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SUMMARY:Cedar Lorca Nordbye: To Frame\, To Construct\, To Occupy
DESCRIPTION: Utilizing the approximate quantity of wood used to frame a small house\, the installation explores questions of diaspora\, exile and relocation\, with occupancy as a form of resistance\, and construction as a metaphor for idea formation.The colorful and fragmented imagery of houses\, figures and abstract designs cast on a variety of standard\, wooden framing surfaces is the first phase of a two-part project. At the close of the exhibition\, the graphically altered lumber will be donated to Memphis Habitat for Humanity and available for use in a newly constructed home\, briefly visible as a collaborative artwork between the artist and the volunteer builders before being enclosed within the walls of a future dwelling. \nOn view in the Crosstown Arts gallery\, across the street from the Sears Crosstown building\, which is soon to be the largest building remodel in the history of Memphis\, the installation utilizes wood collected from multiple sources (including the interior of Sears Crosstown) to examine our sense of the structures we inhabit in a post 9/11\, post-Katrina America. \n“Our ideas\, the thoughts that give shape to our days\, our emotions and our interactions\, are like the beautiful golden streaked Douglass fir two-by-fours that frame our homes. Humble\, cut to length and hidden away.” \nCedar Lorca Nordbye is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Memphis where he has taught since 2003.  His work has been exhibited in California\, Atlanta\, Chicago\, Quebec\, Skopje\, Alabama\, Kentucky and North Carolina in a variety of gallery\, museum and alternative spaces.  Norbye has carried out social-practice/performance artworks in Las Vegas\, Paris\, Greensboro\, Seattle\, Nashville and New York City\, where he has been banned from the Empire State Building since 2003. \nWhen asked where he is from\, Nordbye replies\, “Michigan for four years\, Minnesota for one year\, Iowa for four years\, Massachusetts for five years\, California for ten years\, and before that in a childhood blur of hippie-Jewish-exiled wandering which spanned Connecticut\, Guatemala\, New Mexico and West Virginia\, with my mother and my father…who actually is a Jewish carpenter.” \nHis work can be viewed online at cedarnordbye.com. \nThe exhibition was organized by the artist and Crosstown Arts.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/cedar-lorca-nordbye-to-frame-to-construct-to-occupy/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Visiting Writer: Michael Pollan
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Crosstown Arts\, Booksellers at Laurelwood\, Church Health Center and Memphis Center for Food & Faith \nInternationally-acclaimed\, bestselling author Michael Pollan visited Memphis for a reading\, booksigning\, and dinner event on Tuesday\, May 20\, in conjunction with the paperback release of his most recent book\, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. \nPrior to the reading\, Chef Miles McMath and organizers hosted an outdoor barbecue featuring locally-sourced meat and produce\, with the food and cocktail menu based around the themes of the book.  Local acoustic duo Deering and Down as well as members of story booth’s spring music production workshop performed live. \nThis event was presented by Crosstown Arts in collaboration with The Booksellers at Laurelwood\, the Church Health Center\, and Memphis Center for Food & Faith\,  and benefited the new nonprofit local foods distributor\, Bring It Food Hub. Admission to reading was free and dinner tickets were offered at $20. \n\n                 \n\n\n    \n\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\nFor the past twenty-five years\, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where nature and culture intersect: on our plates\, in our farms and gardens\, and in the built environment. \nIn Cooked\, Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here\, he explores the enduring power of the four classical elements—fire\, water\, air\, and earth— to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters\, Pollan learns how to grill with fire\, cook with liquid\, bake bread\, and ferment everything from cheese to beer. In the course of his journey\, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world\, standing squarely between nature and culture. Both realms are transformed by cooking\, and so\, in the process\, is the cook. \n\nA portion of book sales and proceeds from dinner tickets will help to support the Pay It Forward CSA program of Bring It Food Hub\, which provides fresh fruit and vegetables for families in need. \nBring It is partnering with the Church Health Center to increase access to healthy and delicious locally-grown food. \n\nMore about the author: \nMichael Pollan is author of Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation and of four New York Times’ bestsellers: Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual (2010); In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (2008); The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) and The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World (2001). The Omnivore’s Dilemma was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by both the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, the James Beard Award\, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \nPollan was named to the 2010 TIME 100\, the magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. In 2009 he was named by Newsweek as one of the top 10 “New Thought Leaders.” A contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine since 1987\, his writing has received numerous awards. \nIn addition to publishing regularly in The New York Times Magazine\, his articles have appeared in Harper’s (where he served as executive editor from 1984 to 1994)\, National Geographic\, Mother Jones\, The Nation\, The New York Review of Books\, Vogue\, Travel + Leisure\, Gourmet\, House & Garden and Gardens Illustrated\, among others. \nIn 2003\, Pollan was appointed the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism\, and the director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. In addition to teaching\, he lectures widely on food\, agriculture\, health and the environment. \nDetails: \nVisiting Writer Michael Pollan \nPresented by Crosstown Arts\, The Booksellers at Laurelwood\, Church Health Center\, and Memphis Center for Food & Faith \nTuesday\, May 20 \n7:00 pm reception; 7:30 pm program begins \nCrosstown Arts\, 430 N. Cleveland \nAdmission to the reading is free. For the booksigning\, you must purchase a paperback copy of Cooked from The Booksellers at Laurelwood\, which includes a line ticket. A portion of book sales benefit new local foods distributor\, Bring It Food Hub. \nBack Alley BBQ with Chef Miles McMath \n5-7 pm \nAlley behind 430 N. Cleveland; access from front or rear parking lots. \nLimited dinner tickets are now sold out. \nProceeds benefit new local foods distributor Bring It Food Hub. \nOpen House at the Church Health Center \n5-7 pm \n420 N. Cleveland \nLearn more about the Church Health Center’s programs and enjoy appetizers and drinks. \nContacts: \nCrosstown Arts – Emily Halpern\, Emily@crosstownarts.org \nThe Booksellers at Laurelwood – Macon Wilson\, mwilson@dkbks.com \n  \n 
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