Best Artist-in-Residence

In November 2018, Nashville artist and Lipscomb University professor Rocky Horton took out an ad right here in the Scene’s pages declaring himself to be Nashville’s official artist-in-residence. Over the course of this year, Horton has completed a number of projects under the banner of his residency, including an interactive online send-up of Jack Kershaw’s infamous Nathan Bedford Forrest statue, as well as a display of gorgeous floral still-life paintings at The Arts Company. But the highlight of the project is Horton’s design for the South American-dictator-style “Artist in Residence” sash he fashioned for himself. Here’s hoping that sash and this irreverent new tradition will be passed on to another local artist in 2020. JOE NOLAN

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