Events

A concluding performance of Hormuz Minina’s Promontory is scheduled this Sunday, June 27, 7:30PM-12Midnight. The Art on the BeltLine program is an attempt to use art to celebrate the space in which our new public transportation system will flow. It’s a noble sentiment for a noble cause, seeking to engage general audiences in Atlanta...
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I was driving through Inman Park with my roommate last month when we passed by an abandoned church at 850 Euclid Avenue. The structure has a lazy, melancholy vibe about it, as if it hasn’t decided whether to be sad or to accept its disuse as a blissful fact of life. Even now, its...
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UPDATE: Due to the rain forecast this weekend, the Reynoldstown Art and History Tour has been rescheduled for Saturday, May 1. We will still meet at WonderRoot Community Art Center at 12 noon. Dear neighbors,
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It’s been a while since I’ve heard more consistent buzz about a night, or personally known more people preparing more diligently for an event, than I have in regards to Friday April 9, 2010. This is the night that Atlanta’s newest creative collective, Dodekapus, takes over the 7,500 sq. ft. Raw Space Gallery in...
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In the midst of Atlanta’s at times awkward but occasionally earnest efforts to carve out its identity as a city, a new artist collective has emerged with a mission of its own. The collective, dubbed John Q in reference to “John Q. Public,” is composed of Wesley Chenault, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr. Their...
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The last few years in Atlanta have seen an influx of the under-30 crowd starting galleries, organizations, collectives, and journals. It’s time to add another one to the bunch: Dashboard Co-op. Dashboard is a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to a list of jobs that includes virtual gallery, promotion site, and cheerleader for artists. So...
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Another video interview produced by Kombo Ch. The Plastic Aztecs present Grow at Beep Beep Gallery, opening this Saturday, March 13, from 8-11PM. See also BURNAWAY’s Plastic Aztecs review from 2008 and these Grow preview photos on ThoughtMarker.
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Need to escape? Try entering the imagination of Olaf Hajek. Hajek’s exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery, Masquerade, makes the art historian in me want a psychoanalytic reading of his work. But, for the present, I am satisfied with looking at the paintings themselves, observing where the artist’s fingers were used in painting the background,...
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Collaborative art projects are the order of the day in Atlanta. You can’t swing a brush in this town without hearing someone’s emphatic description of the “awesome” new project, art show, or performance they’re cooking up with other local creatives. And, really, why shouldn’t it be like that? Funding is hard to come by,...
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At noon this Saturday, February 20, Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery will be hosting a WonderRoot-sponsored painting party, Art Sign the BeltLine 2.0. The goal is to create 216 works of art to be placed around town at various BeltLine sites and public right-of-way crossings. If this strikes you as a lofty goal, let...
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