Events
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Re-Collections: Get as Close as You Want
Works by Nate Renner
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Frame Traps: Street Fighter Exhibition
Show of artwork inspired by the video game, Street Fighter. Jazz fusion band Reach will perform remixes of Street Fighter background music. Cosplay models will accent the room. Walk-in cosplay models are welcome.
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Barrier Free
Crosstown Concourse 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TNA portion of a socially engaged art installation designed for the Latino Memphis Festival by Yancy Villa-Calvo will be on view at in the Crosstown Concourse's Central Atrium in this week-long pop-up exhibition. Building on the current and controversial idea of the proposed wall along the US-Mexico border, the installation aims to create awareness and encourages viewers to pause, reflect, and act.
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Hustle: Report from D.C.
Join Elizabeth Rouse (ArtsMemphis), Abbey Judd (Levitt Shell), and Lauren Kennedy (UrbanArt Commission) as they discuss arts advocacy beyond NEA funding. After participating in National Arts Advocacy Day in D.C. this year, all three women were energized by legislative proposals to support the arts economy. The presentation will focus on areas of tax reform, the CREATE Act, artist visas, art education, the U.S. Department of Arts and Culture, and the Tennessee Arts Commission.
The panelists will discuss where to find resources on arts advocacy and how to get involved in advocacy groups, and we'll participate in a postcard-writing campaign.
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Indie Wednesday Film Series
Weekly film screenings hosted by Indie Memphis. Films will screen at Crosstown Arts, Malco’s Studio on the Square, and Ridgeway Theatre on a rotating basis.
This week: Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez — the biography of Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize winner in Literature, told with the narrative tension of an investigation through an impressive collection of interviews.
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SoundOff: From Studio to Turntable
Crosstown Arts and The Recording Academy Memphis Chapter present a discussion with GRAMMY award-winning producer and recording engineer Matt Ross-Spang and recording engineer, mixer, producer, and vinyl mastering engineer Jeff Powell.
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Finding Tobey
Premiere of the documentary Finding Tobey, which details the history of the Memphis skateboarding scene and the eventual construction of the city's first public skatepark.
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No Minced Words: A 48 Hour Playwriting Experiment
A patriarchy-smashing good time! Female playwrights are given one recipe of rules and less than 48 hours to cook up a brand-new play. Join us and sample the results.
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ArtRevival Showcase: Intersectionality Project
Nine rising artists will display their work and share the motivation behind their pieces. This semester, the students created work addressing the topic of intersectionality — a term used to describe the overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination. Students were asked to embrace their differences or question their oppression. Issues they face vary from racism to islamophobia to cyberbullying and so many others.
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“Barrier Free” Artist Talk
Crosstown Concourse 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TNArtist Yancy Villa-Calvo will discuss "Barrier Free," her socially engaged art installation on display in Crosstown Concourse's Central Atrium. A Q&A will follow. The talk will take place in front of the installation.
