Art Around Town

Go to the exhibitions UGA has to offer!  But, there is even more to see here in Athens.  The Museum right across from the Dodd building isn't just some campus extension- that is the state of Georgia's public museum- The Georgia Museum of Art, no affiliation to UGA.  Then just past downtown we've got ATHICA, a contemporay non-profit art gallery.  Hotel Indigo, fancy hotel off of Prince Ave, has also seriously gotten into the exhibition of local contemporary art with their own gallery.

UGA.
We just had a large opening reception co-ordinated among the several different Dodd building galleries.  #pizzadodd 
http://art.uga.edu/galleries/

Here is the gallery schedule for UGA, but it seems to not have any listings for October when the galleries change from their current work. . .
http://art.uga.edu/galleries/gallery-schedule/
and our non gallery specific list of Dodd events here. . .
http://art.uga.edu/events/

This is an upcoming event, Photo Topos Artists in Conversation with Asen Kirin
http://art.uga.edu/events/photo-topos-artists-in-conversation-with-asen-kirin
Wednesday, Sept 24th, 2-4pm.
I recommend this event.  Asen Kirin is one of the most accomplished scholars within the Lamar Dodd School of Art.  He recently published a book and organized an exhibition on the works of Catherine the Great to trace the curatorial mission of her collection as bringing Russia closer to the West but also entrenching its culutral history within the medieval Orthodox tradition, and Greek Byzantine.  He is an incredibly insightful Associate Professor you should take an art history course with if you get the chance.  He will moderate a discussion with the photography artists so go check it out and see if you like what they have to say about their work or it changes your opinion of the exhibition.



GMOA.
http://georgiamuseum.org/
The museum is open T,W, F, and Sat, 10-5pm, Th, 10-9pm, Sun, 1-5pm, and Closed Mondays.
This museum is your local source to see the history of Western Art and Georgia's place in it.  Divided into rooms featuring the Arts and Crafts movement, Medieval art, Works on Paper, Modern art, folk art, and European paintings- you can see a little of a lot.


ATHICA.
http://athica.org/
Their current exhibition is, Athens Celebrates Elephant 6.  The Elephant 6 collective is a loose collection of musicians from the Athens scene such as Neutral Milk Hotel, the Gerbils, Elf Power, Apples in Stereo, etc, and is rooted to current generation of musicians through the Orange Twin Collective and groups such as Nana Grizol.
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The exhibition which I haven't yet seen should feature flyers, album art, and props from concerts and music videos.

Aside from these venues local artists exhibit works in bars, restaurants, and coffee shops.