The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville (ABC) is pleased to welcome five new board members and one Young Leaders Council (YLC) intern to its board of directors. The new directors—Larry Abel, Khrys Hatch, Jamie Kent, Brynn Plummer, and Nancy VanReece—will each serve a three-year term which began on November 1, 2021. The YLC… 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 Marla Faith. Marla is a narrative colorist, working from intuition and life, with personal symbolism, to create uplifting unique artworks. Known for her collages, drawings, and paintings, she holds… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville hosted the 8th annual Periscope Pitch + Artist Entrepreneur Showcase held at OZ Arts Nashville on Sept. 8, 2021. The event was the culmination of the 2021 Periscope: Artist Entrepreneur Training, a year-long intensive business development curriculum and mentorship program for local artists of all disciplines. The… 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 Gary M. Owen. Gary M. Owen is a self-taught painter from the middle Tennessee area. He began painting around the age of 12-years-old, placed art in an annual juried… 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 Olena Noëlle Lysenko. Olena is a multi-media artist who specializes in oil painting and sustainable fashion. She was born in Ukraine and raised in NJ where she received private… 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 Angela Howell. Angela is a national speaker, abstract artist, transformation coach and the best-selling author of “Finding the Gift: Daily Meditations for Mindfulness.” Her art is available at All… 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 Josh Black. Local artist, comedian, and East Nashvillian cover star Joshua Black has taken social media by storm with his refreshing, riveting, and genuinely funny takes on Nashville. His stand-up… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week, Nicole Kutz is featured! Nicole is an artist and curator based in Nashville. Her work meditates on life’s transience by using handmade pigments and dyes to create ethereal abstract… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week, Sandy Rochelle is featured! As a young child and teenager, Sandy Rochelle lived on the island of Okinawa where, after receiving a camera from her parents… Read more »
The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week, Alison Underwood is featured! Alison grew up in a small town in rural Kentucky. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art from The University of Louisville… Read more »