This year’s Periscope Pitch + Artist Entrepreneur Showcase is coming up September 7! Bookmark this post and follow us on social media, as we will be updating this page with spotlights of the Class of 2022, our presenters and judges and more up until the day of the event! We hope you’ll join us at… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Yenny LeDoux Zarama! Yenny LeDoux Zarama has a strong passion for photography and oil painting. This passion is deeply intertwined with a life-long resolve to embrace… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Dooby Tomkins! William R. “Dooby” Tomkins Jr. uses a variety of materials including hand cut layered paper, oil paint, acrylics, ink, encaustic, and other mixed media… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville (ABC) proudly announces the selection of 16 business professionals for the fall cohort of Arts Board Matching. This is the second of two cohorts in 2022, continuing ABC’s efforts to expand the reach of this instrumental program that prepares business professionals for nonprofit board service and matches… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Dina D’Argo! Dina D’Argo is a painter whose loose, layered imagery lies somewhere between abstract and representational. Her work is an expression of the bond between… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Andy King! Andy King is a painter and a teacher of art and art history. In his oil paintings, he demonstrates elements of the Symbolists, Surrealism,… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Kelley Rice! Kelley Rice creates encaustic paintings, which is the use of pigments mixed with hot wax burned in as an inlay. She finds the medium’s… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Holly Carden! Holly Carden, a Periscope alum, is a British-American traditional and digital illustrator who creates in the whimsical, highly detailed “wimmelbilderbuch” style. Wimmelbilderbuch (German for… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Matthew Christy! Matthew Christy is a painter and writer who uses an oil pastel transfer process that allows him to combine images to create abstract patterns… Read more »
June 9, 2022 — The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville is saddened to learn that Artist of the Week, Barry A. Noland, passed away this week. We honor Barry’s life and legacy as a photographer by sharing his work with you, and we offer our deepest condolences to his family, friends and colleagues… Read more »