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Wine and the Brooks: A Delicious History

01/21/2011 by Emilyyyy

Why Wine? Things are starting to get a little crazy at the museum, particularly in the development department. We’re about to head into what we call “wine season.” Each spring we throw several wine-related fundraising events – The Fleming’s Wine Dinner, Brooks Uncorked, Patrons Dinner, and the Grand Auction. Starting in January we collect wine and other items from donors across the region to auction off at these events. Lindsey Hedgepeth is the one who coordinates all of these events […]

Categories: Education, Events, Music, People, Special Exhibitions, The Brushmark, Wine • Tags: Development Department, Events, Fun, Fundraiser, Fundraising, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Sponsor the Arts, The Art of Good Taste, Things to do in Memphis, Wine

Maggie Exner the Magnificent

08/30/2010 by Emilyyyy

Maggie works as On-Call Admissions Coordinator and in the catering department at the Brooks. When she’s not at work (rare), she’s plugging away creating new forms both sculpturally and two-dimensionally. Typically, my work explores themes of human experience in particular environments through the form of drawing. In my drawings I create strange environments that are reminiscent of the real world but heavily animated. These become the playing grounds for imaginative characters that interact with their surroundings. Last Friday, Exner turned […]

Categories: Education, Events, Film & Video, Music, People, Special Exhibitions • Tags: art, Fun, Local Artist, Maggie Exner, Memphis, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Music, People, The Memphis Flyer

**Film:Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas followed by the Light Festival!**

12/08/2009 by Emilyyyy

FILM: Sunday, December 13 | 3pm Directed by Jim Henson of The Muppets, Emmet Otter’s Jug band Christmas is a light-hearted movie that is family friendly with great moral lessons. Emmet Otter is the son of a single mother and both are desperate to gift eachother with something nice this Christmas. Down on their luck, the Otter family has little money. However, there is a talent competition with a monetary prize that could save Christmas! Come see this 1977 classic […]

Categories: Education, Events, Film & Video, Music, People, Special Exhibitions, The Brushmark • Tags: Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, Family, film, Fun, Light Festival, Memphis, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Check Out theEuropean Vacation Family Day Re-Cap!!

11/17/2009 by Emilyyyy

Last Saturday, the Brooks celebrated another successful Family Day! Kids and parents came from all over the city to particpate in FREE art activities including a gallery scavenger hunt, personalized passport-making, frame building and more! Everyone also enjoyed a complimentary performance of Narnia presented by Playhouse on the Square! You should have seen the kids’ faces as the actors and actresses entered the museum, in full costume, right though the front door! We were honored to have great and enthusiastic […]

Categories: Education, Events, Music, People, Special Exhibitions, The Brushmark • Tags: Activities, art, Education, European Vacation Family Day, Family, family day, Fun, Kids, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Narnia, Parents, Playhouse on the Square

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**Film:Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas followed by the Light Festival!**

Check Out theEuropean Vacation Family Day Re-Cap!!

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