Looking through a pile of pretty handkerchiefs, I read from a collection of 275 messages written in marker on fabric. As part of a Flux Projects event, Louisiana artist and teacher Jes Schrom invited the public to a sewing circle at Young Blood Gallery on Saturday, August 20, 2011. Participants donated several hours each to [...]
Archive Content from Aug 2011
08/30/11 ARTSpeak: Craig Drennen Turns Bad Stories into Conceptual Art
Click the player above to listen, or click here to download the MP3. Special thanks to AM 1690, The Voice of the Arts, our partners in producing ARTSpeak with BURNAWAY. The radio program broadcasts over the airwaves every Tuesday between 8-8:30AM and between 6-6:30PM.
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08/29/11 To Do List: Through September 4
See below for arts events through Sunday, September 4, 2011.
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08/26/11 Art Crush: Dance Truckers Danny Davis and Malina Rodriguez
Since relocating to Atlanta from Portland, Oregon, in 2008, Malina Rodriguez and Danny Davis have shaken up the Atlanta arts scene with their introduction of Dance Truck. As a mobile dance center, Dance Truck has pulled up to events at Le Flash, Eyedrum, and more to bring dance to the people whether they’re ready or [...]
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08/25/11 For the Love of the Object! Save the Photographic Print
The annual Atlanta Celebrates Photography Photo Festival is just around the corner. In October a number of galleries will host a diverse collection of artists’ works while a series of discussions and lectures will bring up relevant critical issues in contemporary photography. In anticipation of being in the presence of so much great photography and [...]
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08/24/11 Seana Reilly’s Artwork Meditates on the Science of Letting Go
There really is only one way to describe the imagery of Seana Reilly’s current work on display at Whitespace Gallery: undeniable. As part of a two-person exhibition including the continually active drawings of Ann Stewart, Reilly’s work leads to more questions than answers. In a series of experiments with liquid graphite, the artist posits myriad [...]
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08/23/11 ARTSpeak: Nancy VanDevender’s Hypnotic Moments of Intimacy
Click the player above to listen, or click here to download the MP3. Special thanks to AM 1690, The Voice of the Arts, our partners in producing ARTSpeak with BURNAWAY. The radio program broadcasts over the airwaves every Tuesday between 8-8:30AM and between 6-6:30PM.
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08/22/11 To Do List: Through August 28
See below for arts events through Sunday, August 28, 2011.
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08/19/11 Artadia Provides Cash and Connects Artists Outside Atlanta
Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue seeks to help local artists and vibrant art communities across the country by providing unrestricted cash awards and community support. Artadia expanded its outreach to include Atlanta in 2009 and received over 300 applicants in the city’s first award cycle. Applications for its current cycle for awards from [...]
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08/17/11 Shades of SHIELD: Marvel Comics, Samuel Jackson, and Race
1. As I prepared to write about the Marvel character Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD, I tried to recall the first comics story in which I encountered him: As that tale begins, he lies in an open, casketlike container, carried (it seems) by evil beekeepers who are themselves trapped in what fashionistas might call a [...]
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08/16/11 Is Soap a Necessity or a Luxury? The Global Soap Project at MODA
Imagine living in Haiti or Kenya on two or less dollars a day. You need to spread that money thinly enough to pay for food and shelter for your spouse and children. What priority would you give to buying soap? The answer is that soap is a luxury in many poorer nations, with many children [...]
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08/15/11 To Do List: Through August 22
See below for arts events through Monday, August 22, 2011.
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08/12/11 Material Deposits Explores the Necessity of Objects at ACAC
In the provocatively-titled Do Museums Still Need Objects?, historian Steven Conn treats the evolution of our public institutions as “an episode in the history of ideas.” We instinctively understand that such a history is necessarily intertwined with the objects that museums house. The apparent supercession of the virtual in contemporary society, then, makes Conn’s titular [...]
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08/10/11 The Fringe: Mapping Noplace in Atlanta Art Now
Kristin Juárez writes this edition of her monthly column, The Fringe, in collaboration with Rachel Chamberlain and Susannah Darrow. The upcoming inaugural volume of Atlanta Art Now, a biennial book series sponsored by Possible Futures, says a lot with its name. The title, Noplaceness: Art in a Post-urban Landscape, suggests a contemporary reality that breaks [...]
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karley: nice!
Jared: Excited for the Bowman collection. She is someone to keep an eye on
ruth: What do you do with difficult lines of memory? Fold them into a san
Beth Lilly: I know! That's exactly the type of work I had in mind with the call f
Jason Francisco: Davis' bulletin boards seem to me actually to be photographs themselve