The Nashville Clayscape

The Nashville Clayscape

A public art installation on The Clay Lady’s Campus by Tamara Gentuso. Celebrating an amazing community–both the Clay Lady Campus community and the wider Nashville community. Open to the public. Explore and find your neighborhood!

Join us for The Nashville Clayscape Celebration on Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 10am for an artist talk with Tammy Gentuso.

How to use the map

The Clayscape’s 192 square-foot tiles are on a grid to reference landmarks with numbers 1-24 going left-to-right across the top and letters A-G going top-to-bottom on the side.

Column numbers start in the western Nashville with the larger number columns making their way through town to the eastern part of Nashville- Donelson and thereabouts.

Find these iconic buildings on The Clayscape

The Ryman Auditorium

12C

Loveless Cafe

1D

Bluebird Cafe

5G

Grand Ole Opry

21B

Nissan Stadium

15B

Centennial Park- Parthenon

6E

Percy Warner Park

1G

The Clay Lady’s Campus

18E

AT&T/Batman Building

13C

The Nashville Zoo

17G

About the artist, Tamara Gentuso

What do you get when you mix a ton of clay, over a hundred jars of underglaze, a determined artist’s dream, and an art community like the one fostered here on The Clay Lady’s Campus? The Nashville Clayscape!

Conceived and created on The Clay Lady’s Campus by clay artist Tamara Gentuso (Tammy G), the work on this whimsical tile map began in May 2017. Three years later, in May 2020, all 192 square-foot handmade tiles were completed and installed. Circling this 8’ x 25’ folk art map is a border of 3-inch tiles made by people from the Nashville community, marking the completion of the Clayscape.

Warping the map grid to squeeze in the more densely populated areas, Tammy G created a separate template for each individual tile. Each building was hand crafted, each landmark sculpted, each home carefully carved and then underglazed with vibrant colors, mirroring Nashville’s colorful character.

With Nashville ever-growing and ever-changing, this public art installation serves as a snapshot, a sliver of time in the life of this beautiful city we have come to know and love…and call home.

Read all about this iconic ceramic tile mural from inception to installation from this blog by the artist and designer.

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