How do we begin to think about de-colonizing contemporary art?  Historian and University of Memphis instructor Amanda Lee Savage will lead us in a thoughtful conversation around this topic using the exhibition Native Voices, 1950 to Now: Art for a New Understanding as the launching pad. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to chart a development of […]

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art invites you to explore a variety of mindfulness and meditation practices through gallery discussions and art-making with our art therapist, Paige Scheinberg, MS, ATR-BC. Experience personal growth, understanding, and transformation as you create and view our collection and exhibitions in a new way – or for the first time!  […]

Join us for the University of Memphis Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History reception and talk, led by Ellen Daughtery.  Speakers at monument dedications often declare the permanent nature of the statue being unveiled. Insistent language—imperishable, enduring, everlasting, undying, immortal, timeless—serves to underscore the idea that the monument and its site, and consequently the […]