An oral history project chronicling the stories of the visual arts in Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis Material is a podcast celebrating the personal histories, intimate stories, and the studio practices of some of the people who help shape the creative landscape of our city.
October 31, 2025
Lauren Kennedy grew up in Little Rock, then suburban Dallas, then came to study at Rhodes College where she graduated with a degree in Art History in 2008. She returned to Dallas to work at the Nasher Sculpture Center and the Dallas Art Fair. Kennedy returned to Memphis to work for Ballet Memphis and she […]
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October 24, 2025
From the artist’s website: Mary K VanGieson is an artist, educator, storyteller and sometime writer. She received my BAE from Oklahoma State University and her MFA from the University of Memphis. She discovered early on that educating high school people in the visual arts is a completely rewarding career. Her work delves into themes of […]
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October 17, 2025
From the artist’s website: Mary K VanGieson is an artist, educator, storyteller and sometime writer. She received my BAE from Oklahoma State University and her MFA from the University of Memphis. She discovered early on that educating high school people in the visual arts is a completely rewarding career. Her work delves into themes of […]
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October 10, 2025
Coe Lapossy is an interdisciplinary visual artist educator committed to collaboration. Lapossy centers erased histories and marginalized labor. Revisiting artifacts —things forgotten, messages that ‘flew under the radar’. The resulting work is a meditation on what bodies we value, how we memorialize, and what/who survives under the conditions we create. Lapossy (b. 1980, Medina, OH) […]
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