For more than 35,000 years, humans have relied on music and art to tell stories, celebrate momentous occasions, and connect to one another. We have a primal inclination to create and we are moved by the creations of others. Like our earliest ancestors, we continue to use these art forms to express abstract ideas, share information, reflect on our identity, and cope with life’s mysteries.

Art and music share an aesthetic language. Terms like rhythm, harmony, texture, improvisation, and tonality are equally descriptive in both disciplines. There is a synergy between these methods of creative expression and the Music as Muse exhibition will showcase how music can serve as inspiration for works of art.

Highlighted in this multi-media, juried exhibition are more than 40 paintings, drawings, photographs, textiles, and sculptures created by the following 36 artists:

Rael Ali, Beth Appleton, Lucrezia Bieler, Marina Brown, Jennifer Buerkle, Leslie Cohen, Terrie Corbett, Kira Derryberry, Rosemary Ferguson, Allison Finn, Phil Gleason, Danny Goddard, Gerald Grow, Robert Howard, Bill Humphries, Michael Hunnewell, Sherryl Lapping, Mary Sterner Lawson, Nan Liu, Mary Jane Lord, Caroline Manuel, Alvin McBean, Matthew McCarron, Art McConnell, Ruth Nickens, Grant Peeples, Susan Richardson, David Ritchey, Ahmad Rivera, Joe Roache, Bob Rubanowice, Stephen Bennett Smith, Mikiko Tanaka, Dan Taylor, Ron Thomson, and Mary Liz Tippin-Moody.

If you can't make it to the opening reception, feel free to see the exhibition anytime during the gallery hours. It will be on display at the City Hall Gallery from September 28-November 14, 2016.

The City Hall Art Gallery is located on the second floor of City Hall at 300 South Adams Street and is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm. All exhibitions in this space are free and open to the public.

This exhibition is one of more than a dozen curated by the Council on Culture & Arts for the Art in Public Places Program on behalf of the City of Tallahassee. For more information about this program, this exhibition, upcoming exhibitions, or the Art in Public Places program, contact Amanda Karioth Thompson at COCA, (850) 224-2500 or amanda@tallahasseearts.org.