BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Crosstown Arts - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20130310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20131103T070000 END:STANDARD 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:20160416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160416T170000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20160304T142135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160414T175200Z UID:10002499-1460818800-1460826000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Duets for Mellotron DESCRIPTION:SATURDAY PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT!  \nENCORE PERFORMANCE ADDED: SUNDAY\, APRIL 17\, 7:30 PM \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Duets for Mellotron\, a live performance by Jonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant\, organized in collaboration with Winston Eggleston. \nThis unique performance experience—the world’s first Mellotron duet—features an obscure but ingenious keyboard instrument invented in the 1940s which was designed to reproduce the sound of virtually any acoustic\, electromechanical\, or synthesized instrument. \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nThe M400 and a new M4000 cycling Mellotron\, from Winston Eggleston’s small but diverse Mellotron collection\, will be played at the performance. Eggleston will also share a series of new site-specific digital projections to complement the music. \nThe collaboration will result in a forthcoming limited-release vinyl recording of the performance and other duets for Mellotron composed by the artists. \nEvent tickets can be purchased in advance\, online for $30 (includes a copy of the record) or $15 (performance only). Capacity is limited. Performance location is Crosstown Arts at 422 N. Cleveland\, Memphis. A complimentary reception will take place prior to the performance. \n\nTICKETS \nDuets for Mellotron\nSaturday\, April 16\, 8 pm doors/8:30 pm show (45 mins)\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\nTickets: $15 / $30 with record\nSOLD OUT \n\nDuets for Mellotron Encore\nSunday\, April 17\, 7:30 pm doors/8 pm show (45 mins)\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\nTickets: $15 / $30 with record \n \n\n\n\nOrganized by Robby Grant\, Jonathan Kirkscey\, and Winston Eggleston \nMore about the Mellotron: \nThe Mellotron is essentially a giant cassette tape player\, operated manually by pressing keys on a keyboard. When a key is struck\, a prerecorded sound is played/heard\, conceptually making the Mellotron an analog forerunner to digital sampling. \nAn American engineer named Harry Chamberlin invented the precursor to the Mellotron in the late 1940s. While playing his Hammond organ\, he wondered if it would be possible to create a keyboard instrument that allowed the player to reproduce a wider range of orchestral and brass sounds. Over the course of many decades and through the hands of several manufacturers and marketers\, the Mellotron’s technology and appearance took many forms. \nWhile the individual instruments sampled for the Mellotron were recorded in the highest available fidelity for the time\, the wow and flutter of the tape playback mechanism\, as well as the ability to affect volume and speed through the relative amount of pressure applied to the keys all contribute to the instrument’s characteristic sound. \nThe iconic sound of the Mellotron has helped shape important moments in the history of modern music\, such as the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever\,” and work by The Moody Blues\, Pink Floyd\, Yes\, Genesis\, and Led Zeppelin\, to name a few. \nMore about the artists/organizers: \nJonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant have been playing music together for over 10 years with the band Mouserocket. Jonathan also performs with Glorie\, String Theory\, the Memphis Symphony\, and recently scored the documentary “Best of Enemies.” Robby has performed at Crosstown previously with the experimental band\, >mancontrol<. He most recently recorded and released “Let the Little Things Go” under the Vending Machine moniker. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/duets-for-mellotron/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery,Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CXA-Mellotron-031916-IG.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:20160304T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160402T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20160125T182306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160303T213447Z UID:10002484-1457064000-1459602000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:do it DESCRIPTION:OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY\, MARCH 4\, 6-9 PM\nARTIST TALKS AND PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY\, MARCH 5\, 5-7 PM\nIn the early nineties the international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and the artists Bertrand Lavier and Christian Boltanski wanted more flexible and open-ended art exhibitions.  Could “scores” or written instructions by artists\, as a point of departure\, be interpreted anew every time they were enacted? Twenty years later the exhibition they came to call do it grew to include instructions by nearly three-hundred artists\, choreographers\, writers\, and poets and has been featured in more than fifty exhibitions worldwide. This spring the Art Museum of the University of Memphis in collaboration with the Lambuth campus and Crosstown Arts will present more than 2 dozen interpretations of the do it instructions.\n\nCrosstown Arts:  March 4 – April 2\nAMUM: April 9 – May 7\nUniversity of Memphis Lambuth: March 17 \nPROJECTS ON VIEW AT CROSSTOWN ARTS:\n\nJoseph Grigely instruction interpreted by Johnathan Payne\n\n\nFelix Gonzales-Torres Untitled interpreted by Joel Parsons (installation image on homepage)\n\n\nTracey Emin What Would Tracy Do? interpreted by Terri Jones\n\n\nRirkrit Tiravanija Untitled interpreted by Catherine Pena\n\n\nClaire Fontaine instruction interpreted by Terry Lynn\n\n\nMeg Cranston instruction interpreted by Corkey Sinks\n\n\ndo it is an exhibition conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist\, and organized by Independent Curators International (ICI)\, New York. do it and the accompanying publication\, do it: the compendium\, were made possible\, in part\, by grants from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation\, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation\, and with the generous support from Project Perpetual and ICI’s International Forum and Board of Trustees.\n  \n\n  \nSponsored locally by The University of Memphis Student Activity Fee Fund URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/do-it/ 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/2016/01/do-it.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:20160205T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160227T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20151204T215351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160222T192729Z UID:10002618-1454644800-1456574400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Blind Navigator DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present “Blind Navigator\,” an exhibition of new individual and collaborative works by New York-based artist Clare Torina and Memphis-based artist Alex Paulus. \nClare Torina’s recent paintings and objects refer to one another in sequence\, symbolism\, and mimicry. She pulls from a personal set of fascinations – her dog (Lolita)\, the Illuminati\, basketball\, patriarchal painting history\, ancient art – and subjugates their representations to a multitude of transitions using color models and plays on style. \nAlex Paulus’s pieces address broken things that must be repeatedly fixed or altered to allow them to continue to function. The subject matter ranges from common objects to human emotions to animals nearing extinction. He presents these damaged subjects\, which can be overlooked and ignored\, that ultimately need to be recognized and reconciled. \nAt the heart of this exhibition is an acknowledgement of the bewilderment and reformation during creative process. Together\, the artists volley to find a metaphor for the act of seeing and being seen while in the throes of malfunction. The blind navigator is the artist\, the viewer\, and the work itself feeling its way through shadows. \nClare Torina is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York. After undergraduate study at the University of Memphis\, she received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited in New York\, Chicago\, Memphis\, and abroad. Additional information and images of her work can be found at claretorina.com. \nAlex Paulus is originally from southeast Missouri\, but has been a resident of Memphis\, TN since 2007. He received his MFA in 2009 from the Memphis College of Art and has been teaching ever since. Paulus’s work has been shown in numerous galleries in Memphis\, Nashville\, Dallas\, St. Louis\, and many others. His work has also been published in Studio Visit magazine and Beautiful/Decay. Additional information and images of his work can be seen at alexanderpaulus.blogspot.com. \nExhibition Press: Memphis Flyer | Commercial Appeal URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/blind-navigator/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Blind-Navigator-copy.jpg 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:20151212T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151212T090000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20151210T163153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151210T163153Z UID:10002624-1449907200-1449910800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:From the Margins to the Mainstream: Artists with Disabilities Today DESCRIPTION:Curator Talk in conjunction with Extra Celestial  \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/from-the-margins-to-the-mainstream-artists-with-disabilities-today/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery,Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/David-Albertsen_DA-25-2012_11x15-e1443472716768.jpg 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:20151211T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160116T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 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:20151106T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151205T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20150929T011431Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151124T162154Z UID:10002597-1446782400-1449316800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Mi Sur/My South DESCRIPTION:A Survey of Latina/o Artists Working in Memphis\nOrganized by Centro Cultural in collaboration with Crosstown Arts and Caritas Village\nMade possible by the First Tennessee Foundation/ArtsFirst\nGallery Talks: Thursday\, December 3\, 5:30-7:30 & Saturday\, December 5\, 2-4 pm\nCall to Artists: Spanish | English\n\n\n“Mi Sur/My South: A Survey of Latina/o Artists Working in Memphis attempts to show a cross section of contemporary Latina/o artists creating artwork in the Memphis area. Mi Sur/My South is concerned with amplifying the artistic voices that have largely been ignored but are in fact and deed contributing to the changing demographic and cultural dynamic disrupting the once binary racial understanding of the South. This exhibition is part of the efforts of Centro Cultural (a Latina/o cultural center based at Caritas Village) to survey and document the artistic life and production of Latina/os in Shelby County. To this end\, the Centro is additionally working to compile an Artist Registry that would include not only visual artists but all creative disciplines. \nAccording to a 2012 paper\,  A Profile of the Hispanic Population in the State of Tennessee\, researched and compiled by the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee\, “Latinos were the fastest growing racial or ethnic group in Tennessee during the last ten years.” In fact\, the growth rate of the Hispanic population in Tennessee was the third-fastest in the nation. According to the 2010 Census\, there were 290\,059 Hispanic persons in Tennessee\, representing 4.6 percent of the population. With Shelby County being home to a significant share of Tennessee’s Latina/o population it would be safe to assume that not only have Latina/os contributed to the economic growth of Memphis but to its cultural vitality as well.”\n-Centro Cultural \nSince the inception of the Centro in 2012 there have been annual exhibitions of Latina/o art in the Hope Gallery at Caritas Village\, as well as a fruitful collaboration with the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in producing the highly attended exhibition of Latina/o artists titled Memphis Vive. \nCentro Cultural is proud to participate in partnership with Crosstown Arts and Caritas Village\, the Centro’s homebase\, in organizing this exhibition. \n\n  \n“Mi Sur / Mi Sur – Una encuesta de Latinas / os artistas que trabajan en Memphis (Mi Sur) intenta mostrar una sección transversal de contemporánea Latina / o artista obra creando en el área de Memphis. Mi Sur / Mi Sur está preocupado con la amplificación de las voces artísticas que en gran parte han sido ignorados pero que son de hecho y de obra que contribuye a la cambiante dinámica demográfica y cultural interrumpir el entendimiento racial vez binaria del Sur. Esta exposición forma parte del Centro Cultural\, una o centro de Latina / cultural basado en Caritas pueblo\, los esfuerzos en la topografía y la documentación de la vida artística y la producción de Latina / o en el condado de Shelby. Para ello\, el Centro está trabajando en un Registro artista que incluiría no sólo a artistas visuales\, pero todas las disciplinas creativas. \nDe acuerdo con un documento de 2012 titulado “UN PERFIL DE LA POBLACIÓN HISPANA EN EL ESTADO DE TENNESSEE”\, investigado y compilado por el Centro de Negocios e Investigación Económica de la Universidad de Tennessee: “Los latinos fueron el grupo racial o étnico de más rápido crecimiento en Tennessee durante los últimos diez años. De hecho\, la tasa de crecimiento de la población hispana en Tennessee fue el tercero más rápido en la nación. Según el Censo de 2010\, había 290\,059 personas hispanas en Tennessee\, lo que representa un 4\,6 por ciento de la población. Con el condado de Shelby ser el hogar de una parte significativa de la población Latina / o de Tennessee sería seguro asumir que no sólo tiene Latina / os contribuyó al crecimiento económico de Memphis\, pero a él es la vitalidad cultural.”\n-Centro Cultural \nDesde la creación del Centro en 2012 ha habido exposiciones anuales de Latina / o arte en la Galería de la Esperanza en Caritas Village. También hubo una muy fructífera colaboración con la Galería de Dixon y Jardines en la producción de la exposición altamente asistido de Latina / os artistas titulado\, Memphis Vive. \nEl Centro se enorgullece de participar en sociedad con Crosstown Artes y Caritas Village\, base de operaciones del Centro\, en la organización de esta exposición. \n\n  \nSpecial thanks to the First Tennessee Foundation/ArtsFirst for their support of this exhibition and the partnership between Crosstown Arts and Centro Cultural. \n \n  \n  \n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/mi-sur-my-south/ 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-2015-10-26-at-10.37.37-AM.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:20151025T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151025T110000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20150930T201231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151027T175802Z UID:10002601-1445763600-1445770800@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Beholding and Being Held DESCRIPTION:Performance by artist Joel Parsons in conjunction with You are the Hole\,  currently on view at 422 N. Cleveland. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/beholding-and-being-held/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_6277-e1445968653407.jpg 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:20151021T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20151021T140000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20151007T205021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151009T003335Z UID:10002420-1445430600-1445436000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion with Joel Parsons DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a roundtable discussion with artist Joel Parsons\, in conjunction with You are the Hole\, An Exhibition in Four Acts\,  on view at 422 N. Cleveland. \nThis as an open\, informal opportunity to have a conversation. The session will be recorded and then transcribed and published to our website\, archiving the exhibition through a collection of voices. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/roundtable-discussion-with-joel-parsons/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery,Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/unnamed-3.jpg 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;VALUE=DATE:20151008 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151101 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20150917T221208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151027T180419Z UID:10002593-1444330800-1446317999@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Joel Parsons: You Are the Hole\, An Exhibition in Four Acts DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, October 9\, 6 – 9 pm\nPerformance: Sunday\, October 25\, 2 pm\nYou 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. \nUsing 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. \nThe culmination is Parsons’ performance of his originally-choreographed piece\, “Beholding and Being Held.” \n\nJoel 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. \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/you-are-the-hole/ 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-2015-09-22-at-12.50.37-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:20150923T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150926T150000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20150730T212948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150926T013938Z UID:10002395-1442984400-1443279600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:No Brag Pure Fact: The Art of Graceland Too DESCRIPTION:  \nOpening Reception: Wednesday\, September 23\, 6 – 9 pm\nIn partnership with Gonerfest 12\, Goner Records and Crosstown Arts present No Brag Pure Fact\, an exhibition of artifacts and exclusive footage from Graceland Too. Included are some of Paul MacLeod’s own Elvis-inspired outsider artworks\, notebooks he kept\, and mounted photographs of visitors to his house\, all courtesy of Friends of Graceland Too. Filmmakers Jeffrey Jensen and Geoffrey Shrewsbury have also contributed video footage of MacLeod and clips from their upcoming documentary\, The Rise and Fall of Graceland Too. \nAt the reception\, meet special guests and have the opportunity to purchase Graceland Too Memorabilia\, a commemorative 45 RPM record and “Friends Of Graceland Too” t-shirts. \nExhibition List (PDF)\n\nSpecial Thanks\nThe Friends of Graceland Too\, Filmmakers Jeffrey Jensen and Geoffrey Shrewsbury (The Rise and Fall of Graceland Too)\, Marie Claire Underwood \n\nWho was Paul MacLeod? \nElvis Presley fans tend to be an especially devoted lot\, but Paul MacLeod possessed a zeal few could rival. Driven by his perverse affinity for The King\, he turned his own Holly Springs\, MS home into Graceland Too\, an obsessive\, candy-colored shrine dedicated to all things Elvis\, where his ongoing mission was amassing all of the Presley ephemera he could get his hands on and documenting every mention of the star he could find via radio\, television and film. In addition to being a dogged curator of kingly dreck\, MacLeod was known as a bombastic personality with the eccentric habit of giving lengthy\, frenetic tours of his home to anyone who stopped by\, 24 hours a day. \nSpectacle to some\, sanctuary to others\, Graceland Too was a wayward beacon that attracted Elvis fans from all over the world. \nPaul MacLeod passed away in July of 2014\, and over the past year\, many have offered their time and resources in service of preserving what became his life’s work: sheltering strange treasures and welcoming fellow pilgrims on the road to Graceland (Too). URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/gonerfest-12-graceland-too/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/postcard_BACK-final-72dpi-1.jpg 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;VALUE=DATE:20150820 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150920 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20150728T042721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150827T020816Z UID:10002378-1440097200-1442689199@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Lawrence Matthews III: In a Violent Way DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm \n\nPerformance at Rock For Love: Friday\, September\, 4\, 8:30 pm\nArtist Talk: Thursday\, September 10\, 7:30 pm\n\n\n“A riot is the language of the unheard.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. \nIn a Violent Way is a multimedia installation by Lawrence Matthews III that incorporates a wide array of visual and audio elements\, from oil painting and collage to tube televisions and archival video footage. To accompany the installation\, Matthews will perform his own original songs at the close of the show’s reception. The exhibition’s title is a nod to the seminal\, genre-bending 1969 Miles Davis recording\, In a Silent Way\, which inspired and guided Matthews while he created this body of work. \nThe imagery of In a Violent Way is sourced from or informed by mass media portrayals of events past and present in four primary cities: Baltimore\, Los Angeles\, St. Louis and Memphis\, each with its own history of entrenched racial discrimination and economic disparity disproportionately affecting people of color. Mixed media works depicting the demonstrations and unrest of the 1960’s tellingly reside alongside banks of television sets showing video footage of more recent discord\, like the 1992 L.A. Riots. These scenes — differing in timeline\, though not in tenor — convey generations of frustration caused by institutionalized oppression\, angry citizens crying out against abuses at the hands of authority\, and the ambivalent eye of the media that only captures part of the story. \n“My work does not judge the morality of the individuals partaking in the riots\, only the institutions that create the circumstances where riots are the only voice.” – Lawrence Matthews III \n\n \n\n\n \n\nLawrence Matthews III was born in Memphis\, TN\, into a family who encouraged him to be an artist from a young age. He received his BFA from the University of Memphis and was awarded “Best of Show” in the University’s 31st Annual Juried Student Exhibition. Young\, but already prolific\, Matthews is an emerging artist who has shown work in several solo and group shows across Memphis\, including Doomed to Repeat at Circuitous Succession Gallery (2015)\, Cigar Box Show at Glitch Gallery (2014)\, and Price Is Right at David Lusk Gallery (2014). \nMatthews works in a wide variety of media\, including oil paint\, collage\, photography\, sculpture\, music and film\, and combines post-modern\, Pop Art and contemporary influences to narrate his perspective as an African descendant living in America. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/in-a-violent-way/ 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/2015/07/unnamed1.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:20150815T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150815T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20150804T225914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150813T205900Z UID:10002399-1439632800-1439640000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Walking Eyes: Roundtable Discussion DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is hosting a small group discussion with Walking Eyes collaborators\, Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. This free event is open to the public. \nIf you are interested in attending\, please email emily@crosstownarts.org to RSVP. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/walking-eyes-roundtable/ 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/2015/08/Screen-Shot-2015-08-13-at-10.58.21-AM.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:20150805T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150805T133000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20150801T031455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150806T235746Z UID:10002397-1438777800-1438781400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:LOCATE Arts: Q&A Forum DESCRIPTION:LOCATE Arts is a brand new organization with plans to strengthen the connections between artists and patrons across Tennessee\, while sharing the dynamic contemporary arts of our state with the rest of the country. \nCo-founders\, Carri Jobe and Brian R. Jobe\, will be leading a discussion about the mission\, vision and goals of LOCATE Arts. Please join us! URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/locate-arts-forum/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:430 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/LOCATE-Arts-Forum.jpg 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:20150731T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150731T160000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104809 CREATED:20150708T031037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150724T013224Z UID:10002481-1438347600-1438358400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Walking Eyes: Opening Reception DESCRIPTION:Walking Eyes is a collaborative exhibition by Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. Inspired by a month spent in Southeast Asia\, each piece was developed through exchanges of ideas and sketches between the two artists. The work is informed by personal memories\, hand-drawn maps\, tropical flora\, and Batik patterns. Many of the pieces have high levels of details with hidden treasures to encourage exploration. The show includes a collection of mixed-media works on paper and fabric\, as well as an installation. \nCollaborators in life and art\, Kong Wee and Jay thoughtfully balance married life\, creative exploration and professional growth through ongoing ventures like the playful TaroPop Studio\, which they co-founded in 2009. \n\nPlease join us for refreshments in the gallery to celebrate the exhibition\, and visit the Walking Eyes page for more information. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/walking-eyes-reception/ 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/2015/07/Walking-Eyes-Poster-Smaller.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;VALUE=DATE:20150723 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150816 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150701T214311Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150818T005722Z UID:10002443-1437678000-1439665199@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum: Walking Eyes DESCRIPTION:Reception: Friday\, July 31\, 6 – 9 pm\nRoundtable Discussion: Saturday\, August 15\, 3 – 5 pm\nGallery Hours:\nTuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm\nWalking Eyes is a collaborative exhibition by Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum. Inspired by a month spent in Southeast Asia\, each piece was developed through exchanges of ideas and sketches between the two artists. The work is informed by personal memories\, hand-drawn maps\, tropical flora\, and Batik patterns. Many of the pieces have high levels of details with hidden treasures to encourage exploration. The show includes a collection of mixed-media works on paper and fabric\, as well as an installation. \nCollaborators in life and art\, Kong Wee and Jay thoughtfully balance married life\, creative exploration and professional growth through ongoing ventures like the playful TaroPop Studio\, which they co-founded in 2009. \n\n \n\n\n \n\n\n \n\nArtists Bios\nKong Wee Pang is a designer/artist from Malaysia. She graduated from Singapore Nanyang Academy of Fine Art. In 2001 she moved to the United States. She received a degree in fine art and design and an MFA from the Memphis College of Art. She currently works as an art director at the mid-south’s largest ad agency\, archer>malmo. Her work has been shown in NYC’s Times Square\, Spain\, Italy\, Berlin\, Atlanta\, Memphis and California. \nKong Wee on her practice: \n\nMy work is concerned with transformation. Coming from Malaysia\, I have learned to adapt to a new way of life here in the United States. I exist in a liminal state living in two worlds. I have focused upon the notion of original self\, outside influences and transmutation. Working with watercolor is meaningful to me. In Chinese we have a saying which translates roughly to “When you drink water\, remember the spring.” The abstracted figures give me a chance to face my new freedom while remembering where I come from. It is found in translation. \n\nJay Crum is a designer\, illustrator and artist. He was born in New Orleans\, LA and currently lives in Memphis\, TN. He received a BFA in printmaking in 2005 and has since been navigating the line where art and design meet. In 2009 he co-founded TaroPop\, a small studio producing T-shirt designs and limited-edition art-prints. He received his MFA at Memphis College of Art in 2012. He has exhibited work in Memphis\, Rome and Barcelona. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/walking-eyes/ 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/2015/07/Walking-Eyes-Square.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;VALUE=DATE:20150604 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150704 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150609T230237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150814T014706Z UID:10002402-1433444400-1435949999@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Richard Lou: Stories On My Back DESCRIPTION:Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday\, 10 am – 6 pm \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to present Stories On My Back\, a large-scale multi-media installation incorporating audio\, video\, digital photographs\, and tamale leaves created by Memphis artist Richard Lou. The installation\, never before seen in its entirety in Memphis\, is an immersive experience alluding to a ceremonial site where people come to share their stories and personal histories. The piece is informed by stories exchanged through the artist’s family: stories told by the artist’s mother and father\, the stories he shared with his children\, and the stories retold by his children as their own. \n \nStories On My Back from Crosstown Arts on Vimeo. \nThe thousands of tamale leaves in the installation speak to the artist’s bi-cultural heritage as a Chinese/Mexican\, or what artist/activist Guillermo Gomez-Peña would a “Chicanese\,” a Chicano/Chinese. The stories mix personal history within the larger context of the external historical forces that brought the artist’s families together\, or threatened to pull them apart. They are stories of loss\, dreams\, isolation\, ignorance\, race\, disparities of power\, assimilation\, spirit\, and subjugated knowledge and wisdom. \nIncluded in the installation is Lou’s father’s chair\, where Lou Yet Ming would sit and watch John Wayne westerns and movies about World War II. Lou’s father served in the U.S. Marine Corp during World War II and was honorably discharged as a Technical Sergeant. Lou Yet Ming’s recliner was re-designed and brought back to life by Louisiana artist Chere Labbe Doiron\, reupholstered with images of the artist’s children and his mother. It has traveled with the exhibition for the last two years and now has become an integral component of the larger installation. \nRichard Lou was born in San Diego\, CA and raised in San Diego and Tijuana\, BCN\, MX. He has over 20 years of teaching experience in higher education\, over 15 years of arts administration experience\, has curated over 30 exhibitions\, and continues to produce and exhibit art while teaching and chairing the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. \nCrosstown Arts thanks the First Tennessee Foundation | ArtsFirst and ArtMemphis for support of this exhibition and its related programs\, which are part of an ongoing artistic and community partnership between Crosstown Arts and Centro Cultural.  More details about the18-month schedule of collaborative exhibitions and events\, and several long-term cultural projects\, can be found at crosstownarts.org/centro-cultural-collaboration. \n\nStories On My Back Events \nOpening Festivities: Friday\, June 5 \n\n9am: WKNO Checking on the Arts interview with Richard Lou\n6 pm: Blessing by Danza Azteca Quetzalcoatl\n6:15 pm: Performance from singer/songwriter Savannah Long\n7 pm: Cuban and Latin folk music by Los Cantadores\n6 – 9 pm: Hot Mess Burritos food truck\, empanadas from Havana’s Pilon\, paletas by Michoachana\, elote (grilled corn) and a wide variety of cold beverages!\n\nExhibition Programs: Saturday\, June 6\, 2-4 pm\n \n\n2 pm: Lecture by Visiting Scholar Guisela Latorre\, 430 N. Cleveland\n3 pm: Gallery Talk with Richard Lou & Guisela Latorre\, 422 N. Cleveland\n\n\nPress for Stories On My Back \nArt Review: Richard Lou explores mixed heritage in ‘Stories on My Back’ at Crosstown Arts\nFredric Koeppel / Commercial Appeal / June\, 2015 \n\nArtist Biography \nRichard Alexander Lou was born in San Diego\, CA and raised in San Diego and Tijuana\, BCN\, MX. Richard grew up in a biracial family\, spiritually and intel­lectually guided by an anti-colonialist Chinese father and a culturally affirming Mexicana mother. Educated at Southwestern College\, Chula Vista\, CA receiving an A.A. in Fine Art in 1981; California State University at Fullerton\, CA receiving a B.A. in Fine Art in 1983; Clemson University\, Clemson\, SC receiving an M.F.A. in Fine Art in 1986. \nLou has exhibited at the DePaul Art Museum\, Chicago\, IL; Wing Luke Museum\, Seattle\, WA; Landmark Gallery\, Texas Tech University\, Lubbock\, TX; Museo Carrillo Gil\, Mexico City DF\, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art\, San Diego; Mexic-Arte Mu­seum\, Austin\, TX; Newport Harbor Art Museum\, Newport Beach\, CA; Cornerhouse Art Gallery\, Manchester\, England; the 3rd International Istanbul Biennial\, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum\, Istanbul\, Turkey; Dong-A University\, Busan\, South Korea; Miami Museum\, Miami\, FL; Museum of Photographic Arts\, Balboa Park\, San Diego\, CA; Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis\, MN; Mexican Fine Arts Museum\, Chicago\, IL; Otis School of Art and Design\, Otis Gallery\, Los Angeles\, CA; MIT List Visual Arts Center\, Boston\, MA; Aperto 90` Section\, La Biennale Di Venezia\, Venice\, Italy; Grey Art Gallery\, New York University\, NY\, NY; Dia Foundation\, NY\, NY; Artist Space\, NY\, NY. Richard Lou’s artwork has been published and/or cited in various newspapers\, magazines\, catalogs\, electronic media\, and over 30 books. Lou has over 20 years of teaching experience in higher education\, over 15 years of arts administration experience\, has curated over 30 exhibitions\, and continues to produce and exhibit art while teaching and chairing the Department of Art at the University of Memphis. \nArtist Statement \n“There has never been a free people\, a free country\, a real democracy on the face of this Earth.  In a city of some 300\,000 slaves and 90\,000 so called free men\, Plato sat down and praised freedom in exquisitely elegant phrases.” Lerone Bennett Jr. \nAs a Chicano artist the recurrent themes are the subjugation of my community by the dominant culture and white privelege. These works manifest themselves in the creation of counter-images and counter-definitions made in a self-determinant manner.  As a contemporary image-maker I am interested in collecting dissonant ideas and narratives allowing them to bump into each other\, to coax new meanings and possibilities that dismantle the hierarchy of images. The work serves as an ideological\, social\, political\, and cultural matrix from which I understand my place in this world and to make a simple marking of the cultural shifts of my community. The artwork examines how communities use images and language to dehumanize the “Other” in order to ignore the “Other’s” basic human rights.  It challenges unquestioned claims to territory and legal status. \n“Art is one of the most sacred ways to communicate.” Consuelo Jimenez Underwood \nThe work that I create as a Chicano artist emanates and is in response to the love I have for my family.  The work embraces the contradictions\, the conflicts and triumphs\, the quiet and raucous moments of a routine day\, the flowering\, the decaying\, the markings and ceremonies that compose a lifetime all within a society that subjugates.  At the core\, all work I do is for them.  And in that hopeful light\, I am willing to take the chance that the power of the work will ultimately save my children who will become the inhabitants of a New Nepantla as they negotiate a home in this destabilized world. \n-Richard Lou \n— \n\n\n\nLecture on June 6\, 2 pm at 430 N. Cleveland \nStories on My Back by Richard Lou: Installation Art\, Transnationalism and the Chinese-Chicano Experience \nPerformance\, installation and new media artist Richard Lou’s work has compelled spectators to think critically about bordered identities\, power inequities\, post-colonial realities\, race relations\, and other socially relevant issues. His provocative and dynamic performances\, installations and multimedia pieces have also encouraged audiences to problematize clear distinctions between art and activism and between creative endeavors and social justice work. \nPrimarily known as a Chicano artist\, Lou’s work for the past ten years\, however\, has paid great attention to his Chinese heritage and to the transnational subjectivities that animate social identities. Having grown up in the San Diego/Tijuana border region with a Mexican mother and a Chinese father\, Lou’s experiences have been defined by the transnationalism of the border region itself but also by the biculturalism of his upbringing. \nIn this presentation\, Guisela Latorre will focus on one of the artist’s installation Stories on my Back on display at the Crosstown Arts Gallery. Without losing sight of the politically engaged and collective nature of his art\, this work is among the most introspective and deeply personal of the artist’s career. Utilizing the images and voices of the artist’s children and deploying story-telling devices throughout the installation\, Lou articulates a transnational identity that is\, on the one hand\, quite intimate and unique to his Chinese-Chicano experience and\, on the other\, broadly symptomatic of an increasingly globalized world. \nThus\, Stories on my Back embodies what cultural studies scholars Kit Dobson and Áine McGlynn identify as “the desire to advocate for artistic agency at a time when globalizing forces are increasingly calling for economic rationalizations for creative practices.” Latorre will therefore argue in this presentation that Stories on my Back eloquently speaks of the critical connections between the Chicana/o and Chinese experiences in the U.S.\, connections that represent viable forms of transnational resistance to the homogenizing and subordinating forces of globalization. \nGuisela Latorre\, Associate Professor\, Ohio State University Department of Art \nGuisela 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. \n\n\n\n— \nCrosstown Arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in Memphis. Managing five types of spaces that integrate varying components of exhibition\, performance\, production\, education and retail\, Crosstown Arts supports multidisciplinary and collaborative projects that interconnect people and organizations. We welcome anyone in the community to join any of our events or projects\, regardless of prior experience or expertise with creative interests. \ncrosstownarts.org \nCentro Cultural Latino de Memphis strives to meet the needs of the community by celebrating and promoting awareness of our cultural richness and diversity interpreted through the literary\, performing\, and visual arts. Our primary goal is to preserve our respective rich Latino cultural heritage and to stimulate intergenerational dialogues among the disciplines\, languages\, and traditional and contemporary expressions. \ncentrocultural.us URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/richard-lou-stories-on-my-back/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/CXA_Stories-On-My-Back_SQU-e1433872900871.jpg 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:20150601T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150630T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20160913T181101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T181101Z UID:10002846-1433134800-1435669200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Centro Cultural Collaboration DESCRIPTION:Supported by the First Tennessee Foundation/ArtsFirst and ArtsMemphis\nCrosstown Arts is pleased to partner with Centro Cultural Latino de Memphis for a series of exhibitions and events to showcase the work of Latino artists living and working in Memphis and to celebrate elements and traditions of Latino culture as an integral part of the creative community of Memphis. This partnership is made possible by a generous grant from the First Tennessee Foundation\, ArtsFirst and ArtsMemphis. The partnership builds on the substantial work that Centro Cultural Latino de Memphis has accomplished and furthers Crosstown Arts’ ongoing mission to help combine audiences\, further expand inclusivity and provide opportunities to all of Memphis’ creative community. \nTwo large-scale partnership events were Stories on My Back on view at Crosstown Arts during the month of June 2015\, and the Tamale Fest at Caritas Village\, held on June 28\, 2015. Created by bi-cultural Memphis artist Richard Lou\, Stories On My Back is a multi-media installation that incorporates audio\, video\, digital photographs\, thousands of tamale leaves. This work has never been installed or seen in its entirety in Memphis. Later that month\, Crosstown Arts was an integral partner with Centro Cultural and Caritas Village for the Tamale Fest\, the first annual fundraising event for Centro Cultural. This event featured tamale-cooking teams and contests\, tamale tastings\, food trucks\, live entertainment\, an artist market and family activities. \nIn addition to an 18-month schedule of exhibitions and events\, detailed below\, several longer-term artistic projects will be launched through the partnership: the Crosstown-Centro Billboard Program will feature artwork displayed on a billboard on North Cleveland; and the Tamale Stories video project will capture and share the diverse Memphis’ community’s cross-cultural stories and memories of the beloved “tamal” or “tamale.” \n\nCalendar of Events\nSPRING 2015\nCentro Cultural Spring Showcase\nSaturday\, April 25\, 5-7 pm\, Crosstown Arts\, 430 N. Cleveland \nShowcase of visual and performing arts organized by Centro Cultural \nTamale Cooking Demo\nSaturday\, May 16\, 2 pm\, at Latino Memphis\, 6041 Mt. Moriah Rd \nThis one-hour cooking demo will be facilitated by a local tamale-making expert (or “tamalero/a” in Spanish). The tamalero/a will share his/her own family recipe and will walk the attendees through a step-by-step process for making tamales at home. \n$10 admission/donation to benefit Centro Cultural. \nSUMMER 2015\nRichard Lou: Stories on my Back\nMultumedia installation on view June 5-July 4\, 2015\, Crosstown Arts Gallery\, 422 N. Cleveland\nOpening Night: Friday\, June 5\, 6-9 pm\nFood trucks\, live music and more \nExhibition Programs: Saturday\, June 6\, 2-4 pm\nLecture by Visiting Scholar Guisela LaTorre\, 430 N. Cleveland\, 2 pm\nGallery Talk with Richard Lou & Guisela LaTorre\, 422 N. Cleveland\, 3 pm \nTamale Cooking Demo\nSunday\, June 7\, 3 pm\, Crosstown Arts\, 430 N. Cleveland\nThis one-hour cooking demo will be facilitated by a local tamale-making expert (or “tamalero/a” in Spanish). The tamalero/a will share his/her own family recipe and will walk the attendees through a step-by-step process for making tamales at home.\n$10 admission/donation to benefit Centro Cultural. \nPechaKucha Night Volume 12\nThursday\, June 25\, 6:30 pm\, Phuong Long\, 306 N. Cleveland\nAn evening of fun\, fast-paced presentations themed around food\, made by community members. Presenters for this installment: Miles Tamboli\, Wes Riddle\, Ben McLean\, Noah Campbell\, Margarita Sandino\, Onie Johns\, Rachel Neely Williams & Edna Banks-Hawkins\nFree admission. \nTamale Fest\nSaturday\, June 27\, 2-6 pm\, Caritas Village\, 2509 Harvard Avenue in Binghampton\nOrganized by Centro Cultural\, Caritas Village and Crosstown Arts\nTamale Fest 2015 is the first annual fundraising event for Centro Cultural. The festival will have main stage live entertainment\, a tamale team cooking contest\, a tamale tasting tent\, a kids’ activity corner\, art vendors\, food trucks and a photo booth. Centro Cultural was founded in 2011 and has been operating as a 100% volunteer-run organization. Accomplishments to date include over 60 cultural workshops taught\, 13 showcases celebrated\, 6 art exhibits produced\, collaboration with Dixon Gallery and Gardens produced the first contemporary Latino Art exhibition in Memphis\, current development of a book based on immigrant stories in Binghamton and over 5000 hours of volunteer time given. The purpose of the Tamale Fest is to share and celebrate Latino culture\, bring people together for a positive cultural experience and to raise money to allow Centro Cultural to expand their programs and administration. \nFALL 2015\nCentro Cultural Visual Arts Showcase\nFriday\, November 6-28\, 2015\, Crosstown Arts Gallery\, 422 N. Cleveland \nFALL 2016\nExhibition of Latino/a Artist Portraits\nNovember 2016\, Crosstown Arts Gallery\, 422 N. Cleveland \nONGOING / UPCOMING\n\nCrosstown-Centro Billboard Program at 431 N. Cleveland\nCentro Cultural’s Latino/a Artist Registry\nTamale Stories video project URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/centro-cultural-collaboration/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Centro-Cultural-Logo-Website.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:20150501T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150501T123000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150707T063813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150724T215456Z UID:10002477-1430476200-1430483400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Eye on Abstraction: All-Ages Workshop DESCRIPTION:An after-school workshop all about abstraction. Explore our current abstract painting exhibition\, Between the Eyes (in the gallery at 422 N. Cleveland). Then meet in story booth for hands-on art activities for all ages\, led by artists Laurel Sucsy (Between the Eyes curator)\, Mary Jo Karimnia\, and Brittney Bullock. \nThis is a free\, drop-in program: come when you wish\, no registration necessary! \nChildren must be accompanied by adults.\nSnacks and drinks will be served. \n(Image: Rubens Ghenov) URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/eye-on-abstraction/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery,Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Rubens-Ghenov.jpg 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:20150421T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150421T160000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150508T210554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150609T202036Z UID:10002390-1429621200-1429632000@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Painters on Painting Gallery Talk DESCRIPTION:A discussion about abstraction with artists Hamlett Dobbins\, Melissa Dunn\, and Laurel Sucsy \nImage: Rob De Oude URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/painters-on-painting-gallery-talk/ 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/2015/05/11138545_1021808501180864_6745879959044456166_n-e1433863230408.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:20150417T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150516T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150508T210435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150609T193801Z UID:10002389-1429272000-1431781200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Between the Eyes DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Between the Eyes\, a group show about contemporary abstract painting and how we see it.  Just as the relationships of pitch and duration can express emotion in music\, the formal relationships of hue\, value\, shape\, and placement can collect to create meaning in abstract painting.  Featuring the work of six painters exploring distinct modes of abstraction\, the exhibition examines the way each artist uses deliberate choices to engage us in the experience of looking.  Formal cues such as gesture\, color and the use of found objects prompt us to recognize patterns and attribute meaning to certain behaviors.  Physicality contends with the pictorial as we both decipher and project meaning into the space of abstract forms. \nThe exhibition is curated by Laurel Sucsy and features work by New York-based artists Marina Adams\, Rob de Oude\, and Joe Fyfe; LA-based artist Iva Gueorguieva; Philadelphia-based artist Rubens Ghenov; and Laurel Sucsy of Memphis. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/between-the-eyes/ 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/2015/05/CXA_Between-the-Eyes_IG-Square.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:20150306T040000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150328T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150610T215912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150610T215912Z UID:10002300-1425614400-1427547600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:you+Me DESCRIPTION:Curated by Mary Jo Karimnia \nFeaturing work by Kathy Barnes\, Melissa Farris\, Keiko Gonzalez\, Richard Lou\, Lester J. Merriweather\, Haley Morris-Cafiero\, John Q (Wesley Chenault\, Andy Ditzler\, and Joey Orr)\, Joel Parsons & Jeff Unthank \n\n \n\n\n \nFrom the Curator: you + me explores a range of relationships\, from the intimate\, personal one-on-one of lover\, spouse\, parent\, friend to the broader aspects of relationships in the community surrounding race\, gender\, sexual orientation and our historic pasts. The real meat of a relationship is experienced in a personal way by individuals. you + me acknowledges the delicate balancing act of these relationships and the connections and disconnects that we form among ourselves and with the communities that surround us. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/youme/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/11080967_1010844355610612_5535234644860644338_n.jpg 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:20150206T020000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20150228T110000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150612T004722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T004722Z UID:10002305-1423188000-1425121200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Public/Art/ists Part I DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nCrosstown Arts will host part I of Public/Art/ists\, sharing the studio work of over 40 artists who have made contributions to Memphis’ urban landscape: \nBeth Edwards\, Cat Pena\, Greely Myatt\, Anne J. Froning\, Jill Wissmiller\, Jonathan Auger\, Kiersten Williams\, Pinkney Herbert\, Jamond Bullock\, Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh\, Carol Deforest\, Tootsie Bell\, Sean Murphy\, Richard Lou\, Jeane Umbreit\, Jay Crum\, Jason Miller\, Robin Salant\, Tad Lauritzen Wright\, Elisha Gold\, Anne Davey\, Louis Tucker\, Robert Burns\, Kia Lola\, Anthony Lee\, Mary Long\, Justin Bowles\, Bob X\, Annabelle Meacham\, Penny Dodds\, Susan Maakestad\, Suzy Hendrix\, April Pierce\, Stephanie Cosby\, Yvonne Bobo\, Meredith Olinger\, Eszter Sziksz\, Jamin Carter\, Vitus Shell\, Phyllis Boger\, Kristi Duckworth\, Pam Cobb\, Brandon Marshall\, Lea Holland\, Whitney Kerr\, Cedar Lorca Nordbye\, Yancy Villa-Calvo & Erica Qualy \nAdditional information about future exhibitions and programs of Public/Art/ists happening at other venues is forthcoming. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/publicartists-part-i/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-2.46.47-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:20141114T020000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20141220T110000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150610T010017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T010247Z UID:10002404-1415930400-1419073200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Derek Larson: Trance DESCRIPTION:Curated by Miranda Lash\, Curator of Contemporary Art\, Speed Art Museum \nNovember 14-December 20\, 2014\nCrosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\, Memphis\, TN 38104 \nOpening Night: Friday\, November 14\, 6-8 pm\nGallery talk with the artist and curator at 6:30 pm \nRoundtable discussion: Saturday\, November 15\, 11:30 am \nCrosstown Arts is pleased to announce Trance\, an exhibition of digital media work by Georgia-based artist Derek Larson\, opening Friday\, November 14. The exhibition is curated by Miranda Lash\, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville. \nIn his practice Larson combines digital media with painting\, lights\, motors\, and projected animations on freestanding screens. For his first solo show in Memphis\, Larson is presenting five video projections: three from his series entitled Tantric Wealth from 2012\, and two artworks from his most recent body of paintings that include elements of video. Through this constellation of artworks Larson addresses how technology has changed our ways of seeing. Are our ever-present screens and videos luring us into an extended state of passive hypnosis\, or perhaps more optimistically\, do they allow a more expansive mode of learning\, contemplation\, and meditation? \nThe artist and curator will introduce the exhibition at 6:30 pm on Friday\, November 14\, at the opening reception. Crosstown Arts will host a roundtable discussion and lunch with the artist and curator on Saturday\, November 15 at 11:30 am. \nDownload Curator’s Essay \nAbout the Artist \nDerek G. Larson has participated in a number of national and international exhibitions and residencies\, with recent exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, Union South Gallery 1308 (Madison)\, May Gallery (New Orleans) and Vox Populi (Philadelphia). His work is featured in the upcoming issue of New American Painters.  Larson received a BFA from the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis\, and an MFA from the Yale School of Art.  He currently lives and works in Statesboro\, Georgia. \nAbout the Curator \nMiranda Lash is curator of contemporary art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville\, Kentucky\, where she is overseeing new commissions for the upcoming Elizabeth P. and Frederick K. Cressman Art Park\, and organizing the reinstallation of the permanent collection for the new building designed by wHY architecture\, which will open in April 2016. Prior to the Speed\, Lash was curator of modern and contemporary art the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). She joined NOMA in 2008 as the founder of the museum’s modern and contemporary art department. During her tenure at NOMA\, Lash curated over twenty exhibitions\, including the traveling retrospective exhibition Mel Chin: Rematch; Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms; Katie Holten: Drawn to the Edge;Swoon: Thalassa\, and Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys. \nAbout Crosstown Arts \nCrosstown Arts is a contemporary arts organization dedicated to further cultivating the creative community in Memphis. Managing five types of spaces that integrate varying components of exhibition\, performance\, production\, education and retail\, Crosstown Arts supports multidisciplinary and collaborative projects that interconnect people and organizations. Crosstown Arts welcomes anyone in the community to join any of our events or projects\, regardless of prior experience or expertise with creative interests. \nShop ‘Til You Droop\, 2013\nDigital video & animation (loop)\, projection\, aluminum composite\, wood\, epoxy\, paint\, paper\, fluorescent light\, black light\, electrical\, hydrocal\, 38 x 24in.\nCourtesy of the artist \nMedia contact: Emily Halpern\, emily@crosstownarts.org\nCrosstown Arts’ Visiting Artist Series is sponsored by V02 Networx \n  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/derek-larson-trance/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/10365754_926559524039096_2749112831755716387_n.jpg 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:20140924T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140928T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150610T222043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150610T222043Z UID:10002302-1411527600-1411905600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Anyway\, Anyhow DESCRIPTION:A raw wild visual gumbo to accompany the sick sonic stew of Gonerfest\, organized by Goner Records\n\n\nFeaturing the artwork of Tim Kerr (Austin\, TX)\, Bruce Webb (Waxahatchie\, TX)\, John Henry Toney (Seale\, AL)\, Butch Anthony (Seale\, AL)\, Timmy Lampinen (Detroit\, MI)\n\nTIM KERR\nTim moved to Austin in 1974 to attend The University of Texas at Austin and there he earned a degree in painting and photography. While in the art department\, he studied under famed photographer Garry Winogrand and was awarded a Ford Foundation grant for his work. \nTim is also well-known for his slashing guitar work in seminal punk bands The Big Boys\, Poison 13\, Monkeywrench\, Lord High Fixers and more. \nHis artwork combines social awareness with iconic figures\nand searing images overlaid by inspirational quotes. He has been involved in many different scales\, from murals to artwork on skateboards. \nHe recently exhibited in \nhttp://www.timkerr.net/\nhttp://juicemagazine.com/home/tim-kerr-art-show/\nhttp://www.yalostudio.com/2014_04_01_archive.html \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nBUTCH ANTHONY\nMr. Anthony has made up his own word\, “intertwangleism\,” a label he paints on a lot of his pieces\, which he defined this way: “Inter\, meaning to mix\,” he said. “And twang\, a distinct way of speaking. If I make up my own ‘ism\,’ no one can say anything or tell me I’m doing it wrong.” \nButch’s art world contains sly reworkings of existing paintings\, sculptures made of discarded metal and wood\, and semi-apocryphal taxidermy all creating a unique voice that has charmed the art world from his native Alabama through New York City\, London\, and beyond. \nButch did a show in the Goner Store in 2004 which was a huge thrill for us. In the ten years since that show\, Butch has become strangely sorta famous\, but hasn’t changed a bit. A recent show at Yolo Gallery in Water Valley\, MS was a sensation. We are thrilled to have him back. \nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/garden/08doonanny.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\nhttp://www.blackratprojects.com/artists/butchanthony\nhttp://www.yalostudio.com/2013/03/anatomy-can-be-fun-new-work-by-butch.html\nhttp://www.museumofwonder.com/ \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nJOHN HENRY TONEY\nMr. John Henry Toney grew up in Sandfort\, Alabama and farmed all his life. He used to drive a tractor around Seale and plow up folk’s garden patches for them. One day he plowed up a turnip with a human face on it… His art career was born. He’s 83 years old and draws everyday. \nhttp://www.museumofwonder.com/#slide3\nhttp://www.garde-rail.com/artists/toney/index.html\nhttp://rawvision.com/articles/love-and-water-art-john-henry-toney \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nBRUCE LEE WEBB\nBruce Lee is the co-conspirator and co- creator of Webb Gallery in downtown Waxahachie\, Texas. He loves hobo lore and train car graffiti. He is a researcher and collector by nature and is currently working on “As Above So Below -Art of the Fraternal Lodge” with co-author Lynne Adele\, which will be published by UT Press in 2015. \nBruce recently curated and participated in the “Akin” exhibit of outsider and self-taught artists at Crosstown Arts. \nhttp://www.webbartgallery.com/\nhttp://blogs.dallasobserver.com/mixmaster/2012/03/spinning_a_webb_local_artist_a.php\nhttp://www.croftartgallery.com/previousshows/brucewebb.html \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nTIMMY LAMPINEN\nTimmy\, well-known in Goner circles as the the Human Eye / Timmy’s Organism / Clone Defects singer and guitar mangler\, is also a 2010 Kresge Grant Arts award winner. As Timmy’s music strives for wild departures and maximum impact via spaced-out sounds\, his artwork spreads the color of consciousness and fredom with righteous abandon. His album covers are some of the trippiest of anyone working in the medium today. \nhttp://www.kresgeartsindetroit.org/fellowships/past-fellows/2010-fellows/timmy-lampinen/\nhttp://larecord.com/interviews/2008/12/01/human-eye-yeah-i-drank-the-glitter-slime \n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nFor more information see:\nhttp://www.goner-records.com/gonerfest/gonerfest11-artshow.php\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1443801609200425/ URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/anyway-anyhow/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-10-at-12.10.05-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:20140819T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140920T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150610T220206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150813T234054Z UID:10002301-1408417200-1411214400@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Bawlmer DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Bawlmer\, a group exhibition of new work by Baltimore-based artists organized Dwayne Butcher. Butcher is an artist\, designer\, and curator who moved from Memphis to Baltimore in 2013. Artists he has chosen for this exhibition include Colin Alexander\, Kyle Bauer\, Amy Hughes Braden\, Dave Eassa\, Cara Ober and Paul Shortt. Through painting\, sculpture\, and a prevailing sense of humor\, the exhibition aims to make connections between Memphis and Baltimore and their respective creative landscapes. \nCurator’s Statement: \n‘In my short time in Baltimore\, I have noticed many similarities between this city and Memphis. Each is roughly the same size in area and population\, and each is similar in its racial\, political\, and socioeconomic makeup. They both have the “grit and grind” that blue-collar\, middle-class urban areas have to have. This “grit and grind” is the prefect incubator for creativity\, which makes “Bawlmer\,” as enunciated in the local dialect\, seem like home to me. \nThe six artists included in this exhibition approach their work with a sense of humor. They poke fun at normal conventions of class and gender\, recall the fads of their youth\, enjoy the frivolity of today\, break down shapes into the purest of forms\, and call into question the superiority of the art world’s “big swinging dicks.” \nOh\, the Baltimorons love their crabs as much as Memphians love their BBQ. So there is that. And then there is the Old Bay.’ \n-Dwayne Butcher \nArtist information: \nColin Alexander  \nKyle Bauer \nAmy Hughes Braden \nDave Eassa \nCara Ober \nPaul Shortt \nCurator’s biography: \nOriginally from Memphis\, TN\, Dwayne Butcher is an artist\, designer\, and curator living in Baltimore. He received his MFA from the Memphis College of Art in 2008. While at MCA\, he developed a deep interest in the integration of Digital Media expression with traditional art forms. His work wittily comments on his life as a citizen of the American South\, often around issues of gender identity. His work has increasingly been shown in international exhibitions in the last two years in locations such as Belfast\, Northern Ireland\, Chongqing\, China\, Paris France\, Berlin\, Germany\, Amsterdam\, The Netherlands\, New York City and Los Angeles. He has been featured in articles focusing on his work and community art projects for the New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Hyperallergic\, Art21\, and Big\, Red and Shiny.  When Dwayne is not working on all of the above things\, he maintains an art blog focusing on the visual arts of Baltimore and the surrounding area. He enjoys watching short animations and experimental films. He is one of the world’s greatest Risk players and has won awards for his chicken wings.  Dwayne also spends a lot of time with his wife taking pictures of their two worthless cats. Oh. He also likes beer. \n-From http://dwaynebutcher.squarespace.com/info/ \nCover image: Kyle Bauer\, detail URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/bawlmer/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-10-at-12.00.06-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:20140711T050000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140809T130000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150612T202155Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150813T234004Z UID:10002408-1405054800-1407589200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Lester Merriwhether DESCRIPTION:Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Colossus\, an exhibition of new large-scale collage works by Memphis artist Lester Merriweather. \n\n \n\n\n \nLester Merriweather (b.1978) is a Memphis-based visual artist. He attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. He holds an MFA from Memphis College of Art & a BA from Jackson State University. Merriweather has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S. at various venues such as the Studio Museum in Harlem\, NYC\, TOPS Gallery\, Powerhouse Memphis\, Diverseworks in Houston\, and the Contemporary in Atlanta. He has also exhibited abroad at the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw\, Poland. He currently serves as the Curatorial Director of the Martha & Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Memphis. He also serves on the board of Number\, inc. and as a member of ArtsMemphis’ Artist Advisory Council. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/lester-merriwhether/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/c3c98c2a5f3c03b6-LMsmall.jpg 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:20140606T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140630T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150610T013802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150610T014856Z UID:10002299-1402023600-1404129600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Akin DESCRIPTION:A group exhibition of outsider artists co-curated by Lauren Kennedy of Southfork Memphis and Julie & Bruce Webb of Webb Gallery in Waxahachie\, Texas\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n \nFeaturing sculpture\, painting\, and drawings by outsider artists working from the 1930s through today\, the show aims to make connections among widely varying practices\, perspectives and origins. Artists include self-taught California painter Esther Pearl Watson\, Memphis sculptor Hawkins Bolden\, and “Prophet” Royal Robertson from Louisiana\, among others. \nAkin also seeks to complement the major retrospective of sculptor Marisol\, opening at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art on June 14\, through thoughtful associations and kinship. \n\nRecent media:\nFredric Koeppel\, The Commercial Appeal\nEileen Townsend\, The Memphis Flyer\n \nOpening reception music by Marcella René Simien and food by Hi-Cue \n \n\n\nComplementary programs:  \n\nBilly Tripp’s Art Environment: Mindfield \nSaturday\, June 14 \nMeet at Crosstown Arts\, 422 N. Cleveland\, at 11 am; we will return by 4 pm. \nJoin us on a field trip to Billy Tripp’s art environment\, “Mindfield” nearby in Brownsville\, TN. “Mindfield” is a continually growing and expanding outdoor sculpture that Tripp has been working on for many years. This afternoon trip is an opportunity to more fully experience the relationships within the Akinexhibition on view at Crosstown Arts. We will stop for lunch at Helen’s BBQ after visiting the site. Group transportation will be available for a small fee. More details to come; please direct any questions to info@crosstownarts.org \n\nScreening of Make \nWednesday\, June 25 at 6:30 pm \n430 N. Cleveland \nFree admission \nThe documentary Make\, by Scott Ogden\, is an intimate journey into the lives of four American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson\, Hawkins Bolden\, Judith Scott and Ike E. Morgan. All of these artists find their most powerful voice through art. Their interwoven stories bring together individuals whose worlds are as unique as their creations and explore why they are each consumed by their obsessive art making. \n\nImage: Esther Pearl Watson\, 2011\, Courtesy of Webb Gallery  URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/akin/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2014-06-10-at-3.40.45-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:20140405T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140525T120000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150612T010224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150612T020805Z UID:10002306-1396666800-1401019200@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Cedar Lorca Nordbye: To Frame\, To Construct\, To Occupy DESCRIPTION: Utilizing the approximate quantity of wood used to frame a small house\, the installation explores questions of diaspora\, exile and relocation\, with occupancy as a form of resistance\, and construction as a metaphor for idea formation.The colorful and fragmented imagery of houses\, figures and abstract designs cast on a variety of standard\, wooden framing surfaces is the first phase of a two-part project. At the close of the exhibition\, the graphically altered lumber will be donated to Memphis Habitat for Humanity and available for use in a newly constructed home\, briefly visible as a collaborative artwork between the artist and the volunteer builders before being enclosed within the walls of a future dwelling. \nOn view in the Crosstown Arts gallery\, across the street from the Sears Crosstown building\, which is soon to be the largest building remodel in the history of Memphis\, the installation utilizes wood collected from multiple sources (including the interior of Sears Crosstown) to examine our sense of the structures we inhabit in a post 9/11\, post-Katrina America. \n“Our ideas\, the thoughts that give shape to our days\, our emotions and our interactions\, are like the beautiful golden streaked Douglass fir two-by-fours that frame our homes. Humble\, cut to length and hidden away.” \nCedar Lorca Nordbye is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Memphis where he has taught since 2003.  His work has been exhibited in California\, Atlanta\, Chicago\, Quebec\, Skopje\, Alabama\, Kentucky and North Carolina in a variety of gallery\, museum and alternative spaces.  Norbye has carried out social-practice/performance artworks in Las Vegas\, Paris\, Greensboro\, Seattle\, Nashville and New York City\, where he has been banned from the Empire State Building since 2003. \nWhen asked where he is from\, Nordbye replies\, “Michigan for four years\, Minnesota for one year\, Iowa for four years\, Massachusetts for five years\, California for ten years\, and before that in a childhood blur of hippie-Jewish-exiled wandering which spanned Connecticut\, Guatemala\, New Mexico and West Virginia\, with my mother and my father…who actually is a Jewish carpenter.” \nHis work can be viewed online at cedarnordbye.com. \nThe exhibition was organized by the artist and Crosstown Arts. URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/cedar-lorca-nordbye-to-frame-to-construct-to-occupy/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-3.01.55-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;VALUE=DATE:20140313 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140413 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150612T204231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150813T234234Z UID:10002412-1394737200-1397329199@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Healing Space DESCRIPTION:An environment of selected works by the artists and patients of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Tower 2 Project\, organized and curated by Youngblood Studio.\n\nFeaturing work by Jeanne Seagle\, Lurlynn Franklin\, Janet Beaver\, Kong Wee Pang\, Jay Crum\, Alex Warble and Danny Broadway \n\n \n\n\n \nFilling a hospital with art has been shown to support the well-being of patients\, families and staff. The use of color and imagery can create a healing environment that lowers stress and anxiety and can also be used to encourage rehabilitation. Each art program at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is aimed at promoting healing\, transforming the hospital experience and bringing joy. The hospital’s commitment to filling the environment with local art is seen throughout campus in murals\, paintings and prints\, sculpture\, mosaics\, flooring and colorful designs. \nSix years ago\, a new tower was built and named the Chili’s Care Center. Instead of filling the corridors with murals\, hospital planners opted to populate each floor with framed artwork consisting of pieces from local artists and patients\, as well as photographs that would be displayed in custom-made\, colorful frames unique to the tower’s interior. While the tower was under construction\, several local artists moved into it\, set up studios and created a large body of work for the project. \nTogether\, with art produced by patients and images created by St. Jude photographers\, hundreds of pieces were permanently displayed in the corridors of every floor within the tower. Today\, patients\, families and staff walking the halls experience art created for them and by them; these individuals also view photos of themselves and of those who support them. \nBecause of the success of the Chili’s Care Center art program\, hospital planners decided that the next tower\, currently under construction and known as “Tower 2\,” would house a similar art program. Seven artists were invited to participate in the Tower 2 Project. Jeanne Seagle\, Lurlynn Franklin and Janet Beaver were three artists from the original group who were asked to participate in this new project. \nThe remaining four were Kong wee Pang\, Jay Crum\, Alex Warble and Danny Broadway. Seagle\, Beaver\, Broadway and Warble set up studios on campus\, while the remaining three worked from their personal studios. All of the artists participated in tours and were given open access to explore and experience the campus and the people. They were also provided color samples of the new tower’s interior and encouraged to not only pull from their experience at St. Jude\, but to also create work that might draw the viewer in to find something new. \nEach artist participated in at least one “painting party” with patients and families. These parties were designed not only to fill the new tower with patient work\, but also to provide artists\, patients and families with a fun and therapeutic experience. The artists together produced more than 100 pieces during their four-week residency\, while patients and families produced more than 100 paintings during their seven painting parties. \nHEALING SPACE is a sample of the work produced during the Tower 2 Project. This show displays the pieces for public view before permanent installation while illustrating the importance of color and connection in a therapeutic environment. \n-Youngblood Studio\, LLC URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/healing-space/ 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/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-12-at-10.38.32-AM.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:20140208T020000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20140301T110000 DTSTAMP:20260427T104810 CREATED:20150610T013341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150610T013404Z UID:10002298-1391824800-1393671600@crosstownarts.org SUMMARY:Inspired Resistance DESCRIPTION:A group show curated by Ian Lemmonds with work by  Emily Cifaldi\, Melissa Dunn\, Carl E. Moore\, Alex Paulus\, Nick Pena\, Joey Slaughter\, Bobby Spillman & Melanie Spillman URL:https://crosstownarts.org/calendar/inspired-resistance/ LOCATION:Crosstown Arts Galleries\, 1350 Concourse Ave.\, Suite 280\, Memphis\, TN\, 38104\, United States CATEGORIES:Gallery ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://crosstownarts.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/1617310_10203054292261033_1098327177_o-copy.jpg 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 END:VCALENDAR