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TM Art has always been my first love. I began taking drawing lessons April 2010 as a child and spent my shy teenage years hiding behind a sketchpad. Spotlight...... 8 For me, art was always something personal, magical. Gary R. Haynes...... 26 American Realism I came to Nashville for graduate school in art history and spent two years with my nose in a book, unaware of the vibrant arts community bysrealty John Guider...... 34 the .co in this city. I was attracted to art history because of the communica- so m Visions in Platinum tive capacity of art. We can read whole narratives, tell broad histories Colin Linden...... 43 through the power of images. Under the Black Hat

Chihuly!...... 48 Writing for Nashville Arts Magazine has been a great awakening for Fields of Glass me. It has opened my eyes and my heart to the diverse and compel- Paul Vasterling ...... 62 ling culture in my own town. I have discovered that no one has to Dancing Out Loud travel the world to find active and important art communities. They Nick Long are literally in our own back yards. In the Real World...... 68 Leslie Satcher I feel our beautiful magazine is special. Our readers can enjoy and A Good Song is Hard to Find...... 74 discover art within driving distance while enjoying art at their Appraise It...... 78 fingertips. These pages teem with bright images and the quiet, often Theater...... 84 previously untold histories behind them. Thumbing through these YOUR HOME COULD HAVE COUNTLESS Poetry ...... 87 glossy pages is sure to take readers on a journey. You may end up in Anything Goes...... 88 VISITORS this month, without you ever nineteenth-century Paris, a lonely hilltop in China, or a farmhouse On The Town with Ted Clayton...... 90 needing to open the door. To showcase your in Leiper’s Fork, but surprisingly, you will still be enjoying Nashville Puzzler...... 94 art. It is my honor as a writer to help take you on that journey. home on sothebysrealty.com, is to gain My Favorite Painting...... 98 additional exposure on over 17 highly Deborah Walden regarded websites around the globe. From on the cover: Writer the outline digital network that is wsj.com, to the Dale Chihuly international search giant, google.com. Introduce photograph by Jerry Atnip this icon at the end of an article means your home to those near and those far. Because there is accompanying video on our website the more introductions, the more possibilities. nashvilleartsmagazine.com Published by the St. Claire Media Group Charles N. Martin Jr., Chairman Paul Polycarpou, President Editorial Offices Daniel Hightower, Executive Director 644 West Iris Drive, Nashville, TN 37204 Tel. 615 383-0278 Editorial Business Office: This is world. Paul Polycarpou, Editor and CEO our Angela Innes, Adrienne Thompson Katie Sulkowski, Managing Editor Meagan Nordmann, Social Media & Web Manager Distribution: Madge Franklin, Copy Editor Parker Cason, Josh Fuller, Sam Scarpine Ted Clayton, Social Editor Subscription and Customer Service: With views like these, you need not Linda Dyer, Antique and Fine Art Specialist 615 383-0278 [email protected] Jim Reyland, Theater Correspondent look further. Letters: Contributing Writers We encourage readers to share their stories and reactions Rebecca Bauer, Beano, Wm Bucky Baxter, Lizza Connor Bowen, to Nashville Arts Magazine by sending emails to Lou Chanatry, Sophie Colette, Melissa Cross, Daysi, Greta Gaines, [email protected] or letters to the address Joe Glazer, Beth Knott, Tony Lance, Linda York Leaming, above. We reserve the right to edit submissions for length Joy Ngoma, Lizzie Peters, Currie Powers, Ashleigh Prince, Kami Rice, and clarity. Bernadette Rymes, Sally Schloss, Eric Stengel, Katie Sulkowski, Kevin Tetz, Lindsey V. Thompson, Dave Turner, Lisa Venegas, Advertising Department Deborah Walden, Freya West, William Williams Sales Director: Randy Read Design Cindy Acuff, Rebecca Bauer, Melissa Cross, Jeff Stamper, Design Director David Anthony Green, Beth Knott, Leigh Mayo Rob Williams, Graphic Designer All sales calls: 615 419-2111 [email protected] 615.463.3333 Photographers Advertising & Business Office: 2325 Crestmoor Road, Suite L-4 Jerry Atnip, Nick Bumgardner, Lawrence Boothby, Matt Coale, 40 Burton Hills Boulevard Kyle Dreier, Tim Hiber, Brad Jones, Mark Levine, Anthony Scarlati, Bob Schatz Nashville, TN 37215 Nashville TN 37215 thelipmangroup.com 6 | April 2010 | Nashville Arts MagazineNashville Arts Magazine | April 2010 | 6 Nashville Arts Magazine | April 2010Nashville | 7 Arts Magazine | April 2010 | 7 Budsliquors9.16.09.indd 1 9/16/09 1:55 PM Each Office Is Independently Owned And Operated. 8 9

Spotlight A ToAsT To above: by Dian Malouf NESS Atelier Minyon EN EE Atelier Minyon is a Turkish- and New York-based jewelry design T house that will premiere their newest collections here in Nashville at Cindi Earl Fine Jewelry April 8, 5–8 p.m. Atelier Minyon’s creations meld the romantic history of Turkey with modern design and offer fresh, innovative collections never before seen in the United States. INE Over the years, Jewel House of Minyon has created dynamic jewelry, W handcrafted in 18-, 22- and 24-karat gold with diamonds and other above: by Edie Maney sTivA gemstones, utilizing the traditions and architectural elements that fe l bring the spirit of Turkey to life. At this exquisite jewelry boutique Temple Arts Festival on Spring Street in SoHo, New York, you step through the doors and If you love spending a weekend you are instantly transported to a very special place. Jewel House of afternoon viewing beautiful art that above: by Joan RasMussen Minyon established itself as the premier jeweler in Ankara and as an you can also take home, you won’t want to miss the wonderful vari- ambassador to the world by creating custom pieces for many foreign ety of art and handcrafted works on display during the Temple Arts diplomats. Come join Atelier Minyon’s premiere of their newest Festival (TAF) in Nashville the weekend of April 10–11. In its sixth collection of exquisite jewelry at Cindi Earl Fine Jewelry on year, the TAF is earning a reputation as one of Nashville’s best arts Thursday, April 8, 5–8 p.m. festivals to attend; the cache of artists just keeps getting better and better. Over fifty highly acclaimed master artists and craftsmen from Native across the country will offer beautiful, eclectic selections of origi- A New Exhibit Opening at gallery F, March 13 nal glass, sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, outsider art, Native presents five unexpected artistic perspec- and more. Their collectible works have been displayed in museums, tives on native North American culture. Through galleries and juried exhibitions nationwide. The Temple Arts Festival photography, painting, indoor and outdoor will be held at The Temple, 5015 Harding Road, Nashville, TN installation, and performance video, artists rang- 37205; phone 615-352-7620; www.templeartsfestival.com. Ample ing in age from twenty-four to seventy-two years adjacent free parking is available for all events. The festival is free old portray their connections with the Choctaw, and open to the public Sunday, April 11, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. For Ojibwe, Zapotec, Cherokee, Kiowa, Wichita, the full schedule of weekend events, visit the website. 20+ Tennessee Wineries and Chickasaw tribes. The pieces in this exhibi- Fine Artisans • Specialty Foods tion pay homage to native culture. gallery F is located at Scarritt-Bennett Center, 1008 19th Free Lake Cruises • Music Avenue, South. www.scarrittbennett.org Free Wine & Food Seminars

Saturday May 15, 2010 Nancy Saturn Art After Hours 12:00-6:00 PM Nancy Saturn was a warm and beloved leader in Nashville, well Every first Thursday of known for her leadership and mentorship in many organizations in the month, thirty-six Nashville Shores education, health, and the arts. At her gallery, the American Artisan, member galleries of the she attributed her successes to following her instincts when acquiring Nashville Association of $20 Advanced General Admission beautiful artworks and introducing new, exciting pieces to her clien- Art Dealers (NAAD) are tele. Saturn brought life and leadership through her life’s experience open late from 5–8 p.m., $10 Designated Driver and wisdom to the organization and growth of the American Artisan inviting the public to Group Tix Available Festival—now a hugely anticipated tradition here in Nashville each come and enjoy art after above: The Easy Life by Noriko Register summer taking place in Centennial Park. After a breast cancer diagno- work. Art After Hours is a Represented by the Tennessee Art League sis in ’95, Nancy was awakened to her strong desire to give back to her citywide art crawl that elevates awareness and support for the visual w community and other women and co-founded the Tennessee Breast arts in Nashville. This program provides art lovers and patrons a new ww com Cancer Coalition and the Gilda’s Club of Nashville. In all areas of her opportunity to explore Nashville’s diverse and growing art scene. .atoasttotennessee. life, she encouraged others to pursue education and seek out mentor- For a gallery map and more information visit (615) 758-3478 ship so they could realize their dreams. Nancy will be greatly missed. nashvilleartdealers.net.

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Lauren Rolwing, International Poster Winner Lauren Rolwing, a local illustrator, was chosen out of 1,834 entries from around the world as one of the best one hundred artists to represent Freedom of Expression, by Poster for Tomorrow, an international poster competition that exists to promote various human rights causes. Two marquee exhibitions will be held in Paris at the Louvre Museum and in Milan at La Triennale museum. These posters are on view in multiple cities worldwide. Look for a feature on Ms. Rolwing in an upcoming Nashville Arts Magazine.

Rigoletto by Nashville Opera A story of dark intrigue, Rigoletto blends Verdi’s music with Victor Hugo’s tragic tale of a father’s vengeance. Nashville Opera will present this opera as their final production of the 2009-2010 season on Saturday, April 10, at 8 p.m. and Tuesday, April 13, at 7 p.m. in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center located at 505 Deaderick Street in Downtown Nashville. Sung in Italian with projected English translations, Rigoletto is directed by John Hoomes and features the Nashville Symphony under the direction of Maestro Joel Revzen, Arizona Opera’s artistic director top: Robertson County, Jennifer Simpkins above: Loudon County, Joel Knapp and principal conductor. Tickets range from $17 to $80 and may below: Bedford County, Tom Moore be purchased from Nashville Opera at (615) 832-5242, online at www.nashvilleopera.org, or at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center Box Office locations.

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Andrew Jackson and the Young in Heart Nashville Film Festival When Andrew Jackson, newly elected as the seventh presi- by Freya West dent of the United States, moved on horseback from his Nashville is a town used to celebrity sightings and big events Nashville home, the Hermitage, to the White House in in the music business, but come April 15, the red carpet will roll out in Washington, it was with an immense sense of loneliness, Green Hills, welcoming filmmakers and filmgoers alike to the Nashville following the recent death of his beloved wife, Rachel. But Film Festival (NaFF). Celebrating its forty-first year April 15–22 at the situation changed for the better when he invited young Green Hills Cinema, NaFF will boast more than 220 films from 38 people, who themselves were facing sorrow and failure, to countries with several guest directors, actors, and more than 23,000 varsity golfers, the students’ only chance is to prove their worth as join him there and take up activities that would revive their filmgoers there to experience independent and international film in artists individually and as a whole. Directed by Victor Fanucchi, Art spirits as well as those of the president and the nation. Nashville. Created in 1969 as the Sinking Creek Film Celebration, House will world-premiere here at the Nashville Film Festival. In Andrew Jackson and the Young in Heart, a newly released the Nashville Film Festival is the longest-running film festival in novel based on historical fact, author Wilbur Cross offers the South. Although the films come from as far away as Denmark Tickets are available online starting April 5 to members and April a unique glimpse into the softer side of “Old Hickory” (Applause) and Japan (Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl), NaFF also 6 to the public at http://www.ticketsnashville.com or at the Green and the romantic spirit of President Andrew Jackson. takes time to celebrate local talent. The Tennessee Film Night (part 1 Hills Cinema box office during the festival. www.wilburcross.wordpress.com and 2) showcases short films from Tennessee filmmakers. And NaFF is below: Reece Thompson and Kris Kristofferson star in director Shane Dax Ageless are those who still suppose one of the only film festivals that will let you walk their red carpet even Taylor’s adaptation of the William Gay novel, Provinces of Night. The rain brings petals to the rose, if you’re not film royalty. Along with Tennessee Film Night, opening bottom: Paprika Steen takes a star turn in the Austrian drama Applause. Who tolerate the winter’s fling ceremonies will include a screening of the BAFTA-award-nominated Knowing it will soon be spring; film,Nowhere Boy, a biopic of the creative childhood of John Lennon. Who see in dreams some lesson learned And not dark signs of passion spurned. Artistic director Brian Owens says he has seen Nashville- and What prompted them to be so clever? Tennessee-made films rise in number and quality over the past few They are the Young in Heart forever. years. “Unless you’re in a major city, when you run across a great – Annie-Belle Donelson local film, you feel like it might be a fluke, but there’s really some great talent here. A lot of people are doing it right.”

Inside Out The festival is keeping their guest list close this year, but if past A Curatorial Perspective on Joyce Melander-Dayton guests such as William Shatner, Vincent D’Onofrio, Al Gore, Nicole by Herb Williams Kidman, William H. Macy, John Waters, Oprah Winfrey, and I have a deeper understanding of Melander-Dayton’s process than most. I was Robert Redford are any indication, the 2010 red carpet should be lucky enough to be invited into her studio. I felt like a kid in a candy store. Like just as glamorous and varied. her artwork, the space was fascinating. There were huge bolts of bright-colored felt stretched out on the floor, and the surrounding walls were covered with custom- Highlights of the festival include: built storage cases for various fabrics and threads. What enthralled me the most Provinces of Night. Based on the William Gay novel of the same was climbing up a ladder to look through her storage system of glass beads. There name, Provinces of Night follows the story of Fleming Bloodworth were hundreds, if not thousands, of various-sized glass Mason jars containing (Reece Thompson), a young man in 1952 Tennessee who lives in hollow glass beads of every conceivable shade and finish. The organization of the solitude save for his books and dreams of being a writer. That is, materials spoke leagues of the artist’s professionalism, attention to detail, and obvi- until he meets his estranged grandfather E. F. Bloodworth (Kris ous obsession with her work. Kristofferson) and a mysterious girl named Raven Lee Halfacre (Hilary Duff). Dark secrets lurk in each one’s past, and Fleming The power of an artist who has come into the stride of realizing her full voice must weather the provinces of night in order to find the dawn. and potential is staggering when coupled with the fact that the artist is both humble and grounded. The focus and quality in the artwork left impressions Applause. Thea Barfoed (Paprika Steen) is a critically acclaimed actress in my visual memory that I can only compare to other great artists whose work whose heavy drinking led to a divorce and the loss of her two boys. Now stays with you long after viewing, such as Helen Frankenthaler or Joan Mitchell. out of rehab, Thea wants to be involved in her sons’ lives again. Thea tries to prove herself to them and her ex-husband, but the hard life on A mid-career retrospective exhibition featuring twenty-five years of works stage and the ghosts from her past slowly come knocking at her door. A by the renowned Santa Fe-based artist Joyce Melander-Dayton will open Southeast premiere from Denmark, directed by Martin Zandvliet. at The Rymer Gallery on April 3, 2010, and will remain on view through April 24. Melander-Dayton creates contemporary textile works that pull Art House. With a cast including Iggy Pop and Greta Gerwig, Art House from her childhood experiences in Asia, her love of music, and the worka- follows the tale of a communal house for art students. Threatened day elements of her life. by the university dean who wants to turn the house into a home for

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Antiques and Fine Art Appraisal Day specialist, Linda Dyer, is a major contributor to this fundraiser event at The Factory, May 22 for NPT. She shares her enthusiasm: “I am absolutely delighted and Nashville Public Television brings an exciting opportunity for extremely flattered by the willingness of my colleagues to give up members of the community to have their fine art and antiques one of their precious weekends to join me in volunteering their time appraised by famed, international appraisers. Our very own appraisal to this Nashville Public Television fundraising effort. I personally invited each of these appraisers for their wealth of knowledge and market awareness in the areas of their expertise. Their names and faces will be very familiar to fans of the WGBH production Antiques Roadshow. So I encourage everyone to find that certain something in above : Morning Has Broken by Charlotte Terrell, 36" x 48" their possession and seize this rare opportunity. There will be a room Harding Academy Art Show full of world-class appraisers that know what they are talking about.” For thirty-five years the Harding Art Show has been one ofthe Don’t expect lights and cameras; there will not be television produc- principal fund-raising activities of the Parents Auxiliary of Harding tion crews, but this will be a fabulous opportunity to have your fine Academy. The 2010 Harding Art Show will take place from April arts and collectibles examined by experts! This one-day, Saturday 29 through May 1. This show has grown from a modest gathering event begins at 9:30 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. There is an entry of artists in the 1970s to a large exhibition with select artists, local fee of $10 per item appraised. For details, visit NPT.org. and out-of-state, who have been invited to participate. This year’s featured artist is Charlotte Terrell, whose life-long admiration of fine art and historic architecture in antebellum homes has strongly influenced her art. This influence can be seen in her mixed-media works, grounded in centuries-old painted finishes and trompe-l’oeil techniques, a craft of mid-nineteenth-century decorative painting. The Harding Art Show is proud to continue its tradition in the Nashville community and will be located at the Harding Academy campus, 170 Windsor Drive. This event is free and open to the public. www.Artshow.Hardingacademy.org JAMIE Coming Soon Tory “Working with Camille is always a pleasure— Burch she’s creative, efficient and the quality of her SAM work is consistently excellent. I have and con- J. Craighead EDELMAN tinue to recommend her to anyone who asks.” & Co. CALVIN —Shannon Presley Martin, Owner, KLEIN Country Boy Restaurant, Leipers Fork, TN J Brand Step into our World • Custom Window Treatments MARNI • Custom Bedding • Valances j PRADA • Roman Shades • Pillows Missoni • Blinds & Shutters Antiques e Art CHLOE Milly e Home Garden PHILLIP LIM Accessories e Gifts VERA www.CamilleMoore.com WANG 2225 Bandywood Nashville, Tennessee 37205 615-604-4132 4317 Harding Road 615-292-4188 jamie-nashville.com

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Living History 103 Harlinsdale Court, Franklin, Tennessee The importance of wine shows up early in the Bible: Imagine living in a house where every window and door provides an unspoiled view of over four hundred acres of verdant pastures and “And Noah began to be protected parkland. Despite being historically accurate in every way, this Federal style home could have been built by NASA. Using the an husbandman, and he finest natural materials, it is built for extreme durability and effi- planted a vineyard.” ciency, yet is warm and welcoming in every way. There is something very special about this house, and it seems to – Genesis 9:20 embody the spirit of its history. Originally part of a land grant given to Daniel McMahan for Revolutionary War service, the farm has Cummins Station been home to Midnight Sun, emperor of the Tennessee Walking H by appointment Horse dynasty. Included in the Franklin Historic Preservation Sounds like a pretty good endorsement to us. 615-255-3255 Overlay, the farm and its original farmhouse were purchased by

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This incredible testament to history is perfect for family living. Front and back stairs, two enormous entertaining spaces, and Jack and Jill bedroom suites are designed for today’s living. The master suite is ExPERIENCE OuR LIVE COuNTRY MuSIC ShOw located on the main floor, with both a beautiful handmade vanity SAVE $20 BY and a walk-in marble shower. Upstairs, all bedrooms open off the BOOKING ONLINE large media room, which also contains a wet bar. Save $20 OFF* on adult dinner, cruise and show tickets By Booking Online at www.GeneralJackson.com must refer to The lowest level of the home contains an enormous finished space ™ discount code ARTS to receive discount. *Valid for adult tickets on Tier 2 only and for up to 6 guests. May not be combined with any other with twin fireplaces. It could be used as a separate apartment, man offer. This special is only valid online and through www.generaljackson.com ticketing booking link. You must use the discount code ARTS in the Promotional Code box. Valid through March 31, 2010. cave, nanny quarters, or working office, and it has a separate bath. A closet has been thoughtfully wired for a potential elevator. Two separate garages and a space large enough for a recording studio or wine cellar complete this seemingly simple abode. Become a General Jackson Text Message Insider! GeneralJackson.com 4548 harding road Text “GJACK” to 81893 for Special Discounts. nashville, tn 37205 www.bobparks.com 615-385-2800

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left: N. C. Wyeth, Thoreau Fishing, 1936, Charcoal on paper 33.625” x 33” This is a charcoal sketch for one of ten illustrations Wyeth painted for the book Men of Concord by Henry D. Thoreau. Wyeth was a student and admirer of Thoreau.

Gary R. Haynes American Realism by Jay Sheridan | photography by Bob Schatz We all have innate abilities which, with a bit of luck, turn to passions. If the stars align, those passions are cultivated into successful careers. These are the people the rest of us admire.

Gary R. Haynes, of Haynes Galleries in Franklin, has spent a lifetime chasing his dream.“I worked construction for a year and saved money to attend the Harris School of Advertising Art in Nashville in the early sixties,” Haynes says. “Mr. Harris taught us the fundamentals—how to draw, how to paint, how to make a figure—everything but how to get a job.” But a job was what he needed.

After a couple of entry-level jobs, he went to work for the ad firm Lavidge & Associates in Knoxville and, at night, took painting courses with Carl Sublett at the University of Tennessee. Sublett was an American Realist painter who was acquainted with Andrew Wyeth. Naturally, Sublett’s focus on Wyeth’s work influenced his students.

“My prize possession is the first Wyeth item I collected, his book on the Olsons titled Christina’s World,” Haynes says. “As a student of art, I was a realist, and I admired Andrew’s technical skills—his mastery of technique and his ability to make objects and people real enough to jump off the page were overwhelming. I was drawn to his watercolors because they were wonderfully designed. They had an abstract quality, yet they were very real.”

Haynes continued to paint in the Wyeth style for five years, but the demands of his day job began to require his full focus. By happenstance, he met Eric Ericson, who had become a leading figure in regional advertising circles. “Eric was the only man in the world who would set the type for an entire annual report and then start over because he decided he didn’t like it,” Haynes says. “But I respected that pursuit of perfection, and I learned a lot from him.”

Haynes went to work for Eric Ericson & Associates in 1975 as asso- above: Doug Brega, Maine Coastal Home, Watercolor on paper, 13.5” x 20.5” This is a portrait of Rockwell Kent’s home in Monhegan Island off the coast of ciate creative director. The agency grew fast, and Haynes moved to Maine. Jamie Wyeth bought the house and lived and painted there until he the account management side and soon became a partner. moved to Southern Island.

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top left: Stephen Scott Young, In Prayer, Watercolor on paper, 11” x 15” While Young has begun to find new sources for inspiration, his sitters are often people living in rural areas of the Bahamas, Florida, and coastal South Carolina.

above: Burton Silverman, Shoka, Watercolor on paper, 15” x 10.5” Silverman’s treatment of watercolor is very fluid. He works on hot press paper, which is a hard surface; the medium doesn’t blend and bleed like traditional watercolor.

left: Andrew Wyeth, The Pantry, 1969, Watercolor on paper, 30” x 22.5” The Pantry was one above: Brett James Smith, The Last Run, Watercolor on paper, 21” x 29” of the last paintings Wyeth did in Christina What is important in outdoor paintings is mood, a feeling of how things were and still can be. Olson’s house, which was the subject of many Today, Smith is considered to be among the best in his field. Wyeth paintings. Ericson passed away in 1987, and Haynes eventually He sold the ad agency in 1999, converting its headquarters at the Haynes Galleries was launched in early 2010 as a specialist in bought the company. Along the way, a couple of historic Fall School building in Nashville into executive suites. American Realist art and as a resource center for collectors. The venture capital companies which he co-founded After a twenty-five-year hiatus, he started painting again and hold- focus is on providing discreet, full-service counsel to like-minded grew rapidly and became publicly traded. ing art classes in part of the sprawling, thirty-six-thousand-square- collectors who are interested in building a personal collection or foot building. It was a creative space, and another section served as buying and selling for investment purposes. A national market- Over the years, he had continued to follow the a gallery for his growing collection of American Realist art. ing campaign has generated significant interest from leading art Wyeths, investing in a piece here and there. His publications, emerging artists, and collectors alike. success in business was feeding his lust for the In 2008, he sold the building. With a substantial collection of art masters of American Realism. Soon, it was artists spanning three centuries, Haynes had unintentionally become The pieces in Haynes’s own world-class collection are for sale like John Singer Sargent and Emile Gruppe and retired. The concept for Haynes Galleries began to coalesce. as well and include significant works of leading artists from the William McGregor Paxton who attracted his nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. While there is attention, followed by emerging contemporary “Art had always been an integral part of my life,” he says. “But now a decided emphasis on the Wyeth family—N. C., Andrew, Jamie, painters. Before long, the Hayneses were spend- that I was free of any professional obligations, I was able to really Carolyn, and Henriette—the rising stars of today’s Realist move- ing time in Maine, becoming friendly with the focus on buying and selling artwork. Along the way, I realized that ment are well represented. A considerable selection of works Wyeth family, and working the auction circuit there was a need for collection management services and auction from David and Doug Brega, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Jeremy in New York and New England. His passion representation, archival and framing advice, all the things that I Lipking, Burton Silverman, Peter Poskas and Stephen Scott was beginning to come full circle. would have benefitted from over the years as a collector.” Young, among others, is included.

left: N. C. Wyeth, Next Morning Came a Clear Hot Day, 1918, Oil on canvas , 28” x 33” This was an illustration for Scribner’s. During his life he created over three thousand illustrations—113 books, twenty-five of them for Scribner’s.

below: Jeremy Lipking, In Profile, 2004, Graphite on paper, 16” x 20” Lipking is an emerging talent. Well known for attaining artistic maturity early in his career, Lipking is quickly becoming an influential artist today.

Ruth Crnkovich, M.A., A.A.A., serves as director of the gallery and brings decades of experience as a highly skilled fine-art appraiser and curator to her relationships with clients. “We’re serving clients across America, and we want prospective customers to visit our web site, to become familiar with the collection, our services and our philosophy on working with people who collect on this level,” said Crnkovich. “We’ll then make an appointment to get together and talk more about goals and objectives without the distractions found in a storefront. It’s a very personal and private approach to the art business.”

Haynes admits that he’s living his dream today, perhaps to an extent which he couldn’t quite comprehend when he bought the book Christina’s World 40 years ago.

“It just happened because I focused on what I loved,” he says. “I worked hard at it, day and night, because I wanted to be better at it than anyone else. I guess that’s what it means to be passion- ate about something.”

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opposite page: Tennessee State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee, 2009. Platinum/palladium print, 24” x 36”. This piece was commissioned by Lois Riggins-Ezzell and Leigh Hendry of the Tennessee State Museum to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the building of our state capitol.

left: Statue of Liberty, New York, New York, 1983. On vacation with my kids, we visited New York City, leaving nothing out of our itinerary. John Guider Visions in Platinum by Sophie Colette John Guider is a quiet man, introverted, yet amicable. His gentle voice sounds like the soft warbling of an old soul. He is the kind of person who immediately puts you at ease; an air of peaceful- ness seems to hover around him. Talking to Guider and experiencing his art is like peeling back layers of onion skin. I entered his studio surprised by his shyness; I left impressed by his bold approach to life and art.

Guider is part alchemist, part Odysseus. He has spent years toiling over various chemical solutions and compounds to improve his photographic art. He has also lived the last ten years with a spirit of adventure, braving the Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexico, and the uncharted territories of his own emotions in the solitude of a lonely boat.

For over thirty years Guider worked as a commercial photographer but slowly began to realize that he wanted something more. “I couldn’t justify doing it for money anymore. I sold my studio. I wanted a project that would be solely my own. I wanted something that would challenge me not just intellectually but spiritually.” Guider found that challenge in a small boat and later in the technique of platinum printing, and his life has never been the same. nthony Scarlati A

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opposite page: Flowers in Storefront Window, New Orleans, 2006. A year after Katrina, the Gulf Coast was still a shambles. The image seemed appropriate for what was going on.

top: Canoe at Water’s Edge, Mississippi River, 2003. After a hard day of fighting the currents and whirlpools of the tricky river, I’d often land on a remote sandbar, set up my tent, and collect myself as the evening drifted into a blissful calm.

middle: Amish Farmhouse, Etheridge, Tennessee, 1992. Bill McNew, a friend and Harvard-trained historian, was asked by the Amish to research their community and report his findings. Amazed by what he found, he asked me to tag along and photograph. We’d leave before sunrise to catch the good light, and he’d tell me their stories all along the way.

bottom left: Varanasi, India, 2002. At daybreak, we were loaded into an arcane wooden rowboat and set adrift on the Ganges River. Staying close to the banks of the holy city, we saw humanity come alive in ways I had never witnessed before.

below: Kendra, Nashville, Tennessee, 1999. In casting a poster for the Tennessee Repertory Theatre, I was introduced to Kendra, who had just recently returned from Myanmar, having studied to be a Buddhist nun. She agreed to reshave her head for this image.

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Moai, Easter Island, 2007. On a lark, I flew In 2003 Guider pushed his small boat into a stream on his property. below: Tree Roots, Harpeth River, Williamson County, Tennessee, 2003. out of Santiago to this diminutive special He followed it out to the Cumberland River and on to the Mississippi The first seven days of my ninety-day journey solo by canoe was island. Arriving after dark, I found that all River and New Orleans. He spent hours in solitude photographing spent on the Harpeth. The intimacy of that very special river and the hotels were full. A frustrated cab driver the time I had to myself combined to create one the most spiritual drove me to somebody’s house and told nature that often goes unnoticed. His experiences were raw. Guider experiences I had ever felt. me to stay there. For the next four days describes sitting in his craft during tornado warnings and lightning middle: Seagull, Tierra del Fuego, 2007. I made my way to Ushuaia, I roamed the island I had once thought storms. Once, his boat was attacked by an alligator. “I can’t tell you hoping to catch a ride to Antarctica. The air coming off the Straits would forever lie out of reach. how many electric storms I’ve been in. You hear the sizzle and wonder of Magellan felt so fresh, I felt like life was beginning all over again. when it’s your turn.” bottom: Hostas, Washington, D.C., 2005. I discovered this simple garden of hostas tucked in between all the iconic monuments of our When Guider returned to Nashville to begin processing his photo- great capital. graphs, he found the images he had worked so hard to capture seemed to fall flat. They did not measure up to the emotional caliber of his personal experiences. So he set off on a new adventure. “For a year after the journey, I printed. Nothing that I came up with emulated the emotions that I felt as I made each image.”

Finally, Guider discovered the art of platinum printing. He threw himself into mastering this new form. “I spent more time learning the art of platinum printing than I did on the journey.” For Guider, both aesthetically and emotionally, the rewards of platinum printing have been as rich as the metal with which he works. He is one of only ten or so individuals working in black and white platinum printing on a large scale, bringing a world-class art here to Nashville.

Guider explained to me the complicated technical process by which he must work. Most photographs capture only an infinitely small range of values compared to the perception of the human eye. Through platinum printing, Guider can achieve a scale of light to dark that is hundreds of times more varied than the traditional photograph. He must work on metal-free paper that has to be imported from France, and his materials are so sensitive that he has to record the ambient air temperature, humidity, and drying time when he develops. Guider does not work in a darkroom like most photographers. He explains, “Platinum and palladium are so light insensitive that you can do it in room light.” After immersing his prints in the platinum and palladium concoction, Guider places them on a vacuum easel beneath a five-thousand-watt bulb.

The result is something truly amazing. My interest was piqued by the technical qualities of Guider’s process, but when he showed me his platinum print of the Statue of Liberty, I was blown away by an image I have seen thousands of times. The tone and dimension of the composition are unparalleled. I literally felt my jaw drop.

Whether he looks at a rushing fountain in Paris or a still, hot swamp on the Mississippi, Guider tries to communicate the beauty that he sees around him to those who are lucky enough to encounter his photographs. “I try to recreate the emotion that I felt when I saw it, those moments when I am looking at the simplest things. I want to make those simple things important—somehow make them as beautiful as I sense that they are.” One glance at a John Guider photograph reveals that he does in fact live in a beautiful world. Johnguider.com All images © John Guider 2009.

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mantel of an ornate fireplace; awards galore, Junos, Maple Blues Judging by the army of books on your Awards, Grammy nominations, an IBMA, a Gabriel, a prestigious bookshelf, you love to read. Toronto Arts Award, packed shoulder to shoulder. There’s also a The power of writing touches the framed letter from Ethan Coen asking Linden about doing a role subtleties of our thoughts. Fiction in an upcoming Coen Brothers film. (Linden played the singing or non-fiction—I am always priest who marries Catherine Zeta Jones and Billy Bob Thornton moved by the truth. in Intolerable Cruelty.) On the walls are gold records for O Brother, Where Art Thou; Down From the Mountain, Michelle Wright, Well said. Your house has a pretty Bruce Cockburn. eclectic garden. Since your wife is more inclined to take down a tree All are evidence of the variety in Colin Linden’s career: guitar than plant one, is this evidence of your player, songwriter, actor, producer. He has played guitar with green thumb? Is gardening a metaphor The Band, Amos Garrett, Emmylou Harris, written songs with for anything? Gary Nicholson, Pam Tillis, Keb’ Mo’, has produced Lucinda I’d like to be a better gardener, both literally Williams, Janiva Magness, and that’s just the short list. Oh, and and figuratively. One of the only jobs I ever had outside of he also lent his voice to the “Go FedEx!” commercials. In short, music was as a gardener’s assistant, and I really valued the Zen he’s a busy man. of growing things. I think I will be a better artist as I get to be a better gardener. He is currently promoting his eleventh album, From the Water, and working on the new Blackie and the Rodeo Kings album Let’s talk about food. Men seem to have a different Kings & Queens due out in 2010, featuring duets with Rosanne approach to cooking and following cookbooks. Is it the Cash, Pam Tillis, Shelby Lynne, Lucinda Williams, and Emmylou process or the end result? Harris, among others. For me, the process is a pleasure, and the end result is a marker. If the end result turns out great, I feel a sense of accomplish- There’s a rumor you’ll be turning fifty in April. Do you feel that ment, and it serves my basic need of spreading the love of milestone comes with any obligations to the generation of food. But if the process is satisfying, then I know I still have musicians coming up behind you? the potential for coming up with a new idea on something. I have always aspired to be an old blues singer, and I see myself General life philosophy? Does that make sense? to me in that he venerates the art and calling of making music edging towards that dream. I wish I could tell all the younger It’s pretty simple. Try to bring love and happiness into people’s and imbues it with humor and passion. That guy is a genius. I musicians, ‘Everything will be alright this morning,’ in the words lives with your music, and you will bring it into your own. Absolutely. The process is living. The end result is life. Who also love and admire Bruce Cockburn, the great Canadian singer- of Muddy Waters. Honor those who came before you, and inspire those who may are your heroes and why? songwriter-musician-activist, in that he continues to be, at age come after. There are so many. I really love women and find them fascinating. sixty-four, at the peak of his powers as an artist and still maintains Has your choice to diversify your career been a conscious As a result my two biggest heroes are my wife and my mother. his sense of wonder with this world. There are lots more…I could one? What are the pros and cons of wearing—pardon the As a Canadian, what do you like about living in the South? go on. pun—many hats? The South is the “Mother Ship” of the culture I love the most. It’s Bless your heart. I never had the huge hit that I was always hoping for. As a result, forgiving, sensual, and is so connected to the music that I make. They both approach life with optimism, humor, and realism I think it’s nearly dinnertime. I stumbled into all kinds of detours that have truly enriched my in good measure. I will always admire Howlin’ Wolf, whose What do you feel like? artistic life. Maybe I would have had a simpler life the other How has your spirituality formed your life and your relationships sensitivity and artistry—acquired without the benefit of way, and maybe had an easier time supporting my beautiful with people? formal education—continued to evolve throughout his life. I Fat Mo’s? wife and cats… I feel I’ve been blessed by God, with my marriage first and fore- admire and love my friend Gary Nicholson, who is the kind I’ll drive. most, and with all my wonderful friends and experiences in music. of man I aspire to be—he is at the height of creativity and You’ve done all right and we thank you. I feel compelled to write about this evolving and complex relation- lives with the ethics of a holy man. I admire the President of Currie Alexander Powers is the author of the novel Soul of a Man (Cold …but I am so grateful that I am constantly stimulated by my work, ship, and music of worship—especially black gospel music—has the United States, Barack Obama, and I wish him the best in Tree 2006), contributing author and editor of the anthology Gathering: Writers of Williamson County (CPO 2009). She has also been married to and I think that is because of this “enforced” diversification. helped me connect with the Eternal. achieving his potential. My friend T Bone Burnett is a hero musician Colin Linden for twenty-two years.

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Innovative, larger than life, a visionary and a leader in his field of art as well as a major contributor to the Modern Art movement easily describes Dale Chihuly. Almost single-handedly, this extraordinary artist has changed the course of glass-blowing tradition with the creation of his over-sized, brilliantly lustrous pieces of sculpture. To encounter Chihuly installations is to revel in the wonder and awe of art that is both beautiful and meaningful. Through his inspired installations, we are taken on a magical journey, experienced through our senses and firing our imaginations. They can literally make your spirit soar! “Like an explorer, you don’t want to go to places you’ve already been; you want to go someplace new.” Taking giant leaps is nothing new for Chihuly. He has always been inspired by the challenges that are inherent with glass, and he loves to create new kinds of shapes and color combinations. He is completely comfortable in the role of explorer and innovator, bringing into this world new things never before created, thought up, or seen by humankind. His contemporary glass sculpture is loved the world over by people of all ages. Not only has this energetic artist kept in step with the demand for his creations, but he continues to nurture and grow his vision with a seemingly never-ending source of creativity.

Nashville Arts Magazine traveled recently to Seattle to catch up with this enigmatic artist to experience firsthand his creative process, and for an intriguing, behind-the-scenes look at the twenty-foot-long glass boat that will soon be on display in our city. Under Chihuly’s influence, Seattle has become a glass-blowing Mecca rivaling Murano, Italy.

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“I always told students that Conjuring up images of Dante’s Inferno, nine hot ovens bubbling the most important thing that with flames over two thousand degrees Fahrenheit run from early morning to mid afternoon. As many as six glass blowers, called they could ever do was to be gaffers, are hard at work at any one time, pulling, firing, molding, around artists.” bringing the glass to life. Surprisingly, the gaffers wear little protec- Chihuly’s workshop is known as a “hotshop” and sits inconspicu- tive gear, in some cases only sunglasses and special gloves that reach ously on Lake Union in the heart of Seattle. There are no signs just beyond their wrists, when handling the glass in its molten state. trumpeting its world-renowned reputation, no fanfare—just a large, Their movements are quick and remarkably fluid. In Chihuly’s faceless, pre-fabricated building, the kind that litters industrial land- hotshop each gaffer passes off the liquid glass from one station to scapes. But inside, it’s a whole other world. another like a track team passes off a baton; once their sprint is over, hel s i R erry T Photo: hel s hel s i R ouri ri N erry T a s ere T

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it’s the next person’s job. The heat in the hotshop is unimaginable, Makaw, and Singapore. Over the past three decades his work has orbs brighten our world, transforming familiar places into extraor- and yet no one seems to notice or care. Each gaffer stays focused, traveled to hundreds of the world’s top museums, including the dinary expressions. Looking remarkably like sea life resting on the fresh, and strong to handle the glass, to bend and to mold it into Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Louvre where he was ocean floor, his bright and colorful glass sculptures reflect and Chihuly’s vision. one of four Americans ever to have a one-man exhibition, and the enhance the very nature that surrounds them. Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Prominent personalities “Had I not been a sculptor or including the Queen of England are among his ardent admirers. “I had the energy to do some-

an artist, I might have liked to Major creations have hung in Venice, Jerusalem, London, and Tokyo. thing, and I was lucky to find be a film director.” His massive chandeliers grace famous entryways such as the Bellagio something that I could do well.” Hotel in Las Vegas. Some of his most impressive works to date include Chihuly likens his role in the creation of his work to that of a film “Light of Jerusalem,” a sixty-foot wall made from twenty-four enor- In Chihuly’s great narrative there are two irreversible events: a director or architect. As a motion picture is made up of a series of mous blocks of ice shipped from Alaska, installed in Jerusalem in shoulder injury that occurred while bodysurfing, and the loss of moments captured on film, coming together under the director’s 1999; a “Crystal Tree of Light” commissioned for the White House sight in one eye, resulting from a car accident, that has prohibited hand, similarly the glass-blowing process is made up of series of Millennium Celebration, and his largest botanical exhibit installed at the artist from blowing glass and has led him to his more omni- elements coming together toward completion. Watching Chihuly the Royal Botanical Garden in Kew, England, in 2005. present role as director and architect. Rather than letting these working and communicating with his team in the hotshop, it is impediments stifle his creativity, Chihuly has used them for his apparent he brings together a finely tuned operation. From original drawings to final walk-through, every part of the benefit by focusing on his painting and creating more innovative, design is intentional. In the museum setting, Chihuly is particu- masterful works. Just neighboring the hotshop is Chihuly’s Ballard studio where he larly detail oriented as to how the light will reveal his art forms, dreams up, designs, and works with engineers, architects, and weld- and he gives special attention to the flow of foot traffic around the Chihuly’s excitement for color, for glass is contagious. In the ers on his concepts for new creations. The destination for a new pieces. His installations in botanical gardens have also caught the creative core at his studio, everyone’s energy is centered around Chihuly masterpiece could be anywhere in the world. These days, imagination of the art world. Here, Chihuly creates other worlds Chihuly’s obsession with expanding the field of light and glass he’s creating commissioned works that are going to Dubai, Kuwait, dancing with color and light. Gigantic glass boats and big floating to the next horizon. Up close, Dale Chihuly is a big personality,

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“If I had to sum up success, I’d say ‘energy.’ Without it, you won’t be successful.”

a discerning man, quick to act, and economical with his words. My meeting with him proved a rare and special occasion. He left an indelible impres- sion—he appeared like a comet for our interview, burned brightly, and was gone just as quickly when the questions were over.

On extended view from May 9, 2010, to January 2, 2011, Chihuly at the Frist will present a variety of colorful and energetic installations designed specifically for the upper-level galleries. Selections will be drawn from the artist’s well-known series including Seaforms, Macchia, Ikebana, and Persians. Highlights include a delightful garden- like Mille Fiori composition and an impressive free- een L standing Tower. On May 20–22, 2010, the Nashville

itchell Symphony will celebrate a Chihuly weekend of M performances, featuring Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle. Chihuly has created a spectacular set

Photo: Scott design for this production. At Cheekwood’s Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, Chihuly will exhibit May 25–October 31, 2010. For more information, visit Chihulyinnashville.com. hel s i R erry T Photo:

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and, each gaffer I deal with, probably in his or her own way. I might talk about it; I might make some drawings. I might blow glass with them for a day and then the next day look at the glass and decide, is this what I’m after.

Of course they have to be told what to do. So, like the boat—I’ll tell them make me a red and yellow boat. And then I’ll go down usually when it’s finished and look at it and say I like it or I don’t, or let’s put some orange into it. Or let’s try taking some pieces out and see what it looks like if it’s half empty. Or the opposite, let’s put some pieces on the floor and see if it’s interesting to have part of it on the floor.

Chihuly In His Own Words Years later I found myself in Venice, Italy, working at the famous The whole studio is really creative whether we’re mocking up some As a kid, I used to go to church where there was some beautiful Venini factory. And that year the Rhode Island School of Design asked piece, whether we’re designing a new show, whether we’re design- stained glass. I paid more attention to that than the minister prob- if I would start a glass program, and I took that opportunity to go to ing a new book. ably, but it wasn’t until I went to college and at one point started such a great institution. That was in the late sixties. Throughout the weaving tapestries that I put little pieces of glass into the tapestries. seventies, I taught at RISD, and I had a remarkable batch of students. I travel to a certain degree to exotic places, but I mostly prefer to And then I got a little oven so I could melt the glass a little bit so it If you made a list of the best glass artists in the country, I would guess travel when I’m doing a show. I don’t really like going to Hawaii and wouldn’t cut the tapestries, so I could smooth off the edges. One that at least ten of them would have been from RISD in the seventies. lying on the beach for a couple weeks. That never has thrilled me, were in it. So I went there, and they were going to do a big scene where night I melted some stained glass between four bricks and put a but it definitely thrills me even less now. I’m supposed to go on safari they blow up a boat, like a three-hundred-foot boat, and all those guys pipe in there—it wasn’t even a blow pipe, just a regular piece of gas I also started the glass school Pilchuck, which is an hour north of this summer—and I wouldn’t go if it weren’t for my son, Jackson, are coming up in a speedboat; they were the cops I guess. But interest- pipe I guess—gathered up some glass and brought it out and blew a here, and that’s been extremely successful. We end up with four who’s about to be twelve, and that’s what they want to do. I’ll prob- ingly, I went out on the boat with the director and the cameraman. bubble, and I had never seen glass-blowing before. hundred to five hundred students there every summer. Some of them ably go for part of it. And I happen to like trains, and South Africa The cameraman didn’t have any camera. There were five other guys are beginning students; some of them are advanced students; some has what’s considered the most beautiful train in the world, kind of who were shooting this scene from other places, and Donner and the are professors. We get all sorts. What happened is that a lot of these like the Orient Express. camera guy never even talked about the movie whatsoever. We were students ended up wanting to be around glass as much as they out there for half an hour until they got ready to shoot, and finally could. Today there are about one thousand glass artists in Seattle Film director is a term I use a lot to describe what I do. Or architect. when it’s action, they’re looking at five different videos, and from that and about one hundred glass shops. You know, I don’t really know how Frank Gehry works, but I can tell point he could probably tell them what to do. The way they did it, they you that he’s got a lot of people working for him, that’s for sure. And he obviously oversaw everything the way it had to be overseen. In the early eighties I quit teaching, and I moved back to Seattle interacts with them mostly, I think, on the level of making models. You to be more connected with Pilchuck and more connected with my know, and again, probably like me, he probably has certain people We are in the process of designing a museum, a Chihuly museum, mother, who lived in Tacoma. I didn’t really have any money at that who have worked for him for a long time. And they are responsible with a beautiful garden, with an exquisite glass conservatory in the time. I was able to trade with a patron of the arts for a warehouse for making it work. Probably even harder in his case because they middle of the garden, with a restaurant and a museum store and a to work in, for some of my glass. Then a few years later I had saved have all that engineering, computer stuff to figure out for those steel small auditorium. And we’re hoping it will be completed by spring. up enough for a down payment, and I bought the hotshop, which buildings. And I think he was one of the first architects to creatively So that’s the biggest project I’ve ever done. And, fortunately, I’ve is about thirty thousand square feet. Now we have about twenty use all those shapes in such a way that I don’t think he could build got a lot of great, creative, talented people working with me, or I people there making glass. Then glass from there is sent over here those buildings if it weren’t for computers; they’d just be too hard to could never even think about doing that project! That’s why you’re to Ballard where the sculptures are built. There are probably sixty figure out. And a film director—as you know, they work in different lucky to have people who can work with you, just like making a people working in the Ballard building. ways. Some of them like to look in the camera to see what the shot is. movie—there are like two or three hundred people out there on that set. And they’ve figured out how to do it somehow. And it takes a I used to show more objects, seaform sets or baskets. But over time, I went on the set of the making of the film Lethal Weapon. Richard lot of people and a lot of money. “People often ask me why I don’t what I do is make mostly commissions and installations for people’s Donner was the director, and Mel Gibson, Joe Pesci, and Danny Glover homes, businesses, lobbies. And then, the next most important thing blow glass anymore. I lost the we do is have exhibitions and museums, mostly in the United States but sometimes abroad. We do about two museum shows a year; we sight of my eye over twenty do about two botanical garden shows a year, which are similar in years ago. It was almost like size to the museum shows. We do about four gallery exhibitions a year. So that keeps us pretty busy with all those exhibitions. Then I was meant not to blow glass, I think we do about fifty commissions a year, which keeps us busy. and I was meant to be a director. And lately we’ve been doing a lot of big commissions in Kuwait, Dubai, Singapore, Makaw. That position suits me.” The guys and gals that head up the team are responsible for what that team does. Some of them have worked for me for twenty years

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Paul Vasterling Dancing Out Loud by Renee Armand | photography by Lawrence Boothby

“When I was in the sixth grade, at school dances, I loved that feeling of being free, letting the music take me where it wanted me to go, putting a physical form to it.” Paul Vasterling, artistic director of the Nashville Ballet, had a sense of where his life would take him. He would dance; he would create stunning choreographed movements that would speak volumes in the silent landscape of ballet.

As a child growing up in Louisiana, Vasterling would often cross the bayou in a pirogue to play with his friends. He would create dance moves in his head and then try them out with his buddies. Then, “When I was sixteen, I went from tap dancing to ballet almost overnight. I was already playing classical piano, and I was pulled to that music. When I went to college, there was a ballet teacher at Loyola who wanted me in class (they’re always short of boys), and I knew—I knew within days—that I was a dancer. I took every class I could take. For me, it was all about embodying the music, literally using the body as the instrument.

“I had to do this dance piece for school. I picked the music that I liked, and I did it. My ballet teacher said, ‘Where did this come from?’ It was just innate. It was the feeling I got when I was making a stretch, thinking what would happen if I did this or if I tried this move.

“But it’s not just feeling. It’s intellectually and physically challenging. My approach is intellectual. I start that way and then find my way out into feeling.” “The paradox of being a ballet That natural talent carried him past a back injury that could have jeopardized his career as a dancer. But, rather than sidelining him, it dancer is that the body is inherently caused him to focus on his real work—choreography. imperfect for the form.”

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“Being a choreographer is a collaborative effort. I’m co-creating all I asked Paul Vasterling how the process begins for him, how he sets Paul Vasterling is the kind of choreographer who gives his dancers the time. The basics are making up the steps and then working with his creative vision into motion. their creative life by structuring and illuminating their artistry. Also, the dancers’ bodies. Not only their bodies but who they are as people. as the artistic director of the Nashville Ballet, he has created its vibrant It’s not a stone or a piece of paper; it’s a person. I love connecting “There is always a huge amount of self-doubt. The moment I walk outreach and education programs. He feels he is the guardian of the with particular dancers, understanding them, understanding what into the studio the first time, even months before, I always have art, the core of the creativity that, he says, leaks out into the rest of they do, how they do it. It’s extremely intimate, very personal. questions. It’s just who I am; it comes with the territory. But once the organization and then into the community. There is some disap- I start, it all goes away. It becomes translucent. It’s when I’m most pointment, though, that more people don’t know about the Nashville “The paradox of being a ballet dancer is that the body is inherently alive. It can take you places you never knew existed.” Ballet, even though, as he says, “We’ve done so much and come so imperfect for the form. Nobody has the perfect body, and each far. I want more.” day you have to look in the mirror and see those imperfections. His office seems cluttered, unlike the occupant, who is a spare, Hopefully, you move beyond that, but you must have a certain economical man until he begins talking about what he loves. He The last ballet of the season will be A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a amount of flexibility, but not too much. There are the hip rotation, shows me two piles of folders on his desk, one low, one high. perfect prelude to the long, warm days ahead. Then Paul Vasterling will the shape and strength of the legs, how the feet point, straight The smaller pile is the ballets everyone knows and loves. The try to find time to read, to be by himself, to listen to music, to store up knees. The classic aesthetics—lines of infinity.” larger stack is the ballets he wants to do, his manila dreams. In a what he needs to do the other work, to dream, to be the artist. To, as corner is a box that holds all of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana ballet he puts it, “close the separation between body and self.” “I’m sort of the guy behind the curtain. I try to teach how to be an performed last year, Vasterling’s own self-described most personal artist, how to approach layering a role, how to analyze it, how to work. It was magnificent. The notebooks are full of drawings and These photographs are of rehearsals for A Midsummer make the dancer’s line look better. I have to create the center of who directions, the record, from its genesis to its finish, of the ballet Night’s Dream. Performances are April 23–25 at they are to see clearly how they move, how they express themselves, he created that explores again the ideas that have filled him since Andrew Jackson Hall, Tennessee Performing Arts Center. to find themselves in the role.” the beginning. He believes, “Love is something that is tangible.” www.nashvilleballet.com

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Nick Long In the Real World by Deborah Walden | photography by Anthony Scarlati

“There are things out there that people just don’t bother to look at that have a certain kind of beauty,” says Nick Long, his smiling eyes glistening behind his glasses. In his acrylic canvases and “graphite paintings” (Long’s term for his detailed pencil drawings), he likes to expose the sublime in everyday, accidental compositions.

Long’s Thompson Station home teems with found objects from nature carefully dispersed among an impressive collection of prints and pottery. He believes that artists should support each other and has become an avid collector of works by his peers.

When looking at one of Long’s originals it is hard to believe that he is not a full-time artist. He still maintains a day job as a designer and spends late nights and weekends carefully toiling away in an upstairs studio at his home. Many in Long’s position might view the hours spent in the office as a stumbling block to an artistic calling, but he credits his thirty-eight years in the design industry with providing him the perspective that he needs for his fine-arts endeavors.

Long employs the knowledge of form, organization, and detail that he has learned through years in advertising and product branding to generate dynamic arrangements in his paintings. He knows how to guide a customer’s eye through a design using subtle visual cues. In the same way, he directs his viewer’s gaze on a course of subtle lines, shapes, and harmonies to the focal points of his paintings. “It has almost become intuitive as far as the compositions go…. There is just so much personal pleasure in being able to manipulate the world around a form and make it real.”

Long was always attracted to art. His mother wrote poetry, and his father was an amateur photographer. “As a child, I really enjoyed the smell of crayons a lot,” he says, as a smile lights up his face. Attracted since adolescence to realism as a stylistic approach, Long enrolled at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1968. In the late sixties, abstract expressionism was followed dogmatically by faculty at many campuses, and Long’s realism could not find a comfortable home in many ways. He chose design as a major “because you make decisions at that age based on what you can make a living at.”

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“There is just so much personal pleasure in being able to manipulate the world around a form and make it real.”

Long took five years of drawing and painting courses at UT but on graduating left his life as an artist behind. The year was 1972. He did not pick up his pencil and brush as a painter again until the early 1990s. It was then that he began a graphite study using his wife, Jerry, as a model. He describes the drawing in excited tones: “It was an epiphany moment, a seminal moment. It was like learning to see all over again.”

Long’s artistic rebirth has come about through trial-and-error experi- ments and a healthy dose of good instinct. His eye for layout and design helps him to see interesting arrangements in unexpected places. He spends vacations or weekend drives with camera in hand, hoping to snap a shot worthy of a tribute in graphite or paint. He calls his works “silent collaborations,” because he finds the beauty in chance objects assembled by nature or unsuspecting people around him.

“I look for interesting compositions, beautifully lit compositions. I will add contrast—I’ll alter an image to create that dynamic. I look for something like a beautiful fluid shape juxtaposed against a square.”

Long has won national awards for his art but is little known in his native Tennessee—a fact that he hopes to change. It is his dream to devote more and more time to his graphite and acrylic works. His paintings and drawings take months to complete, requiring hundreds of hours to achieve a meticulous level of detail.

Easily mistaken for photographs, Long’s paintings are organized on a giant grid and perfected inch by inch in a full scale of values. Long often uses graphite dust that he applies with cotton balls and Q-tips to achieve the finest nuances of shadow. His acrylic paintings are each executed on watercolor paper. With small, intentional brushstrokes, Long pores over each image with the devotion of a medieval monk. “I’m a little stubborn because I’m a purist. I’m not showing you my hand at all. That’s why I do hot press paper, because it is so smooth. Anything that is in that painting is there because I’ve done it.”

When asked about his philosophy as an artist, Long answers simply, with his characteristic friendly smile. “It’s more of a lifestyle than a philosophy. It’s all I’ve known. It’s all I do. I just like to make art.” www.nicklongart.com

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Leslie Satcher A Good Song Is Hard to Find by Lizza Connor Bowen Leslie Satcher operates by her own set of rules: “I bat my “In the battle of the eyelashes, love on the boys, and keep going,” she laughs, calling her Nashville Arts Magazine caught up with Satcher to chat about MO a little “old fashioned.” In an industry where women songwrit- Venus and Mars in the music business. sexes on Music Row, ers are the minority, Satcher, whose hits include Martina McBride’s When God Fearing Women Get the Blues and George Strait’s recent NA: Who has influenced you through your career as a great song is the smash Troubadour, is one of country’s most in-demand songwriters, a songwriter? all boots and high heels aside. She’ll tell you straight up that gender LS: Naomi Judd was so influential at the beginning of my career. is still a big issue in country music, “but it’s never hurt my feelings,” She helped me pare down a lyric so it fit into a three-minute format. equalizer.” she says. After all, like death and taxes, Satcher holds that a song is Max D. Barnes, a Hall of Fame songwriter, and his son Max T. the true equalizer. “Whether written by a man or a woman, a great helped me get my first publishing deal, and they wrote with me. NA: Is the term “good ol’ boys club,” as it relates to the song is a gift,” Satcher says. country music business, a term of the past?

Vince Gill has really helped me to look at lyrics in a unique way and to LS: It’s alive and well and kicking. There is a network, and if you s one look at the heart of the song. He is a master of that. In writing with him think there is not you’re gonna hit a big wall real fast. j over the years…when you write with someone that great, you want to NA: If there aren’t as many women competing for cuts in

be like him, to listen to him. His talent is so natural and God-given. Photo: donn the business, doesn’t that give you an advantage? NA: You have a unique guitar-playing style. How did that LS: If you’re a woman and you can write and sing, then there’s come about? going to be a place for you. Every publishing company wants LS: Big Al Anderson has what they call a “greasy” groove, like New a great female writer. For a male, there are so many more to Orleans slams into rock ‘n’ roll. He told me to quit trying so hard compete against, so they’re going to have a harder time. and just play. He said that if you mess up, people are not going to know. But they’ll know if you stop and go, “I’m messed up.” I took NA: Have you noticed a difference in the way your female his advice, and it changed my life as a performer because I stopped co-writers approach a song, and vice versa, when you sit being so serious about it and started having fun. When you’re having down to compose? fun the audience is having fun. If you believe you are this rocker, LS: A lot of times men will come in with a great groove. They sometimes you are, in spite of yourself! come at a song from the melody end. A lot of women will come in from the lyrical end. They often have more lyric ideas, or they NA: How is the country music business treating the “fairer approach a song from a more emotional place. But you’ve got to gender” today? have both: the tenderness and the punch. LS: I wouldn’t say that people make a conscious effort to put women last. Historically there have just been fewer of us. It has always been NA: What advice would you offer to women songwriters a “good ol’ boys” business, but it’s caused women to get tougher. To seeking to set themselves apart? me, it’s been fun to jump in and play ball. I feel like it has made LS: When I came to town, I was an elementary guitar player. me a stronger, better writer because I had to compete with men or Then I learned open tunings, and it allowed me to write differ- write with men. I’m from Texas, and my first job was at the lumber ent kinds of melodies and also to stand alone on stage and play company, so I’ve always been in the good ol’ boys’ business. on my own. Learn to play by yourself. I’ve had a whole career doing that. NA: Why are there fewer women? Where are they? LS: Men typically put their roots down, and their women will come NA: With a crystal ball in hand, what do you see the future with them to what they’re doing. That may sound old fashioned, but holding for women in country music? that’s the truth. The women I’ve noticed who are still here are very LS: Taylor Swift has blown the doors off [the business]. There’s no focused on themselves, and their mates are focused on helping them one who can say a girl can’t make it here. And Dolly Parton did it in to stay in it. My husband is a great example of that...Reba McEntire the sixties the same way. She was a smart business person like Taylor and Naomi Judd are great examples. When there is a teamwork is. No man’s rule ever stopped Dolly from what she wanted to do. nthony Scarlati

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Vannoy “Wireman” Streeter (African American, 1919-1998) Tennessee Walking Horse, wire. Tennessee native Vannoy “Wireman” Streeter, a self-taught folk artist, was born in Wartrace in 1919. As a Native Americans of the Plains, their bright colors young boy, Streeter first displayed and smooth, lustrous surfaces had an irresistible his extraordinary talent as an artist appeal to the native people who were accustomed to creating toys for himself out of the more-muted tones and duller surfaces of natural bailing wire, in the form of objects and materials. trucks and airplanes. Since his parents were unable to Despite the general similarities of design elements afford to purchase toys for between Plains tribes, the decorative work of each the family, Streeter copied his Appraise It group can be distinctive. Yet, the identifiable patterns toys after ones he had seen in by Linda Dyer | photography by Jerry Atnip and colors have changed periodically with the assimila- Shelbyville storefront windows. tion of the traditional designs of other tribes and the Native American Woman’s Belt with Pouch. impact of tribal goods. Raised on a farm, Streeter, the oldest Northern Plains, Santee Sioux, Reservation Period circa 1920s. of six brothers, learned the business of Composed of glass beads, trade cloth, and native tanned hide. During the Reservation Period, the abundance of the beadwork that was horse training and grooming from his father. This panel belt with matching pouch is one of many beadwork produced was for ceremonial use and the tourist trade. The older ways His work as a stable boy for Strolling Jim, the 1939 items that descended in the family of a Hardin, Montana, trading of bone awls, native tanned hides, and sinew thread were sometimes Grand National Champion Tennessee Walking Horse, post owner. The trading post, which was operational until the late replaced by steel needles, commercially tanned skins, and cotton thread. instilled a lifelong love of the breed. The walking horse became his 1960s, was located near the Crow, Rosebud Sioux, and Cheyenne signature creation, and he is credited with making hundreds of Indian reservations and fifteen miles from the Little Bighorn A close look at this Plains art form opens a window into the past. wirework walking-horse figures, most carrying a rider outfitted Battlefield, also known as the Custer Battlefield. To a serious collector of Native American art, the focus would be on in a top hat and tails. the historic period of the culture. Thus this belt and pouch would be The materials, construction techniques, and the design elements considered too new, and, as such, interest in the piece would be as Streeter’s subject matter was not restricted to the walk- point to a tribal attribution of the Northern Plains Santee Sioux. an accessory. At auction, these masterfully beaded first-quarter-of-the- ing horse; he also created other forms using wrapped and twentieth-century pieces would be modestly priced at $300 to $400. twisted wire. He apparently enjoyed the challenge of making The Native Americans of the plains and prairies occupied the area subjects with moving parts, such as cars with steering wheels that go unnoticed. By the mid 1980s print and television features about of North America that extends from west of the Mississippi River Linda Dyer serves as an appraiser, broker, turned the front and rear axles, motorcycles with kickstands, and Streeter’s wirework began to draw first regional then national atten- to the Rocky Mountains, as well as from the Saskatchewan River in and consultant in the field of antiques eighteen-wheelers that actually rolled. His most whimsical creations tion. Folk art collectors were warmly welcomed at his home. He and fine art. She has appeared on the Canada to Middle Texas. took the form of fellow Tennesseans Tina Turner and Elvis Presley. participated in art events such as Bell Buckle’s Webb Craft Fair and PBS production Antiques Roadshow since season one, which aired in 1997, as an was honored at Atlanta’s National Black Arts Festival. His work has In the years before European contact, decoration was native paints, appraiser of Tribal Arts. If you would like Streeter made most of his sculptures out of coat-hanger wire; he been exhibited in the Tennessee State Museum, the White House, shell, and porcupine quills. Quillwork was considered a sacred tribal Linda to appraise one of your antiques, bought the hangers by the hundreds. He worked with a regular pair and foreign embassies. art. Plains women formed elite societies around the practice. It was please send a clear, detailed image of pliers and used varying gauges of wire for detailing. not until the mid eighteen hundreds, when glass beads became more to antiques@nashvilleartsmagazine. Vannoy Streeter died in 1998 after a lengthy illness. His works can prevalent, that designs began to change in any significant respect. Early com. Or send photographs to Antiques, To support his wife and family, Streeter worked on the railroads, at be found at auction houses, art galleries, and antique shows. For a Nashville Arts Magazine, 644 West Iris Dr., beading followed the same basic patterns as early quillwork. When a lumberyard, and as a hospital orderly. Although he did not have fine example of his work like this high-stepping Tennessee Walker, Nashville, TN 37204. the abundance of European glass trade beads made their way to the the luxury of having his artwork support him, the artwork did not one might be prepared to spend $400 to $500 at auction.

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Moser Cranberry Glass Pitcher, with applied granted independent operation by the Communist government. handle, enameled and gilded in insect and foliate motif, circa After the transition to a free market, Moser is still in operation today, 1885, 4” high. Ludwig Moser (1833-1916), a Jewish artist from the producing glassware based on designs created before the mid 1930s. Czech Republic (then known as Bohemia), was formally trained as a painter and engraver, but he is best remembered as the founder of This diminutive enameled and gilded glass pitcher was undoubt- Moser Glass. edly inspired by the designs of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century mosque lamps. Bohemian glassmakers combined the techniques of The Moser firm, founded in 1857 in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, enameling and gilding of this eastern inspiration to produce colorful employed many artists who were Bohemian. Glass had been produced glass with intricate, colorful designs. One may expect to pay $400 to in Bohemia since the sixteenth century. These artists brought their $500, in a retail setting, for a similar example from this period. design ethic to much of the work produced at the Moser facility between the1870s and 1890s. Beautiful forms were richly English Welsh Dresser Carved oak French server decorated using indigenous themes and motifs, as well as employing heavy gilding and enameling in intricate designs. Some of the art that influenced Moser’s designs included European Baroque art, work by Islamic goldsmiths, and Japanese floral motifs.

Ludwig retired sometime around the turn of the twentieth century. Production continued and was overseen by several of his sons. The Moser family expanded the visibility of the firm at interna- English hand carved center table Tall case clock by Josiah Alsop, English sideboard circa early 1800s tional glass expositions as well as by London 1794 collaborating with members of the Art Nouveau movement’s Wiener We have a wonderful selection of decorative pillows, Werkstatte, an influential workshop of the era. During World War interesting furnishings, lamps, antiques, and accessories. II, the Moser family lost control of We also have selections of art at e Belle Meade Shoppes. the factory and were scattered around the world. The factory complex was taken over by the Germans for their war effort, and many of the designers and artisans were interned in concentration camps as political prisoners. Those workers who remained became, in essence, slave labor. This was not a wise move on the part of the German occupation. It is reported that the remaining workers deliberately altered the proportions of ingredients, causing disastrous shattering of German tank windows and military gas mask filter glasses while on the war front.

The Communist government successfully reconstructed Moser Glassworks after the war. It was one of fifteen firms

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Anything Goes the south’s finest selection of antiques Hunter Armistead What characteristic do you most like about yourself? Who would you most like to meet? and oriental My capacity to be ridiculous—a talent I inherited from my father. I’d like to meet my doppelganger to see what I’m really like.

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What was the last book you read? Who has most inspired you? Leave the Office Earlier by Laura Stack. Khenchen Palden Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Rinpoche, my mother, and Camilla Dahl, who persuaded me to go to Berlin.

Who is your favorite artist? Art—Avedon. Music—John Lennon. Lennon was so honest, and he loved fearlessly.

What are you most proud of? I’m getting kinder. I’ve worked really hard at it.

Why Nashville? I returned from Berlin with a new appreciation for all that I have here. More than I deserve.

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On The Town right: Lucy Carroll, Keith and Leslie Churchwell, Lucius Carroll below left: Emily James and Betsy Wills, co-chair below right: James Adams, Cliff Garrard, Jessica Dinner and a movie? Adams, Karlen Garrard by Ted Clayton That is the question the lovely Barbara Daane there was a movie—The Visitor by Thomas McCarthy, starring Richard Award, and many more deserving volunteers were given has been asking for thirteen years, and for the last Jenkins. (He was nominated for an Oscar for this performance.) awards during the evening. The highlight of the evening was thirteen years she has successfully filled the Belcourt the live auction emceed by those wild and crazy Jugg Sisters. Theatre for just that—dinner and a movie. This The 2010 Equality Dinner “15 Years of Tribute” was held last event benefits Park Center, a mental illness recovery month at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel. The Equality Dinner supports The Ballet Ball has come a long way since this year’s honor- facility. Barbara, in her elegant white attire, greeted HRC, Human Rights Campaign. HRC is America’s largest civil ary chairmen Clare Armistead and Elizabeth Nichols each guest as they entered the theater. Enjoying rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual, and created what was then known as the Masked Ball. A fellow popcorn and a cocktail were Becky Clayton, Emily transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, designer and myself created the decor for Clare and Elizabeth Parrish, Catherine Cook, Peggy Joyce and MJ HRC strives to end discrimination against GLBT citizens and real- that first year, and I will never forget Clare saying all she Davenport. The sold-out crowd was there also to ize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. wanted on the tables was a simple, low bowl of roses, and honor the amazing and fearless Louise Katzman for that she got! Betsy Wills and Jennifer Puryear chaired this her many years of service to Park Center. Oh yes, Council member-at-large Megan Barry was the honorary co-chair year’s ball and with the help of Mrs. David Mahanes III along with Mayor Dean and Vice Mayor Neighbors, and most all of did a wonderful job creating an art deco setting at the new the Metro Council attended this award event. Dwayne Jenkins was Hutton Hotel. This was the first year the Ballet Ball was held the recipient of the Community Leadership Award; David Taylor and here. The ballroom gave me somewhat of an elegant Manhattan Michael Ward received the Legacy Award, Maria Salas the Equality feeling—small and cozy. James Adams created the cocktail of the evening “Irish Arabesque,” something with blue vodka.

The evening started with a ballroom dance exhibition with our very own Linda and Stephen Mason performing. The Masons were wonderful, Linda in the waltz and fox trot and Stephen in the American tango. The 2010 Vasterling Award for left: Jean Ann and Barry Banker below: Ellen Martin and Gerry Nadeau Artistic Vision and Excellence in Dance was presented to Mr. bottom: Emily Noel, Elizabeth Cato, Jacques Jacques d’Amboise. I was in the elevator with Mr. d’Amboise, d'Amboise, Sandra Lipman and he told me that all the lovely crystal award needed was to be full of Jack Daniels—not a problem Mr. d’Amboise!

Those joining the Masons on the dance floor were Lucy and Lucius Carroll, James and Jessica Adams, Emily and Lee Noel, Arlyne and Ted Cherney dancing the night away to Pat Patrick. Betsy Wills looked beautiful in her peachy beaded gown by Dez Zamek; Anne Dobson always great looking with her long black train (she said the train was the distance Matt was to stay behind her—a bit Victorian, hey?); Rachael Oldham in a stunning one-shoulder silver Muna with fox trim. My favorite dress by Dez Zamek was worn by Laura Cooper, an aqua short flowing chiffon cocktail attire that I know looked good on the dance floor.

Lisa and John Campbell hosted the patrons’ party the week before the ball in their lovely home. Sandra Lipman and Nancy Cheadle will lead the ball next year—what a great duo!

top: Maria and Owen Salas, I regret to end this on a sad note, but it would not be right not to Cherie Larkin and Dan Easterly mention the passing of the Ambassador of the Arts to Nashville above: Sam Felker and Keith Little Nancy Saturn. We at Nashville Arts Magazine and all of Nashville right: James McGuire top: Andrea Guennewig, Katie Hill, Dawn Mosely will miss Nancy, but I know she is with Alan, and they are plan- above: Dwayne Jenkins, Steven Emmert ning one heavenly art show! Loved you, Nancy.

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