To Do List
Ben Roosevelt artist talk this Saturday at Get This! Gallery in conjunction with the Westside Arts District Art Walk
Get ready for the second Westside Arts District Art Walk, talks by renowned scholars, and a chance for everyone to channel their inner Picasso.
SATURDAY
Westside Arts District Art Walk
Visit such galleries as the Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and SALTWORKS (just to name a few) this Saturday for WAD’s (Westside Arts District) second Art Walk from 11AM-5PM.
At 11AM the Kiang Gallery is hosting a lecture by Garrett B. Stanley, Associate Professor of Biochemical Engineering at Georgia Tech University and Emory University. The title of the talk is “Art and the Brain: How We See.” Stanley will explore how information about the outside visual world is encoded in the visual pathway of the brain, and how that informs the challenges and opportunities an artist has in creating visual experiences.
At 1PM stop by Get This! Gallery to hear artist Ben Roosevelt talk about his current exhibition “Ben Roosevelt: ________ is not always a bad thing.” (Read BurnAway’s review of this exhibit here.)
At 2PM at the Sandler Hudson Gallery, Susan Loftin will discuss her new installation “Pink Seat: An Urban Courtyard” on the gallery’s rooftop balcony.
Painting by Tenzin Norbu
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Tibetian Artists-in-Residence
Emory University was fortunate to get two distinguished artists from the Norbulingka Institute—Tenzin Norbu, master thangka painter and teacher, and Dolmakyap Zorgey, scholar and Deputy Managing Director of the Institute—to be their artists-in-residence for three weeks. During the artists’ stay, they will be discussing and demonstrating traditional Tibetan thangka painting techniques. One of the demonstrations will take place this Saturday from 1-5PM. For more information and events surrounding the Tibetian artists-in-residence, visit the Emory website.
LEAP interactive exhibition at MINT Gallery
MINT Gallery
LEAP
From 8-11PM, the MINT Gallery is hoping for another successful interactive exhibition like they had last year. Blank canvases will line the walls, art supplies will be provided, and music will fill the gallery to get the creative juices flowing.
TUESDAY
Lecture: ART PAPERS Live!
Georgia Tech
College of Architecture Auditorium
Saskia Sassen: Today’s Cities as Frontier Spaces
ART PAPERS welcomes Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, who will speak about her newest books: Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages and A Sociology of Globalization. The talk starts at 7PM.
THURSDAY
Funerary Mask of King Tutankhamun
Fox Theatre
Mysteries of Tutankhamun Revealed: A Special Evening with Dr. Zahi Hawass
Having had the privilege to hear Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities for Egypt, speak before, the talk at the Fox Theatre is sure to be informative and highly entertaining. To coincide with the Michael C. Carlos Museum’s blockbuster King Tut exhibition, Dr. Hawass will discuss the recent revelations of a CT scan of King Tutankhamun, as well as other recent discoveries including newly found pyramids. The talk starts at 7PM, and tickets can be purchased at Ticketmaster.
