Join us this fall season at the Art Garden. Check out this incredible line-up of events that we welcome you to attend.
We have several activities this fall that you are welcome to attend and/or volunteer for. Mark your calendar today and check back soon for more information!
Our annual Holiday Show and Sale is an opportunity for the community to support our young artist during the holiday season. Art will be staged at Aunt Lou’s house for one week only and 70 percent of the profit will go back to the young artist.
Monday - Thursday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Students will have the opportunity to participate in a Thanksgiving themes art activity that is followed up with a Thanksgiving meal featuring some of the vegetables from our gardens.
Staff, students, and volunteers come together to share what they are thankful for.
Our annual Halloween celebration is back!
Join us for a Halloween-themed Tuesday Art Garden activity and a Trunk or Treating.
We need volunteers! Arrive by 2:00 to line Carpenter Street with your decorated trunks full of treats!
Details coming.
Arrow Creative’s Marketplace in Motion offers local makers a way to connect with the community. They facilitate a supportive environment for artists to sell their work to both local Memphians and visitors. The Carpenter Art Garden will be in attendance to sell students’ work, potholders, and yard hearts.
COLOR in the Garden
We know you love a good garden party. We know you love our children. We know you want to be an Art Garden member for an (early) evening!
Carpenter Art Garden invites you to our fundraiser entitled COLOR in the Garden on October 24 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Guests will get a taste of our daily experiences with our Art Garden members at each of our sites. Come and decorate a garden hat of your choosing, plant seeds in our community gardens, make mosaic tiles, taste our garden selection, and write poetry at Aunt Lou's House! And along the way, you can collect paper flowers that will each have a program/project/item that you would like to sponsor. Check out will occur at the end of your Art Garden experience.
We ask that you simply 1). RSVP (this is a free event) and 2). bring an old garden hat or baseball cap that you will decorate (and yes... wear the entire time, please!). Parking will be available at Cornerstone/Lester Prep School OR along Carpenter Street near the Purple House. Please check in at the first table in the Art Garden yard upon arrival.
You don't want to miss this! Come grow with us.
National Night Out is an opportunity for community members to join Carpenter Art Garden and learn more about the Memphis Police Department and other nonprofits that service Binghampton.
There will be free food, a photo booth, and activities for children. An adult must accompany children under 18.
Additionally, you can register your child for CAG programs at the event!
Located in the heart of Binghampton, Carpenter Art Garden is dedicated to serving neighborhood youth through art, education, and vocational programs.
During the summer of 2023, Carpenter Art Garden youth were taught by artists Catherine Erb, Douglass Repeto, Johana Moscoso, Khara Woods, Ashley Webster, Kelsey Harrison, Suzy Hendrix, Yancy Villa, Andrea Morales, and Myrna Trevino. The Carpenter Art Garden student showcase, Watercolor and Wildflower, captures the nostalgia of garden magic and summer joy.
Student artwork will be for sale, with 70% of the sale going directly to the student. We hope you will shop our student’s artwork to support their emerging talent and teach them the value of creativity.
Studying the arts can benefit students in many ways. Even if they don’t intend to pursue a career in the arts, prioritizing creativity as part of a well-rounded education can help them find academic, career, and personal success.
Carpenter Art Garden’s Art Education programming is sponsored in part by ArtsMemphis, Tennessee Arts Commission, City of Memphis, UrbanArt Commission, RiverArt Festival, and donors like you.
We will be blocking off Carpenter Street on August 5, 2022, from 4:30 - 7:00 pm for our Ten Year Celebration! Join us for an afternoon of art, food, and creativity on our seven properties on Carpenter.
Student artwork will be on display and available for purchase - 70% of your purchase goes to the student artists, and 30% goes back into our free programs.
We will have food using our fresh vegetables and prepared by Latonya Hunt, our Garden Program Coordinator. Muddy’s Bake Shop will have tomato pies made with our heirloom tomatoes, and Mempops will have watermelon basil popsicles made with our basil.
Join us Thursday, May 12, 2022, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm at Crosstown Arts in the Crosstown Concourse for an exhibit of student work created under the tutelage of Terry Dewitt, pre-pandemic.
The exhibit is located on the second floor near the red staircase and will be on display May 9 - 16 2022.
Terry DeWitt first became involved at CAG in 2017 as president of the Memphis-Germantown Art League (MGAL). Terry reached out to CAG to learn more about our programs and went on to make several financial contributions to CAG through MGAL over the years.
In 2019 Terry transitioned into the role of a volunteer as a small group art class instructor. Terry’s first workshop explored architecture in our neighborhood, using sketching and watercolors to examine the buildings and houses on Carpenter Street. This class was an introduction to architecture as we prepared for our art immersion trip to Chicago that October.
In February of 2020, Terry returned to lead a painting workshop based on iconic Memphis architecture. CAG artists studied buildings specific to their hometown, sketching the details before visiting one of these sites. A surprise up to the day of, six students traveled to Crosstown Concourse to sketch the different spaces with Mr. Terry. In class three of four in the workshop, we brought our sketches back to the Purple House to project sketches on large watercolor paper. We were scheduled to wrap up the project on Thursday, March 12, 2020, a class we would never complete.
In the following weeks, the Art Garden took a two-month pause from all programs as we turned our attention to understanding and responding to the global pandemic. Our small group art classes tuned into take-home projects and online videos for the next year. Memories from that final workshop were used to count the passing time until we could safely invite CAG members back on site.
During this time, children have grown into teenagers, middle school students are in high school, and CAG members have moved away or returned to the neighborhood. We have also experienced loss, with Mr. Terry DeWitt passing away in November 2020 due to Covid-19. We are honored the DeWitt family and friends made donations in Terry’s name to our programs, and are working with the family to donate supplies from his personal studio to our small group art classes.
Small Group Art Classes Continue
With the opening of the Purple House in 2014, CAG began hosting weekly small group classes for students interested in going more in-depth with their artwork. This curriculum focused on exploration, access, and healing through workshops led by professional artists. Over the past decade, CAG has had the pleasure of hosting hundreds of local and national artists including George Hunt, Christian Robinson, and Lonnie Holley. These classes provide the framework to learn new techniques, create artwork for our annual art shows, and allow students' work to be displayed alongside professional artists.
Two years later, we are excited to safely bring back Small Group Art Classes with our first anime class in March 2022.
Celebrate the holiday season on our last day of programming for 2018! The Soulful Santas are performing on stage and we will pass out stockings to all the kids before winter break.
Join us for our third annual bike parade. Kids decorate bikes and a trailer bed for a parade through the neighborhood.
Join us for an informational meeting for new volunteers. We will go over all things Carpenter Art Garden!
Join us for our annual Christmas Bazaar and get some holiday shopping done in our newest space on Carpenter Street — Aunt Lou’s House. Art Garden artists have been hard at work on on stationery, ornaments, gift tags, wrapping paper, potholders, and more.
All proceeds benefit Art Garden programming and young Binghampton artists.
Get some holiday shopping done at our Christmas Bazaar hosted in our newest space on Carpenter Street — Aunt Lou’s House. Art Garden artists have been hard at work on on stationery, ornaments, gift tags, wrapping paper, potholders, and more.
All proceeds benefit Art Garden programming and young Binghampton artists.
Help out at our fourth annual Thanksgiving meal. This traditional sit down dinner serves around 150 kids.
