Public Art
The 2025 Public Artists
The following artists all received Artville cash awards to create unique site-specific works for the 2025 Artville Public Art program.
Jason Brooks
Nashville, TN
Building large scale, immersive sculptures with cutting edge tech is my passion.
Evan Roosevelt Brown
Nashville, TN
Evan Roosevelt Brown is a visionary art consultant, curator and creative director with a passion for building upon the artistic expressions of artists. Evan was presented the opportunity to pursue his passion of art and curation when he lead as art director for Slim & Husky’s pizza locations and headed The NKA Gallery by Slim & Husky’s as curator and director of exhibitions.
Brett Douglas Hunter
Nashville, TN
Brett Douglas Hunter is a self-taught artist known for his colorful, eccentric sculptures made from papercrete and industrial materials. Inspired by a DIY upbringing, his work spans oddball furniture, interactive installations, and playful outdoor pieces seen at Bonnaroo and Franconia Sculpture Park. Based outside Nashville, Hunter continues to explore the emotional and absurd through art—living simply, creating weirdly, and sharing joyfully.
John Holmes
Nashville, TN
John Holmes is a Nashville-based artist and creative technologist whose immersive installations blend real-time data, sensors, and interactive systems to explore perception, identity, and societal structures. He is the founder of New Media Nashville, a cultural R&D studio focused on building post-capitalist creative infrastructure.
Dr. Megan Jordan
Nashville, TN
Rooted in the foothills of Appalachia and the Tennessee River Valley, I am a visual storyteller drawing from Black Indigenous wisdom and the voices of community elders. Through public art and visual works, I transform shared histories into powerful expressions of hope, resilience, and human connection—fostering collective memory, healing, and a more vibrant arts ecosystem.
Kimia Kline
Nashville, TN / New York, NY
Kimia Ferdowsi Kline is a New York–based painter and curator with an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in venues like The Drawing Center, MOCAD, and 68 Projects Berlin. She also lectures and curates for private collectors and institutions.
Marlen Lugo
Nashville, TN
Marlen Lugo is a Puerto Rico–born artist whose whimsical, surreal characters explore identity, nature, and transformation. Her work blends drawing and water-based painting to build allegorical worlds—most recently, the imagined “Republic of Wonder”—where fluid forms transcend time and reflect ever-shifting human experience.
Caleb McLaughlin
Nashville, TN
Caleb McLaughlin is a Nashville‑based visual creative whose work spans time‑lapse, infrared, kinetic sculpture, video art, and motion control. In addition to his fine‑art practice, McLaughlin works in video production—bringing storytelling, technical skill, and a love of texture, rhythm, and flow to his diverse visual media.
Keavy Murphree
Nashville, TN
Keavy Murphree is a Nashville-based ceramic artist known for blending whimsy with modern minimalism. With a background in industrial design, she creates imaginative sculptures and functional art pieces that have been featured in LUXE, Veranda, and Nashville Interiors.
Adrienne Outlaw
St. Louis, MO
Adrienne Outlaw is a socially engaged artist transforming plastic waste into powerful artworks that promote sustainability and community dialogue. Rooted in fiber arts and environmental justice, she likens her process to a quilting bee—bringing people together through creativity and collaboration.
Brian Wooden
Nashville, TN
Brian wooden is a multidisciplinary artist, currently residing in Nashville, TN. Brian established his roots in skateboarding and graffiti culture from young age, while also training in the classical rendering techniques of early masters.
GROW LOVE was our first ever public art installation hosted at the American Artisan Festival in Centennial park back in 2017. Created by FOREST ALCHEMY. artists Tracy Ginsberg and Theodore Lillie use an interdisciplinary approach that combines installation, sculpture, video, photography, painting, drawing, sound and performance and immerses viewers in transformational art in nature. The artists created a large scale white labyrinth in the shape of a magnolia flower, which is native to Centennial Park. Thousands of people walked through it during the festival weekend meditatively, leaving behind written messages of hope.
GROW LOVE has always been an inspiration for us fueling the dream and possibility of Artville - an event that provides opportunities for other artists to create public art for our community. Years later, the event will now be hosted in Wedgewood Houston Chestnut Hill with over 20 different installations and murals. We want to honor the legacy of GROW LOVE as our muse and our inspiration and thank FOREST ALCHEMY for their vision.