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Explore a variety of articles and media about current exhibitions, events, announcements, collaborations within the city, and more written by Brooks staff, fellows, and guest writers.
Explore a variety of articles and media about current exhibitions, events, announcements, collaborations within the city, and more written by Brooks staff, fellows, and guest writers.
The Brooks Museum is challenging you to create a still life using the objects that you have at home! Create and share your still life on social media, and then challenge a friend to make one too! Don't forget to tag us @brooksmuseum.
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Today is the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art’s Homeschool Day! Even though the museum is closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re glad to be able to share this virtual experience with all the families in our community.
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Congratulations to Gina Von Dee, our fashion winner in the Brooks African-Print Design Challenge. In celebration of our current exhibition, African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style, we partnered with Spoonflower to hold a two-part African-Print Design Challenge that incorporates the repeating design style of African print.
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Guest blog post by Kate Renner, Brooks School Programs Coordinator. On Thursday, April 5, Brooks completed our final museum visits of this year’s Art Builds Creativity (ABC) program … and we sure are going to miss these Fourth Graders over the summer!
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Guest blog written by Brooks Chief Curator Marina Pacini. Edwin Jeffery was born in Memphis in 1949 and was among the first generation of African Americans to attend the city’s integrated high schools. He enlisted in the Memphis Fire Department in 1973 and retired as a lieutenant in 2001.
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As 2017 comes to a close, we are focused on the future – for Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and for our entire community. This has been one of the most significant seasons in the Brooks’ 101-year history. For decades, we have been grappling with many troublesome issues in our current facilities, and earlier this year, we took action.
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In celebration of our upcoming exhibition, African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style, the Brooks is partnering with Spoonflower to hold a two-part African-Print Design Challenge that incorporates the repeating design style of African print.
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Guest blog from the Tape Art Crew, Michael Townsend and Leah Smith. September 13, 2017: The Orpheum Theatre: Lobster Piñata.The sponsor requested some public art downtown, so a drawing of a legendary large lobster piñata it is! The pageantry of this piñata unfolds with a line of youths excited to participate in its destruction.
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As we shared with you last month, the Board of Directors of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has known for more than two decades that significant parts of our current physical plant are inadequate. The portion of the museum that was added in the mid-1970s is a prefabricated building that is not seismically sound, has proven very difficult to keep climate controlled, and does not provide us with enough storage or exhibition space for our ample and growing permanent...
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Guest blog from Kate Renner, Brooks Tours & School Programs Coordinator The Brooks education team has been hard at work this summer gearing up for another amazing year of school tours. Whether you’re a teacher who’s brought your class many times before, or a teacher scheduling a visit for the first time, here’s the scoop on what’s new this year at the Brooks!
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