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Erica Ciccarone is a writer living in Nashville. She publishes news, art reviews, book reviews, personal essays, film reviews, and fiction, and from time to time, she produces radio features. She is writing her first novel in various cabins, cottages, and campers throughout Tennessee.
In a North Nashville yard, artists have transformed concrete walls into canvases by painting a dozen large-scale murals. It's at 817 18th Avenue North, in what owner A.J. Sankari says used to be a wheel and rubber factory. The man behind it is Jay Jenkins, an art student from TSU.
In the mood for some Southern hospitality? Workers' Dignity - a nonprofit group of low-wage workers and allies organizing for economic justice - released a report Monday that details the conditions of hotel workers in Nashville, and it's startling.
Eric Dickson's current exhibition at Seed Space, War and Rumors of War, may be the experimental art lab's most impressive yet. Dickson, an installation artist and political science professor at New York University, created a piece that rewards inquiry by offering more questions. He set up a network of motion detectors that visitors trip as...
I'm making a baby quilt. Again. It's my third this year. The making of baby quilts is a salve I apply when I'm hurt that my best friends have moved on and embarked on the mysterious journey of motherhood. It's an antidote for loneliness, a spell that protects me from envy and self-pity.
Jack and his Ma live in Room. Jack is 5. He was born in Room. As far as Jack knows, Room is the whole world. And the only people in Room are him, his Ma and "Old Nick," who visits at night when Jack sleeps in Wardrobe.
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family is more than the biography of entertainment trailblazer and civil-rights icon Lena Horne. Gail Lumet Buckley, Horne's daughter, traces the lives of her ancestors from emancipation to present-day America, fleshing out a cast of achievers, dreamers, and do-ers that contextualize the Lena Horne we know.
BY ERICA CICCARONE Erica Ciccarone is an independent writer. She holds an M.F.A. from the New School in Creative Writing. She blogs about art at nycnash.com. When Marlos E'van checked out the long-neglected building at 1808 Buchanan Street, he saw a space to mount his powerful pop-up exhibition Dyin' By Tha Gun!, a searing presentation of paintings, sculptures, and masks that takes a nosedive into racial injustice and police violence without looking back.
For over a year, a Nashville artist went on an unusual pilgrimage: She travelled around the country, to sites in 15 cities and towns where people of color were killed in encounters with police. Alanna Styer. a recent graduate of Watkins College of Art, Design and Film, undertook the journey for her senior thesis.
Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 11:36AM You can find our Saturday fiction series here from now until the sun dies. by ERICA CICCARONE They start at my feet and have taken over my ankles, my shins, and two of them have grown in my right knee.
"Do you have something that needs mending?" Mary Addison Hackett says on opening night of "The Repair Project (And Other Affairs of Just Plain Living)" at Nashville's Seed Space. A man named Jeremy pulls a button-down plaid shirt from his bag. "I do," he says. The shirt is thin from many years of wear.