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Gorgeous architecture.

Art After Hours

Have you heard about tomorrow night? Art After Hours? It sounds like the perfect summer evening event. You could even start off with an icy treat like my current obsession, the snocone (pineapple upside down cake in the pic). Here's the scoop thanks to Alan LeQuire's email:

Please Join Us

Thursday, June 4th

5-7pm

for the launching of Nashville's first Citywide Art Crawl.





The Nashville Association of Art Dealers (NAAD) presents a new opprotunity for art lovers and patrons to explore Nashville's diverse and growing art scene. "Art After Hours" - Nashville's first monthly, city-wide art crawl - seeks to elevate awareness and support for the visual arts in Nashville. On the first Thursday of each month participating galleries will remain open late from 5:00pm to 7:00pm, inviting the public to come and enjoy art after work.
Participating galleries in the first Art After Hours include:
Bennett Galleries, Cumberland Gallery, Estel Gallery, Finer Things Gallery, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Gallery One, HA Gallery at Hanging Around, LeQuire Gallery, Local Color Gallery, Midtown Gallery, Richland Fine Art, Rymer Gallery, The Arts Company, Tinney Contemporary and
Zeitgeist Gallery.

Go to www.nashvilleartdealers.net for a gallery map.

9th Year

Today is the 9th wedding anniversary for Jon and I. Nine long years. Oh, I kid...I read that china is the traditional gift for this anniversary (and apparently leather is the modern gift- umm-no thanks), but thankfully we have chosen to skip those and go to Charleston, SC to spend a week at the beach. Yippeeee! We both stay so busy that the opportunity to spend every day together for a whole week just makes me smile- let alone that it will be a week on the beach!!! I'm a lucky woman. I'm so lucky to have found and be married to a man I didn't think I'd ever find. I could go on for pages about why I love him, but I'll restrain myself and mention one thing specifically. Dedication. His dedication shines in so many ways through our lives: he is a loyal friend, a hard worker, a driven musician, and a devoted husband. I read this quote and thought of him- and I hope he knows how his dedication has inspired me through all these years. Painter Philip Guston, advised that "someone who could be talked out of being an artist shouldn't be one in the first place". I see that kind of dedication (the kind you can't talk someone out of) in my husband, and I look forward to sharing many more years with him.

I Have Not Posted Lately

And this is why :)
Happy Memorial Day to all, and many thanks to the men and women who serve our country.