Weekend Arts Preview 5/31 – 6/2

It’s the last Friday of May and the first weekend of June. Embrace the warmth of spring turning to summer and enjoy the weather while you can! This weekend plays host to myriad arts experiences including a collaboration between the Nashville Symphony and Nashville Ballet, two art crawls, live music, live theater, and more!

Image Credit: Detail of Music American Gothic by Beth Foley on display at David Lusk Gallery

Nashville Symphony and Nashville Ballet

Carmina Burana
May 31, 2019
Schermerhorn Symphony Center


5th Avenue of the Arts and Nashville Downtown Partnership

FirstBank First Saturday Art Crawl
June 1, 2019
5th Avenue of the Arts


Arts & Music at Wedgewood-Houston

Arts & Music at Wedgewood-Houston
June 1, 2019
Arts & Music at Wedgewood/Houston


Nashville Opera

Opera on the Mountain
June 1, 2019
Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory


The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park 

Musicians Corner
June 1, 2019
Centennial Park


Frist Art Museum

Music at the Frist: Rachel Rodriquez
May 31, 2019

Docent-Guided Exhibition Tour with ASL Interpreter
June 1, 2019

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Ongoing through September 2, 2019
Frist Art Museum


Parnassus Books

Saturday Storytime
June 1, 2019

Children’s author event with Marianne Richmond, author of Hooray for You!
June 1, 2019

Author event with Shannon Bream author of Finding the Bright Side
June 1, 2019
Parnassus Books


Belcourt Theater

KNIFE+HEART (Un couteau dans le coeur)
May 31–June 1, 2019
Belcourt Theater


Scarritt Bennett Center

Vespers & All That Jazz
June 2, 2019
Scarritt Bennett Center


Create It in Donelson

Paint Your Pug Fundraiser
June 2, 2019
Robin’s Gallery


Franklin Theatre

The Wizard of Oz (Non-musical)
May 31, 2019

Lucky Stiff
June 1–2, 2019

The Addams Family
June 1–2, 2019

A Chorus Line
June 1–2, 2019
Franklin Theatre


Studio Tenn

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Ongoing through June 2, 2019
Jamison Theater in the Factory at Franklin


Monthaven Arts & Cultural Center

Generations Shuptrine: Three Generations of Art
Ongoing through June 15, 2019
Monthaven Arts & Cultural Center


Belmont University’s Department of Art & the Tennessee Arts Academy

My Blue Heaven: Works by Brooklyn-based artist Susan Bee
Ongoing through September 6, 2019
Leu Art Gallery


Cheekwood Estate & Gardens

Derived from the Decorative
Ongoing through June 9, 2019

In Bloom: Works from Cheekwood’s Permanent Collection
Ongoing through September 1, 2019
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens


Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery

Refuting “Noble Savages”: Reflections of Nature in Ancient Mesoamerican Artifacts
Ongoing through September 13, 2019
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery


The Arts Company

Stacey Widelitz: Second Act & Bob Durham: Preliminary Provocations
Ongoing through June 27, 2019
The Arts Company


David Lusk Gallery

Beth Foley’s American Diversity: Homage to Grant Wood
Ongoing through June 29, 2019
David Lusk Gallery, Nashville


COOP Gallery

Terry Thacker: A Theory of /Cloud/
May-June 2019
COOP Gallery


Studio 66

Tara Swalgren: Botanical Essence
June 1, 2019
Studio 66


Tennessee Arts Commission

Denise Stewart-Sanabria
Ongoing through June 7, 2019
TN Arts Commission Gallery, 401 MLK Jr. Blvd.


Red Arrow Gallery

In Between
May 11–June 15, 2019
Red Arrow Gallery


LeQuire Gallery

Juliette Aristides: Interiors and Still Lifes
Ongoing through June 22, 2019
LeQuire Gallery


Tinney Contemporary

Ashes to Snow: New Work by Jane Braddock
Ongoing through June 29, 2019
Tinney Contemporary


Locate Arts and Zeitgeist

TEXTUREXTRA: Zipporah Thompson + Richard Feaster
Ongoing through June 29, 2019
Zeitgeist


Tennessee State Museum

Between the Layers: Art and Story in Tennessee Quilts
Ongoing through July 7, 2019
Tennessee State Museum


Galerie Tangerine

Wendy Walker Silverman: An Opal Ring and the Stories that Scared Me 
Ongoing through August 9, 2019
Galerie Tangerine


Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Hatch Show Print Block Party June
June 1, 2019

Little Big Town: The Power of Four Exhibit
Ongoing through June 9, 2019

Exhibit | The Judds: Dream Chasers
Ongoing through July 14, 2019

Exhibit | Emmylou Harris: Songbird’s Flight
Ongoing through August 4, 2019

American Currents: The Music of 2018
Ongoing through February 9, 2020
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum


21c Museum Hotel

The SuperNatural
Ongoing through October 2019
21c Museum Hotel, 221 2nd Ave. N.


Know something we missed? Let us know at info@abcnashville.org