Art For A Smart Start is a collaborative art exhibition featuring the works of 27 different Memphis artists. These artists will show and sell their works during this one-night-only event and generously donate proceeds of their sales to benefit Shelby County Books From Birth. Organized by Darlene Newman.
Crosstown Arts, the UrbanArt Commission and ArtsMemphis are partnering to present a multi-venue exhibition and programming series throughout 2015 to acknowledge public art makers in Memphis.
The series will collectively recognize and share the work of artists who have participated in Memphis’ public art projects and initiatives, including the studio work (non-public art projects) of these artists, as well as insight into their processes and involvement in creating public art projects from ….
Over the course of nine weeks in the fall of 2012, the sixth-grade “Rocket Writers” of the new Gordon Science & Arts Academy met for a workshop with Nat Akin, our director of outreach & education, to compose creative work for the first book-length project of our new after-school arts program, story booth.Tales of Modern Rocketry is the collection of science fiction stories dreamed up by these young writers, each accompanied by ….
