Arts at the Airport and Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival® Announce Winners of the 9th Annual Bonnaroo-Themed Skylight Exhibition at BNA
NASHVILLE, Tenn. June 15, 2022 – Nashville International Airport® (BNA®), Arts at the Airport, the Bonnaroo Works Fund (BWF), and the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival® are proud to announce the 9th annual Bonnaroo-themed skylight exhibition at BNA. The exhibition features four works of art through April 9, 2023, by Cara Lynch, Nico Meyer, Alyssa Polizzi, Scott Wilson, Cassie Maylee, Jessica Eichman, and Sarah Dark.
The exhibition is funded by Arts at the Airport and the Bonnaroo Works Fund, the charitable arm of the festival. The winning entries are suspended from the ceiling in four skylights located in Concourses B and C and will be on display through April 9, 2023. Each winning artist received a $4,500 honorarium.
The four winning entries were selected by a jury composed of members of the Bonnaroo team and Arts at the Airport Board of Directors. The winners were selected based on artistic quality and communication of the Bonnaroo brand to both new and familiar audiences.
Below is a brief description of each of the winning artists:
Cara Lynch (New York)
“Radiate Positivity”
Concourse C, near Gate C-7
Cara Lynch is an artist working in New York. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2020, and her BFA from Adelphi University in 2012. She creates large-scale murals and public artworks that incorporate color and pattern in joyful compositions. Lynch has created permanent public works for the NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority and NYC Health and Hospitals. She has also been commissioned by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NYC Parks and Recreation, and NYC Department of Transportation. In addition to creating public artworks, she also maintains an active studio practice.
Nico Meyer (California)
“Ripple in the Tapestry”
Concourse C Skylight, near Gate C-9/10
Nico Meyer is a Southern California-based artist and engineer. His work is heavily influenced by the beauty and structure of when and how mathematics meets nature. The core of which utilizes spatial and conceptual illusions to remind us of the mental projections we swim in daily. These forms play on the brain’s desire to categorize, simplify, and fill in the gaps with its concept of reality, illuminating our unconscious patterns. It is within this area of play that Nico enjoys creating profound moments of pause that captures each passerby.
Alyssa Polizzi, Scott Wilson, Cassie Maylee (Denver)
“Form Constant”
Concourse C Skylight, Near Gate C-14/15
@wilmapostudio
Wilmapo studios was founded in 2021 by Alyssa Polizzi, Cassie Maylee, and Scott Wilson. They have been working as a team fabricating public art for the past three years. While working together they discovered their mutual love of kaleidoscopes and began collaborating. Through their experimentation, they developed what has become Form Constant. A form constant is a series of repeating geometric patterns that appear in altered states of consciousness. Their kaleidoscopes expand our current reality using mirrors, colors, and geometric forms.
Jessica Eichman and Sarah Dark (Nashville)
“Eye Got You”
Concourse B Skylight, near Gate B-4
Jessica and Sarah began working together in the fall of 2017, costuming for plays at a local school both of their sons attended. Quick kindred spirits, the two artists spent many days and nights talking, creating, and deepening their friendship by exploring feminine wisdom and the beautiful but vulnerable challenges motherhood brings to creating art. This is their first public art exhibit together.
About Bonnaroo Works Fund
The Bonnaroo Works Fund was established in 2009 with a mission to make the world a better place through its support of nonprofit organizations that advance the arts, education, and environmental sustainability, with a focus on local reinvestment and asset building in the communities where we work, live and play. Organizations interested in grants can apply online here. Bonnaroo Works Fund was created by the festival founders to foster a year-round philanthropic spirit – and to give back to the local communities.
Arts at the Airport
The Arts at the Airport (AaA) program showcases the region’s visual and performing arts. AaA is governed by a 15-member Arts at the Airport Foundation board, is funded primarily by the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority and receives some funding from the Tennessee Arts Commission. The award-winning Arts at the Airport program reviews and presents works by local, regional and national artists for the enjoyment and enrichment of BNA’s passengers and visitors. In addition to visual art, Arts at the Airport includes live music performances on stages throughout BNA’s passenger terminal.
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