Young Collectors Contemporary: Full Schedule

Young Collectors Contemporary is produced by Young Arts Patrons to serve as a hub for artists and contemporary art enthusiasts to exchange ideas and collect works from emerging contemporary artists. Part exhibition, part party, and part contemporary arts conference the event is for everyone including emerging artists, collectors, thought leaders, disrupters, change makers, and the entire arts community.

6:00pm MDT

OPEN: The Artist Commons

OPEN:a community-curated open studio/gallery project that fosters personal exchange between Memphis-based artists and their communities.

We are excited to work with such a diverse range of artists and spaces in Memphis.

Monday, March 19, 6-8PM -The Artist Commons- will have a bronze pour demonstration beginning at 7PM and general networking with The Artist Commons artists Food from the Binghampton Neighborhood, Kaleidoscope Kitchen provided.

Tuesday, March 20; 5-8PM- Annabelle Meacham Studio located at 169 North Rose Road; will have an open studio and artist talk About Annabelle Meacham

Wednesday, March 21; 6-7:30PM- Brooks Museum of Art- Café Conversations: Celebrating or misappropriating culture? website

Monday March 19, 2018 6:00pm - 8:00pm MDT
The Artist Commons 139 Scott Street

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5:00pm MDT

OPEN: Annabelle Meacham

OPEN:a community-curated open studio/gallery project that fosters personal exchange between Memphis-based artists and their communities.

We are excited to work with such a diverse range of artists and spaces in Memphis.

Monday, March 19, 6-8PM -The Artist Commons- will have a bronze pour demonstration beginning at 7PM and general networking with Artist Commons artists About TAC

Tuesday, March 20; 5-8PM- Annabelle Meacham Studio located at 169 North Rose Road; will have an open studio and artist talk About Annabelle Meacham

Wednesday, March 21; 6-7:30PM- Brooks Museum of Art- Café Conversations: Celebrating or misappropriating culture? website

Speakers

Annabelle Meacham

Tuesday March 20, 2018 5:00pm - 7:30pm MDT
Annabelle Meacham Studio 169 N Rose Rd

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6:00pm MDT

OPEN: Brooks Museum x Cafe Conversations

Young Collectors Week kicks off with the piloting of their newest program OPEN. participating in the pilot of OPEN:a community-curated open studio/gallery project that fosters personal exchange between Memphis-based artists and their communities.

After a brief tour of African-Print Fashion Now! with Chief Curator Marina Pacini, join anthropologists Dr. Susan Kus, Rhodes College, and Dr. Victor Raharijaona, Chercheur Associé, Université de Fianaratsoa, Madagascar in a discussion about the term “cultural appropriation.”
How does cultural appropriation differ from assimilation or cultural exchange? Is cultural appropriation an example of free expression, or is it a form of colonialism? What are the lines between cultural borrowing, cultural appropriation, and cultural appreciation?
These scholars will help us navigate these complex questions of culture in a relaxed setting.

We are excited to work with such a diverse range of artists and spaces in Memphis.

Monday, March 19, 6-8PM -The Artist Commons- will have a bronze pour demonstration beginning at 7PM and general networking with Artist Commons artists About TAC

Tuesday, March 20; 5-8PM- Annabelle Meacham Studio located at 169 North Rose Road; will have an open studio and artist talk About Annabell Meacham

Wednesday, March 21; 6-7:30PM- Brooks Museum of Art- Café Conversations: Celebrating or misappropriating culture? website

Wednesday March 21, 2018 6:00pm - 7:30pm MDT
Brooks Museum of Art 1934 Poplar Ave

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5:30pm MDT

Art Bus Tour (Sold Out)

Take a bus tour of a few great art spaces in Memphis with a private bus tour to Jack Robinson Gallery, a Project Backboard site, Art Factory Studio, and the private collection of Dr. James Patterson.

Taste some of the best of Memphis Local Culinary Scene including:

Sweet Potato Baby Sponsored by Memphis Black Restaurant Week
Muddy's Bake shop
And More

Thursday March 22, 2018 5:30pm - 9:00pm MDT
Jack Robinson Gallery

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9:00am MDT

Open Coffee

Meet people, find out what's going on nearby you, and then go and take part.

Friday March 23, 2018 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

Networking

9:00am MDT

Private Education Tour

Organized by Young Collectors Contemporary Board Member, Mary Webster. Over 40 high school students will be given a tour of Crosstown Arts and Crosstown Concourse to learn more about the artists, artworks, and future careers as artists from artists.

Speakers

Mary Webster

Friday March 23, 2018 9:00am - 11:30am MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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9:45am MDT

Opening Remarks & Welcome

Friday March 23, 2018 9:45am - 10:00am MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

Networking

10:00am MDT

Masterclass: Planning for Success

The following Masterclass is geared towards creatives of all types. From music to visual art to writers, this workshop introduces strategic planning, project management and resourcing your practice tips to build and sustain your creative work and life. Strategic Planning includes developing a personal action plan through goal setting, time management and financial planning. Resourcing will include building financial resources artists need to sustain their practice – including fundraising and fiscal sponsorship, as well as finding, researching and applying for these different types of opportunities.

Cezanne Charles and Lauren Rossi of Creative Many will show you how to plan for a successful future!
Headquartered in Detroit, our mission is to develop creative people, places and the economy for a strong and resilient Michigan. Our work empowers creative people, businesses and industries; connecting them to the resources, knowledge, funding and networks they need to develop their practices and thrive.

@creativemany

Speakers

Cezanne Charles

Director of Creative Industries, Creative Many

Cézanne Charles is a designer, curator and researcher working on design, technology, social justice and public policy for future-making. Charles is the Director of Creative Industries for Creative Many Michigan, leading its programs that provide the knowledge, funding, networks and... Read More →

Lauren Rossi

Creative Industries Program Manager, Creative Many

Lauren Rossi is currently employed as Creative Industries Program Manager at Creative Many, where she works to empower and inform creative practitioners in Detroit and around the state of Michigan, ensuring their economic viability in an ever changing creative ecosystem. She is a... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 10:00am - 12:00pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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10:00am MDT

Office Hours: Free Tax Prep

Young Collectors Contemporary has partnered with United Way to Host Free Tax Prep Site.

United Way Free Tax Prep is helping thousands of households across the Mid-South with less than $54,000.00 income, and we need your help! Last year, United Way Free Tax Prep helped bring in over $12.08 million in refunds and ensured over $4.27 million in Earned Income Tax Credits were claimed by local citizens. The average refund was over $1,730.00.

This is free and Open to the public.

Bring with you: SS Cards, Photo ID, Insurance 1095s, W-2s, 1099, all tax documents.

It’s easy to make an appointment at a site near you.
When Free Tax Prep sites open in January 2018 just call the 2-1-1 network during normal business hours (or the alternate number, 901.415.2790). Tell the operator you’re looking for a United Way Free Tax Prep site in your zip code and make an appointment for your free tax preparation and filing. This is the Young Collectors Contemporary Site at Crosstown Concourse

Friday March 23, 2018 10:00am - 2:00pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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10:05am MDT

Masterclass: Leveraging the Arts in Community Building

Conversations around how neighborhood leaders can collaborate with the art community to bring in more economic opportunities to build a more vibrant and attractive neighborhood. Community leaders will define their community (neighborhood boundaries) through illustration and engage in conversation begin approaching ideas from an innovative angle when traditional ways of operation is comfortable. This section will also examples of what has been done nationally and locally.

National Guest: Roseann Weiss

Local Guest Panel:

Pat Brown - T Clifton Art
Yancy Villa – Independent Artist
Megan Banazcek - Carpenter Art Garden
Lauren Kennedy – Urban Art Commission

Speakers

Megan Banazcek

Carpenter Art Garden (Memphis)

Pat Brown

T. Clifton Gallery, T. Clifton Gallery

Pat Brown is co-owner of T Clifton Art, a retail/commercial art gallery specializing in contemporary artists and custom framing. The gallery is considered the premier art glass gallery in the south. Tom Clifton and Pat have owned the gallery since 1994. The gallery moved to Broad... Read More →

Lauren Kennedy

Executive Director, Urban Art Commission

Yancy Villa-Calvo

Independent Artist, YancyArt

Yancy Villa-Calvo is an interdisciplinary artist who seeks to create awareness, engage in conversation, and encourage action on issues of social justice, equity, and community prosperity.Villa-Calvo is a 2020-2021 Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow. In 2019, she was recognized as... Read More →

Roseann Weiss

ART +

By day, Roseann Weiss is a creative advisor and strategist about the intersections of art and community - working freelance as ART +. She has 30 years of experience in arts leadership in nonprofit arts institutions, community organizations, and gallery settings. Her expertise centers... Read More →

Friday March 23, 2018 10:05am - 10:45am MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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11:00am MDT

Incorporating Art in Building Communities

Community leaders will define their community (neighborhood boundaries) through illustration and
engage in conversation begin approaching ideas from an innovative angle when traditional ways of
operation is comfortable.

Lack of Resources: Building a case for an art effort in your community with little to no resources.
Diversifying Efforts: Staying authentic, creative and unique
Community Identity: Capturing the essence of your neighborhood’s identity and brand
Intentionality: Directing the impact for the best return for your investment – i.e. ensuring ACTUAL economic opportunities are produced from this effort.
National Examples: Share a couple of examples of creative-art place making installments that have created economic opportunities

Speakers

Roseann Weiss

ART +

Friday March 23, 2018 11:00am - 11:45am MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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12:00pm MDT

Lunch & Networking Break

Friday March 23, 2018 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

Networking

1:00pm MDT

Masterclass: Creative Strategies for Resisting Displacement

Conversations around how art can play a role in creative placemaking and how
artists can build communities through development. Explore best practices
and strategies for reducing inequitable development, preserving community
culture, and resisting displacement by providing ways for artists to act as
developers and neighborhood planners.

Speakers

Roseann Weiss

ART +

Friday March 23, 2018 1:00pm - 3:30pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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6:30pm MDT

Opening Night Party

Young Arts Patrons and the Young Collectors Contemporary Host Committee are happy to officially kick-off the art experience with an opening night party at Crosstown Arts. Make your way up the red stairs and into the gallery for the best art party in the city. Meet the 2018 Emerging Artists and speakers from around the nation.

Host Committee Members include:
Ebony Archie (Girls Scouts Heart of the South; Savvy Sunflower Blog)
Jasmine Boyd (ALSAC/St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)
Erica M. Evans, Esq. (SVMIC)
Kayla Rodriguez Graff (SweetBio)
Timothy Green Jr. (The Dividend)
Ian Nunley (Innovate Memphis)
Delaini Moreau (Crazy Beautiful Clothing)
Leslie Smith (BLDG Memphis)
Amelia Thompson (Ballet Memphis)

Food from Paradox Catering & Wok’n in Memphis. Signature Cocktail designed by Mixologist Vincent Hale. Thank you to our Opening Night Party sponsors Wiseacre Brewing Company and Frost Bake Shop!

Dress is Mona Lisa chic aka wear what makes you feel stylish

Speakers

Future-Everything

Future-Everything is a ‘for artist, by artist’ multimedia label and lifestyle brand that collaborates with a variety of artists, from Memphis to New York, Paris to New Zealand, to help elevate concepts to high-quality final products.

Friday March 23, 2018 6:30pm - 10:00pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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9:45am MDT

Opening Remarks & Welcome

Saturday March 24, 2018 9:45am - 10:00am MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

10:00am MDT

M4: Casting Demonstration

Join the Metal Museum at Young Collectors Contemporary as we cast metal from the M4 (that is, the Mini Mobile Metal Museum). Watch our Foundry team prepare molds, learn our process, and watch as we create small castings in aluminum.

This opportunity is free and open to the public and supported by an Enhancement Grant from ArtsMemphis.

Speakers

Metal Museum

The Metal Museum preserves, promotes, and advances the art and craft of fine metalwork.

Saturday March 24, 2018 10:00am - 1:00pm MDT
Crosstown Concourse Outdoor Mall

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10:00am MDT

Office Hours: Free Tax Prep

Saturday March 24, 2018 10:00am - 2:00pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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10:15am MDT

Rock the Dot: Investing in Your Art Collection at Any Level & Who to Collect Now

Join Janice Bond of Bond Creative Advisors for an intimate conversation about demystifying and decolonizing the journey of art collecting. What type of artwork inspires you? Where do you start? How do you continue to build? Who should be new/now/next in your collection and why? Let's talk about it.

Speakers

Janice Bond

Chief Curator/Interdisciplinary Artist, Bond Creative Advisors

Currently based in Austin/Chicago, Janice Bond's forward thinking and high-energy approach has been utilized over the past decade in a range of strategic initiatives and creative productions across the globe. From Texas to Tokyo, local art exhibitions and workshops, to international... Read More →

Saturday March 24, 2018 10:15am - 11:00am MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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11:15am MDT

Communities at the Crossroads: The Role of Public Art and Politics in Gentrification

Public art and artists can provide both cultural and economic value to a neighborhood, but they can also be the catalyst for neighborhood displacement and gentrification. In this discussion, panel participants will discuss how artists, arts organizations, and community members can navigate the complex relationship between public art, politics, and gentrification.

Speakers

Dr. Patricia Lee Daigle

Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History,/ Director, Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

EDUCATIONPh.D., History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015B.A., Art History / Anthropology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006RESEARCH AND AREAS OF INTERESTRace and representation in U.S. modern and contemporary art and visual... Read More →

DoughJoe

Norf Art Collective (or simply "Norf") is a multimedia creative team based in Nashville, TN. Norf artists produce public art that addresses social issues, as well as the unique cultural and historical aspects of respective neighborhoods. Norf also hosts social and interactive events... Read More →

Tami Sawyer

Director, Diversity & Cultural Competence, Teach for America

Tami Sawyer is the Director, Diversity & Cultural Competence with Teach For America Memphis and a writer, speaker and social justice & education advocate. Tami was named by The Tennessean and Commercial Appeal as one of 18 Tennesseans to watch in 2018 and was included in the Commercial... Read More →

ArJae Thompson

Co-founder, Norf Art Collective

ArJae Thompson is an interdisciplinary artist who’s latest venture includes murals focusing on social issues in underserved communities. Originally from Orlando, Fla, he started his personal practice through traditional mediums, which later grew into an affinity for digital design... Read More →

Troy L. Wiggins

Writer and Editor

Troy L. Wiggins is a short story author, essayist, and editor. His creative work explores the intersections of race, culture, communities, art, and technology. His fiction and essays have appeared in over twenty venues, including the Memphis Flyer, Literary Orphans, Fireside Fiction... Read More →

Saturday March 24, 2018 11:15am - 12:00pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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12:00pm MDT

Superior Interiors: Adding Art to Your Home

Join Carmeon Hamilton for a look at ways to incorporate your new art collection with your home. From hanging art to understanding scale, Carmeon will guide you through ways to get your collection started at home.

Speakers

Carmeon Hamilton

CEO, Nubi Interiors

Carmeon Hamilton is a buyer and environmental designer for locally-owned retailer, Stash Home, and an interior designer, heading her own company, Nubi Interiors. In both, she utilizes her education and 10 years of experience in design to discover the beauty in all things and helping... Read More →

Saturday March 24, 2018 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Crosstown Arts- West Gallery

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12:00pm MDT

Networking Break

Saturday March 24, 2018 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

Networking

1:15pm MDT

Project Backboard: Adding Value to your Art Practice through Community Engagement.

I will discuss my personal story and the history of Project Backboard, the non-profit I started in Memphis to renovate and install large scale works of unique art across public outdoor basketball courts, in order to encourage others to think about how they can make thier practice, whether they are collectors, creators or curators,more social as a way to add value to thier own work and potentially inspire others.

Speakers

Dan Peterson

Founder, Project Backboard

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Saturday March 24, 2018 1:15pm - 2:00pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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2:00pm MDT

2018 Emerging Curator: Rog and Bee Walker in Conversation with Darren Isom

2018 Emerging Curators, Rog and Bee Walker, will be in conversation with Darren Isom about current and emerging perspectives on creative culture, production, and thought.

Moderators

Darren Isom

Memphis Music Initiative

Speakers

Rog Walker

Co-founder, Paper Monday

Rog and Bee Walker are a NYC based photographic duo. Together they direct Paper Monday, a visual storytelling and research project that explores identities and creative experiences within culture.

Bee Walker

Co-Founder, Paper Monday

Rog and Bee Walker are a NYC based photographic duo. Together they direct Paper Monday, a visual storytelling and research project that explores identities and creative experiences within culture.

Saturday March 24, 2018 2:00pm - 2:45pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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2:55pm MDT

Coming Together Through the Arts

Looking beyond what art does for individuals on a surface level and diving into
the psychological impacts it can incur. Analyzing the impact community art
can play on the residents on a day-to-day basis to stress the importance of
community engagement throughout the development process.
Examples of the latest controversies where effective community engagement
would have made a big difference and cases where community engaged art
projects have transformed a neighborhood.

Session sponsored by BLDG Memphis.

Speakers

Roseann Weiss

ART +

Saturday March 24, 2018 2:55pm - 3:45pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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3:50pm MDT

Sotheby's Institute of Art NY Presents: Collecting as Cultural Stewardship in Times of Precarity

Dr Kathy Battista, Program Director, MA Contemporary Art at Sotheby's Institute of Art NY, will discuss cultural stewardship in the twenty-first century. She will raise questions such as: Are traditional models of collecting and supporting the arts relevant today? How can individuals support emerging or established, local or global, art production? Does our divided society find common ground through the arts? Battista will explain how the global expansion of the art market has changed the topography of the art world as we know it today.

Speakers

Dr. Kathy Battista

Program Director, MA Contemporary Art, Sotheby's Institute of Art NY

Saturday March 24, 2018 3:50pm - 4:30pm MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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10:00am MDT

Yoga with Lululemon

Come get your stretch on with Kevin, LuluLemon Ambassador, and Yogi at Delta Groove Yoga.

Sunday March 25, 2018 10:00am - 11:15am MDT
Crosstown Arts (in Crosstown Concourse) 1350 Concourse Ave

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