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March 2016
Hustle: Writing about your Art Practice
PROGRAM SUMMARY
Most artists want their artwork to speak for itself but fans, patrons, grant and residency panels, advanced degree programs, gallery directors, museums, and the press often ask for words to go along with the work. Joel Parsons will guide us through the pitfalls and pleasures of writing about our work. Come prepared to do a writing exercise or two and to help others explore their writing process.
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Hustle: professional development for artists is a ….
February 2016
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Exhibition Opportunity for Art Instructors
Art instructors are critical members of thriving creative communities. They are responsible for passing core principles of art appreciation and a wide range of art production techniques to each new generation, often supporting both artists and non-artist viewers. Many art instructors are also practicing artists, balancing their own studio practice with the goal of helping others.
Crosstown Arts would like to invite you to share your personal work and experience with a broad audience ….
Pecha Kucha 14: The Art of Teaching Art
Opportunity for Art Instructors
Pecha Kucha 20×20 is a narrative presentation program organized by Crosstown Arts in which participants give casual and fun (yet fast-paced) presentations of 20 slides/images, with 20 seconds allowed per slide (total time: 6 mins, 40 secs.) Share the interesting or innovative things that you do in your classroom or studio, your stories, memories, pitfalls, triumphs, or dreams about the future. Or join us to hear presentations by your local colleagues.
This event is organized in ….
Memphis: Art & Place – Art & Community Place-based Session
The Memphis Center at Rhodes College will partner with local leaders, artists, and stakeholders to host conversations about the role of the arts in Memphis, with sessions held at Rhodes College and in three Memphis neighborhoods: Crosstown, the Edge District, and Orange Mound.
Microcinema Club
Presented by Crosstown Arts & Indie Memphis
Join us for an encore screening of the Documentary Shorts Block from our 2015 Indie Memphis Film Festival. These films were quite popular but we know a lot of people didn’t have a chance to see them.
83 Min. Total Running Time
The Button King (8:04 min.) – directed by Ava Lowrey
Insomnia leads to an inspired talent in this documentary short about Dalton Stevens, the Button King.
Open Crit
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.
A dedicated facilitator with experience in a group critique setting will guide discussion for each critique event, which will include up to 4 artists’ work, with 15-25 minutes devoted to the work of each.
All visual artists and anyone interested in joining ….
January 2016
Hereabouts
A selection of self-taught Memphis artists
Opening Reception: Friday, January 8, 6-9 pm
Performance & Panel Discussion: Saturday, January 9, 2 pm
On view January 7-10, noon-6 pm
Organized by Mary Jo Karimnia & Linda Pelts in partnership with Crosstown Arts & the Church Health Center
Self-taught artists are a hot commodity in today’s art world. In a 2013 article in the Atlantic, Sarah Boxer writes,”[Artwork by self-taught artists] is being enthusiastically embraced—one might say swallowed whole—by the contemporary-art world.”
This fresh and provocative ….
Shoot & Splice: Video Journalism
VIDEO JOURNALISM: HOW DOCUMENTARIES RAISE AWARENESS AND CREATE CHANGE
For the first Shoot & Splice of 2016, join our panelists Noah Glenn, Mark Hackett and Andrea Morales to discuss, debate and analyze the use of documentary film to convey organizational messages, video journalism, the difference between the two and how to effectively and ethically craft both.
Noah Glenn is the Creative Director and Video Artist for City Leadership. In his role at City Leadership, Noah is responsible for producing, shooting ….
December 2015
Memphis Ephemera
Doors Open 6:30 pm, Films Start 7:00 pm
A short film showcase featuring unusual, rarely seen, strange and undiscovered film & video made in and about Memphis, Tennessee.
Programmed by Edward Valibus, Ben Rednour and Crosstown Arts
From the Margins to the Mainstream: Artists with Disabilities Today
Curator Talk in conjunction with Extra Celestial
In 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 ….
