CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

On view through February 7, 2010

The Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards offers an inspiring and exciting opportunity for families and students to see some of the finest young talent in the region exhibited in the museum’s galleries. The Brooks Museum League devotes countless hours of time and financial support to organize and present this most prestigious secondary school competition in the tri-states area. Approximately two thousand junior and senior art entries are submitted for a professional panel of judges. Awards include cash prizes and the coveted gold and silver keys, the traditional insignia of the national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Local universities offer lucrative scholarships to graduating seniors in the portfolio competition. Prize winning art in all categories goes on to compete at the national level with an awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall. League member Almeda Zent chairs the event this year. 

2010 Senior Best-in-Show
Kyle Owens,
White Station High School
Alone . . .

On view through February 14, 2010

Sponsored by the Tennessee Arts Commission and MidSouth Therapy Dogs  

The Brooks recently partnered with Youth Villages, a nonprofit organization that offers programs and services designed to help children with emotional and behavioral problems overcome their challenges and live successfully at home. Through the Art Therapy Access Program, boys ages 8-12 and girls ages 12-18 participated in sessions with professional art therapist Karen Peacock and experienced interactive gallery tours of the museum’s permanent collection.  A selection of the resulting artworks is on display in this exhibition.

On view through February 28, 2010

These images, by Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott,and Russell Lee, capture some of the men, women, and children of the South who were affected by the Great Depression.

Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915 -1985)

Family of a Migratory Fruit Worker from Tennessee Campedin a Field in Winter Haven, florida, 1937

Gelatin silver print (1980 reprint)

Memphis Brooks Museum ofArt;

Purchased through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Brooks friends foundation81.1.35

On view through April 26, 2010

A set of twenty-six woodcuts by Josef Weisz (German, 1894-1969), The Apocalypse brings to life the prophetic and terrifying visions of the Biblical Book of Revelation. The series probably relates the artist’s experiences as a solider during the First World War.

Josef Weisz, German, 1894-1969
Plate IV, Devastation
Brought by the First Four Angels (Revelation 8:7-12)
from the series The Apocalypse, 1919
Woodcut
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Purchase 47.926