"Where an artist works can be just as exciting and interesting as the actual artwork," said Loveland artist Amy Vialpando, whose studio at Artworks Loveland is one of the stops on the tour.
Dark matter, what physicists call the invisible stuff binding the universe together, is also what Carlton Turner calls the equally invisible “stuff that holds community together—like history, memory and relationships.” Artists, Turner continues, are among the alchemists who are able “to identify, witness and translate this history—dark matter—into art, creative process and visioning.”
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A Downtown apartment complex will lock in affordable rents in one of Memphis’ most expensive areas. The South Main Artspace Lofts saw a formal groundbreaking Thursday, Sept. 29, at the giant United Warehouse building at 138 St. Paul Ave., tucked off of South Main.
Artspace Projects joined with community and financial partners, civic leaders, artists and others yesterday to celebrate the groundbreaking for the South Main Artspace Lofts in Memphis.
Space to Create, announced by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper in July, has partnered with Artspace, an organization that has developed affordable spaces for artists to live and work in more than 30 communities across the United States.
The local art world is buzzing about a groundbreaking Thursday for a new development in downtown Memphis. It's affordable housing with an artistic flair!
Do you know why women and girl storytellers are the most powerful innovators in creative industries today—not just as artists, but also as community gatherers, media makers and producers? Or why arts organizations have a responsibility to encourage artists to advocate for themselves? How artists in rural communities are accessing and utilizing their transformative power? Or how nonprofit developers are putting equity and inclusion into practice in today’s complex, politically charged environment?
Now, six years after opening its doors, CAFAC has helped make proximity to 38th and Chicago a selling point for realtors and turned Lauing, Doyle and Christenson into paladins for the arts as a catalyst for growth and vitality in the community.