Past Events › East Atrium
August 2021
Blueshift Ensemble performs ICEBERG New Music
Crosstown Arts presents a free pop-up performance by Blueshift Ensemble performing works by ICEBERG New Music.
Blueshift Ensemble is a Memphis-based contemporary chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing artists and audiences together through artistic collaboration. Founded by composer Alex Burtzos in 2016, ICEBERG new music is a collective of ten young composers based in New York City.
Blueshift Ensemble performs ICEBERG New Music
Crosstown Arts presents a free pop-up performance by Blueshift Ensemble performing works by ICEBERG New Music.
Blueshift Ensemble is a Memphis-based contemporary chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing artists and audiences together through artistic collaboration. Founded by composer Alex Burtzos in 2016, ICEBERG new music is a collective of ten young composers based in New York City.
April 2020
POSTPONED Pecha Kucha: Crosstown Arts Resident Artist Talk
** This event is postponed until further notice.
Crosstown Arts resident artists Brian Pera, Lawrence Matthews, Clare Johnson, Khari Wynn, Tadasuke Jinno, and Johnathan Payne will discuss their work in a Pecha Kucha-style artist talk.
The Crosstown Arts residency program offers multidisciplinary residencies to visiting and Memphis-based artists and curators, working in any creative discipline including visual and performing arts, music, film, and writing in all genres.
The Crosstown Arts residency program offers multidisciplinary residencies to visiting and Memphis-based artists and curators, working in any creative discipline including visual and performing arts, music, film, and writing in all genres.
POSTPONED Exhibition Workshop: Generate
** This event is postponed until further notice.
March 2020
POSTPONED Exhibition Workshop: The Truest Subversive Act
** This event is postponed until further notice.
This workshop is held in conjunction with the “STUDIOS” exhibition on view in the Crosstown Arts East Gallery.
Using Keiko Gonzalez’s work in “STUDIOS” as inspiration, participants will be encouraged to paint without a particular destination in mind. Drawing from Keiko’s style of “circular arguments that never seek literal translations,” participants will broaden their minds and expand on their own internal philosophies through the medium of painting. These pieces will be showcased ….
POSTPONED Exhibition Workshop: The Truest Subversive Act
** This event is postponed until further notice.
This workshop is held in conjunction with the “STUDIOS” exhibition on view in the Crosstown Arts East Gallery.
Using Keiko Gonzalez’s work in “STUDIOS” as inspiration, participants will be encouraged to paint without a particular destination in mind. Drawing from Keiko’s style of “circular arguments that never seek literal translations,” participants will broaden their minds and expand on their own internal philosophies through the medium of painting. These pieces will be showcased ….
POSTPONED Exhibition Workshop: Generate
** This event is postponed until further notice.
This workshop is held in conjunction with the “STUDIOS” exhibition on view in the Crosstown Arts East Gallery.
Utilizing fabric, paper, paint, and other provided materials, participants will create art pieces inspired by Keiko Gonzalez’s abstractions on view in “STUDIOS.” These pieces will be showcased in a pop-up gallery at the end of the exhibition.
Pecha Kucha: Crosstown Arts Resident Artist Talk
Crosstown Arts resident artists Carl E. Moore, S. Erin Batiste, Adriana Monsalve, Robert Goodman, and Zaire Love will discuss their work in a Pecha Kucha-style artist talk.
The Crosstown Arts residency program offers multidisciplinary residencies to visiting and Memphis-based artists and curators, working in any creative discipline including visual and performing arts, music, film, and writing in all genres.
POSTPONED After-school Exhibition Workshop: Snapshots
** This event is postponed until further notice.
This workshop is in conjunction with “Here Is Where We Meet,” on view in the West Gallery.
Over the course of several sessions, students will amass a body of work based upon specific prompts, such as “choose a person/scene in one of Crosstown Arts’ spaces.” Students will create a sketch with colored pencils and oil pastels, using Susan Lichtman’s work in “Here Is Where We Meet” as inspiration. These pieces will be ….
Exhibition Workshop: Figuratively Speaking
This workshop is held in conjunction with the “Here Is Where We Meet” exhibition on view in the Crosstown Arts West Gallery.
Students will be given samples of writing , and then they’ll create a piece of visual art that represents or reflects that writing sample. Participants will use will use watercolor, colored pencil, crumpled paper, wood, fabric, and paint to create 2D or 3D works. These pieces will amass into a collection that will be showcased in a pop-up ….
