Nashville, TN — 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.
These activations include Artville Talks and Artville After Dark events that will take place in Wedgewood-Houston's Nashville Warehouse Company, the Neuhoff District in Germantown, and the Fairlane Hotel on Union Street in downtown Nashville.
All Artville programming is free to the community, though certain events will require registration and have a limited capacity. Visitors can secure their spots at Artville events and further support the festival by becoming a patron or purchasing a VIP Artville Weekend Pass for $85 on the Artville website. Funds from these passes help Artville coordinate the festival, pay the artists who make it special, and highlight Nashville’s creative culture. To date, Artville has awarded more than $320,000 to more than 50 artists to create temporary, site-specific public art, murals, and immersive experiences in Nashville.
A full schedule of Artville events can be found below:
Thursday | September 25
Patron and VIP Private Reception, followed by an Artville Talk with Allison Hueman and Pedro Andrade — Wedgewood Houston, CASS Contemporary
Artville organizers will kick off the festival by honoring its roots in the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood. Join Oakland-based artist Allison Hueman and New York-based journalist Pedro Andrade for an opening reception at CASS Contemporary, followed by an Artville Talk with Hueman moderated by Andrade. The talk is free to all who register and will be held in the Outfield space next to the Nashville Warehouse Company on Chestnut Street.
Allison Hueman creates dynamic paintings, murals, site-specific installations, and new media works that oscillate between abstraction and representation of 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.
Pedro Andrade is a New York-based journalist from Rio de Janeiro, where he built a successful career anchoring Manhattan Connection. Andrade also anchors the two most-watched travel shows in Latin America — Pedro Pelo Mundo and Entre Mundos, on Global Network and CNN. In the United States, Andrade has anchored NBC Universal’s national and weekly lifestyle program LXTV 1st Look, and hosted segments on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Nightline, and GMA.
- Patron and VIP Private Reception: 6 – 7 p.m. at CASS Contemporary (Patron and weekend VIP ticket access only, limited capacity)
- Artville Talk: 7 – 8 p.m. at The Outfield at Nashville Warehouse Company (Guaranteed access for Patron and VIP pass holders; free admission with registration, limited capacity)
Friday, Saturday & Sunday | September 26-28
Public Art Installations and American Artisan Festival at Artville — Downtown, Walk of Fame Park
Immersive, large-scale, public art installations, along with food, family-friendly activities, and more. Award recipient artists whose work will appear at Artville 2025 include: Adrienne Outlaw, Brett Douglas Hunter, Brian Wooden, Caleb McLaughlin, Jason Brooks, John Holmes, Keavy Murphree, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Marlen Lugo, Dr. Megan Jordan and Evan Roosevelt Brown. These works will be presented alongside the American Artisan Festival, a curated contemporary craft and fine art marketplace featuring 55 top American artisans. Each day is free and open to the public.
- 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.
Friday | September 26
Artville AfterDark with Caroline Allison, Calidos, Something Good World, Strangehandle (Jason Brooks) and Caleb McLaughlin — Germantown, The Neuhoff District
- Caroline Allison’s exhibit opening: 6 – 7 p.m. (Patron and VIP passholders access only)
- 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. (Guaranteed access for Patron and VIP pass holders; free admission with registration) Artville After Dark will feature a nighttime celebration of light, sound, and movement. Expect DJ sets, a massive light sculpture by Calidos, and immersive light and video works by Jason Brooks and Caleb McLaughlin, along with a projection mapping show in a dynamic warehouse setting from Something Good World.
- Nashville-based Caroline Allison will also open an exhibit inside the historic Neuhoff Building as part of the exhibit.
Saturday | September 27
Artville Talk: Conversation with Collector Jeff Magid followed by an Artville Artist Showcase - Downtown
The evening will begin with an artist's talk with Jeff Magid at Tinney Contemporary. Following the talk, enjoy an intimate showcase of selected artists’ works displayed in a unique setting on the rooftop of the Fairlane Hotel. Both events will have guaranteed access for Patron and VIP passholders; there will also be a limited number of free tickets with registration.
Jeff Magid is a writer, musician, and art collector. Over the past thirteen years, he has built an internationally exhibited collection that spans from emerging artists to old masters, has served on many museum boards and committees, and co-founded the Vanguard Council at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recently, he has been sharing stories of art, collecting, and culture on social media @magideye. His public art collection in Mexico City, Cuernavaca Tres, opens in 2026.
- Artville Talk: 6 – 7 p.m. at Tinney Contemporary
- Artist showcase: 6 – 9 p.m. at Fairlane Hotel
Artville is supported by Wedgewood Village, The Hess Family Foundation, Nashville Convention & Visitors Corporation, The Neuhoff District, David and Rebecca Klements, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, and the Nashville Downtown Partnership.
To learn more about Artville, and what to expect at this year’s event, please visit: www.artville.org.
ABOUT ARTVILLE
Artville is Nashville’s first and only annual public arts festival dedicated to highlighting Nashville’s creative culture through site-specific art installations, immersive experiences, and art collecting opportunities – all free to the public. With a vision of building a nationally recognized citywide art festival, Artville aims to drive arts-related tourism, and support Nashville’s growing community of visual artists, galleries, art museums, and cultural institutions through an annual event. Co-founded by Samantha Saturn and Jack Davis and supported in part by The Nashville Convention & Visitors Corporation, Artville has become a major event that celebrates and amplifies Nashville’s vibrant artistic community.
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