Fort Houston helped establish the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood as Nashville’s busiest and best arts district. But the organization’s latest move finds Fort Houston starting a new era in a new location where its signature mix of creative industries and fine art continues to grow and become more refined. The space is now located south of downtown on Willow Street in some sprawling digs that include Fort Houston’s fabrication company The Forge, community-based workshop STATE Gallery, and an annual artist-in-residence program that’s totally underwritten by a little football team you might have heard of called the Tennessee Titans. Not bad for a hole-in-the-wall art space that used to hold First Saturday keg parties on the loading dock of a motorcycle repair shop. JOE NOLAN
Best New and Improved Art Center
Fort Houston/The Forge
Maggie Sanger installing work at STATE gallery
