Performances at 12:30 p.m. & 2:00 p.m.
(25 minutes) – BMX Pros Trick Team

Family Day is OZ Arts’ annual public festival of indoor and outdoor arts activities for young people and families, designed to spark creativity, activity, and imagination. Dispersed among the grounds of OZ Arts, dozens of local artists and community organizations set up activity stations enabling kids to tap into their imagination while having fun with friends and family members.

Focusing on a theme of “sports and art” for the 2017 edition of Family Day at OZ, not only will art-making stations feature sport-themes (think jump rope making, bike wheels & skateboard decks), but visual artist Brandon Donahue will create two interactive art installations including an outdoor volleyball court and indoor basketball court.

OZ Arts will also display a selection of Donahue’s wall-hanging artworks using scavenged sports equipment and found urban artifacts.

Moving the “mainstage” outdoors this year, we transform OZ Arts’ front parking lot into a park of BMX and skateboard ramps for two stunt performances. Not to be missed…or tried at home!

CHECK OUT VIDEO FROM FAMILY DAY 2017!

EVENT PHOTOS BY TINA GIONIS

Schedule

Schedule subject to change

11:00am – Family Day Begins!

11:30am – Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville Tai Chi Demo with Live Music (Zen Garden)

12:30 – 12:55pm – BMX Pros Trick Team Performance (Front Parking Lot)

1:00 – 1:30pm – Dance Party with Gnash & Nashville Predators Foundation (Grand Salon)

1:30 – 2:00pm – Meet n’ Greet with Gnash (Grand Salon)

2:00 – 2:25pm – BMX Pros Trick Team Performance (Front Parking Lot)

2:30pm – Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville Tai Chi Demo with Live Music (Zen Garden)

3:00pm – Family Day Ends – See you next year! 

FOOD TRUCKS

[column size=one_half position=first ]Bahn Mi & Roll Factory |Rita’s Italian Ice | Califarmia | That’s My Dawg | Dough Box

ARTIST-LED ACTIVITY STATIONS:

• Paint ball action-mural by Tank615
• Reuse fidget spinner making with Turnip Green Creative Reuse
• Jump rope making with Harlan Ruby
• Cardboard arcade game invention with Emily Holt
• Button making with Hankabee Button Co.
• Collaborative Dream Catcher Bike Wheels & Road Canvas with Oasis Center Bikeshop & Art Shop
• Cruiser skateboard deck design & finishing with Rocketown & Sixth Avenue Skateboard Park
• Mini canvas painting station with canvases donated by Plaza Artist Materials & Picture Framing
• Tai Chi Demos with live music from Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville
• DJ dance party followed by meet & greet with Nashville Predators’ mascot, Gnash
• Interactive volleyball & basketball art-courts by Brandon Donahue
• LED Hula Hoops with Ebb & Flow Hoop Co.
• Photo Booth provided by Hifi Media Co. & NATIVE
• Poi making station with Soulace 
• Bean Bag Toss Challenge
• More to be announced soon…

BMX PRO FOOTAGE

Brandon Donahue is a Memphis, TN native that has been living and working in Nashville for over 15 years. Donahue began airbrushing at the age of 12, doing t-shirts, murals, automotives, and body painting. The works in this exhibition specifically explore the athletic object and its ability to transcend the mundane. He received his B.S. from Tennessee State University and M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Brandon is currently an assistant professor of art at Tennessee State University.

Family Day at OZ is supported by the Advance Financial Foundation and The Nashville Predators Foundation.

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