. Collection of Mollye Brown and Paul Polycarpou, Nashville. © 2025 Marilyn Murphy
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