Current Art Gallery Shows

Shaped Poetry: A Suite of 30 Typographic Prints by Arion Press
April 9-August 31, 2010
Location: Art Gallery

Shaped Poetry, edited by Glenn Todd, is a suite of 30 typographic prints, each on a different handmade paper in a wide range of typefaces and in a variety of colors. From the companion volume by Glenn Todd: "Poems come in all shapes as well as sizes. In fact, many poems are shaped in representational images, like eggs, for example, and crosses and wings. Some are moulded into even odder shapes: a lute, a bottle, an elegant chalice, a gliding swan. And some do not stop with the presentation of a single, simple image: imagine a poem that depicts a battle; one that shows rain falling; one that maps the starry heavens; or one that pictures silence itself and further abstractions."

Shaped Poetry is part of the Nashville Public Library's Wilson Limited Editions Collection.

Visions & Voices: The Civil Rights Movement in Nashville & Tennessee, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Nashville Sit-in Movement
February 9 - May 22
Location: Courtyard Gallery

Nashville was a principal training ground for some of the nation's most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, many of whom were schooled in the techniques of nonviolent protest. Along with the Nashville community, a group of young Nashville college students organized the Nashville sit-ins, city marches, and an effective downtown store boycott that led to the desegregation of public accommodations in the city.

The Nashville protests came to serve as models for later protests throughout the South, and its leaders went on to make pivotal contributions to the success of the civil rights movement, including the Freedom Rides of 1961, the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Student Organizing Committee, historic protests in Selma, Alabama, and the 1963 March on Washington.