January‘s Art of the Month:
“Nashville’s Arena”
by Jim Ptacek
A graduate of The Cleveland Institute of Art and Cooper School of Art as an architectural Illustrator. Jim served two years in the U.S. Army working as a draftsman / illustrator while playing basketball for Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana.
In the late 1970s Jim started producing limited edition, silkscreen prints of Cleveland. As this project grew, he expanded his work to feature the cities and countries that he and his wife love to frequent, including Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit, Mobile, Orlando, Pittsburgh, San Juan, Paris, Rome, as well as our very own Nashville, Tennessee.