Visually Appealing Website


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Visually Appealing Website

Visually Appealing Website

Mancil Ezell is impeccably dressed and standing beside a Jenny Seville painting of two young sisters nuzzling each other cheek-to-cheek. A group of visitors obediently stands clear on the other side of the room as Ezell describes the painting, which from a distance resembles two cherubs.

"Come," he says authoritatively. The group moves forward and soon is standing mere inches away from the painting, now marveling at the seemingly completely different work than they were seeing moments before. Now, they see that one of the children in the painting called "Hyphen" looks very much like that familiar sweet-faced cherub, while the other looks sickly, weak, discontent. Ezell passionately talks of the magic that occurs when one makes the effort to see art in varying perspectives, as these Rachel-and-Leah-like sisters so vividly illustrate.

"Onward," Ezell says, and the group is off to the next discovery. Ezell is a longtime docent of the Frist Center of the Visual Arts, opened in 2001 and housed in what formerly was Nashville's main U.S. post office, built with Hoover Administration funds in 1934. He is a favorite among visitors, and the center has quickly become one of Music City's most revered resources for arts exhibition and education.