Haley Gallery

Working in collaboration with renowned visual artists, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s Haley Gallery organizes and displays a variety of visual art exhibitions each year. A portion of proceeds from artwork purchased in the gallery supports the nonprofit Museum’s educational mission. The Haley Gallery is free and open to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

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The Haley Gallery is operated by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, along with CMF Press, CMF Records, CMA Theater, the Frist Library and Archive, the Taylor Swift Education Center, Hatch Show Print® poster shop and Historic RCA Studio B®. The museum collects, preserves and interprets country music and its history for the education and entertainment of an array of audiences. In exhibits, publications, digital media and educational programs, the museum explores the cultural importance and enduring beauty of the art form. The museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, and is among the most-visited history museums in the United States.

Current Exhibition

Wayne White: LIKE YOU KNOW

“LIKE YOU KNOW,” a new exhibit by award-winning artist Wayne White, is now open.

Born and raised in Chattanooga, Wayne White has used his memories of the South to create inspired works for film, television, and the fine art world. After graduating from Middle Tennessee State University, White traveled to New York City where he worked as an illustrator for the “East Village Eye,” “The New York Times,” “Raw Magazine,” and “The Village Voice.” In 1986, he became an Emmy-winning designer for his work on the hit television show “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.” He has also worked in the music video industry, winning Billboard and MTV Music Video awards as an art director for seminal music videos, including the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight” and Peter Gabriel’s “Big Time.”

“LIKE YOU KNOW” opens November 20 with a free reception from 5:00–8:00 PM. The reception will be followed by a performance from White’s band, USERNAME PASSWORD.

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Upcoming Exhibition

Willie Cole: Old School

“Willie Cole: Old School,” new and recent works by the critically acclaimed American sculptor and printmaker, opens Thursday, January 15, with a reception, free and open to the public.

Cole’s second exhibition at Haley Gallery, “Old School” explores the meaning of words like “Love,” “Hate,” and “Dixie,” and the acronyms created by their letters, through a series of seven new “chalkboard” paintings. The show also features the largest work Cole has ever created, a painting inspired by the word “Patriot.” Examples of Cole’s chalkboard paintings are featured in the collections of the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY), and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City, UT), among others.

In addition to this new group of paintings, the gallery will present a series of rarely seen artist studies, created over more than three decades, in which Cole develops acronyms for the larger works, as well as additional paintings and prints never exhibited in Tennessee. This exhibition is curated by Paul Barrett, who is also curating the upcoming career-survey, “Willie Cole: My Brand is History” at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, AL) in 2027.

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