Frist Art Museum
Established | 2001 | |
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Location | 919 Broadway Nashville, TN 37203 (United States) | |
Type | Art Center, Art museum[1] | |
Visitors | 200,000[2] | |
Director | Susan H. Edwards[3] | |
Website | www | |
US Post Office | ||
MPS Marr and Holman Buildings in Downtown Nashville TR (AD) | | |
NRHP reference No. | 84000580[4] | |
Added to NRHP | November 15, 1984 |
The Frist Art Museum, formerly known as the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, is an art exhibition hall in Nashville, Tennessee, housed in the city's historic U.S. Post Office building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
History
The museum is housed in a white
By the 1980s, downtown was no longer a good location for postal distribution. When a new main post office was built near the airport in 1986, the historic old facility became a downtown branch using only a small portion of one floor.[6]
In the early 1990s
The art center opened in April 2001 with approximately 24,000 square feet (2,200 m2) of gallery space presenting visual art from local, state and regional artists, as well as major U.S. and international exhibitions.[1]
On April 2, 2018, the Frist announced that it changed its name from The Frist Center of the Visual Arts to The Frist Art Museum. The change became legally effective April 1, 2018.[8]
The post office branch remains open and has its own separate entrance on the western end of the building.[5]
Exhibition and program information
As a non-collecting museum, the Frist does not have a permanent collection; rather, the center focuses on creating exhibitions as well as securing traveling exhibitions from around the country and the world.
Information regarding past, current and future exhibitions is found on the Frist's website. Each exhibition page contains detailed information about exhibition-related programs and an array of resources, including gallery guides, audio guides, videos and additional information from varying sources.
Martin ArtQuest (MAQ) is a permanent interactive gallery space at the Frist Art Museum.[9] The MAQ space consists of: a drawing station, a painting station, a printmaking station, a zoetrope station, a shadow theater, a stop-motion animation tool, an interactive Everbright wall composed of color-changing dials, a collaborative textile-weaving installation using a large six-sided art deco grid, a full-body-animated digital painting experience, and a sound pattern station which allows visitor to manipulate frequencies with sand on metal plates.[9] MAQ is run by the Frist's Educational department, which is led by Anne Henderson, who is the Director of Education and Community Engagement.[9]
References
- ^ a b "Frist Center for the Visual Arts: About". ARTINFO. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
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(help)[permanent dead link] - ^ "Giving Matters". givingmatters.guidestar.org. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
- ^ agency, Paramore, the digital. "Nashville, TN Community Art Gallery - Frist Art Museum". www.fristcenter.org. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b "Boston's Charles Street Jail Now Hosts Guests as The Liberty Hotel". Adapt + Reuse. 1 September 2020.
- ^ a b c Christine Kreyling; Sudip Bose; Eric Wills; Jonathan Marx; Dwight Young. "Nashville: Sites and Sounds". Preservation (July/August 2009). National Trust for Historic Preservation.
- ^ Moyer, John C. (September 2016). "HAPPY PLACE: With Nashville, Tennessee, once is never enough". AAA World. p. 31.
The museum curates all its own shows and has no permanent exhibits, so there's always something new to see.
- ^ Frist Center for the Visual Arts. "Frist Center Announces New Name and Visual Brand Identity". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 30 October 2018.
- ^ a b c "Martin ArtQuest". Frist Art Museum. Retrieved 2020-12-01.