You can take the shuttle from MARTA this year! More info about ACP’s Opening Reception at Le Flash at leflash-atlanta.com

We’re pleased to be collaborating again with Lumière who are hosting an exhibition of Dorothea Lange’s work in addition to the “Great Women in Photography” lecture at the High Museum this Thursday. Can’t wait!

Dorothea Lange - ACP 11

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It’s a big week for ACP, as openings, events, lectures and workshops are kicking this year’s festival into high gear! We’re pleased to be collaborating with Lumière in their presentation of Dorothea Lange and Her Impact: a Film Screening and Panel Discussion at the High Museum on Thursday, at 7pm. The lecture is followed by Lumière’s exhibition of Lange’s work, opening this Friday.

It’s great to see all the new participating venues involved this year, as well as old favorites. This week brings a great, diverse selection, from Perry Julien’s opening in Midtown at Apres Diem, to the Westside where Saltworks & Get This! Gallery have openings on Friday, and this weekend brings the first events of SlowExposures, including the world’s first group show of photographs taken by dogs!

Updated:
Tue: Perry Julien’s The Music Seen at Apres Diem.
Tue: Teri Darnell’s nature photos at REI
Thu: Film and Panel Discussion at the High Museum:
Great Women in Photography - Dorothea Lange
Fri: Jane Kerr’s New Slant on the South opens at Callenwolde
Fri: Fay Gold Selects at Atlanta Photography Gallery
Fri: Bill Daniels’ Ground Score at Get This! Gallery
Fri: phoDOGraphy at SlowExposures
Fri: Jefferson Pinder’s Lazarus at Saltworks
Sat: What’s Happening Now at Cherrylion
Sat: Workshop with Tim Barnwell at SlowExposures
Sun: SlowExposures Salon: Surviving Tough Times
Sun: Ephemeral Musings by Wendy Phillips at Hammonds House

Tickets are available online for next week’s ACP Photography Auction Gala Fundraiser, and check out the Google Calendars for keeping track of this year’s Festival. Printed Festival Guides will be available at the Lange event on Thursday at the High Museum, and it’s already available online and as a pdf.

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you out and about!

- ACP

It may have rained on Friday night, but the precipitation did little to dampen the enthusiasm of those who came out for the inaugural edition of “Le Flash” which coincided with the Castleberry Art Stroll. The brainchild of Stuart Keeler and Cathy Byrd, Le Flash was modeled on the “Nuit Blanche” concept; an evening of public art in unexpected places. We’re happy ACP could collaborate with Le Flash and direct some attention in their direction.

Below are a few pics of the night from ACP, and links to others found online. It was quite a night!

David Allen Jones has a set of images here.

via Matthieu
Masquelet on flickr, whose slideshow is below.

The video may be unembeddable, but click the pic below to take a look at the lecture Gregory Heisler gave on Arnold Newman at the High Museum on Oct. 1st.

Here’s an mp3 of the audio, if you’d like to listen.

An ACP collaboration, Le Flash is happening THIS FRIDAY NIGHT in Castleberry Hill, and it’s going to be a truly remarkable evening, with over 30 artists involved. There are a few places to catch-up on what’s on the schedule. See Art Relish’s article for background, or the Le Flash Blog. There’s an official site here (careful, there’s sound). See you on Friday night!

Danielle Roney will be giving an artist’s lecture (in collaboration between ACP and MOCA GA) on Thursday night, Oct. 23rd. Cinque Hicks takes a look at Roney’s Genesis Trial installation, currently at MOCA GA.

“Massive ambition has been Roney’s calling card – at least since the inception of her Global Portals project in 2005. Her resource-intensive work often requires production in the extreme, and few facilities in the city can accommodate the physical breadth required to make the work resonate. As the culmination of its Working Artists Project, however, MOCA GA has shown that its investment in Roney was a smart bet.”

[Danielle Roney explores virtual realities in Genesis Trial: Johannesburg at MOCA GA]

Gregory Heisler is an internationally recognized commercial photographer, whose work includes 70 TIME Magazine covers of people influencing the period in which we live. His work has also been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Life, Sports Illustrated, Gentleman’s Quarterly and Esquire.

In addition to his critically acclaimed photographic images, Heisler regularly participates as a speaker and educator at the International Center of Photography, The School of Visual Arts, and Parsons School of Design.
He worked with Arnold Newman early in his career.

See this event, a collaboration between ACP and Lumière, in the ACP Festival Guide.

Have you signed-up for our email list? If you haven’t, you may have missed hearing of these two events this week - ACP’s collaboration with Lumière Gallery, featuring a lecture about Alaska with Tim Troll from the Nature Conservancy. Plus, the same night, Amy Miller and Michael David Murphy will be leading a discussion about William Eggleston following a screening of the documentary “William Eggleston in the Real World” at the Contemporary. Details below!

Tim Troll Lecture
in collaboration with Lumière Gallery
Thursday, February 21st, 7pm
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public

“William Eggleston in the Real World”
Screening and Discussion led by ACP
Thursday, February 21st, 7pm
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Free and Open to the Public

Last Thursday, before Robert Glenn Ketchum’s presentation at the Carter Center, ACP had the chance to sit down with him and find out more about his work. Ketchum has an exhibition at the Carter Center through April 13th, and his show will be at Lumiere Gallery through March 1st. This image is of a loom weaving that was four years in the making, a collaboration between Ketchum and the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute in China.

Press the pink play button to listen to the interview, in three parts.

© “Loom Weaving”, Robert Glenn Ketchum

On the 60s, Eliot Porter, Glen Canyon, advocacy, spiritual doors, the Hudson River.

On Alaska’s importance, old-growth, legislation, living the adventure, embroideries, digital manipulation, collaboration, textures with textile, avant-garde schooling, photo-realistic textile, Hockney’s rugs, Nixon, textile guilds and negative space.

© “Choose Joy”, Robert Glenn Ketchum, 2006

On how to turn reflected light on water (in a photograph) into a weaving.

We’re happy to be collaborating with Lumiere Gallery next week with a lecture called “Vanishing Alaska” by Robert Glenn Ketchum at the Carter Center.

© Robert Glenn Ketchum

The lecture is part of a three-part series with leading authorities on Alaska and the environment. As President, Jimmy Carter helped establish National Parks in Alaska, and Ketchum will be speaking about these places, as well as his work as a photographer of wild spaces.

39 large-format photographs of Ketchum’s are currently hanging at the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum. Please read more about that exhibit on the Carter Library site. That show will be up until April 13th.

Ketchum’s lecture next Thursday compliments his show opening Jan. 25th at Lumiere Gallery, called “Nature’s Palette”. In addition to photographs, Ketchum will be showing silk Chinese embroidery from the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute in Suzhou, China.

For more information about the lecture and events surrounding Robert Glenn Ketchum’s visit to Atlanta, please see Lumiere Gallery’s site, and we hope to see you on Thursday the 24th at the Carter Museum.

There were plenty of students at the Vincent Dixon talk last week at the Art Institute of Atlanta. Dixon spoke about the technical intricacies of his commercial advertising work. In addition to his talk, large prints of Dixon’s work hung in the Art Institute Gallery.

Here’s an uncommon sight at the lecture, a student looking at actual film.