Exhibitions
AVENUES TO A GREAT CITY
Frist Art Museum / 919 Broadway July 4 - December 14th
The Civic Design Center and the Frist Art Museum have partnered to create Avenues to a Great City, on view in the Conte Community Arts Gallery this summer. Visitors are invited to consider the complex art of civic design through an exploration of the growth of Nashville as envisioned in the Civic Design Center’s 2005 publication The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City. This exhibition also invites visitors to engage in open dialogues about the ongoing factors influencing Nashville as an ever-changing city.
Avenues to a Great City looks back at Nashville’s history and considers the role of transportation on current developments. The Plan of Nashville, a key resource for this exhibition, is a fifty-year community-oriented master plan for which over eight hundred adults and youth were asked for ideas on how to improve quality of life and limit the negative effects of suburban sprawl. These ideas are presented in Avenues to a Great City along with recent public and private developments influenced by The Plan of Nashville, artistic interpretations of the city, and yet-to-be realized visions. Guests are invited to contribute their own ideas for what Nashville can become in the next twenty years.
Organized by the Frist Art Museum and the Civic Design Center and cocurated by Veronica Foster, Anne Henderson, and Mark Scala
image: Imagine East Bank Plan (2022) envisions a riverfront park in place of the current Titans stadium.
About Frist Art Museum:
Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Frist Art Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit art exhibition center dedicated to presenting and originating high-quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities. Located at 919 Broadway in downtown Nashville, TN, the Frist Art Museum offers the finest visual art from local, regional, national, and international sources in exhibitions that inspire people through art to look at their world in new ways. Housed in Nashville’s former main post office building – the city’s treasured art deco structure that was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 – the Frist Art Museum is a 124,400-square-foot facility with more than 45,000 square feet of combined exhibition and public space. On site, there is a gift shop, Café Cheeserie, and the award-winning, interactive Martin ArtQuest gallery, where guests can create their own works of art. Information on accessibility can be found at FristArtMuseum.org/accessibility. Gallery admission is free for guests ages 18 and younger and for members, and $20 for adults. For current hours and additional information, visit FristArtMuseum.org or call 615-244-3340.
Press Contact: Buddy Kite, bkite@fristartmuseum.org, 615-744-3351
