Featuring special guests,

Rocky the Redbird and Pouncer!

BLEND
New this year! Bluff City Blenders, an Art + Design vendor collaborative, joins us to deliver a unique expo experience. Starting at 11:30am, vendors will be on site and welcome your visit. The expo is open to all vendors regardless of membership in AIA Memphis or BCB. Guests may enjoy the expo at no cost until 3pm.

AUCTION
Collect vendor bucks for our 3pm live auction. Beginning at the registration table, we will move from vendor to vendor, hosting a live auction for their prizes. Guests use bucks collected during their expo conversations to bid on exclusive merchandise. Pickup a list at registration. Guests may collect multiple bucks from the same vendor but must submit bucks bids in all unique bucks. Ex: To bid on a Yeti cooler, a guest has 20 total bucks, 5 of them are from the same vendor. They have a total of 16 bucks available for that bid. The maximum bid is equal to the final number of vendors on site.

Our DJ, Jared "Jay B." Boyd

is a multimedia journalist, artist, humorist, DJ and on-air personality.

The Memphis native currently serves as program manager for WYXR 91.7 FM, while also working as a columnist for The Daily Memphian. Along with extensive articles on Memphis’ musical history and its momentum forward, Boyd composer liner notes for the 2020 release of “The Gospel Truth: Complete Singles Collection,” an anthology of recordings from Stax Records’ gospel subsidiary. 

The list of artists profiled and interviewed for works in Boyd’s short career span genres and generations, with a specific focus on the oral history Memphis’ recording and performing industry, including Booker T. Jones, Yo Gotti, Anita Ward, Shirley Brown, and Don Bryant. 

On-air, Boyd co-hosts and writes long running roots music program, “Beale St. Caravan,” which is syndicated globally via National Public Radio. Behind two turntables, the avid record collector is committed to the preservation of Memphis artists’ legacies through sharing their sounds with new listeners. Aside from weekly mixes on local radio, he played an instrumental role in programming the music of Downtown Memphis’ Central Station Hotel, playing Bluff City music for guests, upon the opening of the Eight & Sound lounge in 2019. 

Summer Salon is sponsored in part by the University of Memphis Department of Architecture whose Lecture Series is funded in part by a grant from the Tennessee Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners. Partners in the lecture series are the Department of Architecture, UofM AIAS, AIA Memphis, and NOMA Memphis.

sa·​lon | \ sə-ˈlän   : a fashionable assemblage of notables (such as literary figures, artists, or statesmen) held by custom at the home of a prominent person  - Merriam-Webster

French literary and philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th centuries hosted salons, gathering guests to inspire hosts through conversation, often following Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate."

Beale Street Landing by RTN Arquitectos, Buenos Aires, Argentina

(photo courtesy of Tawanda Pirtle, Feelin' Memphis)