Category: section nine

Bethany Reed Named Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign

The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Bethany Reed! Bethany is a fashion and portrait photographer originally from Florida. After living in Los Angeles for 6 years, she uprooted everything and made the… Read more »

Amy Harms Named Artist of the Week on the Nashville Sign

The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Amy Harms! Amy Harms is a painter and mixed media visual artist working out of her studio in Brentwood, TN. In her weave series, her process… Read more »

Yanira Vissepo Named Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign

The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Yanira Vissepo! Yanira is a multi-disciplinary artist focusing on printmaking and textile art. Her woodblock designs reflect her time studying traditional mokuhanga printmaking in Japan. Yanira merges traditional with… Read more »

Shadale Smith Named Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign

The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Shadale Smith! Shadale is a Nashville native and self-taught painter creating work that expresses her perspective on social justice and the need for awareness of equality and positivity. She… Read more »

Anne Goetze Named Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign

The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Anne Goetze! Anne Goetze is a painter and photographer residing on a small farm outside of Leipers Fork, TN. She specializes in Plein air, impressionism and mixed-media expression. Her… Read more »

Katie Gore Named Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign

The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Katie Gore! Katie is a photographer born and raised in Nashville. She was given her first camera at age 11, and she hasn’t put it down since. Katie has… Read more »

Meet the Periscope Class of 2022

The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville proudly announces the selection of the 2022 class of Periscope: Artist Entrepreneur Training (Periscope Nashville), an annual business development intensive that empowers working artists to see their creative practice through an entrepreneurial lens. This year’s class consists of 25 artists working in an array of disciplines including… Read more »

Meet the Inaugural Class of Periscope: Rural Artist Development

The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville proudly announces the inaugural class of Periscope: Rural Artist Development (Periscope RAD), an online training and mentorship program uniquely designed to be a transformative experience empowering rural artists with the entrepreneurial skills to help them thrive. Training sessions are led by expert business advisors and small group… Read more »

Justin Redmon Named Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign

The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Justin Redmon! Justin is a natural-born illustrator who began his artistic practice by making illustrations of vintage cars using pencil and brush. Today, his chosen medium is digital illustration… Read more »

Nikki Commander Named Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign

The Arts & Business Council, Blackbird Media, and F&M Bank have teamed up to present the Artist of the Week on The Nashville Sign. This week’s featured artist is Nikki Commander! Nikki is a painter and third-generation artist from Nashville. She is a self-identified perpetual purpose-seeker and over thinker. She has found that for her personally, communication is… Read more »