Showing posts with label events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label events. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Zipporah Thompson

http://art.uga.edu/events/lunchtime-gallery-talk-zipporah-thompson

Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Zipporah Thompson

October 2, 2014, 12:00pm – 1:00pm

SUITE GALLERY

Join us for a gallery talk with exhibiting artist and MFA candidate in Textlies, Zipporah Thompson 
In Menagerie, MFA candidate in Textiles Zipporah Thompson responds to the sensual properties of the material world through her exploration of the exotic by means of surrealist and folklore traditions.  
Zipporah Thompson was born and raised in North Carolina where she attended college and received her BFA in Fibers. She is in her final year of her MFA in Textiles and will be exhibiting work in the MFA Exit Exhibition this spring at the Georgia Museum of Art. 


Saturday, September 20, 2014

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.


Saturday, August 23, 2014

Athens Mural


Athens has a new mural!  It was painted by recent Lamar Dodd alum Joel Rosenburg.  The mural is on the side of St. Udio- a metal fabrication business founded by former UGA art students. There will be a reception for the mural and I hope everyone makes the effort to attend.

Friday
August 29th, 7-9PM.
1321 Oconee St.
Athens, GA