Art Nashville, Music City’s first international art fair, is scheduled in downtown Nashville. For information call 212/ 858-0068 or visit www.art-nashville.com.

Art Nashville 2018 will be the city’s first annual international art fair, drawing art lovers and buyers from around the globe, expanding Nashville from Music City to an Art City. Art Nashville 2018 will showcase both Nashville the city and Nashville the creative center and highlight its ascension as a blossoming center of the arts and culture.

Cultural programming will consist of panel talks, book signings, music performers, community business partners and other activities. The Art Nashville team will develop a board of high-level local and international curators to ensure the high quality of galleries participating and the level of work stays consistent.

Quilts selected from the Museum’s vast collection, this show will highlight Tennessee’s quilt artistry and the stories embedded in those quilts, across more than two centuries and all three grand divisions of the state.

One of those stories is Rebecah Foster’s 1808 Eagle Quilt. While little may be known about its creator’s life, the quilt she crafted reveals plenty about her, and the time and environment in which she lived. Foster signed and dated her striking work—the earliest known written date on a Tennessee quilt. The decoration expresses enthusiastic loyalty during a time when U.S. relations with England were strained working up to the War of 1812. The central eagle is a common element in early 1800s decoration. Part of the United States Coat of Arms, it has been updated here to feature 17 stars for the number of states in 1808, instead of the usual 13. Around the eagle are oval frames finely embroidered with the names of the states. Each encloses a patriotic verse.