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Crosstown Arts is a non-profit contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in Memphis.
We provide resources and create opportunities and experiences to inspire, support, and connect a diverse range of creative people, projects, and audiences.
The spaces and programs we manage integrate varying components of exhibitions, performance, production, education, and retail. We welcome anyone in the community to join any of our events or projects, regardless of prior experience or expertise with creative interests.
Crosstown Arts is a founding partner, co-developer, and tenant of Crosstown Concourse, the former Sears Crosstown building. Learn more about the Concourse here.
Crosstown Arts offers opportunities and resources for the creative community, including a wide range of spaces for exhibitions, music performances, film and video screenings, artist talks and artist-led workshops, all open to the public.
Crosstown Arts offers residencies to both visiting and Memphis-based artists working in any creative discipline, including visual and performing artists, musicians, filmmakers, and writers in all genres. All residencies include a private studio workspace.
Visitors to Crosstown Arts can find refreshment in the form of hot and cold beverages and freshly baked pastries at the cafe. Those in the mood for something stronger can step into Art Bar, a full-service bar serving a curated list of wines and craft beers, a menu of artfully prepared cocktails, and a selection of bar food featuring both vegan and non-vegan options.
Crosstown Arts Shared Art Making provides the public with access to a communal woodshop, digital lab, print shop, recording studio, and other digital printing, and fabrication tools.
The Green Room at Crosstown Arts is a flexible, acoustically treated space where high-quality music performances are showcased using state-of-the-art audio/visual equipment. Crosstown Theater, a 425-seat black box performing arts space, offers Memphis’ music community and touring acts an intimate venue for live performance. The theater also serves as a venue for art house film screenings, experimental art performances, and Crosstown Arts’ community theater program, and functions as an assembly space for Concourse tenants and Crosstown High.
Crosstown Arts at 430 N. Cleveland is a 1,200-square-foot performance and exhibition venue that Crosstown Arts offers to artists, performers, and arts organizers who wish to perform or show their own creative work or the work of others.
All Crosstown Arts’ spaces and programs are committed to the value of inclusivity and to providing ongoing access for creative exchange to all Memphians.
