Nov
10
to Nov 14

Help Feed 200 Families!

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In preparation for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, eight Binghampton organizations are joining together to collect and distribute holiday meals to more than 200 neighborhood families! 

Donations of canned or boxed side items are needed, and the community is being asked to help. Corn, green beans, yams, cranberry sauce, instant mashed potatoes, cornbread mix, gravy mix, pie filling, and cream of mushroom soup, along with macaroni and cheese and desserts are suggested.

Donations may be dropped off by Tuesday, Nov. 18 at the following locations:

  • Carpenter Art Garden – 295 Carpenter Street

  • Collage Dance Center – 505 Tillman Street

  • Binghampton Development Corporation – 280 Tillman Street

  • The Woman’s Exchange of Memphis – 88 Racine

  • Refugee Empowerment Program and CTC – 258 N. Merton

  • Inspire Community Café – 510 Tillman

The donation drive is being coordinated by the staff and board of the Carpenter Art Garden. The participating and supporting organizations include the Binghampton Development Corporation; Lester Prep, Binghampton Christian and Cornerstone Prep Schools; the Center for Transforming Communities; the Binghampton Community Church and the Neighborhood Christian Center.

“Thanks to the generosity of a Memphis anonymous donor, we are able to step up and bless families in our community this Thanksgiving with not only the side items, also with a turkey for their meal. Food is more than sustenance—it’s a lifeline and a vital part of celebrating the holidays. We’re just happy to be able to plant seeds of joy, provision, and connection for our neighbors,” said Ayanna Murray, interim executive director for the Carpenter Art Garden. 

For more information about this Thanksgiving food drive, please email info@carpenterartgarden.org or call 901-249-3577.

 

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Holiday Show and Sale
Dec
4
to Dec 7

Holiday Show and Sale

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

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Arrow Creative Presents Marketplace In Motion
Oct
28
11:00 AM11:00

Arrow Creative Presents Marketplace In Motion

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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.

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COLOR the Art Garden
Oct
24
4:30 PM16:30

COLOR the Art Garden

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.

RSVP HERE

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National Night Out
Oct
3
5:00 PM17:00

National Night Out

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!

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Watercolor and Wildflower | Carpenter Art Garden Student Showcase
Aug
26
2:00 PM14:00

Watercolor and Wildflower | Carpenter Art Garden Student Showcase

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.

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Celebrating 10 Years of Carpenter Art Garden
Aug
5
4:30 PM16:30

Celebrating 10 Years of Carpenter Art Garden

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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.

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The Art of Architecture
May
9
to May 16

The Art of Architecture

Visiting Teaching Artist: Terry DeWitt
The Art of Architecture, 2020

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.

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Christmas Bazaar
Dec
2
11:00 AM11:00

Christmas Bazaar

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.

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Christmas Bazaar
Dec
1
11:00 AM11:00

Christmas Bazaar

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.

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