Larry McCormack
The Frist Art Museum presents its newest exhibition, The Nashville Flood: Ten Years Later, commemorating the city’s historic 2010 flood.
The emotional exhibition will be on display from January 10 through May 17 in the always-free Conte Community Arts Gallery. Through photographs and excerpts of oral histories from the Nashville Public Library’s flood archive and The Tennessean, the exhibit will showcase an overview of the destruction caused by this natural disaster, as well as relief efforts spanning ten different neighborhoods in Davidson County.
The flood throughout Middle Tennessee was the result of record-breaking rainfall of more than 13 inches in May of 2010, which caused the Cumberland River to overflow its banks. Thousands of homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed, and 26 people in the region died, including 11 in Nashville. The exhibit will include an interactive display of “now and then” photos illustrating the recovery in each area, and will serve as a learning opportunity for Nashville newcomers who may not be aware of the tragedy, and as a chance for those who lived through it to reflect on their own stories, while seeing the perspectives of others who shared in similar experiences.