The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville proudly announces the inaugural class of Periscope: Rural Artist Development (Periscope RAD), an online training and mentorship program uniquely designed to be a transformative experience empowering rural artists with the entrepreneurial skills to help them thrive. Training sessions are led by expert business advisors and small group… 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 Justin Redmon! Justin is a natural-born illustrator who began his artistic practice by making illustrations of vintage cars using pencil and brush. Today, his chosen medium is digital illustration… 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 Nikki Commander! Nikki is a painter and third-generation artist from Nashville. She is a self-identified perpetual purpose-seeker and over thinker. She has found that for her personally, communication is… 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 Marlos E’van! Marlos is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Nashville whose work interweaves painting, performance, and filmmaking. Their work creates worlds in which their art recollects black histories through… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville (ABC) proudly announces the selection of 14 business professionals for the spring cohort of Arts Board Matching! This is the first 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 Pam Austin! Pam Austin is an abstract painter who works primarily with acrylic on canvas. Following a successful career in business, Pam returned to her childhood passion of creating… 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 Ashleigh York! Ashleigh is an abstract painter, most recently creating colorful works with acrylic on canvas. She describes her work as a layered and open depiction of pigment and… 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 Michael Cooper! Mike is an experienced large-scale wall muralist who also creates decorative interior finishes, Venetian plasters, and hand-painted large-scale graphics and signage. Mike started his company Murals &… 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 Naseem Mahmood! Naseem is a fine artist from a region in Kurdistan still considered to be a part of Iraq. He has created art in a variety of media… 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 Corinne Cascioppo! Corinne is an artist and designer whose work includes a variety of disciplines including painting, weaving, public art, illustration and sculpture. Born in San Diego, she made… Read more »