Launch Of Two Online Exhibitions Allows The Country Music Hall Of Fame® And Museum To Serve A Broader Audience
One exhibition, Suiting the Sound: The Rodeo Tailors Who Made Country Stars Shine Bright, explores the artistry of Western-wear designers who helped create the indelible rhinestone cowboy image.
The second exhibit, Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City, examines the artists and musicians who contributed to Nashville s expansion as a music center in the 1960s.
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® and Museum unveiled new, free-to-access online exhibitions:
. These multimedia exhibits are the first designed exclusively for the museum s website.
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Suiting the Sound: The Rodeo Tailors Who Made Country Stars Shine Brighter and
Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City. These multimedia exhibits are the first designed exclusively for the museum’s website.
“As a national history museum and global cultural institution, we are charged to consistently expand access to the museum’s collection and the interpretive work of our curators and historians, while advancing the documentation and preservation of American musical history,” said museum CEO Kyle Young. “These online exhibitions, made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, enabled the museum to create this novel exhibit platform. With it, we are not only able to reshare the story of the artists and musicians who helped to broaden Nashville’s reputation as a true Music City, but also to tell a new story, that of the clothiers who created unmistakable designs that are now synonymous with country music.”
Instagram. Two weeks later, she dropped the name of her client.
It was award-winning recording artist Post Malone.
“I had actually never heard of Post Malone,” Atwood said. “I got on my laptop, went to YouTube and the first video that pops up was a song called ‘Rockstar’ that had something like 500 million views. I think I was drinking coffee and did like a literal spit take and was like, ‘who is this guy? ”
The Grammy-nominated pop sensation put Atwood’s work in the national spotlight at award shows and events. As a result, more artists like Lil Nas X and Lily Allen wanted to be seen wearing the Union Western Clothing style.
‘Virtues of taking a risk’ helps shape a young scholar
February 12, 2021
UGA Distinguished Professor pays tribute to one of his inspirations
Gregory Robinson. (Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
Gregory H. Robinson, Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, wrote and published a scholarly tribute to Professor Jerry L. Atwood, who “inspired a generation of chemists to indulge their imaginations and to take risks in their pursuit of chemistry,” including Robinson:
The most consequential friendship of my life inauspiciously began on a cold, late-November evening in 1979, in Jacksonville, Alabama. Of course, I did not see it coming. I was studying chemistry at Jacksonville State University, slated to graduate with my B.S. in April 1980. Having recently fulfilled my four-year Gamecock football obligations, I was enjoying for the first time the freedom to fully concentrate on my studies. As the newly elected p