Gallery: Ken Hall's February Art Events

It is a short month but a good one. It is the playful one that occasionally throws you off with leap year. It is Valentine’s cards and Black History and birthdays for a couple of the better known presidents. And Groundhog Day—why are there not more celebrations of Groundhog Day… just kidding. These milestones aside, it is also a pleasant season between the holidays and Spring Break to catch up on arts and culture. February in Memphis has a delightful and steady array of music and art. There is a literary salon, an opera, a dinner, a lecture, and much more. Let me remind you that this monthly listing does not begin to be comprehensive, but hopeful an intriguing sampler. See you out there! -Ken Hall

FEBRUARY ART EVENTS "Worst Case Scenario" by Catherine Erb

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Grace Chamber Players Concert Beethoven Club, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, 3pm Music by Bach, Muczynski, Ibert, Messiaen, and Milhaud.

The Play That Goes Wrong Orpheum Theatre Through February 9.

Shelter art by Randy Akers L Ross Gallery, 6-8pm Through February 29.

Current & Ancient Trends Jay Etkin Gallery, 6-9pm Through March 2.

Out of Africa art by Gerald Chukwuma Art Village Gallery, 5:30pm

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22 Colored Pencil Showcase Memphis Chapter of the Colored Pencil Society of America, Gallery Ten Ninety-One, WKNO, 2-4pm Stunning still-life, landscape, portraits and more in a less often seen and difficult to master medium. On view through February 27.

The Chosen Ones art by Danny Broadway GPAC, 5-7pm Art on view through March 5.

Golda’s Balcony film screening, International Jewish Film Festival Memphis Jewish Community Center, 2pm This film is one of several in a month-long festival.

Harriet Tubman Bartlett Performing Arts Center, 2:30pm

The Kandinsky Trio University of Memphis-Harris Auditorium, 7:30pm Guest violinist Lenny Schranze joins the trio.

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26 27 Entertaining the Gilded Age: Biltmore House and Downton Abbey Decorative Arts Trust, Brooks Museum, 6:30pm Lecture by Leslie Klingner, Curator of Interpretation for Biltmore House in Asheville, NC. Cullen Washington Jr. artist talk Brooks Museum, 6:30pm

Concert for Violin and Organ Luna Nova, Grace –St. Luke’s, 7:30pm Works by Pachelbel, Bach, and Chaconne.

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Winter Mix Ballet Memphis, through February 23.

Deconstructed art by Catherine Erb David Lusk Gallery Through March 21

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged Harrell Theater, Collierville, through February 23

Works of Heart benefitting the Memphis Child Advocacy Center Memphis College of Art, 7pm

Garden to Table Dinner Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 6-9pm Based in part on Great Dixter Gardener Aaron Bertelsen’s new book Grow Fruit and Vegetables in Pots, the English manor-style dinner will be produced with locally sourced seasonal produce and meats.

Native Voices: 1950 to Now Brooks Museum Art for a New Understanding is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum and explores Native American art in new ways. The exhibit features over 80 artworks and is a variety of mediums. Through May 17

Vivaldi and Piazzolla Memphis Symphony Orchestra, University of Memphis - Harris Auditorium, 7:30/2:30pm, through February 23

Rise Collage Dance Collective, GPAC, 7:30/2:30, through February 23

Southern Literary Salon: The Unlikely Sisterhood Of Zora Neale Hurston And Margaret Mitchell Tennessee Shakespeare Company, 7950 Trinity Road, 2:30pm An afternoon of readings with cocktails before and discussion afterwards.

Disney’s Aladdin Orpheum Theatre, through March 8.

An Evening of Jazz with Joyce Cobb Rhodes College-McNeill Concert Hall, 7:30pm

Carmen Jones film screening Crosstown Arthouse, Crosstown Theater, 7:30pm See the 1954 Otto Preminger film which updates the Bizet opera to WWI North Carolina.

Salon de Refuses group show Jack Robinson Gallery, 6-9pm University of Memphis students’ artwork.