Lessons I learned, Lessons I Taught

through October 28th

The Educators’ Cooperative (EDCO), Tennessee State University, and RADAR615 present an exhibition celebrating five years of EDCO’s Culture Corner conversations connecting Nashville educators with Black artists and creators.

A Lesson I Learned: A Lesson I Taught brings the work of 31 artists and creators who participated in Culture Corner conversations that began on Zoom in 2020 into a shared community space—connecting artists, teachers, TSU students, and the public.

The show is coordinated by students in Tennessee State University’s inaugural ART 3280: Non-Profit Arts course, giving them hands-on experience communicating with artists, coordinating artwork, working with a gallery, and producing a professional exhibition.

The RADAR space will be open for visits from area school groups throughout the run of the show and will host a fund-raiser for The Educators’ Cooperative on the evening of Thursday, October 8th.

Samuel Dunson, Affirmative Actions

next month at RADAR615

Henry Rollins: Cool Evidence

Captured Moments From The Last Century: November 6th and 7th at RADAR615

2-9pm both days

Hello, Henry Rollins here. I wrote the following in an effort to somehow entice you to come to this event. An incredible amount of time, effort and expenditure has gone into this. I’ve either gotten it extremely right, or catastrophically wrong!

For many years, I’ve been fascinated with historical markers. Physical objects that still remain years after they were created, become irrefutable evidence of time and place. Memories fade and retelling of facts often leads to distortion. However, the genuine article remains unperturbed.

Cool Evidence exhibit—I’ve anthropomorphized Time. I think Time seeks to obliterate the past and make the future all but completely speculative in an effort to keep us in the present, where it can be the center of attention. This is why carbon-based artifacts turn to dust, and that which came before can completely disappear, unless there are those who choose to be careful and patient guardians of the past. They seek to slow down decay and keep the facts intact. While I don’t consider Time to be my enemy, I’d like to think it considers me a constant and persistent annoyance.

Humans are capable of the worst things the planet has ever endured. I try to focus on the truly great, epically inspired aspects of humanity. Everything in the Cool Evidence exhibit denotes a time and place, be it an event, or just the fraction of a second it takes for a camera to extract an image—forcing a testimony from Time that humans can be exceptional. There’s always an alternative to misery. The Cool Evidence exhibit is the proof.

On display will be things from the 70s-80s Washington DC music scene, tour posters and photos of Black Flag, the Damned, the Cramps, from Lux and Ivy’s personal collection, Iggy Pop, the Stooges and more.

Thanks for reading this,

Henry