I was out of town yesterday and wasn’t able to catch Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston, but from all reports, the event was a huge success!
Here are some videos from the event. I will update as more videos come down the pipeline.
“light adapted” @ Track One
Bill Vincent’s projection-mapped Nashville Skyline @ Fort Houston
Shelby Shadwell “Auniversal Picture 7” @ threesquared
My neighborhood will be bustling Saturday, November 2nd for the fourth Arts & Music @ Wedgewood/Houston. Participating galleries include Infinity Cat Records, Zeitgeist, Cleft Studios, Fort Houston, Ground Floor Gallery, threesquared and an after party at Track One. Look for a map at any participating gallery for the full list.
The crawl is from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Track One will stay open until 11:00 p.m.
Here are a few highlights:
Infinity Cat Records
467 Humphreys St., Nashville, TN 37203
This Saturday night at the Infinity Cat Visitors Center there will be a show of photographic prints by Julia Bee. Fans of JEFF the Brotherhood, Apache Relay, Mumford and Sons, The Vaccines, and Old Crow Medicine Show will be able to view (and purchase) photos from last Saturday’s epic night of rock. Julia Bee is a local photographer who’s been shooting Nashville’s dirtiest, grittiest, gnarliest shows for years. At age seventeen she began shooting for Nashville’s Dead and continued to expand reach into the photographic community. Shooting only traditional 35mm film, she develops and prints all of her work in her own darkroom, and will be opening Nashville’s first community-based darkroom in the coming months at Fort Houston (with the help of friend and fellow photographer Bekah Cope). This weekend, armed only with a camera and ten rolls of film, she followed supergroup Salvador Dali Parton through their entire three day craze of writing, rehearsing, and performing. Salvador Dali Parton is Jake Orrall, Mike Harris, Winston Marshall, Justin Hayward-Young, and Gill Landry. — Infinity Cat Press Release
Track One
8 p.m. – 11 p.m.
1209 4th Ave S, Nashville, Tn 37203
Light Adapted – Projection Art by Black and Jones (Kell Black and Barry Jones), Jonathan Rattner, Kelli Hix, Morgan Higby-Flowers, Michael Hampton, Mika Agari, Zack Rafuls and Josh Gumiela. — Press release from Track One.
If you liked our Bring Your Own Beamer show at Track One a few months ago or our ON/OFF electronic art show at S.N.A.P. Center for the first Wedgewood/Houston art crawl, you’ll love this showcase of projection art. Curators Josh Gumiela and Morgan Higby-Flowers participated in those previous shows, and they have some amazing things cooked up for Saturday night. Trust me. Don’t miss this.
Ground Floor Gallery
Chestnut Square Building
Conditionally Human — A juried exhibition featuring Richard Brouillet, Chris Burks, Aletha Carr, Julie Cowan, Liz Heller, Kelly Hider, Ryan Hoevenaar, Laney Humphrey, Nathan Madrid, Elysia Mann, Miriam Norris Omura, Mary Robinson, Liz Clayton Scofield, Bridgit Stoffer, Denise Tarantino, Ross Turner, Jake Weigel, Cathleen Windham and Fotios Zemenides.
This exhibition juried by University of Texas at San Antonio professor Libby Rowe is sure to be one of the highlights of the crawl. Bring Your Own Beamer and ON/OFF participant Liz Clayton Scofield will unveil a new work.
threesquared
Chestnut Square Building
Auniversal Picture – new large-scale drawings by Shelby Shadwell, Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Wyoming. Shadwell actively exhibits across the nation and was recently featured in the International Drawing Annual 5 and 6 publications through the Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he had a solo exhibition in February 2013. — threesquared press release.
Zeitgeist Gallery
516 Hagan Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37203
Shade Models by Patrick DeGuira is made up of paintings, collage and sculpture and investigates the concepts of memory, time and language. It deals with the creation of impermanence in one’s historical makeup.
Reckonings by Gieves Anderson is a series of images made by photographing wet paint. The photograph freezes the fleeting moment when the paint is at the height of it’s vitality and allows the artist to share an intimate, ephemeral moment in the life of a painting causing one to think about paint as something other than an end product. — Zeitgeist press release.
Fort Houston
500 Houston Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37203
Fort Houston is pleased to present Unit 2 (part 2): From the High Chair to the Electric Chair, an exhibition of a model society designed by David Duncan, Ron Cauthern, and other prisoners on Tennessee’s death row.
Constructed from materials permitted by prison authorities, including painted cardboard, plastic, and pasted paper, the miniature city offers a view of the society from the standpoint of individuals it has condemned to death. In a series of episodic vignettes, it traces a dispiriting, but familiar path from the housing projects through the playgrounds and schools and ultimately to the prisons and execution chambers. In this piece, the artists describe a social landscape where a persistent lack of opportunity becomes an engine of criminality and incarceration, where the downtrodden are continuously subjected to surveillance and control, and where social and political failures destroy lives. Overall, the ensemble suggests that our courtrooms, prisons, and execution chambers will never be empty until our institutions take responsibility for society’s most vulnerable citizens. It argues that social and political failures inaugurate a cycle of poverty and incarceration that frequently repeats itself from one generation to the next.
The diorama advances this critique while aspiring to introduce its audience to some of the dismal realities of contemporary poverty and imprisonment. As David Duncan had remarked, “I don’t want children today to learn about this cycle after they’re in prison.” — Fort Houston press release.
Fort Houston will also feature multimedia artist Bill Vincent‘s amazing projection-mapped Nashville skyline.
Cleft Studios
444 Humphreys St, Nashville, TN 37203
New Work by Rbt. Sps. and Christine Rogers
This is shaping up to be one of the best art crawls of the year! Here’s an area map to help you plan your route:
Tonight you face a tough choice.
7 p.m. at Vanderbilt’s Wilson Hall, you have experimental filmmaker Leighton Pierce in-person screening his latest film. Laura Hutson has the details at Country Life.
7 p.m. at Fort Houston, you have the final installment of Les Blank Film Month: Rare 16mm screenings of Blank’s short roots music docs. Laura Hutson, once again, has the details at Country Life.
You know what I’ve noticed? Nashville Scene arts editor Laura Hutson always seems to be on-point with news on the best local art happenings. So much of her hard work goes unsung, and I just want to take a moment to say we’re incredibly fortunate to have this NYC transplant in our city.
As if the decision for tonight weren’t difficult enough, you also have the final screening of Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason tonight at 6:25 p.m. at the Belcourt.
I want to split myself into three pieces and attend everything. As it happens, I’ll be at the Les Blank screening filling in for Kelli Hix on projector-operating duties. Let me know how the other two events go!
Fort Houston’s swanky Replicator 2 3D printer
The Wedgewood/Houston makerspace and community workshop Fort Houston recently acquired a Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printer. That’s perfect timing for Greg Pond’s 3D printing workshops Sunday, October 6th at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Space is limited, so reserve your spot soon! From the Fort Houston site:
For more information on the instructor, please visit http://gregpond.net/.
This class will provide the foundations for using SketchUp CAD software to generate 3D models that can be printed on a Makerbot 3D printer. We will begin by learning to design 3D models in SketchUp, providing an overview of the basic tools, best practices for design and how to install program extensions called plugins. The second half of the class will focus on techniques for drawing models in SketchUp that can be output as physical plastic model. We will work through a series of exercises that will yield 3D prints for you to keep.
Materials and Costs associated with putting on the class:
Participants need to bring their own laptops with SketchUp installed.
Beginner level course, no experience necessary.
This session is open to anyone who has some basic experience making 3D models in any CAD software who wants to learn how to or refine their models for export and 3D printing. We will share projects, ideas and questions as well as work on individual projects. Participants should bring their own laptop computer with the CAD software of choice. This session is designed for those who have a working knowledge of their CAD software such as SketchUp, Rhino, SolidWorks, or Meshlab and want assistance with designing and refining objects for 3D printing. We will print objects from participants or demonstration models during this session.