Crosstown Arts

Belongings II: Repurposed
2016-04-29 05:00 - 2016-05-21 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Crosstown Arts Galleries, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Opening Reception: Friday, April 29, 6-9 pm

Call to Artists – February 2016
Belongings II: Repurposed
An open call exhibition organized by Crosstown Arts and the Cleveland Street Flea Market
This second incarnation of the Belongings show continues in the spirit of community and the reuse and re-imagining of objects. All artists are invited to participate by purchasing any object of inspiration from the Cleveland Street Flea Market at 438 N Cleveland to transform into (or use as inspiration for) a new work of art.
The nostalgia and surprise felt when browsing at a flea market is a ripe field for artistic interpretation. A psychedelic print from the 70’s can inspire a color scheme or shape motif. A plastic bust of Scooby Doo can evoke early childhood Saturday mornings in front of the TV. A cover of an early genre pulp fiction paperback might be a poignant reminder of how prevalent attitudes have changed since the 1950’s.
One submission per artist will be accepted based on the guidelines below. All artists are welcome to participate regardless of their level of expertise or prior art experience.
Belongings II: Repurposed will be on view at
Crosstown Arts Gallery, 422 N Cleveland, April 29- May 14, 2016

Call for Submissions
1. Submit via Formstack
Click here to submit
2. Important Dates
Artwork submission deadline/drop-off: Monday, April 25, 2-7 pm at Crosstown Arts at 422 N Cleveland
Opening Reception: Friday, April 29, 6-9 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, April 29 – May 14, 10 am – 6 pm
Artwork pick-up: Sunday, May 15, 2-5 pm and Monday, May 16, 12-6 pm
3. Fees
There is no fee to participate in the show other than the cost of purchasing an item from the Cleveland Street Flea Market to be incorporated into or used as inspiration for the artwork for the show. Prices of objects in the flea market are $1+
4. Size limit
There is no restriction on size of artwork other than reasonable passage through a standard doorway.
5. Display requirements
All artwork must be delivered ready to hang/install to be included in the exhibition. Please communicate any specific installation needs (special handling, pedestal needs, AV equipment needs, etc) by email to maryjo@crosstownarts.org before delivery.
6.Sales
Crosstown Arts will facilitate sales via cash, check (made out to the artist) or Visa/MasterCard via square during the run of the show. More details to follow.
Contact: For more information please contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org or 901-626-6298

Javon McBride: Exclusive
2016-04-29 13:00 - 16:00 | TN
Reception: Friday, April 29, 6-9 pm
On view: Saturday, April 30, 11 am-5 pm
This show will showcase original oil paintings and sculptures created by JaVon McBride.

Shoot & Splice: Examining Video Art
2016-05-03 13:30 - 16:00 | TN
A Method to the Madness: Examining Video Art
Traditionally Shoot & Splice has explored technique rooted in narrative, documentary, and commercial film and video production, but this month we will examine the craft of capturing moving images solely to facilitate creative expression.
Join accomplished video artists Brian Pera, Corkey Sinks & Jill Wissmiller for a discussion on the concepts, production, and showing of video art.
Brian Pera‘s films include The Way I See Things, Woman’s Picture, and Only Child. The latter two are part of an ongoing series obsessively preoccupied with women he remembers from his childhood. With perfumer Andy Tauer he created a perfume line, Tableau de Parfums, the scents of which relate thematically and otherwise to the universe of the films. He’s the author of the novel Troublemaker and co-editor of Life As We Show It: Writings on Film. Currently he’s working on an installation piece called Sorry Not Sorry with Joel Parsons and Terri Phillips.
Corkey Sinks (b. Dallas, TX) is an artist based in Memphis, TN. Sinks works in a variety of media including sculpture, textiles, printed matter, and video. She received a BA in Media Studies from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, CA in 2005 and an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. Sinks is the current artist in residence at Crosstown Arts. She has exhibited work throughout the United States and Mexico. In 2015, her book, Demon Baby Project: Events, Coincidences, and Repercussions was published by No Coast. Upcoming exhibitions include Artificial Tide, a solo exhibition at The Packing Plant in Nashville, TN and We gave Our Best, Now the Rest is Up to the Hope Chest, a group show at Im Ersten in Vienna, Austria.
Jill Wissmiller is a Midwestern farmer’s daughter transplanted to the Midsouth, where she is Chair of Design and Associate Professor of Digital Media at the Memphis College of Art. Wissmiller’s research and creative work is concerned with nontraditional cinema spectatorship and production. She has recently completed a motion picture manifesto that calls for a strict ban of standard definition video being projected upon anything other than glitter. Her video work has been screened at a variety of venues both nationally and internationally, including the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, Moscow International Film Festival, and Electrofringe New Media Arts Festival Australia.

Presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts
DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 PM | PANEL DISCUSSION BEGINS AT 7:00 PM | FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Northwest Prep Residency Book Release: Stereotyped from the Jump
2016-05-05 10:00 - 11:15 | story booth, 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
story booth would like to thank the administration and faculty of Northwest Preparatory Academy for working with us to to create our first-ever class residency.
For four weeks in March on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, young writers from Northwest Prep met in story booth for workshop sessions as part of their English class to produce the writing (and the cover art) for each of these original, limited-edition books.
Specific thanks go to Ms. Crystal Johnson-Evans, teaching artist and Northwest Prep’s English Language Arts Department Chair; and to Northwest Prep Principal, Mr. Roger Jones, for embracing the idea and allowing Northwest Prep students to participate in this literary-arts experience.

Chaotic Alignment: New Work by Corkey Sinks
2016-05-05 13:00 - 16:00 | TN
Exhibition: Thursday, May 5, 6-9 pm | 430 N. Cleveland
Lecture: Saturday, May 7, 4 pm | Residency Studio, 424 N. Cleveland – Back entrance
ONE NIGHT ONLY! This exhibition features new work by Corkey Sinks, created during her residency at Crosstown Arts. Sinks embraces the human tendency to find meaningful patterns within the noise of collective information. Through sculpture, textiles, printed matter, and drawing, Sinks’ works explore American occultism and self-help culture, objects manifested through a struggle to understand the systems we occupy.
Corkey Sinks (b. Dallas, TX) is an artist based in Memphis, TN. She received a BA in Media Studies from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, CA in 2005 and an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. Sinks has exhibited work throughout the United States and Mexico. In 2015, her book, Demon Baby Project: Events, Coincidences, and Repercussions was published by No Coast. Upcoming exhibitions include Artificial Tide, a solo exhibition at The Packing Plant in Nashville, TN and We gave Our Best, Now the Rest is Up to the Hope Chest, a group show at Im Ersten in Vienna, Austria.
Image: Corkey Sinks, Thirteen Is a Cozy Number, 2016, Hand-cut, heat fused plastic, brass grommets, 9’x9′

The Moonpie Project presents: Birdcap & Ninjacat
2016-05-05 14:00 - 17:00 | TN
A new interactive collaboration by Birdcap + Ninjacat
Due to rain, the activation/projection is postponed: new date TBA!

Location: Crosstown Arts alley between 430 & 438 N. Cleveland
Free food + drinks
The Moonpie Project is an ongoing, rotating mural series curated by Michael Roy in memory of muralist Brad Wells
Organized in collaboration with Crosstown Arts

Impossible Language
2016-05-06 14:00 - 16:00 | TN
NEW LOCATION: Crosstown Arts at 430 N. Cleveland
The final “episode” of this season Impossible Language will incorporate poetry and visual projections. Featuring readings and more by:
DOUGLAS PICCINNINI was born in New York City in 1982. He has been awarded residencies by The Vermont Studio Center, Art Farm in Marquette, NE and, The Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia. In 2014, he was selected by Dorothea Lasky as a winner of the Summer Literary Seminars for Poetry. He is the author of Story Book: a novella, and a collection of poems, Blood Oboe.
CHRIS HOSEA was born in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1973, and his first book of poems, Put Your Hands In, was selected by John Ashbery as the winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. His work as a visual artist includes Over Time Across Space, with Kim Bennett, which was the subject of a 2015 full-gallery exhibition at Transmitter in Brooklyn, New York. His poems have appeared in 6×6, The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, Web Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Review, New American Review, Prelude, White Wall Review, and VOLT. He lives in Brooklyn.
JONATHAN MAY grew up in Zimbabwe as the child of missionaries. He lives and teaches in Memphis, TN. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in [PANK], Superstition Review, Shark Reef, Duende, One, Winter Tangerine Review, and Rock & Sling. He’s recently translated the play Dreams by Günter Eich into English. Read more at http://memphisjon.wordpress.com/

Artist Talk: Corkey Sinks
2016-05-07 11:00 - 12:00 | Crosstown Arts Studio Residency, 424 N. Cleveland - Back Entrance, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Current resident artist Corkey Sinks will give a talk on the work she created during her residency at Crosstown Arts.
Sinks embraces the human tendency to find meaningful patterns within the noise of collective information. Through sculpture, textiles, printed matter, and drawing, Sinks’ works explore American occultism and self-help culture, objects manifested through a struggle to understand the systems we occupy.
Corkey Sinks (b. Dallas, TX) is an artist based in Memphis, TN. She received a BA in Media Studies from the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies at the University of Redlands, CA in 2005 and an MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. Sinks has exhibited work throughout the United States and Mexico. In 2015, her book, Demon Baby Project: Events, Coincidences, and Repercussions was published by No Coast. Upcoming exhibitions include Artificial Tide, a solo exhibition at The Packing Plant in Nashville, TN and We gave Our Best, Now the Rest is Up to the Hope Chest, a group show at Im Ersten in Vienna, Austria.
Image: Corkey Sinks, Thirteen Is a Cozy Number, 2016, Hand-cut, heat fused plastic, brass grommets, 9’x9′

NJ Woods: House Keys
2016-05-07 13:00 - 16:00 | TN
“House Keys,” New works by N.J. Woods celebrating one of the most fundamental needs for all people: shelter. This exhibition will feature collages of ordinary wood keys, a tool made to tighten stretched canvas, repurposed varying bands of warm colors. N.J.’s genre paintings on canvas will also be on display, Saturday, May 7th, at Crosstown Arts, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
N.J. Woods
Inspired by her Memphis upbringing and Mississippi relatives, NJ Woods paints scenes of rustic life from memory and imagination. NJ’s distinctive creativity blossomed by watching her father Yancy paint in the middle room of their shotgun home. Where, as the third born of nine children, NJ used tempera paint to scribble pictures on the windows. She’s since traded in the tempera for acrylic and window panes, for canvas.
NJ grew up in the shotgun littered community of Orange Mound, the first African-American neighborhood built by African-Americans in the United States. Most of her work revolves around the shotgun house and its imprint on the African-American and Southern experience.
Her primitive style of painting, heavily influenced by visits to her Grandma Sarah’s house in Coldwater, MS and other country relatives, often reflects the dichotomy of city life juxtaposed with rural traditions and stories. These stories transferred onto the canvas, typify slices of life during the sharecropping and civil rights eras marked by her adroit use of emotive colors, folksy compositions and poetic titles. NJ’s subject matter and style is often compared to renowned artists Carroll Cloar and Clementine Hunter.
Although NJ’s been painting professionally for more than 12 years, just before her work really began to sell she was a home health attendant for several years. Today, NJ’s work has been shown in several galleries around the country — Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas and New York, to name a few. Her work has been exhibited at Dixon Gallery and Gardens Museum and the Brooks Museum, both in Memphis, Tennessee. In August 2008, NJ was invited to be a guest lecturer for the Lunch and Learn series at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, during the Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum exhibition. She opened her first temporary pop-up gallery in 2013 through the MEMShop incubation program, where she introduced and exhibited her own work and art from established and emerging artists to the community in the Broad Avenue Arts district. You can see her latest public art project in her neighborhood, titled “Headshots”, an abstract, geo-centric mural at Jackson and Evergreen in the Vollintine and Evergreen community. NJ plans to do more public art work projects in the future to expand her practice.

Microcinema Club
2016-05-09 14:00 - 17:00 | TN
Monthly short film screening series presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts
May program: Best of Indie Memphis Film Festival After Dark Shorts
7 pm doors open | 7:30 pm screening | Pay-what-you can admission | Free food & drinks
SUPPORTED BY ARTSMEMPHIS AND THE FIRST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION | ARTSFIRST

Open Crit
2016-05-10 13:00 - 15:00 | TN
Artist installation 5-6 pm
Discussion 6-8 pm
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 the discussion are welcome to participate regardless of their level of expertise, prior professional art experience or background/education in fine art. Participation is free and open to the public. Input during the critiques from everyone in attendance is welcomed and encouraged.
No formal preparation is necessary for participating artists, who will have an opportunity to introduce and contextualize their work on view at the beginning of each critique. Participating artists are only asked to be open to (and interested in) considering reactions to their work by the group, which will always be done in a supportive, constructive and casual environment, but could at the same time be challenging.

To participate, artists can sign up here:
Open Crit Request form

Artists are asked to bring no more than 8 individual pieces (in any medium). Maximum run time for time-based work(s) is 10 minutes.
Participating artists are encouraged to invite friends, peers and colleagues to the open crits, both to see their work in progress and to give constructive feedback.
Organized by Crosstown Arts in partnership with ArtsMemphis ArtsAccelerator.

Woodworking Show
2016-05-12 12:00 - 15:00 | story booth, 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Peruse fine woodworking designed and handcrafted by Caleb Sweazy right here in Memphis, Tennessee.
Organized by Caleb Sweazy

Galleria Oscuro
2016-05-13 13:00 - 16:00 | TN
Group show of work by Steven Crowe, Wess Loudenslager, and Kyoku Kashu
Organized by Silent Scream Enterprises

Hustle: Website Design & Management
2016-05-17 13:00 - 15:00 | TN
Making artwork is the best part of an art career but promoting your work can be a critical key to success. Demystify the process of promoting yourself through a website and complementary social media strategies. Learn how to do it yourself or what to consider when hiring a professional.
Program begins at 6 pm
Complimentary food and drinks
Hustle: professional development for artists is a free program organized by ArtsMemphis, UrbanArt Commission, and Crosstown Arts. The series will provide visual artists with information, resources, and opportunities to support them in the development of their professional careers. Workshop topics will range from positive studio practices to pricing work and navigating gallery representation. Questions? Contact Mary Jo Karimnia at maryjo@crosstownarts.org

Spillit & Crosstown Arts present: Dear Diary
2016-05-19 13:00 - 16:00 | Amurica, 410 N. Cleveland, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
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 Halpern: emily@crosstownarts.org
Link to example presentation:
https://vimeo.com/album/3464881/video/68457336

Six Points
2016-05-20 13:00 - 16:00 | TN
On view: Wednesday-Friday, May 18-20 from 10-6pm
Closing event: Friday, May 20 from 6-9pm
Six Points is anchored by Six Chairs by six Memphis artists: Mary K VanGieson, Jennifer Sargent, Carrol McTyre, Paula Kovarik, Mary Jo Karimnia and Kerri Dugan, who have been meeting monthly for the past year, in each other’s homes and studios, to share artwork, food and conversation. In addition, each artist has created an individual piece for the show. The work is as much about coming together as it is about individuality and is a reflection of the comradery, support and elevated level of excellence we are currently feeling in our local visual arts culture. Please come and celebrate with us!
The exhibition is organized by the artists.
Learn more about Six Points

Rod Kirby Show: A Volatile Mix of Creativity and Imagination
2016-05-21 07:00 - 13:00 | TN
Featuring fine art, photography, and multimedia from artist & photographer, Rod Kirby.
Light refreshments available.
Organized by the artist

If a Tree Falls
2016-05-24 13:00 - 16:00 | TN
What happens when 8 artists from different backgrounds and mediums are given identical giant cross-section of the same tree?
Group exhibition organized by Cara Di Stefano

Ihcilon + The Family Ghost
2016-05-26 13:00 - 16:00 | TN
Drone/dark ambient artist Ihcilon with the synthesizer-infused post-punk group The Family Ghost followed by a freestyle collaboration between the two acts.
Free show
Doors at 6pm, music at 7 pm
Ihcilon: Often described as abstract, experimental, dark, strange and distorted electronic tones. ihcilon.bandcamp.com
The Family Ghost: One of the longest running post-punk bands in Memphis. Known for their high energy, melodic instrumentation, and unexpected sounds. thefamilyghost.bandcamp.com

ALERO by Don Lifted
2016-05-27 15:30 - 17:30 | TN
Lawrence “Don Lifted” Matthews will be sharing the final mixes of his long awaited project “Alero.” The album will be accompanied by two abstract short films that inspired each song’s musical aesthetic.
There will also be a short artist talk with Q&A and more surprises.
The 9 track album is fairly short and will start at exactly 9:30 pm.
Facebook event
Artist Website

The Moonpie Project presents Lauren Asta
2016-06-03 05:00 - 2016-07-29 17:00 | Crosstown Alley, 430 N. Cleveland
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 outdoor).
You can follow her progress on instagram: @lauren_asta or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LalaAsta.
The Moonpie Project is an ongoing, rotating mural series curated by Michael Roy in memory of muralist Brad Wells
Organized in collaboration with Crosstown Arts

Brushes & Wings
2016-06-03 13:00 - 15:00 | TN
Art show featuring Darrell Jones & Jamond Bullock
Plus special guest artists
RSVP: info@roughfeathers.com
Presented by Rough Feathers Clothing

Crosstown Beans
2016-06-04 14:00 - 17:00 | TN
Hip-hop showcase

Desert Migration (Outflix Film Festival)
2016-06-05 10:00 - 12:00 | TN
Saved by the introduction of protease inhibitors in the mid-1990s, many HIV positive men needed to rebuild the lives they thought they’d never be able to live. In an effort to reach equilibrium with the virus inside them, some migrated to Southern California’s Palm Springs in the hope of finding a healing desert oasis. But is this environment, with its tolerant population and constant sunshine, enough to eradicate the grief they carry within them, and strengthen them against the medications slowly poisoning their bodies?

Directed by Daniel F. Cardone
USA | 80 minutes | 2015
Film Screening with panel discussion to follow.

Outflix Ticket Website: http://outflixfestival.org/events/desert-migration/
Movie Website: www.desertmigrationmovie.com
Synopsis: http://desertmigrationmovie.com/synopsis

Shoot & Splice
2016-06-07 13:30 - 16:00 | TN
Film professionals Eldon Holliday (Memphis Public Library & Information Center); Chad Schaffler (filmmaker); Danielle Smith (The Withers Museum) and Jonathan Thomason (Master Video) will discuss research, licensing, transferring, and other topics related to the use of historical documents and media.
Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Crosstown Arts & Indie Memphis

Working Writer's Cocktail Hour, 4th edition
2016-06-08 12:30 - 14:00 | story booth, 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
In the interests of further cultivating and connecting the writing community of Memphis, story booth is hosting the fourth edition of Crosstown Arts‘ Working Writers’ Cocktail Hour, on Wednesday, June 8, from 5:30 to 7 pm, in conjunction with sponsor Memphis Daily News.
All writers who live and work in Memphis–whether writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, journalism, art writing, music writing—are invited to visit story booth for an hour (or so) to do what it normally takes an expensive conference to make happen during the down-times: bring a group of writers together to mingle, have a drink, and make connections with other working writers they may or may not have known before. The founding idea of San Francisco Writers’ Grotto serves as some inspiration here: “Our original hypothesis–that community nurtures productivity–has proven abundantly true.”
Whether your day-job is writing-related or not–if you work at writing, this means you.
This event is free. story booth’s address is 438 N. Cleveland Ave.
For more information on story booth or Crosstown Arts, call Nat Akin at 901.573.8444, or visit crosstownarts.org.

The Paw Project Film Screening
2016-06-08 13:30 - 16:00 | TN
Join Memphis Pets Alive! for a special screening of The Paw Project, a documentary whose organizational mission is to educate the public about the painful and crippling effects of cat declawing, to promote animal welfare by ending the practice of declaw surgery, and to rehabilitate declawed big cats. Doors will open at 6:30 and the film will begin at 7:00 (and last approximately one hour). Light snacks will be available as well as beverages [donations are accepted and encouraged!].
Presale tickets will be available for $5.00 and we will sell tickets at the door as well, but keep in mind seating is limited! Thank you to the Paw Project for allowing us to share this film with the Memphis community and your support in doing so!

ABOUT THE FILM
In the United States today, six out of ten pet owners consider their pets to be family members. Today, 36,117,000 households have a pet cat in the home. (” U.S. Pet Ownership Statistics.” U.S. Pet Ownership Statistics. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 July 2011.) Currently, approximately 25% of these cats are declawed. While cat owners are unaware of the true nature of this surgery. They are never told that it is an amputation of the last toe bones in a cat’s paw; and it actually does more harm than good.
THE PAW PROJECT is a documentary that takes us inside the issue. Sharing testimony from industry professionals and pet-owners alike, THE PAW PROJECT examines the emotional and physical cost that a cat pays when declawed; and reveals the profit that the procedure generates for veterinary doctors across the nation. Despite the physical and behavioral harm inflicted on cats that are declawed, many veterinarians continue to recommend the procedure, which costs upwards of $900.00 per hour – even for very young kittens.
Veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Conrad wants it stop. While it often puts her at odds with many in her professional field, she continues to lead the struggle. Step by step, the film follows Conrad as she refutes arguments from representatives of the California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA), and the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), all in her effort to protect the well being of these felines. THE PAW PROJECT chronicles her journey from her work as an exotic animal veterinarian in Hollywood to legislative hearings, where she urges elected officials to ban declawing.
For more information, please visit www.pawproject.org.

Maestras: A Night for Women's Art
2016-06-09 14:30 - 17:00 | TN
An initial event to encourage the display and support for women artists. Sometimes women want a special moment to tell the world our thoughts and dreams. Featured works from Barbara J. Lester, Lurlynn Franklin, Dawn Kimble, and Beverly Dorsey.
Exhibition organized by WfPAC for Privy Concepts

Say Hello to America!
2016-06-10 05:00 - 2016-07-09 13:00 | Crosstown Arts Galleries, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
OPENING EVENT: FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 6-9 PM

Participating artists:
Kenneth Alexander, Mary Baddour, Timothy Barker, Nick Canterucci, Len Clark, Saj Crone, Temple Daniels, Judith Dierkes, Charles Dwyer, Brantley Ellzey, Jay Etkin, Adam Farmer, Jan Hankins, Carrol Harding McTyre, Kenneth Johnston, Paula Kovarik, Taylor Loftin, Elysia Mann, Barbi Martin, Sophia Mason, Lester Merriweather, Andrea Morales, Margaret Munz-Losch, Nathan Parten, Alex Paulus, Terri Phillips, Erica Qualy, Carrie Schule, Matt Seltzer, Valerie Shavers, Valerie Sparks, Kyle Taylor, Lance Turner, Jeane Umbreit, Jeff Unthank, Richard Varnon, Keysha Warr, Stephanie Wexler, Jana Wilson & Meredith Wilson

Hi Friends,
Of all the madness in American politics at the moment, it’s nearly impossible to get your head around exactly what’s happening. Somehow, it’s all very funny and sad and terrifying at the same time. Dr. Thomas More asked a question in the opening lines of Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins that feels eerily appropriate to ask now:
In these dread latter days of the old violent beloved and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death dealing western world…undoubtedly something is about to happen. Or is it that something has stopped happening? Is it that God has at last removed his blessing from the U.S.A. and what we feel now is just the clank of the old historical machinery, the sudden jerking ahead of the roller-coaster cars as the chain catches hold and carries us back into history with its ordinary catastrophies, carries us out and up toward the brink from that felicitous and privileged siding where even unbelievers admitted that if it was not God who blessed the U.S.A, then at least some great good luck had befallen us, and that now the blessing or the luck is over, the machinery clanks, the chain catches hold, and the cars jerk forward?
But who needs words to describe what’s happening to America? Did you get bored reading that last paragraph? It was kind of long, right? Way too many words for this news cycle. Keep the words short, mean what you say—or don’t. Tomorrow’s another headline.
Millions of Americans are supporting a man for president who has stayed in the forefront of the news by repeatedly saying outrageous things with a very limited range of words, usually 140 characters or less at a time. He’s definitely onto something and knows it, even claiming “I know words. I have the best words.”
This is a season of extremes, but in the words of Extreme’s “More than Words,” “more than words is all you have to do to make it real.”
Please consider yourself invited to submit works of visual art, music, or performance related to the current political landscape (or anything to do with politics, America, etc.) for the upcoming exhibit Say Hello To America! All that we ask is that you keep it real, using words, or not. Whatever.
Here is my submission to the show, made in collaboration with Memphis-based artist Sadie Yanckello. The photo is of my son, with an American made beer, because he loves America. I promise this photo is “real.” It even has words on it to prove it!

Christopher Miner & Sadie Yanckello, The 4.2%, digital collage, 2016
“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America. That’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” – Mitt Romney
Hope to see you soon,
Chris

1.Important Dates
Submission deadline: Sunday, May 15
Selection notices sent: Friday, May 20
Artwork drop-off: Monday, June 6, 9am-6pm
Opening Reception: Friday, June 10, 6-9 pm
Artwork pick-up: Sunday, July 10, 3-5 pm and Monday, July 11, 9am-noon
Dates on view: June 10-July 9, 2016, Tuesday-Friday, 10 am – 6 pm
Other events TBA
2.Size Limit
There is no restriction on size of artwork other than reasonable passage through a standard doorway.
3.Display Requirements
All artwork must be delivered ready to hang/install to be included in the exhibition. Please communicate any specific installation needs (special handling, pedestal needs, AV equipment needs, etc) in submission form.
4.Sales
All proceeds from sales go directly to artists. Crosstown Arts does not take a commission. Crosstown Arts will facilitate sales via cash, check (made out to the artist) or Visa/MasterCard via Square during the run of the show. More details to follow.
5.SUBMISSION FORM
Submit entries online through this form

Contact: For more information please contact us at info@crosstownarts.org
Crosstown Arts, 422 N Cleveland, Memphis, TN, 38104

Analog Rituals
2016-06-10 14:00 - 17:00 | TN
A night of hip hop, presented by FREED. (@freedlabel)
Noises made by
Alexander Fre$co (Jackson, MS)
alexanderfrescomusic.com
Carlos Bean$ & Krucial
soundcloud.com/thebandofbeans &
youtube.com/watch?v=R5axop35Q3U
ONE Justis
youtube.com/watch?v=kJ1l3BKhIhI
A Weirdo From Memphis
youtube.com/watch?v=BpSEJgzf00U
Nic Pavement
soundcloud.com/nicpavement
Hotel
soundcloud.com/yunghotel
Y.R Generation
soundcloud.com/yrgeneration
Matt Lucas
soundcloud.com/iam_mattlucas
$5 cover. Doors @ 7:00
Ladies free until 10pm.
A dope night of hip hop.
