Events

Upcoming events

Dec 12

Gallery Talk: “Magdalena Floats: On Sacred Holds and Movement”

Thursday, December 12, 2024, 6:00–6:30 p.m.

Ingram Gallery Gallery admission required

Presented by Dr. Grace L. Sanders Johnson Join us for a gallery talk by Dr. Grace L. Sanders Johnson, associate professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, exploring the exhibition María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold. Sanders Johnson’s talk will dive deeper into the artwork on view and talk largely about… Read More
Dec 12

Thirty-Minute Exhibition Tour 

Thursday, December 12, 2024, 6:30–7:00 p.m.

Gallery admission required

Repeats every Thursday evening
Learn more about María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold on this informal thirty-minute tour with a Frist Art Museum docent. Tours meet at the Ingram Gallery Information Desk. Read More
Dec 12

Literary Salon: María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold

Thursday, December 12, 2024, 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Café Cheeserie Free

See how language helps you experience María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold anew. Poet Ciona Rouse, owner of Bard’s Towne Books & Bourbon, has curated a special selection of books—poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. You’re invited to join other literary-loving people in Café Cheeserie to discuss how the language of these works expands our connections with Campos-Pons’s incredible exhibition. Read just one or all three! Or don’t read at all, but come for fellowship, music from the Jeff Coffin Trio, and to learn from our community of readers.  Read More
Dec 13

Music for Seniors Holiday Concert

Friday, December 13, 2024, 10:30–11:30 a.m.

Auditorium Free; registration requested

Join us for a holiday concert featuring long-time Nashville favorites John England & the Western Swingers, a six-piece Nashville band that plays Western swing. The group has played at Nashville’s Robert’s Western World every Monday since July 2001. The Swingers have also performed at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Grand Ole… Read More
Dec 14

Adult ARTlab: Traditional Japanese Bookbinding with Suminagashi

Saturday, December 14, 2024, 1:00–4:00 p.m.

Studio A

Join the Frist Art Museum and artist Rima Day for this workshop inspired by Journey through Japan: Myths to Manga. Explore suminagashi, a traditional Japanese marbling technique using sumi ink on a water surface, and then create your own book cover for a notebook using this Japanese bookbinding method. Read More
Dec 14

Frist Films: Godzilla vs. Destoroyah

Saturday, December 14, 2024, 3:00–5:00 p.m.

Auditorium Free; first come, first seated

Join us for this classic 1995 Japanese kaiju film that will leave you wanting more, more, MORE destruction! This movie is presented in conjunction with Journey through Japan: Myths to Manga.  Something has destroyed Birth Island, home of Godzilla and Little Godzilla! Worse, Godzilla has developed a bright, fiery glow—his nuclear energy… Read More
Dec 14

Architecture Tour

Saturday, December 14, 2024, 3:30–4:30 p.m.

Meet in the Grand Lobby Free; no reservations necessary

Offered every Saturday and Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
When was the Frist Art Museum built? Who was the architect? Can you tell me about the floors in the galleries? Enjoy a guided tour of our landmark art deco building at 3:30 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday. Read More
Dec 15

Architecture Tour

Sunday, December 15, 2024, 3:30–4:30 p.m.

Meet in the Grand Lobby Free; no reservations necessary

Offered every Saturday and Sunday at 3:30 p.m.
When was the Frist Art Museum built? Who was the architect? Can you tell me about the floors in the galleries? Enjoy a guided tour of our landmark art deco building at 3:30 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday. Read More
Dec 19

Thirty-Minute Exhibition Tour 

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 6:30–7:00 p.m.

Gallery admission required

Repeats every Thursday evening
Learn more about Journey through Japan: Myths to Manga on this informal thirty-minute tour with a Frist Art Museum docent. Tours meet at the Ingram Gallery Information Desk. Read More
Dec 19

Close Looking: Behold

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 6:30–7:00 p.m.

Ingram Gallery Gallery admission required

Join us for a closer look at artworks in María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold led by museum educators. Our Close Looking sessions are opportunities to come together as a community and practice looking, talking, listening, and engaging with art and each other. Read More

Exhibitions on view today