Enjoy exciting original and experimental performances at Kindling Arts Festival (a fiscally sponsored project of the Arts & Business Council) and enjoy not one, but two, incredible art crawls in Wedgewood-Houston and Downtown Nashville, this weekend. There’s live music, art and art-making, theater, dance, jazz, and more. Get out and be inspired by our world-class creative community and all that Nashville has to offer!
Image Credit: Found Movement Group & Kindling Arts Festival
Kindling Arts Festival
Kindling Arts Festival
August 1–4, 2019
Track One | Flamingo Cocktail Club | Royal Circus
Obsession
Found Movement Group
August 1 & 2, 2019
Flaming Cocktail Club
Wavelength
Suspended Gravity
August 3 & 4, 2019
The Garage – Track One
Brief Encounters
An Evening of Bold Performance Art featuring Madeline Hicks, Natalie Risk, Gardening Not Architecture
August 3, 2019
Silo Room – Track One
All the Dead Things
Conceived by Nate Eppler + directed by Alicia Haymer
August 1, 2 & 4, 2019
Royal Circus
Counterpoint
A Celebration of Female Choreographers
August 1 & 2, 2019
The Garage – Track One
Knitty Gritty
Bernadette Turnage + Hannah McCarthy
August 3, 2019
Silo Room – Track One
The Darkness and Other Black Things
Feat. Jennifer Whitcomb-Oliva
August 6, 2019
Silo Room – Track One
The Lil Amanda Show
Feat. Amanda Card
August 2, 2019
Silo Room – Track One
The Possibility Room
Tessa Bryant + Dana Purser Gary
August 4, 2019
Silo Room – Track One
First Saturday Art Crawl
FirstBank First Saturday Art Crawl
August 3, 2019
Fifth Avenue of the Arts and in the Historic Arcade, Downtown Nashville
Chadwick Tolley’s “Sugar Mountain”
August 3–29, 2019
The Arts Company
Opening Reception for “Ghost Rings” Selected Works by Herb Williams
August 3, 2019
The Rymer Gallery
Street Cred
Ongoing through August 23, 2019
Tinney Gallery
The Browsing Room
August 3 — September 27, 2019
Downtown Presbyterian Church
Wedgewood-Houston Art Crawl
Xanadu
Ongoing through August 31, 2019
Zeitgeist Gallery
Evin Guthrie
Ongoing through September 28, 2019
Julia Martin Gallery
Jack Spencer
Ongoing through August 17, 2019
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
Houseguests: The Things We Takeaway
Ongoing through August 25, 2019
COOP Gallery
Craig Drennen, Act IV, Scene III
Ongoing through August 31, 2019
Unrequited Leisure
Marcus Manganni: Dead Horse Bay
Ongoing through August 24, 2019
Channel to Channel
The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park
INSTRUMENTHEAD
Ongoing through September 8, 2019
The Parthenon
Architecture Tours
August 3 & 4, 2019
Centennial Park
Moment to Moment: The Art of Martin Weinstein Exhibit
Ongoing through September 22, 2019
The Parthenon
Nashville Jazz Workshop
Roland Barber Live at the Workshop
August 2, 2019
Nashville Jazz Workshop
Frist Art Museum
Architecture Tour
August 3, 2019
Frist Member Morning
August 4, 2019
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Ongoing through September 2, 2019
Frist Art Museum
Teens Take the Frist
Ongoing through September 21, 2019
Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
Ongoing through September 29, 2019
Art & Soul Studio
Crazy Brave, Wild & Wonderful: Sacred & Saucy
August 3, 2019
Art & Soul Studio
Paper & Ink Arts
Linoleum Block Printing with Sarah Bogdal
August 3, 2019
Paper & Ink Arts
Turnip Green Creative Reuse
False Faces: New Masks by Jym Davis, with Crying Weasel Vintage!
August 3, 2019
Turnip Green Creative Reuse
Nossi College of Art
Fashion is for Every Body Kickoff Party and Silent Auction
August 2, 2019
Nossi College of Art
Scarritt Bennett Center
Vespers & All That Jazz
August 4, 2019
Wightman Chapel
Art Exhibit: Local Color: A Sense of Place
Ongoing through September 25, 2019
Scarritt Bennett Center
Nashville Children’s Theater
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Ongoing through August 4, 2019
Lipscomb University
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center
I Didn’t Know How to Tell You: American Veterans Art Show
Ongoing through August 11, 2019
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center
Red Arrow Gallery
“TEND” Jodi Hays Solo Exhibition
Ongoing through September 7, 2019
Red Arrow Gallery
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
Half-Price Weekend
August 3 & 4, 2019
In Bloom: Works from Cheekwood’s Permanent Collection
Ongoing through September 1, 2019
Storybook Houses
Ongoing through September 1, 2019
Cheekwood
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts
“Don’t Slam the Door” from artist Kristi Hargove
Ongoing through August 29, 2019
Space 204
Susan DeMay, Divergent Practices: A Career in Ceramics
Ongoing through September 13, 2019
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
Elephant Gallery
Smoke Show
Ongoing through August 3, 2019
Elephant Gallery
Galerie Tangerine
Wendy Walker Silverman: An Opal Ring and the Stories that Scared Me
Ongoing through August 9, 2019
Galerie Tangerine
21c Museum Hotel
The SuperNatural
Ongoing through September 30, 2019
21c Museum Hotel, 221 2nd Ave. N.
Know something we missed? Let us know at info@abcnashville.org