Haley Gallery

Working in collaboration with renowned visual artists, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s Haley Gallery organizes and displays a variety of visual art exhibitions each year. A portion of proceeds from artwork purchased in the gallery supports the nonprofit Museum’s educational mission. The Haley Gallery is free and open to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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The Haley Gallery is operated by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, along with CMF Press, CMF Records, CMA Theater, the Frist Library and Archive, the Taylor Swift Education Center, Hatch Show Print® poster shop and Historic RCA Studio B®. The museum collects, preserves and interprets country music and its history for the education and entertainment of an array of audiences. In exhibits, publications, digital media and educational programs, the museum explores the cultural importance and enduring beauty of the art form. The museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, and is among the most-visited history museums in the United States.

Current Exhibition

Frequency & Distortion

Chris Chandler’s Frequency & Distortion opens at Haley Gallery on Thursday, May 15.

The exhibit explores the simplicity of breaking the alphabet down into its most basic elements and allowing the assembly of these shapes into seemingly endless combinations.

Inspired by graphic design pioneers like master typographer Jan Tschichold, Bauhaus, Constructivist El Lissitzky, and the Expressionist painter and printmaker Erich Heckel, Chandler’s current studio practice is based on the construction and deconstruction of modular type. By using the Vandercook 232P letterpress machine, Alpha-Blox & Futura Schmuck woodcut fonts to construct shapes, letters, words, and phrases then deconstructing them into the abstract by rearranging the prints—tearing and wheat pasting to create layers and movement.

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Upcoming Exhibition

Flux

“Flux,” the second collaborative exhibition between the Forge Nashville and Haley Gallery, opens Thursday, July 24, with a reception, free and open to the public.

“Flux” explores transformation, identity, and the power of interdisciplinary creation through the work of artists who identify as female and/or nonbinary. Featuring 30+ artists working in a wide range of mediums—sculpture, metalwork, textiles, glass, wood, and paint—the exhibit reflects both technical mastery and fearless experimentation.

Join Haley Gallery at the opening reception for “Flux,” Thursday, July 24, from 5:00-8:00 PM.

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