Customs House Museum opens Impressions of Reality September 20th
August 24, 2012
Clarksville, TN – Internationally awarded Nashville visual artist Camille Engel will show her contemporary realism paintings in a rare solo exhibition from September 20th through November 4th at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Impressions of Reality will feature her still lifes, trompe l’oeils, and her trademark birds.
Engel Sunflower
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’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]
Custom House Museum and Cultural Center to have Family Fun Day Sunday, June 24th
June 18, 2012
Clarksville, TN – On Sunday, June 24th, come down to the Custom House Museum and Cultural Center for Family Fun Day from 1:00pm-5:00pm.
Come see the changes that have been made in Heritage Hall, then design and build your own structure. Bring some small to medium boxes if you would like. [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.
