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, July 16
This session is presented in conjunction with An Indigenous Present, an exhibition spanning 100 years of modern and contemporary Indigenous art, featuring artists using abstraction to represent personal and collective narratives.
This program features local multidisciplinary artists and IndigeNash members Trenton Wheeler and Jennifer Gougé.
About Trenton Wheeler
With nearly two decades of experience on stage, behind the mic, and in the studio, Trenton Wheeler is a multidisciplinary artist who creates to the size of his heart, not to the size of the audience.
Trenton is a founding member of the folk-pop ensemble Seryn, whose music has been featured by Disney, Clayton Homes, Wells Fargo, Whataburger, MTV, VH1, Showtime, and countless others. Trenton also produces and performs music under the stage name Topknot (short for his tribal given name Owl Topknot Feather). When he’s not crafting his own music, Trenton stays busy behind the scenes—producing, engineering, and mixing for other artists across an eclectic mix of genres.
Honoring his Amskapi Pikuni (Blackfeet) heritage, Trenton continues the tradition of Northern Plains grass dancing and regularly hosts educational enrichment programs and speaking events. He is an advocate for Indigenous peoples, has served on the board of directors for the Native American Indian Association of Tennessee, and is a cofounder of IndigeNash, Nashville’s first Indigenous arts and culture festival. Trenton, his wife Marissa, and their three children live in Nashville.
About Jennifer Gougé
Jennifer is an Anishinaabe and Taíno transmedia artist who builds worlds through photography, illustration, installation, beads, and short fiction. Pulling from her degree in Studio Art from Dartmouth College and from her background in the Lac Courte Oreilles band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the Higuayagua Taíno of the Caribbean, she regards art as a toolkit for hope, resistance, and medicine.
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