Since other galleries are bringing the Street Art inside into the gallery, in response it seemed more appropriate (and less appropriating?) to put the gallery out in the street, in this case the rear exterior of the building in the alley. Help take back the alley, metro nashville #185, to be more specific.
JULY 2024: Printing the Revolution Workshop
A wheat pasting exercise in collaboration with a political poster workshop at the Frist Art Museum by Bobbi Negron, featuring students and educators learning the practice of street applications for posters.
see more here: https://fristartmuseum.org/exhibition/printing-the-revolution/
MARCH 2024: Graeme Morris
FEB 2024: Charlie Smyth
Visual art in the 3D. @gallerysmyth
SEPTEMBER 2023: Zine City Fest and COOP Microcinema Film Festival
Shapes in the general.
Detail.
Zine City Fest was organized by The Free Nashville Poetry Library to celebrate local independent publishing.
MAY-JULY 2023: Risology Club
In May, Risology Club makes updates to the previous month’s installation.
By July the decay has taken its toll.
APRIL 2023: Poetry Fest 2023
Collaboration for the Poetry Fest organized by the Free Nashville Poetry Library, installed by Risology Club.
MARCH 2023: Still
Community intervention of spray-painted stencil work on paper adhered to a thin plywood substrate with paint marker signature on standoff, with the full assembly screwed to the 3/4” plywood wheatpaste covered panels. Installed and removed by artist, whoever they are.
OCTOBER 2022
Explosion of graphics utilizing the 2x2 grid, outlined in red tape here, coordinated by Risology Club.
JULY 2022: Risology Club
Collage work featuring old test prints from the risograph heroes at The Risology Club.
SEPT 2021: Guerilla Bizkits
Kick-ass design skills of Zach Halfhill collide with his passion for vegan grub and his new undertaking, “Guerilla Bizkits.”
The artist at work making modifications to the piece at the art crawl.
Further modifications in October by local anonymous stencil artist, with consent.
APRIL 2021: Reflections: a creative collaboration
MARCH 2020: FREE NASHVILLE POETRY LIBRARY
Proposed dream fragments taped to the wall with the “ON” layout
From the Free Nashville Poetry Library in coordination with the Dream Delivery Service :
DREAM SOUP & OPEN MIC
Compose your very own dream poem from our collection of dream fragments & read your dream! Or dream a dream you’ve already dreamed - it’s a dream open mic (!)
DREAM with us + SOUP with us = DREAM SOUP with us (!)
*Soup + Sign-up - 6
*Open Mic - 7
*FREE
Poetry Alley at THE PACKING PLANT - 507 Hagan St
FEBRUARY 2020: Anonymous work for SALT Weekly
A re-arrangement of the plywood panels in coordination with the release of SALT Weekly Issue 46: Walls. Layout for “ON” covered in a red brick pattern in emulation of the Provos’ movement classical zine covers.
MAY 2019: RACHEL BRIGGS
WORST OF NASHVILLE Cover art for Issue 51 of SALT Weekly, an alternative bimonthly zine.
MARCH 2019: CAROLINE BOWMAN
Flyer to promote the inaugural Nashville Independent Poetry Fest.
The Nashville Independent Poetry Festival is a celebration of the tireless, inspiring people & organizations forging a more vibrant literary city. This festival brings together poets, small presses, DIY book-makers, literary collectives, literary non-profits, independent-local bookstores, representatives from reading series and open mics – & y’all! This festival will emphasize, & cultivate the intersections of poetry, our community, and each other – connecting written poets to spoken word poets, new, creative Nashvillians to established lit community members, and connect readers to writers, poets to people. Come out & meet the folks behind Nashville’s Independent Poetry world, and become part of it!
DECEMBER 2018: HAL HEFNER
Cover art printed on a vinyl banner for the release of Issue 00 of SALT Weekly, an alternative bimonthly zine.
Tis the Season to give it your all! Or if that's asking too much, why not start with a healthy helping of Salty, Spicy, Sassy, and Salacious commentary with generous servings of local literary and visual artists in SALTs Issue #00. Naughty? Nice? Needy? Needless? Whatever you are you belong in these pages too. You'll never see the big man the same ever again.
-SALT promotion posts
NOVEMBER 2018: JEN UMAN
Selected images from the artist’s zine, printed by Risology Club.
24 years ago my mom became a paraplegic. Over time her disability has grown slowly throughout her body leaving her fragile but strong minded.
Her resilience gives me continued clarity to discern between real and wonderful problems and that living with vitriol resentment and drama is a luxury.
These are works I made over the past year while caring for my mom and the moments in between.
-Jen Uman
OCTOBER 2018: ZACH HOBBS
Cover Art for the release of Issue #0 of SALT Weekly, an alternative bimonthly zine.
Make a fascist clown cry today for the people of planet Earth. -Zach Hobbs
The archetypical fool, the clown, the Major Arcana #0 argues beyond the absolute utility of armchaired-radical-skepticism because we're all going to be fools for something -- narratively, neurologically, etc. Shan't we risk to choose the best possible things to be fooled by, toolboxing images formed at thought's limitation? May we practically embarrass our Self beyond the tabernacle of a stroked personality that snarks, "everything's relative" while trapped in a narrative about not getting trapped in a narrative? Lettuce practice in public and make their mistakes.
-Daniel Pujol, one of the zine’s co-founders
SEPTEMBER 2018: MATT SCOTT BARNES
When I was younger I was arrested for spreading images upon walls. I was forced to work full time or go to school. Ironically I still work part time and get paid to spread images across walls. Thank you Tennessee.
-Matt Scott Barnes
AUGUST 2018: JOSH SHEARON
In my line of sight, a peripheral epiphany of composition. This roof to that roof, the vantage point of gratitude observed. And now today, the energy of a reflection so pronounced between us. This theta of introspection is illuminated; I am a vibration of habit.
-Josh Shearon
JULY 2018: ZACH HALFHILL & JOSH SHEARON
Nearing the 40th anniversary of Rock Against Racism, ‘MASSIVE UNITY WORDWIDE’ celebrates unity in its truest form — music. The sense of movement in the art commands you to dance and unite. And with an obvious nod to community collaboration and positivity — something’s got to change. Racists can’t dance, they got two left feet and no brain!
-Zach Halfhill
Vehemence is the vehicle, so get in, let’s go or let go. And unity is a collective consciousness popsicle in the sweetest flavor, an idea. Exercise the summer heat, process the beats, the rests, the movement in the streets. A new independence is bonding with opportunity.
-Josh Shearon