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SUMMARY:Richard Lou: Stories On My Back
DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Stories On My Back\, a large-scale multi-media installation incorporating audio\, video\, digital photographs\, and tamale leaves created by Memphis artist Richard Lou. The installation\, never before seen in its entirety in Memphis\, is an immersive experience alluding to a ceremonial site where people come to share their stories and personal histories. The piece is informed by stories exchanged through the artist’s family: stories told by the artist’s mother and father\, the stories he shared with his children\, and the stories retold by his children as their own. \n \nStories On My Back from Crosstown Arts on Vimeo. \nThe thousands of tamale leaves in the installation speak to the artist’s bi-cultural heritage as a Chinese/Mexican\, or what artist/activist Guillermo Gomez-Peña would a “Chicanese\,” a Chicano/Chinese. The stories mix personal history within the larger context of the external historical forces that brought the artist’s families together\, or threatened to pull them apart. They are stories of loss\, dreams\, isolation\, ignorance\, race\, disparities of power\, assimilation\, spirit\, and subjugated knowledge and wisdom. \nIncluded in the installation is Lou’s father’s chair\, where Lou Yet Ming would sit and watch John Wayne westerns and movies about World War II. Lou’s father served in the U.S. Marine Corp during World War II and was honorably discharged as a Technical Sergeant. Lou Yet Ming’s recliner was re-designed and brought back to life by Louisiana artist Chere Labbe Doiron\, reupholstered with images of the artist’s children and his mother. It has traveled with the exhibition for the last two years and now has become an integral component of the larger installation. \nRichard Lou was born in San Diego\, CA and raised in San Diego and Tijuana\, BCN\, MX. He has over 20 years of teaching experience in higher education\, over 15 years of arts administration experience\, has curated over 30 exhibitions\, and continues to produce and exhibit art while teaching and chairing the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. \nCrosstown Arts thanks the First Tennessee Foundation | ArtsFirst and ArtMemphis for support of this exhibition and its related programs\, which are part of an ongoing artistic and community partnership between Crosstown Arts and Centro Cultural.  More details about the18-month schedule of collaborative exhibitions and events\, and several long-term cultural projects\, can be found at crosstownarts.org/centro-cultural-collaboration. \n\nStories On My Back Events \nOpening Festivities: Friday\, June 5 \n\n9am: WKNO Checking on the Arts interview with Richard Lou\n6 pm: Blessing by Danza Azteca Quetzalcoatl\n6:15 pm: Performance from singer/songwriter Savannah Long\n7 pm: Cuban and Latin folk music by Los Cantadores\n6 – 9 pm: Hot Mess Burritos food truck\, empanadas from Havana’s Pilon\, paletas by Michoachana\, elote (grilled corn) and a wide variety of cold beverages!\n\nExhibition Programs: Saturday\, June 6\, 2-4 pm\n \n\n2 pm: Lecture by Visiting Scholar Guisela Latorre\, 430 N. Cleveland\n3 pm: Gallery Talk with Richard Lou & Guisela Latorre\, 422 N. Cleveland\n\n\nPress for Stories On My Back \nArt Review: Richard Lou explores mixed heritage in ‘Stories on My Back’ at Crosstown Arts\nFredric Koeppel / Commercial Appeal / June\, 2015 \n\nArtist Biography \nRichard Alexander Lou was born in San Diego\, CA and raised in San Diego and Tijuana\, BCN\, MX. Richard grew up in a biracial family\, spiritually and intel­lectually guided by an anti-colonialist Chinese father and a culturally affirming Mexicana mother. Educated at Southwestern College\, Chula Vista\, CA receiving an A.A. in Fine Art in 1981; California State University at Fullerton\, CA receiving a B.A. in Fine Art in 1983; Clemson University\, Clemson\, SC receiving an M.F.A. in Fine Art in 1986. \nLou has exhibited at the DePaul Art Museum\, Chicago\, IL; Wing Luke Museum\, Seattle\, WA; Landmark Gallery\, Texas Tech University\, Lubbock\, TX; Museo Carrillo Gil\, Mexico City DF\, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art\, San Diego; Mexic-Arte Mu­seum\, Austin\, TX; Newport Harbor Art Museum\, Newport Beach\, CA; Cornerhouse Art Gallery\, Manchester\, England; the 3rd International Istanbul Biennial\, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum\, Istanbul\, Turkey; Dong-A University\, Busan\, South Korea; Miami Museum\, Miami\, FL; Museum of Photographic Arts\, Balboa Park\, San Diego\, CA; Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\, MN; Mexican Fine Arts Museum\, Chicago\, IL; Otis School of Art and Design\, Otis Gallery\, Los Angeles\, CA; MIT List Visual Arts Center\, Boston\, MA; Aperto 90` Section\, La Biennale Di Venezia\, Venice\, Italy; Grey Art Gallery\, New York University\, NY\, NY; Dia Foundation\, NY\, NY; Artist Space\, NY\, NY. Richard Lou’s artwork has been published and/or cited in various newspapers\, magazines\, catalogs\, electronic media\, and over 30 books. Lou has over 20 years of teaching experience in higher education\, over 15 years of arts administration experience\, has curated over 30 exhibitions\, and continues to produce and exhibit art while teaching and chairing the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. \nArtist Statement \n“There has never been a free people\, a free country\, a real democracy on the face of this Earth.  In a city of some 300\,000 slaves and 90\,000 so called free men\, Plato sat down and praised freedom in exquisitely elegant phrases.” Lerone Bennett Jr. \nAs a Chicano artist the recurrent themes are the subjugation of my community by the dominant culture and white privelege. These works manifest themselves in the creation of counter-images and counter-definitions made in a self-determinant manner.  As a contemporary image-maker I am interested in collecting dissonant ideas and narratives allowing them to bump into each other\, to coax new meanings and possibilities that dismantle the hierarchy of images. The work serves as an ideological\, social\, political\, and cultural matrix from which I understand my place in this world and to make a simple marking of the cultural shifts of my community. The artwork examines how communities use images and language to dehumanize the “Other” in order to ignore the “Other’s” basic human rights.  It challenges unquestioned claims to territory and legal status. \n“Art is one of the most sacred ways to communicate.” Consuelo Jimenez Underwood \nThe work that I create as a Chicano artist emanates and is in response to the love I have for my family.  The work embraces the contradictions\, the conflicts and triumphs\, the quiet and raucous moments of a routine day\, the flowering\, the decaying\, the markings and ceremonies that compose a lifetime all within a society that subjugates.  At the core\, all work I do is for them.  And in that hopeful light\, I am willing to take the chance that the power of the work will ultimately save my children who will become the inhabitants of a New Nepantla as they negotiate a home in this destabilized world. \n-Richard Lou \n— \n\n\n\nLecture on June 6\, 2 pm at 430 N. Cleveland \nStories on My Back by Richard Lou: Installation Art\, Transnationalism and the Chinese-Chicano Experience \nPerformance\, installation and new media artist Richard Lou’s work has compelled spectators to think critically about bordered identities\, power inequities\, post-colonial realities\, race relations\, and other socially relevant issues. His provocative and dynamic performances\, installations and multimedia pieces have also encouraged audiences to problematize clear distinctions between art and activism and between creative endeavors and social justice work. \nPrimarily known as a Chicano artist\, Lou’s work for the past ten years\, however\, has paid great attention to his Chinese heritage and to the transnational subjectivities that animate social identities. Having grown up in the San Diego/Tijuana border region with a Mexican mother and a Chinese father\, Lou’s experiences have been defined by the transnationalism of the border region itself but also by the biculturalism of his upbringing. \nIn this presentation\, Guisela Latorre will focus on one of the artist’s installation Stories on my Back on display at the Crosstown Arts Gallery. Without losing sight of the politically engaged and collective nature of his art\, this work is among the most introspective and deeply personal of the artist’s career. Utilizing the images and voices of the artist’s children and deploying story-telling devices throughout the installation\, Lou articulates a transnational identity that is\, on the one hand\, quite intimate and unique to his Chinese-Chicano experience and\, on the other\, broadly symptomatic of an increasingly globalized world. \nThus\, Stories on my Back embodies what cultural studies scholars Kit Dobson and Áine McGlynn identify as “the desire to advocate for artistic agency at a time when globalizing forces are increasingly calling for economic rationalizations for creative practices.” Latorre will therefore argue in this presentation that Stories on my Back eloquently speaks of the critical connections between the Chicana/o and Chinese experiences in the U.S.\, connections that represent viable forms of transnational resistance to the homogenizing and subordinating forces of globalization. \nGuisela Latorre\, Associate Professor\, Ohio State University Department of Art \nGuisela Latorre specializes in modern and contemporary U.S. Latina/o and Latin American art with a special emphasis on gender and women artists. Her first book titled Walls of Empowerment: Chicana/o Indigenist Murals from California (U. of Texas Press 2008)\, explored the recurrence of indigenist motifs in Chicana/o community murals from the 1970s to the turn of the millennium. Her other publications include “Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork” in the American Studies Journal (2012)\, “New Approaches to Chicana/o Art: The Visual and the Political as Cognitive Process” in Image & Narrative (2010)\, and “Icons of Love and Devotion: Alma López’s Art” in Feminist Studies (Spring/Summer 2008). Latorre’s recent research activities include the co-editorship of the feminist journal Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies and work on a second book project of the graffiti and mural movement in Chile during the post-dictatorship era. She teaches classes on Latina/Chicana feminism\, visual culture and Latina/o art. \n\n\n\n— \nCrosstown Arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in Memphis. Managing five types of spaces that integrate varying components of exhibition\, performance\, production\, education and retail\, Crosstown Arts supports multidisciplinary and collaborative projects that interconnect people and organizations. We welcome anyone in the community to join any of our events or projects\, regardless of prior experience or expertise with creative interests. \ncrosstownarts.org \nCentro Cultural Latino de Memphis strives to meet the needs of the community by celebrating and promoting awareness of our cultural richness and diversity interpreted through the literary\, performing\, and visual arts. Our primary goal is to preserve our respective rich Latino cultural heritage and to stimulate intergenerational dialogues among the disciplines\, languages\, and traditional and contemporary expressions. \ncentrocultural.us
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/richard-lou-stories-on-my-back/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Release: MiID (Motivation\, Inspiration\, Innovation\, Determination)
DESCRIPTION:This event is aimed at inspiring others to ultimately find their identities. Author Benjamin Hall will give a presentation about his new book and then invite the audience to participate in a discussion. There will be music\, finger foods and a chance for people to connect with one another.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/miid_bookrelease/
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150711
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SUMMARY:story booth summer workshop: super 8 film
DESCRIPTION:2 – 4:30 pm // ages 10 – 14 \nthis workshop gives participants the chance to script\, shoot\, splice\, and screen their own independent\, super 8 films in one week. we’ll premiere all films at a mini-film festival on the last Friday of the workshop. taught by Crosstown Arts’ professional videographer\, Justin Thompson.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/story-booth-summer-workshop-super-8-film/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150708T120000
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SUMMARY:Greg Cote\, Small Fires and More
DESCRIPTION:Houston\, TX-based singer/songwriter\, Greg Cote\, performs with several local acts\, including Small Fires\, Animal Satire\, Significant Other and Monticello.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/greg-cote/
LOCATION:TN
CATEGORIES:430
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SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Music in Film
DESCRIPTION:Join Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts for a special lyrical edition of Shoot & Splice. Studio/music label owner\, Ward Archer\, and film composers\, Jonathan Kirkscey and Ted Speaker\, will be on hand to discuss their process for composing music for film\, recording techniques\, the important intricacies of song selection\, being a music supervisor and all things music and film. \nShoot & Splice is made possible with the support of ArtsMemphis and FirstTennessee Foundation | ArtsFirst.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice-music-in-film/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150712
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SUMMARY:I.D.
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBITION SCHEDULE\nThursday\, July 9: 10am – 6pm\nFriday\, July 10: Reception from 5 – 8pm\nSaturday\, July 11: 10am – 6pm \nA group exhibition organized by Memphis College of Art and Crosstown Arts\, featuring new works by MCA IDEALS participants\, focused on the concept of identity. \n \nI.D. JULY 9TH-11TH @ 430 N. CLEVELAND from Crosstown Arts on Vimeo.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/i-d/
LOCATION:TN
CATEGORIES:430
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150714T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150714T150000
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SUMMARY:Open Crit
DESCRIPTION:430 N. Cleveland\nSecond Tuesday of Each Month\nArtist Setup: 5 – 6 pm / Critique & Discussion: 6 – 8 pm \nCrosstown 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. The series will take place at Crosstown Arts exhibition space at 430 N. Cleveland. \nA 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. \nAll 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/edu- cation in fine art. Participation is free and open to the public. Input during the critiques from everyone in attendance is welcomed and encouraged. \nNo 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. Par- ticipating 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. \n\n  \nTo participate\, artists can send the following info via email to Brittney Bullock (brittney@ crosstownarts.org) with the subject line “Open Crit.” Submissions will be accepted and scheduled based on availability. There is no submission fee. \n\nName\nPhone number\nEmail address\nGeneral description of the work to be discussed (i.e. “abstract paintings” or “video art”) & sizes of works and/or media types\n\nArtists are asked to bring no more than 8 individual pieces (in any medium). Maximum run time for time-based work(s) is 10 minutes. \nParticipating 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. \nOrganized by Crosstown Arts in partnership with ArtsMemphis ArtsAccelerator.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/open-crit-2/
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CATEGORIES:430,Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150718T080000
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SUMMARY:Zine-Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Artists! Writers! Photographers! \nYou are cordially invited to attend a FREE zine-making workshop\, where you can connect with other artists in the area and work on your own zine in a positive and welcoming environment. \n***Materials provided*** \n\nDon’t know what a zine is? Never made a zine of your own? No problem! Brush up on a little zine history and learn some DIY techniques so you can get started on a zine of your very own! \nParticipants and other local zine-sters are invited to display and sell their final works at the Zine Fest Fair on Friday\, July 24th from 4-6 PM. Please contact Erica Qualy (ericaqualy@yahoo.com) to reserve a table space. \nDeadline for submissions is July 22nd\, 2015 \nSubmissions should be sent to\nStory Booth\n422 N. Cleveland St.\nMemphis\, TN 38104
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/zine-making-workshop/
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SUMMARY:XO: Collaborative Works by Chloe York & Eric Quick
DESCRIPTION:Artists’ Statement \nWithin our individual works\, we explore the metaphor of the exoskeleton in its relation to the human practice of camouflage and self-defense. We wished to combine this shared interest in a collaborative series of mixed media paintings and sculptural installation. These works depict creatures that physically possess exoskeletons of their own. \nThis series\, entitled XO is a play on the push and pull between abstraction and realism\, each artist using his and her individual strengths to create a fully formed\, cohesive creature with a disconnect in visual styles.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/xo-chloeyork-ericquick/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150725
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SUMMARY:summer workshop: zine & bookmaking
DESCRIPTION:2 – 4:30 pm // ages 10 – 14 \nthis workshop gives participants the chance to write and self-publish an original “zine\,” and then also to collaborate on an original story to be professionally published into a finished book. both of these projects allow participants to develop their creative writing and understand the elements of DIY and professional publishing\, and each participant will leave with a finished zine and book in hand.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/story-booth-summer-workshop-bookmaking/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:State of the Art
DESCRIPTION:Black liberation rapper Skipp Coon (Jackson\, Mississippi) performs songs from his latest album Miles Garvey\, and illustrator/painter/muralist Trevor FRE$H Coates (Detroit\, Michigan) will be exhibiting his current collection Adventure to the Green.\n\nMusic by DJ Siphne Aaye. Presented by Dope Since 1980. \n 
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/state-of-the-art/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150816
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SUMMARY:Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum: Walking Eyes
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Friday\, July 31\, 6 – 9 pm\nRoundtable Discussion: Saturday\, August 15\, 3 – 5 pm\nGallery Hours:\nTuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm\nWalking Eyes is a collaborative exhibition by Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. Inspired by a month spent in Southeast Asia\, each piece was developed through exchanges of ideas and sketches between the two artists. The work is informed by personal memories\, hand-drawn maps\, tropical flora\, and Batik patterns. Many of the pieces have high levels of details with hidden treasures to encourage exploration. The show includes a collection of mixed-media works on paper and fabric\, as well as an installation. \nCollaborators in life and art\, Kong Wee and Jay thoughtfully balance married life\, creative exploration and professional growth through ongoing ventures like the playful TaroPop Studio\, which they co-founded in 2009. \n\n                 \n\n\n    \n\n\n \n\nArtists Bios\nKong Wee Pang is a designer/artist from Malaysia. She graduated from Singapore Nanyang Academy of Fine Art. In 2001 she moved to the United States. She received a degree in fine art and design and an MFA from the Memphis College of Art. She currently works as an art director at the mid-south’s largest ad agency\, archer>malmo. Her work has been shown in NYC’s Times Square\, Spain\, Italy\, Berlin\, Atlanta\, Memphis and California. \nKong Wee on her practice: \n\nMy work is concerned with transformation. Coming from Malaysia\, I have learned to adapt to a new way of life here in the United States. I exist in a liminal state living in two worlds. I have focused upon the notion of original self\, outside influences and transmutation. Working with watercolor is meaningful to me. In Chinese we have a saying which translates roughly to “When you drink water\, remember the spring.” The abstracted figures give me a chance to face my new freedom while remembering where I come from. It is found in translation. \n\nJay Crum is a designer\, illustrator and artist. He was born in New Orleans\, LA and currently lives in Memphis\, TN. He received a BFA in printmaking in 2005 and has since been navigating the line where art and design meet. In 2009 he co-founded TaroPop\, a small studio producing T-shirt designs and limited-edition art-prints. He received his MFA at Memphis College of Art in 2012. He has exhibited work in Memphis\, Rome and Barcelona.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/walking-eyes/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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SUMMARY:zine fest
DESCRIPTION:all-ages event showcasing underground zines created by local & inter/national artists.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/zine-fest-2015/
LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150726T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150726T140000
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SUMMARY:When Writers Unite
DESCRIPTION:UGenius Inc presents its first local fundraiser/artist showcase\, featuring writers of all kinds (poets\, rappers\, singers\, etc.) delivering a positive message to our community and to our youth. \nAll proceeds will be used to provide personal hygiene items and back-to-school supplies\, as well as funding the purchase of movies\, books\, etc. that will be shown and explained at local community center events bi-monthly. \nAttendees are also welcome to bring nonperishable items for donation.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/when-writers-unite/
LOCATION:TN
CATEGORIES:430
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150728T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150728T160000
DTSTAMP:20260612T144648
CREATED:20150703T041357Z
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SUMMARY:MicroCinema Club: 2015 Sundance Film Festival Award-Winning Shorts Tour
DESCRIPTION:Showcasing a wide variety of story and style\, the 2015 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is an 83- minute theatrical program of six short films that won awards at this year’s Festival\, which over the course of its more than 30-year history has been widely considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers. Including fiction\, documentary and animation from around the world\, the distinct 2015 program traverses vibrant styles from wild comedy to quiet poetry. Each breaks through its limited timeframe with a high level of artistry and story that will resonate with audiences long after it ends. \n \n2015 Sundance Film Festival Award-Winning Shorts on Tour from Sundance Shorts on Vimeo. \nFilms\nWorld of Tomorrow \nShort Film Jury Award (Best of Fest)\nWritten and directed by Don Hertzfeldt. U.S.A.\, 17 minutes.\nA little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of the distant future. \nSMILF \nShort Film Jury Prize: US Fiction\nWritten and directed by Frankie Shaw. USA\, 9 minutes.\nA young single mother struggles to balance her old life of freedom with her new one as mom. It all comes to a head during one particular nap-time when Bridgette invites an old friend over for a visit. \nOh Lucy! \nShort Film Jury Prize: International Fiction\nWritten and directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi. Japan/Singapore/U.S.A\, 22 minutes.\nSetsuko\, a 55-year-old single so-called office lady in Tokyo\, is given a blonde wig and a new identity\, Lucy\, by her young\, unconventional English-language teacher. “Lucy” awakens desires in Setsuko she never knew existed. \nThe Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul \nShort Film Jury Prize: Non-Fiction\nWritten and directed by Kitty Green. Russian and Ukrainian\, 7 minutes.\nAdorned in pink sequins\, little girls from across a divided\, war-torn Ukraine audition to play the role of Olympic champion figure skater Oksana Baiul\, whose tears of joy once united their troubled country. \nStorm hits jacket \nShort Film Jury Prize: Animation\nWritten and directed by Paul Cabon. 2014\, France\, 13 minutes.\nA storm reaches the shores of Brittany. Nature goes crazy\, and two young scientists get caught up in the chaos. Espionage\, romantic tension\, and mysterious events clash with enthusiasm and randomness. \nObject \nShort Film Special Jury Prize for Poetic Vision\nWritten and directed by Paulina Skibińska. Poland\, 15 minutes.\nA creative image of an underwater search in the dimensions of two worlds—ice desert and under water— told from the point of view of the rescue team\, of the diver\, and of the ordinary people waiting on the shore. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDirector Bios\nSMILF: SMILF is Frankie Shaw’s first short film\, which she wrote\, directed and starred in. She is currently developing a TV show from the story. Shaw graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a degree in literature\, then moved to Los Angeles where she currently lives. Shaw first received recognition acting in the completely improvised Sundance film The Freebie and then as the oddball drunken cheerleader in the sitcom Blue Mountain State. \nOBJECT: Paulina Skibińska\, born in 1987 in Kowary\, near Jelenia Góra\, Poland\, graduated from the Post-Secondary Studio of Culture Animation in Wrocław in 2009. She earned her M.A. degree in screenwriting at the Łódź Film School (2014)\, where she is now pursuing her Ph.D. studies. OBJECT isher first film as director. Being a screenwriter of numerous internationally awarded short fiction and animated films\, including http://\, The Kiss and 48hTV\, Paulina is presently at work on her full-length fiction debut film. \nSTORM HITS JACKET: Born in Brest in 1985\, Paul Cabon is a French director and animator. After a course in applied arts at Estienne (Paris)\, he attended ESAAT in Roubaix where he graduated in animation. Between 2007 and 2009 he studied at La Poudrière in Valence\, where he directed Sauvage\, which won the special student film prize in the Annecy festival in 2010. He has worked as an animator\, scriptwriter and background artist and character designer for the series Michel at Folimage and as an illustrator in various fanzines. \nOH LUCY!: Atsuko Hirayanagi was born in Nagano and raised in Chiba\, Japan. She is a recent graduate of NYU Tisch School of The Arts\, Asia with an MFA in Film Production\, where she received the Cathay Scholarship from Singapore’s Cathay Organization. Her short films have played at numerous film festivals\, including Clermont-Ferrand and Tokyo Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia\, where her MFA 2nd year project\, Mō Ikkai\, won the Grand Prix as well as the Japan Competition Best Short (Governor of Tokyo Award) and the Audience awards. Atsuko is currently developing a feature script of Oh Lucy! \nTHE FACE OF UKRAINE: CASTING OKSANA BAIUL: Kitty Green is an award-winning Australian filmmaker. In 2012\, Kitty moved to her grandmother’s native Ukraine to shoot with the protest movement ‘Femen’. Her abduction by the KGB made headlines internationally. Her feature documentary\, Ukraine Is Not A Brothel screened at the Venice Film Festival\, SXSW\, Hot Docs and over fifty festivals internationally. After Sundance\, The Face of Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul made its European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. \nWORLD OF TOMORROW: Don Hertzfeldt is an Academy-Award nominated American animator and independent filmmaker. He is the creator of many animated films\, including It’s Such a Beautiful Day\, The Meaning of Life\, and Rejected\, and recently created a “couch gag” opening for The Simpsons. His films have received over 200 awards and have been presented around the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout The Sundance Film Festival Shorts Program\nThe Sundance Film Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most groundbreaking films of the past three decades\, including Whiplash\,Boyhood\, Rich Hill\, Beasts of the Southern Wild\, Fruitvale Station\, Little Miss Sunshine\, sex\, lies\, and videotape\, Reservoir Dogs\, Hedwig and the Angry Inch\, An Inconvenient Truth\, Precious and Napoleon Dynamite. Each year the Festival receives more than 8\,000 short film submissions\, selecting 60-80 to show. The Festival programs a 90-minute collection of shorts from its most recent Festival to go on a theatrical tour to independent art houses in more than 50 cities nationwide. It is one of very few theatrical releases of short films in America. \nFueled by artistic expression and limited only by their runtime\, short films transcend traditional storytelling. They are a significant and popular way artists can connect with audiences. From documentary to animation\, narrative to experimental\, the abbreviated form is no longer just for the novice. Shorts have and will continue to be an important part of cinema\, storytelling\, and culture. The Festival has always treated short films with the highest regard and gives a home to new (and old) projects for audiences to discover and celebrate. \nThe Festival’s Short Film Program has long been established as a place to discover talented directors\, such as past alums Wes Anderson\, Todd Haynes\, Nicole Holofcener\, Spike Jonze\, Paul Thomas Anderson\, Lynne Ramsay\, David O. Russell\, Trey Parker and Matt Stone\, Lake Bell\, Jay and Mark Duplass\, Alexander Payne\, Debra Granik\, Andrea Arnold\, and many others. \nRecent short film discoveries at the Festival include Golden Globe Award winner Jill Soloway (Transparent) and Academy Award nominee Damien Chazelle (Whiplash). \nThe Festival is the centerpiece of the year-round public programs for the nonprofit Institute\, which also hosts 24 residency labs and grants more than $2.5 million to independent artists each year. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n   
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/microcinema-club-2015sundanceshorts/
LOCATION:TN
CATEGORIES:430,Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20150731T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150731T160000
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SUMMARY:Walking Eyes: Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:Walking Eyes is a collaborative exhibition by Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. Inspired by a month spent in Southeast Asia\, each piece was developed through exchanges of ideas and sketches between the two artists. The work is informed by personal memories\, hand-drawn maps\, tropical flora\, and Batik patterns. Many of the pieces have high levels of details with hidden treasures to encourage exploration. The show includes a collection of mixed-media works on paper and fabric\, as well as an installation. \nCollaborators in life and art\, Kong Wee and Jay thoughtfully balance married life\, creative exploration and professional growth through ongoing ventures like the playful TaroPop Studio\, which they co-founded in 2009. \n\nPlease join us for refreshments in the gallery to celebrate the exhibition\, and visit the Walking Eyes page for more information.
URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/walking-eyes-reception/
LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Gallery
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