Arrow Creative Memphis’ Creative Central

Arrow Creative, the parent non-profit of Memphis Fashion Week, is a resource for Memphis Creatives to create, shop, and learn. Located in the Cooper Young Historic District, one of the original creative districts in Memphis, Arrow is the premier source of creative entrepreneur enrichment, arts education, and art immersion for the entire community. We seek to make art accessible in order to inspire the creative spirit in all Memphians.

Arrow spun out of the momentum of Memphis Fashion Week and the Memphis Fashion Design Network, but we’re more than just fashion. Arrow is a multi-medium arts organization dedicated to promoting creativity of all kinds. The organization brings together Memphis designers, makers, photographers, fine artists, and creative entrepreneurs to form a one-roof creative district in the heart of Memphis.

“This kind of shared art making space makes so much sense. It’s something that Memphis needs.” says Arrow studio artist, Douglass Repetto of Mildly Happy. “To have equipment that is setup and ready to go, to have people I can ask questions is really transformative as an artist. Finding Arrow has just been wonderful.” arrowcreative.org or @memphisarrowcreative for more info

Many makers in Memphis find themselves without the resources and space they need to create. Since the opening Arrow staff has worked to make the space a place for artists to grow as solo entrepreneurs in Memphis. Arrow provides to the art enthusiast as well as the creative entrepreneur, equipment, classes, work space, gallery exhibitions, creative studios, and a retail area to create a thriving center where art and business merge.

Since opening our forever home in September 2021, Arrow has filled our studios with designers, makers and artists, hosted summer camps for over 300 students, and provided over 80 artist a place to earn revenue as a creative business in the marketplace store.

2023

Sponsors

4Memphis

Dorothy Collier

Eclectic Eye

Frost

Glo Medical Aesthetics

Grind City Brewery

Guardian Concierge

Gusmus Construction

Goulds Salon

Erika Cain

Indigo

Jaren Jackson Jr.

Old Dominick Distillery

Pinki Hof

Railgarten

Sachi

Silk N Honey

Tracey Zerwig Ford