Custom House Museum hosts Writer’s Hour
March 7, 2012
Clarksville, TN – On Thursday, March 8th from 6:30pm – 8:30pm, the Custom House Museum and Cultural Center invites the public to come and enjoy listening to regional female writers read passages from their work in the galleries.
Admission is free and refreshments will be served. [Read more]
Customs House Museum Celebrates Women’s History Month
February 28, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The two-story gallery of the Customs House Museum will be filled with “The Words of Women” next month instead of the usual visual art.
“Each year I create an exhibit celebrating Women’s History Month. This time we are focusing on women writers”, says Terri Jordan, Exhibits Curator. This exhibit will be held March 2nd – May 6th. Participating writers were sent a vintage item to be used as the muse for their work. [Read more]
Custom House Museum March 2012 Exhibits and Activities
February 27, 2012
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 March, the Museum will feature Richard LeFevre: The Civil War Series, Assemblages: The Art of Sandra Paynter Washburn, The Words of Women, Writer’s Hour, Spring Break Activities and so much more.
A View From Space at the Customs House Museum
October 22, 2011
Clarksville, TN – From now through January 8th 2012, the Customs House Museum has a great exhibit called “A View from Space”. Since the launch of the world’s first artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957, satellites have dramatically changed the way we study our planet.
A View from Space, a new, bilingual (Spanish and English), highly interactive, hands-on science exhibit, will allow visitors to see the world from a satellite’s perspective. They can track a hurricane from space, send a satellite spinning into orbit around a model Earth, study incredible images of our planet captured by NASA’s Earth Observing System, and more. [Read more]
Customs House Museum Celebrates Tennessee Artists with New Exhibits
September 10, 2011
Clarksville, TN – Plein air is a term derived from the French phrase en plein air, which literally means ‘in the open air’. In the late 1800s the Impressionists ventured out of their studios into nature to investigate and capture the effects of sunlight and different times of day on a subject, creating a new style of painting. Jason Saunders may be painting far from the French countryside, but his landscapes of Tennessee are just as breath-taking.
Summer Bales by Jason Saunders.
July 19th-24th is Educator’s Week at the Customs House Museum
June 7, 2011
Clarksville, TN – During this week, area educators who present their teacher badge or other indication of where they are employed will be given free admission so they can discover what the museum has to offer their students. The Museum will also be giving out information about tours of the museum for the upcoming school year. Area art teachers will be able to see some of the art exhibits on display and a time line of upcoming art shows for the 2011-12 school year. [Read more]
The Clarksville art scene is alive and thriving at Riverfest
September 15, 2010
A former resident of the Boston and Washington, D.C. areas, I have been fortunate to see some great artworks in my life. I’ve also witnessed the recent “Emperor’s New Clothes” variety (otherwise called “modern art” by some). My feelings towards some of the obscenities fostered on the public in recent years as “art” cannot be printed in this format. One only has to walk through the National Art Gallery where the display is chronological to see how talent somehow was replaced with publicity stunts to see how some artists have sold their souls to pure unadulterated “selling a bill of goods to the unsuspecting” to see what I mean.
Art from the Tour D' Art on display at the Smith Trahern Mansion.
Downtown Clarksville Association presents the First Thursday ArtWalk
August 3, 2010
Thursday, August 5th, 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Richard Pugh, an award winning photographer, will open his new show entitled “Captured Light: Recent Persectives” at the Downtown Artists Co-op. Richard is a retired Army Dental Officer who has enjoyed photography for many years and in the last three years has won two first place awards, two second place, one third place and two honorable mention awards in the Army Worldwide Digital Photography Contest.
His show will consist of color photographs, black and white and several experimental images in 12×16 and 16×20 frames.
New Military Exhibit at the Customs House Museum
May 26, 2010
The Customs House Museum presents Call to Arms, a new exhibit honoring the military men and women of Montgomery County. Focusing on the Civil War through Vietnam, the installation features weapons, badges, and uniforms respective to these eras.
The museum partnered with the Kiwanis Club’s Service and Sacrifice committee to produce the display of portraits representing service men and women of Montgomery County. These black and white images framing the uniforms were taken from Faces of Valor: Veterans of Montgomery County. A project of the Kiwanis Club of Clarksville, the original display of portraits was unveiled on November 13th, 2004. The panels can be seen in the restored Montgomery County Court House. A few faces on view in Call to Arms will be featured in an upcoming new edition. [Read more]
