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Reverse Angle: Emerging Video Artists and Innerspace, Permaculture and UFOs: the Art of Michael Oliveri Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., October 10 until Sun., January 4	Belle Meade/White Bridge/West Meade	Art: Ongoing
Cheekwood's newest exhibit features the artwork of Michael Oliveri, who uses scientific processes to explore inner spaces of molecular science, nanotechnology and biological engineering. Oliveri's playful and somewhat eerie sculptures and photographs are inspired by structures produced by... More>>

Connect 12 Artist Collective Downtown Presbyterian Church	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., November 1 until Sun., November 30	Downtown	Art: Ongoing
One of the worst things about a gallery closing is the way it can set talented artists adrift, losing career and creative momentum, searching for a new home-base. Local artist Ben Vitualla--a standout talent from the much-missed Dangenart Gallery--gathered his friends together for the first... More>>

Passages Gallery One	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., November 1 until Sat., November 29	Belle Meade/White Bridge/West Meade	Art: Ongoing
For artists living in different cities and working in different media, Lorraine Glessner and Jennifer Bain share a remarkably similar aesthetic sense, which makes this two-person show particularly intriguing. Philadelphian Glessner combines fabrics, threads, paper, paint and found items in... More>>

The Works of Alan LeQuire and Somers Randolph LeQuire Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., November 15 until Sat., January 10	Charlotte Pike/Sylvan Park/West Nashville	Art: Ongoing
Even if you're not an art buff, you've still seen Alan LeQuire's work: He sculpted the Music Row Roundabout's "nekkid statue" Musica as well as the Parthenon's more discreetly garbed Athena. At the LeQuire Gallery's new exhibit, visitors will get to see his work on a smaller scale. While... More>>

Open to the Night Nashville Public Library	Daily from Sat., September 27 until Sun., January 4	Downtown	Art: Ongoing
Drawing has been all the rage in American galleries and museum shows the last few years, and lovers of lines have found much to enjoy in the recent Shades of Gray exhibit at the Frist Center. Now, Sue Mulcahy--the standout artist in Gray--is getting the chance to move a few blocks downtown to... More>>

Guilt by Association: Paintings by Joe and Jon Silva Ovvio Arte	Fri., November 14 more dates/times		Art: Ongoing
Though brothers Joe and Jon Silva have never exhibited together before, their art shares a common thread, reflecting the street art prevalent in their native Los Angeles. (Both brothers currently live in Nashville.) Working with a variety of media--collage, stencil, brushwork and spray... More>>

Immersion: A Katrina Room Parthenon	Daily from Wed., August 27 until Sat., December 13	Broadway/The Gulch/Music Row/West End	Art: Ongoing
It's hard to believe that three years have passed since New Orleans suffered the devastating floods wrought by Hurricane Katrina. A new photography exhibition at The Parthenon gives viewers a chance to experience this catastrophic event for themselves. The central work in Immersion documents... More>>

Earth, Air and Water Parthenon	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 14 until Sat., January 31	Broadway/The Gulch/Music Row/West End	Art: Ongoing
The focal point of Nancy Hellebrand's photography has always been nature. Her subject matter is often organic and ubiquitous--trees and other plant life, streams, clouds--but she depicts the commonplace with an enthusiastic eye. Hellebrand manipulates color and focus, often using multiple... More>>

Southern Exposure Ruby Green Contemporary Art Center	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., October 18 until Sat., November 29	Broadway/The Gulch/Music Row/West End	Art: Ongoing
After discerning similarities in the work of Southern artists and their California counterparts, Ruby Green guest curator Mery Lynn McCorkle has organized a show of illustrations by 15 artists from Southern California. McCorkle is based in Los Angeles but hails from Georgia, and her selections... More>>

Color Is Relative Rymer Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., November 1 until Sat., November 29	Downtown	Art: Ongoing
Coming off their recent popular run with Kevin Kelly's solo exhibit, this month's First Saturday Art Crawl finds Rymer Gallery hosting a group show of gallery stalwarts, local veterans and new faces. In addition to new sculpture by Gallery curator/artist-in-residence, Herb Williams, Color is... More>>

The Works of Gina Binkley Sarratt Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., November 13 until Mon., December 1	Vanderbilt	Art: Ongoing
While Grammy-nominated illustrator/designer Binkley spends most of her day working on ad campaigns and illustrations for clients such as Nike, Coca-Cola and the NFL, she finds time to create intricate assemblages constructed from discarded bits of paper and objects such as combs, clothespins or... More>>

Brooklyn: Part 2 Showroom	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Mon., November 3 until Wed., December 3		Art: Ongoing
The Showroom's second show this year highlighting Brooklyn artists features the work of two oil painters, Jason Bryant and Ryan Scully. Bryant creates portraits of what appear to be celebrities, though the images are cropped below eye-level, focusing on the subjects' attire and removing any... More>>

Portals and Vessels Snow Gallery	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., November 15 until Tue., December 30	Belmont/Edgehill/Hillsboro Village	Art: Ongoing
In the Snow Gallery's new show of pottery and paper, East meets West, old meets new and the ephemeral evokes the eternal. Sculptor Bill Dale uses a primitive hand-building process that allows him to shape large, oblong forms from long "ropes" of clay. Claudia Lee makes use of similarly... More>>

Works by Steven Miller and Victor Schmidt Studio B Gallery	Daily from Sat., September 6 until Wed., April 1	8 South/12 South/Berry Hill	Art: Ongoing
Studio B continues its mission to bring art gallery culture to the 12 South neighborhood with this new show of paintings and sculpture by two artists whose work mixes well together. Steven Miller is a painter and photographer whose recent output marries his two loves--science and art--resulting... More>>

Heroic Tennessee State University Main Campus	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., October 15 until Wed., November 26	Charlotte Pike/Sylvan Park/West Nashville	Art: Ongoing
The latest show at Tennessee State University continues a challenging month of programming that finds curator Jodi Hays racing videos, performances, exhibits and lectures in and out of the Hiram Van Gordon Gallery on the North-side campus. Pretty much any day in October, you can see something... More>>

The Image Makers: The Artistry of Manuel and Cambridge Jones Tinney Contemporary	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., November 1 until Sat., November 29	Downtown	Art: Ongoing
Award-winning photographer Cambridge Jones has shot luminaries both local (Jack White) and not so local (Queen Elizabeth). The couturier known as Manuel has a similar range: He's dressed celebrity clients from Elvis and Dolly Parton to The Beatles. (He also created Johnny Cash's "man in... More>>

Works by Jules de Balincourt Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery	Daily from Thu., October 23 until Fri., December 5	Broadway/The Gulch/Music Row/West End	Art: Ongoing
Joseph Whitt has been busy pushing the boundaries at Vanderbilt through another original exhibit of works by the renowned New York-based painter Jules de Balincourt. By employing styles of folk art and abstraction in his artworks, de Balincourt is able to challenge the limitations of... More>>

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Works by John Hung Ha & Andy Anh Ha Andrewjohn Gallery	Daily	Downtown	Art: Ongoing

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The Three Rs in Tennessee's Cultural History Arts Center of Cannon County	Daily from Thu., August 7 until Mon., June 1	Tennessee	Art: Ongoing History/Exhibits

The Wave of My Eyes The Arts Company	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., November 8 until Fri., December 19	Downtown	Art: Ongoing

Caldwell Collection Caldwell Collection	Daily	Green Hills	Art: Ongoing

Carter, Mitchell and Sochorova Art Exhibition Centennial Art Center	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Fri., November 7 until Fri., November 28	Broadway/The Gulch/Music Row/West End	Art: Ongoing

The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation’s Collection of Faberge Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday	Belle Meade/White Bridge/West Meade	Art: Ongoing

American Art Pottery: From Rockwood to Weller Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday	Belle Meade/White Bridge/West Meade	Art: Ongoing

Artists Collect: The Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong Private Collection Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art	Daily from Sat., October 11 until Sun., January 4	Belle Meade/White Bridge/West Meade	Art: Ongoing