In many ways, illustrator Lauren Rolwing embodies her art. Her uncluttered compositions hold an undercurrent of playfulness and whimsy beneath their intelligent designs. So it is with Rolwing: her enjoyable conversation is sprinkled with thoughtful references to the films she’s…
Famous for a smile that could light up any room, actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley’s beauty is truly captivating in person. Down-to-earth, funny, and charismatic, she impresses with her quick wit and anecdotal stories of life on the big screen. But what…
Carefully tucked away on the shelves and in the darkened crannies of the international artist, Paul Harmon’s atelier lays the final estate of another artist. For over two decades Paul has been the sole caretaker and archivist of the…
Months ago, gallery owner Susan Tinney asked Pam Longobardi, a surfer, conservationist, and art professor, to guest-curate a multi-artist exhibition at her gallery—Metaphysical Materiality is the fruit of their labor. The show runs through the end of July and…
The Beverly Keel & Ronnie Steine Collection
Strolling the home of Beverly Keel and Ronnie Steine may not be the equivalent of reveling in the glory of the Louvre, but it is close. If ever a Nashville private residence…
Did you know Nashville Children’s Theatre was formed in 1931 by the Junior League as an amateur theatre? Then, during the height of Nashville’s desegregation of schools, NCT was asked to consider programming during school hours so children would…
by Marshall Chapman
A week ago (June 6), I happened to be sitting in the back seat of a Ford Expedition barreling down a cobblestone highway in north central Mexico at speeds hovering around a hundred miles per hour. This…
by Debbie Mathis Watts
Throughout history, the beauty of words has been celebrated. From the writings of the Japanese haiku poets to the writings of Shakespeare to the popular lyrics of Lennon and McCartney, many who have expressed the beauty…
American Lithographed Tin Wind-Up Character
Toy “Charlie McCarthy,” Louis Marx Toy Company, Circa 1930s
Master of innuendo and snappy comebacks, wisecracking ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy was the creation of Edgar Bergen. Slow-witted Mortimer Snerd, man-hungry spinster Effie Klinker, and Charlie…
by Gayle Hutchinson
Several times
I’ve gone to God
About our love
And what to make of it.
The response is always the same . . . let him love you!
Seems irreverently invalid,
The owners of Finer Things Gallery, Kim Brooks and Rusty Wolfe, lost almost everything in the historic Nashville flood. Their home, studio, workshop, and outside sculpture garden were all destroyed. Several member galleries of the Nashville Association of Art Dealers (NAAD) were quick to help out and get involved by creating fundraising events during Thursday [...]
