NASHVILLE, TN – Executive producer, Winifred Forrester, has signed a three-year contract to distribute the award-winning short documentary film, A Line Unbroken: The Charles Forrester Story to PBS stations around the country. The contract was signed with The National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), and the film is scheduled for release to PBS stations on April 26, 2021. Station schedules to be published on our website: www.charlesforrester.com

The film was directed and produced by David and Patricia Earnhardt of Earnhardt Films, LLC of Nashville, Tennessee.

VIEW THE DOCUMENTARY TRAILER

THE ART BOOK

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

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]]>Winifred ForresterWed, 09 Dec 2020 18:17:20 +0000www.charlesforrester.com5d549b2086637f00015fabfe:5e48a17850a0f57054525f34:5fd0f3f410febc3e16e6fd3bA Line Unbroken: The Charles Forrester Story

Now’s your chance! This Sunday, watch our documentary film, A Line Unbroken: The Charles Forrester Story. It will air on the state-wide Kentucky KET-PBS public television on 12/13/ 2020 at 1 PM CT/ 2PM ET and will also be live-streamed at their WEBSITE (if you log on early, you may get an error message… not to worry, it will stream at the scheduled time).

THE ART BOOK

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

This week we received an early holiday present from Kirkus Reviews! Thank you for such a rave book review! You can access the full review HERE.

NUMBER: INC. FILM REVIEW

A Line Unbroken: The Charles Forrester Story

An Independent Journal of the Visual Arts

Click here for the film review

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]]>PBS Film screening this Sunday, 12/13 @ 1 PM CT/2 PM ET. Art book and film reviews are coming in…Winifred ForresterSun, 01 Nov 2020 00:04:17 +0000https://louisvillefilmfestival.org/bbportfolio/a-line-unbroken-the-charles-forrester-story-cc/5d549b2086637f00015fabfe:5e48a17850a0f57054525f34:5f9d886b98f8bd6abc7cb239This week is your chance to watch our documentary! A Line Unbroken: The Charles Forrester Story will be screened at Louisville's International Festival of Film on November 5, 6 & 7. This year’s festival is all virtual and accessible to everyone. Click below for tickets!

ART BOOK UPDATE

Thank you to everyone who has bought our art book! We had to order a second printing and there are plenty of copies available now. Order at Amazon or better yet support your local bookseller and order from them! Click here for bookseller links

We would be honored if you would consider writing a short (or long) review on Amazon HERE.

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]]>UPDATE ON THE ART BOOK AND FILM FESTIVAL ON NOVEMBER 5-7Winifred ForresterFri, 09 Oct 2020 18:01:16 +0000https://www.charlesforrester.com/blog/artoberauthortalkamindinmotion5d549b2086637f00015fabfe:5e48a17850a0f57054525f34:5f80a1250e2e696079ea4aa4

THE ART BOOK

A Mind in Motion: The Art of Charles Forrester

In case you missed last week’s Artober Author Talk with NowPlayingNashville.com, it is available now at  https://youtu.be/_0sttGOcLAA. Join book contributors, Winifred Forrester, daughter of Charles Forrester; sculptor, Russ Faxon; and art historian, Dr. Guy Jordan as they discuss the artist's life, show images of his art work and read excerpts from the book.

For all you South-Central Kentucky admirers out there, we are so pleased to announce the PBS premiere of our short documentary, A Line Unbroken: The Art of Charles Forrester. It will air on WKU-PBS public television on Thursday, October 8, 2020 at 7 PM CT. It will also air on Kentucky’s state wide KET-PBS channel in December- date and time to be announced soon. We hope to bring it to PBS channels in Tennessee and other states at a later time!

Our documentary has also been selected for the Louisville International Festival of Film on November 5, 6, & 7, 2020. This year will be virtual and available to film enthusiasts everywhere. Tickets will go on sale soon!

THE ART BOOK

A Mind in Motion: The Art of Charles Forrester

In case you missed last week’s Artober Author Talk with NowPlayingNashville.com, it is being re-aired on Youtube, Monday, October 5 at 5 PM Central Time and will be available afterwards at  https://youtu.be/_0sttGOcLAA. Join book contributors, Winifred Forrester, daughter of Charles Forrester; sculptor, Russ Faxon; and art historian, Dr. Guy Jordan as they discuss the artist's life, show images of his art work and read excerpts from the book.

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. With roots in New York and the Pacific Northwest, Forrester's work directly impacted generations of sculptors and artists. A long-time beloved professor at Western Kentucky University, he also had a studio in East Nashville for the last 12 years of his life. His artwork spans six decades and is lavishly illustrated in the book with commentary from art historians and contemporary artists. This richly visual coffee table book will appeal to art lovers everywhere.

We would be honored if you would consider writing a short (or long) review on Amazon HERE.

The release date is September 22, 2020, and is available now for pre-orders on Amazon and other online booksellers. Read more

About the Authors:

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 D. 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 E. 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.

Additional contributors are John Forrester, son of Charles Forrester, Rome, Italy; Russ Faxon, sculptor, Bell Buckle, TN; Caroline Phillips, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon and Sam Hunt, Adjunct Professor of Art, Western Kentucky University.

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]]>Announcing the Release of our New Art BookWinifred ForresterMon, 06 Jul 2020 22:00:00 +0000https://www.charlesforrester.com/blog/july-20205d549b2086637f00015fabfe:5e48a17850a0f57054525f34:5ecfeb55c62a07312d459f9a

Welcome to our first blog post about the gifted sculptor, Charles H. Forrester (1928-2010)

If you’re reading this, you may already have a connection with Charles Howard Forrester, perhaps you’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest, New York, the Southern United States or even England and Europe - all places he lived and worked. As a teacher for almost thirty years and a working sculptor for six decades, he influenced generations of students and artists during his lifetime.

Forrester left his unique imprint on this world — his artwork captures a multitude of mediums and styles over his long career. Constantly experimenting, his creativity produced his more well-known monumental concrete outdoor sculptures, masterfully engineered wire suspension and smaller playfully abstract wood and bronze works. His meticulous records show he created over 550 works of art, with the majority held in private collections or constructed as public art.

The Forrester family art collection holds the remaining sculptures, including paintings, drawings and his journals.  If you haven’t seen his work before, visit our website at www.charlesforrester.com to view some gorgeous photos of his artwork.

The award-winning short documentary film, A Line Unbroken: The Charles Forrester Story spans his life from the early bohemian years, his time as a university professor and final years as an artist, all the while showcasing his innovative work. The film won Best Inspirational Film award at the Top Shorts Film Festival and will premier in the fall of 2020.

The film has been submitted for consideration in various film festivals across the United States and England, and was directed and produced by David and Patricia Earnhardt of Earnhardt Films, LLC of Nashville, Tennessee. View the documentary trailer below:

Insight into Charles Forrester’s life and art work…

“Charles Forrester's story is inspiring, he was such a unique artist. Good interviews… the film was very well edited, keeping the viewer intrigued throughout.” Top Shorts Film Festival

“Having a conversation with my father was a mind-opening experience. He viewed the world differently. If you’d just be driving down the road and he looked out the window, and you looked out the window, he saw something different… Everything he did, and everywhere he looked, he was looking for ideas about sculpture and art. He lived, breathed, and thought about making artwork, all the time”.  Winifred Forrester

“Forrester’s work [the Equestrian statue in Springfield, Oregon, 1959] has become part of the fabric of the community and has endured the test of time.“ Caroline Phillips, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

 “He was meticulous in his planning and engineering from the very beginning… all the way to the finished surface. I never knew if Chuck was an engineer stuck in a sculptor’s body or a sculptor stuck in an engineer’s mind. But they always intermingled.” - Russ Faxon, Sculptor, Bell Buckle, Tennessee

“Charles Forrester was without a doubt, a fox – clever, creative, curious, and constantly crafting analogies between things, a master of the visual pun” - Guy Jordan, Western Kentucky University Art Historian

 “I didn’t know Charles Forrester face to face, but as artists, we’re connected through almost an unbroken line. I know him. I just never met him.” - Kristina Arnold, Western Kentucky University Art Department Head