Customs House Museum & Cultural Center Presents Wood, Paper, Paint: Collecting Art for 40 Years
April 9, 2024
Clarksville, TN – In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center proudly announces the opening of its latest exhibition, Wood, Paper, Paint: Collecting Art for 40 Years.
On view from April 2nd to June 2nd, this special exhibition commemorates four decades of the Museum’s dedication to collecting and preserving art.
Customs House Museum & Cultural Center: Wood, Paper, Paint: Collecting Art for 40 Years, Crouch Gallery
Travel the Globe with the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center’s Newest Exhibit
November 21, 2022
Clarksville, TN – From the warm red earth of Arizona to the tranquil mountain valleys of New Zealand, from the twinkling late-night lights of Paris to the bright blue skies of Peru – Lori Putnam’s newest exhibit takes Customs House Museum & Cultural Center visitors around the world through the lens of modern impressionism.
Recognized for her expressive brushwork, contemporary compositions and intelligent use of color, Lori Putnam paints small to medium-sized works en plein air and creates large paintings in her studio in Charlotte, Tennessee. Her new exhibit, Far from Home, includes 29 new works inspired by her travels.
Yorkshire Coast
Customs House Museum & Cultural Center Hosts Breaking Through: The Rise of American Women Artists
March 30, 2022
Clarksville, TN – Continuing their celebration of women in the arts, the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center is currently hosting the exhibit Breaking Through: The Rise of American Women Artists. This juried show includes 124 paintings and sculptures by members of American Women Artists (AWA).
AWA is a nonprofit membership organization made up of women artists, patrons, and gallery owners throughout the United States and Canada.
Since its inaugural exhibition in 1990, AWA has worked to increase the number of professional opportunities for women in the visual fine arts through museum shows, symposiums, workshops, international exhibitions, and juried competitions in leading galleries around the country.
Breaking Through: The Rise of American Women Artists
Customs House Museum & Cultural Center opens exhibit “Start Your Engines! A Celebration of Racing in Montgomery County”
August 30, 2021
Clarksville, TN – After over a year-and-a-half of planning, the long-anticipated, heart-thumping, high-octane exhibit Start Your Engines! A Celebration of Racing in Montgomery County is open at the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center.
The exhibit is sponsored by Tri-Star Beverage and MPG Transport and spans across several galleries within the Museum.
“Start Your Engines! A Celebration of Racing in Montgomery County” exhibit at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center.
“Mike Egan: Modern Pop” on exhibit at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
April 13, 2021
Clarksville, TN – Artist Mike Egan loves to paint death. His work, done in bold, brightly-hued acrylic, portrays the subject with a bit of humor and homage to Mexican folk art.
In his exhibition, Mike Egan: Modern Pop, simplistic shapes and black outlines dance across the wood panels displayed on the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery walls at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center in a celebratory fashion.
Farewell Little Friend – MIke Egan
Custom House Museum features acclaimed Realist Painter Juliette Aristides, Lineup of Black History Month Exhibits in February
February 6, 2021
Clarksville, TN – With the new year comes a fresh slate of outstanding exhibitions at the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center. Opening in mid-January is the highly-anticipated reveal of award-winning realist painter Juliette Aristides’ A Life’s Work.
In 2020, the Seattle-based painter focused on the quiet moments of her life. A Life’s Work is a collection of those moments of light and shadows that filled her studio and home.
Audry Deal-McEver: Botanical Extravagance
Clarksville artist Terri Jordan Exhibits Rotary Park Paintings at Wade Bourne Nature Center
January 20, 2021
Clarksville, TN – A new series of landscapes makes its debut at the Wade Bourne Nature Center in Rotary Park. “When the Gates Open” is a suite of oil paintings capturing the scenery of the park itself. Artist Terri Jordan, known best for her figurative work, explores the beauty of the changing seasons over the past year, documenting the creek and paths explored by her family on a regular basis.
Terri Jordan – Blue Ending
Clarksville’s Customs House Museum December 2020 Exhibits, Activities
November 30, 2020
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic Downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
Some of the events in December at the Museum are: Tennessee Watercolor Society 37th Annual Juried Exhibition Traveling Show, Anne Goetze: Pray to Love, Stitched Traditions: Quilts from the Collection, Those Who Serve: Celebrating Women in the Military, and Tools of the Trade.
Customs House Museum and Cultural Center’s Huff & Puff Express Model Trains.
Customs House Museum and Cultural Center starts Winter set of Art Exhibitions
November 14, 2020
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center has several new art exhibits coming to the galleries this winter. Visitors will be pleasantly surprised by the wide range of themes, mediums and style showcased in the shows.
Anne Goetze, portrait artist Chantel Barber and many Tennessee-based watercolor artists will all be featured in the upcoming months.
Pray to Love – Chantel Barber
Customs House Museum celebrates Women’s Suffrage, Twenty Years of Cumberland Furniture Guild
August 18, 2020
Clarksville, TN – August has been a month of exciting change exhibit-wise at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center. Two new, highly anticipated exhibitions are now up for the public to visit: The Power of Women: Celebrating the Suffrage Movement and Practice Makes Perfect: Twenty Years of the Cumberland Furniture Guild.
This month the country will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, and Clarksville has plenty of history to share on the subject.
Practice Makes Perfect: Twenty Years of the Cumberland Furniture Guild
