Frist Center Appoints Crystal A. Churchwell Associate Director of Development

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September 27, 2016
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (September 26, 2016)—Frist Center Executive Director Dr. Susan H. Edwards announced today that Nashvillian Crystal A. Churchwell will rejoin the Frist Center staff as associate director of development. “We are excited and delighted that Crystal Churchwell will be returning to the Frist Center to assume a… Read More
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2024 Young Tennessee Artists: Selections from Advanced Studio Art Programs

Exhibition

Sep 6, 2024–Mar 16, 2025
The Frist Art Museum’s tenth biennial Young Tennessee Artists exhibition showcases over thirty two-dimensional works of art by students enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) studio art programs during the 2023–24 academic year. Artworks for the exhibition were selected by a jury of artists, educators, and museum… Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Woodblocks, Prints, and Mixed-Media Works by LaToya M. Hobbs

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November 30, 2023
The Frist Art Museum presents Carving a New Tradition: The Art of LaToya M. Hobbs, an exhibition of recent woodblock prints and mixed-media portraits from the Arkansas-born, Baltimore-based painter and printmaker. Organized by the Frist Art Museum with Dr. Rebecca VanDiver, associate professor of African American art at Vanderbilt University, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from January 26 through April 28, 2024. Read More
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Carving a New Tradition: The Art of LaToya M. Hobbs

Exhibition

Jan 26–Apr 28, 2024
Curated by Dr. Rebecca VanDiver, associate professor of African American art at Vanderbilt University, Carving a New Tradition showcases a selection of recent prints and mixed-media artwork from the studio of the Arkansas-born, Baltimore-based painter and printmaker LaToya M. Hobbs. Hobbs is a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and… Read More
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Membership FAQ

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Here are answers to our most frequently asked questions regarding membership. Not finding the information you need? Contact membership@FristArtMuseum.org or call 615.744.4947. Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Career-Spanning Exhibition
Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

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June 2, 2021
The Frist Art Museum presents Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, an exhibition that offers a broad overview of the artist’s career and explores racial and gender exploitation, abuse, and inequity. Co-organized by First Art Museum executive director and CEO Dr. Susan H. Edwards and Nashville-based poet Ciona Rouse, Cut to the Quick will be on view in the Frist’s Upper-Level Galleries from July 23 through October 10, 2021. Read More

“Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s” Opens June 21

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May 16, 2019
Exhibition Features Works by Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Dorothea Tanning, and Others NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 16, 2019)—The Frist Art Museum presents Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s, an exhibition that explores the powerful and unsettling images created in response… Read More
Sep 27
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Conversation: María Magdalena Campos-Pons with Carmen Hermo and Katie Delmez

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Friday, September 27, 2024, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

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Free; first come, first seated

Join María Magdalena Campos-Pons with Carmen Hermo, former associate curator, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, and Katie Delmez, Frist Art Museum senior curator, for this conversation about the exhibition María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold.  Image: María Magdalena Campos-Pons (born Matanzas, Cuba, 1959). Untitled, from the series Un Pedazo de… Read More

Career-Spanning Exhibition of Works by María Magdalena Campos-Pons Features Photography, Installation, Video, Painting, and Performance

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July 22, 2024
The Frist Art Museum presents María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold, a sweeping exhibition of photography, installation, video, painting, and performance spanning the nearly four-decade career of the Cuban-born artist who now lives and works in Nashville. Organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the J. Paul Getty Museum, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Ingram Gallery from September 27, 2024 through January 5, 2025. Read More

Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art

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January 23, 2009
For Immediate Release NOTE: High-resolution images available CONTACT: Ellen Jones Pryor: 615.243.1311, ”, ” Emily Harper: 615.744.3331, ” MEDIEVAL TREASURES FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART OPENS FEB. 13 AT FRIST CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS Exquisite Ivories, Jewels, Illuminated Manuscripts and… Read More