Local muralist Jamond Bullock was awarded the opportunity to do a mural in his hometown neighborhood of Frayser eight months ago, and is set to unveil it July 27. 

Amid questions about its fundraising for the Tennessee State Museum, the Tennessee State Museum Foundation will consider providing funds for a centennial celebration of the Legislature’s 1920 women’s suffrage vote.

More than 12 art venues across Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga will participate in the inaugural TN Triennial for Contemporary Art.

Linn Sitler, executive director of the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission, said efforts are under way to raise $10 million to lure the TV production to Memphis.  

Dixon Gallery & Gardens is preparing to open the Liz and Tommy Farnsworth Education Building, its first expansion since 1985.

Achieving a challenge grant would put Memphis Botanic Garden more than halfway past its capital campaign goal of $6 million to enhance the facility and programs. 

Attorney Charles Newman, Dalhoff Thomas Design Studio and I AM A MAN Plaza are among those honored by the Tennessee Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

A developer proposes to demolish a 99-year-old brick commercial building near Snowden School and erect a building with 12 apartments and 293 square feet of retail.

Record a short film in Shelby County, win a $10,000 cash prize.

Memphis Botanic Garden is working to raise $6 million to fund a variety of improvements and new features for the 96-acre botanical garden in the heart of Memphis.

The "Dear Artist" exhibition features works from the collections of Memphians like Pitt Hyde and Elliot Perry as well as the collectors' letters to the creators of the works.

The four-day Young Collectors Contemporary art fair and conference, which brings together artists, patrons, entrepreneurs, academics and writers from Memphis and around the country, is returning for its fourth year. 

Why are original works from major African-American artists such as Kehinde Wiley, Carrie Mae Weems, and Ernie Barnes hanging in the Grizzlies locker room? Because of Elliot Perry. 

This week, the Metal Museum turned 40. The institution has grown over the years and has plans for even more growth. 

When designer and fashion illustrator Kris Keys needed a muse for her most recent collection of womenswear, the former St. Jude patient looked deep within herself.

Two shows open Friday at CBU's Beverly & Sam Ross Gallery. "Labor" features paper work created by artist Katie Maish. "Forge, Cast, Fabricate" features the Metal Museum's staff artists and apprentices. 

American Institute of Graphic Arts, a professional design association, has highlighted a Memphis creative conference for strides in the gender equality of its speakers.

Fifty Shelby County Schools pre-kindergarten teachers and administrators began professional development workshops in early childhood visual arts curricula, art center management strategies and the connections between visual arts, literacy and early childhood development in late September.

Kaywin Feldman, who served as director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from 1999 to 2007, has been named director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Earlier this week Kaywin Feldman was named the first female director of the National Gallery of Art in the museum’s 77-year history – and nobody in Memphis was surprised.

Since September, there has been a replica of a U.S. immigrant detention center cage at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis. And on Saturday, Opera Memphis singers and a pianist will perform in that custom-built structure.

Lyfe is Dope is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its Jam Sessions. Founded by Damien Woods (AKA DJ Dnyce) and bassist David Parks, the production and clothing company’s annual showcase features DJs, musicians, visual artists, filmmakers and dancers.

When Tonya Dyson was little, she recalls, grandmothers were the protectors of the neighborhood. They would be there when the school bus pulled up at the end of the day and would keep a watchful eye until suppertime, making sure all the little ones were safe and cared for.

More than 60 Memphis artists call South Main Artspace Lofts home.

With Memphis River Parks Partnership’s $1.6 million transformation of Mississippi River Park comes an adult-sized treehouse, birdhouses and oversized bird nests, meant for humans, rather than fowl.