Customs House Museum’s Crouch Gallery Full of Inspiration
August 3, 2012
Clarksville, TN – Tennessee’s Cumberland Furniture Guild debuts its juried theme show in the Crouch Gallery of the Customs House Museum on August 9th. The exhibit, entitled Inspirations & Origins, showcases hand-crafted works including both traditional and whimsical. Artisans’ muses will accompany each piece.
Graham Campbell’s side table.
Custom House Museum August 2012 Exhibits and Activities
July 28, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
In the month of July, the Museum will feature The Amazing Maze, Stories on Skin, Inspirations and Origins, The Films of Charles & Ray Eames and so much more.
Clarksville Civil War Roundtable’s next meeting is July 18th, 2012
July 17, 2012
The 100th meeting with Ed Bearss
Clarksville, TN – The next meeting of the Clarksville (TN) Civil War Roundtable will be on Wednesday, July 18th at the Customs House Museum, 200 South 2nd Street in downtown Clarksville.
The Customs House Museum is our partner for this event and we thank them for their help. This is a special fund raising event for the Clarksville CWRT with the proceeds going to help build the Tennessee monument at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky.
The Meetings topic is “General George H. Thomas Versus General U.S. Grant – Union Command In The Tennessee Campaign of 1864” [Read more]
Clarksville’s Civil War Roundtable presents Ed Bearss at the Customs House Museum July 18th
July 10, 2012
Clarksville, TN – On Wednesday, July 18th, Clarksville’s Civil War Roundtable group will host a fundraiser at the Customs House Museum. The event will feature retired Chief Historian of the National Park Service, Ed Bearss, who will be presenting a lecture in the Museum’s Turner Auditorium at 7:00pm.
Ed is a combat wounded U.S. Marine who joined the National Park Service in the 1950s. Starting out at Vicksburg National Military Park as its historian, he rose to be the Chief Historian of the National Park Service and is retired from there as Chief Historian Emeritus. Ed is the most popular speaker on the Civil War lecture circuit today and is world renowned as a battlefield guide. [Read more]
The Art of Linda Kerlin Opens at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
July 9, 2012
Clarksville, TN – Visions & Feelings, a new exhibit by Tennessee artist Linda Kerlin embodies a sense of the fanciful. Delicate women collaged into a mixed media frenzy of color and script leads the viewer feeling like they have stumbled into someone’s diary.
These works are inspired by Kerlin’s environment and her love of antiques, decorating, and landscaping. Each painting displayed in the museum’s Harvill Gallery certainly is telling stories within the canvas and paper. [Read more]
Custom House Museum July 2012 Exhibits and Activities
July 4, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
In the month of July, the Museum will feature 2012 National Juried Exhibition, Visions & Feelings: The Art of Linda Kerlin, Celebrating 1898: Artifacts & History, Family Fun on Thursdays and so much more.
Legendary Civil War historian Edwin Bearss to appear at the Clarksville, TN Civil War Roundtable
June 26, 2012
The 100th Meeting will be held at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
Clarksville, TN – Legendary Civil War historian, Edwin Bearss, will speak to the Clarksville Civil War Roundtable on Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 at 7:00pm at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center in Clarksville, Tennessee.
The Customs House Museum is located at 200 South Second Street in downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. The program will take place in the museum’s auditorium. [Read more]
Customs House Museum to hold Art and Lunch Event June 7th, 2012
June 5, 2012
A Demonstration In Plein Air with International Artist Lori Putnam
Clarksville, TN – You are invited to come out to the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center Thursday, June 7th for a demonstration in plein air painting.
This live demonstration will be conducted by internationally known artist Lori Putnam. [Read more]
Custom House Museum June 2012 Exhibits and Activities
May 31, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
In the month of June, the Museum will feature 2012 National Juried Exhibition, Outdoors In: The Paintings of Lori Putnam, Civil War Remedies, “Sunday Family Fun – Be an Architect” and so much more.
Eighth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference is June 7th and 8th with Pulitzer Prize Winner Alex S. Jones as Keynote Speaker
May 11, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville Arts and Heritage Development Council is pleased to announce the Eighth Annual Clarksville Writers Conference, being held June 7th and 8th, 2012, on the campus of Austin Peay State University.
We are very honored to have as this year’s keynote speaker Alex S. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author of Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy, and co-author of The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty with Susan E. Tifft.
Jones, who is currently the director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, will speak at the conference banquet at the Clarksville Country Club on the evening of Thursday, June 7th. [Read more]
