Artist Vesna Pavlović has an incredibly far-reaching influence. She has exhibited internationally, but in Nashville her work is particularly wide-ranging — she’s been featured in ambitious gallery exhibitions (such as MixTape at Zeitgeist) as well as museums (Projected Histories at the Frist), but she also works as the chair of the art department at Vanderbilt University. There are few artists in Nashville who can claim similar prestige in gallery, museum and academic settings. And Woven Wind adds another interdisciplinary element on top of all of that. The exhibition encapsulates a multimedia project that Pavlović has spearheaded in collaboration with artists Courtney Adair Johnson, Marlos E’van, Mélisande Short-Colomb, Rod McGaha, Jan Hillegas and Woody Register, and it explores the “complex harmonies between music, memory and the African American experience.” Central to the show — and of particular interest to Scene readers — is a soundscape composed by McGaha that “fills the galleries and invites listeners to connect with the resilience and artistry of the African American musical tradition.”
Through June 12 at the National Museum of African American Music
510 Broadway
