Lauren Ready, an Iowa native who first landed in Memphis working in television news, launched Forever Ready Productions in 2014 while still working at Action News 5 (WMC-TV). Her clientele grew from there.
An Asian restaurant food tour, a Laotian happy hour and dinner, a night market and two art exhibitions are on the calendar for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Memphis.
The e-commerce site links socially conscious shoppers to handcrafted goods from around the world, and helps provide jobs in the 38126 ZIP code, where Advance Memphis workers staff a fulfillment center.
“Everybody got a festival celebrating their own heritage and ethnicity,” David Acey said. “So, our efforts in the early ’60s was to develop something that could get our people into their history and culture.”
Lonnie Robinson, one of the artists who worked on new stained-glass images for Historic Clayborn Temple, talks on the “On The Record” podcast about bringing images of the 1968 sanitation-workers strike to the landmark’s windows.
Live classical music from local groups such as the University of Memphis Lorraine String Quartet, Prizm Ensemble and the Bartlett Community Concert Band could also be heard at Art in the Loop.
A former restaurant server will open a new art gallery and event space inside Midtown’s Minglewood Plaza Friday, March 29.
“Lizzo won her first Grammy in one of the dresses downstairs, and Michelle Obama gave one of the greatest speeches of her career in one of these dresses,” Christian Siriano said. “That feels more important than just clothes to me.”
“This makes for $14 million in total from foundations that are outside of the (Memphis) community,” said the museum’s executive director. “That speaks to the national importance of our institution.”
Studiohouse on Malvern, located at 418 Malvern St. in Midtown, hosted its second annual open house March 2. It featured owner-artists Keiko Gonzalez and Mary Jo Karimnia as well as other artists and performers.
Theatre Memphis and Dixon Gallery and Gardens are on their fifth year of conducting the partnership event that’s immersive to the public and centered around women’s art.
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art was selected by Rhode Island leaders in the arts, historical preservation and Black history to receive the oldest known stained glass depicting Jesus as a person of color, also known as the “Black Gospel Window.”
The exhibition includes work from visual artists Khara Woods, Frank D. Robinson and Richard Echols and multi-disciplinary artist Siphne Sylve.
“There’s a ton of resources in Memphis that are yet to be tapped into,” Jarnell Stokes said. “I would like to see my city become an entertainment hub, that reaches far beyond just basketball and hip-hop.”
A program designed to commemorate Memphis Black History opened this weekend at the Museum of Science and History.
Memphis organizations feature a variety of experiences for attendees to witness, learn from and enjoy in honor of Black History Month.
Michael Roy, who started his arts career geared towards “serious abstract paint(ing),” says a Memphis College of Art professor told him “(your) hand wants to be a cartoonist.”
The Scholastic Art Awards are “like the art-kid championship game” said Brooks director of education, Kathy Dumlao.
The Brooks Museum recently terminated its relationship with its previous cafe operator, Loaf, after an unsanctioned fundraising event for a Palestinian relief fund.
Carpenter Art Garden and a team of local collaborators are constructing the park on the corner of Princeton Avenue and Tillman Street.
With the collective’s knowledge and funding, the Brooks will annually present one major exhibition by Black artists and buy at least one work by a Black artist for its permanent collection.
The donation includes 75 works created by Black local, national and international artists. Mediums represented include painting, photography, video and sculpture.
Memphis Museum of Science and History will feature a longtime art teacher’s solo exhibition: A collection of studio and candid pictures from the 1920s through 1950s.
Compared to peer metropolitan areas, Memphis has the highest concentration of diverse talent in music and entertainment, with 31% of the workforce.
The scramble to pick up last-second gifts is in a full frenzy this holiday weekend.