BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Crosstown Arts - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20110313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20111106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20120311T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20121104T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20130310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20131103T070000 END:STANDARD 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151211T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160116T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150929T014127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151206T202841Z UID:10002599-1449806400-1452945600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Extra Celestial DESCRIPTION:Organized in partnership with Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland\, CA)\n Curated by Tom di Maria\, Director of CGAC\nOpening Reception: Friday\, December 11\, 6-9 pm\n Curator Talk: Saturday\, December 12\, 2 pm\nCrosstown Arts is pleased to partner with Creative Growth Art Center to present the upcoming exhibition Extra Celestial. Founded in Oakland\, California in 1973\, Creative Growth serves adult artists with developmental\, mental\, and physical disabilities\, providing a professional studio environment for artistic development\, gallery exhibition and representation\, and more. \nIn Extra Celestial\, Creative Growth artists Luis Aguilera\, David Albertsen\, Terri Bowden\, Susan Janow\, Allan Lofberg\, Dan Miller\, Donald Mitchell\, William Scott\, Ruth Stafford\, William Tyler\, Merritt Wallace and Ed Walter explore concepts of inner and outer space. \nThis ethereal grouping of works on paper presents an otherworldly and highly personal view of inner explorations and celestial journeys. Often abstract\, always visionary\, these colorful and dynamic paintings and drawings serve as maps to a galaxy of dreams and to compelling utopian realities. \nAn important component of Extra Celestial is the gallery premiere of Starquarius\, the new space exploration video from the Creative Growth Video Production Workshop that reflects and re-considers the iconic sci-fi films of our lives. \n\n \n \n \n \n Starquarius (poster)\n \n \n \n \n \n David Albertsen\n \n \n \n \n \n Still from Starquarius\n \n \n\n\nCurator Talk: Saturday\, December 12\, 2 pm \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/extra-celestial/ 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/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-12-06-at-2.23.41-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:20151106T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151205T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150929T011431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151124T162154Z UID:10002597-1446782400-1449316800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Mi Sur/My South DESCRIPTION:A Survey of Latina/o Artists Working in Memphis\nOrganized by Centro Cultural in collaboration with Crosstown Arts and Caritas Village\nMade possible by the First Tennessee Foundation/ArtsFirst\nGallery Talks: Thursday\, December 3\, 5:30-7:30 & Saturday\, December 5\, 2-4 pm\nCall to Artists: Spanish | English\n\n\n“Mi Sur/My South: A Survey of Latina/o Artists Working in Memphis attempts to show a cross section of contemporary Latina/o artists creating artwork in the Memphis area. Mi Sur/My South is concerned with amplifying the artistic voices that have largely been ignored but are in fact and deed contributing to the changing demographic and cultural dynamic disrupting the once binary racial understanding of the South. This exhibition is part of the efforts of Centro Cultural (a Latina/o cultural center based at Caritas Village) to survey and document the artistic life and production of Latina/os in Shelby County. To this end\, the Centro is additionally working to compile an Artist Registry that would include not only visual artists but all creative disciplines. \nAccording to a 2012 paper\,  A Profile of the Hispanic Population in the State of Tennessee\, researched and compiled by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee\, “Latinos were the fastest growing racial or ethnic group in Tennessee during the last ten years.” In fact\, the growth rate of the Hispanic population in Tennessee was the third-fastest in the nation. According to the 2010 Census\, there were 290\,059 Hispanic persons in Tennessee\, representing 4.6 percent of the population. With Shelby County being home to a significant share of Tennessee’s Latina/o population it would be safe to assume that not only have Latina/os contributed to the economic growth of Memphis but to its cultural vitality as well.”\n-Centro Cultural \nSince the inception of the Centro in 2012 there have been annual exhibitions of Latina/o art in the Hope Gallery at Caritas Village\, as well as a fruitful collaboration with the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in producing the highly attended exhibition of Latina/o artists titled Memphis Vive. \nCentro Cultural is proud to participate in partnership with Crosstown Arts and Caritas Village\, the Centro’s homebase\, in organizing this exhibition. \n\n  \n“Mi Sur / Mi Sur – Una encuesta de Latinas / os artistas que trabajan en Memphis (Mi Sur) intenta mostrar una sección transversal de contemporánea Latina / o artista obra creando en el área de Memphis. Mi Sur / Mi Sur está preocupado con la amplificación de las voces artísticas que en gran parte han sido ignorados pero que son de hecho y de obra que contribuye a la cambiante dinámica demográfica y cultural interrumpir el entendimiento racial vez binaria del Sur. Esta exposición forma parte del Centro Cultural\, una o centro de Latina / cultural basado en Caritas pueblo\, los esfuerzos en la topografía y la documentación de la vida artística y la producción de Latina / o en el condado de Shelby. Para ello\, el Centro está trabajando en un Registro artista que incluiría no sólo a artistas visuales\, pero todas las disciplinas creativas. \nDe acuerdo con un documento de 2012 titulado “UN PERFIL DE LA POBLACIÓN HISPANA EN EL ESTADO DE TENNESSEE”\, investigado y compilado por el Centro de Negocios e Investigación Económica de la Universidad de Tennessee: “Los latinos fueron el grupo racial o étnico de más rápido crecimiento en Tennessee durante los últimos diez años. De hecho\, la tasa de crecimiento de la población hispana en Tennessee fue el tercero más rápido en la nación. Según el Censo de 2010\, había 290\,059 personas hispanas en Tennessee\, lo que representa un 4\,6 por ciento de la población. Con el condado de Shelby ser el hogar de una parte significativa de la población Latina / o de Tennessee sería seguro asumir que no sólo tiene Latina / os contribuyó al crecimiento económico de Memphis\, pero a él es la vitalidad cultural.”\n-Centro Cultural \nDesde la creación del Centro en 2012 ha habido exposiciones anuales de Latina / o arte en la Galería de la Esperanza en Caritas Village. También hubo una muy fructífera colaboración con la Galería de Dixon y Jardines en la producción de la exposición altamente asistido de Latina / os artistas titulado\, Memphis Vive. \nEl Centro se enorgullece de participar en sociedad con Crosstown Artes y Caritas Village\, base de operaciones del Centro\, en la organización de esta exposición. \n\n  \nSpecial thanks to the First Tennessee Foundation/ArtsFirst for their support of this exhibition and the partnership between Crosstown Arts and Centro Cultural. \n \n  \n  \n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/mi-sur-my-south/ 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/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-10-26-at-10.37.37-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:20151025T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151025T110000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150930T201231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151027T175802Z UID:10002601-1445763600-1445770800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Beholding and Being Held DESCRIPTION:Performance by artist Joel Parsons in conjunction with You are the Hole\,  currently on view at 422 N. Cleveland. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/beholding-and-being-held/ 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/2015/09/IMG_6277-e1445968653407.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:20151021T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151021T140000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20151007T205021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151009T003335Z UID:10002420-1445430600-1445436000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion with Joel Parsons DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a roundtable discussion with artist Joel Parsons\, in conjunction with You are the Hole\, An Exhibition in Four Acts\,  on view at 422 N. Cleveland. \nThis as an open\, informal opportunity to have a conversation. The session will be recorded and then transcribed and published to our website\, archiving the exhibition through a collection of voices. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/roundtable-discussion-with-joel-parsons/ 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/2015/10/unnamed-3.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;VALUE=DATE:20151008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151101 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150917T221208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151027T180419Z UID:10002593-1444330800-1446317999@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Joel Parsons: You Are the Hole\, An Exhibition in Four Acts DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, October 9\, 6 – 9 pm\nPerformance: Sunday\, October 25\, 2 pm\nYou Are the Hole is the theatre of desire\, abstracted. By presenting the self as something constructed and performed\, Joel Parsons gently prods the human dichotomy of yearning to divulge and yearning to conceal. \nUsing the structural components of a theatre\, he establishes an installation space that is simultaneously formal and intimate. Occupying the transformed stage are sculptures in voluptuous pinks and nudes\, a flesh-like latex curtain and dozens of small drawings. Parsons has made a zine to accompany the exhibition\, which will be available in the gallery. \nThe culmination is Parsons’ performance of his originally-choreographed piece\, “Beholding and Being Held.” \n\nJoel Parsons is an artist\, writer\, and curator based in Memphis\, TN. He is an Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College\, co-director of Beige\, an otherwise space for art and performance\, and a founding member of the ArtsMemphis Artist Advisory Council. A graduate of Rhodes College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, he has exhibited his work in Memphis at the Powerhouse\, Material\, and Southfork Gallery\, as well as at Western Exhibtions in Chicago\, and venues in Peru\, India\, and South Africa. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/you-are-the-hole/ 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/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-09-22-at-12.50.37-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:20150923T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150926T150000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150730T212948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150926T013938Z UID:10002395-1442984400-1443279600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:No Brag Pure Fact: The Art of Graceland Too DESCRIPTION:  \nOpening Reception: Wednesday\, September 23\, 6 – 9 pm\nIn partnership with Gonerfest 12\, Goner Records and Crosstown Arts present No Brag Pure Fact\, an exhibition of artifacts and exclusive footage from Graceland Too. Included are some of Paul MacLeod’s own Elvis-inspired outsider artworks\, notebooks he kept\, and mounted photographs of visitors to his house\, all courtesy of Friends of Graceland Too. Filmmakers Jeffrey Jensen and Geoffrey Shrewsbury have also contributed video footage of MacLeod and clips from their upcoming documentary\, The Rise and Fall of Graceland Too. \nAt the reception\, meet special guests and have the opportunity to purchase Graceland Too Memorabilia\, a commemorative 45 RPM record and “Friends Of Graceland Too” t-shirts. \nExhibition List (PDF)\n\nSpecial Thanks\nThe Friends of Graceland Too\, Filmmakers Jeffrey Jensen and Geoffrey Shrewsbury (The Rise and Fall of Graceland Too)\, Marie Claire Underwood \n\nWho was Paul MacLeod? \nElvis Presley fans tend to be an especially devoted lot\, but Paul MacLeod possessed a zeal few could rival. Driven by his perverse affinity for The King\, he turned his own Holly Springs\, MS home into Graceland Too\, an obsessive\, candy-colored shrine dedicated to all things Elvis\, where his ongoing mission was amassing all of the Presley ephemera he could get his hands on and documenting every mention of the star he could find via radio\, television and film. In addition to being a dogged curator of kingly dreck\, MacLeod was known as a bombastic personality with the eccentric habit of giving lengthy\, frenetic tours of his home to anyone who stopped by\, 24 hours a day. \nSpectacle to some\, sanctuary to others\, Graceland Too was a wayward beacon that attracted Elvis fans from all over the world. \nPaul MacLeod passed away in July of 2014\, and over the past year\, many have offered their time and resources in service of preserving what became his life’s work: sheltering strange treasures and welcoming fellow pilgrims on the road to Graceland (Too). URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/gonerfest-12-graceland-too/ 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/2015/07/postcard_BACK-final-72dpi-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;VALUE=DATE:20150820 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150920 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150728T042721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150827T020816Z UID:10002378-1440097200-1442689199@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Lawrence Matthews III: In a Violent Way DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm \n\nPerformance at Rock For Love: Friday\, September\, 4\, 8:30 pm\nArtist Talk: Thursday\, September 10\, 7:30 pm\n\n\n“A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. \nIn a Violent Way is a multimedia installation by Lawrence Matthews III that incorporates a wide array of visual and audio elements\, from oil painting and collage to tube televisions and archival video footage. To accompany the installation\, Matthews will perform his own original songs at the close of the show’s reception. The exhibition’s title is a nod to the seminal\, genre-bending 1969 Miles Davis recording\, In a Silent Way\, which inspired and guided Matthews while he created this body of work. \nThe imagery of In a Violent Way is sourced from or informed by mass media portrayals of events past and present in four primary cities: Baltimore\, Los Angeles\, St. Louis and Memphis\, each with its own history of entrenched racial discrimination and economic disparity disproportionately affecting people of color. Mixed media works depicting the demonstrations and unrest of the 1960’s tellingly reside alongside banks of television sets showing video footage of more recent discord\, like the 1992 L.A. Riots. These scenes — differing in timeline\, though not in tenor — convey generations of frustration caused by institutionalized oppression\, angry citizens crying out against abuses at the hands of authority\, and the ambivalent eye of the media that only captures part of the story. \n“My work does not judge the morality of the individuals partaking in the riots\, only the institutions that create the circumstances where riots are the only voice.” – Lawrence Matthews III \n\n \n\n\n \n\nLawrence Matthews III was born in Memphis\, TN\, into a family who encouraged him to be an artist from a young age. He received his BFA from the University of Memphis and was awarded “Best of Show” in the University’s 31st Annual Juried Student Exhibition. Young\, but already prolific\, Matthews is an emerging artist who has shown work in several solo and group shows across Memphis\, including Doomed to Repeat at Circuitous Succession Gallery (2015)\, Cigar Box Show at Glitch Gallery (2014)\, and Price Is Right at David Lusk Gallery (2014). \nMatthews works in a wide variety of media\, including oil paint\, collage\, photography\, sculpture\, music and film\, and combines post-modern\, Pop Art and contemporary influences to narrate his perspective as an African descendant living in America. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/in-a-violent-way/ 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/2015/07/unnamed1.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:20150815T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150815T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150804T225914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150813T205900Z UID:10002399-1439632800-1439640000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Walking Eyes: Roundtable Discussion DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is hosting a small group discussion with Walking Eyes collaborators\, Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. This free event is open to the public. \nIf you are interested in attending\, please email emily@crosstownarts.org to RSVP. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/walking-eyes-roundtable/ 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/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-13-at-10.58.21-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:20150731T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150731T160000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150708T031037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150724T013224Z UID:10002481-1438347600-1438358400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Walking Eyes: Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Walking Eyes is a collaborative exhibition by Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. Inspired by a month spent in Southeast Asia\, each piece was developed through exchanges of ideas and sketches between the two artists. The work is informed by personal memories\, hand-drawn maps\, tropical flora\, and Batik patterns. Many of the pieces have high levels of details with hidden treasures to encourage exploration. The show includes a collection of mixed-media works on paper and fabric\, as well as an installation. \nCollaborators in life and art\, Kong Wee and Jay thoughtfully balance married life\, creative exploration and professional growth through ongoing ventures like the playful TaroPop Studio\, which they co-founded in 2009. \n\nPlease join us for refreshments in the gallery to celebrate the exhibition\, and visit the Walking Eyes page for more information. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/walking-eyes-reception/ 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/2015/07/Walking-Eyes-Poster-Smaller.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;VALUE=DATE:20150723 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150816 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150701T214311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150818T005722Z UID:10002443-1437678000-1439665199@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum: Walking Eyes DESCRIPTION:Reception: Friday\, July 31\, 6 – 9 pm\nRoundtable Discussion: Saturday\, August 15\, 3 – 5 pm\nGallery Hours:\nTuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm\nWalking Eyes is a collaborative exhibition by Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. Inspired by a month spent in Southeast Asia\, each piece was developed through exchanges of ideas and sketches between the two artists. The work is informed by personal memories\, hand-drawn maps\, tropical flora\, and Batik patterns. Many of the pieces have high levels of details with hidden treasures to encourage exploration. The show includes a collection of mixed-media works on paper and fabric\, as well as an installation. \nCollaborators in life and art\, Kong Wee and Jay thoughtfully balance married life\, creative exploration and professional growth through ongoing ventures like the playful TaroPop Studio\, which they co-founded in 2009. \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\nArtists Bios\nKong Wee Pang is a designer/artist from Malaysia. She graduated from Singapore Nanyang Academy of Fine Art. In 2001 she moved to the United States. She received a degree in fine art and design and an MFA from the Memphis College of Art. She currently works as an art director at the mid-south’s largest ad agency\, archer>malmo. Her work has been shown in NYC’s Times Square\, Spain\, Italy\, Berlin\, Atlanta\, Memphis and California. \nKong Wee on her practice: \n\nMy work is concerned with transformation. Coming from Malaysia\, I have learned to adapt to a new way of life here in the United States. I exist in a liminal state living in two worlds. I have focused upon the notion of original self\, outside influences and transmutation. Working with watercolor is meaningful to me. In Chinese we have a saying which translates roughly to “When you drink water\, remember the spring.” The abstracted figures give me a chance to face my new freedom while remembering where I come from. It is found in translation. \n\nJay Crum is a designer\, illustrator and artist. He was born in New Orleans\, LA and currently lives in Memphis\, TN. He received a BFA in printmaking in 2005 and has since been navigating the line where art and design meet. In 2009 he co-founded TaroPop\, a small studio producing T-shirt designs and limited-edition art-prints. He received his MFA at Memphis College of Art in 2012. He has exhibited work in Memphis\, Rome and Barcelona. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/walking-eyes/ 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/2015/07/Walking-Eyes-Square.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;VALUE=DATE:20150604 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150704 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150609T230237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150814T014706Z UID:10002402-1433444400-1435949999@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Richard Lou: Stories On My Back DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Stories On My Back\, a large-scale multi-media installation incorporating audio\, video\, digital photographs\, and tamale leaves created by Memphis artist Richard Lou. The installation\, never before seen in its entirety in Memphis\, is an immersive experience alluding to a ceremonial site where people come to share their stories and personal histories. The piece is informed by stories exchanged through the artist’s family: stories told by the artist’s mother and father\, the stories he shared with his children\, and the stories retold by his children as their own. \n \nStories On My Back from Crosstown Arts on Vimeo. \nThe thousands of tamale leaves in the installation speak to the artist’s bi-cultural heritage as a Chinese/Mexican\, or what artist/activist Guillermo Gomez-Peña would a “Chicanese\,” a Chicano/Chinese. The stories mix personal history within the larger context of the external historical forces that brought the artist’s families together\, or threatened to pull them apart. They are stories of loss\, dreams\, isolation\, ignorance\, race\, disparities of power\, assimilation\, spirit\, and subjugated knowledge and wisdom. \nIncluded in the installation is Lou’s father’s chair\, where Lou Yet Ming would sit and watch John Wayne westerns and movies about World War II. Lou’s father served in the U.S. Marine Corp during World War II and was honorably discharged as a Technical Sergeant. Lou Yet Ming’s recliner was re-designed and brought back to life by Louisiana artist Chere Labbe Doiron\, reupholstered with images of the artist’s children and his mother. It has traveled with the exhibition for the last two years and now has become an integral component of the larger installation. \nRichard Lou was born in San Diego\, CA and raised in San Diego and Tijuana\, BCN\, MX. He has over 20 years of teaching experience in higher education\, over 15 years of arts administration experience\, has curated over 30 exhibitions\, and continues to produce and exhibit art while teaching and chairing the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. \nCrosstown Arts thanks the First Tennessee Foundation | ArtsFirst and ArtMemphis for support of this exhibition and its related programs\, which are part of an ongoing artistic and community partnership between Crosstown Arts and Centro Cultural.  More details about the18-month schedule of collaborative exhibitions and events\, and several long-term cultural projects\, can be found at crosstownarts.org/centro-cultural-collaboration. \n\nStories On My Back Events \nOpening Festivities: Friday\, June 5 \n\n9am: WKNO Checking on the Arts interview with Richard Lou\n6 pm: Blessing by Danza Azteca Quetzalcoatl\n6:15 pm: Performance from singer/songwriter Savannah Long\n7 pm: Cuban and Latin folk music by Los Cantadores\n6 – 9 pm: Hot Mess Burritos food truck\, empanadas from Havana’s Pilon\, paletas by Michoachana\, elote (grilled corn) and a wide variety of cold beverages!\n\nExhibition Programs: Saturday\, June 6\, 2-4 pm\n \n\n2 pm: Lecture by Visiting Scholar Guisela Latorre\, 430 N. Cleveland\n3 pm: Gallery Talk with Richard Lou & Guisela Latorre\, 422 N. Cleveland\n\n\nPress for Stories On My Back \nArt Review: Richard Lou explores mixed heritage in ‘Stories on My Back’ at Crosstown Arts\nFredric Koeppel / Commercial Appeal / June\, 2015 \n\nArtist Biography \nRichard Alexander Lou was born in San Diego\, CA and raised in San Diego and Tijuana\, BCN\, MX. Richard grew up in a biracial family\, spiritually and intel­lectually guided by an anti-colonialist Chinese father and a culturally affirming Mexicana mother. Educated at Southwestern College\, Chula Vista\, CA receiving an A.A. in Fine Art in 1981; California State University at Fullerton\, CA receiving a B.A. in Fine Art in 1983; Clemson University\, Clemson\, SC receiving an M.F.A. in Fine Art in 1986. \nLou has exhibited at the DePaul Art Museum\, Chicago\, IL; Wing Luke Museum\, Seattle\, WA; Landmark Gallery\, Texas Tech University\, Lubbock\, TX; Museo Carrillo Gil\, Mexico City DF\, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art\, San Diego; Mexic-Arte Mu­seum\, Austin\, TX; Newport Harbor Art Museum\, Newport Beach\, CA; Cornerhouse Art Gallery\, Manchester\, England; the 3rd International Istanbul Biennial\, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum\, Istanbul\, Turkey; Dong-A University\, Busan\, South Korea; Miami Museum\, Miami\, FL; Museum of Photographic Arts\, Balboa Park\, San Diego\, CA; Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\, MN; Mexican Fine Arts Museum\, Chicago\, IL; Otis School of Art and Design\, Otis Gallery\, Los Angeles\, CA; MIT List Visual Arts Center\, Boston\, MA; Aperto 90` Section\, La Biennale Di Venezia\, Venice\, Italy; Grey Art Gallery\, New York University\, NY\, NY; Dia Foundation\, NY\, NY; Artist Space\, NY\, NY. Richard Lou’s artwork has been published and/or cited in various newspapers\, magazines\, catalogs\, electronic media\, and over 30 books. Lou has over 20 years of teaching experience in higher education\, over 15 years of arts administration experience\, has curated over 30 exhibitions\, and continues to produce and exhibit art while teaching and chairing the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. \nArtist Statement \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. \nAs a Chicano artist the recurrent themes are the subjugation of my community by the dominant culture and white privelege. These works manifest themselves in the creation of counter-images and counter-definitions made in a self-determinant manner.  As a contemporary image-maker I am interested in collecting dissonant ideas and narratives allowing them to bump into each other\, to coax new meanings and possibilities that dismantle the hierarchy of images. The work serves as an ideological\, social\, political\, and cultural matrix from which I understand my place in this world and to make a simple marking of the cultural shifts of my community. The artwork examines how communities use images and language to dehumanize the “Other” in order to ignore the “Other’s” basic human rights.  It challenges unquestioned claims to territory and legal status. \n“Art is one of the most sacred ways to communicate.” Consuelo Jimenez Underwood \nThe work that I create as a Chicano artist emanates and is in response to the love I have for my family.  The work embraces the contradictions\, the conflicts and triumphs\, the quiet and raucous moments of a routine day\, the flowering\, the decaying\, the markings and ceremonies that compose a lifetime all within a society that subjugates.  At the core\, all work I do is for them.  And in that hopeful light\, I am willing to take the chance that the power of the work will ultimately save my children who will become the inhabitants of a New Nepantla as they negotiate a home in this destabilized world. \n-Richard Lou \n— \n\n\n\nLecture on June 6\, 2 pm at 430 N. Cleveland \nStories on My Back by Richard Lou: Installation Art\, Transnationalism and the Chinese-Chicano Experience \nPerformance\, installation and new media artist Richard Lou’s work has compelled spectators to think critically about bordered identities\, power inequities\, post-colonial realities\, race relations\, and other socially relevant issues. His provocative and dynamic performances\, installations and multimedia pieces have also encouraged audiences to problematize clear distinctions between art and activism and between creative endeavors and social justice work. \nPrimarily known as a Chicano artist\, Lou’s work for the past ten years\, however\, has paid great attention to his Chinese heritage and to the transnational subjectivities that animate social identities. Having grown up in the San Diego/Tijuana border region with a Mexican mother and a Chinese father\, Lou’s experiences have been defined by the transnationalism of the border region itself but also by the biculturalism of his upbringing. \nIn this presentation\, Guisela Latorre will focus on one of the artist’s installation Stories on my Back on display at the Crosstown Arts Gallery. Without losing sight of the politically engaged and collective nature of his art\, this work is among the most introspective and deeply personal of the artist’s career. Utilizing the images and voices of the artist’s children and deploying story-telling devices throughout the installation\, Lou articulates a transnational identity that is\, on the one hand\, quite intimate and unique to his Chinese-Chicano experience and\, on the other\, broadly symptomatic of an increasingly globalized world. \nThus\, Stories on my Back embodies what cultural studies scholars Kit Dobson and Áine McGlynn identify as “the desire to advocate for artistic agency at a time when globalizing forces are increasingly calling for economic rationalizations for creative practices.” Latorre will therefore argue in this presentation that Stories on my Back eloquently speaks of the critical connections between the Chicana/o and Chinese experiences in the U.S.\, connections that represent viable forms of transnational resistance to the homogenizing and subordinating forces of globalization. \nGuisela Latorre\, Associate Professor\, Ohio State University Department of Art \nGuisela Latorre specializes in modern and contemporary U.S. Latina/o and Latin American art with a special emphasis on gender and women artists. Her first book titled Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (U. of Texas Press 2008)\, explored the recurrence of indigenist motifs in Chicana/o community murals from the 1970s to the turn of the millennium. Her other publications include “Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork” in the American Studies Journal (2012)\, “New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process” in Image & Narrative (2010)\, and “Icons of Love and Devotion: Alma López’s Art” in Feminist Studies (Spring/Summer 2008). Latorre’s recent research activities include the co-editorship of the feminist journal Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies and work on a second book project of the graffiti and mural movement in Chile during the post-dictatorship era. She teaches classes on Latina/Chicana feminism\, visual culture and Latina/o art. \n\n\n\n— \nCrosstown Arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in Memphis. Managing five types of spaces that integrate varying components of exhibition\, performance\, production\, education and retail\, Crosstown Arts supports multidisciplinary and collaborative projects that interconnect people and organizations. We welcome anyone in the community to join any of our events or projects\, regardless of prior experience or expertise with creative interests. \ncrosstownarts.org \nCentro Cultural Latino de Memphis strives to meet the needs of the community by celebrating and promoting awareness of our cultural richness and diversity interpreted through the literary\, performing\, and visual arts. Our primary goal is to preserve our respective rich Latino cultural heritage and to stimulate intergenerational dialogues among the disciplines\, languages\, and traditional and contemporary expressions. \ncentrocultural.us URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/richard-lou-stories-on-my-back/ 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/2015/06/CXA_Stories-On-My-Back_SQU-e1433872900871.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:20150501T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150501T123000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150707T063813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150724T215456Z UID:10002477-1430476200-1430483400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Eye on Abstraction: All-Ages Workshop DESCRIPTION:An after-school workshop all about abstraction. Explore our current abstract painting exhibition\, Between the Eyes (in the gallery at 422 N. Cleveland). Then meet in story booth for hands-on art activities for all ages\, led by artists Laurel Sucsy (Between the Eyes curator)\, Mary Jo Karimnia\, and Brittney Bullock. \nThis is a free\, drop-in program: come when you wish\, no registration necessary! \nChildren must be accompanied by adults.\nSnacks and drinks will be served. \n(Image: Rubens Ghenov) URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/eye-on-abstraction/ 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/2015/07/Rubens-Ghenov.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:20150421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150421T160000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150508T210554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150609T202036Z UID:10002390-1429621200-1429632000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Painters on Painting Gallery Talk DESCRIPTION:A discussion about abstraction with artists Hamlett Dobbins\, Melissa Dunn\, and Laurel Sucsy \nImage: Rob De Oude URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/painters-on-painting-gallery-talk/ 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/2015/05/11138545_1021808501180864_6745879959044456166_n-e1433863230408.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:20150417T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150516T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150508T210435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150609T193801Z UID:10002389-1429272000-1431781200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Between the Eyes DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Between the Eyes\, a group show about contemporary abstract painting and how we see it.  Just as the relationships of pitch and duration can express emotion in music\, the formal relationships of hue\, value\, shape\, and placement can collect to create meaning in abstract painting.  Featuring the work of six painters exploring distinct modes of abstraction\, the exhibition examines the way each artist uses deliberate choices to engage us in the experience of looking.  Formal cues such as gesture\, color and the use of found objects prompt us to recognize patterns and attribute meaning to certain behaviors.  Physicality contends with the pictorial as we both decipher and project meaning into the space of abstract forms. \nThe exhibition is curated by Laurel Sucsy and features work by New York-based artists Marina Adams\, Rob de Oude\, and Joe Fyfe; LA-based artist Iva Gueorguieva; Philadelphia-based artist Rubens Ghenov; and Laurel Sucsy of Memphis. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/between-the-eyes/ 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/2015/05/CXA_Between-the-Eyes_IG-Square.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:20150306T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150328T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150610T215912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150610T215912Z UID:10002300-1425614400-1427547600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:you+Me DESCRIPTION:Curated by Mary Jo Karimnia \nFeaturing work by Kathy Barnes\, Melissa Farris\, Keiko Gonzalez\, Richard Lou\, Lester J. Merriweather\, Haley Morris-Cafiero\, John Q (Wesley Chenault\, Andy Ditzler\, and Joey Orr)\, Joel Parsons & Jeff Unthank \n\n \n\n\n \nFrom the Curator: you + me explores a range of relationships\, from the intimate\, personal one-on-one of lover\, spouse\, parent\, friend to the broader aspects of relationships in the community surrounding race\, gender\, sexual orientation and our historic pasts. The real meat of a relationship is experienced in a personal way by individuals. you + me acknowledges the delicate balancing act of these relationships and the connections and disconnects that we form among ourselves and with the communities that surround us. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/youme/ 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/2015/06/11080967_1010844355610612_5535234644860644338_n.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:20150206T020000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150228T110000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150612T004722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T004722Z UID:10002305-1423188000-1425121200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Public/Art/ists Part I DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts\, the UrbanArt Commission and ArtsMemphis are partnering to present a multi-venue exhibition and programming series throughout 2015 to acknowledge public art makers in Memphis. \nThe series will collectively recognize and share the work of artists who have participated in Memphis’ public art projects and initiatives\, including the studio work (non-public art projects) of these artists\, as well as insight into their processes and involvement in creating public art projects from conception to completion.  The exhibition and ongoing events of Public/Art/ists not only act as a connection point to these artists\, but also reveal the multiple facets of these artists’ practices in the community. \nCrosstown Arts will host part I of Public/Art/ists\, sharing the studio work of over 40 artists who have made contributions to Memphis’ urban landscape: \nBeth Edwards\, Cat Pena\, Greely Myatt\, Anne J. Froning\, Jill Wissmiller\, Jonathan Auger\, Kiersten Williams\, Pinkney Herbert\, Jamond Bullock\, Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh\, Carol Deforest\, Tootsie Bell\, Sean Murphy\, Richard Lou\, Jeane Umbreit\, Jay Crum\, Jason Miller\, Robin Salant\, Tad Lauritzen Wright\, Elisha Gold\, Anne Davey\, Louis Tucker\, Robert Burns\, Kia Lola\, Anthony Lee\, Mary Long\, Justin Bowles\, Bob X\, Annabelle Meacham\, Penny Dodds\, Susan Maakestad\, Suzy Hendrix\, April Pierce\, Stephanie Cosby\, Yvonne Bobo\, Meredith Olinger\, Eszter Sziksz\, Jamin Carter\, Vitus Shell\, Phyllis Boger\, Kristi Duckworth\, Pam Cobb\, Brandon Marshall\, Lea Holland\, Whitney Kerr\, Cedar Lorca Nordbye\, Yancy Villa-Calvo & Erica Qualy \nAdditional information about future exhibitions and programs of Public/Art/ists happening at other venues is forthcoming. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/publicartists-part-i/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-2.46.47-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:20141114T020000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141220T110000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150610T010017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T010247Z UID:10002404-1415930400-1419073200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Derek Larson: Trance DESCRIPTION:Curated by Miranda Lash\, Curator of Contemporary Art\, Speed Art Museum \nNovember 14-December 20\, 2014\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\, Memphis\, TN 38104 \nOpening Night: Friday\, November 14\, 6-8 pm\nGallery talk with the artist and curator at 6:30 pm \nRoundtable discussion: Saturday\, November 15\, 11:30 am \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to announce Trance\, an exhibition of digital media work by Georgia-based artist Derek Larson\, opening Friday\, November 14. The exhibition is curated by Miranda Lash\, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville. \nIn his practice Larson combines digital media with painting\, lights\, motors\, and projected animations on freestanding screens. For his first solo show in Memphis\, Larson is presenting five video projections: three from his series entitled Tantric Wealth from 2012\, and two artworks from his most recent body of paintings that include elements of video. Through this constellation of artworks Larson addresses how technology has changed our ways of seeing. Are our ever-present screens and videos luring us into an extended state of passive hypnosis\, or perhaps more optimistically\, do they allow a more expansive mode of learning\, contemplation\, and meditation? \nThe artist and curator will introduce the exhibition at 6:30 pm on Friday\, November 14\, at the opening reception. Crosstown Arts will host a roundtable discussion and lunch with the artist and curator on Saturday\, November 15 at 11:30 am. \nDownload Curator’s Essay \nAbout the Artist \nDerek G. Larson has participated in a number of national and international exhibitions and residencies\, with recent exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, Union South Gallery 1308 (Madison)\, May Gallery (New Orleans) and Vox Populi (Philadelphia). His work is featured in the upcoming issue of New American Painters.  Larson received a BFA from the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis\, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art.  He currently lives and works in Statesboro\, Georgia. \nAbout the Curator \nMiranda Lash is curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville\, Kentucky\, where she is overseeing new commissions for the upcoming Elizabeth P. and Frederick K. Cressman Art Park\, and organizing the reinstallation of the permanent collection for the new building designed by wHY architecture\, which will open in April 2016. Prior to the Speed\, Lash was curator of modern and contemporary art the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). She joined NOMA in 2008 as the founder of the museum’s modern and contemporary art department. During her tenure at NOMA\, Lash curated over twenty exhibitions\, including the traveling retrospective exhibition Mel Chin: Rematch; Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms; Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge;Swoon: Thalassa\, and Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys. \nAbout Crosstown Arts \nCrosstown Arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in Memphis. Managing five types of spaces that integrate varying components of exhibition\, performance\, production\, education and retail\, Crosstown Arts supports multidisciplinary and collaborative projects that interconnect people and organizations. Crosstown Arts welcomes anyone in the community to join any of our events or projects\, regardless of prior experience or expertise with creative interests. \nShop ‘Til You Droop\, 2013\nDigital video & animation (loop)\, projection\, aluminum composite\, wood\, epoxy\, paint\, paper\, fluorescent light\, black light\, electrical\, hydrocal\, 38 x 24in.\nCourtesy of the artist \nMedia contact: Emily Halpern\, emily@crosstownarts.org\nCrosstown Arts’ Visiting Artist Series is sponsored by V02 Networx \n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/derek-larson-trance/ 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/2015/06/10365754_926559524039096_2749112831755716387_n.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:20141003T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141101T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150612T001420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T200623Z UID:10002304-1412305200-1414843200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Ben Butler: Cloud Morphology DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Cloud Morphology\, an exhibition of new sculpture by Memphis artist Ben Butler. \n \n\n \n\n\n \nPhoto: Chip Pankey\n \nArtist Statement \nEvery thing\, under close enough observation\, will reveal the complete story of its making. \nIn and around Blue Hill\, Maine\, the blueberry fields are littered with the stones\, boulders really\, which were dropped by migrating glaciers during the last ice age.  They are not indigenous like the bedrock\, they are visitors\, and they generally sit on top of the earth. \nStones can seem like the most static and permanent objects we can imagine\, but of course they are not static.  Time spent with these particular rocks shows clear evidence of multiple processes – cracks where an enormous force once suddenly split the rock\, concavities where a violent encounter with another stone took a small part away\, a surface texture resulting from centuries of abrasion from ice and soil and smaller rocks\, and a general smoothness\, a softening of all features\, from the gentle but endlessly persistent wind and rain.  In the quiet of the blueberry fields you can study these features and reconstruct the story.  A single stone was severed from a mountain\, tumbled\, was tossed about by heaving earth\, carried across a continent by flowing ice\, scraped and sculpted\, and ended up here.  And it is still moving\, sinking into the soil\, shifting upward and tilting when the ground freezes\, softening in the rain\, cracking\, and rolling down hill\, all at pace that is impossible to perceive.  But the physical evidence is there in the stone. \nMy sculptures reflect the sensibility that an object stands as a momentary physical manifestation of an ongoing process.  They provide evidence of unseen forces\, and they point to the distinction between the human and the non-human.  Throughout the natural world\, unexpected complexity emerges from simple\, persistent processes.  When the order of things is not readily apparent\, complexity is often mistaken for chaos.  In the rush to comprehend we often miss the wonderful unseen forces at work.  My response is to play in these boundaries between the simple and the complex\, and between the complex and the overwhelming\, and to offer a contemplative experience in which language gives way to physical understanding\, and slow looking is rewarded. \nArtist Biography \nBen Butler received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his BA from Bowdoin College.  His work has been exhibited in solo shows in New York at Coleman Burke Gallery and Plane Space\, as well as at Zg Gallery in Chicago\, John Davis Gallery in Hudson\, New York\, Davidson Galleries in Seattle\, and Clough-Hanson Gallery in Memphis\, among others.  He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Individual Artist Grant and numerous fellowships at residency programs including the MacDowell Colony\, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art\, and the Ucross Foundation. \nHe currently lives and works in Memphis\, Tennessee and Quogue\, New York\, and is Assistant Professor of Art at Rhodes College. \n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/ben-butler-cloud-morphology/ LOCATION:TN CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-2.13.04-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20140924T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140928T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150610T222043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150610T222043Z UID:10002302-1411527600-1411905600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Anyway\, Anyhow DESCRIPTION:A raw wild visual gumbo to accompany the sick sonic stew of Gonerfest\, organized by Goner Records\n\n\nFeaturing the artwork of Tim Kerr (Austin\, TX)\, Bruce Webb (Waxahatchie\, TX)\, John Henry Toney (Seale\, AL)\, Butch Anthony (Seale\, AL)\, Timmy Lampinen (Detroit\, MI)\n\nTIM KERR\nTim moved to Austin in 1974 to attend The University of Texas at Austin and there he earned a degree in painting and photography. While in the art department\, he studied under famed photographer Garry Winogrand and was awarded a Ford Foundation grant for his work. \nTim is also well-known for his slashing guitar work in seminal punk bands The Big Boys\, Poison 13\, Monkeywrench\, Lord High Fixers and more. \nHis artwork combines social awareness with iconic figures\nand searing images overlaid by inspirational quotes. He has been involved in many different scales\, from murals to artwork on skateboards. \nHe recently exhibited in \nhttp://www.timkerr.net/\nhttp://juicemagazine.com/home/tim-kerr-art-show/\nhttp://www.yalostudio.com/2014_04_01_archive.html \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nBUTCH ANTHONY\nMr. Anthony has made up his own word\, “intertwangleism\,” a label he paints on a lot of his pieces\, which he defined this way: “Inter\, meaning to mix\,” he said. “And twang\, a distinct way of speaking. If I make up my own ‘ism\,’ no one can say anything or tell me I’m doing it wrong.” \nButch’s art world contains sly reworkings of existing paintings\, sculptures made of discarded metal and wood\, and semi-apocryphal taxidermy all creating a unique voice that has charmed the art world from his native Alabama through New York City\, London\, and beyond. \nButch did a show in the Goner Store in 2004 which was a huge thrill for us. In the ten years since that show\, Butch has become strangely sorta famous\, but hasn’t changed a bit. A recent show at Yolo Gallery in Water Valley\, MS was a sensation. We are thrilled to have him back. \nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/garden/08doonanny.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\nhttp://www.blackratprojects.com/artists/butchanthony\nhttp://www.yalostudio.com/2013/03/anatomy-can-be-fun-new-work-by-butch.html\nhttp://www.museumofwonder.com/ \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nJOHN HENRY TONEY\nMr. John Henry Toney grew up in Sandfort\, Alabama and farmed all his life. He used to drive a tractor around Seale and plow up folk’s garden patches for them. One day he plowed up a turnip with a human face on it… His art career was born. He’s 83 years old and draws everyday. \nhttp://www.museumofwonder.com/#slide3\nhttp://www.garde-rail.com/artists/toney/index.html\nhttp://rawvision.com/articles/love-and-water-art-john-henry-toney \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nBRUCE LEE WEBB\nBruce Lee is the co-conspirator and co- creator of Webb Gallery in downtown Waxahachie\, Texas. He loves hobo lore and train car graffiti. He is a researcher and collector by nature and is currently working on “As Above So Below -Art of the Fraternal Lodge” with co-author Lynne Adele\, which will be published by UT Press in 2015. \nBruce recently curated and participated in the “Akin” exhibit of outsider and self-taught artists at Crosstown Arts. \nhttp://www.webbartgallery.com/\nhttp://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2012/03/spinning_a_webb_local_artist_a.php\nhttp://www.croftartgallery.com/previousshows/brucewebb.html \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nTIMMY LAMPINEN\nTimmy\, well-known in Goner circles as the the Human Eye / Timmy’s Organism / Clone Defects singer and guitar mangler\, is also a 2010 Kresge Grant Arts award winner. As Timmy’s music strives for wild departures and maximum impact via spaced-out sounds\, his artwork spreads the color of consciousness and fredom with righteous abandon. His album covers are some of the trippiest of anyone working in the medium today. \nhttp://www.kresgeartsindetroit.org/fellowships/past-fellows/2010-fellows/timmy-lampinen/\nhttp://larecord.com/interviews/2008/12/01/human-eye-yeah-i-drank-the-glitter-slime \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nFor more information see:\nhttp://www.goner-records.com/gonerfest/gonerfest11-artshow.php\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1443801609200425/ URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/anyway-anyhow/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-10-at-12.10.05-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:20140819T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140920T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150610T220206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150813T234054Z UID:10002301-1408417200-1411214400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Bawlmer DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Bawlmer\, a group exhibition of new work by Baltimore-based artists organized Dwayne Butcher. Butcher is an artist\, designer\, and curator who moved from Memphis to Baltimore in 2013. Artists he has chosen for this exhibition include Colin Alexander\, Kyle Bauer\, Amy Hughes Braden\, Dave Eassa\, Cara Ober and Paul Shortt. Through painting\, sculpture\, and a prevailing sense of humor\, the exhibition aims to make connections between Memphis and Baltimore and their respective creative landscapes. \nCurator’s Statement: \n‘In my short time in Baltimore\, I have noticed many similarities between this city and Memphis. Each is roughly the same size in area and population\, and each is similar in its racial\, political\, and socioeconomic makeup. They both have the “grit and grind” that blue-collar\, middle-class urban areas have to have. This “grit and grind” is the prefect incubator for creativity\, which makes “Bawlmer\,” as enunciated in the local dialect\, seem like home to me. \nThe six artists included in this exhibition approach their work with a sense of humor. They poke fun at normal conventions of class and gender\, recall the fads of their youth\, enjoy the frivolity of today\, break down shapes into the purest of forms\, and call into question the superiority of the art world’s “big swinging dicks.” \nOh\, the Baltimorons love their crabs as much as Memphians love their BBQ. So there is that. And then there is the Old Bay.’ \n-Dwayne Butcher \nArtist information: \nColin Alexander  \nKyle Bauer \nAmy Hughes Braden \nDave Eassa \nCara Ober \nPaul Shortt \nCurator’s biography: \nOriginally from Memphis\, TN\, Dwayne Butcher is an artist\, designer\, and curator living in Baltimore. He received his MFA from the Memphis College of Art in 2008. While at MCA\, he developed a deep interest in the integration of Digital Media expression with traditional art forms. His work wittily comments on his life as a citizen of the American South\, often around issues of gender identity. His work has increasingly been shown in international exhibitions in the last two years in locations such as Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, Chongqing\, China\, Paris France\, Berlin\, Germany\, Amsterdam\, The Netherlands\, New York City and Los Angeles. He has been featured in articles focusing on his work and community art projects for the New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Hyperallergic\, Art21\, and Big\, Red and Shiny.  When Dwayne is not working on all of the above things\, he maintains an art blog focusing on the visual arts of Baltimore and the surrounding area. He enjoys watching short animations and experimental films. He is one of the world’s greatest Risk players and has won awards for his chicken wings.  Dwayne also spends a lot of time with his wife taking pictures of their two worthless cats. Oh. He also likes beer. \n-From http://dwaynebutcher.squarespace.com/info/ \nCover image: Kyle Bauer\, detail URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/bawlmer/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-10-at-12.00.06-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:20140711T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140809T130000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150612T202155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150813T234004Z UID:10002408-1405054800-1407589200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Lester Merriwhether DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Colossus\, an exhibition of new large-scale collage works by Memphis artist Lester Merriweather. \n\n \n\n\n \nLester Merriweather (b.1978) is a Memphis-based visual artist. He attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. He holds an MFA from Memphis College of Art & a BA from Jackson State University. Merriweather has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. at various venues such as the Studio Museum in Harlem\, NYC\, TOPS Gallery\, Powerhouse Memphis\, Diverseworks in Houston\, and the Contemporary in Atlanta. He has also exhibited abroad at the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw\, Poland. He currently serves as the Curatorial Director of the Martha & Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Memphis. He also serves on the board of Number\, inc. and as a member of ArtsMemphis’ Artist Advisory Council. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/lester-merriwhether/ 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/2015/06/c3c98c2a5f3c03b6-LMsmall.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:20140606T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140630T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150610T013802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150610T014856Z UID:10002299-1402023600-1404129600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Akin DESCRIPTION:A group exhibition of outsider artists co-curated by Lauren Kennedy of Southfork Memphis and Julie & Bruce Webb of Webb Gallery in Waxahachie\, Texas\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \nFeaturing sculpture\, painting\, and drawings by outsider artists working from the 1930s through today\, the show aims to make connections among widely varying practices\, perspectives and origins. Artists include self-taught California painter Esther Pearl Watson\, Memphis sculptor Hawkins Bolden\, and “Prophet” Royal Robertson from Louisiana\, among others. \nAkin also seeks to complement the major retrospective of sculptor Marisol\, opening at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art on June 14\, through thoughtful associations and kinship. \n\nRecent media:\nFredric Koeppel\, The Commercial Appeal\nEileen Townsend\, The Memphis Flyer\n \nOpening reception music by Marcella René Simien and food by Hi-Cue \n \n\n\nComplementary programs:  \n\nBilly Tripp’s Art Environment: Mindfield \nSaturday\, June 14 \nMeet at Crosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\, at 11 am; we will return by 4 pm. \nJoin us on a field trip to Billy Tripp’s art environment\, “Mindfield” nearby in Brownsville\, TN. “Mindfield” is a continually growing and expanding outdoor sculpture that Tripp has been working on for many years. This afternoon trip is an opportunity to more fully experience the relationships within the Akinexhibition on view at Crosstown Arts. We will stop for lunch at Helen’s BBQ after visiting the site. Group transportation will be available for a small fee. More details to come; please direct any questions to info@crosstownarts.org \n\nScreening of Make \nWednesday\, June 25 at 6:30 pm \n430 N. Cleveland \nFree admission \nThe documentary Make\, by Scott Ogden\, is an intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson\, Hawkins Bolden\, Judith Scott and Ike E. Morgan. All of these artists find their most powerful voice through art. Their interwoven stories bring together individuals whose worlds are as unique as their creations and explore why they are each consumed by their obsessive art making. \n\nImage: Esther Pearl Watson\, 2011\, Courtesy of Webb Gallery  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/akin/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2014-06-10-at-3.40.45-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:20140405T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140525T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150612T010224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T020805Z UID:10002306-1396666800-1401019200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Cedar Lorca Nordbye: To Frame\, To Construct\, To Occupy DESCRIPTION: Utilizing the approximate quantity of wood used to frame a small house\, the installation explores questions of diaspora\, exile and relocation\, with occupancy as a form of resistance\, and construction as a metaphor for idea formation.The colorful and fragmented imagery of houses\, figures and abstract designs cast on a variety of standard\, wooden framing surfaces is the first phase of a two-part project. At the close of the exhibition\, the graphically altered lumber will be donated to Memphis Habitat for Humanity and available for use in a newly constructed home\, briefly visible as a collaborative artwork between the artist and the volunteer builders before being enclosed within the walls of a future dwelling. \nOn view in the Crosstown Arts gallery\, across the street from the Sears Crosstown building\, which is soon to be the largest building remodel in the history of Memphis\, the installation utilizes wood collected from multiple sources (including the interior of Sears Crosstown) to examine our sense of the structures we inhabit in a post 9/11\, post-Katrina America. \n“Our ideas\, the thoughts that give shape to our days\, our emotions and our interactions\, are like the beautiful golden streaked Douglass fir two-by-fours that frame our homes. Humble\, cut to length and hidden away.” \nCedar Lorca Nordbye is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Memphis where he has taught since 2003.  His work has been exhibited in California\, Atlanta\, Chicago\, Quebec\, Skopje\, Alabama\, Kentucky and North Carolina in a variety of gallery\, museum and alternative spaces.  Norbye has carried out social-practice/performance artworks in Las Vegas\, Paris\, Greensboro\, Seattle\, Nashville and New York City\, where he has been banned from the Empire State Building since 2003. \nWhen asked where he is from\, Nordbye replies\, “Michigan for four years\, Minnesota for one year\, Iowa for four years\, Massachusetts for five years\, California for ten years\, and before that in a childhood blur of hippie-Jewish-exiled wandering which spanned Connecticut\, Guatemala\, New Mexico and West Virginia\, with my mother and my father…who actually is a Jewish carpenter.” \nHis work can be viewed online at cedarnordbye.com. \nThe exhibition was organized by the artist and Crosstown Arts. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/cedar-lorca-nordbye-to-frame-to-construct-to-occupy/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-3.01.55-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;VALUE=DATE:20140313 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140413 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150612T204231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150813T234234Z UID:10002412-1394737200-1397329199@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Healing Space DESCRIPTION:An environment of selected works by the artists and patients of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Tower 2 Project\, organized and curated by Youngblood Studio.\n\nFeaturing work by Jeanne Seagle\, Lurlynn Franklin\, Janet Beaver\, Kong Wee Pang\, Jay Crum\, Alex Warble and Danny Broadway \n\n \n\n\n \nFilling a hospital with art has been shown to support the well-being of patients\, families and staff. The use of color and imagery can create a healing environment that lowers stress and anxiety and can also be used to encourage rehabilitation. Each art program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is aimed at promoting healing\, transforming the hospital experience and bringing joy. The hospital’s commitment to filling the environment with local art is seen throughout campus in murals\, paintings and prints\, sculpture\, mosaics\, flooring and colorful designs. \nSix years ago\, a new tower was built and named the Chili’s Care Center. Instead of filling the corridors with murals\, hospital planners opted to populate each floor with framed artwork consisting of pieces from local artists and patients\, as well as photographs that would be displayed in custom-made\, colorful frames unique to the tower’s interior. While the tower was under construction\, several local artists moved into it\, set up studios and created a large body of work for the project. \nTogether\, with art produced by patients and images created by St. Jude photographers\, hundreds of pieces were permanently displayed in the corridors of every floor within the tower. Today\, patients\, families and staff walking the halls experience art created for them and by them; these individuals also view photos of themselves and of those who support them. \nBecause of the success of the Chili’s Care Center art program\, hospital planners decided that the next tower\, currently under construction and known as “Tower 2\,” would house a similar art program. Seven artists were invited to participate in the Tower 2 Project. Jeanne Seagle\, Lurlynn Franklin and Janet Beaver were three artists from the original group who were asked to participate in this new project. \nThe remaining four were Kong wee Pang\, Jay Crum\, Alex Warble and Danny Broadway. Seagle\, Beaver\, Broadway and Warble set up studios on campus\, while the remaining three worked from their personal studios. All of the artists participated in tours and were given open access to explore and experience the campus and the people. They were also provided color samples of the new tower’s interior and encouraged to not only pull from their experience at St. Jude\, but to also create work that might draw the viewer in to find something new. \nEach artist participated in at least one “painting party” with patients and families. These parties were designed not only to fill the new tower with patient work\, but also to provide artists\, patients and families with a fun and therapeutic experience. The artists together produced more than 100 pieces during their four-week residency\, while patients and families produced more than 100 paintings during their seven painting parties. \nHEALING SPACE is a sample of the work produced during the Tower 2 Project. This show displays the pieces for public view before permanent installation while illustrating the importance of color and connection in a therapeutic environment. \n-Youngblood Studio\, LLC URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/healing-space/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-12-at-10.38.32-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:20140208T020000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140301T110000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150610T013341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150610T013404Z UID:10002298-1391824800-1393671600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Inspired Resistance DESCRIPTION:A group show curated by Ian Lemmonds with work by  Emily Cifaldi\, Melissa Dunn\, Carl E. Moore\, Alex Paulus\, Nick Pena\, Joey Slaughter\, Bobby Spillman & Melanie Spillman URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/inspired-resistance/ 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/2015/06/1617310_10203054292261033_1098327177_o-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:20131018T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20131130T110000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150612T010703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T010703Z UID:10002307-1382065200-1385809200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Valerie Piraino: Reconstruction DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Reconstruction\, an exhibition of works by New York-based artist Valerie Piraino. Her work examines how sentimental objects are used to rebuild portraits of place and time. With slide installations\, framed porcelain cameos\, and works on paper\, Piraino uses conditions from a recollected past to address the meaning of nostalgia and memory. The artist will visit Memphis and present a discussion of her work on Wednesday\, November 20\, at 6 pm at the gallery. \nValerie Piraino (b. 1981 Kigali\, Rwanda) received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2009.  She was artist-in-residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2009-2010 and was nominated for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant in 2011 and 2012.  Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include “Could Not Bear the Sight of It” Contemporary Art Interventions on Critical Whiteness at the Jane Addams Hull House Museum\, Chicago\, Illinois (2014)\, Photoplay at Cindy Rucker Gallery\, New York\, NY (2013)\, Present Future at Artissima\, Turin\, Italy (2013). She lives and works in New York City. \nArtist Talk: Wednesday\, November 20\, 6 pm (5:30 reception)\nDiscussion moderated by Cedar Lorca Nordbye \nArtist Statement 2013 \n“Working in installation\, sculpture and photography\, my work explores how images can be re-contextualized.   I think of homes and domestic spaces as sites that are integral to influencing subjectivity\, in particular family photographs and slides. \nI look to personal mementos as malleable forms. Working from an archive of slides\, I create immersive tableaux that critique nostalgia. Drawing from theater\, cinema and literature\, I make dramatic and disorienting settings that house projected slides. My photographs are a more literal take on malleability\, where slides are projected on to fabric and manipulated.  I work to create a psychological backdrop where personal narratives are continuously re-interpreted.” \nhttp://www.valeriepiraino.com \nCrosstown Arts thanks Elliot Perry for co-organizing this exhibition. \nImage: Valerie Piraino\, With Pen in Hand\, 2010\, frames\, slide projectors\, slides\, tables\, 7’x7’x9’ \nValerie Piraino: Reconstruction\nOctober 18-November 30\, 2013\nCrosstown Arts\n422 N. Cleveland\nMemphis\, TN 38104 URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/valerie-piraino-reconstruction/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-3.04.58-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:20130817T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130914T150000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150508T211121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150610T220257Z UID:10002394-1376740800-1379170800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Jessica Lund: Wreford DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Wreford\, an installation of new work by Jessica Lund on view from August 17 to September 14\, 2013. Jessica Lund is a recent graduate of the University of Memphis’ MFA program. Her work explores memory through mapping and architectural space in the forms of drawings and large-scale installations. \nFrom the artist: \nWreford has been my landlord for the past two years. He rules with an iron fist over a complex of four multi-unit buildings. One of them housed my first-floor one-bedroom apartment. My interest for some time now has been in exploring memory through architectural space and mapping. A recent exodus of 1865 Poplar Avenue has refocused these ideas. \nThis work explores the symbiotic relationship between existing architectural structures and the personalities that inhabit them: \nWreford:  He charged me $2 to wheel my trashcan to the street. He looks like a Ken doll. \nMister:  My cat has moved with me five times in six years. He looks like a stuffed animal. \nThe Neighbors: They held the fence dividing our properties together with a garden hose. I never actually saw them. \nI spent July leaving Wreford’s\, toting boxes across midtown Memphis to a new residence. Cat fur tumbleweeds blew through the apartment as I slowly emptied it of belongings. It was gross and romantic. \nJessica Lund was born in 1986 in Florida and grew up in Alabama. She received her MFA at the University of Memphis and her BA at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She currently lives and works in Memphis\, Tennessee. \nView a full gallery of installation images here. \nPoster photo by Mim Brooks \n  \n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/wreford/ 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/d6f7d6_d82092479f71169d84150625bbfa19d7.jpg_srb_p_887_590_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.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:20130712T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130811T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150609T200258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150609T201400Z UID:10002398-1373598000-1376222400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Material Anthology DESCRIPTION:July 17-August 11\, 2013\n\n\n\nMaterial was founded by Hamlett Dobbins and Julie Meiman in late 2004.  A 19’ x 16’ exhibition space set in the storefront on Broad Avenue in the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis\, Material takes its name from Montessori learning tools.  The space was built to provide emerging and established artists with an intimate\, clean space in which to share their work with Memphis’ growing arts community. The programming consists of monthly or nightly shows as well as artists’ lectures in connection with local colleges and universities. Material has served as a space for young artists to have their first shows\, as well as a place for established local and regional artists to test new ideas in a public forum. In addition to serving local artists\, Material has hosted artists from Birmingham to Tokyo.\n\nThis exhibition celebrates and commemorates Material Art Space’s inspiring and longstanding impact on the Memphis art community and its unprecedented run as an alternative space.  In May of 2013\, Material celebrated its 100th exhibition and in August it will host its final show as Hamlett Dobbins leaves for an eleven-month stay at the American Academy in Rome. The exhibition at Crosstown Arts will feature work by over 50 artists who exhibited at Material from 2004 through 2013. \nAmong the many artists who will contribute to the exhibition are Greely Myatt\, Mark Nowell\, Melissa Dunn\, Mel Spillman\, Bobby Spillman\, Rebecca Robert\, Elizabeth Alley\, Clayton Colvin\, Kathleen Perniciaro\, Douglas Degges\, Dwayne Butcher\, Tad Lauritzen Wright\, Adam Farmer\, Susan Maakestad\, Jonathan Auger\, James Inscho\, Clare Torina\, Jamie Harmon\, Holly Cole\, Pete Schulte\, Georgia Creson\, Alex Harrison\, Jordan Martins\, Maggie Kleinpeter\, Jeana Baungardner\, Joel Parsons\, Mary Jo Karimnia\, and Joshua Huyser.\nContact: Hamlett Dobbins  dobbinsh@rhodes.edu or Emily Harris Halpern Emily@crosstownarts.org URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/material-anthology/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-09-at-9.55.26-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:20130530T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20130629T120000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150609T203541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150609T203953Z UID:10002400-1369890000-1372507200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Socially Awkward DESCRIPTION:Curated by Dwayne Butcher\nOn view at 422 N. Cleveland \n“Socially Awkward is an unaffiliated continuation of the recent Memphis Social exhibitions that took place the week of May 10th at various venues around the city. I was drawn to the word “social” more than anything in regards to this previous exhibition. The visual art in Memphis has historically been traditional and conservative and primarily consists of landscape\, figurative realism\, and still-life painting. There is so much more to the visual arts in Memphis than this\, especially in the context of social practices.Socially Awkward will feature video and installations from Jill Wissmiller\, Brooke White\, Coriana Close\, Terri Phillips\, and Georgia Creson. Each of their works are socially conscious pieces either from a environmental\, gender\, classism\, and/or political perspective. ” -Dwayne Butcher\n\nThe opening will take place Thursday\, May 30\, 2013 at 6-8pm and the exhibition will run through June 30\, 2013. There will be a short gallery talk with several of the artists immediately prior to the opening at 5:30 pm.If you have any questions please fell free to contact Dwayne Butcher at dwaynebutcher@gmail.com or Emily Harris Halpern at emily@crosstownarts.org. \nFacebook event page \nImage: Jill Wissmiller\, Rhinestone Cowboy\, Digital Video Projected on to a Glitter Screen URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/socially-awkward/ 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/2015/06/971837_623865590975159_1554531951_n.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:20121207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20121207T150000 DTSTAMP:20260520T003441 CREATED:20150612T203024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150813T234211Z UID:10002410-1354881600-1354892400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Lisa Kereszi: Salvage DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present “Salvage\,” an exhibition of recent work by New York based photographer Lisa Kereszi. The exhibition will be on view at 422 North Cleveland\, Crosstown Arts’ future gallery space\, and will consist of works from Kereszi’s newest book Joe’s Junk Yard. The artist will visit Memphis to give a gallery talk on the evening of Friday\, December 7\, 2012. Artist Talk at 7 pm; Performance by Interrobang (Paul Taylor) at 8 pmLisa Kereszi grew up outside Philadelphia to a mother who ran an antique shop and to a father who ran the family junkyard. In 1995 she graduated from Bard College\, and moved to NYC and worked as an assistant to Nan Goldin.  In 2000 she received an MFA from the Yale School of Art\, where she has been a Lecturer since 2004\, and is currently also Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies in Photography. \nHer work is the collections of the Whitney Museum\, the New Museum\, The Brooklyn Museum and many others. She was granted a commission to photograph Governors Island by the Public Art Fund in 2003\, which culminated in shows in NYC and a book. Her book on striptease\, Fantasies\, was published by Damiani in 2008\, and one on escapism\, Fun and Games\, was released by Nazraeli Press in 2009. Her new book is entitled Joe’s Junk Yard\, about her family’s business\, published by Damiani in 2012. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York. \nLearn more about the artist at lisakereszi.com \nImage: Mermaid swimming away\, Weeki Wachee Springs\, Florida\, 2002. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/lisa-kereszi-salvage/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-12-at-10.28.56-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 END:VCALENDAR