By NashvilleArtsTeam on July 29, 2010
Sculpting Workshop at Harpeth Art Center & Gallery
French sculptor Philippe Faraut brings his talents to the midstate this month. Participants have traveled from all corners of the United States to take part in the sculptor’s series of classes at …
Posted in EVENTS, NEWS, SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT | Tagged fusion of dimension, gallery, harpeth art center, mud puddle studio, pegram, phillipe faraut, sculpting, sculptor, workshop
By NashvilleArtsTeam on June 29, 2010
Nashville recently welcomed its newest “citizen,” and, judging from appearances, he is friendly, tall, and artsy. Citizen is actually a glass and metal sculpture that features a male and female figure. North Carolina artist Thomas Sayre was chosen in 2006 …
Posted in NEWS, SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT, VISUAL ART | Tagged citizen, metal, nashville, public, public square park, SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT, thomas sayre
By NashvilleArtsTeam on June 29, 2010
Handcrafted Rocking Chairs
Alan Daigre is a chair maker and hand-tool craftsman living in Readyville, Tennessee, a rural farming community sixty miles southeast of Nashville. Daigre developed an appreciation for history and heritage growing up in beautiful Natchez, Mississippi, the …
Posted in SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT | Tagged alan daigre, appalachian, artisan, chair, chair maker, chairs, craftsman, furniture, traditional, wood, woodsman, woodworking, workshops
By NashvilleArtsTeam on June 29, 2010
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 …
Posted in ANTIQUES, EVENTS, JEWELRY, NEWS, SCULPTURE, SPOTLIGHT | Tagged art after hours, auction, bid, finer things gallery, flood, NAAD
By NashvilleArtsTeam on June 28, 2010
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 features …
Posted in PAINTING, SCULPTURE, VISUAL ART | Tagged deborah walden, gulf, materiality, metaphysical, oil spill, PAINTING, pam longbardi, susan tinney
By NashvilleArtsTeam on June 5, 2010
Bruce Peebles’ film, “Moving Sculptures” will keep you spell-bound as you view his moving electronic sculptures pulsating with animated and organic precision. Watch as each sculpture cycles through its dance of optical illusions. These waving mechanics, with names like “Antikythera”, …
Posted in SCULPTURE, VIDEO | Tagged bruce, electronic, peebles, SCULPTURE, VIDEO