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Archive for February 3rd, 2010

Anything Goes | Marshall Chapman

Anything Goes | Marshall Chapman

Marshall Chapman

What characteristic do you most like about yourself?

My honesty. My attraction to things that scare me. You know…like getting up in front of people and doing anything! (laughs)

And what do you like least?

My impatience. Sometimes I forget why time exists—so everything doesn’t happen at once!

What was

02.3.2010 | NEWS, PEOPLE

Appraise It

Appraise It

Clayton Sumner Price (American, 1874-1950) The Rider, oil on board, signed C. S. Price

Price grew up in a large ranching family in Iowa and Wyoming. An accomplished carpenter, homesteader and horseman, C. S. Price was 31 years old before he sought formal art training at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. He…

02.3.2010 | ANTIQUES, JEWELRY, NEWS, VISUAL ART

Doug Regen | The Wood Whisperer

Doug Regen | The Wood Whisperer

“It takes a certain kind of person to fall in love with my work. It’s not as polished and finished—I’m not saying that it’s not cool and wonderful, it’s just maybe not as perfect—as what you’d find in most retail furniture stores. It is all handcrafted using old techniques. It’s more organic and natural.…

02.3.2010 | ANTIQUES, ARCHITECTURE, NEWS, SCULPTURE, VISUAL ART

Cumberland Gallery

Cumberland Gallery

Nashville’s Cumberland Gallery will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary in April of this year. Always on the forefront of the art scene in Nashville, the gallery is pairing with Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee to create The Food Show, an exhibit to raise awareness and funds for the non-profit from February 6–27. It…

02.3.2010 | CULINARY, DRAWING, EVENTS, NEWS, PAINTING, VISUAL ART

Stacey Irvin | Humanity in Focus

Stacey Irvin | Humanity in Focus

Stacey Irvin likes to be right in the middle of the action. Like most professional photographers, Irvin is a keen observer, but she also “wants to be more of a participant.” The Texas native and Vanderbilt graduate has been infatuated with photography since she was just 14 years old. Irvin claims that her eye…

02.3.2010 | PEOPLE, PHOTOGRAPHY, VISUAL ART

Ronell Venter | Painting in Bliss

Ronell Venter | Painting in Bliss

Ronell Venter is a storyteller. With words, music and paint, she creates vivid narratives. Her art, perhaps, imitates her life. Venter’s journey as an artist is as full of adventure as one of her imaginative screenplays or active landscapes.

A petite blonde with a soft voice and a cheerful laugh, Venter smiles constantly. She…

02.3.2010 | PAINTING, VISUAL ART

Richard Heinsohn | Intuitive Universe

Richard Heinsohn | Intuitive Universe

Richard Heinsohn and his art are spot-on in a rapidly changing world. His intuitive style of painting connects him to the universal energy that exists between all matters and has the ability to bring the viewer into the explosive and exciting pieces that are his work. “I think an artist has a responsibility to…

02.3.2010 | PAINTING, VISUAL ART

Marty Stuart | Bringing It All Back Home

Marty Stuart | Bringing It All Back Home

America’s back roads, littered with colorful characters and towns that the poet of the common man Merle Haggard once deemed “the forgotten” people and places, have served as a seedbed of inspiration for artist Marty Stuart on many a heartland journey. With the breakneck speed at which the world is changing,…

02.3.2010 | MUSIC, PEOPLE

Just Desserts!

Just Desserts!

When poets set their muses to food all kinds of wonder emerge. It’s a subject that elicits a range of emotions—from joy to hope to melancholy and humor. And when Valentine’s Day rolls around everyone gets poetic. Romance thumps in the hearts of lovers and inevitably transforms to “sweets for the sweet.” A box…

02.3.2010 | CULINARY, PHOTOGRAPHY