Our Sponsors

ArtsMemphis

Known around the world for its blues and rock and roll, Memphis has a recognizable, special vibe. ArtsMemphis exists to nurture this unique character and to magnify the city’s creative voice.

ArtsMemphis is a 48-year-old fundraising and grant making organization that supports arts organizations, arts education and outreach efforts and leads a community-wide Audience Development Initiative to promote engagement in the arts. Its mission is raising funds to ensure excellence in the arts and build a vibrant cultural community for everyone. As grant makers and advocates for the arts in the city, ArtsMemphis awarded $2.8 million to the Memphis arts community in FY11 through eight grant categories.

More than 95% of every dollar raised in the annual campaign is reinvested in the community, helping ArtsMemphis achieve these outcomes: contributing to making Memphis a City of Choice; making the arts accessible to the underserved; exposing individuals and families to the arts; and enabling funded groups to focus on improving the quality of their art form. Recognizing that a lively arts scene has a major economic impact and is essential to the quality of life in Memphis, ArtsMemphis hosts a comprehensive cultural calendar on artsmemphis.org and has a free App (downloadable from iTunes) with arts event listings for residents and visitors.

Askew Hargraves Harcourt & Associates, Inc. (A2H)

A2H is a full-service architecture & engineering firm that has been serving the mid-south for the past 25 years. The firm completes over 200 projects annually for both public and private clients, and our 65 employees offer expertise in civil, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering; architecture; planning; landscape architecture; surveying; and construction administration.

A2H’s tagline, “Creating an enhanced quality of life for our clients and community,” is not only upheld through our high design standards… it is also reflected in our commitment to the arts. The firm frequently hosts art shows, private house concerts, and other cultural events to encourage creativity outside the workplace and to support a variety of up-and-coming artists and musicians.

AutoZone

AutoZone is happy to support the Brooks as a Community Partner. AutoZone and its founder, Joseph R. Hyde III, are dedicated supporters of the museum. In 2001, the Brooks was proud to receive the gift of two hundred and twenty-six works of art from AutoZone’s corporate collection. The AutoZone Collection, begun in 1978, offers a well-rounded selection of artwork created primarily in our region over the last twenty years. The Collection contains countless highlights, including works by Carroll Cloar, William Edmondson, Dorothy Sturm, and Walter Anderson—to name only a few. The Collection helps the Brooks fulfill its goal of placing a greater emphasis on regional art. AutoZone has also assisted the museum with funding for its strategic plan and for various special exhibitions, including Annie Leibovitz: American Music and Snap Judgments: New Positions in African Photography.

Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation

Regarded as one of the premier health care systems in the nation, Baptist Memorial Health Care is an award-winning network dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality care for patients. With 15 affiliate hospitals throughout the Mid-South, Baptist combines convenience with excellence of care -- two reasons they have been named among the top health care systems in the country for several years. With the intention of caring for people close to their homes, the Baptist system also offers more than 3,100 affiliated physicians; home, hospice and psychiatric care; minor medical clinics; a network of surgery, rehabilitation and other outpatient centers; and an education system highlighted by the Baptist College of Health Sciences.

Community Foundation of Greater Memphis

The Community Foundation of Greater Memphis is the largest philanthropic foundation – public or private – in the Memphis area, both in terms of assets and grants awarded.

Representing the collective charitable activities of some 1,000 individuals, families, corporations and organizations, we simplify charitable giving and tax reporting, structuring and managing personalized grant programs, facilitating unusual or complicated gifts, presenting timely information on community needs and by providing investment products that maximize giving potential.

Cushman & Wakefield / Commercial Advisors

Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors is a Memphis commercial real estate firm operating in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, across the nation and around the globe. We deliver occupier advisory services as well as leasing, management and disposition services for office, industrial, retail and land real estate.

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First Tennessee Foundation

Since 1864, First Tennessee has been committed to the customers and communities we serve. In addition to providing financial services and solutions, we demonstrate that commitment through community investment. Our company established a private charitable foundation in 1993 to support nonprofit organizations in the communities we serve. Because art plays a vital role in a healthy community, expressing the diversity within our common humanity, the foundation is a long-time supporter. One of our signature investments is the First Tennessee Foundation Award for Innovation in the Arts competition (formerly Bravo) that promotes artistic excellence in Memphis. By supporting artists and art organizations, we support the creativity that ensures a flowering of artistic innovation. Including our contribution to ArtsMemphis, our foundation awards $300,000 to the Memphis arts community annually.

Grinder, Taber & Grinder, Inc.

Grinder, Taber & Grinder, Inc. is a full service commercial and industrial construction firm, which is starting its fifth decade of continuous operations in the Memphis area. The company provides building, construction management, cost estimating, and design / build services.

Grinder, Taber & Grinder takes its greatest pride in the client relationships built during their construction. By focusing on making the construction process as simple as possible, solving problems immediately with a family management team, and consistently honoring its commitments, the company has generated a wealth of repeat customers who are comfortable doing business on a handshake.

Hyde Family Foundations

The Hyde Family Foundations are private, independent grantmaking organizations whose unyielding focus is on Memphis, Tennessee. Our approach is proactive, research-based, action-oriented, and results-driven. We invest in programs that trigger lasting change to improve the lives of our fellow citizens and the future of our city. We look for investments that are strategic and create a confluence of energy and effort to produce transformational change for Memphis. To accomplish this, we are an independent voice and reliable source of information and research on critical public policies. Our work is anchored in a philosophy of partnerships with individuals and organizations who, working together, unafraid and determined, become forces for positive change.

International Paper Foundation

Since its inception in 1952, the IP Foundation supports non-profit organizations in the communities where International Paper has operations. More than 150 U.S. facilities provide local grants focused on environmental education and literacy programs for young children. Additionally, the IP Foundation recognizes the dedication of our employee volunteers by making donations to charitable organizations where employees actively volunteer.

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare

Affiliated with the Memphis, Mississippi and Arkansas Conferences of The United Methodist Church, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare combines a dedication to the art of healing with a Christ-centered commitment to minister to the whole person. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is an integrated healthcare delivery system based in Memphis, Tenn. Founded in 1918 by The United Methodist Church to help meet the growing needs for quality healthcare in the Mid-South, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has grown from one hospital into a six-hospital system that also includes ambulatory surgery centers, outpatient facilities, home health and hospice serving the Memphis area.

In 2011 Methodist was named the BEST hospital in Memphis by U.S. News and World Report and ranks #29 in orthopedics nationally. For several years, Methodist has been named in Modern Healthcare magazine as a Top 100 Integrated Delivery System. With 10,000 associates, Methodist Le Bonheur is the second-largest private employer in Memphis. Methodist Le Bonheur has the following major areas of focus: neurosciences, transplant, cardiology, oncology and pediatrics.

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Tennessee Arts Commission

Through its variety of programs, the Tennessee Arts Commission encourages excellence in artistic expression through the state's artists and arts organizations.

When the Tennessee Arts Commission was created in 1967, it was given a special mandate by the General Assembly to stimulate and encourage the presentation of performing, visual and literary arts throughout the state and to encourage public interest in the cultural heritage of Tennessee. That commitment has continued to expand through the years to ensure that the citizens of Tennessee have access to, and the opportunity to participate in the arts.

The Tennessee Arts Commission builds better communities by:

• Investing public dollars in Tennessee's nonprofit arts industry.
• Providing services to citizens, artists and arts organizations.
• Undertaking initiatives that enhance Tennessee's cultural life.

These activities give Tennessee citizens a better quality of life, provide our children with a more complete education and attract tourists to our state.

Thomas & Betts

Thomas & Betts offers more than 30,000 high-quality products marketed under a variety of market-leading brand names. Designed to help passively conduct electricity, Thomas & Betts products are found everywhere electricity is used -- inside commercial and industrial buildings, in homes and schools, inside complex machinery and original equipment, in the power generating plant and distribution network, outside your home and underground.