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Art Club: Cafeteria

Brooks Museum of Art 1934 Poplar Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

Join us Sunday, October 20th for a closer look at Cafeteria, painted in 1930 by Isaac Soyer. Led by art history professor Mallory Sharp, we’ll spend each Art Club learning about the artist, their influences, the historical context, and other fascinating details that give us a fuller understanding of the diverse artworks on view at […]

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Nature Journaling

East Parkway Pavilion 389 E. Parkway N., Memphis, TN

  Spark your curiosity, channel your attention, and record your wonder in Overton Park. Join us to learn the basics of Nature Journaling. Begin (or continue) your journey of observing and questioning. Inspiration below! Bring your own notebook/journal and writing materials. Writing and coloring supplies such as watercolors, coloring pencils, and crayons available to share. […]

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Art History 101: Romanticism and Realism: Early to Mid-19th-Century Art

Brooks Museum of Art 1934 Poplar Ave., Memphis, TN, United States

This talk will focus on the Salon system of artist exhibitions throughout the early half of the nineteenth century. On the walls of such institutions as the Royal Academy in London and the Paris Salon, rival artistic movements would vie for attention with very distinct sets of subjects matter: literary and fantasy worlds as represented […]