Ties That Bind at Marshall Arts

Friday, November 7th from 6-9 pm Marshall Arts will host Ties That Bind featuring work by Roger Allan Cleaves, Lindsay Palmore, Bobby Spillman and Mel Spillman.

The show will run through November 29th with gallery hours on Saturdays from one to five or by appointment.

Marshall Arts is at 639 Marshall at the intersection of Marshall and Monroe.

Houswarming Gala at Odessa on Friday

Odessa (now under new management) will host a Housewarming Gala featuring new works by Lance Turner with a reception from 6-9pm, at 10 there will be music from The Warble, Agents of Woe, and late night disco courtesy of Saturna, there will be a $5 cover with free refreshments.

More from the desk of the UAC

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 28, 2008 Contact: John Weeden, 901-454-0474

Bring Back Mural, Bring Back Pride

Community engagement, rehabilitation, beautification, and civic pride; for years, art in the Memphis area has been used to exemplify these goals. With a city so rich in culture and history, it should come as no surprise that our citizens consistently strive to preserve these qualities. In order to uphold the pride and civic engagement that has so long encapsulated the Westwood community, the UrbanArt Commission is aiming to preserve a large exterior mural at Raines and Weaver roads.

The mural on Raines Road once displayed images of Westwood, including the Chuckalissa Museum and Village, various buildings and factories in the area, and natural sites that can be seen around Memphis. However, after years of exposure to outdoor elements, the mural is in need of repairs and more modern techniques to ensure a longer lasting finish that will continue to welcome residents and visitors to the neighborhood.

The UrbanArt Commission, therefore, has invited experienced muralist, Seth Turner of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, to visit the neighborhood and conduct a hands-on workshops with local artists, students, volunteers, and community members to explain artistic practices for mural pieces, display the types of materials that should be used with an outdoor murals such as the one at Westwood, and describe ways in which the community can help to maintain the mural for years to come.

Mural Arts is a public art program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that works with more than 100 communities each year to create murals that reflect the culture of Philadelphia's neighborhoods. The Mural Arts program strives to coordinate mural projects that use the power of art and the mural design process as tools for community engagement, blight remediation, beautification, demonstration of civic pride, and prevention and rehabilitation of crime.

The workshop will take place November 14th-16th. Volunteers are needed and interested parties should contact the UrbanArt Commission for further information at 901. 454. 0474.
The mission of the UrbanArt Commission (501c3) is to create a dynamic, vibrant, nurturing community through art and design. The UAC is funded in part by the City of Memphis, ArtsMemphis, Tennessee Arts Commission and the Hyde Foundation.

From the desk of the UAC

November 3, 2008 Contact: Elizabeth Alley, (901) 454-0472 For Immediate Release

Mobile Forge Comes to Normal Station Neighborhood

Memphis, TN – The UrbanArt Commission and artist-blacksmith John Golightly are hosting a Community Day to give area residents the opportunity to create a piece of art for the Black Bayou Fence. Golightly will bring his mobile forge to the project site on Goodman Street between Park Avenue and Douglass Avenue, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Saturday, November 8. Neighbors can get a tutorial on forging steel and make their own cotton plant, which will be added to a decorative panel in the fence.

The construction by City of Memphis of two pedestrian bridges over Black Bayou in the Normal Station neighborhood allowed for a public art project to be installed in the area as part of the City’s Percent-for-Art Program. Local artist-blacksmith John Golightly was chosen to create a fence that runs along Black Bayou. The fence includes five decorative panels, including the one that Golightly is working with community members to create. Four of the five decorative panels are installed, as well as standard sections that were hand-forged by Golightly.

For more information about Black Bayou Community Day, the City of Memphis Percent-for-Art Program or the UrbanArt Commission, please contact Elizabeth Alley, Director of Public Art, at (901) 454-0472.

The UAC’s mission is to create a dynamic, vibrant, nurturing community through art and design.

Lewis Feibelman at Material

Contact: Hamlett Dobbins, 901.219.1943, hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com or Lewis Feibelman, feibelman.lewis@yahoo.com, 617.594.0436.

Material is excited to announce its ninth exhibition of the 2008 season: Lewis Feibelman: Spaces and Places.

Lewis Feibelman: Spaces and Places will open with a reception for the artist on Friday, November 7th from 6-8 pm.

The gallery will also be open on Saturday, November 8th from 2-4.

Following this the gallery will be open by appointment only. Appointments can be made by contacting either Hamlett Dobbins at hamlettdobbins@hotmail.com or via cell 901.219.1943.

The exhibition will run from November 7 through November 29.

About the exhibition Feibelman writes: “I am interested in interpreting what I see around me – the architecture, houses and rooms that compose the human-made environment ... I think of my paintings as a daily journal which I share with the viewer as my recording. The artists that inspire me are both contemporary and historical.”

Feibelman received his BA from Sarah Lawrence College and continued his studies at Rhodes College as well as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Lewis Feibelman has been featured in group exhibitions in Cambridge, MA and locally in one person shows at Otherlands Café, Artist Market, Circuit Playhouse and at Material in the winter of 2005. Additional images of Lewis Feibelman’s work can be found at www.lewisfeibelman.com.

Material is located at 2553 Broad Avenue. Parking is available on both the north and south sides of Broad Avenue.

Jpg information: “Feibelman.jpg” is Lewis Feibelman’s Untitled, 48x48”, Acrylic on canvas, 2008.