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  • The Sketchbook Project

    Don't miss Brooklyn-based Sketchbook Project, visiting Crosstown Arts on their summer tour with 4,500 sketchbooks created by participants from across the country. The Sketchbook Project's Mobile Library will be parked outside of Crosstown Arts at 430 N. Cleveland from 3-9 pm on Thursday, August 29. We'll have an exhibition by the Memphis Urban Sketchers on […]

  • Impossible Language

    The first incarnation of Memphis' ongoing collaborative poetry reading series, "Impossible Language," organized by Ashley Roach-Freiman.  

  • 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 […]

  • Valerie Piraino: Reconstruction

    Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave., Suite 280, Memphis, TN, United States

    Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Reconstruction, an exhibition of works by New York-based artist Valerie Piraino. Her work examines how sentimental objects are used to rebuild portraits of place and time. With slide installations, framed porcelain cameos, and works on paper, Piraino uses conditions from a recollected past to address the meaning of nostalgia and memory. […]

  • Crosstown Block Party

    Crosstown Neighborhood Cleveland & Overton Park

    Join us for a night out in Crosstown!  Join the Hi-Tone, Visible Community Music School, Cleveland Street Flea Market, Amurica Photo, Yvonne Bobo Studio, Crosstown Arts, the Church Health Center and other neighbors for a night out in Crosstown. Come see the new storefront spaces and experience all that's happening in the area. MUSIC/PERFORMANCES- Outdoor Stage: 5-7 pm: DJ Siphne Aaye 7 pm: Visible […]

  • 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 […]

  • Theaster Gates: A Way of Working

    Crosstown Concourse 1350 Concourse Ave., Memphis, TN

    In partnership with VO2 Networx, the University of Memphis Department of Art, Memphis College of Art, and Rhodes College Art Department, Crosstown Arts is pleased to welcome internationally-recognized installation and social practice artist Theaster Gates for a public lecture and panel discussion at Sears Crosstown on the evening of Saturday, November 16.

  • Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh: Are There Fish in Lick Creek?

    V&E Greenline Tutwiler and Avalon

    Sculpture Unveileing: Are There Fish in Lick Creek? by Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh, Winner of Memfeast 2013 V&E Greenline at Evergreen Street near Tutwiler Join us for the unveiling of "Are there Fish in Lick Creek" with live music, food, drinks and fun for the whole family! Bluegrass by Eric Lewis and others, plus the Tamale Trolley. […]

  • Rise Mural Project

    Klondike Smokey City CDC

    Rise Up: Mural Makeover In Klondike-Smokey City Neighborhood by Natasha Main, Crosstown Development Intern Big changes are in the works for an abandoned storefront on the corner of Looney and Decatur. Middle school students from Humes Preparatory Academy will work with a local artist to complete a mural on the façade of a blighted building at […]

  • Visiting Writer James Scott

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

    Please join us for a reading of “The Kept” and conversation with the writer and WKNO’s Justin Willingham Booksigning to follow Free admission Recent review in the New York Times “James Scott has written a riveting and memorable debut novel.” —Tom Perrotta, author of "Little Children" and "Election" “Scott is both compassionate moralist and master […]