Beyond The Lens

Lauren Karp does not experience the world quite the way most people do. And perhaps that is exactly why her work feels so transporting. The Nashville-based artist and fine art photographer has built a growing international presence through her large-scale, immersive works that blur the boundaries between photography, abstraction and emotional landscape. Drawn from nature, […]

Collective Vision

For years, our city’s rapid residential growth has often felt defined by speed — build quickly, sell quickly, repeat. But a new project by Lotus Building Group in East Nashville pushes back against that mentality, approaching speculative homebuilding less like a transaction and more like a creative collaboration. How very Nashville. The result is a […]

High Fidelity

Some homes are designed around a palette. Others around a floorplan, a view, or a lifestyle. This condo by Anderson Design Studio feels instead as though it was composed — layered carefully through rhythm, tone, texture and mood much like a favorite record collection built over decades. Located inside the Four Seasons Residences Nashville, the […]

Crafting The Narrative

For Robert Jones, framing and presenting artwork was never supposed to feel ordinary. Long before his rebrand from Overton Arts to Mangoe Arts & Framing, Jones had already begun quietly building something more expansive than a traditional frame shop — one rooted equally in craftsmanship, artistic collaboration and Nashville’s creative community. After returning to Nashville […]

Renaissance Woman

Like many other creatives, Wright first came to Nashville in 1996 for work in the music industry. A Christian music songwriter, she spent time as a radio promoter while writing for Myrrh Records, a division of Word Records. But it wasn’t exactly steady money. She connected with the wife of someone she knew at Caleb […]

Artist Spotlight: Larry Stewart

Growing up in Laguna Beach, California, Larry Stewart was always focused on sports. Football, basketball, surfing — he excelled at it all. But the artist inside was always there. “I was always doodling in my notes,” he said. “And they looked beautiful, but I probably didn’t read back over the actual notes.” He went to […]

Creative Growth

Artville, Nashville’s only public visual arts festival, is entering its third year with plans to be bigger, bolder and more immersive than ever. Starting Sept. 26, the festival is expanding from its original location in the Wedgewood-Houston and Chestnut Hill neighborhoods to a citywide event featuring multiple locations.  The festival’s hub this year will be […]

Contemporary Couple

Cassie and Jake Greatens have built something wonderful together in the years since they met and fell in love as teenagers in Tampa. Inspired by a trip to galleries in Europe, the couple opened their first gallery in Tampa and quickly became known for curating and selling works by iconic artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and […]

Bridging the Cultural Divide

For Nashville native Sai Clayton, the cultural intersection of her family tree provides a foundation for her artistic exploration. The parallels between her differing family histories can highlight both the similarities and differences between the two cultures. “My American grandfather would go fishing, and he had an outdoor sink where he’d cut and fillet and […]

Sculpting the Future

tep up close to the Athena Parthenos statue in Nashville — golden, glinting, stretching 42 feet toward the Parthenon replica’s ceiling — and you’re left dumbstruck by the sheer scope of what she is and represents. The Greek goddess of wisdom. Lost history reborn. A civic touchstone standing impossibly tall, drawing fascinated tourists from around […]