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Denise Lira-Ratinoff is giving an artist talk specially for SCAD on Thursday August 14 from 6-8 p.m. at the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery. She’s put up a fine show. Her dedication to her craft is extraordinary and her talk is worth a listen. Here’s an interview I did with Denise for Art Relish. I believe she’ll be moving on soon so you should all come out to see her show, hear her speak, and wish her well.

Tonight, SCAD Style Event: “Reflection of a Man” Lecture by Jerrie Marcus Smith and Allison V. Smith
Thursday, May 15, 5:30 p.m., Events Space, 4C, SCAD-Atlanta
1600 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.

Stanley Marcus was known throughout the world as an innovative marketer and retailer with a refined sense of taste and style. His leadership transformed his family’s Dallas clothing store, Neiman Marcus, into a globally recognized arbiter of fashion. His refined sensibility was also expressed in a very private passion for photography, shared only with family and close friends. Marcus’s daughter, Jerrie Marcus Smith, and granddaughter, Allison V. Smith, celebrate this passion in “”Reflection of a Man,”” a representative selection of the thousands of photographs Marcus shot on business trips in Europe, on vacations in Mexico and during family celebrations. A question-and-answer session will take place after the lecture, and a reception and book signing will follow in Gallery Trois. For more information, visit SCAD Style. To see work by Allison V. Smith, visit her Web site at www.allisonvsmith.net.

ART PAPERS launches a new program to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its international lecture series ART PAPERS LIVE!

ART BaBeL is a new program that aims to provide significant peer-learning opportunities for local artists by way of brownbag luncheon-discussions (BBL) with the internationally-acclaimed artists brought to Atlanta by ART PAPERS LIVE!

Free and open exclusively to professional artists and art students, ART BaBeL will create a forum for informal discussion of a broad range of questions—production and dissemination strategies; professional advancement; technical learning; residency; networking; and more—determined by the artists in attendance.

ART BaBeL’s first event—lunch with Daniel Canogar—will be held at Solomon Projects on Thursday, April 17th, from noon to 2pm.
Daniel Canogar’s talk, Electronic Baroque, will be presented the preceding evening, Wednesday, April 16th, at 7pm at The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum at Georgia Tech, 500 10th Street at Hemphill Avenue. Info: www.artpapers.org

For more information on this new initiative or on any of ART PAPERS’ programs, please contact Jina Kim at info@artpapers.org / 404.588.1837 ext 16.

Two things happening tonight, both of which you can attend if you’re so inclined. The first is the Carrie Mae Weems lecture at SCAD-Atlanta at 6pm. The second is the opening at Mason Murer Fine Art, which you can show up to a little late, if you’d like to attend both. I will probably be at Mason Murer between 8 and 8:30pm tonight, and then it’s off to dinner. No meeting at the school officially, ya dig?

Lecture by artist Carrie Mae Weems
Friday, Feb. 15, 6 p.m. SCAD-Atlanta Join artist Carrie Mae Weems, Spring 2008 SCAD-Atlanta distinguished faculty member, for a lecture. Considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists, Weems has investigated yearning, loss, cultural identity and the visual consequences of power throughout her world-renowned career. Her lecture will give an overview of her practice and introduce ideas and concepts that will be explored in her course and upcoming exhibition at the ACA Gallery of SCAD. For more information, call 404.253.2737. Doors open at 5 p.m.

Off-campus program interest meeting
Friday, Feb. 15, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
SCAD-Atlanta, Georgia Room
Learn more about upcoming off-campus programs to Chicago, New York, Italy, and Germany. For more information, e-mail offcampusprograms@scad.edu or call 912.525.4786.

West End gallery crawl Saturday, Feb. 16, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. SCAD-Atlanta
Hosted by the ACA Community Education Program of SCAD, gallery crawls begin with a brief orientation before setting off to explore some of Atlanta’s most exciting galleries. Join this tour showcasing the best of West End galleries and museums including Clark Atlanta University Galleries, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, and Hammonds House Museum. Groups assemble in the main lobby at SCAD-Atlanta. Lunch is not included in the registration fee. Registration fee is $65 per gallery crawl, $50 for two or more registrants or two or more crawls. The guide for this crawl is Joy C. Patty.

Vanderbilt University professor Steven Tepper is giving a talk Monday (Feb. 4) at Emory University on the “creative campus movement.” The talk is free and open to the public and is aimed at spurring conversation about the role of the arts and creativity in a university setting. His talk starts at 4 p.m. in the Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room 311, 540 Asbury Circle.

This could be pretty interesting and relevant to PhotoAwesome.

The photography program is hosting a lecture by Thomas Neff on February 7 at 4:30pm in the shooting studio (515C). Tom is going to be in Atlanta in conjunction with a book signing for his new book Holding Out and Hanging On at Barnes & Noble. He teaches photography at LSU. Check out his web site.

thomasneffphotographer.com

Yeah I know I know, just when you thought Saturday couldn’t get any busier. SALTWORKS (one our favorites) has an opening on Saturday. I will definitely be going to this. Who’s with me?

New works by Jiha Moon
Opening reception Saturday, January 12 at 7pm
Artist talk begins at 6:30pm

Hey,

In order to attend the Solomon Projects Opening, the Saltworks Opening and then PhotoAwesome’s Art House Opening tomorrow, Sat. Nov. 10:

1) I will be in the computer lab at 5:30.

2) I will then proceed to Solomon Projects to be there at 6:00.

3) Then I will go to Saltworks by 6:30.

4) Then I will be heading to Art House.

I highly recommend everyone follow this plan.

-Steve

There is a lecture at 4pm today at Georgia State University, by Marcia E. Vetrocq, Senior Editor of Art in America. Obviously this one will be hard to make, as it happens during classes, but make it if you can.

Alec Soth will speak at the High Museum of Art at 7pm. Be there early, because there will probably be a large crowd. Here’s the press release:

ACP 9 Lecture Series presents Alec Soth tonight at the High Museum of Art. A photographer for Magnum, Mr. Soth’s photographs have been published in three books, Sleeping by the Mississippi, Niagara, and the recently released Dog Days, Bogotá. Using a wooden 8×10 camera, Mr. Soth captures his subjects in a manner that allows viewers to explore and create his or her own narrative dialogue within the imagery’s composition. The evening with Mr. Soth is presented in conjunction with Friends of Photography at the High Museum.

ACP9: Alec Soth Lecture
Thurs., Oct. 11, 7 p.m.
Hill Auditorium @ High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree St., NE
Atlanta, GA 30309
Marta: Arts Center Station
Sign lanuage interpretation will be provided.

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Wed. Oct. 3

4th floor.

Paraphrasing the title of Maya Deren’s 1946 film, Allan deSouza talks about his explorations of the marginalized body and social space. His photographs, as well as performances, sculptures and “paintings” made from domestic and bodily materials such as fingernails and hair, use humor and forensic techniques to “record” the racialized, gendered body in ways that suggest ritual or fetish. This event is free and open to the public

7:00pm-8:00pm EDT

This lecture sounds very interesting. Hope to see you all there.

Wednesday, September 19, 7 pm
Richard H. Rich Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center
Co-sponsored by the High Museum of Art
This event is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.

Christian Marclay is a prominent artist and musician whose work explores the space between visual art and audio cultures, transforming music and sound into visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear this fascinating artist who, over the last 30 years, has produced a remarkable body of work exploring the gap between what we hear and what we see.

Born in California in 1955, Marclay was raised in Switzerland and now lives in New York and London. His work has been featured in recent solo exhibitions at: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2006; Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2005; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 2004; Tate Modern, London, 2004; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2003; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2001. It has also been included in numerous important group exhibitions such as Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2004, SITE Santa Fe, 2003, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2001. Marclay is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery in New York and White Cube in London.

Rich asked me to post two upcoming Printmaking Department events. This Thursday (click to see a larger image with more details):

And this Saturday, we’ll have to make this one of our gallery stops:

Monday, Sept. 17, 6: 30 p.m. reception, 7 p.m. program
SCAD-Atlanta, Building C, Room 515
Admission for students with valid ID is free, ASMP members free; nonmembers $15.

Simply put, the business of photography is time-consuming and often daunting. Not only do photographers need to make great photographs, but they need to stay in business too. John Harrington’s program is packed with information on how to operate a successful freelance photography business; how to determine your rates, handle “no-change” contracts, late-paying clients and debates over rate increases; and how to negotiate better. Considerations when developing rates and resources, designing a business model that accounts for everything from taxes to business expenses, and several techniques for negotiating with clients will be discussed. For nearly two decades, John Harrington has covered the world of politics, traveled internationally and negotiated contracts along the way. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek and Rolling Stone. For more information, visit http://www.johnharrington.com.

That’s tonight, folks. It should be better than last year.

The Sam Taylor-Wood lecture is at the Rich Auditorium at the High Museum Saturday at 4:00pm.  If you want to walk to the museum for the lecture, meet at the lab at 3:30pm!  Hope to see you there.

Sam Taylor-Wood is giving a lecture at Woodruff on Saturday, Sept. 15, 4-5 p.m. as part of ACP.

“As a member of the YBAs (Young British Artists), Sam Taylor-Wood has earned the reputation of being one of the leading new media artists in the millennium. Her work in photography and film examines collective social and psychological conditions within thought-provoking scenarios. Taylor-Wood often explores the divide between consciousness and appearance of her subjects and then further presents her subjects in a manner that displays the discord between the internal and external identity.”

The opening of her show, along with David Hilliard (!), is at Jackson on Friday.

More information here…

I plan to go. You?

One more… Sam Taylor Wood at White Cube

Photo District News is holding a seminar in Atlanta October 1 and 2…

I’ll be working with Solomon Projects tomorrow, Tuesday June 4 to webcast the latest installment of Wandern. If you can, please sign on to the Breeze webcast at noon tomorrow. Or if you’re here and would like to come to the gallery, let me know.

Here’s the summary from Solomon’s site…

“#6 Live simulcast from Solomon Projects (to view online please visit http://www.solomonprojects.com on June 5th, beginning at noon)
Brian Bell and David Yocum
Conceptual Space
Tuesday, June 5 / 12 � 2PM

Bell and Yocum, both former Senior Project Architects with Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects in Atlanta founded their own firm, bldgs in 2006. They are a full service architecture practice dedicated to the creation of inventive and enduring works of architecture and urban design. David Yocum, AIA, received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College. Brian Bell, AIA, received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, where he was a John E. Thayer Scholar, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Washington in Seattle.”