We love connecting you to great contemporary art in Tennessee. Saturday's pop-up exhibition is another example of how LOCATE Arts wants to spotlight innovative work from across the state. Many thanks to Mike Calway-Fagen for curating! It's a great excuse to get out to Nashville's first Saturday art crawl, whether you live in Nashville or not. We hope to see some folks from other cities there too! Here's the scoop: LOCATE Arts was invited by...
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Jody Stokes-Casey: With being selected to exhibit in State of the Art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and being named a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, you’ve had an impressive bout of major successes recently. Congratulations! John Douglas Powers: Thank you! Being named a Guggenheim Fellow is a tremendous honor and has certainly been a welcome surprise. My inclusion in State of the Art was—and continues to be—a re...
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Sara Estes: You are primarily a collage artist. How did you come to use ready-made images as raw material? Have you always done collage? Lester Merriweather: As I was attending Skowhegan in 2002, I was in grad school and went there working on a lot of things digital, a lot of photography work. Somewhere during all that, when I had time to work and process things in that setting, I came back to simply wanting to draw. From that...
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