CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Customs House Museum traditionally offers Tennessee-flavored exhibits during the fourth quarter of the calendar year, and October 2015 is no exception.
New gallery shows include Patterns of History, which features quilts from the museum collection. Sponsored in part by Legends Bank, this exhibit highlights fifteen covers dating as far back as 1830.
The Crouch Gallery houses Rebellion & Roar: the 1920s, an exhibition of outstanding dresses and accessories from the museum collection. Included are such show-stoppers as a maroon chiffon dress complete with matching belt made by the Parisian designer, Jean Patou, and an extravagant blue Chinese silk robe worn by Finley Elder Gracey at the 1924 Texas Cotton Palace Exposition. The costume consists of a headdress, necklace, robe, and silk slippers.
Carla Ciuffo’s ethereal portraits float from the walls of the Planters Bank Peg Harvill Gallery. Girl with a Scar is a quiet suite of photographs done on a metallic surface. The haunting visions of a lone girl in hazy shades of black and white bring the viewer in with a sense of intruding upon a beautiful, private moment. Ciuffo’s work can be found in collections and corporate installations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Nashville.
In conjunction with American Craft Week, weaver Vicki Vipperman will do a demonstration for the monthly Art & Lunch program on October 7th at 12:15. Vicki says of her work “Like many others before me, I view weaving as a metaphor for life – a sometimes simple, sometimes complex process that combines separate individual strands to form a new and coherent whole.
This event is free and open to the general public, and was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information on above event contact Terri Jordan, Exhibits Curator, at 931-648-5780 or terri@customshousemuseum.org.