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Crosstown Arts’ Open Crit series, organized in partnership with ArtsMemphis, is a monthly critique event where visual artists are invited to bring new and/or in-progress studio work for critical feedback and group discussion particular to each artist’s practice. All sessions are free and open to the public.

On view through July 29
Lauren Asta is a San Francisco-based artist specializing in illustration, oddity art, doodle art, street art and murals. Her art studio is known as the Arthole and is located in Alameda, California. Her murals are all hand painted without any aid of a sketch or projector. She works completely free hand. Currently she is on a tour across the United States attacking any wall she can get her hands on to paint murals (indoor and/or ….

Come witness Spillit’s collaboration with Crosstown Arts: Pecha Kucha Night – Dear Diary
You asked, we listened. Here’s what to do:
1. Bust out your old diaries from childhood and adolescence and pick out golden entries. Awkward, sweet, idiotic, embarassingly hopeful… you get the idea.
2. Pick 20 images that will be slides to go along with your diary reading. You’ll have twenty seconds per slide, making your presentation six minutes and forty seconds of glory.
Interested in presenting? Email Emily ….

Crosstown Arts’ Open Crit series, organized in partnership with ArtsMemphis, is a monthly critique event where visual artists are invited to bring new and/or in-progress studio work for critical feedback and group discussion particular to each artist’s practice. All sessions are free and open to the public.