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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

Frist Art Museum Presents Project Uplift 2025: Sole Study

April 4, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents Project Uplift 2025: Sole Study, an installation of works by Nashville artist Dominique “YOUNIQUE” Coleman that explores the cultural and creative connections between sneakers, hip-hop, and individuality. Sole Study is the third iteration of Project Uplift and will be on view at the Frist beginning April 10, 2025.   Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Exhibition Exploring Relationship Between Two Rival Mediterranean Superpowers

April 2, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents Venice and the Ottoman Empire, an exhibition that explores the artistic and cultural exchange between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire over four centuries. Organized by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and The Museum Box, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Ingram Gallery from May 31 through September 1, 2025. Read More

Nashville Artists Address Food Justice and Production in Exhibition of Painting, Photography, and More

February 27, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents Enough to Go Around: Food and Community in Nashville, an exhibition that addresses topics of food production, food insecurity and food’s role in bringing people together. The juried exhibition of paintings, photography, and more serves as a companion exhibition to Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism and Tennessee Harvest, 1870s–1920s and will be on view in the always-free Conte Community Arts Gallery from March 21 through June 29, 2025. Read More

Frist Art Museum Elects Five New Members to Board of Trustees

February 20, 2025
The Frist Art Museum is excited to announce that five board members have been elected to the Frist Art Museum Board of Trustees. The new members—Kendra Deas, Bryan Frist, Kent Kirby, Ken Levitan, and Will Meyer—bring broad experience in fields ranging from architecture and entertainment to finance and HR. Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Companion Exhibitions Celebrating David C. Driskell, His Contemporaries, and the Legacy of Fisk University’s Art Department

January 15, 2025
The Frist Art Museum presents David C. Driskell & Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, and Friendship, an exhibition that traces the artist’s career and his relationships with contemporaries. It will be shown concurrently with Kindred Spirits: Intergenerational Forms of Expression, 1966–1999, an exhibition that explores the legacy and influence of Fisk University’s art department, which Driskell led from 1966 to 1976. Read More

Exhibition of Multimedia Works by Haitian American Artists M. Florine Démosthène and Didier William Explore Cultural Duality and the Immigrant Experience

December 12, 2024
The Frist Art Museum presents M. Florine Démosthène and Didier William: What the Body Carries, a multimedia exhibition of figurative paintings, collages, and sculptures by Haitian American artists M. Florine Démosthène and Didier William. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from January 31 through May 4, 2025. Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Companion Exhibitions Exploring Food and Identity Through Impressionist and Realist Paintings

December 5, 2024
The Frist Art Museum presents Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism and Tennessee Harvest: 1870s–1920s, two companion exhibitions that explore the intersections of art, gastronomy, and identity. Both exhibitions will be on view in the Frist’s Ingram galleries from January 31 through May 4, 2025. Read More