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Piano Performances in the Mansion

Chris Walters
Saturday
February 25 | 12 – 2 PM

About Chris Walters

Born in New Orleans, Chris moved from New York to Nashville in 1989. When not touring with his own band, Chris performs and records as the keyboardist with various artists, including The Jeff Coffin Mu’tet, JD Souther, and The Peter Mayer Group. He has performed with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and recorded the soundtrack for a documentary film scored by Bela Fleck. At the age of 18, Walters was a finalist in the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra’s Gershwin competition. Chris attended the Jazz Studies Program at Webster University in St. Louis and was listed by them as a notable alumnus in a recent Downbeat magazine article. His debut album, “Strange Fruit,” was featured on National Public Radio’s Jazz South program, and his 2003 release, “Cool Blue Swing,” garnered praise for 11 tracks of original music. His most recent CD, “Yay! Everybody, Yay!” features new original songs as well as works by Alberto Ginastera and Cole Porter, with orchestrations around his small group performances.

Future Piano Performance Schedule:

March 4 | Kaylina Crawley

Available with Gardens and Mansion Tickets.

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Piano Performances in the Mansion

Chris Walters
Saturday
February 11 | 12 – 2 PM

About Chris Walters

Born in New Orleans, Chris moved from New York to Nashville in 1989. When not touring with his own band, Chris performs and records as the keyboardist with various artists, including The Jeff Coffin Mu’tet, JD Souther, and The Peter Mayer Group. He has performed with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and recorded the soundtrack for a documentary film scored by Bela Fleck. At the age of 18, Walters was a finalist in the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra’s Gershwin competition. Chris attended the Jazz Studies Program at Webster University in St. Louis and was listed by them as a notable alumnus in a recent Downbeat magazine article. His debut album, “Strange Fruit,” was featured on National Public Radio’s Jazz South program, and his 2003 release, “Cool Blue Swing,” garnered praise for 11 tracks of original music. His most recent CD, “Yay! Everybody, Yay!” features new original songs as well as works by Alberto Ginastera and Cole Porter, with orchestrations around his small group performances.

Future Piano Performance Schedule:

February 18 | Kaylina Crawley
February 25 | Chris Walters
March 4 | Kaylina Crawley

Available with Gardens and Mansion Tickets.

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Piano Performances in the Mansion

Chris Walters
Saturday
February 4 | 12 – 2 PM

About Chris Walters

Born in New Orleans, Chris moved from New York to Nashville in 1989. When not touring with his own band, Chris performs and records as the keyboardist with various artists, including The Jeff Coffin Mu’tet, JD Souther, and The Peter Mayer Group. He has performed with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and recorded the soundtrack for a documentary film scored by Bela Fleck. At the age of 18, Walters was a finalist in the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra’s Gershwin competition. Chris attended the Jazz Studies Program at Webster University in St. Louis and was listed by them as a notable alumnus in a recent Downbeat magazine article. His debut album, “Strange Fruit,” was featured on National Public Radio’s Jazz South program, and his 2003 release, “Cool Blue Swing,” garnered praise for 11 tracks of original music. His most recent CD, “Yay! Everybody, Yay!” features new original songs as well as works by Alberto Ginastera and Cole Porter, with orchestrations around his small group performances.

Future Piano Performance Schedule:

February 11 | Chris Walters
February 18 | Kaylina Crawley
February 25 | Chris Walters
March 4 | Kaylina Crawley

Available with Gardens and Mansion Tickets.

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LIGHT: Bruce Munro at Cheekwood

The luminous light installations featuring the work of renowned British artist Bruce Munro return to Nashville in the exhibition, LIGHT: Bruce Munro at Cheekwood. Munro first presented his award-winning outdoor art exhibition for only the second time in North America at Cheekwood in 2013. Cheekwood is honored to again host this exhibition for a special 10th anniversary celebration featuring immersive, grand-scale light installations that are displayed throughout Cheekwood’s beautiful vistas, manicured gardens, The Carell Trail, in the Historic Mansion & Museum and Frist Learning Center. 

LIGHT is designed to respond to and enhance the outdoor garden and indoor gallery experiences, encouraging an awareness of our individual and collective journeys through time and space. The interplay between Munro’s three-dimensional creations and the surrounding environment—at dusk and after dark—heightens the sense of time’s passage, reinforced through works with expressed childhood and literary themes. Whether backlit sea glass or pigment on paper, his two-dimensional works likewise comment on life through the “language of light” as seen in the mansion galleries. 

Bruce Munro, (British), Whizz Pops, Cheekwood, 2012, On loan from Bruce Munro Studio. © 2023 Bruce Munro. Photographer Serena Munro.
Featured Image: Bruce Munro, (British), Forest of Light, Cheekwood, 1992, On loan from Bruce Munro Studio. © 2023 Bruce Munro. Photographer Serena Munro.
Image Right: Bruce Munro, (British), Whizz Pops, Cheekwood, 2012, On loan from Bruce Munro Studio. © 2023 Bruce Munro. Photographer Serena Munro.

A Conversation with Bruce Munro


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LIGHT: Bruce Munro at Cheekwood is made possible by

The Ann and Monroe Carell Foundation

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Leadership support is provided by
Barbara and Jack Bovender

Major support is provided by
Katie and Kevin Crumbo
Lisa and David Manning

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Cheekwood is funded in part by

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Spanning the Atlantic: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America

Following 2021’s Spanning the Atlantic: The Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain, this exhibition is the second of a two-part series examining the international Arts & Crafts movement. First developed in the British Isles during the 19th century, the Arts & Crafts movement was spurred by anxieties over industrialization which fueled a resurgence of traditional craftsmanship. With harkening nods to medieval, folk, and colonial forms and an emphasis on rectilinearity, an earthy palette, and subdued ornamentation, the Arts & Crafts movement reached its height in America in the early 20th century. Spanning the Atlantic: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America brings together over 100 objects from this period, including exceptional examples of furniture by Gustav Stickley and Harvey Ellis; pottery by Grueby Faience Company; Newcomb Pottery and Rookwood; glass by Tiffany; and silver, metalwork, and textiles by some of the most talented American craftsmen and women of the time.

Featured Image: Gallery view of Spanning the Atlantic: The Arts & Crafts Movement in Britain, Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art, 2022, Collection of Crab Tree Farm.

Image Right: George Kendrick (American, 1850-1919) for Grueby Faience Company (1894-1920) and Tiffany Studios (1885-1930), Lamp, c. 1900, Earthenware, leaded glass, and bronze, Collection of Crab Tree Farm. © Jim Prinz

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Experience Spanning the Atlantic: The Arts and Crafts Movement Below


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The Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Ruralism and Regionalism in American Art

The Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Ruralism and Regionalism in American Art

Beginning with the advent of farming during the Neolithic Era, humans have long cultivated an intimate relationship with land through agricultural practice. In the early 20th century, Regionalist art celebrated American agrarianism and its adherents with emotion-laden landscape scenes while advocating for ruralism (country living and values) over urbanism and city living. The style derived its formal characteristics from the work of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry – the Regionalist Triumvirate. Their works feature among the 20 works on paper in this exhibition, which examines the compositions and contexts of agrarian imagery produced in this country between 1920 and 1950.

Image Right: Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942), Fertility, 1939, Lithograph on paper, Gift of the Estate of John and Margaret Hill, 1994.19.19.

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The Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville

The Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville

February 3 – 5

The Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville returns to the Music City Center February 3 – 5. One of the largest antiques and horticultural events in the country, the annual event brings together an impressive showcase of antiques from more than 150 dealers, world-class landscaped gardens and opportunities to engage with some of the nation’s top names in design and horticulture through educational lectures, panel discussions and book signings. Attendees of the 2023 Show can look forward to an exciting Keynote lecture from Aerin Lauder of the lifestyle brand AERIN and Alice Naylor-Leyland of the tablescape company Mrs. Alice, along with additional featured speakers and moderators that bridge the worlds of entertaining, gardening and design.

Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville is an annual charitable event whose purpose is to raise funds for Cheekwood and Economic Club of Nashville (ECON) Charities.

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