Arts & Culture

Coverage of visual arts, performing arts, cultural events, and artistic entrepreneurs.

22-year-old Brelia Renee, singer-songwriter and dancer, has made waves throughout the community with incredible vocals, stellar performances.

Flint’s R&B songstress, Brelia Renee, makes waves with debut single and a powerful voice

It was essential to Renee, especially in a COVID-19 world, to showcase “good vibes, and good feelings.” It's those things that matter, and why family support means everything.

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Products from Elle's Elixirs will be featured in the BOXLOT holiday market today and tomorrow. (Submitted, Elle's Elixirs)
Shop local, shop safe with these virtual holiday markets
June 20, 2020. One participant comforts another during a moment of silence at the “Our Now, Our Future” march for Black children at Overton Park. About 200 hundred people showed up in solidarity. (Andrea Morales for MLK50)
Black women carried us through 2020; it’s time to say thanks
Meghan Paige (left) and Keneisha Malone opened Terra Cotta October 3, 2020. The store is both a plant shop and space for customers to shop locally made goods, including jewelry, apparel, and candles. (Submitted)
Women Working It: The plants and passion of Terra Cotta
Michele Simmons is a North Memphis resident and a student in High Ground's North Memphis Community Correspondents program. (Cole Bradley)
Dispatches from North Memphis: Meet Michele Simmons
Community Foundation, MLK50 to host discussion on need for more Black college grads
A play for a plague

This isn’t the first plague to shut down venues. Live theatre as an art form has survived thousands of years and the “the show must go on” isn’t new. But the struggle is real and nothing about theatre is easy right now.

Phil Gilchrist. Photo by Nick Hagen.
Creative shift has The Anton Art Center seeing the pandemic from a new perspective

I’m reluctant to say there is a greater need for the arts as a result of the pandemic – the need has always been great. They’ve always been important because they support mental and emotional health education, self-esteem, and confidence, and I feel that people are starting to realize that now in ways they may not have before.

Carina Jackson
Mariners Inn finds ways to put clients’ concerns at ease amid the pandemic

At Mariners Inn, we welcome men who struggle with drug and alcohol addictions. We can’t perform most of our services remotely, so we have needed to adapt to ensure our men’s safety.

Will Jones III
Who do you want to be?

Say who you are.Do who you want to be. Those two lines have become my central mantra in 2020.

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