Tag: UrbanArt Commission

Memphis 3.0 Application Workshop

Interested in applying for the UrbanArt Commission Memphis 3.0 Call for Artists? Started your application but have questions? Or do you just do your best work with good company?

If so, join us at Crosstown Arts on Thursday, February 23rd from 6-8 p.m. for our second of two Memphis 3.0 Artist Application Q + A / Workshops. All are welcome to join!

Bring your application and/or computer with you for an opportunity to workshop your application. We’ll have resources available to help you with the following:

*Memphis 3.0 & Comprehensive Planning, in general
*Example projects from Minneapolis’ comprehensive plan
*Writing about your artwork / work samples
*General writing / proofreading / revising help
*Technological assistance for the application process

We’ll start the workshop with a whole-group Question + Answer session, then break down into smaller tables with resources available to match your needs.

There’ll be brain food on hand, too, including coffee + snacks.

Hope to see you there!

To start your application or to submit any questions, email submissions@urbanartcommission.org.

Download a complete copy of the call at: urbanartcommission.org/open-projects/
Facebook invite

*As a reminder, all applicants must have attended one of the Memphis 3.0 Information Sessions held on January 24th + 25th. If you did not make either session, email us to schedule a make-up by February 16th!

Public/Art/ists III

Crosstown Arts, the UrbanArt Commission and ArtsMemphis have partnered to present a multi-venue exhibition and programming series throughout 2015 to acknowledge public art makers in Memphis.

UrbanArt Commission will host part III of Public/Art/ists, sharing new outdoor installations by three artists who have made contributions to Memphis’ urban landscape:

RECEPTION:  

ArtVillage Gallery, 410 S. Main, 7-9 pm

INSTALLATIONS:

Terri Jones – Installation in between 531 and 525 S. Main St. (next door to Earnestine and Hazel’s)

Christopher Reyes – Video installation at Fire Station No. 2, 474 S. Main St. (running every half hour on the half hour)

Vitus Shell – Mural at Carter & Company, 455 S. Front St.

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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 conception to completion. The exhibition and ongoing events of Public/Art/ists not only act as a connection point to these artists, but also reveal the multiple facets of these artists’ practices in the community.

Organized by the UrbanArt Commission in partnership with ArtsMemphis and Crosstown Arts

Made possible with support from the First Tennessee Foundation/ArtsFirst

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Community Mural Talk with Guisela Latorre

Presented by UrbanArt Commission and Crosstown Arts in partnership with Caritas Village, Hope Gallery & Centro Cultural:

Join us for a presentation on muralism in international contexts with visiting scholar Guisela Latorre from the University of Ohio Department of Art/Department of Gender Studies. Her talk will explore her research around Chicana/o murals in California and muralism and graffiti in post-dictatorship Chile.

Guisela 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.

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