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A resolution recognizing the Frist Art Museum on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
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WHEREAS, since its opening in 2001, the Frist Art Museum has presented approximately 400 exhibitions and this year welcomed its five millionth visitor; and
WHEREAS, the Frist Art Museum was a vision of Dr. Thomas F. Frist Jr., who hoped to create a first-class museum in Nashville to bring the art of the world to the city for the benefit of children and families in the community; and
WHEREAS, since its founding, the Frist Art Museum has committed to provide free admission for all visitors 18 years of age and younger. Recently, the Frist Art Museum has introduced a free Explorer membership for low-income households to further expand accessibility to art; and
WHEREAS, the Frist Art Museum seeks to recognize venerated artists from around the world presenting exhibitions from artists including: J.M.W. Turner, Jitish Kallat, Pablo Picasso, and Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Still, the Frist continues to highlight the work of artists from Nashville through exhibiting “In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century,” which celebrates the art of twenty-eight accomplished Nashville women artists, to take place during its 25th anniversary; and
WHEREAS, the Frist Art Museum is devoted to presenting a range of exhibitions relating to our community including more than one hundred art shows featuring the work of K-12 students from area public and private schools and through exhibitions in the Conte Community Arts Gallery such as: “Avenues to a Great City; Enough to Go Around: Food and Community in Nashville”; The Power of Resilience, and exhibition of the work of eighty adult artists with disabilities; and
WHEREAS, the museum’s award-winning Martin ArtQuest offers innovative interactive artmaking experiences appropriate for all ages and abilities; and
WHEREAS, the museum has organized and presented groundbreaking exhibitions like Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, which featured the works of fifty-two intergenerational contemporary Black artists in the first exploration of the subject; and
WHEREAS, the Frist Art Museum’s trained artists and art educators travel throughout the community to engage audiences of all ages and levels of ability to engage, develop, and enhance alliances with schools, civic, and social service organizations and more than seventy community partners located throughout the county; and
WHEREAS, the Frist Art Museum has inspired and encouraged all Nashvillians to look at the world in new way.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY:
Section 1. The Metropolitan Council hereby goes on record recognize the Frist Art Museum on the occasion of its 25th Anniversary.
Section 2. This Resolution shall take effect from and after its adoption, the welfare of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.