Vendor Applications Now Being Accepted for 11th Annual “Frolic on Franklin”, September 24th
June 24, 2016
Clarksville, TN – Applications are now being accepted for booth space at the 11th annual “Frolic on Franklin: A Celebration of the Arts.”
The event will be held on Saturday, September 24th, from 8:30am to 3:30pm, in the 100-block of historic Franklin Street in downtown Clarksville.
Coordinated by the Roxy Regional Theatre, the street event offers 30 vendor spaces where artists can showcase and sell fine arts and handcrafted items, including photography, paintings and drawings, pottery, jewelry, glass items and more.
11th Annual “Frolic on Franklin” is set for September 24th, 2016.
Art & Lunch Program with Larry Richardson at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
June 22, 2016
Clarksville, TN – Artist Larry Richardson will be at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center on Thursday, June 23rd at 12:15pm as part of the museum’s monthly Art & Lunch program.
Larry will be taking guests on a guided tour of Cumberland River paintings that are now on display in the Kimbrough Gallery.
Artist Larry Richardson
10th Annual Frolic on Franklin now accepting Vender Applications
June 15, 2015
Calling for Artists and Arts Demonstrators
Clarksville, TN – Applications are now being accepted for booth space at the 10th annual “Frolic on Franklin: A Celebration of the Arts.” The event will be held on Saturday, September 19th, from 8:30am to 3:30pm, in the 100-block of historic Franklin Street in downtown Clarksville.
Coordinated by the Roxy Regional Theatre, the street event offers 30 vendor spaces where artists can showcase and sell fine arts and hand-crafted items, such as photography, paintings and drawings, pottery, jewelry, glass items, and more.
Frolic on Franklin Street
Cuban Artist Mayda Saborit to show Cuban Heart at Clarksville Montgomery County Public Library
June 13, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library will be featuring Cuban artist Mayda Saborit’s paintings in the alcove gallery at the rear of the first floor with an opening on Friday, June 19th.
Saborit’s painterly and colorful oils capture the feel of Cuba from street life to beautiful landscapes.
Clarksville-Montgomery County Library
Southern Watercolor Society Presents Its Juried Exhibition at the Customs House Museum
April 15, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum is pleased to host the Southern Watercolor Society’s 38th Annual Juried Exhibition this May. The show features eighty-seven paintings, eleven coming from Tennessee artists.
Exhibits Curator, Terri Jordan, states “I am honored to have the Southern Watercolor Society (SWS) present its 38th Annual Juried Exhibition here at the Customs House Museum. We have featured the talents of some of the best artists living in the South and I am happy to add the SWS to that list.”
Bill Bailey – Fly Creek
New exhibit at APSU showcases road trip paintings across America
January 14, 2015
Clarksville, TN – For the last 12 years, Gregory Botts has been criss-crossing the nation with a car loaded full of art supplies, painting the sites and varying light he encountered.
At first begun as a clarification of the larger abstract works that he was making in the studio, these paintings have grown into their own body of impressive works that feed and inform his larger body of work. Austin Peay State University’s Trahern Gallery is proud to host the first large survey of these works in connection with his larger studio paintings this winter, “Gregory Botts: Painting Along the Road.”
“Gregory Botts: Painting Along the Road.” – Monument Valley Approach
Planters Bank Gallery Hosts Scenes by Kay Lamirande in June
June 4, 2014
Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Artist Kay Limirande will show an exhibit of landscapes and nature scenes at the Planters Bank-Hilldale Gallery on Thursday, June 5th – Wednesday, July 2nd.
Lamirande’s exhibit includes scenes from France, Japan, and Colorado, along with a variety of beach scenes in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and drawings.
Kay Limirande holding one of her paintings in Planters Bank.
Customs House Museum Presents the Collage Work of Anne Bagby
May 6, 2014
Clarksville, TN – This month the Orgain Gallery of the Customs House Museum features the collage art of award-winning artist Anne Bagby in the exhibit Layered Expressions.
Combining layers of glaze over layers of patterns and images, Anne creates quilt-like visions, stitching together patterns of bold colors that often feature the human face and words. There is a nostalgic feel to the modern pieces of art. The end result is a lyrical piece of textures that leaves the viewer with a sense of familiarity.
One of the Twelve by Twelve paintings by Ann Bagby which is on display at the Customs House Museum
Clarksville’s Customs House Museum to exhibit paintings from Nashville artist Peach McComb
March 13, 2014
Clarksville, TN – Nashville artist Peach McComb brings the outdoors in with her current exhibit at the Customs House Museum. Painting in a broad range of subjects, Peach works in both impressionistic and representational styles.
Her paintings appear effortless and “in the moment”.
Shore Patrol by Peach McComb
Ghosts and Hopes at Clarksville’s Customs House Museum through January 14th, 2014
November 8, 2013
Clarksville, TN – “This body of work is not simply about the Civil War. It is about an emotion: the layered, all-encompassing emotion that accompanies a life lived. It is about being passionate enough to fight, compassionate enough to grieve, honest enough to be open. It is about ghosts and hopes,” states Dane Carder of his paintings currently hanging at the Customs House Museum.
Dane Carder paintings at Customs House Museum.
