Critic's Pick — Artist’s Perspective: Raven Chacon

One of the most intriguing works in the Frist Art Museum exhibition An Indigenous Present is “American Ledger No. 1,” artist and composer Raven Chacon’s screenprint on a wool-and-synthetic blanket. The piece is both full of information and minimal, as if every mark was created with extreme intentionality. In it, Chacon relies on the structure of a U.S. flag, but swaps its stars and stripes for musical notation. When the notation is played, a kind of narrative unfolds, which the artist describes as “moments of contact, enactment of laws, events of violence, the building of cities, and erasure of land and worldview.” Chacon, who is the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, will be at the Frist Thursday to talk about this piece, and provide insight into his extraordinary process. 

6:30 p.m. at the Frist

919 Broadway