BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Crosstown Arts - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Crosstown Arts X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://crosstownarts.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Crosstown Arts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20140309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20141102T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20150308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20151101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20160313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20161106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20170312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20171105T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20151211T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160116T120000 DTSTAMP:20260611T143110 CREATED:20150929T014127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151206T202841Z UID:10002599-1449806400-1452945600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Extra Celestial DESCRIPTION:Organized in partnership with Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland\, CA)\n Curated by Tom di Maria\, Director of CGAC\nOpening Reception: Friday\, December 11\, 6-9 pm\n Curator Talk: Saturday\, December 12\, 2 pm\nCrosstown Arts is pleased to partner with Creative Growth Art Center to present the upcoming exhibition Extra Celestial. Founded in Oakland\, California in 1973\, Creative Growth serves adult artists with developmental\, mental\, and physical disabilities\, providing a professional studio environment for artistic development\, gallery exhibition and representation\, and more. \nIn Extra Celestial\, Creative Growth artists Luis Aguilera\, David Albertsen\, Terri Bowden\, Susan Janow\, Allan Lofberg\, Dan Miller\, Donald Mitchell\, William Scott\, Ruth Stafford\, William Tyler\, Merritt Wallace and Ed Walter explore concepts of inner and outer space. \nThis ethereal grouping of works on paper presents an otherworldly and highly personal view of inner explorations and celestial journeys. Often abstract\, always visionary\, these colorful and dynamic paintings and drawings serve as maps to a galaxy of dreams and to compelling utopian realities. \nAn important component of Extra Celestial is the gallery premiere of Starquarius\, the new space exploration video from the Creative Growth Video Production Workshop that reflects and re-considers the iconic sci-fi films of our lives. \n\n \n \n \n \n Starquarius (poster)\n \n \n \n \n \n David Albertsen\n \n \n \n \n \n Still from Starquarius\n \n \n\n\nCurator Talk: Saturday\, December 12\, 2 pm \nIn conjunction with the exhibition\, please join Creative Growth Director Tom di Maria for his gallery talk\, From the Margins to the Mainstream: Artists with Disabilities Today. The talk will review the history and leadership of Creative Growth Art Center’s work as the world’s oldest and largest art center for people with disabilities. He will review the Center’s studio art practice\, the evolution of several key artists\, and its relationship to so-called Outsider Art and to the contemporary art world. \n\nAbout Creative Growth \nCreative Growth Art Center is the nation’s oldest and largest artist-run space for artists with disabilities\, offering a professional art studio\, exhibition opportunities\, and a supportive artistic community for 154 adult artists with developmental\, physical\, emotional\, and mental disabilities. Founded in 1974 on the idea that all people can gain strength\, enjoyment and fulfillment from experiences in the arts and are capable of producing works of high artistic merit\, CGAC’s studio program offers\, at no cost\, 74 ongoing workshops led by artists in a range of media. Our year-round Saturday Youth Art program provides 16 young adults with access to our award-winning studio. As a role model organization\, CGAC has fostered the development of over 20 similar centers worldwide. \nCritical to CGAC’s success is its landmark/adjoining gallery. Started in 1978 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as the world’s first gallery for artists with disabilities\, this museum-quality space\, with its six extraordinary annual exhibitions\, serves as a portal to the larger community of viewers and collectors. Over 12\,000 people visit our gallery each year. \nCGAC’s artists are thriving in the mainstream art world\, making significant contributions to the field of contemporary art\, and becoming recognized among the outstanding contemporary artists of our era. Recent accomplishments include: \n–       CGAC artist Judith Scott became our third artist (Dan Miller and William Scott are the others) to have work acquired by the Museum of Modern Art\, New York. These are the only three artists with developmental disabilities with work in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection.\n–       Participation in over 20 outside exhibitions and art fairs\, including our artists’ first presence at: Art Fair Tokyo\, Japan; D’Dessin Paris Contemporary Drawing Fair\, France; and the Codex Book Fair\, Richmond\, CA.\n–       CGAC artists Kerry Damianakes and William Scott received 2015 Wynn Newhouse Awards\, given to artists of excellence who also happen to have disabilities.\n–       “Bound and Unbound\,” a major 5-month retrospective exhibition of CGAC artist Judith Scott’s eighteen years of sculpture making\, was presented at the Brooklyn Museum. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/extra-celestial/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-12-06-at-2.23.41-PM.png GEO:35.1522897;-90.0132964 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Crosstown Arts Galleries 1350 Concourse Ave. Suite 280 Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280:geo:-90.0132964,35.1522897 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160105T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160105T123000 DTSTAMP:20260611T143110 CREATED:20151215T182010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160105T200911Z UID:10002626-1451997000-1451997000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Shoot & Splice: Video Journalism DESCRIPTION:VIDEO JOURNALISM: HOW DOCUMENTARIES RAISE AWARENESS AND CREATE CHANGE \nFor the first Shoot & Splice of 2016\, join our panelists Noah Glenn\, Mark Hackett and Andrea Morales to discuss\, debate and analyze the use of documentary film to convey organizational messages\, video journalism\, the difference between the two and how to effectively and ethically craft both.   \nNoah Glenn is the Creative Director and Video Artist for City Leadership.  In his role at City Leadership\, Noah is responsible for producing\, shooting & editing the very popular Choose901 videos.  The Choose901 documentaries highlight interesting people\, organizations and events and are used to further City Leadership’s larger goal of attracting and retaining talent in Memphis. Mark Hackett is the Executive Director of Operation Broken Silence\, a non-profit that focuses on the human rights catastrophe in Sudan.  As part of its mission\, Operation Broken Silence uses short documentaries and videos to highlight the serious issues that people in Sudan are facing.  Andrea Morales is a Memphis based documentary and editorial photojournalist.  Andrea’s work has been seen in The New York Times\, Time Magazine and The Guardian. \nShoot & Splice is a monthly filmmaking forum presented by Crosstown Arts & IndieMemphis URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/shoot-splice/ LOCATION:TN CATEGORIES:430,Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/bb9e7a170f6c600f-ScreenShot2014-04-29at92911AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160107T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160110T120000 DTSTAMP:20260611T143110 CREATED:20151207T170120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151210T180943Z UID:10002622-1452139200-1452427200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Hereabouts DESCRIPTION:A selection of self-taught Memphis artists\nOpening Reception: Friday\, January 8\, 6-9 pm\nPerformance & Panel Discussion: Saturday\, January 9\, 2 pm\nOn view January 7-10\, noon-6 pm\nOrganized by Mary Jo Karimnia & Linda Pelts in partnership with Crosstown Arts & the Church Health Center \nSelf-taught artists are a hot commodity in today’s art world. In a 2013 article in the Atlantic\, Sarah Boxer writes\,”[Artwork by self-taught artists] is being enthusiastically embraced—one might say swallowed whole—by the contemporary-art world.” \nThis fresh and provocative work comes from everywhere: from small towns in Italy to pulpits in Georgia\, and our our own Memphis backyard. Hereabouts showcases four artists–Franco Camarillo\, Winnie Shields AKA Miisreal\, Theolia\, and Michael Watson–who make artwork that is genuine to their experiences but without the (sometimes) burden of an arts education. Their work is raw\, passionate\, and insightful\, and brings together experiences near and far. These local visionaries see things and re-present them to us through their own unique lenses. \nTed Norwood aka Theolia  was born in Benton County\, Mississippi and raised in Memphis. He left for the bright lights of Chicago as a young\, 17 year old\, high school drop-out and made a name for himself in the world of high-end menswear. He spent 60 fulfilling years working his way up the ladder at Saks Fifth Ave and Bloomingdale’s on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. After returning to Memphis in the early 1990’s\, Theolia was the unfortunate victim of a house fire in 2005 which left him scared and stiff. Through his many adventures Theolia managed to make artwork. He uses mostly oil or soft pastels and his own fingers to create landscapes and scenes from his life\, from photos and from his imagination. He works mostly on cardboard pizza boxes and other scrap boards in vivid\, life-affirming colors. Currently\, Theolia works mostly out of the art room at the local Lewis Senior Center. \nWinnie Shields aka Miisreal began creating collages in 2011 from materials that fall across her path including scrap fabrics\, tissue boxes and ribbons. She looks for patterns and symbols to inform her work making figures and interior scenes. A common theme is a female or bride image that comes from a spiritual insight and represents her experience as a bride of God. The figures often float in a celestial way and often contain light and heart shapes. She sometimes makes figures of a little girl to represent innocence and her feeling of still being a small child in many ways although she is in her sixties. Shields was born in Senetobia\, MS and moved to Memphis as a ten year old. She also writes poetry and books and keeps a close relationship with her family. \nMichael Watson has been making artwork for over 20 years out of whatever he can find. He sculpts heads from junk mail\, uses old chop sticks for paint brushes and loves to layer collage bits and images under and between layers of acrylic medium. Michael was born in England when his father was in the service\, was raised in Jackson\, MS and now makes Memphis his home. He is influenced by Italian Zombie movies and his favorite B-movie actresses often appear in his work. He is an expert in hallucinogenic mushrooms and works sporadically doing odd jobs to buy beer and sometimes groceries. His friend Chris Garner from Garner Picture Framing helps Michael store and sell his work. \nFranco Camarillo (Franco Florencio Camarillo Villavicencio) was born in 1933 in Oaxaca\, Mexico. He grew up on a farm and worked hard from a very early age. He studied Civil Engineering in Mexico City\, married and had three children. The family moved to the United States for the children to continue their education. Franco began drawing while earning his bachelors degree and it has been an integral part of his life since. The first drawings he made were “Mascaras” (masks) for the the dancers who make parties very cheerful in his hometown. This early influence can be seen in the faces he continues to draw today. Franco draws on whatever materials he can find including panels cut from cereal boxes. He draws every day with the hope of continual growth. \nImage: Michael Watson URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/hereabouts/ LOCATION:TN CATEGORIES:430,Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/MichaelWatson2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160112T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160112T140000 DTSTAMP:20260611T143110 CREATED:20151215T205610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151215T205610Z UID:10002469-1452600000-1452607200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Visiting Writer Stewart O'Nan DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts and the Booksellers at Laurelwood present visiting writer Stewart O’Nan\, reading and signing from “West of Sunset.” \nAmazon’s Best Books of the Month for January 2015 \nAn Indie Next Pick for January 2015 \nA “rich\, sometimes heartbreaking” (Dennis Lehane) novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood \nIn 1937\, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled\, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health\, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins\, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December 1940\, he would be dead of a heart  attack. \nThose last three years of Fitzgerald’s life\, often obscured by the legend of his earlier Jazz Age glamour\, are the focus of Stewart O’Nan’s gorgeously and gracefully written novel. With flashbacks to key moments from Fitzgerald’s past\, the story follows him as he arrives on the MGM lot\, falls in love with brassy gossip columnist Sheilah Graham\, begins work on The Last Tycoon\, and tries to maintain a semblance of family life with the absent Zelda and daughter\, Scottie. \nFitzgerald’s orbit of literary fame and the Golden Age of Hollywood is brought vividly to life through the novel’s romantic cast of characters\, from Dorothy Parker and Ernest Hemingway to Humphrey Bogart. A sympathetic and deeply personal portrait of a flawed man who never gave up in the end\, even as his every wish and hope seemed thwarted\, West of Sunset confirms O’Nan as “possibly our best working novelist” (Salon). \n Praise for West of Sunset \n“The Fitzgerald O’Nan gives us feels like the Fitzgerald of my dreams; in this way the book rises up to enfold the reader\, it enfolded this reader naturally and exquisitely.”\n—Elizabeth Strout \n“West of Sunset is a rich\, sometimes heartbreaking journey through the disintegration of an American legend. O’Nan captures the fire and frailty of F. Scott Fitzgerald with an understated grace that would have made Fitzgerald himself stand up and applaud.”\n—Dennis Lehane \n“An achingly nuanced love story and one of the best biographical novels to come along in years.  O’Nan’s great achievement here is in so convincingly inhabiting the character of Scott Fitzgerald and of the people surrounding him during his descent into the clarifying depths of 1930s Hollywood.”\n—T.C. Boyle \n“O’Nan is an incredibly versatile and charming writer. This novel\, which imagines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s troubled time in Hollywood (with cameos by Dorothy Parker\, Bogie\, and Hemingway)\, takes up (like much of O’Nan’s work) that essential conundrum of grace struggling with paucity. One brilliant American writer meditating on another–what’s not to love?”\n—George Saunders \n“I’ll direct my enthusiasm for West of Sunset to writers who revere Fitzgerald’s short story ‘Babylon Revisited.’ Stewart O’Nan captures Fitzgerald’s mood of spiritual reflection\, without trying to imitate Fitzgerald’s voice. This book is an inoculation against self-pity. It’s not a mock Fitzgerald novel\, but an original portrait of a writer struggling to keep his dignity while trying to make a living. It’s one of the best books I’ve read in years and it deserves a cheering crowd.”\n—Michael Tolkin \nReviews \nPaste Magazine\nThe Buffalo News\nEntertainment Weekly\nAmazon.com\nNewsday\nThe Washington Post\nTweed’s\nHuffPo Books\nChicago Tribune\nThe Boston Globe\nPittsburgh Post-Gazette\nUSA Today\nLA Weekly\nThe Seattle Times\nThe Stranger\nWashington Times\nOregonLive\nCincinnati CityBeat\nTuscaloosa News\nThe Christian Science Monitor\nThe New Yorker URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/visiting-writer-stewart-onan/ LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/9780143128243.jpg GEO:35.1505926;-90.0135933 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=story booth 438 N. Cleveland St. Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=438 N. Cleveland St.:geo:-90.0135933,35.1505926 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160115T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160115T150000 DTSTAMP:20260611T143110 CREATED:20151215T182557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160108T194415Z UID:10002467-1452816000-1452870000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Pin-Up DESCRIPTION:A retrospective of pin-up art from the 1890’s through the 1980’s. \nReception: Friday\, January 15\, 6 – 9pm\nGallery Hours: Saturday\, January 16\, 10 am – 5 pm \nExhibition and sale organized by Chuck Parr URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/pin-up/ LOCATION:TN CATEGORIES:430 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/12313921_10153735805473695_314970666485269538_n.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160120T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160120T170000 DTSTAMP:20260611T143110 CREATED:20160111T191930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160111T191930Z UID:10002471-1453298400-1453309200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Peace DESCRIPTION:Art exhibition URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/peace/ LOCATION:TN CATEGORIES:430 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-1.15.57-PM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160128T094500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160128T113000 DTSTAMP:20260611T143110 CREATED:20160125T175622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160125T175622Z UID:10002478-1453974300-1453980600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Snowden Middle & Humes Prep Book Release Party DESCRIPTION:From story booth‘s fall in-school writing workshops\, we have published anthologies featuring original work of 62 young writers at Snowden and 18 young writers from Humes Prep. This will be the first time the writers have the books revealed to them\, and they’ll be able to participate in binding their own copies of the book to take home. Food and drinks available; free and open to the public. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/snowden-middle-humes-prep-book-release-party/ LOCATION:story booth\, 438 N. Cleveland St.\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-22-at-8.43.56-AM.png GEO:35.1505926;-90.0135933 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=story booth 438 N. Cleveland St. Memphis TN 38104 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=438 N. Cleveland St.:geo:-90.0135933,35.1505926 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR