Events/Projects
The Uplift Bus Shelter, designed by the Arite Shiphrah design team, was installed at Nolensville Pike and Thompson Lane in the spring of 2023. It was inspired by the people who live, work, and play in the diverse south Nashville neighborhood of Woodbine.
Portraits of Resilience is the culmination of “It Works for Me,” a residency project funded in part by Metro Arts / Nashville Office of Arts & Culture and offered over a period of 12 weeks at the Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center, Coleman Park Community Center, and The Spot, an after-school program of the Edgehill Neighborhood Partnership. With teaching artists Thandiwe Shiphrah and Daniel Arite, youth explored the topic of resilience through creative writing, dialogue, and visual art-making. The exhibit features drawings, poems, expressive lettering, paintings, and reflections on their personal dreams and aspirations. It will be on display from March 4-15th.
The Welcome Kiosk was a collaborative mosaic project created with 8 teens in the Metro Nashville summer youth employment program Opportunity Now in 2018. Located at Global Education Center at 4822 Charlotte Ave, Nashville, TN 37209, it features the word welcome in 27 different languages along with universal symbols of welcome.
My work will be included in the Montgomery Bell Academy Art Show 2018 @ 4001 Harding Pike, Nashville, TN 37205. Join us for wine and hors d'oeuvres on opening night Nov 8th, 6 -9pm with another full day on Saturday Nov. 10th, from 10 - 6pm. The show is available for viewing by appointment through Nov 18th. Muralist Blek Le Rat is the featured artist and 70 local and regional artists will showcase their work.
My work will be featured in a community art exhibit along with 6 other artists at Casa Azafran, 2195 Nolensville Pike, in May and June
Daniel Arite will unveil “Impressions,” a mural celebrating Nashville's Woodbine community on March 4th, at 4pm at Flatrock Coffee, Tea, and More. This collaborative visual art project highlights the history, diversity and rich cultural make-up of Woodbine. Artists Lakesha Moore and Alex Norris helped facilitate the project, working in collaboration with community members in seven art making sessions that took place over four months at Coleman Park Community Center. Complimentary refreshments will be served.
Planets Need Love Too, is an art exhibit made from recycled materials and will open with a reception and artist talk on September 30 at 5:30 p.m. at Global Education Center, 4822 Charlotte Ave in west Nashville. I hope you can make it to the reception, but if not, the work will be up through October 27 and can be viewed by appointment. This exhibit features two short videos that explore ways that the arts can help us become better environmental stewards and foster more sustainable living. I (accompanied by a few surprise guests) will provide an improvised soundtrack. Also, after the reception, there will be screening of the documentary film Landfill Harmonic, which follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a Paraguayan youth group that lives next to one of South America’s largest landfills and makes musical instruments from recycled materials. Light refreshments will be served.