Number: NinetyFive an independent arts journal/fall 2018/seeing red numberinc.org @numberinc numberinc @numberincmagazine Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Seeing Red” Editorial 95: Seeing Red Season 6, Episode 19 Sarah Higgins Support those 03 Broadcast May 7, 2002 who support Editorial 95: Cover: Image courtesy of Disney Regional Updates: the Arts: 04 Memphis & Nashville Listings for Artists, Seeing Red Regional Updates: Galleries, Organizations, and Businesses that Nashville & Chattanooga 05 Make Art Happen The color red carries a vast range of associations. is particularly problematic in a field defined by financial Lolita: Red & Dead It signifies heat, passion, rage, and love. Red is the precarity, with neither regulation nor adequate support 06 Jasmine Amussen color of blood and of the mineral pigments used in the structures for its laborers. 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Number: 95 brings together artists, writers, 16 Carol Sams 901.321.3243 [email protected] Jennifer Sargent cbu.edu structurally dispossessed, the red of debt blends and other thinkers documenting and investigating a Advocacy, A Medium Jeanne Seagle Crosstown Arts directly into the red of outrage and frustration. Red range of social, psychological, aesthetic, and political Aileen Farshi 1350 Concourse Avenue, Suite 280 17 Memphis, TN 38104 from this perspective indicates lack and financial topics, with the color red as the point of departure. friends 901.507.8030 Sharon Grinspan crosstownarts.org hardship’s accompanying calamities. 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Red emotions dominate our news feeds and Laura Hutson Hunter 901.682.9901 Mike Calway-Fagen, Co-editor framecornermemphis.com cycles, whether coming from within via our reactions Katie Maish, Co-editor [email protected] to current events or digested from without via the Chaos and Awe Carl Moore, Webmaster Otherlands Coffee Bar Shelley Madison, Treasurer 641 Cooper Street disposition of contemporary political rhetoric. Frist Art Museum Memphis, TN 38104 20 Shaun Giles 901. 278. 4994 otherlandscoffeebar.com And yet, red is also just one color in our palettes. Kevin Mahoney Caroline Gikas Ashif Jahan Nashville, TN Divorced from its most immediate associations of the Chaos and Awe Jason Miller LOCATE Arts moment, it continues to offer complexity, vibrancy, Lacy Mitcham Brian R Jobe & Carri Jobe, Co-Founders locatearts.org and duplicity to artists. 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Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. © 2018 Number: Incorporated written permission. museum.olemiss.edu 3 Regional Update: Memphis Regional Update: Nashville Regional Update: Nashville Regional Update: Chattanooga & Nashville With the dog days of summer in full swing I am looking forward to the fall. The many college “June, July, and August,” in the melodic words of Freddy Cannon, is the time for things to bloom One of the many ways to determine the health of an art scene is to survey the variety of artists The first in a series of five exhibitions, LAND AND SEA examines that which is seemingly familiar. galleries enhance the art scene in Memphis. The 2018-2019 exhibition schedule at Christian Brothers and swelter, and much has bloomed and intensified in the Nashville art scene these summer months. and venues that show their work in any given city. Now, more than ever, the rise of alternative spaces, Through sculpture, video, painting, and sound, LAND AND SEA questions human interaction and University’s Beverly & Sam Ross Gallery is the first one influenced by director Cat Peña; while The Frist Museum of Art has led the charge with the opening of the contemporary painting show artist-run galleries, and the reimagining of some of the anchor institutions are positioning artists in interference with fundamental natural resources—water, air, and soil—specifically in the context of she started last year, that season of shows was already set. This year there was a call for exhibit Chaos and Awe, hurling swaths of color, dense material, and unsettlingly dystopian yet sublime themes Nashville with even more opportunities through both sharing ideas and advocating for one another to Chattanooga.