There are 14 article(s) tagged Dixon Gallery and Gardens:

• November 2024

  • Georgia O’Keeffe, Grandma Moses works on display in new Dixon show

    The Memphis art gallery’s new exhibit tracks American art history through paintings about trains, locomotive travel and the railroad industry.

    By Elle Perry November 18, 2024

  • Beer bottles, finger models form ‘Energy States’ art exhibit

    CBU art professor Scott A. Carter’s new Dixon exhibit is intricate and personal, exploring themes of death, time and self through found-object and sound-making sculpture.

    By Elle Perry November 18, 2024

  • Dixon exhibition includes ‘superstar’ artists like Picasso, Basquiat

    A new show at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens offers visitors the chance to see works by some of the most important visual artists from the past 150 years — for free.

    By Elle Perry November 04, 2024

  • T Clifton hosts a reception 40 years in the making

    CBU and U of M have new art exhibitions in November, as does Tops at Madison Avenue Park, Marshall Arts, David Lusk Gallery, and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens.

    By Elle Perry November 01, 2024

• September 2024

  • Here’s a look at Memphis museums, galleries in September

    September art shows have themes of abstract expressionism and minimalism, making syrup from fruit, expanding the definition of drawing, the rural U.S., video games and “ana” — slang for “animosity.”

    By Elle Perry September 11, 2024

• April 2024

  • ‘Memphis 2024’ showcases the breadth of the city’s visual scene

    Julie Pierotti, the Dixon’s Martha R. Robinson Curator, said that the show is a cross-section of art currently being made in the region.

    By Elle Perry April 21, 2024

• March 2024

  • Children scramble to find Easter eggs at Dixon Gallery and Gardens

    Dozens of children were off the races to hunt for Easter eggs at the Dixon March 30.

    By Patrick Lantrip March 30, 2024

• January 2024

  • Brooks, Dixon highlight work of local teens in new exhibitions

    The Scholastic Art Awards are “like the art-kid championship game” said Brooks director of education, Kathy Dumlao. 

    By Sarah Dassinger January 29, 2024

• October 2023

  • Second chapter of Dixon’s ‘most ambitious’ series opens

    The Dixon’s “Black Artists in America” exhibition is one of at least eight art shows in Memphis open this fall or winter based on an individual Black artist or group of Black artists.

    By Elle Perry October 18, 2023

  • Painter invites audience to ‘commune’ at the Dixon

    Memphian Kaylyn Webster viewed art at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens as a child. A year after graduating college, her solo exhibition opens at the museum.

    By Elle Perry October 08, 2023

• April 2023

  • Children hunt more than 2,000 Easter eggs at the Dixon

    Kids made a dash to snag colorful eggs at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens’ annual Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, April 8.

    By Alicia Davidson April 08, 2023

• March 2023

  • Theatre Memphis, Dixon unite for Women in the Arts

    The two East Memphis entities joined forces to commemorate not only Women’s History Month but specifically women in the arts. 

    By Alicia Davidson March 06, 2023

• August 2022

  • Feminist history and sporting culture meet at Dixon Gallery

    Including vintage pieces, like a dress designed by Coco Chanel, the “Sporting Fashion” exhibit also showcases information on trailblazing sportswomen such as sprinter Wilma Rudolph, equestrienne Esther Stace and pilot Hazel Ying Lee.

    By Alicia Davidson August 14, 2022

• July 2022

  • Art and science collide at Dixon’s Kaleidoscope Club

    This week, young participants in Dixon Gallery and Gardens’ Kaleidoscope Club got an interactive lesson in art, creativity, Dr. Seuss, and Newton’s law of viscosity.

    By Alicia Davidson July 15, 2022