Remarks by Deb Burton Calagna and Laura Camien

We are beyond thrilled to announce a collaborative gallery exhibit we are working on in Nashville.  The exhibit will be at The Arts Company in downtown Nashville,  and the opening night will be part of the exciting First Saturday art crawl - part of the thriving creative scene that is making Nashville a real "destination" city for people.

Brett Weaver takes the traditional landscape and composes painterly movement, creating an abstract state of seeing and experiencing what is perhaps not even there.

Versatile artist Denise Stewart-Sanabria bridges centuries of cultural history by creating tableaus of everyday lives, presented on contemporary medieval altars of her making, and accompanied by visual narratives that connect Nashville’s current status as a hip “it” city with the era of Greek gods and goddesses.

Leonard Piha is an artist devoted to making art everyday, art that expresses his life as a husband, father, teacher, artist - mixed with the Jewish traditions of his family - that provide the symbols, motifs, and narratives that are the subjects of his art.

Nashvillians and guests have exciting art adventures in store this summer related to two concurrent exhibitions of Thornton Dial and the Gee's Bend Quilters.

I have noticed of late that I am particularly attracted to artists who continue to reinvent themselves year after year, some of them decades of years, always with fresh insights.  They are not just flittering around with art.  Their lives are devoted to making art.  Their vocabulary remains consistent, but they keep seeing new ways to present their visual ideas.

Brother Mel's "Alphabet"