Bailey: Colorful crosswalks could make Wolf River Boulevard safer to traverse
Germantown plans to make some of its crosswalks stand out more as part of the public-art effort in the suburb.
Topic: Public Art
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April 2024
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Colorful crosswalks headed to Wolf River Boulevard in Germantown
Germantown’s next public art installation will draw attention to crosswalks along Wolf River Boulevard on the northern edge of the suburb.
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November 2023
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Colored trees project brings audio and visual experience to the Greenway
As the leaves begin to change, visitors will see an unusual color on the trees along the Wolf River Greenway.
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April 2023
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Muralist writes love letters in paint and ‘a lot of sugar’
For artist Anthony Lee, the city is his muse, but his style is a compilation of his life.
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November 2021
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Hit & ruin: Vandalism destroys art honoring dead pedestrians, cyclists
The 69 symbolic figures represented the record number of walkers and bikers who were killed on Memphis streets last year.
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July 2021
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Crosswalk cutouts: Grim reminders of pedestrian deaths
Each silhouette in a new public art installation in the Heights represents a Memphis pedestrian killed by a vehicle in 2020.
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May 2021
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‘Sputnik’ sign returns to spin at Joe’s Wines in Midtown
The Roto-Sphere has been repaired and reinstalled in front of Joe’s Wines & Liquor in Midtown.
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Giant Elvis, Tina Turner share stage in new public art
A gritty block of Summer Avenue is now the scene for a public art installation that is highly unusual for several reasons.
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Art will soon rise on The Ravine’s flour towers
Artists Kong Wee Pang and Jay Crum will turn one of The Ravine’s 60-foot-tall silos into public art. The artist for the linear park’s second silo has not been announced yet.
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March 2021
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Public art plans include water tower makeover
The Public Art Commission has several projects planned this year, including a new design for one of Germantown’s existing water towers.
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November 2020
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Broad Ave. water tower being strengthened to withstand demolition below
Link Apartments Broad Avenue will comprise two buildings totaling 370 units. But before it is built, a large, old warehouse must be demolished.
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September 2020
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No poetic license here: Memphis removes artist’s road sign
An anonymous artist has fabricated and erected — without permission — 12 road signs in 12 states. They look like official traffic signs, but display a short poem. Tennessee's sign was placed along North Parkway, but city crews this week removed it.
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Q&A with Roadside Senryu
The roadside poetry sign was removed by Memphis, but that sign and others live virtually at roadsidesenryu.com, complete with a soundtrack. The anonymous creator of the project engaged in an email Q&A with the Daily Memphian.
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June 2020
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Memphis artists dominate airport’s public art competition
Memphis International Airport and the UrbanArt Commission named winners Tuesday, June 16, in the competition for public art in the modernized B Concourse.
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April 2020
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Germantown Public Arts Master Plan engages public in social distancing age
The city is in the midst of gathering public input for its public arts master plan. While guidelines prohibit large gatherings, public input will look slightly different than originally planned.
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February 2020
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FedEx plane planned for East High’s front lawn
The Shelby County Schools board has applied for a zoning variance to create a static display of a FedEx Beechcraft airplane in front of East High School.
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Artists sought for airport’s revamped B Concourse
UrbanArt Commission opens calls for artists to produce artworks and/or designs for Memphis International Airport's modernized B Concourse.
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January 2020
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Public art selections made for Convention Center overhaul
The UrbanArt Commission, Memphis Convention Center board and city of Memphis have selected four Memphis-based artists for public art installations in the upgraded convention center.
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November 2019
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Germantown works to establish public art ‘road map’
Germantown wants to establish a public arts master plan. The plan serves as a "road map" to help the city display its culture and history through various mediums of public art.
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September 2019
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Council explores making state’s cellphone ban in cars effective in Memphis
With a short agenda Tuesday, the city council appears to have booted a final vote on the long-delayed Memphis 3.0 plan until after the Oct. 3 city elections. The council is scheduled to take a final vote on new rules for public art on city property.
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August 2019
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Art, history and soccer converge in Downtown Memphis
The scale of images on the art walk in four historic Downtown alleys invites selfies. “We expect to lose some of our crowd as people stop and Instagram the murals,” said Penelope Huston of the Downtown Memphis Commission.
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May 2019
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More Summer Ave. color may fade with church closing
The final worship service for Grimes Memorial United Methodist Church is Sunday. A developer has bought the property that has featured a large, religious mural seen by Summer Avenue travelers for 37 years.
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April 2019
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Design Review Board OKs ‘Memphis’ sign on Mud Island
Depending on where the viewer is standing, Downtown Memphis' latest art installation will read "MEMPHIS" to some and "SIHPMEM" to others.
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October 2018
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The Memphis 10: Trump visit, aftermath of Trenary murder mark a messy week
It was a week of sobering news and a news-making Presidential visit. Because the opening items underscore reckonings that came, alternately, from us and to us, I kept it light on the rest of this week’s 10.
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September 2018
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The Memphis 10: Al Green and Willie Herenton return, Kyle Taylor paints, and more
The heritage of Hi Records brackets this first weekly list, with the sound of Al Green and the image of guitarist/songwriter Teenie Hodges making unexpected appearances. Elsewhere, our criminal justice system bears watching, next year’s mayor’s race gets weird, and our food trucks get some pub.
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