Ghosts and Hopes at Clarksville’s Customs House Museum through January 14th, 2014
November 8, 2013
Clarksville, TN – “This body of work is not simply about the Civil War. It is about an emotion: the layered, all-encompassing emotion that accompanies a life lived. It is about being passionate enough to fight, compassionate enough to grieve, honest enough to be open. It is about ghosts and hopes,” states Dane Carder of his paintings currently hanging at the Customs House Museum.
Dane Carder paintings at Customs House Museum.
Wild Ones at Clarksville’s Customs House Museum
October 18, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Cindy Billingsley is one of those few artists that both sculpts and paints. A traditional fine artist of more than thirty years, she is able to merge her passion for wildlife conservation and art.
Her newest exhibit titled Wild Ones at the Customs House Museum creates another chance to bring awareness to the plight of wild animals.
Wild Ones at Clarksville’s Customs House Museum
Custom House Museum October 2013 Exhibits and Activities
September 26, 2013
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.
In the month of October, the Museum will feature Tom Malone: Art from Influence, Dane Carder: Ghosts and Hopes, Entangled Roots: The Art of Jennifer Bowman, The Surreal World of Mindy Herrin, Cindy Billingsley: Wild Ones, Day of the Dead, Laying Low, Let’s Find: Eyes, Sunday Family Fun: Making Faces, and Fall Break Special Model Trains.
Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
Entangled Roots on View at the Customs House Museum
September 25, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Jennifer Bowman considers herself to be a “self-taught” artist. That is not to say there is anything academic or amateur about her paintings. On the contrary, her abstract landscapes are both earthy and sophisticated.
Industrial color palettes glide across canvases in a dream-like fashion of mixed media layers made up in varied combinations of molding paste, acrylic and oil glazes, coffee, fabric and found objects.
Jennifer Bowman: Brevity
Customs House Museum Exhibits Tom Malone: Art from Influence
September 9, 2013
Clarksville, TN – A series of women’s faces fill the Customs House Museum’s Crouch gallery from September 13th through October 20th.
The first thing one notices about Tom Malone’s figurative works are the eyes. Expressionistic and haunting, there is a continuity that is Malone’s signature style. Displayed in chronological order, the viewer can sense the development of Malone’s talent.
Tom Malone: Art from Influence at Clarksville’s Customs House Museum starting September 13th
Customs House Museum Exhibits Archetypes
June 10, 2013
Clarksville, TN – A series of acrylic on paper paintings by Diane Shaw fill the walls of the Customs House Museum’s Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery through the month of June.
The abstract landscapes of Shaw’s work create a delightful, albeit eerie, sense of calm. Lone figures hide within the movements of color.
The Mother Archetype by Diane Shaw
Customs House Museum to host Carvings, Castings, and Constructions by Mike Andrews
May 10, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Hundred-year old patterns of wheels, squares, stars, and waves merge into beautiful assemblages of wood and steel. These, along side Mike Andrews’ more widely known works of art fill the Crouch gallery of the Customs House Museum on May 17th.
Artist Mike Andrews has been creating art for more than two decades out of limestone, wood, and metal. More recently, he has produced large, wall installations comprised of patterns belonging to the Clarksville Foundry.
Artist Mike Andrews has been creating art for more than two decades out of limestone, wood, and metal. Carvings, Castings, and Constructions will be on exhibit through August 31st.
Customs House Museum continues Women’s History Month Celebration
April 4, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Today there are many recognizable names of women artists, yet according to the National Museum of Women in the Arts only 5% of art currently on display in U.S. museums is made by women.
Eclipsed – Tanya Tewell
Mountains to Coast exhibit at the Customs House Museum starting November 8th
October 25, 2012
Clarksville, TN – “Mountains to Coast represents a collection of my favorite subjects to paint. I have found the mountains of Tennessee, the coastal areas of Maine and the Carolinas and American historical sites inspirational. My work reflects the cultural, spiritual and natural environments of these areas. These paintings span more than ten years of reflecting on what I have seen and want to communicate to the viewer,” states Tennessee watercolorist Denton Ridge in reference to his exhibit at the Customs House Museum.
Mountains to Coast exhibit at the Customs House Museum
Customs House Museum revisits Bathysphere Adventure starting November 15th
October 24, 2012
Clarksville, TN – Philbrick Crouch was nineteen when he became a member of the 1930 Oceanographic research team with well-known explorer Dr. William Beebe for the New York Zoological Society to Bermuda.
The Customs House Museum will be revisiting his experience with the exhibit Beyond the Abyss: Phil Crouch & the Bathysphere Adventure on November 15th. The show will include photos of this expedition taken by Mr. Crouch, along with his diary, sketches, and a 90% actual size model of the Bathysphere.
Bathysphere Adventure at the Customs House Museum
