Nashville Portraits
09.28.2010 - 10.14.2010
Main Gallery and Coleman Gallery
Featuring the portraits of over 60 Country music stars, Nashville Portraits has been described as “a vital blast of visual radio” by Nashville art critic Jim Ridley. The images were taken by one of the industry’s most celebrated photographers, Jim McGuire, who has helped define the public’s perception of countless artists through his penetrating portraits. Nashville Portraits has traveled all over the country and has been exhibited at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
Over the past thirty-five years, McGuire has met, photographed, and befriended many musical heroes. He has photographed more than 400 album covers and hundreds of black-and-white portraits of Nashville musicians that span over 35 years. McGuire shares a downtown loft in Nashville with his dog Django.
“Most of us have a drawer full of snapshots that remind us of the good times,” said McGuire. “These are some of mine.”
Nashville Portraits is organized by the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Ga.
Strings Attached: A Collection from Taylor Guitar Company
09.02.2010 - 12.04.2010
Dove Galleries
Breathtakingly beautiful and historic guitars from the archives of Taylor Guitar Company. A treat for musicians and music lovers alike. Made possible by Taylor Guitar Company.
It's Your World
7.03.2010 - 10.31.2010
Blumberg Gallery
A contemporary take on traditional landscape. Learn that the term 'landscape' doesn't always refer to the traditional mountain view or expanse of rural horizon that one might expect. It's your world, will explore how several contemporary southern artists interpret the landscape around them including work by artist Brooke White (Oxford, MS), Carlyle Wolfe (Oxford, MS), Scott Stephens (Vestavia Hills, AL), Murray Johnston (Birmingham, AL).
Transported Traditions
Haitian Spirit Flags
05.12.2010 - 10.09.2010
Lecture Hall Gallery
Explore the technique and skill that goes into creating one of Haiti's oldest art forms. They are each constructed of sequins, beads and hand-sewn into fabric. Haitian spirit flags bring to life the dramatic iconography of Haitian religious beliefs. All work on loan from Marcia Weber Art Objects.
Traveling Exhibit: Handed Down, Passed Along
Made possible in part by a grant from the Metlife Foundation and the Alabama State Council on the Arts
Exhibition Schedule 2010
March - May, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, Houston County
June - July, Dale County Council of Arts & Humanities, Ozark-Dale County
August - September, Covington county Public Library, Andalusia - Covington County
September - October, Covington County Cultural Arts Council, Opp-Covington County
November - December, The Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy-Pike County
January, The Henry County Public Library, Abbeville-Henry County
February - March, Carnegie Public Library, Eufaula-Barbour County
April - May, Wiregrass Commons Mall, Dothan, Houston County
Brenda Register, Dothan