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Frist Art Museum Celebrates 25th-Anniversary Year with Major Group Exhibition Spotlighting the Work of Nashville-Based Women Artists

December 4, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents 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. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition kicks off the Frist’s 25th anniversary year and will be on view in the museum’s Ingram Gallery from January 29 through April 26, 2026. Read More

Frist Art Museum Marks 25th Anniversary with Presentation of A Landmark Repurposed: From Post Office to Art Museum

November 12, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents A Landmark Repurposed: From Post Office to Art Museum, an exhibition celebrating the historic building the Frist is privileged to occupy—Nashville’s former main post office. The exhibition will be on view in the always-free Conte Community Arts Gallery from December 19, 2025, through August 1, 2026. Read More

MEDIA ADVISORY: Public Murals by Artist Tay Butler Celebrating Edgehill Community Organization to be Unveiled at William Edmondson Park

September 29, 2025
The debut of three large new mural works by artist Tay Butler installed on the MNPS Visual and Performing Arts Building in William Edmondson Park and the Edgehill Branch Library. Butler, one of the artists featured in the Frist Art Museum’s landmark 2023 exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, worked with student participants in the Edgehill United Methodist Church’s Brighter Days After School Tutoring program to create digital collage murals featuring members of the Edgehill community.   Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Exhibition of Fahamu Pecou’s Work Examining Contemporary Representations of Black Identity Through Sculpture, Painting, and Video

September 3, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents This Face Behind This Mask Behind This Skin, a survey exhibition of recent work by Dr. Fahamu Pecou, an interdisciplinary artist and scholar whose work bridges hip-hop, fine art, and popular culture to examine contemporary representations in Black culture. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from October 10, 2025 through January 4, 2026. Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Dynamic Exhibition Highlighting Contemporary West African Masquerade Artists

August 27, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations, an exhibition that offers a rare and close look at contemporary West African masquerade. Organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art, in partnership with Musée des Civilisations noires in Dakar, Senegal, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Ingram Gallery from October 10, 2025, through January 4, 2026. Read More

Frist Art Museum Announces 2026 Schedule of Exhibitions Marking 25th Anniversary

August 20, 2025
Nashville Women Artists · Surrealism from Tate Modern · Emergent Technology Art · The Impressionist Revolution · Contemporary Indigenous Art · Judaica · Barbara Bullock · Anila Quayyum Agha · and More Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Extraordinary Archive of Photographs Made by Paul McCartney at the Start of Beatlemania

August 13, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm, an unprecedented look at the extraordinary archive of recently discovered photographs made by Paul McCartney at the start of Beatlemania. Organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Upper-Level Galleries from noon on November 6, 2025 through January 26, 2026. In addition to regular operating hours during these dates, the Frist will also be open on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Advance timed tickets are required and will be available to Frist members starting on Tuesday, October 7 at 10 a.m. and for general admission on Wednesday, October 8 at 10 a.m. Read More

Nashville’s Growth and Civic Design Examined Through Exhibition Co-Organized by the Civic Design Center and Frist Art Museum

June 12, 2025
The Civic Design Center and Frist Art Museum present Avenues to a Great City, an exhibition that honors the twentieth anniversary of the Civic Design Center’s landmark publication The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City and examines the history of Nashville’s built environment, including transit, public art, and neighborhood infrastructure. The exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s always-free Conte Community Arts Gallery from July 4 through December 14, 2025. Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Extraordinary Collection of Quilts Reflecting 300 Years of American History

May 15, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston an exhibition that celebrates aesthetic and technical achievements in quilting as well as the lives of their makers. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fabric of a Nation will be on view in the Frist’s Upper-Level Galleries from June 27 through October 12, 2025. Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Exhibition of Intimate and Meticulously Detailed Paintings by Ellen Altfest

April 9, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents Ellen Altfest: Forever, an exhibition of oil paintings of still lifes, landscapes, and the human body by the American representational painter Ellen Altfest. Read More