East Nashville art lovers will want to set aside some time this weekend for the newest art event in our corner of the city.
The East Nashville Arts Fest is an outdoor fair featuring the work of 50 artists from across North America. Their work, which will be on display outside on Woodland Street between 11th and 12th Streets, runs the gamut from painting to photography to ceramics to jewelry – and anything that strikes your fancy can be bought directly from the artists all weekend.
Admission is free!
Among the artists who will be participating in this year’s inaugural festival are Melissa Banks, Teresa Petersen, Tiffany Ownbey, Dolan Geiman, Julie Bricher, Kirk Seufert and friend of East Nashville Blog Jeff Bertrand.
The festival is being organized by Maria Mariottini of grazia productions, an artist and graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who’s been working with Chicago’s Bucktown Arts Fest for the last 14 years. In recent years more Southern artists began applying to Bucktown and other art shows Mariottini puts together in Chicago, grabbing her attention and bringing her to visit our city – and she liked what she saw.
“I quickly realized East Nashville was ripe for an outdoor art fair,” she says. “It’s a hip, eclectic community that supports the arts with an active network of locally-owned businesses. I’m honored to provide a venue for so many talented artists from Nashville and beyond to present and sell their work in the amazing neighborhood of East Nashville.”
The East Nashville Arts Fest couldn’t come at a better time. It’s only been a week since the benefit art show at Billups Art, which raised more than $3,000 for Hands On Nashville, and next weekend will bring the May installment of ArtEast. We don’t know about all of you, but to us three weekends in a row of art shows is a fantastic way to shake off all this rain.
Come out to Woodland Street at Five Points on Saturday, May 22, and Sunday, May 23, between 11am-7pm. Admission is free.
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