OZ Arts Nashville

Brave New Works Lab 2025

Featuring

WINDSHIP BOYD & TUMELO MICHAEL MOLOI

LANDRY BUTLER & INGLEWOOD SOCIAL CLUB

STACIE FLOOD-POPP / FOUND MOVEMENT GROUP

KOURTNEY “KOKO” FRENCH

May 15-17 at 8PM

Tickets from $20

“One of the most interesting and dynamic presentations of locally grown talent.”

– Nashville Scene

Celebrate local innovation and creativity with a bold evening of entirely original short-form performances by Nashville artists. This year’s program features a new dance work inspired by the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, a collaboration exploring the interplay between gumboot and step dance, a trippy live music and multimedia experience, and a fresh Hip-hop dance creation.

CELEBRATING A SEASON OF IMPACT

DakhaBrakha • Botis Seva / Far from the Norm • Fable Cry • Emma Sandall • The Wooster Group • Faustin Linyekula with Heru Shabaka-Ra • Soon-ho Park & Bereishit Dance • Nashville Story Garden • Faye Driscoll • Brave New Works Lab

Thank you for helping us celebrate a powerful season of change-making artists and community impact! With your support, OZ Arts welcomed nearly 6,000 adventurous audience members, supported over 100 independent artists, and reached more than 1,000 students with cutting-edge performances and meaningful education programs over the past year. As we look ahead to our next chapter, your tax-deductible gift can help us launch another inspiring season of vital artistic voices.

Art Wire 2025:

An Inspired Evening of Writing

Tuesday, June 3
Doors at 6PM | Readings at 6:30PM

Celebrate a year of inspired writing with OZ Arts and The Porch! Join us at OZ for a FREE reading event with the 2024-25 Art Wire Fellows. Each writer from the 10-member cohort will have the chance to share poetry and prose sparked by OZ’s season of change-making performances, including stunning multimedia, dance, music, and theater from around the world.

Sai Clayton

[Freeze Frame]

February 19 - August 8, 2025

Artist Reception: Saturday, April 26th from 5pm-7pm

(before the closing performance of Faye Driscoll’s Weathering)

Striking a balance of the playful and the provocative, Sai Clayton’s work uses traditional iconography and heightened theatricality to reflect the absurdity of negotiating two cultures and races. Combining her Japanese heritage and Southern upbringing, this collection delves into the dichotomies of masculinity and sensitivity, spectatorship and performance, and the inner and outer self.

MISSION

OZ Arts supports the creation, development and presentation of significant performing and visual art works by leading artists whose contribution influences the advancement of their field. Through performances, exhibitions, and community events, OZ Arts focuses on producing and presenting the work of local and visiting artists who reflect our diverse society, utilize new artistic forms and technology in creative ways, and provide opportunities for meaningful engagement with audiences, students and cultural and civic leaders.