National Council Launch Party for Memphis' Art Museum

Join leaders from Memphis Brooks Museum of Art for the National Council Launch Party November 13 in New York City! This special evening will honor James Little, a universally acclaimed painter born in Memphis.

Petzel Gallery | 520 W 25th St NY 10001 | 6-8 p

This group of committed Memphians is empowered to support their city from anywhere. By supporting Memphis’ art museum and its community-based programming, the National Council helps the city of Memphis grow and thrive.

RSVP to confirm your interest, and contact melissa.whitby@brooksmuseum.org for more information on the National Council.

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About James Little (b. 1952, Memphis, TN)

Little holds a BFA from the Memphis Academy of Art and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is a 2009 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painting. In addition to being featured prominently in the 2022 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY, his work has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions around the world, including at MoMA P.S.1, New York, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; and the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. His work has been included in The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver and traveling to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, with catalogue forthcoming. Recent solo exhibitions include Homecoming: Bittersweet, at Dixon Gallery & Gardens: Art Museum, Memphis, TN, with an accompanying catalogue, and an upcoming  exhibition at Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL, in November  2022. In 2022, Little will also participate in a historic collaboration for Duke Ellington’s conceptual Sacred Concerts series at the Lincoln Center, New York, NY, with the New York Choral Society at the New School for Social Research and the Schomburg Center in New York, NY. His paintings are represented in the collections of numerous public and private collections, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; The Menil Collection in Houston; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Maatschappij Arti Et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Holland; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; Newark Museum, Newark; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.