The River Inside:
Photographs by John Guider
Tennessee State Museum
October 3-December 7, 2008
The River Inside is a traveling exhibition containing 75 platinum prints by Nashville professional photographer John Guider, who took a canoe from the creek behind his house outside of Nashville in August 2003, through the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Ohio rivers, and down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Guider completed the upper portions of the Mississippi in three subsequent solo canoe trips in 2005, 2006, 2007. The exhibition will include a few artifacts of a journey in which his most important cargo was water and dry clothes. Guider’s canoe, his river maps, and his camera equipment will be on display as well.
Guider kept a journal chronicling his everyday routine, the life he observed along the riverbanks, the perils of paddling in waters engineered solely for industrial barge traffic, and several narrow escapes from life-threatening situations. His words will guide us through the exhibition.
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The River Inside Teacher Workshop
Tennessee State Museum
Monday July 21, 2008
Time: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm
Suggested curriculum focus: Tennessee History-grades 4,5,8 and HS
Social Studies (Geography)-grades 3,7
Art—all grades