In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century at the Frist Art Museum features paintings, sculptures, installation work, and fiber pieces made by 28 different artists and celebrates the prominent position of women artists in Nashville. The exhibit is showing now through April 26.

Senior curator of the Frist Art Museum Katie Delmez worked on this project with Sai Clayton, who is an independent curator and an artist, and Shaun Giles, who is director of community engagement at the museum.

“The exhibition is divided into four different sections,” Delmez said. “‘Materiality and memory’ features work made by artists for whom the selection of the materials is very important. They often carry associations with people, times and places. Often these are atypical materials and they’re being repurposed in unusual or atypical ways. We have another section called cultural foundations where artists are looking at their background and exploring their identity and their family history where they grew up in their work. The next section we’re calling ‘scenes and dreams’ and this is where we have some paintings that are on the one hand representational and they capture everyday scenes and yet there’s often a dreamlike quality to them as well that casts a surreal feel to the work. Lastly is ‘patterns and abstractions’ and these are artists where representation is not what’s motivating them rather they’re exploring formal exercises related to color, line and form. And yet, even within abstraction, there’s often a very personal component to the work as well.”

Elisheba Israel Mrozik is one of the artists showcased in the exhibition with an entire room space she turned into an installation with a piece she calls “Culture Commodity.“

“From the lens of a Black woman specifically, it’s about how we view, understand and find the roots of our culture and who we are as a people and how we learn our history to be able to pass it down to future generations,” said Mrozik. It features four large paintings of women in different shades of color, literal color like purple, blue, red and gold. They are holding in their arms fabrics. The fabrics are a patchwork of pieces that are pulled away from the paintings and then go in zigzag paths around the room draping in different areas and intersecting in different ways.”

She continues: “Nashville has a lot of creative groups and organizations, small and large, that do a lot things within different community spaces. They’re always looking for creatives and people who just want to be a part of that community. That could be just as much as coming out volunteering a little bit, you might meet somebody that can be another step in where you’re trying to be. But you’ll also be helping to cultivate a community of people who want to make Nashville a better place and make it a better for artists and creators.”

Additional event opportunities:

Starting tonight (March 25) Pino Palladino and Blake Mills are at the CMA Theater and Madison Cunningham performs two nights at the Blue Room. Also Thursday night (March 26) The Brook and the Bluff perform at Brooklyn Bowl. Back at the Blue Room on Friday night (March 27) Courtney Marie Andrews takes the stage and All Together Now featuring Nashville artists is at the East Room. Saturday night (March 28) WNXP presents Rochelle Jordan at Cannery Hall’s The Mil and we wrap up this week’s listing Tuesday (March 31) with Clover County performing at The End.