Looking for an art crawl, live concert, theater performance, or exhibit to explore this weekend? We’ve got you covered! Discover the spectrum of diversity within Nashville’s arts community by getting out and enjoying all the city has to offer with family and friends.
Image Credit: Courtesy of Jazz on the Cumberland 2019/Victor Chatman Production
Nashville Symphony
Little River Band
July 19, 2019
Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Kirk Franklin
July 21, 2019
Schermerhorn Symphony Center
The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park
INSTRUMENTHEAD
June 12, 2019- September 8, 2019
The Parthenon
Architecture Tours
July 6, 2019- July 27, 2019
Centennial Park
Moment to Moment: The Art of Martin Weinstein Exhibit
June 12, 2019- July 19, 2019
The Parthenon
Metro Parks Music: 2019 Summer Centennial Jam Bands Camps
July 19, 2019
Centennial Black Box Theater
Otherworld Encounter
Otherworld Encounter
July 5, 2019- July 21, 2019
Nashville Fairgrounds
Fostoria Glass Society of Tennessee
20th Annual Elegant and Depression Glass Show and Sale
July 20, 2019- July 21, 2019
Exhibitor Building at Nashville Fairgrounds
Warner Parks Conservancy
Full Moon Pickin’ Party
July 19, 2019
Warner Park Nature Center
iSpy: Crayfish at Warner Parks
July 19, 2019
Warner Park Nature Center
Frist Art Museum
Music at the Frist: Tim Gartland
July 19, 2019
Teens Take the Frist
July 13, 2019- September 21, 2019
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Ongoing through September 2, 2019
Frist Art Museum
Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s
June 21, 2019- September 29, 2019
Architecture Tour
July 20, 2019
Docent Guided Exhibition Tour
July 20, 2019
Writing from Art: A Visit to the Frist
July 20, 2019
Frist Art Museum
Franklin Theater
Mamma Mia the Musical
July 20, 2019- July 21, 2019
Frozen Jr.
July 20, 2019- July 21, 2019
Larry Carlton
July 19, 2019
The Franklin Theater
Modfellows Art & Design Gallery
Modfellows Art & Design Gallery Grand Opening
July 20, 2019
Music City Jazz Festival
Music City Jazz Fest
July 19, 2019- July 20, 2019
Public Square Park
Jazz on the Cumberland
Jazz on the Cumberland
July 21, 2019
Cumberland Park
Parnassus Books
Saturday Storytime
July 20, 2019
Author Event with David Bell author of Layover in conversation with J.T. Ellison
July 20, 2019
Author event with Katja Russell and Nick McGinn authors of A Bunny Named Barnaby: It’s a Bun Life
July 20, 2019
Create It Donelson
Sunflowers
July 19, 2019
Capitol Theatre
Newsies the Musical Live
July 19, 2019- July 21, 2019
Scarritt Bennett Center
Art Exhibit: Local Color: A Sense of Place
Ongoing through September 28, 2019
Scarritt Bennett Center
Vespers & All That Jazz
July 8, 2019- September 25, 2019
Laskey Building
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center
I Didn’t Know How to Tell You: American Veterans Art Show
July 13, 2019- July 25, 2019
Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center
Tinney Contemporary
Street Cred
July 12, 2019- July 20, 2019
Tinney Contemporary
McKay’s Used Books
Meet & Greet with Morgan Lima
July 19, 2019
McKay’s Used Books
Nashville Children’s Theater
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
June 14, 2019- August 4, 2019
Lipscomb University
Summer Drama Camp
Ongoing through August 2, 2019
TBD
Nashville Women in Film and Television
SWIFT Summit
June 14, 2019- August 4, 2019
Ezell Center Lipscomb University
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
Kodachrome by Adam Szymkowicz
July 12, 2019- July 21, 2019
Blackbox Theater
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
In Bloom: Works from Cheekwood’s Permanent Collection
Ongoing through September 1, 2019
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
Summer Camp
Ongoing through August, 2019
Storybook Houses
Ongoing through September 1, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts
Refuting “Noble Savages”: Reflections of Nature in Ancient Mesoamerican Artifacts
Ongoing through September 13, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
“Don’t Slam the Door” from artist, Kristi Hargove
Ongoing through August 29, 2019
E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center
Susan DeMay, Divergent Practices: A Career in Ceramics
Ongoing through September 13, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
David Lusk Gallery
Jack Spencer
July 9, 2019- July 31, 2019
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
Caroll Todd & Carlyle Wolfe
Ongoing through July 27, 2019
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville
COOP Gallery
Houseguests: The Things We Takeaway
July, 2019- August, 2019
COOP Gallery
Red Arrow Gallery
Alexander’s Dark Band
June 22, 2019- July 28, 2019
Red Arrow Gallery
Borderless Arts Tennessee
Teapot Diplomat Worksop
July 20, 2019
Sumner Teen Center
Locate Arts and Zeitgeist
Andres Bustamante: Birth.Death.Rebirth
July 6, 2019- August 2, 2019
Rockwall Gallery
Delineate 2.0
July 6, 2019- July 26, 2019
WAG (Watkins College of Art)
Xanadu
July 6, 2019- August 31, 2019
Zeitgeist Gallery
Marcus Manganni: Dead Horse Bay
July 6, 2019- August 24, 2019
Channel to Channel
Smoke Show
July 5, 2019- August 3, 2019
Elephant Gallery
Tennessee State Museum
Gallery Demonstrations
July 19, 2019- July 21, 2019
Tennessee State Museum
Historic Games
July 19, 2019- July 21, 2019
Tennessee State Museum
Talk With a Tennesseean
July 19, 2019
Tennessee State Museum
Museum Highlights Tour
July 19, 2019- July 21, 2019
Tennessee State Museum
Space Day
July 20, 2019
Tennessee State Museum
Galerie Tangerine
Wendy Walker Silverman: An Opal Ring and the Stories that Scared Me
Ongoing through August 9, 2019
Galerie Tangerine
Friends of White Bluff
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
July 19, 2019- July 21, 2019
Bibb-White Bluff Civic Center
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Exhibit | The Judds: Dream Chasers
Ongoing through July 14, 2019
Exhibit | Emmylou Harris: Songbird’s Flight
Ongoing through August 4, 2019
American Currents: The Music of 2018
Ongoing through February 9, 2020
Creative Zone
Ongoing through February 9, 2020
Family Program: Paint With Stardust
July 20, 2019
Musician Spotlight: Daniel Donato
July 21, 2019
Film: The Porter Wagoner Show: Dolly Parton’s Debut (1967) And Dolly! Featuring Emmylou Harris And Linda Ronstadt (1976)
July 21, 2019
21c Museum Hotel
The SuperNatural
Ongoing through October 2019
21c Museum Hotel, 221 2nd Ave. N.
Nashville Improv Company
Friday Night Improv
Ongoing through July 26, 2019
Street Theatre Company
Nashville Jazz Workshop
Rod McGaha Art Show: Reflections
Ongoing through December 2019
Nashville Jazz Workshop
The Beegie Adair Trio
July 20, 2019
The Jazz Cave
Center for the Arts
The Wiz
July 5, 2019- July 21, 2019
Murfreesboro Center for the Arts
The Arts Company
Contradiction to Coalescence
July 6, 2019- July 18, 2019
The Arts Company Nashville
Blesdoe Creek State Park
River Ranger Story Trail Ribbon Cutting
July 20, 2019
Blesdoe Creek State Park
Craftsmen’s Fair
Gatlinburg Craftsmen’s Fair
July 21, 2019
Gatlinburg Convention Center
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