Emerging DHS artist show tonight!

Open Art is a student based charity/ art venue for Decatur’s up and coming artists looking for a place to show off their stuff. The event is open to all art, from music to painting to video.
This is the first performance of Open Art and they are being hosted by The Church at Decatur Heights. The church has opened their gym to this student group and allowed them to use a large space, perfect for a night of music and the arts.
The date is March 25th for the first performance. There is a $3 cover charge at the door, and all of the proceeds for this show go to Haiti relief

Don’t Miss Hamlet at DHS!

Hamlet opens new performing arts center at Decatur High School–tickets are still available!

The Decatur High School Drama Department will open the city’s new Performing Arts Center with its production of Hamlet from March 18th through March 20th–don’t miss this inaugural event in the DHS Theater.

Hamlet was chosen as the first play by faculty member Lynn Hosking because the play itself makes a huge statement while offering the opportunity for many students to participate as cast members. Senior Vincent Antinozzi will play the role of Hamlet and Emma Maris,a freshman, will playing the role of Ophelia.

Tickets are available at Decatur High School. Call for 404-370-4420 for more information. Ticket forms are available here. HamletTixOrderForm

Decatur City Dance – Upcoming Event

“The 10th Annual Swinging Night of Tap”
Saturday, April 17th and Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Decatur City Dance presents “The 10th Annual Swinging Night of Tap.” Featuring 18 works, the show runs about two hours and is guaranteed to entertain audiences of all ages. Come enjoy a wide variety of dance and music styles. Most of the choreography is by Birda Ringstad, director of the Rhythm Keepers (an adult tap company), the Junior Rhythm Keepers (a teen tap company), and the Rug Cutters (a teen swing dance group). Guest musicians Peter Chen (violin) and John Moore (guitar) will perform “Libertango” with the Rhythm Keepers. Mr. Moore will also perform “Classical Gas” with Tommy’s Girls – Sheila Artis, Jenny Greene, Lynn Payne and Birda Ringstad. These dancers call themselves Tommy’s Girls because they all studied with renowned tap dancer Tommy Sutton. The Apprentice and Professional Ensembles of Decatur City Dance will also perform. Internationally-known tap dancer Josh Hilberman from Boston will appear as a special guest performer.
Date: Saturday, April 17th at 7:00 pm
Sunday, April 18th at 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm
Location: Beacon Hill Studio Theatre, 410 W. Trinity Place, Decatur GA
Ticket Prices: $10 in advance; $12 at the door
Tickets can be purchased at the door or by calling 404.378.3388.
For more information, contact Birda Ringstad at 770.938.7932 or rhythmkeepers@yahoo.com.
Decatur City Dance – www.decaturcitydance.org

Inspirations – A Study in Glass

“Inspirations: A Study in Glass” on view until April 9th.

The exhibition will feature a wide variety of hand-blown glass art sculptures from the artists of Duckbill Studios. The title, “Inspirations (A Study In Glass),” addresses the diverse nature and styles of glass blowing.
The Duckbill Studios was created by artist Tadashi Torii in 2005. Classes are available for both new and experienced students, including paperweight workshops for novices and group events. Throughout the year, Duckbill opens the studio to the community with workshops and exhibitions. For more information, call 404.460.2791.
The exhibit will be on view through April 9 in The Art Institute of Atlanta-Decatur Gallery, One West Court Square, Suite 110, Decatur, GA 30030. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 9 am – 7 pm; Friday from 9 am to 5 pm, and Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm. For information or directions, call 404.942.1800 or online at www.artinstitutes.edu/decatur.

Coming up at the Sycamore Gallery

Spring into Art for 3 Days in April!

Join Ms. Sylvia and friends at 120 Sycamore place in downtown Decatur.
Draw,Paint,Collage,Build and Create your own Shadow Journeys Boxes and Books.
Wear old clothes and bring water for walks!
Camp is held from 9am-noon for 95-/3days.Extended lunch is offered for 15-extra daily.
The dates are April 5-7 and the children are divided into 2 groups,ages 3-9 and ages 9-12.
For information and registration call 404-377-7747 and leave a name and number or e:sycsyl@yahoo.com

Summer Shimmers with Art and Music at 120 Sycamore Place in Decatur!

Join Ms. Sylvia,Ms.Katy,Mr. Damon and more talented teaching artists for 1/2 day and afternoon camps! Handbuild clay,paper machie,paint,pastel and collage your way accompanied by music and walking tours,climb the Magnolia Trees and have Fellini’s on Fridays! Wear old clothes and bring water for walks!

Camps are weekly through the summer beginning May 26-28 and through the 4th week of August. The cost for 5 day camps from 9- noon for ages 3-9 or ages 9-12 are 125-/week;The cost for 3 day camps from 9-noon is 95-/week;extended lunch at Fellini’s from 12-1pm is 15-/day.
The cost for afternoon camps from 1-4 pm is 125-/ 5 day week and 95-/ 3 day week.
Extended lunch is 15-/daily.
If you sign up for both 1/2 day and afternoon camps in the same week, the extended lunch fee is waived.You may not mix and match camps or children.
Weekly Themes:
May 26-28 Jackson Pollack’s Action Painting!
June 1-3 A Midsummer Night’s Surrealist Dream!
June 7-11 Paul Klee’s Twittering Machines and Calder’s Circus!
June 14-18 Picasso and Matisse and Paris Tea Party!
June 21-25 Michelangelo’s Grocery list and Artchitecture!
June 28-July 2 Da Vinci’s Horses in Clay and Paper Machie!
July 5-9 Mr. Damon’s Puppetry Arts Center!
July 12-16 Oh Joseph Beuys Artist Books & Boxes!
July 19-23 Closets and Costumes and Photographs ala Cindy Sherman
July 26-30 Jacob Lawrence & Romare Bearden Paint to Jazz & So Do I !
August 2-6 Finster’s Folk Art, Angels & Elves
August 10-12 Silverstein’s Sidewalk Ends & Art Begins!
August 17-19 Chagall plays Fiddler on the Roof!
August 23-25 Georgia O’keefe Paints the Desert Skies!

Several Dancers Core – Free Events

Several Dancers Core presents two free dance events on Thursday, March 18th at the Several Dancers Core Studio, 139 Sycamore Street on the Square in Downtown Decatur.
Lunchtime in the Studio–noon until 1 p.m.–will focus on CORE’s outreach initiative, the Dynamic X-Change Healing Arts program, which brings healing movement classes to populations in isolation through partnerships with other local nonprofits.
Lunch will be provided free to the first 40 audience members by Zucca and Chick-fil-A plus coffee supplied by Starbuck’s.
CORE’s Salon will held in the evening on March 18th and will focus on CORE Performance Company’s new dance piece The Point. Light refreshments will be served.
Both events will be featured again on April 15th.

At the pb&j gallery this weekend!

pb&j gallery present William Etheridge and David Zecca. William’s recent work is an effort to examine the complexities of abstract art. With each new painting he tries to explore the layers of imagination in order to release the image within. He states, “When at last the image is realized, each painting has a history and meaning all its own.”

David Zecca prefers to work with the paint rather than control it. His abstract works were born out of a frustration from being a portrait artist and having to duplicate an image on a canvas. He allows the paint to almost run and dance across the canvas and to work with him rather than be forced into a position by him. It is with great pride that he calls his paintings “his children” and he is happy to discuss them, share them and release them to a home that will love and cherish them as much as he does.

Wine will be served. Free admission. Free parking.

Exhibition will hang until April 2. Contact Bob Burkhardt or Jack Simonetta, 35 Howard St. SE, Atlanta, GA
404 606 1856
info@pbj-gallery.com

Call for Photography Artists!

Seeking photography of the X-Codes in post-Katrina New Orleans for the X-Code Exhibition Project. Davis-Moye and Associates announces a call for artists for a photography documenting this historical event.
Be a part of telling an important story of a photography exhibition documenting the X-Codes that marked residences and other buildings searched in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. The deadline for this project is March 15, 2010.
Photographers of all skill level using a wide range of equipment documented the hurricane and its aftermath and many recorded the power of the graphic used on many residences and building in the New Orleans area. There have been many photographic exhibitions documenting the storm and its aftermath but this project is the first to focus on the unique narrative of the X-Codes.
Please review the following information about the project.
9-7-08 X-factor descrip

The Seen Gallery Opening

Folium Darwinii – Postponed until next Saturday, February 20, 7-10 PM

Thirty-Five Artists from the Atlanta Printmakers Studio and Asheville Bookworks created hand-pulled prints responding to the life and ideas of Charles Darwin. These prints were put together as the “Folium darwinii” print portfolio, and will be exhibited for the first time at the Seen Gallery in Decatur, Georgia.
The show will run from February 20 – March 17th at The Seen Gallery is located at 415 Church Street, Decatur, Georgia, 30030.

2009 commemorated the bicentenary of Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of the Species. In celebration of the discoveries and life of Charles Darwin we asked our participants to respond to his life story, his scientific ideas and their impact on the modern world and artistic practice. The exchange title, Folium darwinii alludes to binomial nomenclature used to name and identify species. The Latin names are in two parts: the first part designating the genus to which it belongs and the second to the species itself. “Folium darwinii” is therefore a play-on-words, “Darwin’s leaves”, a synonym of paper, printmaking’s traditional support

The portfolio presents a wide range of traditional and non-traditional printmaking processes used singularly and in combination: relief, collagraph, monoprinting, letterpress, intaglio, silkscreen, lithography, and photo transfer methods. Folium darwinii is a technically and conceptually rich collection of images traversing the elegant, fantastical, the humorous, and introspective. The participating artists explore the beauty and complexity of the natural world and man’s place within this system. In addition to the prints on exhibit, catalogues of the portfolio will be available for purchase

The artists in the portfolio are: Daniel Allegrucci, Peery Angelika, Bill Clements, Dale Clifford, Laurie Corral, Gwen Diehn, Terri Dilling, Jan DiPietro, Martha Ebener, Eric Elliot, Andrea Emmons, Jonathan Fisher, Teri M. Fleming, Katherine Garrou, Nancy Maxwell Goldberg, Pedro A. Gonzalez, Toby Gordon, Alicia Griswold, Christopher Hickey, Jennifer M. High, Susan Ker-Seymer, Matt Liddle, Corrina Sephora Mensoff, Leslie Ann Pace Modena, Brian Randall, Richard E. Raschke, Gina Reynoso, Lisa Beth Robinson, Debrah Santini, Terry Schupbach-Gordon, Stephanie Smith, Gena VanDerKloot, John VanDerKloot, Judy Winograd, and Daryl White.

Catering provided by Badda Bing

Artists: Call for Proposals!

Flux Projects’ 2010 Call for Proposals
Artists, artist teams, creative collaboratives, and curators are invited to submit. FLUX is considering projects for the following:
1.For FLUX (previously Le Flash), the one-night public art event in
Castleberry Hill, Friday October 1, 2010
2. For Flux Projects’ performances or temporary installations taking
place anytime between mid-2010 and early-2011 anywhere in metropolitan
Atlanta.
If appropriate, projects may be submitted for consideration in both. Those submitting are invited to meet with Flux Projects’ executive director Anne Dennington the week of March 1-5, either in person or by
phone, to discuss their proposals, possible sites, and assistance with technology. Those wishing to schedule such a meeting, should e-mail info@fluxprojects.org.

Important dates:
Deadline to submit – Wednesday, March 31st, midnight
Notification – By Friday, April 30th

Flux Projects – Call for Proposals – 2010