Free with membership or paid museum admission.

Artist Tom Root will be painting Clarksville’s own Kevin Kennedy during a live painting demo in conjunction with the new exhibition, The Portrait Society of America: Tennessee Members.

A professional figure and portrait painter for over thirty-five years, Tom Root studied drawing and painting at Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, Connecticut, under Aaron Shikler, N.A., and Deane G. Keller, and at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. Preferring to work from live models, he describes his style as “a naturalistic, yet somewhat simplified painterly style.” His work is in private and public collections across the country, including the New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, CT) and the Tennessee State Museum (Nashville, TN). The exhibition at the Customs House Museum is the first show featuring only Tennessee members of the National Portrait Society.