Current Exhibitions:

 

Focus on Folk Art: Selected works from the Caldwell Collections' extensive collection of Southern art

 

In the Center Space of the Upstairs Gallery


Featured artists include:

Howard Finster (1916 – 2001), a Baptist Reverend and artist from Summerville , Georgia. Finster claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the creation of over 46,000 pieces of art. His creations overlap folk art, outsider art, naive art, and visionary art.

Tennessee artists in the exhibition include William Edmundson, Homer Green, and Herbert Baggett.

Other Southern artists featured in Focus on Folk Art:

Priscilla Cassidy, Raymond Coins, Roy Ferdinand, James Harold Jennings, May Kugler, Helen La France, R. A. Miller, Old Lady Parker,B. F. Perkins, Braxton Ponder, Sulton Rogers, John Andrew Schooler, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, and Mose Tolliver.

 

Man & Woman in Blue by Sulton Rogers:

 

American Flag by B. F. Perkins:

Wash Day by Pauline "Old Lady" Parker:

 

Works by John Andrew Schooler, Mose Tolliver, and Priscilla Cassidy:

The Doctor's Visit by May Kugler

Venezuelan folk art by Hercilia Ylarreta:

 

 

Admission is free. Donations appreciated.