Clarksville’s Customs House Museum August 2017 Exhibits and Activities
August 2, 2017
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.
Some of the events in August at the Museum are: Earth from Space, Olen Bryant: In Loving Memory, Women Painting Women: In Earnest, The X Housewife Portraits by Kit Kite, and Ed Nash: Terrain.
Olen Bryant: In Loving Memory
The Magical Work of Aaron Grayum Comes to the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
October 7, 2016
Clarksville, TN – Through October 30th, 2016, the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery of the Customs House Museum features light-hearted paintings by Nashville Tennessee artist Aaron Grayum.
Large works featuring circus characters within powdery blue and yellow background dance throughout the gallery walls, lacing a sense of nostalgia into the contemporary paintings.
The Ballerina and the Elephant by Aaron Grayum
Amy Chase Brings a Whimsical World to the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
July 18, 2016
Clarksville, TN – Amy Chase: Rediscovered Relationships is a magical world currently on view in the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery of the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center.
Creatures and landscapes that appear to have jumped from the pages of a storybook float on the walls and hide within glass cases.
Amy Chase – Uncomfortable Situation
The Bold Color of Elizabeth LaPenna Comes to the Customs House Museum
March 7, 2016
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center welcomes the abstract work of Elizabeth LaPenna to the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery as part of the institution’s celebration of Women’s History Month.
Elizabeth’s bold paintings are abundant with movement. The vivid color palettes, created through layering processes of pouring, scraping, lifting, and imprinting, pull the viewer into her dreamy, contained environments.
Marmalade Sky by Elizabeth LaPenna
Obsolete Technology Explored Through Glass work at Customs House Museum
February 4, 2016
Clarksville, TN – The Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery in the Customs House Museum has become a curiosity shop of sorts this February. Mergings: A Visual Exploration is an exhibit of glass by Tennessee artist Jennifer Crescuillo.
Jennifer has manipulated her medium into everyday objects such as data cartridges and adding machines that do not appear to be what the average visitor expects to see in a glass exhibit.
Mergings: A Visual Exploration is an exhibit of glass by Tennessee artist Jennifer Crescuillo on exhibit at the Customs House Museum.
William Buffett Brings a New Simplicity to Customs House Museum
December 11, 2015
Clarksville, TN – There is a tranquil vibe filling the walls of the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery this month at the Customs House Museum. Along with his success as a portrait painter, designer and printer of limited edition serigraphs and posters, William Buffett is becoming known for his scenes of California and New Orleans.
William Buffett Jazzes up the Customs House Museum
Nashville Artist Brings the Outdoors In at the Customs House Museum
November 23, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Through the end of November, guests of the Customs House Museum can enjoy the forests of Elizabeth Sanford within the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery. Bright colored leaves and creatures roam the space in layers of watercolors.
Many of the pieces in the show are reminiscent of pop-up books and shadow boxes.
Sanford: Reshaping the Shadows – Looking for Signs
October Exhibits Bring Sense of Nostalgia to Customs House Museum
October 2, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum traditionally offers Tennessee-flavored exhibits during the fourth quarter of the calendar year, and October 2015 is no exception.
New gallery shows include Patterns of History, which features quilts from the museum collection. Sponsored in part by Legends Bank, this exhibit highlights fifteen covers dating as far back as 1830.
1920s Finley Elder Gracey
Clarksville’s Customs House Museum Offers Opportunity to Artists
August 3, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum is offering artists in Tennessee and Kentucky an opportunity to exhibit in the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery. The open call will give ten regional artists a one month show in 2016.
The call is open to both 2D and 3D works. Prospectuses are available on the museum website as well as in the museum lobby.
Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
Photographer Bob Sherman Exhibits at the Customs House Museum
May 30, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Nashville-based photographer Bob Sherman brings his mystical portraits to the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery at the Customs House Museum this June with the exhibit The Illusion of Person and Place: The Spirit of Asia by Bob Sherman.
The vivid colored images document the people and places Bob visited in during his travels abroad.
Other Worldly by Bob Sherman
