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Artville, Nashville’s only citywide public visual arts festival, today released the full schedule for the festival and its satellite events, scheduled for September 25-28. Expanding from its original location in Wedgewood-Houston, the 2025 festival will be headquartered downtown at the Walk of Fame Park, featuring visual art installations and the relocated American Artisan Festival. Artville will also host activations in locations throughout the city during the festival.
What to know before you go:
While most of the events are free, you can support Artville and get a unique experience each day with special programming, openings, and much more by purchasing a VIP Weekend Pass or becoming a Patron at https://artville.org/tickets.
Walk of Fame Park in Downtown Nashville will host this year's Artville, plus the American Artisan Festival @ Artville. Throughout the weekend, there will be many wonderful events, including nine public art installations, live music from local singer-songwriters, food trucks, kids’ activities (all day on Saturday), and much more. For all events taking place throughout the weekend, check the updated schedule of events at www.artville.org.
Plan ahead for parking: many convenient parking garages are located around the festival site. Artville has partnered with SpotHero, allowing visitors to search for parking and prepay for a spot based on location and price.
Artville provides a unique opportunity to support local, regional, and national artists, plus the opportunity to see amazing larger-than-life public art installations. This is something unique and has never been done on this scale downtown.
Event schedule and highlights - https://artville.org/events:
Thursday, September 25 — Patron and VIP Private Reception, followed by an Artville Talk with Allison Hueman and Pedro Andrade — Wedgewood Houston, CASS Contemporary
Friday, September 26 — Artville AfterDark with Caroline Allison, Calidos, Something Good, and Caleb McLaughlin — Germantown, The Neuhoff District
Saturday, September 27 — Artville Talk: Conversation with Collector Jeff Magid at Tinney Contemporary, followed by an Artville Artist Showcase at Fairlane Hotel — Downtown
Public Art Installations and American Artisan Festival at Artville — Downtown, Walk of Fame Park
Friday, September 26, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday, September 27, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sunday, September 28, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Get to Know Three Featured Artists This Year:
Jason Brueck is one of the American Artisan exhibitors who does incredible work in digital photography and mixed media. Collected by many Nashvillians, Jason Brueck is a Nashville-based digital artist whose earlier career as a Philadelphia attorney inspired a bold pivot to creative expression in 2011, ultimately becoming a full-time visual storyteller by 2014. His surreal landscapes emerge from a visionary fusion of found images and personal photos, merging elements of light and dark, past and present to craft dreamlike narratives open to varied interpretation. Exhibited in galleries, festivals, and hotels—including solo and group shows at Jackson Junge Gallery in Chicago—and featured by platforms like Touch of Modern and Junique, his work ranks among collections at universities and venues nationwide.
Allison Hueman creates dynamic paintings, murals, site-specific installations, and new media works that oscillate between abstraction and representation of the human form. Driven by instinct and experimentation, Hueman renders sublime and transcendent experiences by abstracting figures, layering and enveloping them in vivid colors with paint and textiles. Her distinctive style has led to collaborations with major brand partners, including Nike, Google, Adobe, and L’Oreal.
Adrienne Outlaw is a socially engaged artist who transforms plastic waste into thought-provoking artworks that promote sustainability and foster dialogue, drawing on environmental justice and fiber arts to unite people and discarded materials much like a quilting bee. Her work has been exhibited across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, featured in major publications such as Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, and World Sculpture News, and supported by organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement. Extending her practice into public spaces, she reimagines underutilized areas as platforms for connection and creativity through initiatives like Seed Space in Nashville (now LOCATE Arts) and The Red Gate Gallery in St. Louis, as well as large-scale public projects such as PRESENT, FLEX IT!, ART MAKES PLACES, and TAKE CARE!.