Thank you to Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin and Garden and Gun magazine for including us in her neighborhood-to-neighborhood guide to Music City green spaces, cultural hotspots, and culinary highlights! Full article here.
What’s New and Stylish in Nashville This Summer … Arcade Arts, of course! Read More »
Date: Saturday, June 20, 2026 Time: 10am-12pm Location: The Arcade, Second Floor, Gallery 56 Cost: $10 Learn how 🟡𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐨𝐳𝐳𝐨 sources and builds reference material for his oil paintings. Sign up here or below. Reference for the Artist
Artist Portraits for the Nashville Community Arcade Arts is excited to offer a special opportunity for Nashville artists and creatives to receive professional studio portraits with current Artist in Residence Sam Angel. On June 19th, Sam will host a series of 20-minute studio lighting portrait sessions, designed to provide artists with high-quality images for portfolios, websites,
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Date: Saturday, June 6, 2026 Time: 12-3pm Where: Arcade Arts Workshop fee: $10 An introductory portraiture workshop led by Resident Artist Charles Elwell, working in charcoal to capture a likeness.
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Artist: Donald Guevara Date: Sunday, June 14, 2026 Time: 12-3pm Where: Arcade Arts Workshop fee: $10 Sign up for this workshop. “Encasing Memory” is a hands-on community workshop inviting participants to preserve personal narratives through resin. Attendees will bring a 5×7 photograph or a different small object—such as trinkets, leaves, paper fragments, or found materials—
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Welcome to the Book Nook Artist: Jerry Phillips Proposed Dates: Sunday – June 7, 2026 Times: 1pm to 5pm Meeting Space: Studio 53 Type: Soft-cover Coptic Binding Materials: provided Workshop fee: $35 FULL! Thank you to all who signed up! Description: Learn to bind a small journal using a one needle Coptic binding technique with
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The MNPS Teaching Artist Residence program brings a variety of artists into High Schools for a series of sessions within current classes, exposing students to new and innovative ideas and introducing them to influential members of the Nashville arts community. Resident Artists Sam Angel, Charles Elwell and Arash Shoushtari (IMGRNT) as well as Arcade Arts alumni
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Date: Saturday, May 9 Time: 2–4 PM Location: Studio 58, upstairs in the Arcade Cost: $45/participant (Tickets here.) Create your own refillable faux leather journal cover in this hands-on beginner workshop with teaching artist Sandra Lee Chandler of Sandra Lee Design. Perfect for writing, sketching, travel notes, or everyday lists, this stylish handmade journal will
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Location: Gallery 56 Date: Thursday, May 7, 2026 Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Cost: $50 (Tickets here.) When I found that the only way that I would have the time to create daily was to monetize my practice, I built an art business. st(ART) business focuses on the intersection of art and business. In
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MARCH 28, 2026 | 10:00am-12:30pm Color Economy: Working with Oils SIGN UP This session aims to introduce (or re-ground) painters in the essentials of alla prima painting—working wet-into-wet in one sustained sitting. Using live succulent plants and other botanicals as our subjects, participants will explore how to distill complex organic forms into clear, manageable shapes,
Nice segment featuring Sandra’s palpable commitment to stitching inspiration into her work today from countless others before her.
Sandra Chandler Talks Quilts, Storytelling and Black History Month with Channel 5 Read More »
Growing up with two artistically minded parents, Sai Clayton never wanted for something to fill her time – using her imagination wasn’t just encouraged, it was expected. Creativity runs in the family, and it permeated her early life. That included many days spent at the Frist Art Museum, exploring the galleries and, in her childhood
Last Tuesday, Arcade Arts hosted 12 enthusiastic Metro Nashville Public School middle and high school art teachers for a Professional Development Day! They spent the morning touring studios and talking with our resident artists about their practice, continued great conversations during a group lunch, and finished the afternoon creating art in three amazing workshops. Thank
from The Tennessee Tribune Arcade Arts Nashville, an organization whose mission is to create and sustain a well-supported home for the visual arts in the heart of downtown Nashville, welcomed the 12 artists selected for the second year of its Artist in Residence program during the September Art Crawl in the Arcade. The 12 artists
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🔥🔥🔥 Thank you for the kind words, Laura Hutson Hunter and Nashville Scene!
Terra Incognita a Nashville Scene Critics’ Pick! Read More »
Twelve Area Artists to Be Introduced at September Art Crawl Arcade Arts Nashville, an organization whose mission is to create and sustain a well-supported home for the visual arts in the heart of downtown Nashville, announced today the 12 artists selected for the second year of its Artist in Residence program. The 12 artists represent
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So much fun to welcome ArtsBreak to Arcade Arts recently! This segment premiered on June 19, 2025 after Tennessee Crossroads, and is scheduled to air again Sunday 6/22/25. Watch “Inside Arcade Arts” on PBS
Participants will create cups during this “come whenever, leave whenever” session using templates, slabs, and varied sprigs. Sprigs are elements pulled from clay molds that will be provided by 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐫 𝐏𝐢𝐭𝐚. Each participant will be able to create a unique composition on a cup. Cups will be fired off with a clear
Watch Hannah McDonald’s segment on Arcade Arts featuring personal insights from several Resident Artists on their experience in the Arcade Arts program and a brief sit-down with Executive Director Mollye Brown. Watch “Nashville Artists Find Relief from Rising Rent Costs Through the Arcade Arts Residency Program”
