Weekend Arts Preview 8/17–8/18

The next two days are packed with arts, music, theater, and more! Grab the kids and head out to OZ Arts for Family Day 2019, catch the Germantown Art Crawl at 100 Taylor Avenue, or enjoy live jazz at the Nashville Jazz Workshop. Get dressed to the nines and head over the Frist Art Museum for an Art Deco Affair or bring a blanket and relax at Jazz on the Cumberland. There’s a little something for everyone to enjoy this weekend in Music City!

Image Credit: Scott Groller

OZ Arts

Family Day 2019
August 17, 2019
OZ Arts Nashville


100 Taylor Arts Collective

Germantown Art Crawl
August 17, 2019
100 Taylor Avenue


Nashville Jazz Workshop

The Beegie Adair Trio
August 17, 2019
Nashville Jazz Workshop

Green Daniel Exhibit
Ongoing through September 14, 2019
Nashville Jazz Workshop


Frist Art Museum

Art Deco Affair
August 17, 2019
Frist Art Museum

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Ongoing through September 2, 2019
Frist Art Museum

Diana Al-Hadid: Sublimations
Ongoing through September 2, 2019

Teens Take the Frist
Ongoing through September 21, 2019

Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
Ongoing through September 29, 2019

Murals of North Nashville Now
Ongoing through January 5, 2020


The Clay Lady

Birthday Bash & Ugly Pot Throw
August 17, 2019
The Clay Lady’s Campus


Jazz on the Cumberland Concert Series

Jazz on the Cumberland
August 18, 2019
Nashville Cumberland Park


Nashville Children’s Theater

The Itsy Bitsy Spider – A Snuggery Show
Ongoing through September 22, 2019
Copeland Studio at Nashville Children’s Theatre


The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park 

Kidsville at the Parthenon
August 17, 2019
Centennial Park

Architecture Tours
August 17 & 18, 2019
Centennial Park

INSTRUMENTHEAD
Ongoing through September 8, 2019
The Parthenon

Moment to Moment: The Art of Martin Weinstein Exhibit
Ongoing through September 22, 2019
The Parthenon


Nashville Ballet

Nashville’s Nutcracker Youth Cast Auditions
August 18, 25 & September 8, 2019
Nashville Ballet


Nashville Symphony

The Wiggles
August 18, 2019
Schermerhorn Symphony Center


Scarritt Bennett Center

Vespers & All That Jazz
August 18, 2019
Wightman Chapel

Art Exhibit: Local Color: A Sense of Place
Ongoing through September 25, 2019
Scarritt Bennett Center


Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center

Picasso: Master in Clay
August 18–October 20, 2019
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


KB Productions

Holding the Man
Ongoing through August 24, 2019
Darkhorse Theater


Spark Theatre Company

Puffs
Ongoing through August 24, 2019
Centennial Black Box Theater


Tinney Contemporary

Street Cred
Ongoing through August 23, 2019
Tinney Contemporary


Coop Gallery

The Things We Takeaway
Ongoing through August 25, 2019
Coop Gallery


The Arts Company

Chadwick Tolley’s Sugar Mountain
Ongoing through August 29, 2019
The Arts Company


The Rymer Gallery

Works by Herb Williams and Lindsey Isbell
Ongoing through August 31, 2019
The Rymer Gallery


Zeitgeist

Xanadu: 25th Anniversary Group Show
Ongoing through August 31, 2019
Zeitgeist


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

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


21c Museum Hotel

Invisible – An Evening of Spoken Word
August 18, 2019

The SuperNatural
Ongoing through September 30, 2019
21c Museum Hotel


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