Nashville's "It City" status is endangering the creative communities that make it so appealing. Here's what some artists are doing to keep the city livable for communities threatened by rapid growth and development.

In 2012, Nashville photographer Christine Rogers went to Northern India on a Fulbright grant to explore a rather  idiosyncratic aspect of the tourism industry. The region is hailed as the Switzerland of India for its likeness to the Swiss Alps. It contains numerous hill stations — towns that served as summer capitals for the provinces … Continued

Donna Woodley is a Nashville painter whose obsession with faces extends beyond the surface. In painting people she knows, she represents their emotional states–who they are and why they are. On the way there, she brings up a host of other issues: internalized attitudes about race and gender, assumptions we make about names, and what … Continued