Rotating Local Art Collections

Lindsey Bailey is an artist and illustrator whose Afrofuturist-influenced work challenges heteronormative, monoracial assumptions about classical art.

Multimedia artist Lawrence Matthews captures universally familiar moments of black life.

Julie Darling’s drawings are inspired by literature, childhood memories, and family stories.

Juan Rojo’s figurative paintings investigate the relationship between decoration, intimacy, and trust.

Jessica Tinsley’s imaginative brushstrokes, shapes, and colors evoke the emotional tension between storm and sunshine.

Mellow Mountain Coalition is a playful collaboration between Hamlett Dobbins and Tad Lauritzen Wright.

Erin Harmon’s collages create an ambiguous, objectified landscape where time is suspended.

Darlene Newman’s colorful, whimsical paintings are a personal testament to her faith.

Daija Guy’s vibrant and colorful photographs create a new vision for downtown Memphis.

Chuck Johnson’s geometric paintings are a catalyst for imagination, speculation, and unscripted modes of knowing.

Carol Buchman’s Midrash series is inspired by Jewish blessings, rituals, and family stories.

Painter Carl E. Moore connects social ideologies about race, stereotypes, and belief systems to the perception of colors in our everyday environment.

Annabelle Meacham makes art about dreams, nature, and the relationship her viewers feel with her images.

Vanessa Gonzalez Hernandez is a printmaker, ceramicist, and bookmaker whose work is rooted in a personal struggle with cultural identity.

Larry Walker is an art educator and master portrait artist.

Photographer Catherine Elizabeth Patton inspires personal liberation with images of vulnerability and truth.

Bobby Spillman is a working artist and educator born and raised In Memphis.

Ben Butler’s work ranges from drawing to sculpture, installation, and public art.

Robert Allen Burns creates comics, illustrations, large-scale ink paintings, intricate imagined landscapes, and murals.

Chloe York is a working artist specializing in vibrant, colorful abstract paintings.

Alex Williams is an illustrator, graphic designer, and printmaker living and working in Memphis.

Alex Paulus’s humorous paintings reveal multiple layers and realities existing simultaneously.