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America the Beautiful Opening Weekend

Help us kick off the summer season at the opening of our biggest model trains exhibit yet. Here’s your guide to America the Beautiful trains festivities, including two special concerts, art activities, and can’t‑miss moments. Plan your visit now before this celebration leaves the station!

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Saturday

May 2

9 AM – 3 PM | Americana-inspired food vendors

10 AM – 2 PM | Scavenger hunt! Fill out your train ticket “passport” for a chance to win a free Cheekwood Membership.

10 AM – 2 PM | Trains art activities

12 – 2 PM | Performance by Kelsey Rae Copeland: This singer-songwriter specializes in a retro-country sound rooted in reflective storytelling that has served as inspiration for a number of American legends. Currently based in Nashville, Tennessee, she mixes tradition and old-school country “twang” with a hint of mystery.

Sunday

May 3

9 AM – 3 PM | Americana-inspired food vendors

10 AM – 2 PM | Scavenger hunt! Fill out your train ticket “passport” for a chance to win a free
Cheekwood Membership.

10 AM – 2 PM | Trains art activities

12 – 2 PM | Performance by Aaron Till & Mickey Justice: This duo performs traditional country, roots, and Americana music on a variety of instruments from the fiddle to the bouzouki. Their natural musical chemistry and beautiful harmonies will evoke the spirit of the open roads and railways.

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America the Beautiful is created by

and made possible by the generous support of:

Presenting Underwriter

The Crossman Family

Presenting Sponsor

Major Underwriter

Mary & Larry Wieck

Reserve Tickets

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Tennessee the Beautiful

Tennessee the Beautiful

May 2 | 9:30 AM

Tennessee is one of the most biodiverse states in the country. This class covers the keystone plants, native fauna relationships, and landscape features that define our region. Learn how these natural treasures can support smarter, more connected designs for your home garden. This class is perfect for people new to gardening in Middle Tennessee.

Location

Courtyard Classroom
Not Yet Members: $40
Members: $32
Register

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2026 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence: Maura Wright

Cheekwood is pleased to announce Maura Wright as the 2026 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, Wright is a ceramic artist whose practice centers on intricately crafted clay vessels and sculptural forms. Working primarily in earthenware, she creates richly decorated objects with ornate handles, floral motifs, and layered surface treatments. Drawing inspiration from decorative arts, folk traditions, and historical ornament, Wright’s work reflects a deep engagement with craft, material history, and the decorative language of domestic objects.

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Maura Wright (b.1991), Yellow Amphora, 2024, earthenware, slip, glaze and luster. Photo by Alan Weiner.
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Image of Maura’s Studio, Photo by Will Warsalia.

During her residency, Wright will explore Cheekwood’s decorative arts holdings—including the museum’s porcelain collection—as well as the gardens and historic architecture of the estate. Nature, botanical forms, and historical design references often inform her compositions, which combine sculptural ceramics with painted environments that evoke frescoed interiors and decorative wall treatments. Through this approach, Wright creates installations that consider the relationship between objects, ornament, and the spaces they inhabit.

Wright received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2018 and her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2013. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions across the United States and has been featured in Architectural Digest, Surface Magazine, Curbed, and Dwell, where her distinctive approach to contemporary ceramics and decorative form has drawn national attention.

The Artist-in-Residence program is made possible through the generous support of the Shallenberger family.

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Mother’s Day Plant Sale

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Treat the moms in your life to a day surrounded by flowers. Stroll the Bradford Robertson Color Garden as it becomes a showroom for newly planted summer blooms and then take home your favorite annuals, perennials, flowering shrubs, and ready-to-go planters, including lantana, coneflower, salvia, and hydrangea.

Cheekwood’s horticulturists will be on-site to share tips. Come for the plants you love, and leave with a few you didn’t know you needed!

Food Trucks

Saturday

11 AM – 3 PM

Salsa Franklin Taco
Vietastic
Wyldeflour Pizza
Moosic City Creamery

Sunday

11 AM – 3 PM

Nashbowls Acai
Eat Bubbles
The Mac Shack
Salsa Franklin Taco

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Dog Nights of Summer

Free for Members.

Live performance by Satin Dollz – An international vintage-inspired, vocal-and-tap-dance ensemble founded in Hollywood, California in 2005. Inspired by the spirit of WWII-era USO Camp Shows, the group blends tight vocal harmonies, lively choreography, and vintage glamour in performances celebrating the music and style of the 1940s and ’50s.

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Special Performance by Satin Dollz 

6 – 8 PM

The Satin Dollz are an international vintage-inspired, vocal-and-tap-dance ensemble founded in Hollywood, California in 2005. Inspired by the spirit of WWII-era USO Camp Shows, the group blends tight vocal harmonies, lively choreography, and vintage glamour in performances celebrating the music and style of the 1940s and ’50s.

Food Trucks

5 – 8:30 PM

Hautewheels Rolling Sandwich
Yayo’s OMG
Chivanada
Vansauwa’s Tacos and Vegan Eats

Dog Vendors

5 – 8 PM

Proverbs 12:10
Wild and Well Animal Chiropractic
Wiggle Butt Wagon
Weenie Wraps
VEG

We ask that all pets be on leash at Cheekwood. Dogs with the exception of service animals are not allowed inside the buildings, including the Mansion.

We will have water refill and doggie bag stations on the property. Please BYOBowl to fill and refill with water for your dog. If you don’t have a collapsible bowl and want something that’s easy to carry around, try making one out of materials you could already have at home. Like this one from a dog food bag or this one from a cereal box and bag.

For more information on why we no longer provide communal bowls, check out this article from the AKC and this article from Preventative Vet.

Reserve Tickets

Gardens Only Gardens + Mansion
Adults $21 $27
Youth (3-17) $14 $20
Ages 2 & Under FREE FREE
Member Adult FREE FREE
Member Youth FREE FREE

A $2 per item service fee will be added to all paid transactions.
Non-Members: $5 per order parking fee

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Dog Nights of Summer

Free for Members.

Live performance by Kyshona – An artist ignited by untold stories, and the capacity of those stories to thread connection in every community. She is unrelenting in her pursuit for the healing power of song and lends her voice and music to those that feel they have been lost, silenced, forgotten or alone. Soul&Jazz&Funk says she “mixes rootsy sounds, blues, folk, gospel and Southern soul flavors into a provocative cocktail.

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Special Performance by Kyshona

6 – 8 PM

Kyshona is an artist ignited by untold stories, and the capacity of those stories to thread connection in every community. She is unrelenting in her pursuit for the healing power of song and lends her voice and music to those that feel they have been lost, silenced, forgotten or alone. Soul&Jazz&Funk says she “mixes rootsy sounds, blues, folk, gospel and Southern soul flavors into a provocative cocktail.”

Food Trucks

5:30 – 8 PM

Hautewheels Rolling Sandwich
Little Cancun on the Go
Conscious Cravings
The Cookie Patch

Dog Vendors

5 – 8 PM

Proverbs 12:10
Wild and Well Animal Chiropractic
Weenie Wraps
Bloom Veterinary Hospital
VEG

We ask that all pets be on leash at Cheekwood. Dogs with the exception of service animals are not allowed inside the buildings, including the Mansion.

We will have water refill and doggie bag stations on the property. Please BYOBowl to fill and refill with water for your dog. If you don’t have a collapsible bowl and want something that’s easy to carry around, try making one out of materials you could already have at home. Like this one from a dog food bag or this one from a cereal box and bag.

For more information on why we no longer provide communal bowls, check out this article from the AKC and this article from Preventative Vet.

Reserve Tickets

Gardens Only Gardens + Mansion
Adults $21 $27
Youth (3-17) $14 $20
Ages 2 & Under FREE FREE
Member Adult FREE FREE
Member Youth FREE FREE

A $2 per item service fee will be added to all paid transactions.
Non-Members: $5 per order parking fee

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Dog Nights of Summer

Free for Members.

Live performance by Eliza Thorn – With a warm and uninhibited voice, Eliza Thorn is a bright-eyed and emergent force, cultivating a characteristic sound. Years of travel and busking have lent an element of grit to her tonality, honing a penchant for honest storytelling in the process.

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Special Performance by Eliza Thorn

6 – 8 PM

With a warm and uninhibited voice, Eliza Thorn is a bright-eyed and emergent force, cultivating a characteristic sound. Years of travel and busking have lent an element of grit to her tonality, honing a penchant for honest storytelling in the process.

Food Trucks

5 – 8:30 PM

Hautewheels Rolling Sandwich
Smokin’ Buttz BBQ
Millie’s Homestyle Portuguese
The Grilled Cheesire

Dog Vendors

5 – 8 PM

Proverbs 12:10
Misty Westebbe Photography
Weenie Wraps
Invisible Fence
VEG

We ask that all pets be on leash at Cheekwood. Dogs with the exception of service animals are not allowed inside the buildings, including the Mansion.

We will have water refill and doggie bag stations on the property. Please BYOBowl to fill and refill with water for your dog. If you don’t have a collapsible bowl and want something that’s easy to carry around, try making one out of materials you could already have at home. Like this one from a dog food bag or this one from a cereal box and bag.

For more information on why we no longer provide communal bowls, check out this article from the AKC and this article from Preventative Vet.

Reserve Tickets

Gardens Only Gardens + Mansion
Adults $21 $27
Youth (3-17) $14 $20
Ages 2 & Under FREE FREE
Member Adult FREE FREE
Member Youth FREE FREE

A $2 per item service fee will be added to all paid transactions.
Non-Members: $5 per order parking fee

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