Family Fun at the Frist!

Located in the heart of downtown Nashville, the Frist is a world-class art museum presenting an ever-changing schedule of exhibitions and offering something for everyone—from toddlers to teens and grown-ups too.

Families especially love the award-winning Martin ArtQuest, a hands-on creative space filled with interactive art-making stations where you can make your own masterpieces.

Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman features 17 artists working with both analog and emergent technologies to visualize the interrelationship between humanity, other species, and the earth itself. Using tools such as digital animation, augmented and virtual reality, and motion capture and generative software, artists Ian Cheng, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Marguerite Humeau, Josèfa Ntjam, Jacolby Satterwhite, Saya Woolfalk, and others challenge the view that human exceptionalism allows us to ignore the need to care for the more-than-human world. Like the surrealists, these artists tap into the transformative agency of the marvelous, the uncanny, and the unpredictable. In their fluid and floating creations, images morph, flicker, and dance, forming psychologically charged archetypes within a new collective unconscious.  Learn more.     

New-media artist Robin Vuchnich draws inspiration from Henry David Thoreau to create interactive, light-based installations that bring to life her own interest in environmental stewardship and diminishing biodiversity. To create the first part of her installation, In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers, Vuchnich drew from the Harvard collection to compose a projected grid of pressed plants. This data visualization is color coded to reveal research from scientists tracking species decline in Concord. If Thoreau walked those woods today, he would encounter a profoundly altered landscape: More than half of the species he collected are now declining toward local extinction.   Learn more.