Art galleries in Nashville
Galleries are best taken slowly. Nashville, TN has 18 mapped right now. That's 18 galleries mapped around Nashville. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Opening nights are the cheat code — free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that actually wants to talk about the work.
This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Nashville (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include seedspace and mild climate, plus COOP. If a gallery's missing from Nashville's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Nashville gallery lineup
18 mapped within about 40 km:
seedspace
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seedspace — Art gallery, found on 1201 4th Avenue South in Nashville.
1201 4th Avenue South, Nashville, 37210
mild climate
Art gallery
mild climate is Art gallery on 507 Hagan Street, Nashville. mild climate also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
507 Hagan Street, Nashville, 37203
COOP
Art gallery
COOP — Art gallery, found on 507 Hagan Street in Nashville. Also worth knowing about COOP: it has a website with more detail.
507 Hagan Street, Nashville, 37203
Channel to Channel
Art gallery
Channel to Channel is Art gallery on 507 Hagan Street, Nashville. Channel to Channel also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
507 Hagan Street, Nashville, 37203
Poverty & the Arts
Art gallery
Poverty & the Arts is Art gallery. Poverty & the Arts also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Sauvage Gallery
Art gallery
Sauvage Gallery — Art gallery, found on 1114 3rd Avenue South in Nashville.
1114 3rd Avenue South, Nashville, 37210
ESPS
Art gallery
ESPS is Art gallery on 507 Hagan Street, Nashville.
507 Hagan Street, Nashville, 37203
BW Gallery
Art galleryRun by Barber Woodworking
Run by Barber Woodworking, BW Gallery is Art gallery, found on 1911 4th Avenue South in Nashville. Also worth knowing about BW Gallery: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 07:00-20:00; it has a website with more detail.
1911 4th Avenue South, Nashville, 37211
Hours: Mo-Sa 07:00-20:00
Zeitgeist
Art gallery
Zeitgeist — Art gallery, found on 516 Hagan Street in Nashville. Also worth knowing about Zeitgeist: it has a website with more detail.
516 Hagan Street, Nashville, 37203
Kidd Epps Art Shop
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Kidd Epps Art Shop is Art gallery.
Bitcoin Magazine Art Gallery
Art gallery
Bitcoin Magazine Art Gallery — Art gallery, found on 1132 4th Avenue South in Nashville. Also worth knowing about Bitcoin Magazine Art Gallery: it has a website with more detail.
1132 4th Avenue South, Nashville, 37210
The Gallery
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The Gallery — Art gallery.
O Gallery
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O Gallery — Art gallery, found on 65 Arcade Alley in Nashville. Also worth knowing about O Gallery: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 11:00-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.
65 Arcade Alley, Nashville, 37219
Hours: Mo-Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 11:00-16:00
Phone: +1-615-416-2537
Nashville Children's Art Classes
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Nashville Children's Art Classes — Art gallery.
Julia Martin Gallery
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Julia Martin Gallery — Art gallery, found on 444 Humphreys Street in Nashville. Also worth knowing about Julia Martin Gallery: it has a website with more detail.
444 Humphreys Street, Nashville, 37203
David Lusk Gallery
Art gallery
David Lusk Gallery is Art gallery on 516 Hagan Street, Nashville. David Lusk Gallery also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
516 Hagan Street, Nashville, 37203
The Packing Plant
Art gallery
The Packing Plant is Art gallery on 507 Hagan Street, Nashville. The Packing Plant also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
507 Hagan Street, Nashville, 37203
Elephant Gallery
Art gallery
Elephant Gallery is Art gallery. Elephant Gallery also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
What the map tells us about art galleries in Nashville
2 of the 18 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.
11 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.
There's a cluster: 5 of them sit on 507 Hagan Street, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
11 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.
The Nashville gallery walk
The efficient Nashville gallery walk strings these together: seedspace on 1201 4th Avenue South, mild climate on 507 Hagan Street, COOP on 507 Hagan Street, Channel to Channel on 507 Hagan Street, Poverty & the Arts, Sauvage Gallery on 1114 3rd Avenue South, ESPS on 507 Hagan Street, and BW Gallery on 1911 4th Avenue South — 18 stops, one logical order. 10 more are listed below.
Gallery tips for Nashville
How the regulars do Nashville's galleries:
- Look at the building too at seedspace. Galleries often live in the most interesting architecture in town — converted warehouses, old banks, heritage houses.
- Photography rules vary at mild climate. Some galleries welcome photos, others forbid them. Look for the sign at the door rather than guessing.
- Trust your own reaction. You don't need the wall text's permission to love or hate a piece. Your honest reaction is the whole point of going.
- The café is part of the visit. If the gallery has a café, use it. Lingering over coffee after the show is half the experience.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Nashville — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Nashville can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 18 that's closed, or a great art gallery we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.
We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.
If you run one of the 18 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Art gallery listings for Nashville: 18 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.