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.