Photographer Bob Sherman Exhibits at the Customs House Museum
May 30, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Nashville-based photographer Bob Sherman brings his mystical portraits to the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery at the Customs House Museum this June with the exhibit The Illusion of Person and Place: The Spirit of Asia by Bob Sherman.
The vivid colored images document the people and places Bob visited in during his travels abroad.
Other Worldly by Bob Sherman
Customs House Museum Announces Award Winners in the Southern Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition
May 21, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum hosted the awards reception for the Southern Watercolor Society’s 38th Annual Juried Exhibition on May 16th. The show features eighty-seven paintings. This year’s juror Kathleen Conover awarded 32 artists cash or merchandise prices.
The Best in Show was awarded to Z.L. Feng for In the Wood. Feng is an artist-signature member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, and the Pastel Society of America (as master pastelist).
Z.L. Feng won Best in Show for In the Wood
Exploration at the Customs House Museum
May 7, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Artist Ed Nash brings his large-scale abstracts to the Customs House Museum for the month of May in the exhibit Ed Nash: Exploration.
The acrylic paintings seep with mysterious shapes and textured layers of neutral hues. They are at once both earthy and industrial.
“Adjudicate” by Ed Nash.
Last Chance to See Current Exhibits at the Customs House Museum
April 23, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House museum will be changing out its spaces at the end of the month, leaving less than two weeks for art lovers to view the current exhibits by award-winning artists.
The museum offers an average of thirty temporary shows each year, and the current ones features a variety of styles and subject matter.
Artist Lynn Garwood.
Southern Watercolor Society Presents Its Juried Exhibition at the Customs House Museum
April 15, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum is pleased to host the Southern Watercolor Society’s 38th Annual Juried Exhibition this May. The show features eighty-seven paintings, eleven coming from Tennessee artists.
Exhibits Curator, Terri Jordan, states “I am honored to have the Southern Watercolor Society (SWS) present its 38th Annual Juried Exhibition here at the Customs House Museum. We have featured the talents of some of the best artists living in the South and I am happy to add the SWS to that list.”
Bill Bailey – Fly Creek
Writers’ Hour Featured during Customs House Museum’s Annual Women’s History Month Exhibition
March 25, 2015
Clarksville, TN – On March 31st, the Customs House Museum will present a Writers’ Hour event in conjunction with its invitational exhibit celebrating women artists.
Local authors will read from their works that are themed to the museum’s show, In the Garden.
“The museum has held several readings in the past,” states Exhibits Curator Terri Jordan. “It is interesting to hear the variety of poems and stories from our local writers. Often funny, and sometimes sad, the audience is always blown away with the talent we have in the Clarksville area.”
Women’s History Month Exhibition at the Customs House Museum to feature Writers’ Hour
Customs House Museum Presents In the Garden for its Annual Women’s History Month Exhibition
March 12, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Each March the Customs House Museum creates an invitational themed exhibit celebrating women artists. This year’s show, In the Garden, features the work of artists from across the state of Tennessee, all created in a variety of styles.
Redhibiscus – Lisa Ernst
Chicago Artist Sergio Gomez Exhibits at the Customs House Museum
March 7, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Chicago-based artist Sergio Gomez brings his bold figurative works to the Customs House Museum with the exhibit The Land In Between.
Exhibited in the two-story Crouch Gallery, the moody, ghost-like forms that anchor Gomez’s large paintings appear restless and calm at the same time, amid dripping colors and spackled landscapes.
Sergio Gomez exhibits at the Customs House Museum.
Customs House Museum hosts Go Figure! exhibit
February 27, 2015
Clarksville, TN – Storybooks present enjoyable, meaningful, interactive math explorations to children and adults in Go Figure! – a national traveling exhibit that opens March 1st at the Customs House Museum.
Go Figure! transforms charming children’s books into a kid-sized world where children and adults can have fun exploring math with familiar characters such as Arthur, Frog and Toad, and the Three Bears.
Go Figure! exhibit coming to Clarksville’s Customs House Museum Monday, March 1st.
The Annecy France Nun Series by Anne Goetze Debuts at the Customs House Museum
February 2, 2015
Clarksville, TN – The Monestere de la Visitationhon and the small order of nuns who reside there are the subject matter of the new exhibit in the Customs House Museum’s Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery.
The artist, Anne Goetze, began going to the Monastery to visit her aunt Helen.
The Annecy France Nun Series by Anne Goetze Debuts at the Customs House Museum
