Arts at the Airport receives funding for the visual arts from the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority (MNAA) and the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC). Music performances are sponsored by MNAA, Delaware North Companies, Inc. and The Paradies Shops. The Flying Solo Exhibition Series is funded in part under an agreement with the TAC and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information about Arts at the Airport, please call (615)275-1614 or visit www.artsattheairport.com.

Born and raised in Memphis, TN, Elizabeth Alley received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Memphis with a concentration in painting. From there, she was featured in five solo exhibitions in three years and participated in a number of group exhibitions while working full-time as a project manager for the Memphis UrbanArt Commission. This year, she has solo exhibitions at the Southside Gallery in Oxford, MS. and at the Harry Krug Gallery at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, KS.

Alley uses snapshots of family, friends, streets, signs and buildings to create large-scale paintings. The odd angles and interesting compositions often make the viewer feel as if they are part of the painting. This past year she took a self-familiarization tour of Tennessee including stops in Jackson, Nashville, Bell Buckle, Chattanooga and various places across the entire state and throughout the northeast corner. She states, “I found that the landscape does look like a painting, with rolling hills, rivers, mountains and historic buildings. In the paintings in this series, I try to capture just a tiny bit of the magic of our landscape and our culture.”