The Frist Art Museum is a nonprofit art exhibition center dedicated to presenting and originating high-quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities. Located in downtown Nashville, TN, the Frist offers exhibitions featuring the breadth of the visual arts across time from local, regional, national, and international sources that inspire people to look at their world in new ways.
Since 2013, Bow Bridge has supported the Frist’s promotion of its new initiatives and exhibition program while raising its profile nationally and internationally. Exhibitions have included critically acclaimed Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles; Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video; Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy; Rome: City and Empire; Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century; Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s; Terry Adkins: Our Sons and Daughters Ever on the Altar; Jitish Kallat: Return to Sender; and J.M.W. Turner: Quest for the Sublime, Rina Banerjee: Make me a Summary of the World; Lillian Porter: Man with Ax and Other Stories; Picasso. Figures; and Creating the American West in Art; Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful; Virginia Overton: Saved; Knights in Armor; Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood; Light Space Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Weaving Splendor: Treasure of Asian textiles from The Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art.