1 Nashville Arts Magazine | February 2010 | 1 2 3 2 | February 2010 | Nashville Arts Magazine Nashville Arts Magazine | February 2010 | 3 4 5 Deals are in bloom! The A-1 Appliance Colors of Spring Winter-Time Sale A whole new kind of color in the kitchen. The Jenn Air oiled bronze collection. Visit A-1 Appliance and see what blooms in your kitchen. 5410 harding road, nashville, 4tn | 37205 February 615-352-5174 2010 | Nashville www.a1appliance.comArts Magazine www.jennair.com Nashville Arts Magazine | February 2010 | 5 6 7 Publisher's Note LIKE NO OTHER TM The legendary photographer Paul Strand was quoted as saying, February 2010 “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere far from where Spotlight ................................................8 he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” Strand, in this The Blakemore Trio, Centennial Art Gallery, Ink & Blood, statement, dispels the belief many beginning photographers seem to Wander and Wonder, Frist Center, Jace Freeman, Italian Cooking, share, the notion that, in order to create greatness, one must travel to Opera Education Tour, Two Moon Gallery, Space for New Media, exotic locations far away. Bethanne Hill, Ancestral Living in Northumberland On the Horizon .................................... 18 A well-executed photograph can record the most mundane subjects and University School of Nashville speak volumes. Think of Edward Weston’s Pepper, 1930 or Imogene Margaret Ellis .......................................24 Cunningham’s The Unmade Bed. These are just two examples from masters Can’t Buy Me Love of their field creating beauty from their everyday surroundings. Marty Stuart ........................................30 Bringing It All Back Home As a commercial and fine art photographer, I’ve been blessed with the Richard Heinsohn ...............................38 privilege to visit and photograph a good part of the world. Those travels have given me the chance to explore lands and cultures that many don’t Intuitive Universe THE WORTH OF A HOME can be found get to experience. For example, a recent shoot took me to several very Ronell Venter.......................................44 in details that truly define uniqueness- as remote villages in the Ulpan Valley region of Guatemala to photograph simple as a centuries old fireplace that Painting in Bliss Mayan culture. An example of that shoot is shown below. Stacey Irvin .........................................52 retains the historic permanence of a time past, or as grand as a rooftop promenade Humanity in Focus As much as I’ve enjoyed these travels, however, some of my best expe- atop a landscape of city lights. So, to us, Doug Regen .......................................60 riences have been right here around my hometown, photographing The Wood Whisperer Nashville’s creative community for this great publication. It is a plea- it’s not about the size of the property, Just Desserts! .......................................66 sure to be able to capture the personalities of those who are typically the number of bedrooms, or even the on the other side of the art. price, but more about the distinct Cumberland Gallery ......................... 74 character that makes a home worthy of Theater ................................................................................................. 80 Appraise It ........................................................................................... 84 Great art can emerge from your own back yard, as well as Guatemala being called exceptional. Poetry ................................................................................................... 88 or Paris. The successful artist can always find a world of beauty “on Anything Goes .................................................................................... 90 his doorstep.” On The Town ........................................................................................ 92 Puzzler .................................................................................................. 96 Jerry Atnip My Favorite Painting .......................................................................... 98 Photographer This is our world. On the cover: Favorite Loves by Bethanne Hill PublisheD BY the ST. ClaiRE MEDia GRoup Because the worth of a home i Charles N. 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The collection includes Commissions: Music for the 21st Century, funded by the James authentic Dead Sea Scrolls, 5000-year-old clay tablets, Hebrew Torahs, ancient Greek Stephen Turner Charitable Foundation for Vanderbilt University’s texts, Medieval Latin manuscripts, pages from Gutenberg’s Bible, and rare English Blair School of Music. Members of the Blakemore Trio, violinist printed Bibles. In addition to the more than 100 authentic artifacts, the exhibition Carolyn Huebl, cellist Felix Wang, and pianist Amy Dorfman, met includes a working replica of Gutenberg’s printing press featuring live demonstrations of as faculty members at Vanderbilt. They selected and commissioned incunabular printing. John Paul II High School in Hendersonville is hosting an exhibit Botti to write Gates of Silence and have enjoyed a collaborative in February and into early March called Ink & Blood: Dead Sea Scrolls to Gutenberg. It is process with the composer. Following their Nashville performance, a look at Western culture and religious art through the lens of the written word. Tickets the trio will travel to New York for an encore performance March are $15 and are available through JP2HS.org. 13, 2010, in Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center. Pianist Amy Dorfman has relished this experience as a musician: “We are Viewing times open to the thrilled to be given this opportunity not only to work with Susan public: evening viewings Botti on the process, which has been fascinating, but also as a trio, to (Mondays) February 15, have our New York debut.” This event is free of charge, but tickets February 22, and March are required. Tickets are available at the Blair main desk. 1. Morning viewings (Thursdays) February 18, Please call (615) 322-7651 or visit www.vanderbilt.edu/Blair/ February 25, and March calevents for more information. 4. Afternoon viewings (Sundays) February 21 and Centennial Art Gallery February 28. For more information visit www.inkandblood.com. Ad Nashville Arts 1:Layout 1 1/18/10 8:30 AM Page 1 Exhibits Paintings and Sculpture From February 5 through March 26, Centennial Art Gallery will Wander and Wonder, show the work of artists Kaaren Hirschowitz Engel and Sydney Exhibition of Photography by Byron Jorjorian, February 6–March 2 Reichman. Engel’s paintings and sculpture are composed of woven Everyone is invited to view the stunning collection of fine art nature elements in a bright palette of colors. Reichman draws inspiration photography by Byron Jorjorian at Davis Art Advisory, located at from nature for her willowy bronze sculpture. The public is warmly 75 Arcade off 5th Avenue. Featuring pristine locations