Tri-Star Arts produces annual contemporary art exhibition projects in Tennessee with a rotating statewide schedule. Additionally, their speaker series brings contemporary visual arts professionals to Tennessee to engage with the community through public talks, Q&A sessions, and speaker-selected studio visits. Tri-Star Arts serves Tennessee by spotlighting and growing the contemporary visual art scenes in each region and fostering a unified statewide art scene. Their programs promote art dialogue between the different cities in the state, and between the state and the nation.
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"Althea Murphy-Price,” Installation at Candoro Marble Building, Knoxville, 2021. Courtesy of Tri-Star Arts.
"Althea Murphy-Price,” Installation at Candoro Marble Building, Knoxville, 2021. Courtesy of Tri-Star Arts.
Hank Willis Thomas, “Ruth and Ernest Benches,” 2015. Installation in Memphis, TN. Courtesy of Tri-Star Arts.
Hank Willis Thomas, “Harriet and Annie (Capri),” 2018. Installation in Memphis, TN. Courtesy of Tri-Star Arts.
“Liminal Space” with Devon Gilfillian, video still, 2020. Courtesy of Tri-Star Arts.
“Women with their Work III: Materiality,” September 2018, was co-curated by SOE’s CEO and Co-Founder Peter Prinz and Dr. Jessica Dallow. Artists Sara Garden Armstrong, Erin Cunningham, Camille Goulet, Janice Kluge, and Beili Liu mark the final installment of the Women with their Work series and the thirteenth anniversary of SOE’s presentation of “Blue Angel: The Decline of Sexual Stereotypes in Post-Feminist Sculpture” by revisiting the physical form as well as the idea of “women’s work” in today’s art world.
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“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”