METAL PETALS + HEALING ROOTS
Metal Petals + Healing Roots brings together artists from the Metal Museum, Moore Tech, and the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Memphis to create art from disassembled gun parts collected during the Guns to Gardens initiative. While the Museum will not be collecting or dismantling guns during the event, Metal Petals + Healing Roots serves as a platform for artists to repurpose these materials into meaningful works of art.
Admission to the Metal Museum is free on the day of the event, offering visitors the opportunity to explore the museum's collection while enjoying live music, food and drinks, and engaging in free and paid hands-on activities. Additionally, attendees can watch the artists at work in the Blacksmith shop transform dismantled gun parts into art and can hammer on guns parts at our outdoor forge. At 1:00PM, there will be an artist talk in the Museum’s event tent where attendees can learn more about the artworks being created and the inspiration behind them.
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
EXHIBITION + SILENT AUCTION
The Metal Museum, in collaboration with Evergreen Presbyterian, will be hosting an exhibition featuring artwork created out of gun parts: “Metal Petals + Healing Roots” at the Evergreen Presbyterian Church on Saturday, April 12th from 6:00-8:00pm.
The exhibition will open with a reception and sale of the items, with larger items staying on display for the community for one month.
This year, volunteers collected and disarmed 55 guns through a safe surrender Guns to Gardens event on March 1. Many of these guns were brought in by families who wished to dispose of them safely, felt unsafe having them at home, or had experienced a tragedy because of them.
The Metal Museum hosted a day of art and healing on March 29, where visitors could see artists sculpting the gun parts and could create their own garden-inspired metal artwork. Artists from Memphis and around the country have transformed these guns into jewelry, sculptures, and gardening tools.
Proceeds from the sale will go back into the Guns to Gardens safe surrender program and to the artist participants. If you can’t make it to the reception, the larger pieces will stay on view at Evergreen Presbyterian through mid-May.
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