Tennessee Performing Arts Center

The Tennessee Performing Arts Center, an almost 50-year-old performing arts non-profit, is seeking to relocate from its current home in the James K. Polk Cultural Center (seen in image above). Since presenting its first live performances in September 1980, TPAC has grown into an arts and culture leader attracting visitors from across the state and welcoming approximately 435,000 audience members each year. WRA, along with BIG and EOA Architects will be designing a new and larger home to allow TPAC to expand programming to include world-renowned artists, touring Broadway productions, and ballet, opera, and dramatic theatre performances from its three resident companies (Nashville Ballet, Nashville Opera, and Nashville Repertory Theatre), while also growing its nationally recognized arts education programs to serve more students and teachers across the state.