LIVE FROM MEMPHIS

The Memphis Area Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts is hosting an event on Wednesday, Feb 24 from 5-7pm in the 4th Floor Reading Roomat the new University of Memphis Law School (1 North Front Street).  This is a perfect opportunity to find out how this great group of volunteer lawyers can assist you with your legal questions.

MAVLA exists to help artists and musicians set up a legal framework in which to do business.  Our goal is to help them take the next step to becoming professionals.

• Should you be doing business as a corporation or LLC?
• Why is it important to have a written band agreement?
• How do Trademarks and Copyrights work?

MAVLA is having  this reception to introduce themselves to artists and musicians in the community.

When: Wednesday Feb. 24 from 5-7pm
Where: 4th Floor Reading Room, U of M Law School (1 North Front Street)

Join Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects for Recent Paintings by: Mike Coulson & Bob Browne

Friday, February 19th 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Show runs February 16th through March 12th

Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects
1500 Union Avenue • Memphis, TN 38104
www.anfa.com

http://mikecoulson.com

Tours and talks are free with museum admission unless otherwise noted. Space is limited and reservations are required for all guided tours. Please call 901.544.6242.

Thursday, February 11 | 6 pm
Guided Tour
My’losophy: Gaining Perspective through Art Therapy

Sunday, February 14 | 2 pm
Art Talk
A Priceless Gift: The Kress Collection at the Brooks

Saturday, February 20  |  2 pm
Guided Tour
Venice in the Age of Canaletto

Sunday, February 21 | 2 pm
Guided Tour in Italian
Venice in the Age of Canaletto

Tuesday, February 23  |  10:30 am
Piece of Mind Alzheimer’s Tour Program: Love
Free admission
Generously funded by Baptist Health Care

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The Bi-annual Conference for the Artist-Blacksmith’s Association of North America (ABANA) will kick-off on June 2 and continue thru June 5, 2010 at the AgriCenter International in Memphis, Tennessee. More than 1,000 professionals, amateurs, and artists will gather for this unique event offering active involvement and exposure to blacksmithing skills.    

This premiere conference will host artist demonstrators from the U.S. such as Dan Boone, who will demonstrate making his products, including his signature candlesticks with dragon head accents; Darryl Nelson will demonstrate the techniques of direct sculpture in steel with animal heads as his subject; Mark Aspery will run the  “Green Coal” teaching station  for  aspiring  smiths;  Phil Cox and Steve Parker will demonstrate power hammer tools complementing each other. Other noted artists include Joe Anderson, Dan Nauman, and Tom Latane, as well as International master artists, Shelley Thomas, England, and Amit Har-Lev and Tsur Sadan from Israel. All demonstrations will take place at the AgriCenter International. There will be tailgaters offering a variety of artistic wares, as well as indoor and outdoor vendors.

Material is excited to announce its fifty-fifth exhibition: Laurie Nye:" So Forgotten."

"So Forgotten" will run for one night only! The reception for the artist will be on Friday, February 12, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

Laurie Nye will present a lecture on her work in Blount Auditorium in Buckman Hall on Thrusday, February 11th at 7 pm.

***Please note the talk is at Rhodes and the show is at Material.***

A Memphis native, Laurie Nye received her BFA from Memphis College of Art in 1995 and went on to do her graduate studies at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. She has shown locally at Delta Axis @ Marshall Arts as well as at Perry Nicole Fine Art. She has shown her work nationally at I-20 Gallery in New York and at Karyn Lovegrove Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Artforum.com, LA Weekly, and New American Paintings. She has a show scheduled for the gallery at Watkins School of Art and Design in Nashville. Nye lives and works in Los Angeles.

About the show the artist writes:
“So Forgotten explores an American notion of naturalism that draws inspiration from 19th century printmaking, storybooks, symbolist painting, and the writings of Thoreau, Jules Vernes and Lewis Caroll and J. K. Huysmans. The series of paintings conclude in a visual narrative where words are scattered and animals and humans lurk in the shadows of a verdant landscape that time has overlooked. This fictional landscape heralds deeper, darker meanings than the light palette would suggest. While I go about dreaming of this nature fantasy, my literal environment is a sprawling metropolis where the environment is bounded by concrete and smog.”

jpg info: nye.jpg is So Forgotten, Material is located at 2553 Broad Avenue. Parking is available on both the north and south sides of Broad Avenue.

About Material: Founded by Hamlett Dobbins and Julie Meiman in late 2004, Material is a 19’ x 16’ exhibition space set in the storefront on Broad Avenue in the Binghamton neighborhood of Memphis. Taking the name from Montessori learning tools, Material was built to provide emerging and established artists with an intimate, clean space in which to share their work with Memphis’ growing arts community. The programming consists of monthly shows as well as artists’ lectures in connection with local colleges and universities. Material has served as a space for young artists to have their first shows, as well as a place for established local and regional artists to test new ideas in a public forum. In addition to serving local artists, Material has hosted artists from Birmingham to Tokyo. Come visit.

Contact:
Hamlett Dobbins, 901.219.1943, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Lynn McCarty, Freeze, 2007, oil on aluminum, 16x18

February exhibition at David Lusk Gallery
4540 Poplar 38117 www.davidluskgallery.com
2-27 feb 2010 opening fri 5 feb 6-8

Ted Faiers
a groovy kind of love:
the 1960s part II, paintings & woodcuts

Lynn McCarty
pour
Gallery talk by Lynn McCarty Sat feb 6 11am

www.davidluskgallery.com

Akiba Shabazz our friend and fellow artist is at the American Cancer Treatment Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a long way from home, family and friends.  Like many other Americans, Akiba does not have adequate health insurance and is need of our support---financial and spiritual.  So join us in a joyful celebration and fundraiser.


WHEN:  Thursday, January 28, 2010- 5:30 pm
WHERE: Safari Tapas Bar, 415 South Main Street

Contributions can be made that night by check, cash, credit card
You may also donate on our website, by making a dedication on
behalf of Akiba Shabazz.

http://www.memphisblackartsalliance.org/donatenow.htm


YOU MAY ALSO DROP BY THE FIREHOUSE
& MAKE YOUR DONATION

985 South Bellevue @ Walker Ave.
901.948.9522

Driving the Saudis
by Jayne Amelia Larson – January  21-24 (Thurs, Fri, Sat @8, Sun @2)

Jayne Amelia Larson returns to Memphis for an encore performance of her hilarious, but eye-opening one-woman show, Driving the Saudis. She recounts her days as the only female drive for a royal Saudi family during their visit to Beverly Hills. “DRIVING THE SAUDIS explores and challenges American perceptions of beauty, culture, religion, and the subjugation of women, through the curious eyes of the actress-turned-chauffeur.”

http://www.drivingthesaudis.info/
http://www.playhouseonthesquare.org/blog/2009/12/30/playhouse-on-the-square-solo-work-series/

On view in the Mallory and Wurtzburger Galleries

Metal in Memphis features the work of the artists in residence at the National Ornamental Metal Museum in downtown Memphis, including Mary Catherine Floyd, Jacob Brown, Jim Masterson, Kevin Burge, Andy Dohner and Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh.  With work ranging from the conceptual to the practical, the artists in this exhibition attest to metal’s versatility as an art medium and as a means of expression. Organized by Assistant Curator Julie Pierotti.

http://www.dixon.org

MEET THE ARTIST
thursday, december 17
for 3rd thursdays at main & peabody

wine & cheese artist reception
4:00 P.M.  - 9:00 P.M.

bring parking ticket for validation
 
art under a hot tin roof
117 S. Main Street
Memphis, Tennessee 38103
(next to Circa Restaurant at the corner of Gayoso and Main St.)
901.522.4848