Went Out for Cigarettes
Work by Ryan Steed
Reception Friday, March 30, 5-8pm
On view March 30-May 31
The Cotton Museum
65 Union Avenue
ON VIEW
Goodnight My LoveThrough May 13
Crosstown Arts, East Gallery, Crosstown Concourse, 1350 Concourse Ave.
An exhibition of photographs from the Ernest Withers collection, including works from Dr. Withers’ vast archive of more than one million negatives that have never been seen by the public.
Crosstown Arts, East Gallery, Crosstown Concourse, 1350 Concourse Ave.
An exhibition of photographs from the Ernest Withers collection, including works from Dr. Withers’ vast archive of more than one million negatives that have never been seen by the public.
Young Collectors ContemporaryThrough April 28
Exhibition in conjunction with a four-day arts conference that was held at Crosstown Arts in March with a goal to expand the spectrum of emerging artists to new and existing collectors to support the arts economy.
Artists include Kid Bazzle, Elliot Jerome Brown, Zhiwan Cheung, Sean G. Clark, Jennifer Crescuillo, Doughjoe, Meredith Edmondson, Jodi Hayes, Leanna Hicks, Desmond Lewis, Tiff Massey, Lena Murrell, Dawn Okoro, Daniel Peterson, Diedra Pigues, Kristin Rambo, Nate Renner, Robert Schoolfield, Emile Stark-Menneg, Anna Wehrwein, and Christina Wiggins.
ART
Memphis ManifestFriday-Saturday, April 6-7, 6pm-midnight
Exhibition of ho scale graffiti, freight photography, track displays, and graffiti photography by multiple artists. Hosted by BoradExplorer.
$5 admission
Junior League Memphis Pop-Up Art Show
Friday, April 13, 6:30-8:30 pm
Hosted by the Junior League of Memphis.
Resident Artists’ Open Studio
Sunday, April 15, 2-4 pm
Crosstown Arts at Crosstown Concourse (various locations within Concourse)
Visit Crosstown Arts resident artists’ studios and view their work in progress.
Artists include: Yancy Villa-Calvo, Eric Clausen, Vanessa Gonzalez, Robby Grant, Averell Mondie, Terri Phillips, Carrie Rubinstein, Josh Short, Paul Taylor, Emily C Thomas, Eso Tolson
MUSIC
Mellotron Variations
Wednesday, April 18 and Saturday-Sunday, April 21-22
Multi-day festival featuring original musical compositions for the mellotron performed live alongside newly created multidisciplinary installations.
Pt. 1
Wednesday, April 18, 7 pm
New work for the mellotron by composer Robert G. Patterson, performed by Memphis Symphony Orchestra. A documentary featuring keyboardist Audie Smith. Performance by Ross Rice collaborating with the New Ballet Ensemble.
Wednesday, April 18, 7 pm
New work for the mellotron by composer Robert G. Patterson, performed by Memphis Symphony Orchestra. A documentary featuring keyboardist Audie Smith. Performance by Ross Rice collaborating with the New Ballet Ensemble.
Free | Open to the public
Pt. 2
Saturday, April 21, 7:30 pm
Performance of new works and collaborations for the mellotron by Robby Grant, Jonathan Kirkscey, John Medeski, and Pat Sansone. Projections by Winston Eggleston and John Markham.
Saturday, April 21, 7:30 pm
Performance of new works and collaborations for the mellotron by Robby Grant, Jonathan Kirkscey, John Medeski, and Pat Sansone. Projections by Winston Eggleston and John Markham.
Pt. 3
Sunday, April 22, 12:30 pm
Reprise brunch featuring a performance of various acts from Part 1 of Mellotron Variations. Q&A sessions with performers from parts 1 and 2.
Sunday, April 22, 12:30 pm
Reprise brunch featuring a performance of various acts from Part 1 of Mellotron Variations. Q&A sessions with performers from parts 1 and 2.
Light refreshments will be served.
Free | Open to the public
Doors 12:30 pm | Performance 1 pm
Free | Open to the public
Doors 12:30 pm | Performance 1 pm
WORKSHOPS
Open Crit
Facilitator: TBA
Presenting artists: TBA
Presenting artists: TBA
Crosstown Arts’ Open Crit series is a monthly critique event where visual artists are invited to bring new and/or in-progress studio work for critical feedback and group discussion particular to each artist’s practice.
A dedicated facilitator with experience in a group critique setting will guide discussion for each critique event, which will include up to 4 artists’ work, with 15-25 minutes devoted to the work of each.
All visual artists and anyone interested in joining the discussion are welcome to participate regardless of their level of expertise, prior professional art experience or background/education in fine art. Participation is free and open to the public. Input during the critiques from everyone in attendance is welcomed and encouraged.
FILM
MicroCinema Club
Wednesday, April 11, 7-9 pm
Monthly short film screening series, presented by Indie Memphis & Crosstown Arts.
This month: Narrative Spotlight Shorts
Films include I Live Here, Mrs. Drake, Last Call Lenny, Fry Day, Gema, and New Neighbors.
Films include I Live Here, Mrs. Drake, Last Call Lenny, Fry Day, Gema, and New Neighbors.
Doors at 6:30 pm | Screening at 7 pm. Admission is pay-what-you-can
Talking Back to the Screen: Feminism & Film Criticism
Thursday, April 12, 6:30-8:30 pm
Monthly filmmaking forum presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts
April topic: Hair & Makeup for Film with Alicia George
In Alice Bolin’s upcoming book, Dead Girls, she writes about moving to L.A. and seeing the city through a white male literary lens, and needing to trust her own eyes rather than what she’s read. Miriam Bale’s path through the male-dominated world of film criticism at New York newspapers was similarly one of learning to trust her own eyes. The two writers will have a dialogue about different ways to engage with writing about film, a misogynistic industry, as women. Dead Girls (which covers Twin Peaks to True Detective) is an essay collection out in June 2018 from William Morrow/ HarperCollins. Alice Bolin teaches nonfiction at the University of Memphis. Miriam Bale is new Senior Programmer of the Indie Memphis Film Festival.
Doors open at 6:30pm | panel discussion begins at 7pm
Free and open to the public
Complimentary beverages
Free and open to the public
Complimentary beverages
BOOKS
Booksigning for “After the Dust Clears”
Authors El and Zina Henry sign and share intimate stories from their new book, After the Dust Clears, a memoir on the pain of infidelity. Books will be available for sale. Organized by the authors
March 22, 2018
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Rob Matthews
Peace Like a Fever
Libby Johnson
Tempest
March 20-April 14
Opening Friday March 23, 6-8pm
March 22, 2018
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March 22, 2018
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We are looking for collections! Our summer show for 2018, Consuming Passions, will feature collections from the Memphis region. We have dolls, memorabilia from both World Wars, a sports collection, a collection of Moon Pie paraphernalia and other interesting lots.
Do you have something you want to show off?
Contact our assistant director, Warren Perry, at ewperry@memphis.edu.
Art Museum of the University of Memphis
3750 Norriswood Drive, 142 Communication & Fine Art Building
Memphis TN 38152
Art Museum of the University of Memphis
3750 Norriswood Drive, 142 Communication & Fine Art Building
Memphis TN 38152
March 22, 2018
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March 16, 2018
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John Shorb
The Daily Avalanche
Opening Saturday, March 24, 5-8pm
On view March 24-May 13
Tops Gallery
400 South Front Street (entrance on Huling)
Tops Gallery is pleased to announce The Daily Avalanche an exhibition of new drawings and prints by John Shorb.
In this exhibition Shorb creates imagery collected from historical archives with a particular focus on bygone newspapers and scenes of genteel disquietude.
Late 19th and early 20th century newspapers are rendered as both nearly illegible palimpsests and wiped-out voids. Shorb's drawings of these disintegrating papers, emptied of content and reduced to their broadsheet form, suggest tabula rasa, modernist idealism, tombstones, and cracked screens. The printed works multiply, fracture, and layer examples like The Weekly Caucasian and The American Citizen into abstraction, hot off an awry press. These especially partisan papers, whose readers are literally and figuratively on the same page, are absent from the collective memory, but mimic the current state of news. Shorb presents this form of ideally objective information in a mode of ambiguity apt for the white noise that delivers misinformation and propaganda and upholds a brutal status quo. More intimate drawings of birdhouses and hunters offer a vision of hopeless nostalgia for an agrarian past that still remains ubiquitous in Southern iconography. In the Madison Avenue Park space Shorb will present Colonel Memphis, a drawing, depicting a manic Cotton Carnival caricature, affixed to a wooden scaffolding.
Shorb explores what imagery is "fit to print" in a time when everything is available to search.
John Shorb is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. Shorb has had solo shows at the University of Mississippi Museum, Northeastern University, and Long Island University in Brooklyn. He was awarded a Hambidge fellowship in 2011 at the Hambidge Center in Georgia as well as a Winter Residency in 2017 at Penland School of Crafts. He studied film and literature at Carleton College and then received an master in divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
March 16, 2018
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