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  • MemFeast

    Crosstown Development Office 427 N Watkins

    On Friday, October 1, Crosstown Arts presented MemFEAST, a competitive banquet of community art ideas and actions. Equal parts family-style dinner, show-and-tell, and immediate philanthropy, MemFEAST (Memphis Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable Tactics) invited the public to gather together, share a great meal, and democratically fund new and emerging artmakers.

  • Robin Salant: Crosstown Lights

    Crosstown Concourse 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN

    Winning Project: Memfeast 2 From the Commercial Appeal: Crosstown canvas comes alive with color From Staff Reports Tuesday, September 20, 2011 A large crowd on Friday night witnessed the artful lighting of the main body of the old Sears Crosstown building. Scores of cars pulled into the parking lot on Cleveland near North Parkway for […]

  • Rashaad Newsome: Swag

    The Powerhouse GE Patterson

    March 1-3, 2012 at the Powerhouse https://vimeo.com/38513669 Crosstown Arts organized New York-based multimedia artist Rashaad Newsome’s first exhibition in Memphis, a video installation, Swag, from 2011, at the Powerhouse from March 1 – 3, 2012. The artist has recently exhibited at PS1 MoMA, the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale. The installation was a component of […]

  • MemFeast 3: Indie Memphis

    Crosstown Concourse 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN

    Crosstown Arts presented the third MemFeast in collaboration with Indie Memphis, and sought proposals for short films based on the theme of neighborhood.At each MemFeast, anyone from the community can buy a $25 ticket for an amazing, locally sourced dinner, along with drinks and a ballot to vote on the night’s presentations. During the meal, […]

  • MemFeast 2: Crosstown Public Art Projects

    Crosstown Concourse 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN

    At the second installment of MemFeast, seven artists proposed public art projects for Midtown's Crosstown neighborhood.

  • Tales of Modern Rocketry Book Launch

    Over the course of nine weeks in the fall of 2012, the sixth-grade “Rocket Writers” of the new Gordon Science & Arts Academy met for a workshop with Nat Akin, our director of outreach & education, to compose creative work for the first book-length project of our new after-school arts program, story booth.Tales of Modern […]

  • Memfeast 4: V&E Greenline

    V&E Greenline Tutwiler and Avalon

    MemFeast is an annual public dinner designed to use community-driven financial support to democratically fund emerging art makers.

  • Visiting Artist Margaret Wrinkle

    story booth 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, United States

    Reading and Discussion of Wash: a novel with award-winning author Margaret Wrinkle, accompanied by an exhibition of photography by the artist and a reception   Sponsored by V02 Networx Wash, written by Margaret Wrinkle, reexamines slavery in ways that challenge contemporary assumptions about race, history and power as it carries the reader from the American South […]

  • Sketches of Crosstown

    Crosstown Concourse 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN

    In 2011, Sean Murphy began recording an album in the Sears Crosstown building using only its vast and abandoned spaces to capture and create a one-of-a-kind recording, Sketches of Crosstown. We're pleased to commemorate the record release with a live performance at the building followed by a reception and talk with the artist and his […]