Big Boy Tall Boy

My beautiful bride encouraged me to apply & enter this art show for its 20th anniversary, 2023, so I did, was chosen to participate, I submitted... more

by Dann Zehr

Title

Big Boy Tall Boy

Artist

Dann Zehr

Medium

Painting - Watercolor

Description

My beautiful bride encouraged me to apply & enter this art show for its 20th anniversary, 2023, so I did, was chosen to participate, I submitted three original pieces, one of which sold immediately! This is one of my submissions.

Tomato Art Fest was founded in 2004 as the brainchild of Meg and Bret MacFadyen, owners of East Nashville's former Art and Invention Gallery. Planting the seed for the event with an art show celebrating the tomato and other fruits/vegetables, the duo also produced several neighborhood events to help promote the show.
Due to the wild success in its inaugural year, the Machayden's decided to bring the event back in 2005, cementing it as an annual East Nashville gathering. To this day the Tomato Art Fest is known for bringing together the Nashville community and people from afar and all walks of life and uniting them through creativity, spirit, and celebration funneled into love for East Nashville.
In 2010 the MacFayden's partnered with a community festival group, Good Neighbor Festivals to assist with the growing event.
In 2017 hundreds of tomato lovers gathered to break the world record for the number of people dressed in fruit and vegetable costumes. We all had such a great time everyone forgot to count.
Tomato Art Fest has been touted in the Oxford American and Southern Living, Southwest Airlines Magazine, Travel and Leisure and has been voted a
"Best Festival" consecutively from 2007-2020 in
Nashville Scene Reader's Polls.
In 2019 the festival was lovingly handed over to local festival organizers Good Neighbor Festivals, longtime managers of the event. Good Neighbor Festivals works to bring together communities through music, food and drinks, artisan goods, and neighborhood pride for all Nashville and its people. Since they began managing the event they have added a number of new and wacky events to the annual festival including the Bloody Mary Garden Party, Home Decorating Contest, and more.
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Soli Deo Gloria

Uploaded

September 10th, 2023