Memphis boasts cultural richness that extends far beyond traditional museums and galleries. This tour reveals art and history tucked into unexpected places: a basketball team's locker room, a music promoter's personal archive, a mixed-use building's hallways, and a riverfront park. Participants will experience how culture thrives outside institutional walls when passionate individuals and organizations weave art into everyday spaces. They'll see how private collectors, music obsessives, and craftspeople become cultural stewards, and how a city's creative identity lives in locker rooms, office buildings, and workshops. This tour invites reflection on how accessible, unexpected encounters with art can be more powerful than traditional museum experiences, and how communities can activate culture in the places where people already gather, work, and play.

Locations Include:

• Tom Lee Park, public art installations including A Monument to Listening (2023) by Theaster Gates and an adaptation of James Little's Democratic Experiment (2017)

• Memphis Grizzlies Locker Room featuring works from former player Elliot Perry's private collection

• Mempho Presents Collection at Crosstown Concourse

• Memphis Listening Lab

• EgglestonWorks

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Organized by: Rachel Knox (Hyde Family Foundation)

Expectations: This cultural tour includes transportation by bus and multiple stops at sites throughout Memphis. Participants should expect periods of walking, standing, boarding and exiting the bus, and moving between indoor and outdoor spaces. Routes may include stairs, uneven surfaces, or varying distances between stops. GIA and our local partners will work to keep the group connected and ensure that all participants can engage meaningfully in the tour. Please share any mobility, seating, transportation, or other access needs with our team at GIAAccess2026@gmail.com.

Cost: $75