Fugitive projects
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Fugitive Projects is a non-profit
curatorial arts organization, arts collective, and beehive operating since 1999 out of Nashville, Tennessee
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From 1999- 2005 Fugitive Projects called itself the Fugitive Art Center bringing national and international artists to Nashville to exhibit in their warehouse gallery space. In both configurations they served as an artist advocacy, curatorial resource and databank. Since restructuring they have focused more on ephemeral exhibitions and involvement with exhibitions traveling to the IMAFY in Egypt
; Banff
, Canada
for The Interactive Screen Conference; Ireland
's Dublin Electronic Arts Festival; Basel, Switzerland and to venues across the U.S. Artists with video works in this touring program included Hernan Bas
, Charles De Meaux, e*rock, Haus am Gern, Jenna Gribbon, Muda Matthis / Sus Zwick, Casey Reas, Scott Reeder
, Magda Tothova, Moliu Zhang, Eliane Rutishauser, Melody Owen, Charles Huntley Nelson, Kristin Lucas, Matt Freedman, Bert Rodriguez, Dominic DeJoseph, Nicolas Lobo, Karina Nimmerfall, Jeff Luckey, and Joseph Burwell among others.
David Maddox in the Nashville Scene
said in 2004 "the Fugitive (Art Center) has become an essential part of Nashville's art scene...The Fugitive can point to a steady series of good shows, but that's only part of the group's significance to Nashville. Its 12-person board provides a cross-section of the city's art scene."
Susan Knowles, in Art Papers
, refers to The Fugitive Art Center as "unbridled energy", "a lightning rod for artists" and "the edge of visual dialogue in Nashville- and Tennessee."
Non-profit organization
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curatorial arts organization, arts collective, and beehive operating since 1999 out of Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
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From 1999- 2005 Fugitive Projects called itself the Fugitive Art Center bringing national and international artists to Nashville to exhibit in their warehouse gallery space. In both configurations they served as an artist advocacy, curatorial resource and databank. Since restructuring they have focused more on ephemeral exhibitions and involvement with exhibitions traveling to the IMAFY in Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
; Banff
Banff, Alberta
Banff is a town within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. It is located in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, approximately west of Calgary and east of Lake Louise....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
for The Interactive Screen Conference; Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
's Dublin Electronic Arts Festival; Basel, Switzerland and to venues across the U.S. Artists with video works in this touring program included Hernan Bas
Hernan Bas
Hernan Bas is an artist based in Florida. He graduated in 1996 from the New World School of the Arts in Miami....
, Charles De Meaux, e*rock, Haus am Gern, Jenna Gribbon, Muda Matthis / Sus Zwick, Casey Reas, Scott Reeder
Scott Reeder (artist)
Scott Reeder is an American artist and filmmaker best known for creating ZeroTV.com with filmmaker Chris Smith in 1999, as well as helping to instigate the Milwaukee-based art collective known as Milhaus....
, Magda Tothova, Moliu Zhang, Eliane Rutishauser, Melody Owen, Charles Huntley Nelson, Kristin Lucas, Matt Freedman, Bert Rodriguez, Dominic DeJoseph, Nicolas Lobo, Karina Nimmerfall, Jeff Luckey, and Joseph Burwell among others.
David Maddox in the Nashville Scene
Nashville Scene
Nashville Scene is an alternative newsweekly in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1989, became a part of Village Voice Media in 1999, and later joined the ranks of sixteen other publications after a merger of Village Voice Media with New Times Media early in 2006. In 2009 the paper was...
said in 2004 "the Fugitive (Art Center) has become an essential part of Nashville's art scene...The Fugitive can point to a steady series of good shows, but that's only part of the group's significance to Nashville. Its 12-person board provides a cross-section of the city's art scene."
Susan Knowles, in Art Papers
Art papers
FileART PAPERS is a non-profit bimonthly magazine about contemporary art. Established in 1977 as the Atlanta Art Workers Coalition Ltd. Newsletter, it is the only critical arts magazine published in the Southeastern United States...
, refers to The Fugitive Art Center as "unbridled energy", "a lightning rod for artists" and "the edge of visual dialogue in Nashville- and Tennessee."