College Guide ’09
Monday, August 17th, 2009
The countdown to this year’s College Guide continues with SCAD’s Rachel Goldstein. Stay tuned for more! The winner will be unveiled in the issue Aug. 19.
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College Guide ’09
Sunday, August 16th, 2009
The countdown to this year’s College Guide continues with SCAD’s Doug Dabbs. Stay tuned for more! The winner will be unveiled in the issue Aug. 19.
College Guide ’09
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
The countdown to this year’s College Guide continues with SCAD’s Holly Hickman. Stay tuned for more! The winner will be unveiled in the issue Aug. 19.
College Guide ’09
Thursday, August 13th, 2009
The countdown to this year’s College Guide continues with SCAD’s Shannon Kellman. Stay tuned for more! The winner will be unveiled in the issue Aug. 19.
College Guide ’09
Monday, August 10th, 2009
This year’s College Guide Student Cover Contest touts some of the best submissions we’ve seen yet. After a sleep-deprived and toilsome powwow in the CL lair, we’ve finally chosen the winning design, which will be unveiled in the Aug. 19 issue. Until then, we’re counting down with some of the fantastic submissions. Stay tuned for more!
Leading off we have Alan Hawley from SCAD.
5 things to do: Monday
Monday, July 27th, 2009
1) Dan Bejar plays the Earl.
2) TINY Bistro hosts a South American wine tasting.
3) Tori Amos performs at Chastain Park Amphitheatre.
4) Richard Doster discusses his book, Crossing the Lines, at Decatur Library.
5) Behind the Cels: Selections from SCAD’s Don Bluth Collection continues at Gallery See.
(Photo by Ted Bois)
5 things to do: Monday
Monday, July 6th, 2009
1) Under the Sea continues at Fernbank Museum of Natural History.
2) Richard Doster discusses his book, Crossing the Lines, at Opal Gallery.
3) Puppets Take Atlanta & Beyond kicks off with The Box? A Show of Feelings.
4) Only Dick, No Jane continues at Trois Gallery.
5) Public Enemies continues in area theaters.
(Photo © Jeff Wildermuth/Warner Bros. Entertainment)
Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop takes a vow of silence in December
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop’s debut novel Fireworks began as a series of short stories about an obsession with “nonstories.” Aside from protagonist Hollis Clayton’s ponderings on the “sadness” of a grown man dropping an ice cream cone on the ground, and the “mystery” of animals finding shelter in the rain, not much happens. There are observations of true poetic beauty, over which looms a shadow of genuine pathos (Hollis’ wife leaves him after the accidental death of their 8-year-old son). But ultimately, Fireworks feels over-padded with insignificance.
The premise of Winthrop’s second novel, December, suggests she’s finally found a story worthy of a novel. By the time we meet Isabelle Carter, the 11-year-old hasn’t said a word in nine months. She innocently began a streak of speechlessness that spilled over into the next day and then the next. Eventually, Isabelle becomes paralyzed by the fear of losing something if she speaks.
Ruth and Wilson, her bourgeois bohemian parents living in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, aren’t used to such obstacles. Research hasn’t provided an answer. Several therapists say Isabelle is a lost cause. The headmaster of her private all-girls school, who’s allowed Isabelle to work from home, says if she doesn’t start talking by the end of the Christmas break, she can’t come back.
SCAD-Atlanta presents gallery hop tonight
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
SENSE OF DRAMA: Artist Deborah Poynton
The Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta presents its February gallery hop tonight from 6-8 p.m., featuring new exhibitions at all three SCAD-Atlanta galleries (ACA Gallery of SCAD, Trois Gallery, and Gallery See).
Deborah Poynton’s solo exhibition at ACA Gallery, Everything Matters, headlines the event. Poynton typically paints on a grand scale, and her style is a curious synthesis of classical influences: One senses the drama of El Greco’s religious painting and hints of the 19th-century grotesque, each counterbalanced with a modern sobriety. Her recent paintings focus on realistic nude and semi-nude figures in an examination of the “physical and relational connections within her complex tableaux.” Poynton will appear at the gallery in person to deliver an artist’s talk starting at 5 p.m. . Everything Matters continues through March 29.
The other two exhibitions shouldn’t disappoint, either: The Slipper Tongue and Other Works, featuring new works by art history professor Jonathan Field (Trois Gallery), and the annual SCADDY Awards Exhibition, a juried show of top SCAD student finalists in 25 advertising-related categories, including brand identity, posters, advertising campaigns, animation, photography and illustration.
Free shuttles serving each gallery will be available beginning at 5:45 p.m. from 1600 Peachtree St., on the south side of SCAD’s main academic building. Participants may join the gallery hop at any one of the three locations. The event is free and open to the public, and includes light refreshments and complimentary onsite parking at the main campus.
(Photo courtesy of DeborahPoynton.com)
5 things to do today: Thursday
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
1) Comedian Maria Bamford performs at Laughing Skull Lounge.
2) William Jelani Cobb addresses “Obama and the Myth of Postracialism” at Georgia State University.
3) The Clipse performs at 595 North with Hollyweerd, Yelawolf and Proton.
4) SCAD-Atlanta hosts its monthly gallery hop.
5) Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater kicks off a four-day 50th anniversary celebration at the Fox.
(Photo courtesy dandion.com)
Arts news and notes
Friday, February 13th, 2009MASTER-PEACE OUT: From the High Museum:
The last day to view Johannes Vermeer’s painting “The Astronomer” at the High Museum of Art is Sunday, February 15. This painting, on view as part of “The Louvre and the Masterpiece” exhibition, had never been seen in the southeastern United States before coming to Atlanta in October 2008. George de la Tour’s “The Card Sharp” painting will replace the Vermeer in the exhibition beginning February 17, and remain on view through September 6, 2009.
LANGUAGE CITY: From the Alliance Theatre:
Atlanta’s nationally acclaimed Alliance Theatre has been awarded a $1.1 million 2008 Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD) grant from the U.S. Department of Education through its Office of Innovation and Improvement. The grant money will be distributed over a four-year period and will be used in planning, researching and implementing programs to introduce young English Language Learners (ELL) to the theatre art form and build verbal communication abilities. There were 74 applicants for the grant nation wide. The Alliance ranked first out of 15 awardees.
SUPPORT SYSTEM: Eight local artists have been tapped for grants from the Charles Loridans Foundation. The Loridans Arts Medal comes with $15,000 and will be awarded to Dwight Coleman, head of the Georgia State University School of Music; Klimchak, local a performer and composer; Larry Larson, local actor and playwright (who can currently be seen in Smart Cookie at the Alliance Theatre); and Juan Ramirez-Hernandez, a first violinist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
The Loridans Encouragement will be awarded to photographer Sheila Pree Bright ($10,000); Actors and founders of Out-of-Hand Theater Ariel de Man and Maia Knispel, ($15,000-$7,500 each); and the Center for Puppetry Arts’ Jason von Hinezmeyer ($10,000).
MEET AND GREETS: CUMANANA opens tonight at Saltworks from 7-9 p.m. followed by an artist’s talk Sat., Feb. 14 at noon with William Cordova, Gene Moreno, Glexis Novoa and Ernesto Oroza. Atlanta Pecha Kucha opens its spring series at Octane Sun., Feb. 15, 7 p.m. with talks from Louise E. Shaw on “AIDS in the Eighties,” Alex West on “WonderRoot is Cool,” William Boling and Corinne Vionnet on their Opal Gallery exhibit “Complete Desire,” among others. Caterina Verde discusses her solo exhibition of video installation, photography and drawings, “All You Can’t Eat and Other Tales of Waiting,” at Wm Turner Gallery, Sat., Feb. 14 at noon. SCAD’s Ivy Hall Lecture Series presents Walter O. Evans, “a distinguished surgeon and bibliophile, is widely regarded as one of the foremost collectors of African American art in the United States,” for the lecture Great Collectors: The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, Sun., Feb. 15, 3 p.m. at Ivy Hall.
5 things to do today: Sunday
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
1) Mauritius continues at Actor’s Express.
2) Zoroaster plays East Atlanta Icehouse.
3) Popaganda continues at Beep Beep Gallery.
4) SCAD professor Sarah Phillips Collins discusses Unmentionables Mentioned: The History of Underwear at Ivy Hall.
5) Check out our top 10 list of Super Bowl parties.
(Photo by Eric Hermann)
5 things to do today: Thursday
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
1) Stephen Antonakos discusses his art at SCAD’s ACA Gallery.
2) Yo Majesty performs at Apache Cafe.
3) Bob Zellner and Constance Curry discuss their book The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement at Margaret Mitchell House & Museum.
4) Abby Go Go plays at the Star Bar.
5) Comedian Greg Proops performs at the Funny Farm.
(Image by Stephen Antonakos)
Air Loaf: Madama Butterfly
Friday, October 3rd, 2008Today’s Air Loaf features CL’s Chanté LaGon and Curt Holman chatting about the Atlanta Opera’s production of Madama Butterfly featuring renowned sculptor Jun Kaneko’s designs. (Oct. 4 and 10, 8 p.m.; Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 12, 3 p.m. $27.50-$133.50. Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway. 404-881-8885.)
SCAD Atlanta’s Gallery See hosts an exhibit of sketches, paintings and photographs of Kaneko’s work through Nov. 20. (Free. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. SCAD Atlanta, Gallery See, 1600 Peachtree St. 404-253-3100. www.scad.edu.)
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