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Erica Ciccarone

Nashville Artist Hits The Road To Photograph Where People Of Color Have Been Killed By Police

By Erica Ciccarone

February 17, 2016

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For over a year, a Nashville artist went on an unusual pilgrimage: She travelled around the country, to sites in 15 cities and towns where people of…

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News

Syrian Refugees Seen Through The Lens Of A Nashville Photographer 

By Erica Ciccarone

December 23, 2015

Listen When presidential candidates call Syrian refugees a threat to national security, Annika Best cringes. The Nashvillian spent five weeks on the ground with Syrians living in settlement camps in Lebanon, and now, she’s using photography to show Americans the faces of those stuck in the middle of crisis.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Arts

Graffiti Artist’s Passion Is Transforming A North Nashville Neighborhood’s Walls

By Erica Ciccarone

December 7, 2015

Listen In a North Nashville yard, artists have transformed concrete walls into canvases by painting a dozen large-scale murals. It’s at 817 18th Avenue North, in what owner A.J. Sankari says used to be a wheel and rubber factory. The man behind it is Jay Jenkins, an art student from TSU. 

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: News

A Nashville Fine Arts Gallery The Size Of A Single Brick: Find It Via Scavenger Hunt

By Erica Ciccarone

May 20, 2015

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In the space left by a missing brick in a West Nashville wall, there’s a tiny art gallery — complete with its own lighting and very small sculptures and…

Filed Under: WPLN News

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