Metal Museum expansion enhances and preserves Overton Park’s accessibility and dramatically increase museum’s ability to engage learners and expand world-class programming This week, the Metal…
Read More Next steps forward: Metal Museum’s welcoming progress in expansion to Overton Park
Metal Museum poised for growth with expansion to Overton Park, transformation of Rust Hall A lease agreement appointing the Metal Museum the new tenant of…
Read More Metal Museum on the Move: Signed Lease on Rust Hall
In the year of its 50th anniversary, a look back at the headlines, development and lingering aftermath of the epic, 1971 Citizens to Preserve Overton…
Read More ‘It’s Too Late to Tinker’ With Expressway Route
Feature image from the Memphis Press-Scimitar editorial page on March 7, 1968, three years before the Supreme Court decision (Memphis Public Library) The focal point…
Read More Your Memphis Memories: ‘It’s Too Late To Tinker’ With Expressway Route
Brooks Lamb tells the history of Overton Park through the eyes of Memphians Originally published by Chapter16 February 21, 2019 By Aram Goudsouzian, for Chapter16.org…
Read More A Park for the People
By Austin McLellan During the past few weeks, Overton Park has changed as drastically as any time in its history. The Park remains as central…
Read More Overton Park, Unedited
MEMPHIS PASTIMES By Marilyn Koester Despite its scheduled closure in May 2020, Memphis College of Art (MCA) passionately marches on. One of the longest traditions…
Read More MCA’s 69th & Final Holiday Bazaar: A Memphis Tradition
“It’s this precious gift of an experience that is solely unique to the MCA family. I’ve never experienced anything like it.” By Marilyn Koester, Memphis…
Read More The Incredible Journey of Horn Island: Celebrating an MCA Legacy
Last December the Central Gardens communications committee sat down to discuss how they might honor the upcoming 2017 year, which would mark the 50th anniversary…
Read More A Decades-Long Gift From Central Gardens