Nashville - The Frist

Avery and Rose on their way into the museum.

On our recent trip to Tennessee, we stayed in Nashville with some great friends. They took us to a fantastic museum, The Frist Center. The two exhibitions were fabulously interesting. Chihuly's glass art was bod, colorful, and playful. It was most definitely a chore to keep the kids in line ... breaking a Chihuly sculpture would've spent our vacation budget, and then some!

To reward their great behavior, and to give them an artistic outlet, we took our kids to the top floor kids club. There they had hands on activities including printmaking, stop motion movies, human figure sketches, texture drawings, blocks, and a whole bunch more. We all enjoyed the opportunity to create after seeing such beautiful art on display!

Everyone was creating the stencil for the printmaking.


The kids got to add the ink

Run it through the press.

Revealing Avery's final product

Maybe an artist like Grandma? She loved sketching.

Avery was learning how to draw a self-portrait

The final exhibit was tailor made for the mamas! Chris and Mike took the kids outside so Rachel and I could enjoy an audio tour of The Golden Age of Couture Paris and London 1947 - 1957. It was glamorous, stylish, and so very different from gowns today.

This was one of my favorites. It shows the gown with intricate embroidery and a complicated undergarment