Tag: Andrea Morales

“Come As You Are” Free Portrait Days

Andrea Morales, (Left) A community vigil for the victims of violence at Northside High School; (Right) Santaria, 12, in the studio

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

“Come As You Are” Free Portrait Days

Andrea Morales, (Left) A community vigil for the victims of violence at Northside High School; (Right) Santaria, 12, in the studio

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

Andrea Morales: Open Studio & Artist Talk

Andrea Morales, (Left) A community vigil for the victims of violence at Northside High School; (Right) Santaria, 12, in the studio

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

Another Life

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 6-9 pm

Featuring work by Andrea Morales, Yasmine Omari, Louis “Ziggy” Tucker,  Stephanie Wexler, and a collaboration by Carla Worth & Andrew Gafford.

“Life and death are mirrors. To talk about one is to talk about the other, despite the distance in the language between them: life with its fragility, versus death and its finality.

We choose to remember because we want to feel who we loved that came and passed before us. It’s for our own benefit to do so. We keep the dead alive in our dreams and photographs. We see them where we used to live, we see them where they were last seen. We see them as we last saw them. Our circles grow closer, tighter and are sometimes preserved and strengthened by death.

Why we come to life, how we leave at death, how we are remembered: our questions shape the narrative of the ultimate. We turn the questions into rituals. Chief among them is our memory.

It’s a comfort that the world does not empty of people. We welcome the ghosts as evidence of life. This show collects works that examine that memory through photography, video and mixed media by a group of local artists.” – Andrea Morales

Co-curated by Andrea Morales in collaboration with Crosstown Arts

Image:
INDIANOLA, MS – May 29, 2015: at the public viewing for B.B. King at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center on Friday morning.
Credit: Andrea Morales for The New York Times