‘37208 Creates’

About

The ‘37208 Creates’ project engages the racial justice dimensions of Nashville’s rapid growth by supporting North Nashville artists, creatives, and culture workers whose projects and networks are threatened by the forces of gentrification. Team members will work with partners from the Nashville community to identify and secure an off-campus space that can serve as some or all of the following: 1) the home base for a community arts organization, 2) a live/work space for artists in the North Nashville community, 3) gallery/exhibition space for community artists, 4) a gathering space for other community organizations, 5) an exercise in social practice art or creative community place-making, (loosely) on the model of Theaster Gates’ Dorchester Project.

Partners and Team Members:

Elisheba Israel Mrozik

Fine Artist, Tattoo Artist, and Executive Director of North Nashville Arts Coalition (website)

Dominique Pryor-Anderson

Executive Director, Tennessee Affordable Housing Coalition
Affordable Housing & Social Impact Strategy Consultant

Eric Joseph Ritter

Postdoctoral Fellow, Racial Justice Lab

Wilna Taylor

Assistant Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy

Paul C. Taylor

W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies