Earlier this week, Nashville artists Megan Kelley, Alexis Agbunag Jones and I went on a secret mission to “dress up” statues in Nashville to show our support for Nashville Fashion Week.
“For years it’s been a tradition in Nashville to dress up Musica when the city celebrates. The Musica Statue even has its own twitter account that says, “We’re naked, we frolic, we play dress up.” So we wanted to celebrate Nashville’s Fashion Week visually, publicly and keep the statue “dress up” tradition alive.” – Beth Inglish
12th and Broad and Nashville Arts Magazine both published articles featuring the beautiful photographs by Alexis and Megan that visually tell the story of the pop up art project.
What you didn’t see in those articles are the photos of us behind the scenes jumping off statues and playing with flowing fabric.
Alexis Agbunag Jones is a painter, illustrator and photographer based in the Nashville area. She strives to combine her passions for performance art and fashion with her abstract and expressionistic ways of painting. Alexis studied Painting at the University of Tennessee and is pursuing a degree in Graphic Design. Contact Alexis via email at alexis.agbunag@gmail.com.
Megan Kelley is a painter, designer, illustrator, dreamer, doer, maker, thinker, sender, giver, finder, builder, tinkerer, writer, drawer, laugher, happier living in Nashville and open to any conversation. Megan works in oil paints, gouache, graphic novels, watercolors, the occasional acrylics, the internet, furniture, inks, digital, installation, costumes, performance, conceptual, found objects, altered documents, bags of hair, poverty, paper, the psychology of spaces, and a constant push to challenge hir preconceptions and techniques. Visit her website at http://studiomnivorous.com.
Beth Inglish is a artist that facilitates community building through art across multiple industries and sells her work to collectors around the globe. She uses art as a tool to raise awareness for communities and causes that aim to bring more beauty to the world.
Did you miss the articles featuring the work? Read them now on 12th and Broad and Nashville Arts.
Nashville Fashion Week is a city-wide celebration of Nashville’s thriving fashion and retail community and its vast array of creative talent—featuring local, regional and national design talent in fashion events and shows, and encouraging both Nashvillians and visitors to explore the city’s diverse fashion and retail spaces throughout the week with promotions, partnerships and educational workshops.
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