Crosstown Arts

Hustle: Pricing your Artwork
2016-07-12 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Pricing our artwork can leave us fraught with doubt. How do we decide what our work is worth when we are starting out? How and when do we raise prices? Does it matter if the work is sold online, at a fair, or though a gallery? Our approach to pricing can effect the local arts economy and what others can charge for their work. How do we price responsibly?
Join us for a discussion with Robert Hollingsworth, Kenny Wayne Alexander, and Jim Masterson to explore various perspectives on pricing artwork as well as commissions and other types of projects.
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

Shoot & Splice: Film Fest Submission Strategy
2016-07-12 13:30 - 16:00
Doors open at 6:30 PM; Panel discussion begins at 7:00 PM
Complimentary food and beverages will be available
There are over 4,000 film festivals in the world and the options are overwhelming. Learn tips from festival programmers to craft the submission strategy for your next film and meet other filmmakers to get advice from their experiences. Panelists are Melanie Addington (Oxford Film Festival), Erik Jambor (Bend Film Festival), Brighid Wheeler (Indie Memphis). Moderated by Ryan Watt (Indie Memphis).
Free & open to the public thanks to support by ArtsFirst: First Tennessee Foundation and ArtsMemphis.
Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Crosstown Arts & Indie Memphis

Microcinema Club: Slamdance Shorts
2016-07-13 14:00 - 18:00
To follow last month’s Sundance shorts, we are featuring “anarchy” work from their neighbor SLAMDANCE. The Slamdance film festival was born out of a DIY oppositional gesture. Their “Anarchy” shorts category is an attempt to recapture the early spirit of the festival. The casual cinephile might associate the Anarchy program with avant-garde, transgressive, or underground cinema. It is all of these things and none of them, it is an anti-genre, the form of resistance to dominant cultural paradigms. The films value innovation of form, violation of taboo, and disdain for institutional modes of representation.
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

Fashionation Revival
2016-07-14 13:45 - 17:00
Bee Specs Agency is back by poplar demand! Various designers of Memphis will be showcasing their spring/summer collection of ready-to-wear & one-of-a-kind designs. Now is your time to grab the front row seats* and celebrate the most coveted event season of Memphis!
1. Event will be hosted Tyara Nicole.
2. Opening artist #TresVentura known as James Tres Berry
3. Signature Drinks will be waiting for you by our bartender.
4. Music Stylist(DJ) Crystal Lipford known as #TheRunwayDJ
5. Various Dope Designers of Memphis.
Order tickets via Eventbrite:
General Admission: $10
Regular Seating

RSVP Seating:
Tickets-$12
VIP Gift Bag
Light hors d’oeuvres
Priority Seating
LIMITED SEATING!!
Reserve tickets

Open Crit
2016-07-19 13:00 - 15:00
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

Contact Mary Jo at maryjo@crosstownarts.org with any questions!
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.

Visiting Writer Donald Ray Pollock
2016-07-19 13:00 - 15:00 | story booth, 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Crosstown Arts and the Booksellers at Laurelwood present Visiting Writer Donald Ray Pollock upon the release of his newest novel, The Heavenly Table.

From Donald Ray Pollock, author of the highly acclaimed The Devil All the Time and Knockemstiff, comes a dark, gritty, electrifying (and, disturbingly, weirdly funny) new novel that will solidify his place among the best contemporary American authors.
It is 1917, in that sliver of border land that divides Georgia from Alabama. Dispossessed farmer Pearl Jewett ekes out a hardscrabble existence with his three young sons: Cane (the eldest; handsome; intelligent); Cob (short; heavy set; a bit slow); and Chimney (the youngest; thin; ill-tempered). Several hundred miles away in southern Ohio, a farmer by the name of Ellsworth Fiddler lives with his son, Eddie, and his wife, Eula. After Ellsworth is swindled out of his family’s entire fortune, his life is put on a surprising, unforgettable, and violent trajectory that will directly lead him to cross paths with the Jewetts. No good can come of it. Or can it?
In the gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and Cormac McCarthy with a healthy dose of cinematic violence reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers, the Jewetts and the Fiddlers will find their lives colliding in increasingly dark and horrific ways, placing Donald Ray Pollock firmly in the company of the genre’s literary masters.
“In 1917, just as another hellish August was starting to come to an end along the border that divides Georgia and Alabama, Pearl Jewett awakened his sons before dawn one morning with a guttural bark that sounded more animal than man. The three young men arose silently from their particular corners of the one room shack and pulled on their filthy clothes, still damp with the sweat of yesterday’s labors. A mangy rat covered with scabs scuttled up the rock chimney, knocking bits of mortar into the cold grate. Moonlight funneled through gaps in the chinked log walls and lay in thin milky ribbons across the red dirt floor. With their heads nearly touching the low ceiling, they gathered around the center of the room for breakfast, and Pearl handed them each a bland wad of flour and water fried last night in a dollop of leftover fat. There would be no more to eat until evening, when they would all get a share of the sick hog they had butchered in the spring, along with a mass of boiled spuds in wild greens scooped onto dented plates with a hand that was never clean from a pot that was never washed. Except for the occasional rain, every day was the same.”
— from The Heavenly Table

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Donald Ray Pollock, recipient of the 2009 PEN/Bingham Fellowship, made his literary debut in 2008 with the critically acclaimed story collection,Knockemstiff. He worked as a laborer at the Mead Paper Mill in Chillicothe, Ohio, from 1973 to 2005. He holds an MFA from Ohio State University. His work has appeared in, among other publications, Epoch, Granta, and theNew York Times.

ADVANCE PRAISE

Advance praise for The Heavenly Table:
“With furious prose and a Faulknerian eye for character, Pollock (The Devil All the Time) populates his second novel with dozens of memorable people who embody America’s headlong leap toward the future in the early 20th century.
In 1917, everything changes for the Jewett brothers—Cane, the capable one; Cob, the “slow” one; and Chimney, the hothead—upon their father’s sudden ascension to the “heavenly table.” With the exploits of their pulp fiction hero Bloody Bill Bucket fresh in their minds, the brothers embark on a violent journey north, escaping the backbreaking, fetid swamps on the Georgia-Alabama border and their lives under the thumb of sadistic landowner Maj. Thaddeus Tardweller. In southern Ohio, aging farmer Ellsworth Fiddler and his wife wait for their prodigal son to return home after a brief absence, during which he may or may not have enlisted in the United States Army to fight in Europe. Facing inexorable change—automobiles, airplanes, the machinery of war and agriculture—Ellsworth and others who frequent the local mercantile are “in agreement that the world now seemed head over heels in love with what tycoons and politicians kept referring to as ‘progress.’ ” But the Fiddlers cannot fathom how their lives will be transformed when the Jewetts ride into town on a crime spree that has made them the most wanted men in the country.
Set against the backdrop of America’s involvement in WWI and the rise of motorized and electrical technology, Pollock’s gothic, relentless imagination seduces readers into a fertile time in America’s history, exploring the chaos, wonder, violence, sexuality, and ambition of a nation on the cusp of modernity—and the outmoded notion of redemption in a world gone to hell.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred)
“Donald Ray Pollock is a master-worker. This great novel flows like buttermilk, so smooth and entertaining that you won’t be ready for the left hook it delivers to your heart or its sophisticated moral analysis of human life. Pollock has an omniscient eye like Gogol, taking in a vast scene while spinning tales within tales. Readers will love him, writers will study him.”
—Atticus Lish, author of Preparation for the Next Life
“The Heavenly Table is brilliant and unforgettable. In his trademark blend of humor and pathos, Donald Ray Pollock gives us a view into life’s darkest corners, without ever forgetting there is a lighter side as well.”
—Philipp Meyer, author of American Rust and The Son
“Think of The Heavenly Table as an antic, shambolic, guilty pleasure. Pollock’s prose is compulsively readable and often very funny.”
—Booklist
“A darkly comic gorefest by a gifted writer.”
—Kirkus
“In a crowded room full of voices, Don Pollock’s voice is so distinct you’ll hear first and won’t ever, ever forget it. Nor will you want to. And the kicker is this: He somehow keeps getting better.”
—Tom Franklin, author of Poachers and Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
“The Heavenly Table is the latest and strongest evidence that Donald Ray Pollock is one of the most talented and original writers at work today. With uniquely vivid and graceful prose he renders a tale destined to linger in the reader’s mind, a story by turns violent and darkly amusing, and always powerful. The novel is sure to be ranked among the year’s best.”
—Michael Koryta, New York Times-bestselling author of Those Who Wish Me Dead
“The Heavenly Table is a ferociously gothic ballad about desperate folks with improbable dreams and scant means. It is potent and chimeric, dank, violent, swamped in tragedy—and funny as hell.”
—Daniel Woodrell, author of The Maid’s Version and Winter’s Bone

Write Lab
2016-07-20 08:00 - 10:00 | story booth, 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
WRITE LAB is an opportunity for those who want to begin writing creatively, or for those who already are, who would like feedback on their work from peers and from a professional fiction writer, in a workshop setting. participants will learn how to give and receive constructive criticism on their written work, an essential and invaluable skill for any serious writer. participants must commit to at least one two-week block of time to participate. a book of all the critiqued and edited stories will be released at the end of the summer.
MEETS WEDNESDAYS IN JUNE (8, 15, 29) AND JULY (6, 20), 1-3 PM
for entering and current high school students | open enrollment

FISH
2016-07-22 05:00 - 2016-08-13 13:00 | Crosstown Arts Galleries, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
On view Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm through August 13
Gallery Talk: Friday, August 5, 5:30 pm
Experience a magical underwater world. From the minds of Laura Jean Hocking, Sarah Fleming, and Christopher Reyes, FISH is an immersive, site-specific display combining traditional audio, visual, and sculptural media with technology.

RECENT PRESS

Laura Jean Hocking

The universe was mysteriously created; fourteen billion years later Laura Jean Hocking became a filmmaker. She has edited four feature films, including the award winning documentary Antenna, and directed and/or edited dozens of music videos and experimental short films. Her most recent creation is the Indie Grant funded short film, “How To Skin A Cat.”

Sarah Fleming
For over a decade Sarah has worked as a filmmaker and visual artist in the Memphis area. She has produced and directed numerous award-winning works of art, spanning the spectrum from narrative and documentary films to music videos to experimental films and projection pieces. Currently she heads up her own production company, Cat and Fish, and is an active member of both Team Electron and Film Fatales. Sarah is passionate about creativity and an engaged member of the Memphis community.

Christopher Reyes
Christopher Reyes AKA Ninjacat is an experiential artist combining traditional murals, sculptures, and installations, with original soundscapes, music, film, projection mapping, and technology. Most recent installations include the Moonpie Project with Birdcap and NFO with the Urban Art Commission.

Inside Outsiders
2016-07-22 13:00 - 16:00
Opening Reception: Friday, July 22, 6-9 pm
On view Friday, July 22-Sunday, July 24, noon-6 pm

A collaborative exhibition sharing studio work by Paint Memphis mural artists
“Graffiti and murals have gone through an evolution and will only continue to evolve. The ins and outs of bold face lettering, outlining of text and images, and unusual use of paint has changed the way in which we view spaces and walls. They have become way-findings and geographical markers for communities and these artistic narratives and colorful writings on walls mark the spaces and communities we inhabit. Muralists and graffiti writers are often the first to recognize the potential in abandoned spaces and the first to act on the transformation of those spaces. We often celebrate these markers by taking photos, writing blogs, sharing on social media, and the favorite, posing in front of the painted artworks for the perfect memory. Paint Memphis strives to showcase the talent of these artists who use our walls to tell their stories. This is Inside Outsiders.”
Presented by Paint Memphis
in collaboration with Crosstown Arts

Community Zine-Making Workshop
2016-07-23 08:00 - 12:00 | story booth, 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Don’t know what a “zine” is? Never made one before? Do you want to but just don’t have the means?
Learn a little about the history of zine making and zine culture. Meet other zine-sters in the Memphis area and get inspired!
Basic zine-making supplies will be provided, but if you can, please BYOScissors.
Free admission, all ages
Led by artist Erica S. Qualy

Would you like to volunteer your time or donate some of your old zine-making supplies? We need people to help with set-up and take-down!
Please contact Erica Qualy (ericaqualy@yahoo.com) if you’d like to get involved.
FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE BEING ACCEPTED (and may be dropped off at Storybooth anytime during working hours):
-old books & magazines-
-standard computer paper-
-construction paper and/or interesting scrap paper-
-gluesticks-
-scotch tape-
-sharpies, pencils, pens-
-staples-
-hole punchers (decorative or plain)-
-stickers-
-scissors-
-markers-

"Come As You Are" Free Portrait Days
2016-07-24 08:00 - 12:00, 2016-07-31 08:00 - 12:00 | Crosstown Arts Studio Residency, 424 N. Cleveland - Back Entrance, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
This summer, Crosstown Arts studio residency artist Andrea Morales is working on a project looking to capture a portrait of Memphis through some of its neighborhoods.
As a member and resident of the Crosstown/North Memphis community, she’s looking to meet and photograph the people that power the neighborhood spots. She will be walking the streets with her camera hoping to catch the everyday details.
Additionally, she will run a studio at Crosstown Arts through the summer where she will host open studio days (dates and times listed below.) Folks are encouraged to come by and get their portrait made, and get their own print, for free. All are welcome!
FREE PORTRAIT DAYS
Sunday, July 24, 1-5PM
Sunday, July 31, 1-5PM

Looking to schedule some time? Have someone you think I should meet? Have any other questions? Contact Andrea Morales at morandrea@gmail.com
Put “Come As You Are” in the subject line.
This project is made possible with the support of Crosstown Arts
Related Event: Open Studio & Artist Talk by Andrea Morales – August 6

Zine Workshop
2016-07-25 09:00 - 2016-07-29 11:30 | story booth, 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
this workshop gives participants the chance to write(design/draw/collage, etc.) and self-publish an original “zine,” and then to display their work at our second-annual ZineFest on Friday, July 29, alongside the work of professional “zinesters” from Memphis and beyond. participants will develop and display their creative writing and art and design skills, and they’ll leave with a better understanding of the elements and power of DIY publishing. participants will also design a collaborative zine during the week, so that each participant leaves with at least two original zines in hand. ZineFest was a big event its first year, and this year should be even better. led by professional zinester and artist Erica S. Qualy.
20 participants / for entering and current middle and high school students
Contact Nat Akin at nat@crosstownarts.org to sign up!

Joseph Camp: Gravity Waves
2016-07-28 13:00 - 17:00
Inaugural solo exhibition by Joseph Camp
Gravity Waves will consist of intimate gouache paintings. This body of work challenges the viewers’ Jungian sense of personal experience. Camp says, ”It’s about the inherent value of experience and the role of visual retention.”
His work is comprised of spirited strokes and self-actuated symbols embedded within geometric shapes of color. Balancing simplicity and complexity, or the intentional lack of either, is an issue that Joseph addresses with intention and sincerity.
For more information, contact the artist: Joseph Camp
joseph@josephcamp.com
901-596-7365

Memphis ZineFest 2016
2016-07-29 11:00 - 14:00 | story booth, 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us to see and purchase new zines created by community workshop participants, story booth workshop participants, and professional “zinesters” from Memphis and beyond!
Featured vendors (as of July 10)
Rickie & Aimee
Grrl Punch Magazine
Porceline Teeth Zines
WWW (Courtney & Adele)
Stuffed Animal
Eric C
WALLS DIVIDE PRESS
VENDORS WANTED!
We have about 10-15 table spaces for local vendors, please email Erica Qualy (ericaqualy@yahoo.com) to reserve your spot!

Recrudescent: The Art of the Poster, 1980-2016.
2016-07-29 13:00 - 16:00
A collection of posters by Nick Canterucci
“Another example of his Reviviscence Visions, offering a scintillating look on his graphic designs, while others found ’em to be of merit.”
Special thanks to Pamela McFarland, Marie Smith, Jennifer Koney, Stacy Wright, Gary Reichel
-Nick Canterucci

When Writers Unite 2
2016-07-30 09:00 - 12:00
When Writers Unite is excited to hold its second annual back to school drive/artist showcase! Artists and youth will come together to close the generational gap between adolescents in the community, and young adults who could artistically inspire them. This event is open to the public and safe for all ages! Please bring hygiene items, underclothing, and back to school items.

Another Bizarre Bazaar
2016-07-31 05:00 - 11:00
This will be the second one-day exhibit and sale of long time Memphis artist and University of Memphis art professor, Larry Edwards.
Known for his surrealistic and often dark images, his work explores what he called the three F’s. As he often declared: “I observe and paint my reaction to: Foolishness, Foibles and the Frailties of Human Behavior. To a significant degree, I am painting myself.”
Image: Armored Acrobats, 1999, 40” X 30”, Gouache and pastel
Contact: Beth Edwards, eedwards@memphis.edu

Shoot & Splice: Misadventures in Screenwriting
2016-08-02 13:30 - 16:00
Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Crosstown Arts & Indie Memphis
Doors open at 6:30 PM; Panel discussion begins at 7:00 PM

Chris McCoy presents a case study in screenwriting, using his experiences writing his latest feature-length script Flash Crash to illustrate some lessons on the dark art.
Chris McCoy is a writer, director, producer, and consultant from Memphis. Working under the name C. Scott McCoy, he has written and directed three feature films: the mockumentary Automusik Can Do No Wrong (2004), which won Best Hometown Feature award at the Indie Memphis Film Festival; the restaurant comedy Eat (2006), and Memphis punk rock documentaryAntenna (2012) which won the Audience Award for Best Documentary and a Special Jury Prize at the Indie Memphis Film Festival and a Special Jury Prize at the Oxford Film Festival. He has also directed numerous short films and music videos for artists such as The Oblivans and Super Witch, a horror metal band in which he plays bass. He was formerly a co-creator at Live From Memphis and Senior Editor for at At Home Tennessee magazine. He is currently the Film/TV Editor for The Memphis Flyer, and writes media criticism, travel, science, and general interest articles on a freelance basis. Along with his wife, Laura Jean Hocking, he is the co-owner of Oddly Buoyant Productions, which creates film and video projects and offers media consulting services. Their next project is “How To Skin A Cat”, a short film funded by the 2015 Indie Grant program which will premiere at the 2016 Indie Memphis Film Festival.

Complimentary food and beverages will be available
Free & open to the public thanks to support by ArtsFirst: First Tennessee Foundation and ArtsMemphis.

FISH Gallery Talk
2016-08-05 12:30 - 13:30 | Crosstown Arts Galleries, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Learn more about the inspiration behind and production of FISH from its creators Laura Jean Hocking, Sarah Fleming, and Christopher Reyes.
RECENT PRESS

Laura Jean Hocking

The universe was mysteriously created; fourteen billion years later Laura Jean Hocking became a filmmaker. She has edited four feature films, including the award winning documentary Antenna, and directed and/or edited dozens of music videos and experimental short films. Her most recent creation is the Indie Grant funded short film, “How To Skin A Cat.”

Sarah Fleming
For over a decade Sarah has worked as a filmmaker and visual artist in the Memphis area. She has produced and directed numerous award-winning works of art, spanning the spectrum from narrative and documentary films to music videos to experimental films and projection pieces. Currently she heads up her own production company, Cat and Fish, and is an active member of both Team Electron and Film Fatales. Sarah is passionate about creativity and an engaged member of the Memphis community.

Christopher Reyes
Christopher Reyes AKA Ninjacat is an experiential artist combining traditional murals, sculptures, and installations, with original soundscapes, music, film, projection mapping, and technology. Most recent installations include the Moonpie Project with Birdcap and NFO with the Urban Art Commission.

Andrea Morales: Open Studio & Artist Talk
2016-08-06 09:00 - 12:00 | Crosstown Arts Studio Residency, 424 N. Cleveland - Back Entrance, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
ARTIST TALK AT 2 PM; PORTRAIT SESSIONS TO FOLLOW

This summer, Andrea Morales has been photographing Memphis as part of Crosstown Arts’ Studio Residency program. The Peruvian-born and Miami-raised photographer’s ongoing project looks at the details of life in the city’s neighborhoods (particularly in Crosstown and North Memphis) through documentary and portraiture work. Motivated by her background as a photojournalist at community newspapers, this addresses a communion of sorts with Memphis as a new home.
The studio space afforded by the residency is dubbed “Daisy Curtain” Studio for the season and serves as a means to meet folks while developing studio portraiture practices. Come visit Daisy Curtain, view some work in progress and learn a little about the documentary process. Folks who come by also have the option of having their portrait made, perhaps as part of the project, but mostly because there’s no such thing as a bad face. Participants will get a free print and/or digital file for their time.

The artist will host 2 additional portrait sessions over the summer:

Sunday, July 24, 2016; 1PM-5PM
Sunday, July 31, 2016; 1PM-5PM
Looking to schedule some time? Have any other questions?
Contact the artist, Andrea Morales at morandrea@gmail.com

901 Evolution presents the 4th Annual Soul Drive
2016-08-06 14:00 - 17:00
Arts showcase with hip-hop performances, spoken word, open mic, visual arts and food in support of local students. Admission: donations of new uniforms and school supplies
Organized by 901 Evolution, a youth mentoring program

Open Crit
2016-08-09 13:00 - 15:00
Artist installation 5-6 pm
Discussion 6-8 pm

August Facilitator: Carrol Harding McTyre
Participating artists:
John Collins, Lucero Soto, Eric Clausen & Logan Sanders

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

Contact Mary Jo at maryjo@crosstownarts.org with any questions!
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.

Hustle: Applying to Grants and Residencies
2016-08-09 13:00 - 15:00
Money and time can have a huge positive influence on your artwork. Learn about local and far-flung opportunities during this talk about the basics. What are grants and residencies and how can artists use these opportunities to further their careers?
How can you organize a smooth application process and prepare a professional application that stands out?
Discussion with artist Hamlett Dobbins, Elizabeth Rouse of ArtsMemphis, and Brett Roler of the Downtown Memphis commission.

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

Sexual Vegetables
2016-08-12 13:00 - 16:00
Exhibitions organized by the Pretty Girls Art Coalition & Chaparrita Gallery
Chaparrita Gallery is a miniature, travelling gallery with a 2′ x 2′ footprint and 14″ walls, scaled 1 inch to 1 foot.
www.chaparritagallery.com

Arrow of Light
2016-08-16 14:00 - 15:00
Arrow of Light is a 20 min short drama, based on a true story by a Memphis author. It centers around a 10-year-old boy who is trying to make sense of the suicide of a close family friend.
Film screening organized by Christian Walker

Microcinema Club: IndieMemphis Narrative Festival Shorts Encore
2016-08-17 14:00 - 17:00
Join us for an encore screening of the popular Narrative Shorts #2 block from this past year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival. These films are a mix of drama, comedy, and dark comedy films. This block also includes the Special Jury Award Narrative Short (A KING’S BETRAYAL) and the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Short (THE MOBILE STRIPPER).
Presented in collaboration with Crosstown Arts and made possible through support by ArtsFirst, the First Tennessee Foundation and ArtsMemphis.
NEW SUMMER HOURS: Doors open at 7 pm / Screening begins at 7:30 pm.
Complimentary food & drinks available
Admission is Pay-What-You-Can

T​o​sha Brown Art Show
2016-08-18 12:30 - 15:30
Exhibition organized by the artist.

Anthology: Somewhere Not Here
2016-08-19 05:00 - 2016-09-17 13:00 | Crosstown Arts Galleries, 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
OPENING FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 6-9 pm
ON VIEW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 17
Related event: A Real Imitation

CURATED BY TOMMY KHA
Pao Houa Her
Manal Abu-Shaheen
Johanna Case-Hofmeister
Jen Davis
Curran Hatleberg
Ka-Man Tse
Pixy Liao
Joel W. Fisher
Dru Donovan
Michael Marcelle
Farah Al Qasimi
Sara Maria Salamone
Justine Kurland
Ryan James MacFarland
Shane Lavalette
Rory Mulligan
Hannah Price
Nelson Chan
Lilly McElroy

Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Anthology: Somewhere Not Here, an exhibition of photography and video curated by New York/Memphis-based artist Tommy Kha.
Anthology collects images by an array of contemporary photographers sharing a common process instead of specific genre or subject. The works are informed by the acts of their journeys—seeking, feeling, and finding through passages of time and place.
Featured artists include Pao Houa Her, Manal Abu-Shaheen, Johanna Case-Hofmeister, Jen Davis, Curran Hatleberg, Ka-Man Tse, Pixy Liao, Joel W. Fisher, Dru Donovan, Michael Marcelle, Farah Al Qasimi, Sara Maria Salamone, Justine Kurland, Ryan James MacFarland, Shane Lavalette, Rory Mulligan, Hannah Price, Nelson Chan, and Lilly McElroy.
Learn more about the artists below.
From the curator
Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
– Susan Sontag
Somewhere Not Here brings together a diverse group of contemporary photographers. Rather than relying on a particular theme, the selected artists and works are connected through a hunting and gathering gesture in picture making.
The pictures, intentionally printed in small format to reference drug store prints and postcards, vary in subject matter and genre. They share and borrow languages such as landscape, the open road, picture as document, and street photography.
The photographers are nomadic, always in search of images that are elusive and not always present, not easily hunted.
Curran Hatleberg and Justine Kurland actively travel the American Road, while Manal Abu-Shaheen seeks her subjects in further places, crossing vast oceans to photograph in her home country.
Often, the way home is the source of the artists’ images. Ka-man Tse presents a picture of the personal journey, of her wife and Tse’s parents sharing a meal together in the same frame. Lilly McElroy’s video, Hopeful Romantic, reflects another aspect of artist’s performative nature—a performed Lilly McElroy. The video is edited to Bruce Springsteen’s “Dancing in the Dark” as she drives from Maine to California.
Some respond on impulse, referencing modes of transport, manifested as a sort of muse—a sitter for the camera. At times, these modes become a temporary studio space for Pixy Liao, as she travels back to China with her boyfriend, Moro Magario.
Others respond to constraints. Hannah Price’s pictures may take cues from Oulipo, a French literary movement, where she actively makes photographs “during a time people consider to be the most menacing; during the dark nights and of those who blend in with it. At night, I roam the streets looking for subjects of this type.”
The rest could be seen as collections of the world seen in passing—the gathered.

About Tommy Kha
Tommy Kha (b. 1988, Memphis, Tennessee) received his BFA in Photography from Memphis College of Art and his MFA from Yale University School of Art. His work has been published in Modern Painters, Humble Arts, Slate, the Huffington Post, Blouin ArtInfo, BUTT Magazine, Buzzfeed, and Miranda July’s “We Think Alone” and exhibited at Deli Gallery, Ryerson Artspace, Georgia Scherman Projects, Aperture, Signal Gallery, ALLGOLD at MoMA PS1 Printshop, Johalla ProAjects, Yongkang Lu Art, and Kunstverein Wolfsburg. He was an artist-in-residence through the Center for Photography at Woodstock and Light Work. Recently, Kha published his first monograph, A Real Imitation, through Aint-Bad Magazine. He currently lives and works in New York City and Memphis.
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About the Artists
Pao Houa Her was born somewhere in the northern jungles of Laos. She fled Laos with her family when she was a baby, crossed the Mekong on her mother’s back, was fed opium to keep from crying, lived in the refugee camps in Thailand and landed in America on a silver metal bird in the mid 1980s. She is a visual artist who works within multiple genres of photography. She has exhibited in numerous shows both nationally and internationally including a solo show at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Her received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and her MFA from Yale University.
Manal Abu-Shaheen is a Lebanese-American photographer currently living and working in Long Island City, NY. She was born in Beirut in 1982 and moved from Lebanon to New York in 2000. Abu-Shaheen received a MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2011; a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY in 2003; and attended Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon in 1999. Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, Queens, NY (2016); The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (2016); The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (2015); The Print Shop at MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2014); Camera Club of New York, NY (2013); and Welch School of Art and Design Galleries, Atlanta, GA (2012), among others. She is a recipient of the 2016/17 A.I.R Gallery Fellowship and the 2015 Artist in the Marketplace Residency program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She currently teaches at the City College of New York.
Johanna Case-Hofmeister received an MFA from Yale University in 2013. She went on to study projection design and technology at the Yale School of Drama. Her photography has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is currently an Associate Professor in Photography at Long Island University.
Jen Davis is a New York based photographer. For the past fourteen years she has been working on a series of Self-Portrait’s dealing with issues regarding beauty, identity, and body image. She has also been exploring men as a subject, and is interested in investigating the idea of the relationship, both physical and psychological, with her camera. Her first monograph titled Eleven Years, published by Kehrer Verlag (Germany) was released in the Spring of 2014 accompanied by her first solo show in New York City at ClampArt. She received an MFA from Yale University in 2008, and BFA from Columbia College Chicago in 2002. Davis’ work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In the fall of 2016 Davis will have a solo exhibition in FotoFocus 2016 Biennial in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her photographs are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Sir Elton John Photography Collection, and The Library of Congress, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Davis is represented by Lee Marks Fine Art and ClampArt, NY.
Curran Hatleberg (b. 1982, Washington, DC) received his MFA from Yale University in 2010. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including recent shows at Higher Pictures gallery and Fraenkel Gallery. He is the recipient of a 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund grant, a 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grant, and the 2010 Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography. Hatleberg’s work is held in various museum collections, including the SF MoMA, the Center for Contemporary Photography, the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. Lost Coast, his forthcoming monograph, will be released by TBW Books in fall 2016.
Ka-Man Tse is a photographer and video artist based in New York. She received an MFA from Yale University in 2009, and a BA from Bard College in 2003. Her images are informed by the points of intersection between the LGBTQ and the Asian Pacific Islander communities, and what is shared and negotiated between the two seemingly divergent worlds. Her photography and video begin from small gestures and moments that then unfold in public and private spaces. She has exhibited internationally and nationally; including the Lianzhou Foto Festival in Guangdong, China, the Museum of Chinese in America in New York, NY, the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, NY; Cornell University, the Palm Springs Art Museum in California, Capricious Gallery in New York, NY, the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and Gallery 339 in Philadelphia, and the Eighth Veil in Los Angeles. She was a SPARC Artist-in-Residence through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and completed the Artist in the Marketplace Program through the Bronx Museum of Arts. She is the recipient of the 2014-2015 Robert Giard Fellowship. She currently teaches at Yale University, where she was appointed lecturer in 2013, as well Parsons the New School of Design, since 2011. This spring, Tse mounted her first solo exhibition at the Silver Eye Center for Photography in Pittsburgh, PA. Her current project, Narrow Distances is currently on view in a solo exhibition at Lumenvisum in Hong Kong this summer (July 23 – August 21, 2016); her work is also currently on view at the New York Public Library, Mulberry Street Branch in Soho (June 1 – September 7, 2016).
Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Pixy Liao is an artist currently resides in Brooklyn.She is a recipient of NYFA Fellowship in photography, En Foco’s New Works Fellowship and LensCulture Exposure Awards, etc. She has done artist residencies at Pioneer Works, Light Work, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Camera Club of New York. Liao’s photographs have been exhibited internationally, including He Xiangning Art Museum (China), Asia Society (Houston), Flower Gallery (NY), VT Artsalon (Taiwan), Kips Gallery (Korea), The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space (Lebanon), Format (UK), Noorderlicht (Netherland), etc,.Liao holds a MFA in photography from University of Memphis.
Joel W. Fisher (b. Newport, VT) received a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of New Hampshire in 1997 and a Master in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. From 2006-2007 he worked and studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany on a Fulbright Fellowship. His work has shown both nationally and internationally in both group and solo exhibitions. Work in collaboration with J.T. Leonard entitled Landmark was shown in group and two person exhibitions including Wassaic Projects’ Return to Rattlesnake Mountain, AD/HD at KNOWMOREGAMES and P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E Galleries in Brooklyn, and solo exhibitions in Kansas City and Indianapolis in 2013 and 2014. A monograph entitled Landmark was published by Daylight Books in the spring of 2015 and was short-listed for the Aperture Foundation First Book Prize. Work from an on-going solo project entitled Agapage appeared in exhibitions Shifting Practices: Allusions, Interventions, and Conventions in Contemporary Photography at The Art Gym at Marylhurst University and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter at the Fraenkel Gallery in 2015. Joel has received grants from the Oregon Arts Commission, Ford Family and Mellon Foundations and was a participant in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program (2015-2016). Joel also co-curated and wrote the introduction for the exhibition catalog Reinventing Documentary: The Art of Allan Sekula (2015). Joel was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, an area head of photography at the City College of New York (CUNY), and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and Studio Head of Photography at Lewis and Clark College.
Dru Donovan received a BFA from California College of the Arts in 2004 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2009. Donovan’s work has shown nationally and internationally and was included in reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, and in the 2010 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, Fraenkel Gallery, Yancey Richardson Gallery, Hap Gallery and Philadelphia Photo Arts Center. Donovan’s photographs have been published in Aperture Magazine, Blind Spot, Picture Magazine, Matte Magazine, The New York Times Magazine and Vice. Her work is in the collections of Deutsche Bank and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2011TBW Books published her first book, Lifting Water. In 2011-2012 she participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace studio residency. Awards Donovan has received are the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship in 2015 and is a 2016-2017 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. She has taught at many institutions including Parsons School for Design, Pratt Institute, Lewis & Clark College, University of Hartford and Yale University and will be a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard in the fall of 2016.
Michael Marcelle was born in New Jersey in 1983, received a BA from Bard College in 2005 and an MFA from Yale University in 2013. His work has been exhibited at Aperture Foundation, Interstate Projects, Pioneer Works, Austin Center for Photography, and has been featured in The New Yorker, Vice Magazine, Vogue, Paper Journal, and more.
Farah Al Qasimi, born 1991 in Abu Dhabi, is an artist and musician. Farah studied photography and music at Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) and is currently an MFA candidate in the Photography program at the Yale School of Art. Farah has participated in residencies at the Burren College of Art in Ireland, at her studio in Dubai (with the support of the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation) and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Recent shows include Coming Up Roses at The Third Line, Dubai; Biennial for Arab Photography at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Emirati Expressions at Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi; Walls and Margins at the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah; and Black Mirror at the Aperture Foundation, New York.
Sara Maria Salamone is a photographer and independent curator who has earned her BA in Photography from Hampshire College and her MFA in Photography and Related Media from Parsons The New School for Design. Salamone has curated exhibitions at Albany Center Gallery in Albany, NY and LAUNCH F18, NYCAMs, and site95 in NYC. Salamone also comes from a diverse and experienced background, having worked at Casey Kaplan, site95, The Armory Show, Frieze New York among many others. Her most recent solo exhibition was held at GCA in Brooklyn, NY. Salamone lives and works in Brooklyn.
Justine Kurland is an artist who is lives in New York, and is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Ryan James MacFarland, born Tallahassee, FL in 1985, is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus in analog photography. Working with both natural and found environments as his primary subject, MacFarland explores the relationship to his surroundings informed by concepts such as nonlinear science, cosmic intervention and conscious existence. His work has been exhibited in the US and abroad since 2004 and written about or published in Art F City, Artinfo, DuJour, Purple, OUT, The New York Times, Vogue, W and Whitewall. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Shane Lavalette, born 1987, in Burlington, VT, is an American photographer, the founding Publisher/Editor of Lavalette, and the Director of Light Work. He holds a BFA from Tufts University in partnership with The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Lavalette’s photographs have been shown widely, including exhibitions at the High Museum of Art, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Aperture Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Musée de l’Elysée, in addition to being held in private and public collections. In 2016, a solo exhibition of One Sun, One Shadowwas presented at Robert Morat Galerie in Hamburg, Germany. His editorial work has been published in various magazines, including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Esquire, Bloomberg Businessweek, Vice Magazine, The Wire, Wallpaper*, among others. Lavalette is currently based in Upstate New York.
Rory Mulligan currently lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He received a BA from Fordham University and a MFA from Yale University in 2010. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and is included in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Mulligan’s work has been published by J&L Books (Atlanta), Blind Spot Magazine (New York) and Art Licks (London) and his writing is featured in The Photographer’s Playbook published by Aperture. He was a 2014 Artist in Residence at Light Work in Syracuse, New York and is currently a Process Space Resident for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Raised in Fort Collins, Colorado, Hannah Price, born in 1986, is a photographic artist and filmmaker primarily interested in documenting relationships, race politics, perception and misperception. Price is internationally known for her project City of Brotherly Love (2009-2012), a series of photographs of the men who catcalled her on the streets of Philadelphia. In 2014, Price graduated from the Yale School of Art MFA Photography program, receiving the Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography. Over the past six years, Price’s photos have been displayed in several cities across the United States, with a few residing in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Nelson Chan was born in New Jersey to immigrant parents from Hong Kong and Taiwan and has spent most of his life between the States and Hong Kong. Having grown up on two continents with unique cultures, this immigrant experience has influenced the majority of Nelson’s work. He continues to explore this duality of personal and cultural identity through the medium of photography. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received a BFA and a graduate of the University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, where is received his MFA. Nelson is based in New York City and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Lilly McElroy is an American photographer born in Wilcox, Arizona. The artistic projects she pursues are a reflection of her complex relationship with the American West and exploring what it means to be an American in a time of diminished expectations. She received her BFA in Photography in 2003 and BA in creative writing in 2004 from University of Arizona, and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006.

Tommy Kha: A Real Imitation Booksigning
2016-08-20 11:00 - 13:00 | story booth, 438 N. Cleveland St., Memphis, TN, 38104, United States
Join us for a reading, signing, and sale of “A Real Imitation” (Ain’t Bad) with New York/Memphis-based artist Tommy Kha.

Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, Tommy Kha felt a pervasive alienation from his surroundings and was often mistaken for a tourist or ‘foreigner.’ Gesturing to his eyes, strangers would inquire about his ethnicity. As he approached adolescence, these inquiries evolved into questions concerning his sexuality, adding a new layer to his perceived outsider status. These experiences followed him even to graduate school at Yale University, where declining to give a stranger a cigarette outside a bar was met with the impertinent invitation for Kha, a native Memphian of Chinese descent, to “go back to Japan.” Though these hurtful experiences had become commonplace, Kha remained unscathed; he’d been hearing these types of things his whole life. Discussing his recent series A Real Imitation and how he remains unable to broach the subject of his sexuality with his mother, grandmother, and most of his family, Kha says, “I think subconsciously, I made these pictures as a response to feeling forced to hide. So I’m trading guises and trying to reflect that. I think this is how the project will end—when they find out.”
Through A Real Imitation, Kha uses a discordant mix of performance, self- portraiture, and iconic pictures of the Memphis landscape to understand and underscore his uncanny and complex experience of feeling like an outsider at home and in his own skin. Obsessed with photography’s ability to reveal and conceal, Kha’s work pushes its function (as Diane Arbus once described it) as a purveyor of secrets. Straying from loud or heavy-handed depictions of cultural identity, he illustrates his alienation with a constellation of visual poems that quietly capture a disruption between his projected likenesses and how he sees himself.
-Jon Feinstein
