It’s the last Friday of May and the first weekend of June. Embrace the warmth of spring turning to summer and enjoy the weather while you can! This weekend plays host to myriad arts experiences including a collaboration between the Nashville Symphony and Nashville Ballet, two art crawls, live music, live theater, and more!
Image Credit: Detail of Music American Gothic by Beth Foley on display at David Lusk Gallery
Nashville Symphony and Nashville Ballet
Carmina Burana
May 31, 2019
Schermerhorn Symphony Center
5th Avenue of the Arts and Nashville Downtown Partnership
FirstBank First Saturday Art Crawl
June 1, 2019
5th Avenue of the Arts
Arts & Music at Wedgewood-Houston
Arts & Music at Wedgewood-Houston
June 1, 2019
Arts & Music at Wedgewood/Houston
Nashville Opera
Opera on the Mountain
June 1, 2019
Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory
The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park
Musicians Corner
June 1, 2019
Centennial Park
Frist Art Museum
Music at the Frist: Rachel Rodriquez
May 31, 2019
Docent-Guided Exhibition Tour with ASL Interpreter
June 1, 2019
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Ongoing through September 2, 2019
Frist Art Museum
Parnassus Books
Saturday Storytime
June 1, 2019
Children’s author event with Marianne Richmond, author of Hooray for You!
June 1, 2019
Author event with Shannon Bream author of Finding the Bright Side
June 1, 2019
Parnassus Books
Belcourt Theater
KNIFE+HEART (Un couteau dans le coeur)
May 31–June 1, 2019
Belcourt Theater
Scarritt Bennett Center
Vespers & All That Jazz
June 2, 2019
Scarritt Bennett Center
Create It in Donelson
Paint Your Pug Fundraiser
June 2, 2019
Robin’s Gallery
Franklin Theatre
The Wizard of Oz (Non-musical)
May 31, 2019
Lucky Stiff
June 1–2, 2019
The Addams Family
June 1–2, 2019
A Chorus Line
June 1–2, 2019
Franklin Theatre
Studio Tenn
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Ongoing through June 2, 2019
Jamison Theater in the Factory at Franklin
Monthaven Arts & Cultural Center
Generations Shuptrine: Three Generations of Art
Ongoing through June 15, 2019
Monthaven Arts & Cultural Center
Belmont University’s Department of Art & the Tennessee Arts Academy
My Blue Heaven: Works by Brooklyn-based artist Susan Bee
Ongoing through September 6, 2019
Leu Art Gallery
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
Derived from the Decorative
Ongoing through June 9, 2019
In Bloom: Works from Cheekwood’s Permanent Collection
Ongoing through September 1, 2019
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
Refuting “Noble Savages”: Reflections of Nature in Ancient Mesoamerican Artifacts
Ongoing through September 13, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
The Arts Company
Stacey Widelitz: Second Act & Bob Durham: Preliminary Provocations
Ongoing through June 27, 2019
The Arts Company
David Lusk Gallery
Beth Foley’s American Diversity: Homage to Grant Wood
Ongoing through June 29, 2019
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
COOP Gallery
Terry Thacker: A Theory of /Cloud/
May-June 2019
COOP Gallery
Studio 66
Tara Swalgren: Botanical Essence
June 1, 2019
Studio 66
Tennessee Arts Commission
Denise Stewart-Sanabria
Ongoing through June 7, 2019
TN Arts Commission Gallery, 401 MLK Jr. Blvd.
Red Arrow Gallery
In Between
May 11–June 15, 2019
Red Arrow Gallery
LeQuire Gallery
Juliette Aristides: Interiors and Still Lifes
Ongoing through June 22, 2019
LeQuire Gallery
Tinney Contemporary
Ashes to Snow: New Work by Jane Braddock
Ongoing through June 29, 2019
Tinney Contemporary
Locate Arts and Zeitgeist
TEXTUREXTRA: Zipporah Thompson + Richard Feaster
Ongoing through June 29, 2019
Zeitgeist
Tennessee State Museum
Between the Layers: Art and Story in Tennessee Quilts
Ongoing through July 7, 2019
Tennessee State Museum
Galerie Tangerine
Wendy Walker Silverman: An Opal Ring and the Stories that Scared Me
Ongoing through August 9, 2019
Galerie Tangerine
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Hatch Show Print Block Party June
June 1, 2019
Little Big Town: The Power of Four Exhibit
Ongoing through June 9, 2019
Exhibit | The Judds: Dream Chasers
Ongoing through July 14, 2019
Exhibit | Emmylou Harris: Songbird’s Flight
Ongoing through August 4, 2019
American Currents: The Music of 2018
Ongoing through February 9, 2020
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
21c Museum Hotel
The SuperNatural
Ongoing through October 2019
21c Museum Hotel, 221 2nd Ave. N.
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