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+1 901-521-0782
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410 S Main St, Memphis, TN, 38103
Downtown
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560 ftButler Avenue
970 ftCentral Station
0.2 miHuling Avenue
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Specialties
African/African American /Caribbean fine art and Prints
History
Established in 1990.
Art village gallery started as a small art studio space in a back room at 333 Beale St in Memphis Tenn. Right after graduating from Art school, I was in a desperate need for a studio space to work, a space that I shared with two other resident artists who later move out leaving me with a large enough space to display my works. Thus was born Art Village gallery. The year was 1990.
The need for a Village Style gallery was to fulfill one of my childhood dreams, which is to create a community of artist working and playing together just like it was in my village growing up as a young boy in Nigeria. Today the gallery represents artist from Columbia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Thailand Zimbabwe and Namibia to mention a few.
Our mission is simply to connect the Mid –South with exotic works of art from talented but unknown artist Living in developing countries.
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Meet the Business Owner
ephraim U.
Business Owner
If you ask Ephraim Muvire Urevbu about his life, he will tell you «I have a very interesting story, it is full of laughter, tears, heartache, and happiness.» The amazing thing, is, this statement is actually a humble one. From his impoverished beginnings in Warri, Nigeria, to his home above the Art Village Gallery, his journey has been a long one, often marked with struggle.
However, you would not know it to talk: with him.
Ephraim had a love affair with art from an early age. As a child, his first instinct was to capture the things that he saw in the world around him, from capturing the warm nature of his local culture in Nigeria, to doing caricatures of the classmates that bullied him in his adolescence as a way to blow off steam. Growing up in Nigeria, neither he nor his family had a lot of money. Ephraim spent his days both going to school and working with his mother at her timber shed to help make ends meet. Today he is the proud owner of his own Gallery.
