Nothing can quite prepare one for the inner world of Joseph Gregory. While he lives in an upscale Nashville neighborhood, and the manicured lawns and tony houses are in every way exquisite, it is the interior…

Drew is a widely traveled photographer who has quickly made a name for himself in the fashion industry and as a documenter of disappearing traditional cultures around the world. Inspired by the ability to transport emotions through photographs, he…

At a historic house in downtown Franklin, Tennessee, Nashville Arts Magazine recently had the chance to catch up with breakout folk duo The Civil Wars. With nineteenth-century wallpaper peeling from the walls and antique chandeliers casting…

Celebrated for her soft, impressionistic brush, Anne Blair Brown’s canvases are anything but timid. They are vivid explorations of active spaces and life in motion, cafés, restaurants, bustling marketplaces. They are images that offer us the irresistible…

“I did not pick up a paintbrush until my junior year of high school,” says local Nashvillian and resident artist Julia Martin. “And then I never put it down. From that first moment I painted, I…

Dawn Whitelaw is living proof of love at first sight. Her career as an artist began as a romance with paint. A wife and mother, her life was busily humming away at a regular pace when suddenly all gears…

“I’m a quiet kind of person,” says Ron Porter, sitting calmly amid an array of his large canvases scattered along the main wall of Carol Stein’s Cumberland Gallery. Indeed, my first impression of the painter is elfin. His smallish…

Local photographer Michael Howard aims to create images that are meaningful and full of intention, full of purpose. His theory is that photography should make…