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East Gallery

Artist London Amara uses large-format collodion wet plate photography to produce mystical landscapes and intimate portraits.

SEE YOU ME is an exhibition of large format photographs, super 8 footage and mixed media sculpture debuting at the Parthenon that explores the creative relationship and ongoing body of work between photographer Emily Dorio and artist Karen Elson.

East & West Galleries

The Parthenon and Centennial Park Conservancy are proud to present Tennessee Triennial from January 27 through May 7. Painter Lakesha Moore, sculptor Desmond Lewis, and photographer Houston Cofield created artwork aligning with the theme of Re-Pair.

The Parthenon and Centennial Park Conservancy are proud to present The Odyssey: A Retelling, by Lisa Bachman Jones in the East Gallery of the Parthenon.

Jones is a Nashville-based artist interested in entropy and interconnectivity. Working across disciplines, she investigates the everyday through a lens of care.

In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, explore an immersive gallery full of previously unseen Exposition photographs, listen to musical compositions created specifically for the Exposition, and view rare artifacts relating to the fair held in honor of Tennessee’s 100 years of statehood.

Red Arrow – Show Up! celebrates the eighth anniversary of East Nashville’s Red Arrow Gallery. Red Arrow founder Katie Shaw describes this exhibition as “a curated selection of contemporary paintings, photography, and sculpture created by artists who are living and working now.”

The Parthenon and Centennial Park Conservancy are proud to present Central South Revisited 1966-1983 in the West Gallery of the Parthenon from Friday, December 10, 2021 through Sunday, March 20, 2022. The exhibition features award winning artwork from the Parthenon’s permanent collection, telling the story of a regional art competition held annually at the Parthenon during the latter part of the 20th century.

The Parthenon and Centennial Park Conservancy are proud to present Kindred Links by Omari Booker and Henry L. Jones in the East Gallery of the Parthenon from Friday, October 29 through Sunday, February 13, 2022.

Booker and Jones, two of Tennessee’s premier African American artists, created over two dozen artworks included in this new exhibition of paintings, video, and found objects. These pieces form a physical and spiritual survey of community and the impact of gentrification upon the heritage of North Nashville’s historically Black neighborhoods.

The Parthenon, in partnership with Centennial Park Conservancy, will present Lynn Goldsmith: The Looking Glass, a groundbreaking photography exhibit in which photographer Lynn Goldsmith highlights the psychological relationship between what we see and what we imagine through a series of self-portraits. The exhibit will be on view in the Parthenon’s East Gallery from Thursday, June 24 through Wednesday, October 13.

The Antikythera Mechanism is now showing in the Parthenon’s West Gallery from through November 28. The exhibit tells the story of one of antiquity's most significant technological artifacts.

The Parthenon, in partnership with the Centennial Park Conservancy, will present Meyer Wolfe: The Star of All Things. The exhibit, which will be on view in the Parthenon’s East Gallery from Friday, February 5 through Sunday, June 6, presents images, artwork, and ephemera from Meyer Wolfe, an eclectic and prodigious artist best known for his portraits of Nashville’s Black community.

This is the Original and Only Harry Shepherd in the Parthenon’s West Gallery from Friday, January 22 through Sunday, May 23, 2021. This exhibit is the story of pioneering twentieth century African American photographer and activist, Harry Shepherd.

Located in the Parthenon’s East Gallery, Century III: Forty Year Retrospective 1980 -2020 will revisit a body of work acquired by the Parthenon in 1980 in celebration of the city's bicentennial. This exhibit is now showing through January 24.

As both subject and setting for many styles of music, Centennial Park has a historic association with song. This celebratory exhibit will run from May 29 through September 20 and present stories of the music, musicians, and audiences in the park from the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition through Musicians Corner.

Kate Kirkman, Anne Dallas Dudley, Kate Burch Warner, and Frankie Pierce.

Located in the West Gallery, the exhibit will use garments that belonged to Kate Kirkman from the 1890s and the 1910s to anchor an examination of her role and that of the Woman’s Department at the Exposition in fostering a conversation about women’s suffrage.

William J. Stillman’s book, The Acropolis of Athens, Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography, was published in 1870, when photography was still in its infancy. The book is rare, with only a dozen surviving copies in public collections. The Nashville Parthenon’s copy came to light several years ago and art patrons Hope and Howard Stringer underwrote its conservation so that it could be exhibited.

The Parthenon and Centennial Park Conservancy are proud to present Flood Lines by Tasha Lewis in the East Gallery of the Parthenon from Friday, January 24 through Sunday, May 10, 2020.