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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.

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Internet Cat Video Festival

Taking a cue from the Walker Art Center's most popular blog post of 2012, we decided to premier our refreshed blog design with a photo recap of the Internet Cat Video Festival (which cunning readers realize, was a cue from the Walker as well).

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Internet Cat Video Festival
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From Cave Art to Post Modernism: Thinking in Curlicues

“Most of my life I’ve thought in straight lines. It seems to me that artists think outside the box and in curlicues," Rebecca Barton, DDS, on what being a Brooks docent taught her. What a treat it’s been to be involved with the Brooks Docent Program . After having retired from a career in dentistry I was actively seeking some “fun” projects in which to engage.

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From Cave Art to Post Modernism: Thinking in Curlicues
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Color Our Collections

While we've all been practicing social distancing and staying "safer at home," many of us have also picked up or expanded our creative practices – from trying new recipes in the kitchen, to planting a new garden, to writing and making art. The ability to explore those creative practices is perhaps one of the silver linings in this storm of change and uncertainty.

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Color Our Collections
Education

Enter the 2021 Scholastic Art Awards!

The Mid-South Scholastic Art Awards is an annual juried student exhibition presented by your Brooks Museum and the Brooks Museum League. The Awards honors regional students, in grades 7 through 12, for exemplary artworks by recognizing their outstanding achievements in a competitive annual exhibition. Students are invited to submit their work in over 28 categories, including: painting, drawing and illustration, printmaking, photography, fashion, sculpture, architectural design, ceramics, and more.

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Enter the 2021 Scholastic Art Awards!
Education

Distanced Learning with the Brooks

At a time when technology is invading every aspect of modern life, educators in cultural institutions are being asked an important question: How can we use technology to craft effective and meaningful experiences that inspire present and future museum audiences?

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Distanced Learning with the Brooks
Brooks Museum History
Culture
Exhibitions

Marisol: Queer Families

In recent years, a peculiar thing has begun in Memphis, Tennessee: Marisol (1930 – 2016), the bright star of sixties Pop Art who all but disappeared after the seventies, has become a queer icon.

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Marisol: Queer Families
Jack Mitchell, American (1925 – 2013), Portrait of Sculptor Marisol Escobar at Work on “The Family” Sculpture, 1969.
Culture
Exhibitions
Museum Archives

Exploring The Exhibition "A Journey Towards Self-Definition: African American Artists in the Permanent Collection" with Heather Nickels

"I was initially surprised to learn that most of our holdings in this area had either never been on view before, or had not been seen by visitors in recent years. As a result, one of the motivations of this exhibition was to showcase work by artists with which the public may be unfamiliar."

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Exploring The Exhibition "A Journey Towards Self-Definition: African American Artists in the Permanent Collection" with Heather Nickels
Unknown Photographer, American [Group of children standing outside], ca. 1910-1920 Gelatin silver print Sheet: 4 × 5 1/16 in. (10.2 × 12.8 cm); Composition: 3 11/16 × 4 5/8 in. (9.4 × 11.8 cm) Gift of Peter J. Cohen; 100 Gifts for 100 Years, 1916-2016 2016.5.13
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A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

April 4th will mark the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Here in Memphis, every year on the 4th there is a march in honor of Dr. King, but anniversary years are noted more widely throughout the city.

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A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Inside Perspectives

Here's a video from our exhibition Perspectives -- contemporary art from a 300 miles radius of Memphis.

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Inside Perspectives
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The Declarator Preparator

The Brooks' preparator, Richard Gamble, recently had an exhibit at the P&H Cafe titled Glass Eyes Scavenger Hunt. Every inch of the P&H's walls are wallpapered with memorabillia, art, photos, posters, really anything you can think of, leaving no exposure of bare wall. Gamble wanted his artwork to be an excuse to pay attention to the environment as a whole; for the other objects on the wall to enter in his work and vice versa, conjuring emotion from a complex sense.

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The Declarator Preparator