Tag: Crosstown Arts

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

Lance Turner: Residency Open Studio

Lance Turner, the inaugural artist in the Studio Residency program, is opening his space to the public for an afternoon reception. Come meet Lance and hear more about his works in progress and creative process. At 3 pm, Lance will give an informal artist talk.

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Joel Parsons: You Are the Hole, An Exhibition in Four Acts

Opening Reception: Friday, October 9, 6 – 9 pm
Performance: Sunday, October 25, 2 pm

You Are the Hole is the theatre of desire, abstracted. By presenting the self as something constructed and performed, Joel Parsons gently prods the human dichotomy of yearning to divulge and yearning to conceal.

Using the structural components of a theatre, he establishes an installation space that is simultaneously formal and intimate. Occupying the transformed stage are sculptures in voluptuous pinks and nudes, a flesh-like latex curtain and dozens of small drawings. Parsons has made a zine to accompany the exhibition, which will be available in the gallery.

The culmination is Parsons’ performance of his originally-choreographed piece, “Beholding and Being Held.”

Joel Parsons is an artist, writer, and curator based in Memphis, TN. He is an Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College, co-director of Beige, an otherwise space for art and performance, and a founding member of the ArtsMemphis Artist Advisory Council. A graduate of Rhodes College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he has exhibited his work in Memphis at the Powerhouse, Material, and Southfork Gallery, as well as at Western Exhibtions in Chicago, and venues in Peru, India, and South Africa.

 

Shoot & Splice: A View From Above, the Art & Craft of Drone Cinematography

Doors: 6:30 pm | Presentation: 7 pm

Crosstown Arts and Indie Memphis invite you to look skyward, toward the increasingly popular world of aerial drone cinematography. With the advent of more affordable tech, snagging high-flying shots in your low-budget short or commercial project is no longer a pie-in-the-sky dream.

For this edition of Shoot & Splice, we’re discussing what it takes to be an aerial maverick with three of the best drone cinematographers in Memphis.

PANELISTS

WIL “HYPE” EVANS

Wil “Hype” Evans is a highly skilled producer, UAV/drone pilot, USAF veteran and part of the team at House of Shoots. At 15, he began producing television shows and commercials in the Memphis area, alongside his Emmy-winning brother, Rahn. To earn money for college, he joined the USAF at 18, where he received a wide variety of training in mechanics and communication. After his service, Wil harnessed his diverse interests, skills and military experience to become an entrepreneur in the world of video/tv production, eventually finding aerial film a perfect match. 

His aerial film credits include music videos with artists such as Future and Hot Boys rapper, Turk, as well as television shows like So You Think You Can Dance. Hype has a high-energy personality and a keen attention to detail. A club DJ by hobby, he has a love for music and never stops dancing. (Some may call him hyper-active.)

RYAN GOBLE

Ryan Goble is a Memphis-based Director of Photography well-versed in lighting, sound and editing with over 17 years of experience shooting everything from Emmy/Academy Award-winning documentaries to commercial productions to reality television. His gear of choice for aerial filming are CineStar copters and Jimmy Jibs. 

AARON JAFFE

Born and raised in Memphis, Aaron Jaffe has an extensive background in marketing, management and creative direction, which makes him an excellent fit to bring the Flyral concept to the Mid-South. The company successfully launched in July of 2014 as a drone services startup and transformed into a multi-faceted content marketing company in 2015, with the addition of graphic design, branding and digital marketing services. With a portfolio featuring clients such as Volvo, AEP River Operations, Pannattoni Development, Crown Winery, CB Richard Ellis, West Clinic and the Shopping Center Group, Flyral has proven that the sky is not the limit, just a source of endless possibility. 

Aaron earned his BA and MSBA from the University of Memphis and has held leadership positions in the startup, healthcare, technology and marketing fields ever since. A lifelong creative, he is an experienced graphic designer and proficient in a wide variety of Adobe Creative Cloud programs.

Diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic at the age of three, Aaron also spends time speaking to Diabetic groups throughout the US about his accomplishments, challenges and experience as an endurance athlete. When not working or traveling, he can usually be found trail running or spending time with his loving family: wife, Devon; daughter, Ellis; and son, Owen.

 

Shoot & Splice: Holiday Cinema Trivia Blowout!

Throughout the year, Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts brings cinematographers, directors, editors, writers and technicians to Shoot & Splice, our monthly film making forum.

Come help us celebrate the end of another year with the Second Annual Cinema Trivia blowout.

Test your filmmaker mettle! Prizes! Holiday cocktails! Peppermint cake!

working writer’s cocktail hour

in the interests of further cultivating and connecting the literary community of Memphis, story booth is hosting the second edition of Crosstown Arts’ Working Writers’ Cocktail Hour to help usher in the second-annual Mid-South Book Festival.

presenting authors in town for the festival are welcome, college and MFA students to early/mid-career/accomplished (meaning published and not-yet-published) writers who live and work in Memphis are welcome too. whether writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, journalism, art writing, music writing—all are invited to visit story booth for an hour or so to do what it normally takes an expensive retreat to make happen: bring a group of writers together to stand around, have a drink, and make connections with other working writers they may or may not have known before.

whether or not your day-job is writing makes no difference — if you’re a working writer, you’re invited.

Mid South Book Fest