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My sweet collection of art from my friends (and some students) almost all finished hanging it up in my office. It sure makes me feel blessed to be surrounded by this beautiful, lovely, innovative, well crafted, well composed, super amazing and cool art in my office! Oh, what a sweet community of art 🩷

Full office reveal once I’m totally done :) it’s super cute though!

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Nest, written for @_a_correspondence show @thefrontnola, To Get To The Other Side.

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its never over

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Today we are open from 12-5 pm. Get into the teeny tiny details of this installation by @_a_correspondence correspondence curated by @creating.dejamojo , member of our current collective. In Room 4, lies a creative collaboration by Andres Arauz and Abby Meyers in a show titled, To Get to the Other Side: A Correspondence.

To Get to the Other Side is a collaborative body of work which considers safety as both destination and condition. The work emerges from lived experiences shaped by violence, including sexual and domestic abuse, and a generational history of displacement and emigration. In this context, safety is not a certain endpoint but a horizon pursued through distance both physical and temporal, conviction, and survival instinct.

About the artist:
Abby Meyers, is a native Memphian and award winning filmmaker whose practice is rooted in poetry and extends into visual art and floral design. Arauz was born and raised in New Orleans, LA, specializes in collage, design, and photography and works as an art educator. In 2017 he moved to Memphis where he and Meyers met and soon after began making art with one another, and have continued to collaborate ever since.
“A Correspondence”, became the name under which Arauz and Meyers created work with one another. Inspired by Ray Johnson’s New York Correspondence School –– a collective of New York-based artists who collaborated on works through the postal service –– the collaboration began as a physical exchange. Arauz would create notecard-sized analog collages and pass them along to Meyers, who would write “micro poems” in response, meant to be consumed in tandem with the visual piece. This ongoing process has expanded and taken on various forms including guerilla murals and works on wood panel that continue to explore the relationship between text and image.

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My beloved Nerlins!
So good to be home ✨

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This upcoming Saturday will open our new shows. In Room 4, member @creating.dejamojo will be showing artists Andres Arauz and Abby Meyers. This show is titled, To Get to the Other Side: A Correspondence. The medium used is wheat paste on wood panel.

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To Get to the Other Side is a collaborative body of work which considers safety as both destination and condition. The work emerges from lived experiences shaped by violence, including sexual and domestic abuse, and a generational history of displacement and emigration. In this context, safety is not a certain endpoint but a horizon pursued through distance both physical and temporal, conviction, and survival instinct.

Using compositional clusters of found images and confessional free verse poetry wheat-pasted on wood panel, this transit toward sanctuary is considered through proximity and intersection. Each walking figure has been lifted from its own unique and ambiguous context. Their stories—however we may understand them—are reframed or reimagined as they interact with one another and become part of a collective condition, interwoven through fields of first-person memory. By presenting the poem in fragments on the figures’ silhouettes, it becomes another member of this crowd of characters, nodding to the interiority of the people depicted on these panels.

The work considers the crossing of paths as each of us engages in our own movements towards our own refuge; the providence—both seen and unseen—that guides where our bodies go and why; and the record and remembrance of these steps as they accumulate across time.

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Thank you everyone who came by to see Pedacitos y Paredes at the UrbanArt Commission. I am extremely grateful to the artists and to Memphis for the support.
📸: @leslienavarretephotography

The show is coming down & the last chances to see the exhibition at @urbanartmemphis are tomorrow and Thursday during UAC’s regular business hours.

I have some more updates from the exhibition and its related events that will be shared soon.

I am filled with gratitude from the praise and support I’ve received from respected artists and community members in the city. I feel joy. I feel loved. I feel hope.

To the artists, you know how I feel and we’ll see more from each other soon. Amor y Paz (y arte), Memphis 🫶🏽

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How to make a GIANT COMMUNITY COLLAGE 🤝

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50 people, one GIANT COMMUNITY COLLAGE ⚡️ huge thank you to @your_goomah and @ae_arauz from @_a_correspondence for leading the charge for this beautiful collaborative work at @memphislibrary. This event was made possible by @memphislibraryfoundation.

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Join @your_goomah and @ae_arauz—the artist duo known as @_a_correspondence—to create a giant community collage together. You can make your own separate collage, too!

⚡️ RSVP at likereallycreative.com/chargedup ⚡️

CHARGED UP is a new event series from Like Really Creative in collaboration with @memphislibrary.

This 6-event series will focus on creative wellness through the Four Codes of Creative Energy framework developed by @zackorsborn: Community, Craft, Clarity, and Condition.

Each event will include take-home materials to help build a creative practice on your own.

CHARGED UP is for everybody, even if you don’t consider yourself a “creative” or “artist.”

Free. Made possible by the @memphislibraryfoundation.

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Wyd on September 11? @ae_arauz and I are giving an artist talk @crosstownarts about our show Bleeding Together: A Correspondence. Would love to see you there. Would love to tell u about our work. Would love to sell you a piece if that’s your thing no presh though.

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