“Those Who Hold Dominion Here” by Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo takes inspiration from serpents in Incan Mythology, and Southern snakes to create a liminal space at the center of the earth presided over by deities capable of transgressing the boundary between this subterranean spiritual realm and our current lived reality.

The Memphis Quarantine exhibit is coming to an end. Join photographer Jamie Harmon for a closing reception Sunday, April 10, from 3 – 5pm in the Crosstown Arts Galleries. Anyone that has a photo in the exhibit is welcome to take it home with them at no charge. The prints are large so if anyone wants to order a reprint at a custom size Jamie will be taking orders for those as well (there is a reasonable fee for re-prints).

Crosstown Arts presents an exhibition of photographer Jamie Harmon’s Memphis Quarantine photographs.

From March 13-May 31, 2020, Jamie Harmon photographed more than 2,000 people at more than 800 homes in the Greater Memphis area to document life during the quarantine period of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Through portraiture, the images document Memphis residents’ shared isolation anxieties and bonds renewed by survival, hope, and solidarity. 

This event is postponed until further notice.

Crosstown Arts, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) present the 7th annual Art of Science exhibition.

Local artists are paired up with medical research scientists and doctors from across Memphis. Together, scientists and artists create work that introduces new audiences to the science that is saving children’s lives everyday in Memphis.

Join us on July 28 from 1-3 pm to celebrate the STITCHED exhibitions at Crosstown Arts. This will be the last time you’ll be able to see the shows. We’re going to announce the viewer’s choice awards, debut the community quilt made during Maria Shell’s workshop in June, and acknowledge all of the artists and volunteers who made these shows a reality.

A regional quilt challenge in conjunction with Stitched: The Art of Quilting. The BLUE challenge features over 230 quilts in blue made by quilters and artists from the Mid-South. This event is in conjunction with Stitched: Celebrating the Art of Quilting — a festival at Crosstown Arts with art exhibitions, public quilting workshops, and a Gathering of the Guilds showcase. Stitched runs from May 10-July 28, 2019.

Culture Club invites you to Crosstown Arts on Tuesday, April 2 to view the current exhibition Young Collectors Contemporary Art Fair presented by Young Arts Patrons.
The exhibition showcases a national roster of emerging artists from Memphis and beyond.  Please join our conversation with Young Arts Patrons founder and executive director Whitney Hardy, as she discusses the significance of collecting art and supporting emerging artists.

Mission Statement:

Culture Club is an emergent conversation project for women hosted by Linda Pelts in conjunction with Crosstown Arts. By sharing ….

Now in its fourth edition, Young Collectors Contemporary is one the most celebrated art events and the perfect destination to discover and buy visual art from emerging artists.
The four-day art fair and conference includes an open-to-the-public exhibition with multidisciplinary work by emerging artists. The goal is to expand the spectrum of artists to new and existing collectors to support the arts economy.
Artists include: Jonathan Adams, Khadija Nia Adell, Chambers Austelle, Nuveen Barwari, Erick Antonio Benitez, Natalie Eddings, Adama Delphine ….

Opening reception for the fifth annual Art of the South exhibition, presented by Number: Featuring work by artists from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington DC.

The exhibition is juried by Brian Jobe, artist, educator, independent curator, and non-profit co-director of Locate Arts based in Nashville, TN.

The fifth annual Art of the South exhibition, presented by Number:, features works by artists from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington DC. Juried by Brian Jobe of Locate Arts.

Artist Pinkney Herbert will discuss his work in Distilled: The Narrative Transformed, which will be on view at Crosstown Arts May 26-July 4.

This 30-year survey of Herbert’s work tracks his transition from narrative beginnings through the development of a personal abstract vocabulary that both thrills and seduces the viewer.

A 30-year survey of Pinkney Herbert’s vibrant body of work.

This exhibition tracks Herbert’s transition from his narrative beginnings through the development of a personal abstract vocabulary that both thrills and seduces the viewer.

A 30-year survey of Pinkney Herbert’s vibrant body of work.

This exhibition tracks Herbert’s transition from his narrative beginnings through the development of a personal abstract vocabulary that both thrills and seduces the viewer.

Jazz tribute to the music of Grant Green, featuring Joe Restivo (guitar), Alvie Givhan (piano), Tim Goodwin (acoustic bass), and Pee Wee Jackson (drums).

The Crosstown Jazz Series, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends.

Resident artists Averell Mondie, Vanessa Gonzalez, Josh Short, and Carrie Rubinstein will discuss their work.

Reprise brunch featuring performance of various acts from Parts 1 and 2 of Mellotron Variations and Q&A sessions with performers.

Light refreshments will be served.
Free | Open to the public

Performance of new works and collaborations for the Mellotron by Robby Grant, Jonathan Kirkscey, John Medeski, and Pat Sansone.

Projections by William Eggleston and John Markham.

Free | Open to the public
Doors 7:30 pm | Concert 8 pm

New work for the mellotron by composer Robert G. Patterson, performed by members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. A documentary featuring keyboardist Audie Smith. Performance by Ross Rice collaborating with the New Ballet Ensemble.

Free | Open to the public

Multi-day festival featuring original musical compositions for the mellotron performed live alongside newly created multidisciplinary installations.

A musical performance and lecture series presented by Sonosphere in collaboration with Crosstown Arts

Join us on Saturday, March 31 for a performance and artist talk by Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara), a multi-instrumentalist composer and historian of electronic music and sound who produces techno tracks using analog sound sources. 

Jazz tribute to the music of John Coltrane featuring Art Edmaiston (saxophones), Tim Goodwin (acoustic bass), Gerald Stephens (piano), Logan Hanna (guitar), and Chad Anderson (drums).

The Crosstown Jazz Series, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends.

Pam McDonnell discusses her work in “Material Equivalence.”

On view through March 11

Encore screening of William E. Jones’ Fall Into Ruin and artist talk by curator Brian Pera

The Wish Book series is a triannual exhibition with a focus on artists’ films. Curators Brian Pera and Terri Phillips welcome internationally recognized artists, filmmakers, and critics to Memphis for this exciting new series, which takes its name from the famed Sears Catalog and is hosted by Crosstown Arts at Crosstown Concourse, itself once a major Sears distribution center. Drawing from a wide range of topics, techniques, and perspectives, the films index the scope of work being done by artists in moving pictures.

Conversation with artist teams Lisa Williamson and Lurlynn Franklin; Carl Moore and Karina Alvarez; Brittney Bullock, Agustin Diaz, and Brenda Joysmith; co-curator Richard Lou, and Professor Holly Yu. Moderated by Dr. Earnestine Jenkins. 

Anthony Lee
Latex and Urethane on Panel, Triptych, 2017

Composing a triptych, these works by artist Anthony Lee are a continuous, long-scale, lavender tonal gradient, equal in light value but demonstrating the effect of desaturation. Viewed from left to right, it begins as  intense lavender, and then through gradation it finishes into its grey equivalent. This adds a fourth-dimensional sense of movement or transfer within the works, allowing the viewer’s eyes to calmly experience the space in the works as they seemlessly shift color.