Nashville’s First Contemporary Arts Center Continues to Expand Offerings with Free Program in Which Artists Will Share Work in Progress with Fellow Artists and Audiences

NASHVILLE, TENN. – Oct. 20, 2015 – Since its opening last year, the pioneering contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville has done much to transform the city’s cultural landscape, presenting work in various mediums by leading artists from around the world and around town. The institution now expands its activities further with the launch of The Artists’ Lounge, in which artists will present work-in-progress in the OZ Arts lounge. The monthly series will give artists opportunities to develop work before a live audience, and will give fellow artists and audiences a place to dwell, and to and experience work as it is being developed.

Admission is free (with an optional pay-what-you-will donation). Doors will open at 6pm, and events will begin at 7pm. OZ Arts’ full bar will be open for business. For more information, please visit www.ozartsnashville.org. OZ Arts is located at 6172 Cockrill Bend Circle in Nashville, Tenn.

The initial lineup of events includes:

October 20, 2015

Cole Dumas (on voice, electronics, bass) & Tracy Silverman (on violin)

November 4, 2015

Laurel Desmaris – dance

December 16, 2015

Wu Fei (on Guzheng, a Chinese zither; and voice) & special guests

January 13, 2016

TBA

February 23, 2016

Composer Cristina Spinei in the Blind Ear Music real-time composition program, with a string quartet 

March 23, 2016

Sun Conductor, an improvisational music gathering of leading Nashville musicians. Participants will include Brooke Waggoner, Ben Kaufman, Brian Holl (Foreign Fields), Daniel James (Canon Blue), Eric Hillman (Foreign Fields), Jeremy Lutito (Leagues), and Hitoshi Yamaguchi.

Additional dates and artists will be announced soon. 

About OZ Arts Nashville

As the newest 501(c)3 contemporary arts institution in the Midsouth Region, OZ Arts’ particular style of programming has begun to transform the cultural landscape of Nashville. Utilizing the venue’s flexibility, OZ Arts presents the work of leading artists from around the world, offering an intimate context for performing and visual art programs that challenge and inspire a diverse range of curious audiences.

OZ Arts also serves as a catalyst for local creativity through a program called TNT (Thursday Night Things).  TNT is a quarterly series of unexpected collaborations with Nashville-based artists from varying creative disciplines.  OZ Arts’ “blank slate” provides a platform onto which these artists can create, develop and present a one-time-only event that would traditionally not be seen in a visual art gallery or theatre.

OZ Arts is located in the former C.A.O. cigar warehouse owned by Nashville’s Ozgener family.  Their generosity provided the seed money that breathed new life into the column-free, 10,000 square-foot space nestled amidst artfully landscaped grounds. 

Since it opened in February 2014, OZ Arts Nashville “has fundamentally changed the creative landscape of Music City” (ArtsNash). Under the artistic leadership of Lauren Snelling, its first two-seasons have brought to the city luminaries such as Philip Glass and Tim Fain, Tim Robbins’ The Actors’ Gang, Peter Brook’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Vijay Iyer, Laurie Anderson, Wayne McGregor’s company Random Dance, ETHEL and BANDALOOP. These programs have consistently played to sold-out audiences and local and national acclaim.

http://www.ozartsnashville.org/

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OZ Arts Nashville Media Contact

Please contact Amy Atkinson at Amy Atkinson Communications, 615.305.8118 or amy@amyacommunications.com.