There are 44 article(s) tagged Metal Museum:

• August 2021

  • Metal Museum receives $1M to acquire works of living artists

    The $1 million gift not only will expand the Metal Museum’s permanent collection, it will help the museum continue to support living artists by purchasing their works.

    By Tom Bailey August 30, 2021

  • Author stops at Metal Museum for ‘A Piece of Your City’

    Daniel Seddiqui, known for working 50 jobs in 50 states, was at the Metal Museum Monday, Aug. 16, crafting a metal music note for his latest project, “A Piece of Your City.” 

    By Rob Moore August 17, 2021

• July 2021

  • The To-Do List: Metal Museum highlights Black artists, old and new

    This weekend, metal is a way of life.

    By Rob Moore July 22, 2021

• April 2021

  • The weekend blooms with art events

    The debut of “Pour Me Another” at Brooks Museum is among several art events – indoors, outdoors, in-person, online – available to viewers April 17 and 18 in Memphis.

    By Peggy Burch April 17, 2021

• February 2021

  • Overton Park during the pandemic and beyond

    Eric Barnes talks to Overton Park Conservancy director Tina Sullivan about the park, the future of Rust Hall, the golf course renovation and the change and development happening in the surrounding neighborhoods.

    By Eric Barnes February 03, 2021

• December 2020

  • Poetic justice: Rogue road sign finds legal home outside Metal Museum

    Now, the refinery and steelworkers of Presidents Island as well as Metal Museum visitors will be asked: “When you were still young, Did you ever dream about, Being who you are.”

    By Tom Bailey December 23, 2020

• November 2020

  • Metal Museum confident it can raise $13M more for Rust Hall work

    Museum’s leadership expresses confidence it can a meet a proposed city deadline: Within two years, add $13 million to the $12 million it has already raised to make Overton Park its new, expanded headquarters. 

    By Tom Bailey November 16, 2020

  • 100-year lease proposed for Metal Museum in Overton Park’s Rust Hall

    The Metal Museum has raised $12 million toward a $35 million goal to both renovate Rust Hall and create an endowment, states a resolution before the City Council.

    By Tom Bailey November 12, 2020

• October 2020

  • Transformation for historic Marine Residence nearly finished

    Marine Hospital Residence, at 360 Metal Museum Drive, comprises just 71 units on 3.2 acres. The place will offer a different, less dense experience than apartment life in Downtown’s core and South Main District.

    By Tom Bailey October 26, 2020

• September 2020

  • The art shows must go on: Exhibitions stay on through pandemic

    Memphis museums reopened slowly and carefully, and shows that were expected to leave in May are still open through Sept. 27.

    Related story: Downtown art museum’s veiled design: ‘It’s exceeding our expectations’

    By Peggy Burch September 18, 2020

  • See Inside: Metal Museum

    As the Metal Museum eyes a potential move to Rust Hall in Midtown with the hopes of offering more space to host galleries, work carried on as usual for the museum’s resident blacksmiths who remained busy during the pandemic with several projects including this one for the Playhouse on the Square. 

    By Patrick Lantrip September 18, 2020

• August 2020

  • Opinion: Memphis discovered, again and again

    Dan Conaway: "Memphis, in fact anywhere, is about connections. There is no more connected place to our beginnings than here."

    By Dan Conaway August 28, 2020

• July 2020

  • Metal Museum gets recommendation as Rust Hall’s next tenant

    Mayor Jim Strickland will consider the committee's recommendation that the Metal Museum be Rust Hall's future occupant. If he accepts it, the City Council would have final say.

    By Tom Bailey July 01, 2020

• November 2019

  • The Weekly Memphian: Marcus King, Grilled Cheese Fest, Malted VI

    The folks at Hi-Tone Café are hosting their fifth grilled cheese cook-off and festival.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 07, 2019

• October 2019

  • Metal Museum: Steel Magnolia country

    The Metal Museum's executive director Carissa Hussong calls the crowd-pleasing annual Repair Days “a reunion for the metalsmithing community.” The fundraising event is Oct. 17-20 this year.

    By Jill Johnson Piper October 22, 2019

• July 2019

  • Renovations start on historic Marine Hospital apartments

    The $18.5 million conversion of the long-vacant Marine Hospital into 71 apartments should be finished by July 1, 2020.

    By Tom Bailey July 23, 2019

• November 2018

  • Metal Museum makes its case for Overton Park’s Rust Hall

    The Metal Museum proposes to spend $21 million to renovate Overton Park’s Rust Hall and make it a “world class museum and educational center." The museum board approved what it calls the “expansion plan" in September as part of its campaign to win the keys to Rust Hall. The 78,000-square-foot headquarters of Memphis College of Art becomes available after the school closes in May 2020.

    By Tom Bailey November 22, 2018

• October 2018

  • Local arts groups participating in nationwide ‘For Freedoms’ initiative

    Last September, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas gave Memphis College Art’s Downing Pryor Lecture.

    By Elle Perry October 22, 2018

  • Metalsmiths descend on Memphis for Metal Museum’s Repair Days

    Typically, an object brought to the Metal Museum’s Repair Days is interesting because of the story behind it, rather than the object itself.

    By Elle Perry October 17, 2018