Last weekend Grace and I traveled to her show in Athens, Tenn., at the McMinn Living Heritage Museum. This small town hosts a featured artist for Autism Awareness Month each year. Chattanooga Times-Free Press reporter Randall Higgins made the hour-trek over to Athens to interview us. The story is here:
Autistic Artist Brings Work to Mcminn County
If you're in Nashville, you've got until the end of Saturday, April 28, to see the Hot & Cold GraceArt show in Hillsboro Village. It features watercolors with retro pricing and the famous eight-foot mural. We'll hang the Athens GraceArt show at the Green Hills library at the start of May and will host a reception Sunday, May 20, 2-4:30 p.m. Reminders, of course, to come. This show will be a completely different body of work than the Hot & Cold exhibit, and also a more representational one of her work to date.
Nashville is blessed to host its' returning Film Festival starting today. Per usual, the choices are mind-boggling. I've been so swamped with GraceArt that I've not had a chance to check things out and share them here. I'm grabbing a copy of The Nashville Scene as soon as it hits the newsstands and uncapping the yellow highlighter. Here's a shout out to the producers that called me about their films. I've also been on the other side of that phone line or the sender of a like email. So, that counts for something. And the Festival is juried. Not just any film gets accepted. So, they are all winners to some degree. Here's a shout-out to the hard working folks who produced these films.
Mulberry Child is a compelling-sounding film by producer Susan Morgan Cooper. "My mother wanted to show me China. China showed me my mother." I hope I can see this.
Franklin, Tenn.-based animator Mike Salva telephoned me the night I was pulling out into the hard rains en route to Grace's Hillsboro Village exhibit debut. His film, "Pound Dogs," is a clay-animated comedy, produced entirely in Nashville. It is about two dogs in an animal shelter who discuss trivialities while waiting to be adopted. One of the dogs discovers that he is going to be put to sleep at the end of the day.
Lee Baker is the producer of the new rock documentary about Nashville musician Bobby Bare Jr. titled, DON'T FOLLOW ME (I'm Lost).
Neil Berkeley's debut film "Beauty Is Embarrassing" recently held its World Premiere at SXSW and was just awarded Best Documentary at the Cleveland International Film Festival. (Sounds intriguing.)
There were a couple more contacts. But, honestly, if they don't tell me what their film is about….Well, I don't have much to go on and share here.
This is a gem of an opportunity, Nashville. Check out the Festival's line up here.
Untitled (Torn Watercolor,) above, is a part of the new GraceArt NoteCard Series.
