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Corporate Support
 
 
Corporate Support
Corporate Support
 

The Frist Center understands the many roles that corporations play in our community, from building relationships with clients to improving the quality of life for our citizens. Therefore, we have created several different support opportunities to fit your current needs. Corporate Sponsors receive widespread recognition, while Corporate Partners gain numerous entertaining privileges. The Frist Center is also happy to work with your organization to customize a mutually beneficial support package for your sponsorship investment.


CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP

Exhibition Sponsorship

Enjoy the opportunity to be named Presenting Sponsor of one of the many world-class exhibitions hosted by the Frist Center. With more than 20 exhibitions a year in seven exhibition spaces, there are many to choose from!

Exhibition Sponsorship Benefits

Typical exhibition sponsorships include:

 Marketing Benefits:
 
Advertising
 
Media coverage
 
On-site signage
 
Exhibition materials
 
Invitations
 
Membership materials
 
Website link
 

 
 Hospitality Benefits:
 
Venue rental discounts
 
Complimentary event tickets
 
Member Preview invitations
 
VIP tours
   
 Community Benefits:
 
Lecture recognition
 
Multiple-visit program recognition
 
Art Trunks recognition

Browse through a list of our current exhibition sponsors:

 
AT&T
 
First Tennessee
 
HCA
 
The Tennessean
 
Morgan Keegan



EVENT SPONSORSHIP

Benefit from the Frist Center’s already popular Frist Fridays or help support family activities like our quarterly Free Family Days by becoming an event sponsor. Corporations may sponsor the series or may make in-kind donations. These sponsors receive recognition through local advertising and on-site signage.

Event Sponsors have included:
CORPORATE PARTNERS PROGRAM

Join the Corporate Partners program and enjoy the opportunity to enhance your presence in the community and to offer your employees, clients, and customers an array of exceptional benefits. The essential operating support provided by Corporate Partners enables the Frist Center to bring world-class art exhibitions as well as accompanying education and outreach programming and resources to Nashville’s youth and visitors.

Everyone benefits with Corporate Partners at the Frist!

 Your Company Benefits:
 
Facility rental discount Guest passes
 
Hospitality privileges
 
Company website link from the Frist Center website
 
Digital signage recognition throughout the Frist Center
 
Donor Wall Recognition in the Turner Family Courtyard
 
Annual Report recognition
 
Invitations to the annual Corporate Recognition Event
 
10 Posters from each exhibition

 Your Employees' Benefits:
 
$5 Membership Discount
 
Free day at the Frist Center
 
Preview presentation of upcoming exhibitions
 
Guided exhibition tour for 20 people
 
10% discount in the Gift Shop
 
Members Gallery newsletter subscription
 
Email alerts for special events and offers

 Our Community Benefits:
 
A framed exhibition poster donated to a local school
 
An exhibition catalogue donated to a public school or library
 
Preview presentation of upcoming exhibitions
 
Guided exhibition tour for 20 people
 
10% discount in the Gift Shop
 
Members Gallery newsletter subscription
 
Email alerts for special events and offers

Choose a level that best fits your company’s needs:

 

Corporate Patron
$2,500

Corporate Benefactor $5,000

Corporate Sustainer $10,000

Corporate Leader $15,000

Facility Rental Discount

20% off

30% off

40% off

50% off

Member Preview Invitations

10

20

50

100

Director's Circle Memberships

 

 

1

2

Guest Passes

20

40

60

100

Free Day at the Frist

1

1

1

2



Current Corporate Partners include:

Davidson, Golden and Lundy

Hilton Nashville Downtown

Northwestern Mutual

Terrazzo, developed by Crosland

Union Station Hotel

Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis

World Market


For more information, please contact:
 By mail:Autumn Parrott 
  Development Department
  Frist Center for the Visual Arts
  919 Broadway
  Nashville, TN 37203-3822
 By phone: (615) 744-3341
 By fax: (615) 744-3991
 By email:aparrott@fristcenter.org