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by Clay Palmer Since 2013, ArtsMemphis has awarded grants to working visual artists in Shelby County to support them at a critical juncture in their practice. By doing so, ArtsMemphis encourages growth and artistic development for Memphis as a region and focuses on creating an environment focused on progress and enrichment of the…
By Audrey Molloy Modernity relies on critique to reinvent itself and to justify colonial exploitation, creating new hybrids and paradoxes and finding new ways to look at the world and our relationship to the past. — Irmgard Emmelhainz, “Decolonization as the Horizon of Political Action” (2016) Despite contemporary verbiage that posits the…
By Bailey Romaine “…there are many difficulties to be reckoned with in the recollection of things.” – W.G. Sebald[1] The California sea hare, a variety of sea slug, lives in the intertidal zone – the strip where land and sea meet. When the tide goes out the sea hare moves gelatinously along…
By Stephanie DeMer $2M+ Major Sales and Loan Transactions_11-2017 BELMONT INFRACO LLC THE BELMONT ARIZONA COMPANY LLC LKY REAL ESTATE BELMONT LLC MT LEMMON HOLDINGS LLC BELMONT INFRACO LLC The language of survival and of the future is parceled by transactions, partnerships and percentage controls of vacant land. In some not-so-dark corners…
By Talia Moscovitz From the age of 14, I have been an active witness to the sudden seizure and slow retreat of time as my mother experienced it; as her memories overlapped, I have retraced her life along with her. Time was a tide that both receded into the distance and flooded the present. These photographs…
by Gloria Ballard Treasure. In a back corner of a drawer of a desk that had come from my father’s parents’ house, there was a small cardboard box, gritty with dust from years of waiting idly, untouched. Inside the box were two military dog tags tied together on a stained, brown cord. The…
By Jesse Ring Witch Bottles, stoneware vessels used in 17th century England to place protective spells and block incantations of ill will, are complex relics that serve as both functional craft and decorative art object. When used to contain an ephemeral magic relic, the physicality of the bottle gives the elusive magic a…
By Lisa Williamson Wearing a long-sleeved tomato red shirt with matching leggings pushed up to her knees, a woman walks quietly through the door carrying a bucket of discoloured water bending under its own weight. Her bare feet pad across the cold concrete in deliberate steps as she makes her way to the…
By Austin McLellan Austin McLellan: How did you get interested in art? Laurie Brown: Actually, my Dad was interested in photography, so I learned that from him when I was young and continue to enjoy photography to this day. And my mother was very crafty. So creativity, in many different forms, has…
By Lisa Williamson Chen Wang is a recent graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology (MFA 2018 in Photography and Related Media) and a current Artist-in-Residence at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, Tennessee. Wang is steadily growing her national and international success with exhibitions and screenings throughout the United States (Wisconsin, New York and…