We’ve been holed up all year isolating during the Coronavirus era and working hard on a new art book. Today, we are so excited to announce the release date of our book! We hope you’ll share our news with art aficionados everywhere.
A retrospective on the life and work of the gifted sculptor, Charles H. Forrester (1928-2010), reveals a man whose mind was in constant motion. With roots in New York and the Pacific Northwest, Forrester's work directly impacted generations of sculptors and artists. A long-time beloved professor at Western Kentucky University, he also had a studio in East Nashville for the last 12 years of his life. His artwork spans six decades and is lavishly illustrated in the book with commentary from art historians and contemporary artists. This richly visual coffee table book will appeal to art lovers everywhere.
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The release date is September 22, 2020, and is available now for pre-orders on Amazon and other online booksellers. Read more
About the Authors:
Winifred Forrester, daughter of Charles Forrester, took early retirement in 2018 from her life-long career as a financial advisor to curate her father's artwork and journals, which spanned nearly 60 years of his life. She is executive producer for the short documentary, A Line Unbroken: The Charles Forrester Story, premiering in Fall 2020.
Forrester is a long-time resident of Nashville, Tennessee, where she advocates for the revitalization of historical neighborhoods and green spaces. As a community organizer, she fuels her passion to return power to ordinary people. Forrester co-founded the Haynes-Trinity Neighborhood Coalition and serves on the board of League of Women Voters Nashville, TennGreen Land Conservancy's finance and investment committee, and the Metro-Nashville Industrial Development Board. A Mind in Motion: The Art of Charles H. Forrester is her first book.
Guy D. Jordan (Ph.D. in Art History, University of Maryland, 2007) is an Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at Western Kentucky University, where he teaches courses in WKU's Art History and Brewing and Distilling Arts and Sciences programs. His writing on topics such as Thomas Cole, Charles Deas, and the roles of food and drink in American art has appeared in the journals American Art, Panorama, and Visual Resources.
Joe E. Nolan is an art and film critic and intermedia artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. His writing about contemporary art has appeared in Art America, Flaunt, Burnaway, Number, Nashville Scene, and The Contributor. Nolan is a freelance arts reporter for WPLN, Nashville Public Radio. His award-winning writing about homelessness, poverty, veterans' issues and human rights has been translated into German, Slovak and Greek, and published around the world. Nolan is also an East Nashville music pioneer and a visual artist/curator whose work has been exhibited throughout the Southeast.
Additional contributors are John Forrester, son of Charles Forrester, Rome, Italy; Russ Faxon, sculptor, Bell Buckle, TN; Caroline Phillips, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon and Sam Hunt, Adjunct Professor of Art, Western Kentucky University.