Author event with Sally Mann

Parnassus Books and the Frist Art Museum are thrilled to present an evening with Sally Mann, in conversation with Ann Patchett, to celebrate Sally's new book, Art Work: On The Creative Life.

This ticketed event will take place in the Frist auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 11th, at 6:30 PM. Doors will open at 5:45 PM.

Tickets:

Each ticket is $38.50 and includes one general admission seat and one signed copy of Art Work. Books will be pre-signed.

Please Note: There will NOT be a signing line for personalizations following the event on stage.

(Ticket does not include admission to the museum galleries.)

Parking and Directions:

Frist Art Museum parking is accessible from Demonbreun Street, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues. The Guest Lot is adjacent to the south side of the building, with the entrance kiosk located near Demonbreun Street. The Frist will provide a validation coupon for the Frist parking lot only when you check in at the auditorium door.

There are accessible parking spaces in the northeast corner of the lot, with a barrier-free crosswalk and entry into the Turner Courtyard at the entrance marked with an accessibility sign.

If you do find the Frist lots full, there is a parking lot on Tenth Avenue directly across the street from Cummins Station. There is also parking available in the Gateway Parking Lot behind Union Station, accessible from an entrance just past The Finch restaurant on Tenth Avenue. PLEASE NOTE: THE FRIST DOES NOT CONTROL THESE LOTS AND CANNOT VALIDATE TICKETS FOR THEM.

We encourage carpooling and using rideshare services. You may also want to consider using WeGo Public Transit.

About the book:

The much-anticipated new book by artist and New York Times bestselling author Sally Mann about the challenges and transcendent pleasures of the creative process

Art Work, by photographer and writer Sally Mann, offers a spellbinding mix of wild and illuminating stories, practical (and some impractical) advice, and life lessons.

Written in the same direct, fearless, and occasionally outrageous tone of her bestselling memoir, Hold Still, this new book reaffirms Mann as a unique and resonant voice for our times and is destined to become a classic.

Illustrated throughout with photographs, journal entries, and letters that bring immediacy and poignancy to the narrative, Art Work is full of thought-provoking insights about the hazards of early promise; the unpredictable role of luck; the value of work, work, work, and more hard work; the challenges of rejection and distraction; the importance of risk-taking; and the rewards of knowing why and when you say yes.

In sparkling prose and thoughtfully juxtaposed visuals and ephemera, Art Work is a generous, provocative, and compulsively readable exploration of creativity by one of our most original thinkers.

About the author:

Sally Mann is a Guggenheim Fellow and three-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She was named "America's Best Photographer" by Time in 2001. In 2021, she received the Prix Pictet and was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame. She has been the subject of two documentaries: Blood Ties (1994), which was nominated for an Academy Award, and What Remains (2006), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Documentary. Mann's Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs (Little, Brown, 2015) received universal critical acclaim, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Mann is based in Lexington, Virginia.