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Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection

The magic that happens when a photographer captures a precise moment in a performing artist’s life – on or off stage – is on view in Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection. The exhibition consists of 33 photographs by 15 photographers that date from the 1920s to the 1980s. The photographs portray jazz legends such as Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and celebrate the dynamic nature of the genre. This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.

Featured Image: William Gottlieb (American, 1917–2006), Dizzy Gillespie, 52nd St., New York, N.Y., c.1948, Gelatin silver print. 19 ¼ x 10 ⅛” (48.9 x 25.7 cm). Bank of America Collection. This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.
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William Gottlieb (American, 1917–2006), Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., 1947, Gelatin silver print. 18 ¾ x 15 ⅛” (47.6 x 38.4 cm). Bank of America Collection. This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.
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William Gottlieb (American, 1917–2006), Apollo, c.1950, Gelatin silver print. 15 ⅛” x 15 ½” (38.4 x 39.3 cm). Bank of America Collection. This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.

The magic that happens when a photographer captures a precise moment in a performing artist’s life – on or off stage – is on view in Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection. The exhibition consists of 33 photographs by 15 photographers that date from the 1920s to the 1980s. The photographs portray jazz legends such as Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and celebrate the dynamic nature of the genre. This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.

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Verse and Vision 2025

Verse and Vision, a Graphic Arts exhibition of works on paper from Cheekwood’s permanent collection, will be displayed alongside poems written in response to the 12 works of art. The exhibition forms a thoughtful connection between two distinct artforms in celebration of the creative spirit, further connecting the viewer to the artwork.

Featuring ekphrastic poetry written by:

Rachel Bartek
Carson Colenbaugh
Ajla Dizdarević
Sarah Elliott
Kelly Ann Graff
Didi Jackson

Donneisha Jennings
Margaret Kingsbury
Andi Kopek
Emiliya Mailyan
Sydney Mayes
Judith Kittredge

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2025 Martin Shallenberger Artist-in-Residence Tamara Kostianovsky

Argentine American, Brooklyn-based mixed media artist Tamara Kostianovsky is Cheekwood’s 2025 Artist-in-Residence. Kostianovsky’s sculptural installations, often crafted from discarded textiles, are both intimate and tactile, transforming personal materials like old clothes and linens into surreal forms. Her work combines realism and surrealism, often evoking themes of vulnerability, ecology, and the environment.  Through her careful manipulation of fabric, stitches, and textures, Kostianovsky continually reinvents her practice, creating dynamic works that explore memory, nature, and renewal.

She has presented solo exhibitions at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France; The Baker Museum, FL; Denver Botanic Gardens, CO; Smack Mellon, NY; Fuller Craft Museum, MA; Ogden Contemporary Arts, UT, SLAG&RX Gallery, NY and Paris and many others. She is the recipient of distinguished awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and grants from NYFA, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and The Virginia Groot Foundation. Her work has been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, The Wall Street Journal, Madame le Figaro, Liberation, Colossal, and Hyperallergic.

Kostianovsky received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the National School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998), and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2003).

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Becky Suss: The Dutch House

This exhibition of 10 new paintings by American artist Becky Suss (b. 1980) was inspired by author Ann Patchett’s 2019 novel, The Dutch House, centering on a fictional mansion in a suburb of Philadelphia. By interpreting the literary details from Patchett’s narrative, the artist recounts memories shared by the novel’s two adult siblings as it relates to their upbringing and complex relationships within the context of their family home. Suss also incorporates her own experiences by interweaving literature and personal stories as well as researching objects and architectural details that fit within the novel’s time period. Through her paintings, Suss brings new life to The Dutch House, underscoring the complex interplay between contemporary art and storytelling.

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Wonder Women: Women Printmakers of the 1970s

This exhibition features prints created in the 1970s by women who advocated for themselves and their work at a time when most galleries unfairly labeled them to be bad investments. Having entered the workforce on the heels of second-wave feminism, these women were uniquely situated to defy gravity. Just as Wonder Woman augmented the pantheon of superheroes, the women artists of the 1970s did the same for modern art as they fought for recognition in a male-dominated field. All 19 works on paper in this exhibition were pulled from Cheekwood’s permanent collection.

Featured Artists:
Alima Rita
Marisol Escobar
Helen Frankenthaler
Liliane Lijn
Louise Nevelson
Linda Plotkin
Chryssa Vardea

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Selections from Cheekwood’s Permanent Collection on Display

Paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from Cheekwood’s permanent collection will take center stage throughout the second-floor galleries in the Mansion. Each gallery on the 2A floor will highlight a different sub-category of Cheekwood’s permanent art collection including American Impressionism, American Portraiture, and 20th century sculpture by William Edmondson. With this re-contextualization of the collection, visitors will have access to the majority of both the painting collection and William Edmonson sculpture collection for the first time in decades.

Featured Image: Childe (Frederick) Hassam (American, 1859-1935), Outskirts of East Gloucester, 1918, Oil on panel, museum purchase through funds provided by the EBS Foundation. 2001.6.

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Cheekwood Debuts: The Masterpiece Art Series

Prepare to be enchanted this March with the debut of Cheekwood’s Masterpiece Art Series. This new series, dedicated to showing a single or small grouping of iconic, world-renowned masterworks, introduces its inaugural exhibition with a dancer sculpture, Etude de nu pour la danseuse habillée, by Edgar Degas. The bronze is a rare loan from the Marlene and Spencer Hays collection.

Closely related to Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer with tutu and satin hair ribbon, the Hays collection sculpture, standing over two feet tall, is a superb example of the artist’s most celebrated theme: the ballerina. The sculpture is a true masterpiece, depicting the young dancer’s grace and poise. Degas explored and exquisitely captured the movement of ballet, immortalizing the subject’s power and elegance.

Continuing Cheekwood’s long-standing tradition of bringing high-quality art to Nashville, The Masterpiece Art Series is a celebration of artistic brilliance. For an unparalleled art experience, see the Little Dancer on view in the Mansion galleries in conjunction with the special exhibition Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist.

Featured Image: Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917), Etude de nu pour la danseuse habillée, c. 1878-80, bronze with brown patina. On loan from the Marlene and Spencer Hays Collection. Photography by Sam Angel.
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