Woven Nashville: An Evening of Music, Art, and Conversation is a creative experience hosted by Jason Eskridge of Sunday Night Soul and Chuck Beard of East Side Storytellin.
This series brings together unique pairings of extraordinary Nashville creators working in all kinds of media. Each specially curated program pairs musicians with painters, writers, comics, dancers, spoken-word artists, and more. Programs are also inspired by and connected to current exhibitions at the Frist Art Museum, creating an ongoing dialogue between the museum’s visual art and Nashville’s vibrant performing and literary communities.
Our goal is to provide a “mixtape” atmosphere, blending individual and collaborative performances and conversations designed to lift up the talented people who make up Nashville.
Thursday, April 16
This session is connected to the exhibition In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century, which celebrates the influential role of women artists in the Nashville region and beyond.
The program features In Her Place artist Ashley Doggett alongside Nashville-based singer-songwriter Kyshona.
About Ashley Doggett
Ashley Doggett’s work reframes historical narratives to confront issues of race, gender, class, and cultural identity. Through painting and drawing, Doggett incorporates personal memories and familial stories while unflinchingly addressing the United States’ racist history. Her use of vivid color, symbolic elements, and references to local landmarks recontextualize ideas about the American South and offer a critique of oppressive systems. She depicts unapologetic, self-aware subjects with a sense of agency, and her work honors those who fought for social equality and equity. Doggett places family members with figures of recent history within the civil rights context, emphasizing their persistence against past and present injustices. Exploring the intersection of the civil rights movement and the formative role of African Americans in American history, Doggett situates her practice within the larger discourse on race in the US.
Doggett earned a BFA from Watkins College of Art, Nashville, in 2016. She has presented solo exhibitions at Channel to Channel, Nashville; David Lusk Gallery, Nashville; Fort Houston, Nashville; Monya Rowe Gallery, New York; Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston; and Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Anna Zorina Gallery, New York; Channel to Channel, Nashville; Kent State University, Kent, OH; and Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville; and in curated shows by Camilø Álvårez and Theaster Gates.
About Kyshona
Nashville-based singer-songwriter Kyshona crafts songs that are as much about personal discovery as they are about collective healing. A music therapist turned artist-activist, Kyshona blends roots, R&B, folk, and soul with purposeful storytelling. Her work has been praised in outlets like NPR, The New York Times, The Tennessean, The Boston Globe, Rolling Stone, and American Songwriter. She regularly performs on stages and at festivals across the globe, was featured on PBS series Ear to the Common Ground, and delivered the keynote for the 2023 Fulbright Scholars. Most recently, she narrated and contributed songs to Citizens Revival, a short documentary on the state of American democracy, and in 2026, she was honored with Folk Alliance International’s People’s Voice Award. In 2020, Kyshona founded a therapuetic songwriting program, Your Song, whose mission is to connect performing arts centers, musicians, and artists with vulnerable communities to promote healing. With every project, she continues to build a body of work that is restorative, inclusive, and rooted in legacy.
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