Pop art provocateur Ashley Longshore, an artist celebrated for her vibrant and influential works, has landed in Nashville for the week with a series of events.

Longshore debuted the newest additions to her iconic ROAR! portrait series at the Saint Elle Wednesday night. A collaboration with Live Nation Women, Longshore revealed portraits of some of the top female musicians today, including Rihanna, Stevie Nicks, Shakira, Mary J. Blige, Katy Perry, P!nk, and President and Chief Strategy Officer of Live Nation Women, Ali Harnell. Nashville’s own Reese Witherspoon and Brittany Howard made appearances alongside their new portraits.

Ashley Longshore and Brittany Howard

Other notables in attendance included Scout Willis, Karen Fairchild, Morgane Stapleton, and Cody Belew. Longshore, a Southern belle with a growing audience in Nashville of both fans and collectors, showcased 73 pieces total including some new additions inspired by Nashville featuring local icons like Minnie Pearl and expanding her widely-loved Dolly Parton series. The idea for ROAR!, Longshore's feminist portrait series, originated four years ago over tea with Diane Von Furstenberg in London.

She began the collection with 23 curated paintings of powerful women for the inspiration room in Von Furstenberg’s meatpacking flagship store and, in 2021, she released her book Roar! A Collection of Mighty Women featuring many of these portraits. Over the past four years, Longshore has inducted over 40 additional women to the collection which consists of some of the most inspiring, beloved, and badass women who have made their mark on the world thus far—from civil rights icons to first ladies, from musical talents to athletes, from fictional characters to it-girls.

Ali Harnell Reese Witherspoon and Ashley Longshore

With the Nashville additions, the collection now holds over 80 paintings of remarkable women, including Rosa Parks, Angelina Jolie, Princess Diana, Simone Biles, Wonder Woman, Jane Goodall, Mother Theresa, Coco Chanel, Martha Stewart, Jackie Kennedy and many more. Longshore's work resonates widely for its vibrant depiction of female empowerment and the artist's unique approach to the art world. Longshore is continuing her Nashville takeover with a pop-up in Germantown through the weekend that is open to the public at 512 Monroe Street. “There is nothing more powerful than a circle of women. Have those women singing a song and you’ll go right to heaven. And that is Nashville,” says Longshore.

Wonder Woman by Ashley Longshore

Don't Tell Mama by Ashley Longshore