Click on an image above to see the artist’s page. Scroll down for meetings and other events. Artists' Link, formed in 1989, is a volunteer organization, a resource and support group for Memphis Area visual artists, and a link between artists and the community. We sponsor public forums, exhibitions, lectures, and free public monthly meetings, usually with speakers. We support various local community services, including providing art for Memphis Botanic Garden’s “Incognito” fundraiser to support its educational programs and for each show at Theatre Memphis. We also donate to charitable art-related causes.

Artists' Link holds regular meetings at Colonial Park United Methodist Fellowship Hall, 5330 Park Avenue at Estate (parking & entrance on Estate (West side of church)), at 2-4 pm on the third Sunday of every month, except June, July, August, and December. We will notify members by email of any rescheduled meeting and will post the change on this page and the group Facebook page.

Monthly Meeting

Sunday, January 19, 2025, 2–4 pm

Colonial Park United Methodist Fellowship Hall, 5330 Park Avenue at Estate (parking & entrance on Estate (West side of church)).

Our speaker this month, Carl Moore, has exhibited widely in the Memphis area and around the country. He has received the Emmett O'Ryan Award for Artistic Inspiration and the Tennessee Artist Fellowship award from the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts. His work explores everyday narratives through color and identity, by comparing ideologies about race and stereotypes to everyday perception of social and environmental culture. He uses media-based events as the primary theme of his work, by taking situations and reducing them down to their most basic conversation. He also uses color and content to redefine the social connection between people and their environment, by making color part of the compositional statement.

Artists’ Link GPAC Show

Reception: sunday November 17, 2–4 pm

Germantown Performing Arts Center, 1801 Exeter Road, Germantown, TN 38138

Artists’ Link Winter Show, November 1–24

reception: Saturday November 2, 2–4 pm

St. George's Episcopal Church, 2425 S Germantown Rd, Germantown, TN 38138

Monthly Meeting

Sunday, October 20, 2024, 2–4 pm

Colonial Park United Methodist Fellowship Hall, 5330 Park Avenue at Estate (parking & entrance on Estate (West side of church)).

Our speaker this month, Dimitri Stevens (BFA), Memphis College of Art ), is a multimedia artist and educator from Oakland, TN. His formal abstract paintings and drawings deal with existential questions about matter coming into being on a physical, spiritual, and molecular level. His work has been shown at the James Lee House, Arrow Creative,The Dixon, and Nonesuch Gallery in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2014, Stevens received the River Arts Memphis Grant. His mural commissions are featured on walls around Memphis, and his work is held in numerous private collections.

Monthly Meeting

Sunday, September 15, 2024, 2–4; business meeting at 2 PM, talk at 3 PM

Colonial Park United Methodist Fellowship Hall, 5330 Park Avenue at Estate (parking & entrance on Estate (West side of church)).

Shannon Fagan will speak on the basics of generative AI systems, tools of use, and how artificial intelligence systems are affecting copyrights for visual art.  

Shannon grew up in Midtown Memphis’ Vollintine-Evergreen District, graduated from Central High School, earned a BFA in Photography at The University of Memphis, and completed a MBA at The University of Maryland.  His commercial photography career has focused upon lifestyle stock photography; licensing imagery for marketing and advertising use internationally.  He’s lived extensively in New York City, Beijing, Vancouver, Honolulu, and Memphis; and has a depth of experience in small business, photography production, copyright and unauthorized use, and financial & estate planning in the arts.

Artists' Link Summer Show 2024

Visitors Center Gallery Memphis Botanic Garden

750 Cherry Rd, Memphis, TN 38117

August 1-29, Mondays-Sundays. 9 am - 6 pm

Opening Reception – Sunday, August 18, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Artists' Link is a volunteer organization, a resource and support group for Memphis Area visual artists, and a link between artists and the community.

For more information visit our website, Artists Link Memphis.org

Monthly Meeting

Sunday, April 21, 2024, 2–4; business meeting at 2 PM, talk at 3 PM

St George’s Episcopal Church, Room B, 2425 S Germantown Road, Germantown, TN 38138.

Memphis artist Gimpsie Ayers will talk about how creative practice is important to an artistic process, and how to foster and sustain those habits.

Artists’ Link Exhibit

See the virtual exhibit on the same dates at https://www.wkno.org/gallery-1091/.

Monthly Meeting

Sunday, March 17, 2024, 2–4; business meeting at 2 PM, talk at 3 PM

St George’s Episcopal Church, Room B, 2425 S Germantown Road, Germantown, TN 38138.

Sculptor Fletcher Golden will talk about his work. Photo is of Fletcher at work in his studio on one of his horse sculptures.

Monthly Meeting

Sunday, February 18, 2024, 2–4; business meeting at 2 PM, talk at 3 PM

St George’s Episcopal Church, Room B, 2425 S Germantown Road, Germantown, TN 38138.

Artist Link member Jim Blythe is especially known for his macro-photographs, but he also does many other kinds of photos. He will speak about his work and demonstrate his process in creating the final photos.

Artists’ Link Show

Opening: Saturday November 18, 2–4 pm

St. George's Episcopal Church, 2425 S Germantown Rd, Germantown, TN 38138

Artists’ Link Exhibit

See the virtual exhibit on the same dates at https://www.wkno.org/gallery-1091/.

Artists’ Link Show at GPAC now OPEN

Work by over 50 artists using a variety of creative subjects and artistic media. Image above is Jeannine Paul’s “La Vie est Belle.”

Open Monday-Friday 9 a.m.–4 p.m.

7151 Cherry Farms Rd.

Cordova, TN 38016

previous shows and events:

Artists' Link Summer Spectacular Judged Group Show

Visitors Center Gallery Memphis Botanic Garden

750 Cherry Rd, Memphis, TN 38117

Mondays-Sundays. 9 am - 6 pm

Opening Reception – Sunday, August 7 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Artists' Link is a volunteer organization, a resource and support group for Memphis Area visual artists, and a link between artists and the community.

For more information visit our website, Artists Link Memphis.org

Artists’ Link Virtual Show at WKNO May 2–31, 2022

See the virtual exhibit at https://www.wkno.org/gallery-1091.

Featuring nearly 100 works by 50 talented artists.

If you would like to make a purchase or have any questions, please contact:

Amy McDaniel at (901) 729-8722 or amcdaniel@wkno.org, or contact the artist for more information.

Artists' Link is a volunteer organization, a resource and support group for Memphis Area visual artists, and a link between artists and the community.

For more information visit their website

Artists Link Memphis.org

Winter Show, St. George’s Church

2425 S Germantown Rd, Germantown, TN 38138

December 2, 2021–January 14, 2022, Monday–Friday 10–4; Sunday 9:30–12:30

Artists’ Link

In-Person Meeting

Sunday, May 23 @ 2:30 PM

We will meet at Memphis Botanic Garden in the sculpture garden (just outside the north end of the lobby, near Fratelli’s Restaurant). We will start with a business meeting, including plans for our future, followed by a show-and-tell for our newest due-paying members and those who have not shown their work to the group before. You may bring one or two pieces and tell us about them for a few minutes, but there will be no critique. When you check in at the lobby just tell them you are with Artists’ Link. Please follow the rules of the Garden as to mask wearing and distancing.

If you’re coming, please email Phyllis Boger at filisann@yahoo.com so she knows how many chairs we need and let her know if you want to show your work.

Artists’ Link Virtual Show at WKNO now OPEN

See the virtual exhibit at https://www.wkno.org/gallery-1091/.

If you would like to make a purchase or have any questions, please contact:

Amy McDaniel at (901) 729-8722 or amcdaniel@wkno.org, or contact the artist for more information.

Visit Gallery Ten Ninety-One online and view over 100 works by more than 40 talented artists.

Artists' Link is a volunteer organization, a resource and support group for Memphis Area visual artists, and a link between artists and the community.

For more information visit their website

Artists Link Memphis.org

Incognito Auction: co-sponsored by Artists’ Link

See the virtual exhibit and bid until 2/26/21 at https://one.bidpal.net/incognito/browse/all.

List of artists and Artists’ Link calendar is below the announcement

Together: AL/MGAL Joint Show Open Now!

See the virtual exhibit at https://www.togetherexhibit.com or

flipbook (with smaller images) at https://online.fliphtml5.com/zwwnv/dvya/#p=2.

For sales, contact the artist at the email given.

May Meeting On Zoom!

Dear Artists, Hey- We miss seeing you! Join us on Zoom for an Artists’ Link Check-In meeting. Monday May 18, at the regular time: 6:30. Members will get an email inviting them and explaining how do do it (it’s easy). Hope to see you then.—Jeanne.

[There will be no speaker]

Watch This Space for Coming Activities & Art on This Page!

Artists’ Link Group Show

Opening: Sunday, March 1 @ 2–4 PM. Exhibition open March 1–March 29

St. George’s Episcopal Church Art Gallery, 2425 S. Germantown Road, Germantown, TN 38138

Monthly Meeting

Monday, February 17 @ 6:30 PM, talk at 7:00 PM

Jason’s Deli, 3437 Poplar Avenue, Memphis. Many members come at 5:30 for dinner and conversation. Jason's offers free ice cream and drinks for participants.

Well known Memphis painter Matthew Hasty will talk to us about his experiences and development as an artist.

Hasty exhibits at the L Ross gallery. His bio there reads: “The work of Matthew Hasty seeks to peel away any feeling of pretense and insincerity to give the viewer respite from a cacophony of visual noise that floods the modern world. By portraying the inherent beauty of the local landscape of this region, the artist tries to create a reverence for the natural world and render a feeling of solace and order amidst the chaos of the everyday. The artist draws upon an inspiration from the landscape painters of the 19th century from the Hudson River School, such as George Inness, as well as numerous Russian landscape painters such as Arkhip Kuindji, Isaac Levitan and Ivan Aivazovsky.

“Matthew Hasty’s work may be found in collections all over the United States as well as France, Germany, Russia, South Korea, and Mexico.  One painting is off the coast of the Island of Grenada at the bottom of the sea.”

Incognito Art Auction

Friday, January 31 @ 5:30–7:15 PM

Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry Road, Memphis, TN 38117

Artists’ Link has long been the coordinator and source of most art for this annual auction of anonymous art to benefit the Memphis Botanic Garden. Many come in costume, and this year there will be a prize for best costume. There will be live music, drinks, and hors d’oeuvres. Tickets and information are available at MemphisBotanicGarden.com/Incognito.

Monthly Meeting

Monday, January 20 @ 6:30 PM, talk at 7:00 PM

Jason’s Deli, 3437 Poplar Avenue, Memphis

Artist Link member Angela Goza has exhibited around the world—in America, Venezuela, China, and Great Britain. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Memphis College of Art, and her career has included both commercial and fine art. She will talk to us about her experiences and development as an artist.

Many members come at 5:30 for dinner and conversation. Jason's offers free ice cream and drinks for participants.