While Nashville is known as one of the country’s best cities for music, the art scene here is no less alive. Many of the city’s painters’, sculptors’ and photographers’ work is on display the first Saturday of every month as galleries around the city participate in the Nashville Downtown Art Crawl.
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Mixing art, environmental education and cultural commentary, photographer Jeff Rich wants you to see his work and be inspired, but he also hopes you take away a different view of sustainability and progress. In his upcoming exhibit Watershed, on display February 3 to March 17 at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery, Rich will present 16 images from an upcoming 40-photo monograph that surveys the French Broad River.
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Change knows many paths. Revolutions and wars have made their grand inscriptions on the course of history. But so have subtle and simple moments, methods and people. Fifty years ago in Nashville an African-American student walked up to a white-only lunch counter and sat down. The quiet, intentional gesture would have loud repercussions.
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While most of us prepare to take a few days off work, feast on lavish holiday meals and exchange gifts with family and friends, it’s hard to imagine that 1 billion people still struggle everyday to get one of the most basic elements of life: clean water.
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For some, the word farmer conjures up stereotypical images of either an uneducated, old man in overalls or someone that oversees an industrial system of machinery and chemicals. Upending both perceptions, a new documentary reveals a youthful, intelligent and diverse movement embracing a sustainable agrarian way of life.
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