Crawl Space: Museum-Approved Street Art and a Revitalized Arcade

Posters created for the 185 Alley Gallery project Photos Courtesy of the Frist Art Museum I’ve heard it said that after the Fourth of July, summer’s already over. But no matter what school schedules might say, or how packed the back-to-school displays are at Target, the late-evening sun and I are still convinced it’s summertime. August’s First Saturday event is, appropriately, packed with fleeting displays. See ’em while you can.  Wedgewood-Houston The Frist’s ¡Printing the Revolution! exhibition traces the development of Chicano printing arts from the Mexican American civil rights movements and publications of the 1960s and 1970s to more contemporary developments in this tradition of activist art and publishing. In case you were worried that the exhibition might be mired in the past with no current street cred to show, think again. MNPS Teacher of the Year, Paragon Mills Elementary’s own Bobbilyn Negrón, worked with the exhibition’s organizers to create a community art project resulting in the wheatpaste poster bombing of the 185 Alley Gallery behindThe Packing Plant. Hat-tip to the Frist for being hip enough to support exhibitions in funky alleys. See the artworks on the walls outside The Packing Plant, 507 Hagan St.  East Nashville   I was...