Julia Martin Gallery is pleased to introduce Nashville art enthusiasts to the vibrant, compelling works of participants in the Room In The Inn arts program, a safe space for visual art to thrive, self-esteem to flower, and community to grow within Nashville’s renowned continuum of care for unhoused individuals.

Beginning with an opening during June’s First Saturday’s Art Crawl (6.7.25) and continuing throughout the month, the gallery will exhibit mixed media works created in the Room In The Inn art studio, located in the center of the nonprofit’s Drexel Street campus and overlooking the Nashville skyline.

Entitled, “Do You Know How Good You Are?”, which was the question Room In The Inn founder Charles Strobel asked everyone he met, the exhibition is the culmination of a simple but profound premise: creativity feeds the soul.

The Room In The Inn arts program is led by Nashville artist Delia Seigenthaler, who believes art saves lives. Encouraging her students to express their own stories, she has drawn from them visual outpourings of pain, joy, sorrow, and hope.

“I am proud to join my colleagues at Room In The Inn in celebrating the visionary perspectives of the artists participating in this exhibit,” said Seigenthaler. “I’m also grateful to Julia Martin for recognizing that this collection of works is as worthy of representation as any other and deserves inclusion in the broader creative conversation. ‘Do You Know How Good You Are?’ is both an assertion of the artists’ humanity and of their extraordinary talent.”

The works that have emerged from the program are spectacular tactile expressions of time well spent, which is remarkable considering the participants spend most of their time struggling to survive. “Do You Know How Good You Are?” demonstrates that the artists’ works also have the power to nourish us, their fellow travelers.

Guided by Seigenthaler, Room In Inn’s arts program advances Strobel’s philosophy that everyone is worthy of love and remembrance. A renowned nationwide advocate for the disenfranchised who died in 2023, Strobel strongly believed that – along with food, shelter, warmth, and human connection – creative expression is a fundamental part of the human experience.

Proceeds from the sale of works in the “Do You Know How Good You Are?” exhibition benefit Room In The Inn.

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