A Mind in Motion: The Art of Charles H. Forrester

Winifred Forrester, daughter of Charles Forrester, took early retirement in 2018 from her life-long career as a financial advisor to curate her father's artwork and journals, which spanned nearly 60 years of his life. She is executive producer for the short documentary, A Line Unbroken: The Charles Forrester Story, premiering in Fall 2020. Forrester is a long-time resident of Nashville, Tennessee, where she advocates for the revitalization of historical neighborhoods and green spaces. As a community organizer, she fuels her passion to return power to ordinary people. Forrester co-founded the Haynes-Trinity Neighborhood Coalition and serves on the board of League of Women Voters Nashville, TennGreen Land Conservancy's finance and investment committee, and the Metro-Nashville Industrial Development Board. A Mind in Motion: The Art of Charles H. Forrester is her first book. Guy Jordan (Ph.D. in Art History, University of Maryland, 2007) is an Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at Western Kentucky University, where he teaches courses in WKU's Art History and Brewing and Distilling Arts and Sciences programs. His writing on topics such as Thomas Cole, Charles Deas, and the roles of food and drink in American art has appeared in the journals American Art, Panorama, and Visual Resources. Joe Nolan is an art and film critic and intermedia artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. His writing about contemporary art has appeared in Art America, Flaunt, Burnaway, Number, Nashville Scene, and The Contributor. Nolan is a freelance arts reporter for WPLN, Nashville Public Radio. His award-winning writing about homelessness, poverty, veterans' issues and human rights has been translated into German, Slovak and Greek, and published around the world. Nolan is also an East Nashville music pioneer and a visual artist/curator whose work has been exhibited throughout the Southeast.

A retrospective on the life and work of the gifted sculptor, Charles H. Forrester (1928-2010), reveals a man whose mind was in constant motion. His artwork spans six decades and is lavishly illustrated with commentary from art historians and contemporary artists.