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Attempted Yarn Bombing
He tried to wrap this Cheekwood sculpture in his love, but it was just too much work:
New mural goes up in East Nashville
Councilman Brett Withers noticed a new mural going up at the Martha O’Bryan Center, an anti-poverty nonprofit among the Cayce Homes in East Nashville, today:
@NashvilleMDHA @MarthaOBryanCtr @ChamberEast How exciting to see a new mural underway at Martha O'Bryan Center today pic.twitter.com/7KIqIuDiwG
— Brett Withers (@brettawithers) May 22, 2016
How’re ya feelin?
Do you follow Nashens on Instagram? I just shared this photo I took in Hillsboro Village of a feelings board outside Belmont UMC:
Zombie statue kicked out by HOA
A homeowner’s association near Percy Priest Lake has said a zombie statue in somebody’s front yard has got to mosey on to somewhere else. The statue, which has been there almost five years, appears to be a zombie emerging from the ground. NC5 reports about Clawed, as the statue is nicknamed.
Crane Art
Instagrammer and local artist goosegirl9 shared this artwork she made of a symbol of Nashville’s explosive growth:
Music City a little short on music (and other arts) funding
According to a report from Fox 17, Nashville spends less than half the money per citizen on arts funding than do similar cities like Austin and Portland.
Nashville Opera, which receives some of that public arts funding, has to make do. “We operate on a razor thin margin so anytime we don’t have money in one place we have to find it somewhere else in order to make it happen,” Executive Director Noah Spiegel told Fox 17.
Meanwhile, the Metro Arts Commission is asking for the public’s input on how to allocate their relatively small pot of money. Nashvillians can fill out a survey with their opinions about public art in the city.
Just take the B line, then switch over to the ♭ line
The folks at local design firm DCXV Industries have big dreams of what our transit system could be:
First official policy announcement of DCXV2016 – the Music City Metro. Coming March pic.twitter.com/sXP5xE1zE7
— DCXV (@DCXVindustries) February 10, 2016
You can buy that sign for yourself; it’s also available as a t-shirt.
Centennial Park to Host Art Show for Black History Month
Starting with a reception on February 5, the Centennial Art Center’s gallery will host a show of 14 local black artists. The site is the location of the Centennial Park pool that closed among the strife of the 1960s:
In 1961, a group of approximately 20 black teens decided to take a swim in the city’s ‘big pool with the concession stand’ at Centennial Park. According to The Tennessean, by late July the pool closed. Historian Leland R. Johnson wrote in his book, The Parks of Nashville, “The lack of funding was the official explanation for the closing… However, civil rights demonstrations were in progress at the time, and it is the opinion of some that Mayor Ben West and the Park Board ordered the pools closed to avoid the sort of disturbances that had occurred in other cities when swimming pools were integrated.”
The gallery, which is located in the northeast corner of Centennial Park, is only open during normal work hours 4 days a week.