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The showcase is held every October in conjunction with the larger Indie Memphis Film Festival run by Delta Axis. The Creative Directory: Memphis' only comprehensive artist and industry directory for Memphis Music, Film and the Arts. Live From Memphis also host various music, short films, videos, and works of art, all of which are locally produced.
For the following 20 years, Save Our Shell presented hundreds of free programs there. In 2007, the Shell was renamed Levitt Shell at Overton Park and a large-scale renovation funded by the Levitt Foundation took place. [2] The renovation was conducted by Memphis firm Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects with state-of-the-art audio and visual design ...
George Hunt (July 6, 1933 – December 4, 2020) was a Southern American artist, best known for his portraits of Blues musicians and illustrations for Blues Festivals, which ended up in many private collections in addition to galleries, museums, and the walls of Memphis businesses. He was primarily a painter, though he added collage highlights ...
Workers help set up the "Elvis: Dressed to Rock" exhibit at Elvis Presley's Memphis. The exhibit features more than 100 jumpsuits, tunics, capes, belts, pieces of jewelry and pairs of sunglasses ...
“This year’s show is a lively comparison of Stax and Motown,” said Stax Music Academy Executive Director Isaac Daniel. “Think of it as the best of both worlds of music from the 1960s and ...
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has received a donation of 75 significant works — including paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and videos — by Black artists, museum officials ...
"Welcome to Memphis" sign on U.S. Route 51 (2008). Memphis, Tennessee has a long history of distinctive contributions to the culture of the American South and beyond. Although it is an important part of the culture of Tennessee, the history, arts, and cuisine of Memphis are more closely associated with the culture of the Deep South (particularly the Mississippi Delta) than the rest of the state.
The Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum’s exhibition about the birth of rock and soul music, based on one created by the Smithsonian Institution in 2000, tells the story of musical pioneers who ...