In the mix of creating some of the nation’s greatest hits and improving the community, the Stax Museum also known as Soulsville USA previously known as Satellite records changed the dynamics of South Memphis neighborhood and shifted the community for the best making the area a spot for business and success. Two siblings by the name of Jim Stewart and Estelle Axon created this studio to originally support local artist and make signature sounds that would carry on for generations. This studio created hope opportunity and unity not only in the neighborhood of south Memphis but in the city of Memphis.
The Stax Museum was known for its support system in the neighborhood. It provided children, locals and aspiring artist with a chance to strive and
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I noticed how the satellite records had a down fall. It had become bankrupt and got closed down. This place was the center of the neighborhood, and the center of music for the city, and now it is closed down.(Staxs Museum) What is very shocking is that the neighborhood slowly decreased as well.Then a group of local entrepreneurs invested 17 million into the ran down studio and created the Stax Museum. The Stax Museum is now used for displaying top artist and expressing how soul ran through the city and even the country right in Memphis Tn.(MTV News) The community of course has immediate positive feedback. The Stax Museum provided community outreach programs, educational programs, and tutoring for students. The Stax Museum even has a Soulville charter school, and The Stax Music Academy. The museum went as far as branching out to other predominately African American neighborhood schools to implement its traditions and positive effects in to the other communities. The museum has a stamp on the city. It is the center of soul music and plays a major role in Memphis TN.
Not only does the Stax Museum represents the Soul of Memphis, but it has influenced and effected the nation. The Stax Museum has even had its influence in the white house and has artist from the Stax engage and perform at evens on the regular. The museum has featured in late night talk shows such as Jimmy Kennel and other well-known talk shows.(Staxs Records) It will continuously grow larger and influence people for the better across the nation while representing its impressive act of symbolizing and informing everyone in the nation about how Soul Music is a true image of African American literature and
Benny Andrew's work is in the permanent collections of numerous thirty most important museums, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Sculpture Garden, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institute and also other several instituted I mentioned above.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) had three different artists work on display. It was split up into three different rooms the first room was Design 99 To Much of a Good Thing and in the next room is Latoya Ruby Frazier Mother May I and in the last room was Jef Geys Woodward Avenue. The art that was on display was not traditional art work. All of the artist’s work displayed in the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit was out of the box thinking. The flow in each exhibit made it easy to move from one piece of art work to another piece of work.
"Motown Music - The Sound that Changed America - Motown Museum Home of Hitsville U.S.A.." Motown
The show’s organizers, Teresa A. Carbone (the museum’s curator of American art) and Kellie Jones, did an exceptional job of strategically placing the artwork in relevance and relating topics to one another. When I arrived, the exhibit was empty and I actually had the opportunity to meet Ms. Carbone, who was on hand at the museum’s entrance.
On my trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I decided to take my mother with me. While being in the museum, I decided to focus on “The American Wing”. In “The American Wing”, there are amazing pieces of art, jewelry, and antique silver. I was amazed on how each piece of artwork and item was carefully designed. They had an amazing design that you do not see now in days.
The birth of Motown music came to be in a small recording studio aptly named Hitsville, U.S.A. Barry Gordy, who came from a large middle class family had borrowed money in order. The main stage of Motown music came from a small house that had been remodeled into a recording studio, the name of the company was Hitsville, U.S.A. Mr. Gordy had gathered the best jazz and blues players in and Motown was born through his genius. This small but dynamic record company has produced and help make many stars that we all know today such as Diana Ross and the Supreme, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and more recently the Jackson 5, Boyz II Men , and Queen Latifah. It is very surprising that both the genre of Motown and Hitsville remind unharmed by racism for the most since Detroit has been historically known for severe racism and segregation. Hitsville U.S.A. was one of the first African American owned record companies, this was just one step in popularizing and taking a step for African’s Americans many talents to become well known and chart topping.
Record labels played a big role in bringing the black struggle to the mainstream through their artists music. In particular, two labels were the frontrunners for producing records that would continue to promote addressing the black struggle: Motown and Stax. Motown, a black-owned label, was seen as a more assimilationist and industrial record label that was successful in making hits that appealed to both black and white audiences, earning it the nickname of “Hitsville, U.S.A.” Stax, a white-owned label, was seen as being more representative of black self-reliance and an overall more authentic, black record label that appealed much more to the black audience, earning it the nickname of “Soulsville, U.S.A.” Despite their differences, both labels used their own style of music production and distribution to help surface the black struggle in very similar ways, and in turn they helped pave the way for black consciousness to emerge through soul music.
...st holes, archaeologists Jeff Sommer and a team of volunteers found portions of a brick foundation, charred wood, and melted glass and other artifacts. In the summer of 2011, the team, which included students from the Central Michigan University, continued digging at the site. More artifacts were found and it became evident that the Museum could create an exhibit centered on the artifacts found.
Sadie’s Soul Food Kitchen, a local restaurant and South Memphis mainstay, catered the event,. “We had food that we thought the people at Stax would have eaten like Ritz crackers with American cheese, vanilla wafers and cheese. We found these retro orange sodas and had them in big old metal barrels and Vienna sausages, and all kind of stuff. It was kind of a big tent revival. All these former Stax people were there, the mayor, and all the dignitaries. It was wild,” recalls Tim Sampson. In addition to the building and an interpretive plan for the museum, Ewarton announced it secured financing from public and private sources. The announcement also included the membership of its newly formed board of directors. The board consisted of board chairman Andy Cates, Stanley Cates, Charles Ewing, George Johnson of LeMoyne-Owen College, Reverend Kenneth Robinson, Howard Robertson Jr, and Deanie Parker, who became Ewarton’s full-time President and Executive Director in May. Also noted was the appointment of Sherman Wilmott as Ewarton’s Vice President and Museum Curator. Parker stated that in addition to commemorating the history of Stax in the museum, the music academy was an essential component to preserve the history and to serve the current neighborhood residents. “We felt the academy could really make a difference in the revitalization of this area. Most of the kids here are being raised by single mothers with incomes of less than $15,000 a year. Fewer than fifty percent of the families in the immediate Soulsville area have automobiles, so we wanted to make a difference to the children of the area.” Amongst the many former Stax artists and employees in attendance were Stax co-founder Estelle Axton, former co-owner and label head
The metropolitan museum is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. Upon going to the museum I found myself wondering how I can choose three artifacts out of nearly a million different relics. After spending countless hours roaming the three story museum and looking at the vast amount of artifacts I found myself overwhelmed with inspiration to write this analysis. The only dilemma was how one can narrow down the selection to three relics out of hundreds of thousands. After sometime I picked the three relics that I found interesting, spiritual, and showed a significance in modern and ancient history. The three relicts I will discuss in this essay are the following; Family Tree, Emperor’s Twelve-Symbol Robe, and lastly Mans Shirt, these three artifacts show in my opinion how god, the spirit and the universe all reflect upon the individual wearing the clothing/stories painted upon the person.
It was the day of April 13, 2000. I woke up at exactly 12 o’clock because my boyfriend was to pick me up at 1 like we planned the night before. The day looked quite nice, but I was in a fowl mood. I got into a car accident the night before and had a huge argument with my parents about the car. I finally dragged myself into the shower and got ready in half an hour. Then I went downstairs, sat on my couch, and repeatedly told myself the day would hopefully turn out better than last night. At around 1:15, my boyfriend came to pick me up. We took the 5 freeway to the 57 since it was the only way I knew how to get there. As we approached the 134 freeway, my girlfriend veered to the right, taking the 210 which was wrong way and got us lost. So, we exited the freeway and got back on the right track. Then finally, before long, we reached Norton Simon.
The Museum Of Modern Art “MOMA” was firmly established on 53rd street in 1939 in Midtown Manhattan New York, after a decade of moving due to its growth in modern art pieces. Originally Patrons Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. wanted to establish a program dedicated to modern art in the late 1920s. A. Conger Goodyear, Paul Sachs, Frank Crowninshield and Josephine Boardman Crane, whom later became trustees, created the Museum Of Modern Art in 1929. It’s founding Director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. wanted the MOMA to be "the greatest museum of modern art in the world." Its intent was to provide ordinary blue collar individuals with a better understanding and acknowledgment of art in its era.
One pleasant afternoon, my classmates and I decided to visit the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to begin on our museum assignment in world literature class. According to Houston Museum of Fine Art’s staff, MFAH considers as one of the largest museums in the nation and it contains many variety forms of art with more than several thousand years of unique history. Also, I have never been in a museum in a very long time especially as big as MFAH, and my experience about the museum was unique and pleasant. Although I have observed many great types and forms of art in the museum, there were few that interested me the most.
The Natural History Museum is extraordinary place to explore and learn. It’s fun and breathtaking. The museum served as an agricultural fairground from 1872 until 1910. The original structure of the building from the 1913 and today’s structure are combined with a blend of many styles. Like a Spanish Renaissance ornamentation in the terracotta trimmings. There is a Romanesque style in the arched windows and the brick walls. The Beaux-Arts tradition is a T-shape floor plan. The building measures 75 feet in diameter with three wings. The Rotunda’s walls are made of Italian marble and the floors have a mosaic tile. The statue in the center of the floor called “Three Muses.” The Rotunda’s dome is 58 feet high with a skylight 20 feet across on top, which has been restored recently into a bright colored stained glass design. The museum had its first grand opening on November 6, 1913 and was called “The Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art. It was opened formally to the public. The museum was joined by other major cultural facilities in the park; the Memorial Coliseum, Sports Arena, Swimming Stadium, California Science Center, California African American Museum and the largest Municipal-Owned Rose Garden in the nation, with a beautiful water fountain in the center.
Art can be seen in every culture and country around the world in many different forms and styles. The only way to be able to see and experience different types and styles of art is to travel around the world and see it at museums. Unless a local museum features different artwork from around the world; there is a rare chance that a person may be able to appreciate different types of artwork from around the world. However, today’s technology has given more people a chance to appreciate art from around the world through virtual museums online.