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Jill Baker Gower creates jewelry and sculpture informed by her female experience and our consumer culture’s portrayal of women’s needs and desires. While primarily a metalsmith, Jill incorporates materials such as skin-toned rubber and mirrors to reference the human body, self-examination, and vanity. Other materials such as pearls, gems, feathers, enamel, hair, silver, and gold are chosen for their aesthetic qualities, emotional resonance, preciousness, and value associations. Jill received her MFA in Metals from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona…

Malco Theatres is happy to let KIDS HELP KIDS through the 2019 Kids Summer Film Fest. Over the years, the much-loved festival has raised thousands of dollars for various children’s charities. This year’s beneficiaries include Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital (Memphis, TN), Arkansas Children’s Hospital (Little Rock, AR), Norton Children’s Hospital (Owensboro, KY), Monroe E. Carroll Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Batson Children’s Hospital (Jackson, Mississippi) and Children’s Hospital in New Orleans. Each Tuesday and Wednesday from June 4th thru July 31st,…

Crosstown Arts welcomes Stitched: Celebrating the Art of Quilting from May 10-July 28, 2019. This festival will feature two art exhibitions, public quilting workshops, and a Gathering of the Guilds showcase. EXHIBITIONS On view: May 10-July 28 Masterworks: Abstract & Geometric Mark your calendar for this international quilt show illustrating the diversity of quilting today. These works of art represent a range of styles across the abstract art spectrum. From 1965 through today, the art quilt movement has grown to…

Open call to artists to submit handcrafted quilts designed around the theme of “blue” for an open-call regional quilt challenge in conjunction with Stitched: The Art of Quilting, a quilt festival at Crosstown Arts in the spring of 2019. BLUE is your chance to show your best work. Quilts can be traditional, modern or art-focused. They can be appliquéd, pieced, collaged, fused, engineered, hand- or machine-stitched, 3-D, painted, sculpted, or any variation in between. What they have in common: 3…

Looking for small group activities that take you beyond the four walls of your local watering hole? Let’s Roam is here to help. Sign up for a Memphis scavenger hunt and put on your best Nick Cage impression as you seek out the national treasures hidden in Memphis. We will guide you through the cultural, historical, artistic, and zany Memphis sights as you and your team contend for scavenger hunt glory. Preview some of the “epic”est highlights for this hunt:…

The sixth annual Art of the South, an exhibition presented by Number: Inc, is a juried event open to all artists living and working in the South. This year, we are excited to feature 49 artists from sixteen states and one district at the Memphis College of Art from May 28 to July 14. We invite you to the opening reception Friday, June 7th from 6 to 8pm. Juror is Bethany Springer, Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of…

Anton Weiss “Forever an Icon” May 29 – June 22 Opening Reception: Friday, May 31, 6 – 8 pm. Free and open to the public. Inspired to create art from a young age, Anton Weiss found his voice in Abstract Expressionism. In a career that spanned more than five decades, Weiss produced an impressive and varied body of work–using everything from metal to watercolors. His work is often as much about building up the surface as it is tearing it…

Babalu in East Memphis is keeping diners on their toes with its latest Taco of the Month – the Louisiana Crawfish Taco. For $4 guests can enjoy cornmeal fried Louisiana Crawfish tails with house-made creamy remoulade and cilantro slaw, garnished with scallions through June 30.

Babalu on Overton Square is keeping diners on their toes with its latest Taco of the Month – the Louisiana Crawfish Taco. For $4 guests can enjoy cornmeal fried Louisiana Crawfish tails with house-made creamy remoulade and cilantro slaw, garnished with scallions through June 30.

Babalu in East Memphis is keeping Memphis summers refreshing with its latest Seasonal Cocktail – the Watermelon Margarita. For $10 guests can sip on Lunazul Reposado Tequila, triple sec, house-made watermelon sour mix and muddled watermelon. Served on the rocks with a Tuxedo Salt rim through June 30.