Author Archives: jolanta

In the course of six years, Kristina Wong has become a powerful creative force. She uses her gender, background and ethnicity (Chinese-American) as source material for her art. She has won accolades, awards and a growing national audience. Wong’s work is compelling because it is, by turns, confrontational and candid, acerbic and guileless, cartoonish and […]

Brian Rogers is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the The Chocolate Factory Theater. A theater director and video artist, Brian’s recent works include “Fundamental,” “Audit” and “Gun Play.” He is currently collaborating with playwright Ken Urban on a new multimedia meditation on wives and death entitled “2 Husbands,” which will premiere at The Chocolate […]

Between 2001 & 2005 my life was filled with all kinds of miseries. Mom died in 2001 of heart failure, my grandmother died of old age in 2005, my father died one month later (lung cancer) and then me and my girlfriend broke up. When strangers used to ask me what my art was about […]

In reading Clifford Faust’s biography, one could become nostalgic of the 60s—the beat, the jazz, the wanderlust. Clifford Faust was born in Oklahoma, raised in Oregon. After graduation, he zoomed from hippie San Francisco to groovy New York in a Volkswagen Beetle, water-to-water, Jack Kerouac style. Arriving in New York City in the late 60s, […]

In the mid-90s, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art broadened its commitment to contemporary art. At the time, only a few galleries and alternative spaces in Nashville offered venues for contemporary artists to exhibit. Artists-run spaces frequently came and went, and commercial galleries such as Zeitgeist and TAG were in their infancy. Against this […]

Charles L. Reinhart has worked as a producer, manager, festival director, consultant and administrator in the arts since 1955. He has served as President of the American Dance Festival (ADF) since 1968. He is the recipient of numerous awards including Dance/USA’s Honors for lifetime achievement, Capezio Award, Dance Magazine Award, the French Government’s Officier dans […]

Gallery One, among Nashville’s newest and largest art galleries, opened its doors two years ago when few contemporary art spaces were available in the city. The gallery became the lone contemporary art space in the tiny Belle Meade area of Nashville, an affluent suburban outpost of Nashville known more for its antiques and oversized oil […]

I was born in Cape Town, South Africa. From the very beginning, my work has explored the aftermath and consequences of apartheid: from internal studies of the prison system to panoramas of the heavily affected landscape. In 2005, I extended my focus on the criminal justice system further by running photographic workshops with prisoners and […]

Looks like black and white is back! Well, I think so. I like old illustrators and printmakers mainly. I like to think I draw in that spirit. I’ve done a lot of cartooning.  I like cartoons, particularly old ones, I like the funny pages, I like old books. I like good drawing. I work backwards […]