Founded in 2013, Julia Martin Gallery is located in Nashville’s Wedgewood Houston arts district in a historic L&N Railroad house. The space is owned and operated by artist Julia Martin - a native Nashvillian working to keep her corner of it as cool as possible. Martin has also been featured in Bobby Nashville's The Collection: Clear Mirror
If you have a “to do” list, you might know the feeling…nothing ever really gets crossed off. It might seem like nothing is ever “done.” Yes, you wash and dry clothing and fold it and put it away and by the time you do, you have another pile and write “laundry” on the list again.
Even packing for your trip to Nashville. Did you “finish?” Or did you have to be done because it was time to go to the airport?
Julia Martin Gallery, one of the city’s independent art galleries, will explore exactly what it means to be finished with something during “Are We Done Yet?” an exhibition on display during April 2025.
The exhibit is the work of Margaret Littman, a Nashville journalist and author. She feels like her reporting and writing is never “done.”
“I could keep asking questions and keep revising infinitely. Only deadlines force me to be ‘finished,’” she says.
Littman likes to spend her vacations taking art classes, at The Forge in Nashville, at Arrowmont School for Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg and elsewhere. So, this exhibit features pieces from her “Museum of Unfinished Projects,” (a.k.a. her basement). In display expect to see: a wooden canoe, textiles, black-and-white negatives, manuscripts, millinery pieces and collections she has inherited, largely woodworking detritus, quilts and embroidery.
You are encouraged to come to the gallery to pick up an unfinished piece and work on it. Take parts and create new works, rather than finish something how you think it was originally intended. You can also leave something of yours that you don’t think you will ever finish. It’s free to come take or leave a project, donations to the gallery for studio time are appreciated.
The gallery will host open studio time on Saturdays, and unfinished projects will be available for free outside of the gallery 24-7.
Julia Martin Gallery is located in the Wedgewood Houston neighborhood at 444 Humphreys St
