Reminder: Howard Hall Clean-Up Tomorrow

Just a reminder:

On Saturday, March 20th from 10:30 - 2:00 we are having a Memphis Heritage workday at Howard Hall. We need help on several projects.
(RAIN DAY is Sunday March 21st 1:30-3:30)

PLEASE bring your gloves and tools and meet at Howard Hall 2282 Madison Avenue @ Edgewood at 10:30 am and join in the fun!!! We will be working until 2pm, so if you can't make it for the entire time come over even if it's just for an hour or so.
MHI members and volunteers make our agency strong. We can't make it happen without you!
info@memphisheritage.org

*lunch and beverages will be provided*

give our past a future"

Clean Up Day at Howard Hall

On Saturday, March 20th from 10:30 - 2:00 we are having a Memphis Heritage workday at Howard Hall. We need help on several projects.

(RAIN DAY Sunday March 21st 1:30-3:30)

At Howard Hall, we will be under the guidance of our very own John Griffin as we take care of some pruning and sprucing up, etc.

We want Howard Hall to display the pride we all have for Historic Preservation.
Your volunteer support makes all the difference!
So bring your gloves and tools and meet at Howard Hall 2282 Madison Avenue @ Edgewood at 10:30 am and join in the fun!!!

We will be working until 2pm, so if you can't make it for the entire time come over even if it's just for an hour or so.

MHI members and volunteers make our agency strong. We can't make it happen without you!

If you can join us please let us know by calling 901.272.2727 or email

info@memphisheritage.org

*lunch and beverages will be provided*

"Thanks for helping give our past a future"

Architecture and Our Youth 2010 Design Competition

Architecture and Our Youth

2010 Design Competition

Sponsored by the Art Center

In Honor of National Preservation Month May 2010

Deadline for Entries: Friday, April 2, 2010, 4 pm
Opening Reception: TBA held at Memphis Heritage

Howard Hall

2282 Madison at Edgewood

Exhibit: May 2010 Memphis Heritage at Howard Hall

Memphis Heritage, Inc. and AIA Memphis are proud to announce the 7 th Architecture and Our Youth Design Competition for 4th - 12th grade level youth in Shelby County. Participants are asked to explore historic buildings and spaces around them through an art medium of their choice. In addition, an essay is submitted describing how the individual responds to the art emotionally and/or physically. Winners in each division receive prizes during the opening reception and will have their artwork on exhibit along with their written responses during May 2010. The goal of this exhibit is to communicate through images and words how our youth respond to the built environment.

Criteria
> A drawing of a Historic building / or part of an existing historic building in

Shelby County. Can be interior or exterior.

> Minimum paper size 8.5"x11", max size 18"x24"

> A separate hand written statement identifying this building or space, why it

was selected by the participant, and description of their response to it.

Maximum of 100 words.

> Medium of choice (pencil, ink, paint, crayon, etc)

> Judging will take into account the written statement as much as the art.

Awards
Memphis Heritage, Inc. and AIA Memphis will award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes to the division winners: Elementary Middle School and High School. (Categories subject to change based on number of entries.)

Display of Winners
Winners in each division will be on display at Memphis Heritage, Inc. at Howard Hall, 2282 Madison during the month of May 2010. All participants will receive invitations to the opening reception date TBA, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm.

Deadlines
Call to schedule a drop off 901-272-2727, or mail the following to:

Memphis Heritage, Inc., 2282 Madison Avenue, (NE corner of Madison and Edgewood) Memphis, TN 38104

Deadline: Friday, April 2nd 2010 at 4 pm Include:
> art work
> written statement
> envelope attached to back of work containing 2 copies of the Entry Form

and the separate Written Statement

Return of Work
You may schedule a pick-up of the work by calling (901) 272-2727 anytime in June

Questions

Please contact:

June West, Memphis Heritage, Inc. at (901) 272-2727

jwest@memphisheritage.org

or
Heather Koury, AIA Memphis, at (901) 525-3818

info@aiamemphis.org

Adopt a Door is Back!

You won't want to miss

Memphis Heritage's

Second Annual Adapt-A-Door Fundraiser

Here's how it works...

Contestants will be able to choose from a collection of doors, gathered by our dedictated Preservation Posse Volunteers, to recycle and transform it into a fabulous work of art. The only limitation is your imagination and using at least 70% of the original door. Then you make a PERSONAL....CREATIVE....MASTERPIECE out of your door!

April 12 - ENTRY DEADLINE: You decide to let your creative mind go wild and enter the
Adapt-A-Door Competition by this date.

April 24 - "Donut Door Dash" 10 a.m. You pick up the door of your choice at our Second Annual "Donut Door Dash" which will take place at the Historic Marine Hospital,

360 Metal Museum Drive. New this year...windows will also be available if you prefer.

July 28 - Delivery Drop off your work of art to Memphis Heritage by this deadline.

August 21 - The Adapt-A-Door Auction Event!

Let your creativity go wild and just do it! Be one of the first firms or artists to make your mark in this Annual, one of a kind, "Door" event.

Many Door Designs from 2010 will be on exhibit at various locations, including Howard Hall, during the month leading up to the auction event which is planned for Saturday, August 21. The Door Auction event will once again include awards for "Best of Door", a Silent Auction, Pub Grub, and great fun!

More information about tickets will be announced in May, 2010. Watch our web site for further updates at

www.memphisheritage.org

Other important info:

Cost to enter the competition is $25.00 per door. For the $25 commitment fee you will receive 2 tickets to the "Door Auction" event and be eligible for the grand "Best of Door" award that comes with great prizes. All final "masterpieces" will be on the MHI website.

If you have any questions about this outrageous "Door Event" contact MHI at 901.272.2727 or email June West at jwest@memphisheritage.org

Last year we saw ALL KINDS of transformations which included a uniqe and wonderful floor lamp shown below, which stole the show! Other works of art included looks of stained glass, coffee tables, head boards, a treasure chest, and even a rocking chair!

Volunteer Opportunities from our friends in Nashville

Dear Supporters,

Habitat for Humanity in Nashville has taken an historic step for preservation in Tennessee, but we need your volunteer assistance. TPT has been working with Nashville Metro Historical Commission, Historic Nashville Inc.,MSTU Center for Historic Preservation, and the Tennessee Historical Commission to encourage Habitat for Humanity in Nashville to rehabilitate houses rather than their traditional practice of demolition and rebuilding. Habitat has agreed to do a trial project in Nashville at 704 Meridian St. that involves a wonderful coalition of the aforementioned preservation groups and the Metro Development and Housing Agency, who donated the property to Habitat. TPT has assisted with technical advice and guidance with Habitat’s contractor, and we all have agreed to work together and provide volunteers for the traditional Habitat for Humanity work days.

This project will become a model project for Habitats across the state and will be the beginning of saving historic buildings, rather than seeing them demolished for Habitat Projects.

Habitat has requested volunteer assistance for this historic project on the following two days: (10-20 needed each day)

Where: 704 Meridian Street, Nashville, TN 37207

When: Saturday, March 27 - exterior prepping & painting

Saturday, April 3 - interior prepping & painting, general clean up, finishing exterior painting

As Scarlet Miles discusses in her email below this is true hands-on preservation and these volunteer work days are a critical financial element to making this project possible.

Please volunteer a day of work for this important, historic project, and be a hands-on part of making preservation history in Tennessee. Your volunteering will make this critical project a success, and set the stage for saving thousands of structures across the state.

Times and details are listed in Scarlett’s letter below and you should send in your volunteer information to HNI board president David Price at info@historicnashvilleinc.org

Please contact me for any questions you may have, and we hope to see you there.

Sincerely,

Dan Brown

Executive Director

Tennessee Preservation Trust

P.O. Box 24373

Nashville, TN 37202

615.963.1255

Mobile 615.818.6977

tnprestr@bellsouth.net

tennesseepreservationtrust.org