BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Crosstown Arts - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Crosstown Arts X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://crosstownarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Crosstown Arts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20140309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20141102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20150308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20151101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20160313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20161106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20170312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20171105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20180311T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20181104T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20190310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20191103T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180119T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180119T150000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20171214T224441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180119T205501Z UID:10003193-1516363200-1516374000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Wish Book: William E. Jones Reception & Screening DESCRIPTION:Locations: Screening Room & East Atrium \nOpening night reception runs from 6-9 pm | Screening begins at 7 pm \n\nCurated by Terri Phillips and Brian Pera \nThe Wish Book series is a triannual exhibition with a focus on artists’ films. Curators Brian Pera and Terri Phillips welcome internationally recognized artists\, filmmakers\, and critics to Memphis for this exciting new series\, which takes its name from the famed Sears Catalog and is hosted by Crosstown Arts at Crosstown Concourse\, itself once a major Sears distribution center. Drawing from a wide range of topics\, techniques\, and perspectives\, the films index the scope of work being done by artists in moving pictures. \nAbout the Artist:\nWilliam E. Jones has made the films Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997)\, which won a Los Angeles Film Critics Association award\, the documentary Is It Really So Strange?  (2004)\, and many videos including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998). His work was included in the 1993 and 2008 Whitney Biennials\, and he has had retrospectives at Tate Modern (2005)\, Anthology Film Archives (2010)\, and the Austrian Film Museum (2011). His books include “Killed”: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010)\, Halsted Plays Himself (2011)\, and Imitation of Christ\, named one of the best photo books of 2013 by Time magazine. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/wishbook-william-e-jones-reception-screening/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, Screening Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/WJ-17-001h.jpg GEO:35.1521433;-90.0155942 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Screening Room 1350 Concourse Ave. Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.:geo:-90.0155942,35.1521433 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180212 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20171214T223657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180119T205425Z UID:10003192-1516298400-1518371999@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Wish Book: William E. Jones DESCRIPTION:Selected work by William E. Jones | Curated by Terri Phillips and Brian Pera\nOn view through Feb. 11 \nLocations: Screening Room & East Atrium \nReceptions:\nFriday\, Jan. 19\, 6-9 pm (screening runs from 7-9 pm)\nSaturday\, Jan. 20\, 7-9 pm (screening & artist talk with Brian Pera) \n\nThe Wish Book series is a triannual exhibition with a focus on artists’ films. Curators Brian Pera and Terri Phillips welcome internationally recognized artists\, filmmakers\, and critics to Memphis for this exciting new series\, which takes its name from the famed Sears Catalog and is hosted by Crosstown Arts at Crosstown Concourse\, itself once a major Sears distribution center. Drawing from a wide range of topics\, techniques\, and perspectives\, the films index the scope of work being done by artists in moving pictures. \nAbout the Artist:\nWilliam E. Jones has made the films Massillon (1991) and Finished (1997)\, which won a Los Angeles Film Critics Association award\, the documentary Is It Really So Strange?  (2004)\, and many videos including The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography (1998). His work was included in the 1993 and 2008 Whitney Biennials\, and he has had retrospectives at Tate Modern (2005)\, Anthology Film Archives (2010)\, and the Austrian Film Museum (2011). His books include “Killed”: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010)\, Halsted Plays Himself (2011)\, and Imitation of Christ\, named one of the best photo books of 2013 by Time magazine. \n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/wishbook-william-e-jones/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts\, Screening Room\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/William-E.-Jones-Paris-Tavitian.jpg GEO:35.1521433;-90.0155942 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Screening Room 1350 Concourse Ave. Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.:geo:-90.0155942,35.1521433 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20180103T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20180103T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20171212T231453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171212T231453Z UID:10002756-1514980800-1514984400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Art/Race/Violence: Artist + Community Conversation DESCRIPTION:Conversation with artist teams Lisa Williamson and Lurlynn Franklin; Carl Moore and Karina Alvarez; Brittney Bullock\, Agustin Diaz\, and Brenda Joysmith; co-curator Richard Lou\, and Professor Holly Yu. Moderated by Dr. Earnestine Jenkins. \nArt/Race/Violence: A Collaborative Response is a multidisciplinary project organized by visual culture historian Dr. Earnestine Jenkins and artist Richard Lou in collaboration with Crosstown Arts. Through this project\, local artists collectively explore intersections of race and systemic violence through the lens of cultural expression. Conceived to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ell Persons’ very public murder by members of the Memphis community through the act of lynching\, the project was further inspired by recent events to memorialize lynching sites in the broader Memphis community in an effort to bring about greater understanding of racial oppression and violence in the South. \nThe organizers aim for more challenging\, candid and unvarnished representations of our city’s history through a range of educational programming\, including panel discussions which began last spring\, a collaborative exhibition (with performances and talks by the artists) opening this November\, community conversations\, and film screenings. \nThe exhibition features work by artist teams:\nJamin Carter and Mary Jo Karimnia (with Special Design Work for American Heritage Lotto by Christian Westphal)\nAndrea Morales and Terry Lynn\nLisa Williamson and Lurlynn Franklin\nYancy Villa and Lawrence Matthews\nJamond Bullock and Cat Pena (video work by local artist Perry Kirkland and survivor profiles from #SurvivedAndPunished)\nKarina Alvarez and Carl Moore\nJin Powell and Jesse Butcher\nAgustin Diaz\, Brittney Bullock and Brenda Joysmith URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/art-race-violence-artist-community-conversation/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Art-Race-Violence-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180115 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20171205T202119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171205T202142Z UID:10002745-1510423200-1515952799@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Lavender’s Landscape DESCRIPTION:Anthony Lee\n\nLatex and Urethane on Panel\, Triptych\, 2017 \n\n\nComposing a triptych\, these works by artist Anthony Lee are a continuous\, long-scale\, lavender tonal gradient\, equal in light value but demonstrating the effect of desaturation. Viewed from left to right\, it begins as  intense lavender\, and then through gradation it finishes into its grey equivalent. This adds a fourth-dimensional sense of movement or transfer within the works\, allowing the viewer’s eyes to calmly experience the space in the works as they seemlessly shift color.\n\nA high-gloss reflective stripe appears at bottom 3/8 of triptych\, to alter the color value. It is also the artist’s attempt to simulate the only straight line found in nature — the horizon. The purest horizons are a visual illusion created by the perceived meeting of only the sky and shimmering water.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Artist:\nLee’s initial body of works were mixed-media panels with heavy color saturation and symbolic narrative content. His work has been featured at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art\, Powerhouse\, Dixon Gallery and Gardens\, Memphis College of Art\, Arkansas Arts Center\, National Civil Rights Museum\, Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts\, and several galleries throughout the U.S. He has also created many public art projects and large-scale mural works\, of which one was nationally recognized and awarded in 2009. His au courant mode of painting is geometric abstraction with neo-minimalist sensibilities that echo Ellsworth Kelly and Peter Halley. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/lavenders-landscape/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/IMG_4469.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180112 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20171019T201444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171214T200857Z UID:10003147-1510423200-1515693599@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Art/Race/Violence: A Collaborative Response DESCRIPTION:Organized by Dr. Earnestine Jenkins and Richard A. Lou (from the University of Memphis) in collaboration with Crosstown Arts \nGallery Hours:\nMonday-Friday 10 am-8 pm\nSaturday 10 am-6 pm\nSunday noon-6 pm \nClick here to read Artists’ Statements\n\nFeaturing work by artist teams:\nJamin Carter and Mary Jo Karimnia (with Special Design Work for American Heritage Lotto by Christian Westphal)\nAndrea Morales and Terry Lynn\nLisa Williamson and Lurlynn Franklin\nYancy Villa-Calvo and Lawrence Matthews\nJamond Bullock and Cat Pena (video work by local artist Perry Kirkland and survivor profiles from #SurvivedAndPunished)\nKarina Alvarez and Carl Moore\nJin Powell and Jesse Butcher\nAgustin Diaz\, Brittney Bullock and Brenda Joysmith \nOpening reception will feature a curator talk at 3 pm followed by spoken word performances from Janay Kelly\, Nadifah Rasheed\, Tray Butler\, Roberto Alfaro\, and Jessica Taylor. \n\nMore events:\nArt/Race/Violence: Artist+Community Conversation\nWednesday\, Nov 29\, 12-1 pm\nGalleries\nConversation with artist teams Jamin Carter and Mary Jo Karimnia and Terry Lynn and Andrea Morales\, led by Ladrica Menson-Furr and Richard Lou. \nArt/Race/Violence: Artist+Community Conversation\nThursday\, Dec 7\, 12-1 pm\nGalleries\nConversation with artist teams Yancy Villa-Calvo and Lawrence Matthews\, Cat Pena and Jamond Bullock\, led by Tami Sawyer. \nArt/Race/Violence: Panel Discussion\nThursday\, January 11\, 6-8 pm\nTheater Stair\nSpeakers as of November 7: Shahidah Jones\, Antonio De Velasco\, Tom Carlson \n\n“There has never been a free people\, a free country\, a real democracy on the face of this Earth. In a city of some 300\,000 slaves and 90\,000 so called free men\, Plato sat down and praised freedom in exquisitely elegant phrases.” -Lerone Bennett Jr. \n“We are equidistant from utopia and Armageddon.” -Guillermo Gomez-Pena \nArt/Race/Violence: A Collaborative Response is a multidisciplinary project organized by visual culture historian Dr. Earnestine Jenkins and artist Richard Lou in collaboration with Crosstown Arts. Through this project\, local artists collectively explore intersections of race and systemic violence through the lens of cultural expression. Conceived to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ell Persons’ very public murder by members of the Memphis community through the act of lynching\, the project was further inspired by recent events to memorialize lynching sites in the broader Memphis community in an effort to bring about greater understanding of racial oppression and violence in the South. \nThe organizers aim for more challenging\, candid and unvarnished representations of our city’s history through a range of educational programming\, including panel discussions which began last spring\, a collaborative exhibition (with performances and talks by the artists) opening this November\, community conversations\, and film screenings. On March 16th of 2017\, the University of Memphis Art History and African-American Studies programs jointly hosted “Ida B. Wells: A Blues Woman.” Panelists Earnestine Jenkins\, George Lipsitz\, and Celeste Bernier looked at Ida B. Wells and the beginnings of resistance to lynching within the context of the late 19th century\, linking it to modern social movements. Panelists addressed how the arts are linked to the culture of resistance\, as Ida B. Wells was the first strategist to use visual images\, specifically lynching photographs\, as proof of the racial violence so endemic to the South. \nMuch as Wells did a century ago\, the artists and cultural workers involved in this exhibition were invited to reflect upon the nature of Memphis’ past and present and use their creative work as a social instrument for change. One of the distinctive components of this collaborative process began with the curators selecting artist teams to conceive of and co-create new work to share with the public. The participants attended a series of workshops and panel discussions and were given access to a wide array of resources\, articles\, and media for their research. The artist teams — Jamin Carter and Mary Jo Karimnia; Andrea Morales and Terry Lynn; Lisa Williamson and Lurlynn Franklin; Yancy Villa and Lawrence Matthews; Jamond Bullock and Cat Pena; Karina Alvarez and Carl Moore; Jin Powell and Jesse Butcher; and Agustin Diaz\, Brittney Bullock and Brenda Joysmith — have created 8 new installations in a range of media\, including video\, sound\, sculpture\, and performance\, which will be on view in Crosstown Arts’ new galleries at Crosstown Concourse. \nIn Martha Stoudt’s book\, The Sociopath Next Door\, she states that it is natural for individuals to question their moral compass when surrounded by unethical attitudes and behaviors; the notion of “if you can’t beat them\, join them” is an understandable inclination. However\, Stoudt counters that when faced with that lack of consciousness\, we do not need less consciousness; we need more. As artists\, the search to make work that matters carries a greater significance since the last U.S. Presidential election cycle. The spectre of a divided nation (an inequality that marginalized and subjugated communities living in the U.S. are intimately familiar with and have endured for centuries) has re-inserted itself into the current national public discourse. The idea that there are large segments of the U.S. population\, living side by side\, in parallel universes — the haves and the have-nots\, the subjected and the privileged — has become the rule\, not the exception\, in how we now imagine ourselves as citizens of the United States. Participating artists in this project are challenged to create work that speaks to and crosses these divides. \nArt/Race/Violence: A Collaborative Response will utilize the arts across diverse disciplines\, media\, and varied forms of cultural expression. The exhibition will challenge artists to use diverse media to reclaim cultural expression of humankind’s (or “this country’s”) history of racially motivated violence\, as well to examine this history from multiple viewpoints. The project is designed to call on artists to reflect upon the nature of our past and present day in Memphis and to think of their creative work as a social instrument\, or as Estella Conwill Majozo stated\, “To search for the good and make it matter.” \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nHISTORICAL BACKGROUND\nCompiled by Dr. Earnestine Jenkins \nLynching\, the collective\, systematic terrorism directed mostly toward African Americans by white mobs\, arose following Reconstruction and persisted well into the 20th century. Most lynchings in Tennessee occurred in the western and middle parts of the state. Lynchings are documented in 70 Tennessee counties with Shelby County ranking first. According to Margaret Vandiver in Lethal Punishment: Lynchings and Legal Executions in the South\, there were at least 15 lynchings in Shelby County. Ninety-nine percent of lynchers in the U.S. escaped arrest and punishment. Memphis is particularly significant in reference to two high-profile executions that attracted national attention and propelled individuals and organizations to act. \nPeople’s Grocery Lynching & Ida B. Wells\nIn March of 1892\, black business owner Thomas Moss and his employees\, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart\, were arrested for defending themselves against an attack on their store\, People’s Grocery\, in an area just outside Memphis. The three were defending themselves from police officers and the white owner of a neighboring grocery. In the fray\, several deputies were wounded but survived. \nMoss\, McDowell\, and Stewart were booked into the downtown jail\, but they were later pulled from the jail by a white mob. The three were dragged to a deserted rail yard in North Memphis and shot to death. \nThe murder of the young men enraged journalist Ida B. Wells\, and this incident became a turning point in her life. She began traveling the south to investigate reports of white violence against blacks. She found middle-class black people were just as subject to murder by whites as poor blacks were. Wells discovered that black men were often being lynched not for rape but as punishment for having sexual relations with consenting white women. Wells asserted that the real reason for lynching was in retribution to black economic progress. She first published her findings in an 1892 pamphlet entitled “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.” \n“Nobody in this section of the community believes that old threadbare lie that Negro men rape white women. If Southern men are not careful\, a conclusion might be reached which will be very damaging to the moral reputation of their women\,” wrote Wells. \nIn retaliation\, Wells’ life was threatened in Memphis newspaper articles\, the writers of which assumed she was a man. The Memphis Scimitar issued this warning: “It will be the duty of those whom he has attacked to tie the wretch to a stake\, brand him in the forehead with a hot iron\, and perform upon him a surgical operation with a pair of shears.” \nWhite males destroyed Wells’ newspaper\, which was housed in an office on historic Beale Street. Wells was out of town at the time\, and she chose not to return. She went on to launch a national crusade against lynching in the U.S. and abroad. \nThe Ell Persons Lynching & the NAACP in Memphis\nEll Persons\, accused of raping and murdering a 16-year-old white girl named Antoinette Rappel\, was burned alive near the Macon Road Bridge at the Wolf River on May 22nd\, 1917. Drawn by headlines in The Commercial Appeal\, several thousand men\, women\, and children showed up to watch as Persons was decapitated\, dismembered\, and had his heart cut out. Rappel’s mother declared\, “Let the Negro suffer as my little girl suffered\, only 10 times worse.” The mob enjoyed the spectacle as they chewed gum\, ate sandwiches\, and enjoyed soft drinks. \nPerson’s head was later thrown into a crowd of African Americans on Beale Street. No one was ever charged with the crime. Persons’ death was one of the most vicious lynchings in American history. After the event\, horrified African Americans in Memphis gathered to express their pain. When NAACP Field Secretary James Weldon Johnson arrived in Memphis to investigate the lynching\, Robert R. Church\, Jr. brought him to this site where an American flag marked the charred and blackened earth. Johnson found no evidence that Persons killed Rappel. He wrote that “the truth flashed over me that in large measure the race question involves the saving of black America’s body and white America’s soul.” \nJohnson found a black community ready to take a stand in combating daily racism and violence in the South. With the help of Robert Church\, Jr. and businessman Bert Roddy\, the Memphis branch of the NAACP was organized with 53 members. It was the first NAACP branch in Tennessee and only the fourth branch in the South. The next year\, when Johnson made his tour of NAACP branches\, he returned to speak on April 14th to an audience of about 2\,500 people crowded into Church Park and Auditorium. The meeting launched a vigorous campaign\, growing the membership to 924. \nRobert Church Jr. publicly denounced lynching and endorsed the work of the NAACP when it was dangerous to do so. At the first Lincoln Republican League meeting at Church Auditorium following the Ell Persons atrocity\, Church spoke to over 3\,000 people\, proclaiming “I would be untrue to you as your elected leader if I should remain silent against shame and crime of lawlessness of any character\, and I could not if I would hold my peace against the lynching or burning of a human being …” \nBy 1919\, the Memphis NAACP was the largest branch in the South. Robert Church\, Jr. was the first Southerner elected to the NAACP’s National Board of Directors\, helping to launch 68 branches in 14 states. Together\, the lynching of Ell Persons and the establishment of the Memphis NAACP in 1917 changed the political landscape of the South. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/artraceviolence-a-collaborative-response/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fistDraft2small-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20171021T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20171021T160000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20170928T175516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171017T150729Z UID:10002718-1508594400-1508601600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:The Music of Sarah Vaughan: Sassy's Return DESCRIPTION:Tickets – $15 (purchase on Eventbrite)\nDoors at 6:30 pm | performance at 7 pm \nJazz performance featuring Jamille Hunter (vocals)\, Keenan Shotwell (piano)\, Vince Oglesby (bass)\, Isaac Daniels (saxophone)\, and Chris Pat (drums) performing the works of jazz legend Sarah Vaughan. \nThe Crosstown Jazz Series\, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts\, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends. \n \n\nAbout Jamille Hunter:\nJamille JAM Hunter and Mood Swing is a Memphis-based jazz band led by Jamille Hunter and Keenan Shotwell. Jam is a dynamic vocalist who is making her mark on the jazz scene with her mesmerizing vocals and contemporary approach to classic and modern jazz. The group was formed in 2010 and recently released their third music project on June 17\, 2017 titled “Sassy’s Return — The SV Project.” \n“Sassy’s Return” is already in rotation on several radio stations. The two previous releases contained original music written by Jamille JAM Hunter. Mood Swing has performed at the River Arts Fest\, On Location: International Film and Music Festival\, The Black Arts Fest\, and the Memphis International Jazz Festival\, in addition to numerous clubs and other venues.   \n\nAbout Strictly Jazz Entertainment:\nStrictly Jazz Entertainment is committed to cultivating a growing community in the knowledge and appreciation of jazz. We facilitate dialogue and collaboration between the devoted supporters of jazz and the brand new constituents – those new to the genre – for the furthering of the jazz community. We provide a bridge between leading artists and a community that typically does not embrace jazz by promoting concerts in various venues to generate an atmosphere that is viable for the absorption of pure jazz. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-music-of-sarah-vaughn-sassys-return/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Screen-Shot-2017-10-17-at-10.05.16-AM.png GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170916T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170916T160000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20170810T204912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170912T193802Z UID:10003112-1505570400-1505577600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:SOLD OUT - The Music of Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT.\nTicket sales have closed\, as we have limited seating capacity. \n\nTickets – $10 (purchase on Eventbrite)\nCash bar\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | show at 7 p.m. \n\nJazz performance featuring Dr. Bill Hurd (alto and soprano sax)\, Sylvester Sample (acoustic bass)\, Alvie Givhan (piano)\, Gerard Harris (guitar)\, and Renardo Ward (drums). \nThe Crosstown Jazz Series\, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts\, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends. \n\nAbout Dr. Bill Hurd:\nOphthalmologist Dr. Bill Hurd’s music career dates back to his college days\, when he won the saxophone award in the 1967 Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival. Since then\, he has recorded with Kirk Whalum on his album\, Into My Soul; performed as the opening act for Najee\, Joe Sample\, and David Sanborn; performed alongside Mulgrew Miller\, Norman Conners\, and Bobby Lyle; and recorded with Charles Curl on three albums. \nHurd has operated a private ophthalmology private practice for more than 30 years. He’s traveled on a dozen international medical/surgical mission trips to Africa and Madagascar. He holds two U.S. and foreign patents for medical devices. \nHurd graduated from Manassas High School in Memphis in 1965 and went on to the University of Notre Dame\, where he earned a B.S. in electrical engineering. He earned his MBA in IT at M.I.T. in Cambridge\, Massachusetts and received an M.D. degree at Meharry Medical College. \nHurd also boasted an impressive athletic career in his youth. He broke a national high school 100-yard-dash record with time of 9.3 sec. in 1965. He was a 1968 Olympic Trials finalist in the 100 meter and 200 meter races\, and he received a 1994 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award along with Kareem Abdul Jabaar\, Calvin Hill\, Jim Ryun\, Lee Evans and Leroy Keys. \n\n\nAbout Strictly Jazz Entertainment:\nStrictly Jazz Entertainment is committed to cultivating a growing community in the knowledge and appreciation of jazz. We facilitate dialogue and collaboration between the devoted supporters of jazz and the brand new constituents – those new to the genre – for the furthering of the jazz community. We provide a bridge between leading artists and a community that typically does not embrace jazz by promoting concerts in various venues to generate an atmosphere that is viable for the absorption of pure jazz. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/the-music-of-julian-edwin-cannonball-adderley/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Screen-Shot-2017-09-12-at-2.37.34-PM.png GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170819T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170819T140000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20170622T190746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170807T155401Z UID:10003093-1503140400-1503151200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Potluck DESCRIPTION:Collaborative installation of artist-designed place settings on view in Crosstown Arts’ East Atrium in Crosstown Concourse as part of the Concourse Opening Day Celebration. More than 80 artists are participating (full list below). \nAt a typical potluck\, individuals are asked to contribute a shared food item. But in this case\, individuals were invited to bring to the table their individual interpretation of a meal’s structural elements: a place setting.  Altogether\, these unique place settings create a large-scale collaborative table-top installation\, a collective visual feast. \nWhile a place setting is defined as “a complete set of dishes and cutlery provided for one person at a meal\,” these works look beyond a purely literal interpretation of the term. Each place setting personifies its maker. \nThis installation concept was inspired in part by artist Judy Chicago’s work\, The Dinner Party (1979).  \nArtists include Nate Renner\, Sarah Terry\, Erica Qualy\, Eric Clausen\, Mary Long\, Judith Dierkes\, Meredith Wilson\, Elizabeth Brothers\, Breezy Lucia\, Nicole Dorsey\, Beverly Dorsey\, Ethan Taylor\, Jan Shivley\, Danielle Sierra\, Peg Holton\, Valerie Shavers\, E. Stuart Lacey\, Baleigh Kuhar\, Zach Kremer\, Dale Martin\, Paula Kovarik\, Mary Jo Karimnia\, Jay Etkin\, Corie Walker\, Carol DeForest\, MaryRea Ragghianti\, Carrol Harding McTyre\, Keysha Warr\, Ashley Tew\, Wei Chu Su\, Katie Maish\, Danielle Sumler\, Sheri Bancroft\, Jonathan May\, Valerie Sparks\, Christiana Leibovich\, Jamin Carter\, Aundra McCoy\, RahLeeCoh Ishakarah\, Bryan Blankenship\, Fred Wimmer\, Deanna Hamsley\, Monica Bushong\, Renee Lasater\, Erika Roberts\, Jin Powell\, John Powell\, Alex Paulus\, Terri Phillips\, Kyle Statham\, Maria Ferguson\, Nicole Miller\, Lea Holland\, Mary K VanGieson\, Danielle Sumler\, Rachel McCasky\, Miriam Oliphant\, Karina Alvarez\, Cedar Nordbye\, Melissa Dunn\, Kevin Sutton\, Kimberly Scott\, Christian Alene\, Sadie Tomes\, Zachary Morgan\, Jonah Westbrook\, Carol Blumthal\, Kevin Burge\, Katie\, Schwehr\, Brantley Ellzey\, Hannah Coakley\, Alisha Wroblewski\, Karen Dixon\, Alyce Burr\, Eric Quick\, Chloe York\, Luke Ramsey\, Cassie Wiegmann\, Darla Linerode-Henson\, and Mary Vaux Hansen. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/potluck-exhibition-opportunity/ LOCATION:East Atrium\, Crosstown Concourse\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Plates.gif GEO:35.1521433;-90.0155942 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=East Atrium Crosstown Concourse 1350 Concourse Ave. Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.:geo:-90.0155942,35.1521433 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170708T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170708T160000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20170516T153251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170628T184851Z UID:10003064-1499522400-1499529600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:SOLD OUT Thelonious Monk: The Music of Monk DESCRIPTION:Ticket sales for this event have closed\, as we have reached seating capacity. The next event in this series will be announced soon. \n***** \nTickets – $10 (purchase tickets on Eventbrite)\nCash bar\nDoors at 6:30 p.m. | show at 7 p.m. \n\nJazz performance featuring Stephen Lee (piano)\, Johnny Yancey (Trumpet)\, Sylvester Sample (Acoustic Bass) and Nygel Yancey (Drums) celebrating the legacy of Thelonious Monk. \nThe Crosstown Jazz Series\, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts\, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends. \n\nAbout Stephen Lee:\nJazz pianist Stephen Lee cut his teeth playing at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City’s Greenwich Village in the late 90s\, but he’s been playing piano and organ since the age of eight. His passion for jazz was born in college\, when he attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. \nStephen spent time as a touring musician with the Carnival Cruise Line and even did stints in Paris and Switzerland with the Legendary Paris Gospel Extravaganza and Jazz Life with the Janis Carter Quartet. His journey eventually took him to New York City\, where he worked as musical director of Manhattan’s Crenshaw Christian Center under Dr. Frederick Price. \nTough economic times eventually led Lee back to his hometown of Memphis. Stephen says being back in Memphis has turned out to be the best thing for his career. He’s finished his first album\, Songs in the Key of My Life\, and he plays regular gigs at the Westin Hotel downtown. \n\nAbout Strictly Jazz Entertainment:\nStrictly Jazz Entertainment is committed to cultivating a growing community in the knowledge and appreciation of jazz. We facilitate dialogue and collaboration between the devoted supporters of jazz and the brand new constituents – those new to the genre – for the furthering of the jazz community. We provide a bridge between leading artists and a community that typically does not embrace jazz by promoting concerts in various venues to generate an atmosphere that is viable for the absorption of pure jazz. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/thelonious-monk-the-music-of-monk/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Monk-Stephen-Lee-1.jpeg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170630T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170630T170000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20170515T191507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170630T141223Z UID:10003063-1498833000-1498842000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:SOLD OUT -- An Evening with Wu Fei DESCRIPTION:Ticket sales for this event have closed\, as we have reached seating capacity.  \n****** \nPresented by Sonosphere in collaboration with Crosstown Arts \nAn interactive performance with Wu Fei\, a genre-bending composer\, guzheng virtuoso\, and vocalist from Nashville — by way of Beijing. Wu Fei blends her Western and Chinese traditional sensibilities with a contemporary\, idiosyncratic\, experimental dialect as she performs original compositions on the guzheng\, an ancient 21-string Chinese zither. \nTickets: $15 (purchase on Eventbrite)\nCash bar\nDoors at 7:30 p.m. | Performance at 8 p.m. \n\nAbout Wu Fei:\nWu Fei\, a native of Beijing and a current Nashville resident\, is a master of the guzheng\, the ancient 21-string Chinese zither. She was trained as a Western classical composer\, a vocalist\, and plays beautifully in the guzheng’s vernacular — a musical language which is at least 2\,000 years old. She mixes her Western and Chinese traditional sensibilities with a contemporary\, idiosyncratic\, experimental dialect nurtured by years spent at Mills College and immersed in the New York downtown improvisation scene which revolved around venues like The Stone\, where Fei has frequently performed and curated. \nWu Fei composes for choir\, string quartet\, chamber ensemble\, Balinese gamelan\, and orchestra; her commissions range from a composition for Percussions Claviers de Lyon that premiered in the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing to live performances in Paris and Tokyo for luxury brand Hermès. \nIn addition to her own original compositions\, Fei has collaborated with many artists of different disciplines and genres ranging\, from Béla Fleck to avant garde composer John Zorn. She has taken her guzheng and music around the world and touring highlights include composition premiere at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing\, the MoMA in New York City\, North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands\, Vossa Jazz Festival in Norway\, Europalia in Belgium\, and the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville. Wu Fei was recently commissioned by Intersection Ensemble in Nashville to create new classical work for guzheng\, voice\, and western chamber ensemble which she titled If I Was A Batman Queen. \n\nAbout the guzheng:\nWu Fei’s instrument\, the guzheng\, is more than 2\,000 years old. It became prominent during the Qin Dynasty (221 to 206 BCE)\, and by the Tang Dynasty (618 CE to 907 CE)\, the guzheng was arguably the most commonly played instrument in China. \nThe guzheng has 21 strings\, which were once made from silk but now they are almost always metal nylon which increase the instrument’s volume and timbre. There are many techniques used in the playing of the guzheng\, including basic plucking actions (right or both hands) at the right portion and pressing actions at the left portion (by the left hand to produce pitch ornamentations and vibrato) as well as tremolo (right hand). These techniques of playing the guzheng can create sounds that can evoke the sense of a cascading waterfall\, thunder\, horses’ hooves\, and even the scenic countryside. \n\nAbout Sonosphere:\nSonosphere is a Memphis-based podcast aimed at exploring sound in music and art movements through history and today. \n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/an-evening-with-wu-fei/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Screen-Shot-2017-05-15-at-11.55.33-AM.png GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170515T010000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170605T180000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20170511T170957Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T175704Z UID:10003061-1494810000-1496685600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Barrier Free DESCRIPTION:A portion of a socially engaged art installation designed for the Latino Memphis Festival by Yancy Villa-Calvo will be on view at in the Crosstown Concourse’s Central Atrium in this week-long pop-up exhibition. \nBuilding on the current and controversial idea of the proposed wall along the US-Mexico border\, the installation aims to create awareness and encourages viewers to pause\, reflect\, and act. \nThe installation attempts to be inclusive and open to interpretation. Symbols make reference to barriers around nationality\, race\, religion\, sexual orientation and identity\, gender\, and socioeconomic aspects. This project is less about the actual wall and more about the systematic attempts to divide individuals\, families\, and communities. \n\nYancy will give an artist talk in front of the installation on Tuesday\, May 30\, noon-12:30 p.m. A Q&A will follow. \n\nioby Campaign URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/barrier-free/ LOCATION:Crosstown Concourse\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104 CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Barrier-Free.png GEO:35.1521433;-90.0155942 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Concourse 1350 Concourse Ave. Memphis TN 38104;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.:geo:-90.0155942,35.1521433 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170225T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170225T080000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20170208T213515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170221T200524Z UID:10002635-1487995200-1488009600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Yoga with Cats DESCRIPTION:The We Need to Talk exhibition — an open call show of break-up art and artifacts — may have you feeling a little broken-hearted. But those old relationships were in the past. That was zen. This is meow. \nOn the final day of the exhibition\, we invite you to take a moment to “paws” and reflect and heal your broken heart in this Yoga with Cats event hosted by Memphis Animals Services (MAS)\, Crosstown Arts\, and Co-Motion Studio. \nMAS will have approximately 10 adoptable cats at the Crosstown Arts gallery from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Adriene Holland\, co-owner of Co-Motion Studio\, will teach two yoga classes — one at 11 a.m. and another at noon — during which cats will be free-roaming and interacting with the yogis. \nPeople can participate by either attending a class at 11 a.m. or noon\, or by visiting between 10 to 11 a.m. or 1 to 2 p.m. to play with (and hopefully adopt) kitties. To attend a class\, sign up here. The 11 a.m. class is now full. \nThe class is free to attend to those who plan to adopt a cat. Participants who aren’t able to adopt a cat are asked to make a pay-what- you-can donation. Participants are asked to bring their own yoga mats\, as Crosstown Arts will not have any extra mats to loan. \nAll cat adoptions at the Yoga with Cats event will be $35 cash-only (nearly half off the regular adoption fee) and will include spay/neuter\, microchip\, vaccinations\, FIV/FeLV test\, customized ID tag (to be picked up at the shelter)\, and a collar. \nSign up for a yoga class URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/yoga-with-cats/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cat-yoga.jpg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170210T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170225T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20161216T174812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170222T222427Z UID:10002899-1486699200-1488024000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:We Need to Talk DESCRIPTION:An open call exhibition of break-up art and artifacts submitted by more than 40 local artists. \nExhibition Opening Reception: Friday\, February 10\, 5-8 p.m.\nExhibition on View: February 10-February 25 \n\nSometimes\, love ends. Romantic relationships\, familial relationships\, relationships with places\, our former selves\, or even really\, really great pieces of pizza — they all have to end. These relationships tend to be hard to let go of. Whether the break-up was genial\, terrible\, or downright awful\, most people have an object\, memento\, or souvenir of each broken relationship that they just can’t throw away. These mundane objects are transformed into totems of memory\, becoming the holy tangibles of a relationship ceased. This exhibition focuses on those objects and their stories and aims to offer one final bit of catharsis. Or at least a final chance to say … “Boy\, Bye!!!”  \nThe idea for this exhibition is drawn from the Museum of Broken Relationships\, which has two locations in Los Angeles and Zagreb\, Croatia. The museum website states: “The original concepts of an artist ex-couple in the midst of their own breakup\, whom wondered what people did with objects that had been meaningful in their relationships. In 2006\, they had their first exhibition and the Museum has since toured internationally\, amassing an amazing collection. They opened their permanent museum in Zagreb\, Croatia in 2010\, and a follow-up museum has also sprung up in Los Angeles\, California.” \nCrosstown Arts has organized this exhibition to coincide with The Break Up Show 6\, taking place at The New Daisy Theater on Saturday\, February 11th. During the opening reception of “We Need To Talk” on Friday\, February 10th\, The Break-Up Show cast will be performing a free and open-to-the-public dress rehearsal of The Break Up Show 6 next door at 430 N. Cleveland. \nSome work may be listed for sale. Crosstown Arts does not take a commission. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nParticipating Artists: \nNanette Freeman\nBeth Edwards\nErica Qualy\nEthel Floon\nHannah Chipman\nRichard Fudge\nCarrie Schule\nMarilyn League\nBryan Martin\nKatie Lothrop\nBritynn Davis\nChristine Shapiro\nDemar Jones\nTerri Weaver\nJamond Bullock\nJonathan May\nTemple Faux Daniels\nRobin Jayne Henderson\nEthan Taylor\nRaquela Adams\nAndri Alexandrou\nBria Johnson\nCaolinn Golden\nO. Gustavo Plascencia\nChristy\nJudith Dierkes\nSpencer Durden\nJeremiah Matthews\nMelinda Posey\nBrent Gaia\nDarren Floyd\nMatt Christy\nDanielle Sumler\nMargaret Henderson\nSarah Dorou\nChelle Ellis\nAmber George\nNathan Parten\nJana Wilson\nBianca Phillips URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/we-need-to-talk/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/WE-NEED-TO-TALK-CROSSTOWN-2017-01.jpeg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170113T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170113T140000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20170104T171932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T201334Z UID:10002911-1484280000-1484316000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Mellotron Record Release & Pick-up DESCRIPTION:Duets for Mellotron — a blue vinyl gatefold LP package of a live performance by Jonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant\, organized in collaboration with Winston Eggleston — will be available for pre-order pick-up on January 13\, 14\, 17 and 18. A limited number of copies will also be available to the general public for $20 each. \nTimes for pick-up:\nFriday 1/13: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.\n(On Friday\, from 6-8 p.m.\, there will be screenings of Winston Eggleston’s “Liquid Light Show” and Crosstown Arts’ Mellotron video. Jonathan and Robby will be on hand for a meet-and-greet\, and cocktails will be available).\nSaturday 1/14: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.\n Sunday 1/15: CLOSED\n Monday 1/16: CLOSED\n Tuesday 1/17: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.\n Wednesday 1/18: 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. \nThe album was originally performed during the “Duets for Mellotron” event at Crosstown Arts on April 16-17\, 2016. \nFacebook event for pre-order pick-up \n\nThis unique performance — the world’s first Mellotron duet — features an obscure but ingenious keyboard instrument invented in the 1940s which was designed to reproduce the sound of virtually any acoustic\, electromechanical\, or synthesized instrument. \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nThe M400 and a new M4000 cycling Mellotron\, from Winston Eggleston’s small but diverse Mellotron collection\, will be played at the performance. Eggleston will also share a series of new site-specific digital projections to complement the music. \n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/mellotron-record-pick-up/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Screen-Shot-2017-01-05-at-2.45.35-PM.png GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161215T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161215T150000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20161028T150804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170222T222824Z UID:10002874-1481808600-1481814000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Crown\, Teeth & Tears DESCRIPTION:A unique experience of experimental chamber music curated by Terri Phillips featuring the Blueshift Ensemble. \nDoors open at 7:30 p.m./performance begins at 8 p.m. Approximate performance time: 45 minutes \nTickets are $10. Holiday cocktail included in the price of admission. Click here to purchase. \n\nLimited number of chair seating available; standing room also available \n\n \n\n\nAbout Terri Phillips\nTerri Phillips is an artist and writer from Alabama\, currently living in Memphis.  She is a recipient of the ArtsMemphis Accelerator grant and has exhibited and curated internationally. She is a graduate of California Institute of the Arts and Pepperdine University.  Her work has been written about in ArtForum\, The New York Times\,LA Times\, Sculpture Magazine\, and The Commercial Appeal.  She has written three books of poetry and is currently finishing a record of country songs with the artist Jim Ovelmen. \n\n\nAbout Blueshift Ensemble\nBlueshift is a Memphis­-based contemporary chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing artists and audiences together through artistic collaboration. By programming both new and existing classical repertoire alongside multi­-genre collaborations\, Blueshift aims to connect a wider audience to today’s classical music. The ensemble draws upon Memphis’ uniquely diverse musical heritage by combining classical music with popular music genres such as rock\, blues\, soul\, and hip-hop and featuring local musicians\, dancers\, visual artists\, and composers. \n\nAbout the musicians \nA native of Brazil\, Mariama Alcântara grew up in a musical family and began studying the violin at age seven. She made her solo debut at age 12 with the Paraiba Symphony Orchestra\, and since then she has appeared as a soloist with several orchestras in her home country. Mariama moved to the United States in 2012\, and received her bachelor’s degree in violin performance from the University of Memphis where she studied with Dr. Soh-Hyun Altino and Dr. Marcin Arendt. She has performed with many orchestras including the Jackson Symphony (TN)\, Starkville Symphony (MS)\, Sinfonietta Orchestra (TN)\, Memphis Repertory Orchestra\, and Memphis Symphony (Feb. 2017). Mariama is now an IRIS Orchestra Artist Fellow and a member of the C3 Strings Trio. She also instructs and mentors elementary and middle school students as a Memphis Music Initiative fellow. \n\nBlueshift Ensemble Artistic Director and flutist\, Jenny Davis is a Memphis-based flutist who regularly performs with the Luna Nova Ensemble and the Memphis Repertory Orchestra and maintains a large private teaching studio. She has also performed with other area ensembles including the Memphis Symphony Orchestra\, PRIZM Ensemble\, Balmoral Chamber Orchestra\, and is a member of the River City Flute Quartet. In past summers\, Jenny has performed at the New Music on the Point contemporary chamber music festival\, the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona\, Italy\, the National Music Festival\, and the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival. Jenny was a finalist in the 35th Annual James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition\, as well as alternate finalist in the 2015 Chicago Flute Club Donald Peck International Competition and 2014 Mid-South Flute Society Young Artist Competition. In addition to performing and teaching\, Jenny serves on the boards of the Beethoven Club of Memphis and the Mid-South Flute Society and is a co-founder of the Greater Memphis Flute Club. Jenny holds degrees in flute performance from Boston University\, Middle Tennessee State University\, and two years of additional post-graduate flute studies with Trevor Wye at Studio in Kent\, United Kingdom. \n\n Andre Dyachenko currently serves as the principal clarinetist with Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Dyachenko has performed as a member Minnesota Orchestra\, Houston Symphony\, Houston Grand Opera and as a guest principal with Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. During summers he has participated in several music festivals\, including Music Academy of the West\, Spoleto USA\, Hot Springs Music Festival and Feodosia Music Festival. Mr. Dyachenko is a recipient of First and Grand Prize at the International Competition for Woodwind Players in Kharkiv and First Prize at the International Clarinet Association Orchestral Competition. He had his first solo debut with the orchestra at the age 14 playing Weber Concerto No. 1. Mr. Dyachenko performed numerous solo recitals around Europe and US. Mr. Dyachenko started his education at the age of 7 in Kharkiv Special Secondary School of Music under guidance of Valeriy Altukhov. In 1996 he was awarded full scholarship to study clarinet at Interlochen Arts Academy with Richard Hawkins. Mr. Dyachenko also holds bachelor’s degree from University of Michigan and master’s degree from University of Minnesota and Doctor of Music degree from Rice University. Among his teachers are Fred Ormand\, Burt Hara\, Richie Hawley\, Lee Morgan\, Yehuda Gilad\, Richard Hawkins and Michael Webster. \n\n Logan Hanna is a guitarist and educator from Memphis. He currently works with different jazz groups around town\, and is a member of The Mighty Souls Brass Band\, Big Barton\, and the Memphis Ukulele Band. For the last 8 years\, Logan has also been recording and performing with Grace Askew. He is also currently on the adjust faculty at the University of Memphis where he teaches Intro To Jazz Guitar. Heavily influenced by guitar greats such as Bill Frisell\, Jim Hall\, Marc Ribot\, Albert King\, T-Bone Walker\, Steve Cropper\, and Don Rich\, Logan enjoys being somewhat of a musical chameleon blending styles to fit the music he is playing. \n\nDelara Hashemi is a freelance musician and teacher in the Memphis area. She subs with the Memphis Symphony\, the Memphis Symphony Woodwind Quintet\, and plays in the BlueShift Ensemble and Poplar Wind Trio. She has performed in the National Flute Association (NFA) Collegiate Flute Choir at conventions in 2009 and 2011. Delara was the 2011 and 2012 Music Teachers National Association State Winner in Oklahoma\, Young Artist Performance – Woodwinds. Delara completed degrees in flute performance at the University of Memphis where she studied flute with Prof. Elise Blatchford\, and the University of Central Oklahoma where she studied flute with Dr. Emily Butterfield. \n\nBlueshift cellist and Composer-in-Residence\, Jonathan Kirkscey is a composer\, producer\, and cellist who regularly performs with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra\, Mouserocket and Luna Nova Ensemble. As a film composer\, Jonathan scored the documentary “Best of Enemies”\, directed by Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom) and Robert Gordon\, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. His score for “Best of Enemies” earned him the International Documentary Association’s award for best original music in a documentary feature.  He also composed music for the Netflix original documentary series “Chelsea Does”\, which premiered at Sundance in January of 2016. Jonathan also recently scored the short film “Our Conductor” directed by Craig Brewer for the Memphis Grizzlies. Jonathan has provided arrangements for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and has had several original pieces for orchestra performed by the MSO. As an arranger and performer he has worked with Cat Power\, Al Green\, Ra Ra Riot\, Smokey Robinson\, Johnny Mathis\, Steve Jordan\, Daniel Johnston\, Jay Reatard\, North Mississippi Allstars\, Lucero\, Amy Lavere\, Kallen Esperian\, and many others. \n\nEd Murray is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and was a student of Vic Firth. He has held the position of Assistant Principal of Percussion/Timpani in the Memphis Symphony Orchestra since 1987\, and has been a member of the Iris Orchestra since the year 2000. Ed has been the first-call percussionist for the Orpheum Theatre Touring Shows since 1990 and is the drummer for the Memphis Symphony Orchestra Big Band.  He was a soloist with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra on three separate occasions\, featured on Xylophone\, Marimba and World Percussion. He was the Principal Percussionist for the Mexico City Philharmonic\, 1985-1987\, and has performed with such artists as Yo-Yo Ma\, Itzhak Perlman\, Aretha Franklin\, Johnny Mathis and  Joshua Bell. \n\nRenée Kemper Murray has called Memphis her home since 2004. She has been a Musical Director for many Regional Theaters across the U.S. such as the Fulton Opera House (PA)\, the Barter Theater (VA)\, the Old Creamery (Iowa)\, and the Tri-Arts Sharon Playhouse (CT). After completing Graduate School at the University of Memphis (2006)\, she joined the production staff at Memphis’ Playhouse on the Square as the Resident Music Director for seven years. She is now in her third year with St. George’s Independent Schools as Music Artist-in-Residence and Fine Arts educator at their Memphis Campus. In addition to her Master of Music degree in Collaborative Piano Performance\, she holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Southwestern University (Georgetown\, TX) and has attended the Aspen School of Music in Colorado. She has received five Ostrander awards and two Memphis Theater Awards for Excellence in Musical Direction as well as two Ostrander Awards for singing roles in theater – one for her featured role in Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and the other for Leading Actress in the musical\, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline. She has played with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra Big Band\, continues to play for shows\, performs as singer and guitarist in her own band\, and is a member of Blueshift Ensemble. \n\nViolinist Marisa Polesky is a member of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and the IRIS Orchestra. In addition\, she works with the Memphis Music Initiative as a mentor/teacher at White Station Middle and High Schools and teaches at St Louis School. \n\nJennifer Puckett currently serves as principal violist with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Prior to her tenure here in Memphis\, she completed three years with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach\, Florida. She has been on the EMF faculty since the summer of 2005. Mrs. Puckett has been teaching private lessons since 1996. She has taught with different Suzuki programs and is the founder of the East Memphis Music Academy. Her current private studio consist violin and viola students of all ages. Originally trained as a violinist\, she received her Bachelor’s degree in violin performance from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Some of the summer music festivals she attended in the past are the Aspen Music Festival\, Meadowmount School of Music\, National Repertory Orchestra\, Spoleto USA\, and the Brevard Music Center. The Aspen Music Festival led her to the University of Colorado in Boulder where she received her Master’s degree in viola performance. Mrs. Puckett held graduate quartet and teaching assistantships for the three years that she was at the University of Colorado. Over the years she has played professionally with many other orchestras including the Colorado Symphony\, Alabama Symphony\, and the Arizona Music Festival to name a few. In addition to her position with the Memphis Symphony\, her leadership experience includes principal viola on numerous occasions with the New World Symphony\, and throughout her college career as concertmaster\, principal second violin\, and principal viola. \n\nJonathan Russ composes direct\, expressive music with an eye towards social good\, drawing from the languages of contemporary classical music\, musical theater\, and indie rock. He is Composer-In-Residence with the Blueshift Ensemble and the American Chamber Ensemble\, and is a founding member of the ICEBERG New Music composers’ collective. Jonathan has worked with Marimolin\, Sō Percussion (through their Summer Institute)\, members of the JACK Quartet and International Contemporary Ensemble\, clarinetist Stanley Drucker (NY Philharmonic)\, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Beattie\, and pianists Amir Khosrowpour and Marilyn Lehman. Awards include the MA-ASTA Composition Competition\, ShoutHouse Call For Scores\, and the Boston Conservatory Choral Composers’ Competition. Jonathan has held residencies at the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts and the Hambidge Center\, was featured at the inaugural New Music On The Bayou Festival\, and will be in residence at Arteles and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in 2017. Upcoming projects include a book of piano pieces\, an opera about a hermetic young woman\, and a piece for New York-based ensemble loadbang. As a guitarist\, Jonathan has performed with indie bands Young Yeller and Lucky Sons\, and has played in musical theater pits throughout New York. He holds a master’s in composition from The Boston Conservatory\, where he studied with Andy Vores and Curtis Hughes\, as well as a BA from Brown University in music and an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in musical theater writing. www.jonathanrussmusic.com URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/crown-tear-and-tears/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Image-for-Web.jpg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161119T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161204T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20161020T160117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161122T221203Z UID:10002870-1479528000-1480852800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Retos y Retratos DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY\, NOVEMBER 18\, 6-9 PM \nNoviembre 19 hasta Diciembre 4\nRecepción: Viernes\, 18 de noviembre 6 – 9 PM \nHorario de la Galería: de Martes a Sábado\, 10 AM – 6 PM \nThe gallery will be closed November 24-25 for the Thanksgiving holiday. \n\nRetos y Retratos\, an exhibition of portraits of Latino/a artists and samples of their work\, strives to give a voice to the struggles\, triumphs\, and experiences of this community of artists in Memphis. Committed to different forms of expression\, united by art and the challenges they have faced\, these artists seek to preserve and communicate their roots. The portraits demonstrate both the artistic and intimate side of these creators. \nOrganized by Centro Cultural Latino Cultural Center in collaboration with Crosstown Arts. \n\nRetos y Retratos es una  muestra de arte Latino en Memphis que busca dar una voz a los procesos y experiencias de sus artistas.  Entregados a diferentes formas de expresión\, unidos por el arte y los retos alcanzados\, estos artistas buscan conservar y comunicar sus raíces. Los  retratos presentados nos muestran el lado artístico y a la vez intimo de estos  creadores. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/retos-y-retratos/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Agustin-Diaz.jpg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161027T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161027T150000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160930T213000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161019T202718Z UID:10002578-1477573200-1477580400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Brantley Ellzey DESCRIPTION:Artist and architect Brantley Ellzey discusses his work on display in “Sweet\,” an exhibition of over 20 new works created from hand-rolled construction paper in a kaleidoscopic array of colors and forms. \n“Sweet” is on display from October 7th through November 5th. \n\nArtist Biography\nBrantley Ellzey is an architect and artist who has operated an independent studio in the Crosstown neighborhood of Memphis since 2010.  With degrees in Architecture and Theater Design from Tulane University\, Ellzey creates art that illustrates the precision and structural form of architecture while embodying the colorful thrill and drama of the theater.  His works consist primarily of paper from magazines\, books and other printed media which he deconstructs\, rolls and methodically builds into complex\, layered forms.  Drawing from the themes of the selected materials\, he expresses the anatomy of a journal\, making the subject and content visually apparent in the piece with lines\, color and overall construction.  His work is in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States\, such as Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital\, West Cancer Center\, Bass Berry + Sims\, Wunderlich Securities\, and Iberia Bank. Examples of his architectural work are First Congregational Church\, The Museum of Modern Spinal Surgery at Medtronic\,The Kemmons Wilson Exhibit at the Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management at University of Memphis\, the renovation of Immaculate Conception Cathedral\, and Ballet Memphis (Cordova). URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/brantley-ellzey-artist-talk/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20160523_ellzey_0004-Edit-1.jpg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20161007T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161105T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160822T171728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161110T215111Z UID:10002831-1475816400-1478350800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Brantley Ellzey: SWEET DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY\, OCTOBER 7\, 6-9 PM \n\nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present SWEET\, an exhibition of 20 new works by Memphis-based artist and architect\, Brantley Ellzey. \nFor the past 15 years\, Ellzey’s practice has typically involved media-based content in service to a particular subject. His works consist primarily of paper from magazines\, books\, and other printed media which he deconstructs\, rolls and methodically builds into complex\, layered forms.  Hand-rolled\, individual pages contain information that create an archive\, a time capsule of a specific theme and period. He has spent the last few years working on commissions that involved this concept\, giving him less control over palette or pattern. \nWith approximately 20 new pieces on view in SWEET\, Ellzey continues his exploration of the rolled paper module\, the process in creating the module\, and the resulting compositions and textures when the module is replicated and combined. In the process of these works\, Ellzey’s architectural training is evident. He was always drawn to model-making and the notion of creating things by hand. Modules provide scale and the hand is visible in the final product\, as each roll of paper is meticulously reworked by the artist. “This process of rolling is a meditative process. I find great inspiration in mundane\, methodical tasks. My mind is free to concentrate on exactly how and why I’m driven to create a particular piece.” The rolled pages that make up his work are filled with energy\, like springs waiting to snap back. \n“You say to a brick\, “What do you want\, brick?” And brick says to you\, “I like an arch.” -Louis Kahn \nThroughout SWEET\, Ellzey returns to the origins of his process by focusing on elements of color\, form\, and composition. In paring down the recent works to their basics\, Ellzey also simplified his inspirations and returned to his past. He began to revisit children’s books that formed his earliest visual memories and researched artists and designers that were working in the early sixties. Through this process he discovered the work of Mary Blair.  An unsung hero of the Disney animation studios and creative force in advertising and design\, Blair was responsible for the “It’s A Small World” attraction for the New York World’s Fair and then Disneyland. The juxtapositions of color with folk art patterning and imagery in her work hugely influenced his perception of the world as a child. Blair’s work as well as the styles of Alexander Girard and Charles and Ray Eames have guided the color and energy of Ellzey’s new body of work. \nDuring this tumultuous political season\, the process of creating these pieces\, as well as the imagery and materials involved\, has been a bulwark against a daily barrage of cynicism and acrimony. SWEET is unabashedly happy and optimistic\, and Ellzey hopes his audience will be similarly inspired. \n\n \n\n\n \n\nArtist Biography \nBrantley Ellzey is an architect and artist who has operated an independent studio in the Crosstown neighborhood of Memphis since 2010.  With degrees in Architecture and Theater Design from Tulane University\, Ellzey creates art that illustrates the precision and structural form of architecture while embodying the colorful thrill and drama of the theater.  His works consist primarily of paper from magazines\, books and other printed media which he deconstructs\, rolls and methodically builds into complex\, layered forms.  Drawing from the themes of the selected materials\, he expresses the anatomy of a journal\, making the subject and content visually apparent in the piece with lines\, color and overall construction.  His work is in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the United States\, such as Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital\, West Cancer Center\, Bass Berry + Sims\, Wunderlich Securities\, and Iberia Bank. Examples of his architectural work are First Congregational Church\, The Museum of Modern Spinal Surgery at Medtronic\,The Kemmons Wilson Exhibit at the Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality and Resort Management at University of Memphis\, the renovation of Immaculate Conception Cathedral\, and Ballet Memphis (Cordova). URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/brantley-ellzey-sweet/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Screen-Shot-2016-08-17-at-3.14.55-PM.png GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160928T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20161002T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160908T195306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T195848Z UID:10002844-1475038800-1475413200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Torn Down By Thursday DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Wednesday\, September 28\, 6-9 pm\nOn view Thursday-Sunday\, September 29-October 2 \n\nAn exhibition of  flyers and posters from Memphis’ underground music scene\, from the 1970s to now \nOrganized by Goner Records | GONERFEST 13 URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/torn-down-by-thursday/ LOCATION:TN CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/gonerfest13artshow001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160922T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160922T153000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160902T162429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160902T173856Z UID:10002837-1474547400-1474558200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Exhibit: Hope DESCRIPTION:On view at Arts on the Grounds at New Hope Christian Academy\nOrganized by Crosstown Arts and Elliot Perry in collaboration with New Hope\n\n\n\nElliot Perry and Crosstown Arts are collaborating with New Hope Christian Academy (NHCA)\, an urban elementary school in the Frayser community of Memphis\, to curate Exhibit: Hope. The show is a component of a larger arts-focused fundraising event\, Arts on the Grounds\, that will celebrate and benefit NHCA and its Arts Academy program. \n\nLester Merriweather\nGreely Myatt\nTerry Lynn\nKong Wee Pang\nCathy Lancaster\nNancy Dorman\nEmily Ozier\nCathy Graham\nCarl Moore\nMelody Weintraub\nMary Jo Karimnia\nHamlett Dobbins\nRachael Grant\nLawrence Matthews\nPinkney Herbert\nYancy Villa Calvo\nDanny Broadway\nChloe York\nSusan Maakestad\n\n\n  \nNew Hope currently enrolls over 420 students from grades PK3 – 6th and is now in its 20th year. The school offers a challenging intellectual and Christ-centered learning environment with a wide range of academic and extracurricular opportunities for its students. The unique school grounds consist of a working “urban” farm\, an adjacent “urban” forest of several acres (for experimental outdoor learning)\, as well as a STEAM-inspired maker space. Through these upcoming events\, we look forward to raising awareness of the future needs (and current highlights) of NHCA’s growing Arts Academy program. \n\nFor more information\, please contact Gray Byrd\, Development Coordinator at New Hope Christian Academy at gbyrd@newhopememphis.org. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/exhibit-hope/ LOCATION:New Hope Christian Academy\, 3000 University St\, Memphis\, TN\, 38127\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/C_Moore.jpg GEO:35.2077197;-89.989726 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=New Hope Christian Academy 3000 University St Memphis TN 38127 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=3000 University St:geo:-89.989726,35.2077197 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160819T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160917T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160629T185224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160802T162910Z UID:10002810-1471582800-1474117200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Anthology: Somewhere Not Here DESCRIPTION:OPENING FRIDAY\, AUGUST 19\, 6-9 pm\nON VIEW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 17\nRelated event: A Real Imitation\n\nCURATED BY TOMMY KHA\nPao Houa Her\nManal Abu-Shaheen\nJohanna Case-Hofmeister\nJen Davis\nCurran Hatleberg\nKa-Man Tse\nPixy Liao\nJoel W. Fisher\nDru Donovan\nMichael Marcelle\nFarah Al Qasimi\nSara Maria Salamone\nJustine Kurland\nRyan James MacFarland\nShane Lavalette\nRory Mulligan\nHannah Price\nNelson Chan\nLilly McElroy \n\nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Anthology: Somewhere Not Here\, an exhibition of photography and video curated by New York/Memphis-based artist Tommy Kha. \nAnthology collects images by an array of contemporary photographers sharing a common process instead of specific genre or subject. The works are informed by the acts of their journeys—seeking\, feeling\, and finding through passages of time and place. \nFeatured artists include Pao Houa Her\, Manal Abu-Shaheen\, Johanna Case-Hofmeister\, Jen Davis\, Curran Hatleberg\, Ka-Man Tse\, Pixy Liao\, Joel W. Fisher\, Dru Donovan\, Michael Marcelle\, Farah Al Qasimi\, Sara Maria Salamone\, Justine Kurland\, Ryan James MacFarland\, Shane Lavalette\, Rory Mulligan\, Hannah Price\, Nelson Chan\, and Lilly McElroy. \nLearn more about the artists below. \nFrom the curator \nLife is not about significant details\, illuminated a flash\, fixed forever. Photographs are. \n– Susan Sontag \nSomewhere Not Here brings together a diverse group of contemporary photographers. Rather than relying on a particular theme\, the selected artists and works are connected through a hunting and gathering gesture in picture making. \nThe pictures\, intentionally printed in small format to reference drug store prints and postcards\, vary in subject matter and genre. They share and borrow languages such as landscape\, the open road\, picture as document\, and street photography. \nThe photographers are nomadic\, always in search of images that are elusive and not always present\, not easily hunted. \nCurran Hatleberg and Justine Kurland actively travel the American Road\, while Manal Abu-Shaheen seeks her subjects in further places\, crossing vast oceans to photograph in her home country. \nOften\, the way home is the source of the artists’ images. Ka-man Tse presents a picture of the personal journey\, of her wife and Tse’s parents sharing a meal together in the same frame. Lilly McElroy’s video\, Hopeful Romantic\, reflects another aspect of artist’s performative nature—a performed Lilly McElroy. The video is edited to Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” as she drives from Maine to California. \nSome respond on impulse\, referencing modes of transport\, manifested as a sort of muse—a sitter for the camera. At times\, these modes become a temporary studio space for Pixy Liao\, as she travels back to China with her boyfriend\, Moro Magario. \nOthers respond to constraints. Hannah Price’s pictures may take cues from Oulipo\, a French literary movement\, where she actively makes photographs “during a time people consider to be the most menacing; during the dark nights and of those who blend in with it. At night\, I roam the streets looking for subjects of this type.” \nThe rest could be seen as collections of the world seen in passing—the gathered. \n\nAbout Tommy Kha \nTommy Kha (b. 1988\, Memphis\, Tennessee) received his BFA in Photography from Memphis College of Art and his MFA from Yale University School of Art. His work has been published in Modern Painters\, Humble Arts\, Slate\, the Huffington Post\, Blouin ArtInfo\, BUTT Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, and Miranda July’s “We Think Alone” and exhibited at Deli Gallery\, Ryerson Artspace\, Georgia Scherman Projects\, Aperture\, Signal Gallery\, ALLGOLD at MoMA PS1 Printshop\, Johalla ProAjects\, Yongkang Lu Art\, and Kunstverein Wolfsburg. He was an artist-in-residence through the Center for Photography at Woodstock and Light Work. Recently\, Kha published his first monograph\, A Real Imitation\, through Aint-Bad Magazine. He currently lives and works in New York City and Memphis.\nLearn more \n\n\nAbout the Artists \nPao Houa Her was born somewhere in the northern jungles of Laos. She fled Laos with her family when she was a baby\, crossed the Mekong on her mother’s back\, was fed opium to keep from crying\, lived in the refugee camps in Thailand and landed in America on a silver metal bird in the mid 1980s. She is a visual artist who works within multiple genres of photography. She has exhibited in numerous shows both nationally and internationally including a solo show at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Her received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University. \nManal Abu-Shaheen is a Lebanese-American photographer currently living and working in Long Island City\, NY. She was born in Beirut in 1982 and moved from Lebanon to New York in 2000. Abu-Shaheen received a MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art\, New Haven\, CT in 2011; a BA from Sarah Lawrence College\, Bronxville\, NY in 2003; and attended Lebanese American University\, Byblos\, Lebanon in 1999. Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum\, Queens\, NY (2016); The Center for Fine Art Photography\, Fort Collins\, CO (2016); The Bronx Museum of the Arts\, Bronx\, NY (2015); The Print Shop at MoMA PS1\, Queens\, NY (2014); Camera Club of New York\, NY (2013); and Welch School of Art and Design Galleries\, Atlanta\, GA (2012)\, among others. She is a recipient of the 2016/17 A.I.R Gallery Fellowship and the 2015 Artist in the Marketplace Residency program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She currently teaches at the City College of New York. \nJohanna Case-Hofmeister received an MFA from Yale University in 2013. She went on to study projection design and technology at the Yale School of Drama. Her photography has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is currently an Associate Professor in Photography at Long Island University. \nJen Davis is a New York based photographer. For the past fourteen years she has been working on a series of Self-Portrait’s dealing with issues regarding beauty\, identity\, and body image. She has also been exploring men as a subject\, and is interested in investigating the idea of the relationship\, both physical and psychological\, with her camera. Her first monograph titled Eleven Years\, published by Kehrer Verlag (Germany) was released in the Spring of 2014 accompanied by her first solo show in New York City at ClampArt. She received an MFA from Yale University in 2008\, and BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2002. Davis’ work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In the fall of 2016 Davis will have a solo exhibition in FotoFocus 2016 Biennial in Cincinnati\, Ohio. Her photographs are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago\, The Sir Elton John Photography Collection\, and The Library of Congress\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston. Davis is represented by Lee Marks Fine Art and ClampArt\, NY. \nCurran Hatleberg (b. 1982\, Washington\, DC) received his MFA from Yale University in 2010. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including recent shows at Higher Pictures gallery and Fraenkel Gallery. He is the recipient of a 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund grant\, a 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grant\, and the 2010 Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography. Hatleberg’s work is held in various museum collections\, including the SF MoMA\, the Center for Contemporary Photography\, the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University\, the Williams College Museum of Art\, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Lost Coast\, his forthcoming monograph\, will be released by TBW Books in fall 2016. \nKa-Man Tse is a photographer and video artist based in New York.  She received an MFA from Yale University in 2009\, and a BA from Bard College in 2003.   Her images are informed by the points of intersection between the LGBTQ and the Asian Pacific Islander communities\, and what is shared and negotiated between the two seemingly divergent worlds.  Her photography and video begin from small gestures and moments that then unfold in public and private spaces. She has exhibited internationally and nationally; including the Lianzhou Foto Festival in Guangdong\, China\, the Museum of Chinese in America in New York\, NY\, the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York\, NY; Cornell University\, the Palm Springs Art Museum in California\, Capricious Gallery in New York\, NY\, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center\, and Gallery 339 in Philadelphia\, and the Eighth Veil in Los Angeles.  She was a SPARC Artist-in-Residence through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs\, and completed the Artist in the Marketplace Program through the Bronx Museum of Arts. She is the recipient of the 2014-2015 Robert Giard Fellowship.  She currently teaches at Yale University\, where she was appointed lecturer in 2013\, as well Parsons the New School of Design\, since 2011. This spring\, Tse mounted her first solo exhibition at the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh\, PA. Her current project\, Narrow Distances is currently on view in a solo exhibition at Lumenvisum in Hong Kong this summer (July 23 – August 21\, 2016); her work is also currently on view at the New York Public Library\, Mulberry Street Branch in Soho (June 1 – September 7\, 2016). \nBorn and raised in Shanghai\, China\, Pixy Liao is an artist currently resides in Brooklyn.She is a recipient of NYFA Fellowship in photography\, En Foco’s New Works Fellowship and LensCulture Exposure Awards\, etc. She has done artist residencies at Pioneer Works\, Light Work\, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, Center for Photography at Woodstock\, and Camera Club of New York. Liao’s photographs have been exhibited internationally\, including He Xiangning Art Museum (China)\, Asia Society (Houston)\, Flower Gallery (NY)\,  VT Artsalon (Taiwan)\, Kips Gallery (Korea)\, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space (Lebanon)\,  Format (UK)\, Noorderlicht (Netherland)\, etc\,.Liao holds a MFA in photography from University of Memphis. \nJoel W. Fisher (b. Newport\, VT) received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of New Hampshire in 1997 and a Master in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. From 2006-2007 he worked and studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig\, Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship. His work has shown both nationally and internationally in both group and solo exhibitions. Work in collaboration with J.T. Leonard entitled Landmark was shown in group and two person exhibitions including Wassaic Projects’ Return to Rattlesnake Mountain\, AD/HD at KNOWMOREGAMES and P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E Galleries in Brooklyn\, and solo exhibitions in Kansas City and Indianapolis in 2013 and 2014. A monograph entitled Landmark was published by Daylight Books in the spring of 2015 and was short-listed for the Aperture Foundation First Book Prize. Work from an on-going solo project entitled Agapage appeared in exhibitions Shifting Practices: Allusions\, Interventions\, and Conventions in Contemporary Photography at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter at the Fraenkel Gallery in 2015. Joel has received grants from the Oregon Arts Commission\, Ford Family and Mellon Foundations and was a participant in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program (2015-2016). Joel also co-curated and wrote the introduction for the exhibition catalog Reinventing Documentary: The Art of Allan Sekula (2015). Joel was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology\, an area head of photography at the City College of New York (CUNY)\, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Studio Head of Photography at Lewis and Clark College. \nDru Donovan received a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2004 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2009. Donovan’s work has shown nationally and internationally and was included in reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne\, Switzerland\, and in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art\, Fraenkel Gallery\, Yancey Richardson Gallery\, Hap Gallery and Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. Donovan’s photographs have been published in Aperture Magazine\, Blind Spot\, Picture Magazine\, Matte Magazine\, The New York Times Magazine and Vice. Her work is in the collections of Deutsche Bank and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2011TBW Books published her first book\, Lifting Water. In 2011-2012 she participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace studio residency. Awards Donovan has received are the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship in 2015 and is a 2016-2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. She has taught at many institutions including Parsons School for Design\, Pratt Institute\, Lewis & Clark College\, University of Hartford and Yale University and will be a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard in the fall of 2016. \nMichael Marcelle was born in New Jersey in 1983\, received a BA from Bard College in 2005 and an MFA from Yale University in 2013. His work has been exhibited at Aperture Foundation\, Interstate Projects\, Pioneer Works\, Austin Center for Photography\, and has been featured in The New Yorker\, Vice Magazine\, Vogue\, Paper Journal\, and more. \nFarah Al Qasimi\, born 1991 in Abu Dhabi\, is an artist and musician. Farah studied photography and music at Yale University (New Haven\, Connecticut) and is currently an MFA candidate in the Photography program at the Yale School of Art. Farah has participated in residencies at the Burren College of Art in Ireland\, at her studio in Dubai (with the support of the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation) and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Recent shows include Coming Up Roses at The Third Line\, Dubai; Biennial for Arab Photography at Institut du Monde Arabe\, Paris; Emirati Expressions at Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi; Walls and Margins at the Barjeel Art Foundation\, Sharjah; and Black Mirror at the Aperture Foundation\, New York. \nSara Maria Salamone is a photographer and independent curator who has earned her BA in Photography from Hampshire College and her MFA in Photography and Related Media from Parsons The New School for Design. Salamone has curated exhibitions at Albany Center Gallery in Albany\, NY and LAUNCH F18\, NYCAMs\, and site95 in NYC. Salamone also comes from a diverse and experienced background\, having worked at Casey Kaplan\, site95\, The Armory Show\, Frieze New York among many others. Her most recent solo exhibition was held at GCA in Brooklyn\, NY. Salamone lives and works in Brooklyn. \nJustine Kurland is an artist who is lives in New York\, and is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash. \nRyan James MacFarland\, born Tallahassee\, FL in 1985\, is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in analog photography. Working with both natural and found environments as his primary subject\, MacFarland explores the relationship to his surroundings informed by concepts such as nonlinear science\, cosmic intervention and conscious existence. His work has been exhibited in the US and abroad since 2004 and written about or published in Art F City\, Artinfo\, DuJour\, Purple\, OUT\, The New York Times\, Vogue\, W and Whitewall. He lives and works in Brooklyn\, NY. \nShane Lavalette\, born 1987\, in Burlington\, VT\, is an American photographer\, the founding Publisher/Editor of Lavalette\, and the Director of Light Work. He holds a BFA from Tufts University in partnership with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston. Lavalette’s photographs have been shown widely\, including exhibitions at the High Museum of Art\, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University\, Aperture Gallery\, Montserrat College of Art\, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University\, The Center for Photography at Woodstock\, The Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, and Musée de l’Elysée\, in addition to being held in private and public collections. In 2016\, a solo exhibition of One Sun\, One Shadowwas presented at Robert Morat Galerie in Hamburg\, Germany. His editorial work has been published in various magazines\, including The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, Newsweek\, Esquire\, Bloomberg Businessweek\, Vice Magazine\, The Wire\, Wallpaper*\, among others. Lavalette is currently based in Upstate New York. \nRory Mulligan currently lives in Hastings-on-Hudson\, New York. He received a BA from Fordham University and a MFA from Yale University in 2010. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is included in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Mulligan’s work has been published by J&L Books (Atlanta)\, Blind Spot Magazine (New York) and Art Licks (London) and his writing is featured in The Photographer’s Playbook published by Aperture. He was a 2014 Artist in Residence at Light Work in Syracuse\, New York and is currently a Process Space Resident for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. \nRaised in Fort Collins\, Colorado\, Hannah Price\, born in 1986\, is a photographic artist and filmmaker primarily interested in documenting relationships\, race politics\, perception and misperception.  Price is internationally known for her project City of Brotherly Love (2009-2012)\, a series of photographs of the men who catcalled her on the streets of Philadelphia. In 2014\, Price graduated from the Yale School of Art MFA Photography program\, receiving the Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography.  Over the past six years\, Price’s photos have been displayed in several cities across the United States\, with a few residing in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. \nNelson Chan was born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan and has spent most of his life between the States and Hong Kong. Having grown up on two continents with unique cultures\, this immigrant experience has influenced the majority of Nelson’s work. He continues to explore this duality of personal and cultural identity through the medium of photography. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design\, where he received a BFA and a graduate of the University of Hartford\, Hartford Art School\, where is received his MFA. Nelson is based in New York City and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn\, New York. \nLilly McElroy is an American photographer born in Wilcox\, Arizona. The artistic projects she pursues are a reflection of her complex relationship with the American West and exploring what it means to be an American in a time of diminished expectations. She received her BFA in Photography in 2003 and BA in creative writing in 2004 from University of Arizona\, and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/anthology-somewhere-not-here/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Pixy_6-003-copy-1.jpg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160805T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160805T133000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160425T204743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160802T162753Z UID:10002764-1470400200-1470403800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:FISH Gallery Talk DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the inspiration behind and production of FISH from its creators Laura Jean Hocking\, Sarah Fleming\, and Christopher Reyes.\nRECENT PRESS\n\n\n\nLaura Jean Hocking\n\nThe universe was mysteriously created; fourteen billion years later Laura Jean Hocking became a filmmaker. She has edited four feature films\, including the award winning documentary Antenna\, and directed and/or edited dozens of music videos and experimental short films. Her most recent creation is the Indie Grant funded short film\, “How To Skin A Cat.” \n\nSarah Fleming\nFor over a decade Sarah has worked as a filmmaker and visual artist in the Memphis area.  She has produced and directed numerous award-winning works of art\, spanning the spectrum from narrative and documentary films to music videos to experimental films and projection pieces.  Currently she heads up her own production company\, Cat and Fish\, and is an active member of both Team Electron and Film Fatales. Sarah is passionate about creativity and an engaged member of the Memphis community. \n\nChristopher Reyes\nChristopher Reyes AKA Ninjacat is an experiential artist combining traditional murals\, sculptures\, and installations\, with original soundscapes\, music\, film\, projection mapping\, and technology.  Most recent installations include the Moonpie Project with Birdcap and NFO with the Urban Art Commission. \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/fish-gallery-talk/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/seahorse.jpg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160722T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160813T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160425T204743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160726T191308Z UID:10002763-1469163600-1471093200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:FISH DESCRIPTION:On view Tuesday-Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm through August 13\nGallery Talk: Friday\, August 5\, 5:30 pm\nExperience a magical underwater world. From the minds of Laura Jean Hocking\, Sarah Fleming\, and Christopher Reyes\, FISH is an immersive\, site-specific display combining traditional audio\, visual\, and sculptural media with technology.\n\n\nRECENT PRESS \n\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nLaura Jean Hocking\n\nThe universe was mysteriously created; fourteen billion years later Laura Jean Hocking became a filmmaker. She has edited four feature films\, including the award winning documentary Antenna\, and directed and/or edited dozens of music videos and experimental short films. Her most recent creation is the Indie Grant funded short film\, “How To Skin A Cat.” \n\nSarah Fleming\nFor over a decade Sarah has worked as a filmmaker and visual artist in the Memphis area.  She has produced and directed numerous award-winning works of art\, spanning the spectrum from narrative and documentary films to music videos to experimental films and projection pieces.  Currently she heads up her own production company\, Cat and Fish\, and is an active member of both Team Electron and Film Fatales. Sarah is passionate about creativity and an engaged member of the Memphis community. \n\nChristopher Reyes\nChristopher Reyes AKA Ninjacat is an experiential artist combining traditional murals\, sculptures\, and installations\, with original soundscapes\, music\, film\, projection mapping\, and technology.  Most recent installations include the Moonpie Project with Birdcap and NFO with the Urban Art Commission. \n\n  \n\n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/fish/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/two-fish.jpg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160610T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160709T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160401T200256Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160705T194430Z UID:10002746-1465534800-1468069200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Say Hello to America! DESCRIPTION:OPENING EVENT: FRIDAY\, JUNE 10\, 6-9 PM\n\nParticipating artists:  \nKenneth Alexander\, Mary Baddour\, Timothy Barker\, Nick Canterucci\, Len Clark\, Saj Crone\, Temple Daniels\, Judith Dierkes\, Charles Dwyer\, Brantley Ellzey\, Jay Etkin\, Adam Farmer\, Jan Hankins\, Carrol Harding McTyre\, Kenneth Johnston\, Paula Kovarik\, Taylor Loftin\, Elysia Mann\, Barbi Martin\, Sophia Mason\, Lester Merriweather\, Andrea Morales\, Margaret Munz-Losch\, Nathan Parten\, Alex Paulus\, Terri Phillips\, Erica     Qualy\, Carrie Schule\, Matt Seltzer\, Valerie Shavers\, Valerie Sparks\, Kyle Taylor\, Lance Turner\, Jeane Umbreit\, Jeff Unthank\, Richard Varnon\, Keysha Warr\, Stephanie Wexler\, Jana Wilson & Meredith Wilson \n\nHi Friends\, \nOf all the madness in American politics at the moment\, it’s nearly impossible to get your head around exactly what’s happening. Somehow\, it’s all very funny and sad and terrifying at the same time. Dr. Thomas More asked a question in the opening lines of Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins that feels eerily appropriate to ask now: \nIn these dread latter days of the old violent beloved and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death dealing western world…undoubtedly something is about to happen. Or is it that something has stopped happening? Is it that God has at last removed his blessing from the U.S.A. and what we feel now is just the clank of the old historical machinery\, the sudden jerking ahead of the roller-coaster cars as the chain catches hold and carries us back into history with its ordinary catastrophies\, carries us out and up toward the brink from that felicitous and privileged siding where even unbelievers admitted that if it was not God who blessed the U.S.A\, then at least some great good luck had befallen us\, and that now the blessing or the luck is over\, the machinery clanks\, the chain catches hold\, and the cars jerk forward? \nBut who needs words to describe what’s happening to America? Did you get bored reading that last paragraph? It was kind of long\, right? Way too many words for this news cycle. Keep the words short\, mean what you say—or don’t. Tomorrow’s another headline. \nMillions of Americans are supporting a man for president who has stayed in the forefront of the news by repeatedly saying outrageous things with a very limited range of words\, usually 140 characters or less at a time. He’s definitely onto something and knows it\, even claiming “I know words. I have the best words.” \nThis is a season of extremes\, but in the words of Extreme’s “More than Words\,” “more than words is all you have to do to make it real.” \nPlease consider yourself invited to submit works of visual art\, music\, or performance related to the current political landscape (or anything to do with politics\, America\, etc.) for the upcoming exhibit Say Hello To America! All that we ask is that you keep it real\, using words\, or not. Whatever. \nHere is my submission to the show\, made in collaboration with Memphis-based artist Sadie Yanckello. The photo is of my son\, with an American made beer\, because he loves America. I promise this photo is “real.” It even has words on it to prove it! \n \nChristopher Miner & Sadie Yanckello\, The 4.2%\, digital collage\, 2016\n“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America. That’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” – Mitt Romney \nHope to see you soon\,\nChris \n\n  \n1.Important Dates \nSubmission deadline: Sunday\, May 15 \nSelection notices sent: Friday\, May 20 \nArtwork drop-off: Monday\, June 6\, 9am-6pm \nOpening Reception: Friday\, June 10\, 6-9 pm \nArtwork pick-up: Sunday\, July 10\, 3-5 pm and Monday\, July 11\, 9am-noon  \nDates on view: June 10-July 9\, 2016\, Tuesday-Friday\, 10 am – 6 pm \nOther events TBA \n2.Size Limit\nThere is no restriction on size of artwork other than reasonable passage through a standard doorway. \n3.Display Requirements\nAll artwork must be delivered ready to hang/install to be included in the exhibition. Please communicate any specific installation needs (special handling\, pedestal needs\, AV equipment needs\, etc) in submission form. \n4.Sales\nAll proceeds from sales go directly to artists. Crosstown Arts does not take a commission. Crosstown Arts will facilitate sales via cash\, check (made out to the artist) or Visa/MasterCard via Square during the run of the show. More details to follow. \n5.SUBMISSION FORM \nSubmit entries online through this form \n\nContact: For more information please contact us at info@crosstownarts.org \nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N Cleveland\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104 URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/say-hello/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/loading.gif GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160429T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160521T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160211T203131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160520T194004Z UID:10002712-1461906000-1463835600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Belongings II: Repurposed DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, April 29\, 6-9 pm\n\n\nCall to Artists – February 2016\nBelongings II: Repurposed \nAn open call exhibition organized by Crosstown Arts and the Cleveland Street Flea Market \nThis second incarnation of the Belongings show continues in the spirit of community and the reuse and re-imagining of objects. All artists are invited to participate by purchasing any object of inspiration from the Cleveland Street Flea Market at 438 N Cleveland to transform into (or use as inspiration for) a new work of art. \nThe nostalgia and surprise felt when browsing at a flea market is a ripe field for artistic interpretation. A psychedelic print from the 70’s can inspire a color scheme or shape motif. A plastic bust of Scooby Doo can evoke early childhood Saturday mornings in front of the TV. A cover of an early genre pulp fiction paperback might be a poignant reminder of how prevalent attitudes have changed since the 1950’s. \nOne submission per artist will be accepted based on the guidelines below. All artists are welcome to participate regardless of their level of expertise or prior art experience. \nBelongings II: Repurposed will be on view at \nCrosstown Arts Gallery\, 422 N Cleveland\, April 29- May 14\, 2016 \n\nCall for Submissions\n1. Submit via Formstack \nClick here to submit \n2. Important Dates \nArtwork submission deadline/drop-off: Monday\, April 25\, 2-7 pm at Crosstown Arts at 422 N Cleveland \nOpening Reception: Friday\, April 29\, 6-9 pm \nGallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday\, April 29 – May 14\, 10 am – 6 pm \nArtwork pick-up: Sunday\, May 15\, 2-5 pm and Monday\, May 16\, 12-6 pm \n3. Fees\nThere is no fee to participate in the show other than the cost of purchasing an item from the Cleveland Street Flea Market to be incorporated into or used as inspiration for the artwork for the show. Prices of objects in the flea market are $1+ \n4. Size limit\nThere is no restriction on size of artwork other than reasonable passage through a standard doorway. \n5. Display requirements\nAll artwork must be delivered ready to hang/install to be included in the exhibition. Please communicate any specific installation needs (special handling\, pedestal needs\, AV equipment needs\, etc) by email to maryjo@crosstownarts.org before delivery. \n6.Sales\nCrosstown Arts will facilitate sales via cash\, check (made out to the artist) or Visa/MasterCard via square during the run of the show. More details to follow. \nContact: For more information please contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org or 901-626-6298 URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/belongings-ii-repurposed/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/ea7b77e1-1613-4e0e-a6fc-97453c31fa61.jpg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160417T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160417T160000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160304T142135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160415T192839Z UID:10002501-1460903400-1460908800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Duets for Mellotron - Encore DESCRIPTION:ENCORE PERFORMANCE ADDED: SUNDAY\, APRIL 17\, 7:30 PM \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Duets for Mellotron\, a live performance by Jonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant\, organized in collaboration with Winston Eggleston. \nThis unique performance experience—the world’s first Mellotron duet—features an obscure but ingenious keyboard instrument invented in the 1940s which was designed to reproduce the sound of virtually any acoustic\, electromechanical\, or synthesized instrument. \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nThe M400 and a new M4000 cycling Mellotron\, from Winston Eggleston’s small but diverse Mellotron collection\, will be played at the performance. Eggleston will also share a series of new site-specific digital projections to complement the music. \nThe collaboration will result in a forthcoming limited-release vinyl recording of the performance and other duets for Mellotron composed by the artists. \nEvent tickets can be purchased in advance\, online for $30 (includes a copy of the record) or $15 (performance only). Capacity is limited. Performance location is Crosstown Arts at 422 N. Cleveland\, Memphis. A complimentary reception will take place prior to the performance. \n\nTICKETS \nDuets for Mellotron\nSaturday\, April 16\, 8 pm doors/8:30 pm show (45 mins)\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\nTickets: $15 / $30 with record\nSOLD OUT \n\nDuets for Mellotron Encore\nSunday\, April 17\, 7:30 pm doors/8 pm show (45 mins)\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\nTickets: $15 / $30 with record \n \n\n\n\nOrganized by Robby Grant\, Jonathan Kirkscey\, and Winston Eggleston \nMore about the Mellotron: \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nAn American engineer named Harry Chamberlin invented the precursor to the Mellotron in the late 1940s. While playing his Hammond organ\, he wondered if it would be possible to create a keyboard instrument that allowed the player to reproduce a wider range of orchestral and brass sounds. Over the course of many decades and through the hands of several manufacturers and marketers\, the Mellotron’s technology and appearance took many forms. \nWhile the individual instruments sampled for the Mellotron were recorded in the highest available fidelity for the time\, the wow and flutter of the tape playback mechanism\, as well as the ability to affect volume and speed through the relative amount of pressure applied to the keys all contribute to the instrument’s characteristic sound. \nThe iconic sound of the Mellotron has helped shape important moments in the history of modern music\, such as the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever\,” and work by The Moody Blues\, Pink Floyd\, Yes\, Genesis\, and Led Zeppelin\, to name a few. \nMore about the artists/organizers: \nJonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant have been playing music together for over 10 years with the band Mouserocket. Jonathan also performs with Glorie\, String Theory\, the Memphis Symphony\, and recently scored the documentary “Best of Enemies.” Robby has performed at Crosstown previously with the experimental band\, >mancontrol<. He most recently recorded and released “Let the Little Things Go” under the Vending Machine moniker. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/duets-for-mellotron-encore/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery,Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CXA-Mellotron-031916-IG.png GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160416T170000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160304T142135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160414T175200Z UID:10002499-1460818800-1460826000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Duets for Mellotron DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT!  \nENCORE PERFORMANCE ADDED: SUNDAY\, APRIL 17\, 7:30 PM \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Duets for Mellotron\, a live performance by Jonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant\, organized in collaboration with Winston Eggleston. \nThis unique performance experience—the world’s first Mellotron duet—features an obscure but ingenious keyboard instrument invented in the 1940s which was designed to reproduce the sound of virtually any acoustic\, electromechanical\, or synthesized instrument. \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nThe M400 and a new M4000 cycling Mellotron\, from Winston Eggleston’s small but diverse Mellotron collection\, will be played at the performance. Eggleston will also share a series of new site-specific digital projections to complement the music. \nThe collaboration will result in a forthcoming limited-release vinyl recording of the performance and other duets for Mellotron composed by the artists. \nEvent tickets can be purchased in advance\, online for $30 (includes a copy of the record) or $15 (performance only). Capacity is limited. Performance location is Crosstown Arts at 422 N. Cleveland\, Memphis. A complimentary reception will take place prior to the performance. \n\nTICKETS \nDuets for Mellotron\nSaturday\, April 16\, 8 pm doors/8:30 pm show (45 mins)\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\nTickets: $15 / $30 with record\nSOLD OUT \n\nDuets for Mellotron Encore\nSunday\, April 17\, 7:30 pm doors/8 pm show (45 mins)\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\nTickets: $15 / $30 with record \n \n\n\n\nOrganized by Robby Grant\, Jonathan Kirkscey\, and Winston Eggleston \nMore about the Mellotron: \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nAn American engineer named Harry Chamberlin invented the precursor to the Mellotron in the late 1940s. While playing his Hammond organ\, he wondered if it would be possible to create a keyboard instrument that allowed the player to reproduce a wider range of orchestral and brass sounds. Over the course of many decades and through the hands of several manufacturers and marketers\, the Mellotron’s technology and appearance took many forms. \nWhile the individual instruments sampled for the Mellotron were recorded in the highest available fidelity for the time\, the wow and flutter of the tape playback mechanism\, as well as the ability to affect volume and speed through the relative amount of pressure applied to the keys all contribute to the instrument’s characteristic sound. \nThe iconic sound of the Mellotron has helped shape important moments in the history of modern music\, such as the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever\,” and work by The Moody Blues\, Pink Floyd\, Yes\, Genesis\, and Led Zeppelin\, to name a few. \nMore about the artists/organizers: \nJonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant have been playing music together for over 10 years with the band Mouserocket. Jonathan also performs with Glorie\, String Theory\, the Memphis Symphony\, and recently scored the documentary “Best of Enemies.” Robby has performed at Crosstown previously with the experimental band\, >mancontrol<. He most recently recorded and released “Let the Little Things Go” under the Vending Machine moniker. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/duets-for-mellotron/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery,Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CXA-Mellotron-031916-IG.png GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160304T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160402T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20160125T182306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160303T213447Z UID:10002484-1457064000-1459602000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:do it DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY\, MARCH 4\, 6-9 PM\nARTIST TALKS AND PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY\, MARCH 5\, 5-7 PM\nIn the early nineties the international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and the artists Bertrand Lavier and Christian Boltanski wanted more flexible and open-ended art exhibitions.  Could “scores” or written instructions by artists\, as a point of departure\, be interpreted anew every time they were enacted? Twenty years later the exhibition they came to call do it grew to include instructions by nearly three-hundred artists\, choreographers\, writers\, and poets and has been featured in more than fifty exhibitions worldwide. This spring the Art Museum of the University of Memphis in collaboration with the Lambuth campus and Crosstown Arts will present more than 2 dozen interpretations of the do it instructions.\n\nCrosstown Arts:  March 4 – April 2\nAMUM: April 9 – May 7\nUniversity of Memphis Lambuth: March 17 \nPROJECTS ON VIEW AT CROSSTOWN ARTS:\n\nJoseph Grigely instruction interpreted by Johnathan Payne\n\n\nFelix Gonzales-Torres Untitled interpreted by Joel Parsons (installation image on homepage)\n\n\nTracey Emin What Would Tracy Do? interpreted by Terri Jones\n\n\nRirkrit Tiravanija Untitled interpreted by Catherine Pena\n\n\nClaire Fontaine instruction interpreted by Terry Lynn\n\n\nMeg Cranston instruction interpreted by Corkey Sinks\n\n\ndo it is an exhibition conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist\, and organized by Independent Curators International (ICI)\, New York. do it and the accompanying publication\, do it: the compendium\, were made possible\, in part\, by grants from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation\, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation\, and with the generous support from Project Perpetual and ICI’s International Forum and Board of Trustees.\n  \n\n  \nSponsored locally by The University of Memphis Student Activity Fee Fund URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/do-it/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/do-it.png GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160205T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160227T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20151204T215351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160222T192729Z UID:10002618-1454644800-1456574400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Blind Navigator DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present “Blind Navigator\,” an exhibition of new individual and collaborative works by New York-based artist Clare Torina and Memphis-based artist Alex Paulus. \nClare Torina’s recent paintings and objects refer to one another in sequence\, symbolism\, and mimicry. She pulls from a personal set of fascinations – her dog (Lolita)\, the Illuminati\, basketball\, patriarchal painting history\, ancient art – and subjugates their representations to a multitude of transitions using color models and plays on style. \nAlex Paulus’s pieces address broken things that must be repeatedly fixed or altered to allow them to continue to function. The subject matter ranges from common objects to human emotions to animals nearing extinction. He presents these damaged subjects\, which can be overlooked and ignored\, that ultimately need to be recognized and reconciled. \nAt the heart of this exhibition is an acknowledgement of the bewilderment and reformation during creative process. Together\, the artists volley to find a metaphor for the act of seeing and being seen while in the throes of malfunction. The blind navigator is the artist\, the viewer\, and the work itself feeling its way through shadows. \nClare Torina is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York. After undergraduate study at the University of Memphis\, she received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited in New York\, Chicago\, Memphis\, and abroad. Additional information and images of her work can be found at claretorina.com. \nAlex Paulus is originally from southeast Missouri\, but has been a resident of Memphis\, TN since 2007. He received his MFA in 2009 from the Memphis College of Art and has been teaching ever since. Paulus’s work has been shown in numerous galleries in Memphis\, Nashville\, Dallas\, St. Louis\, and many others. His work has also been published in Studio Visit magazine and Beautiful/Decay. Additional information and images of his work can be seen at alexanderpaulus.blogspot.com. \nExhibition Press: Memphis Flyer | Commercial Appeal URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/blind-navigator/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Blind-Navigator-copy.jpg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151212T090000 DTSTAMP:20260520T000045 CREATED:20151210T163153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151210T163153Z UID:10002624-1449907200-1449910800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:From the Margins to the Mainstream: Artists with Disabilities Today DESCRIPTION:Curator Talk in conjunction with Extra Celestial  \nIn conjunction with the exhibition\, please join Creative Growth Director Tom di Maria for his gallery talk\, From the Margins to the Mainstream: Artists with Disabilities Today. The talk will review the history and leadership of Creative Growth Art Center’s work as the world’s oldest and largest art center for people with disabilities. He will review the Center’s studio art practice\, the evolution of several key artists\, and its relationship to so-called Outsider Art and to the contemporary art world. \n________________________________ \nAbout Creative Growth \nCreative Growth Art Center is the nation’s oldest and largest artist-run space for artists with disabilities\, offering a professional art studio\, exhibition opportunities\, and a supportive artistic community for 154 adult artists with developmental\, physical\, emotional\, and mental disabilities. Founded in 1974 on the idea that all people can gain strength\, enjoyment and fulfillment from experiences in the arts and are capable of producing works of high artistic merit\, CGAC’s studio program offers\, at no cost\, 74 ongoing workshops led by artists in a range of media. Our year-round Saturday Youth Art program provides 16 young adults with access to our award-winning studio. As a role model organization\, CGAC has fostered the development of over 20 similar centers worldwide. \nCritical to CGAC’s success is its landmark/adjoining gallery. Started in 1978 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as the world’s first gallery for artists with disabilities\, this museum-quality space\, with its six extraordinary annual exhibitions\, serves as a portal to the larger community of viewers and collectors. Over 12\,000 people visit our gallery each year. \nCGAC’s artists are thriving in the mainstream art world\, making significant contributions to the field of contemporary art\, and becoming recognized among the outstanding contemporary artists of our era. Recent accomplishments include: \n–       CGAC artist Judith Scott became our third artist (Dan Miller and William Scott are the others) to have work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art\, New York. These are the only three artists with developmental disabilities with work in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection.\n–       Participation in over 20 outside exhibitions and art fairs\, including our artists’ first presence at: Art Fair Tokyo\, Japan; D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair\, France; and the Codex Book Fair\, Richmond\, CA.\n–       CGAC artists Kerry Damianakes and William Scott received 2015 Wynn Newhouse Awards\, given to artists of excellence who also happen to have disabilities.\n–       “Bound and Unbound\,” a major 5-month retrospective exhibition of CGAC artist Judith Scott’s eighteen years of sculpture making\, was presented at the Brooklyn Museum. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/from-the-margins-to-the-mainstream-artists-with-disabilities-today/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery,Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/David-Albertsen_DA-25-2012_11x15-e1443472716768.jpg GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR