Sketchers may bring their own drawing materials or use the paper and pencils provided. Pencils, colored pencils, and crayons may be used, as well as sketchbooks or drawing pads 18x24” or smaller. Please no pens, markers, charcoal, or pastels. Clothed. Ages 18+. Reservations required: brooksmuseum.wufoo.com/forms/figure-drawing-march-4-2020/ $10 / $5 Brooks Membership

Join us for a guided tour of Native Voices, 1950 to Now: Art for a New Understanding, and afterward, enjoy tea and treats in the Terrace Room. This groundbreaking exhibition is the first to chart a development of contemporary Indigenous art from the United States and Canada from the 1950s to the present. Native Voices promotes a meaningful […]

Join us for a special guided tour of the Brooks permanent collection, led by Ramona Sonin, Fashion Design and Merchandising professor at the University of Memphis.  Don’t miss this opportunity to view a variety of artwork, from a wide range of historical periods, through the lens of what was fashionable at the time. Free.

Take a trip around the world with art as your guide. Students explore diverse cultures as they journey through the Museum’s galleries, using art to discover similarities and differences across time and space. Take a closer look at the significant role art plays in shaping and growing culture. Native Voices, 1950 to Now: Art for […]

Bring your entire family to join local artists in transforming the Brooks plaza into a colorful canvas! Bring your own chalk or buy a box from us for $3. Enjoy live music by Soul & Parliament, face painting, chalk drawing, hands-on art activities, gallery exploration, food trucks, and more! Invite your friends and bring the […]

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 […]

In partnership with Memphis Fashion Week, the Brooks is proud to host Native American artist and fashion designer Loren Aragon for a special artist talk entitled Evoke Empowerment: Celebrating Matrilineal Strength.  Aragon and his wife Valentina co-founded ACONAV, a couture fashion brand based in Phoenix, Arizona that celebrates the strength and empowerment of women through designs […]