If you’re planning an event to be part of the ACP Photo Festival this fall, you must submit your listing before Tuesday, July 6th, at 11:59 PM. List Your Event Today!

If you haven’t been receiving our email updates, you’ll want to know about two important upcoming deadlines.

June 30th is the last day to list your event in the ACP 12 Festival Guide. And if you want to attend the ACP 12 Portfolio Review, you have until July 12th to apply and submit your images!

List your event in the ACP 12 Festival Guide! We’re accepting listings starting today. If you’re an artist or a venue, you can create your own listing), and securely pay via Google Checkout.

List Your Event in ACP 12

To get started, you’ll need your event, artist & venue info. You’ll need a large jpg, between 1000 and 3000 pixels on its longest side. Like last year, we’ll be displaying each listing chronologically by date of the main event, so we recommend that your main event occur between mid-September and October 31st.

The ACP Festival Guide is a free guide, available in print and online, which offers a complete listing of the more than 150 exhibitions and events that take place during the month of October. It lists all ACP programs, as well as all participating venues, which include commercial and non-profit galleries, museums, colleges and universities, artists’ studios, cafes, and other alternative spaces. The Festival Guide provides locations, dates, times, as well as artists who are being presented at all venues. The 15,000 printed copies will be freely distributed by a network of dedicated volunteers and will be available at all participating venues, as well as area schools, libraries, bookstores, cafés, and various retail establishments. Online guides can be downloaded for free. The ACP 12 Festival Guide will be available mid-September.

It’s getting to be the time of year when we’ll be accepting listings for the ACP 12 Festival Guide. Yay! We’re targeting late-May to go live with our online Festival Guide listing tool, and we’re putting the finishing touches on it now. Like every year, it’ll be easier to submit your listing than last year!

Here’s a quick FAQ for artists who are want to participate in ACP, and another FAQ for venues. We’ll be open for listings through June.

To find out when we’re ready, make sure you’re on our email list. We’ll let the list know first, and we look forward to hearing about what event(s) you’re planning for ACP 12 in October, 2010!

Rhythms of the South at Backstage Restaurant, featuring Dana S. Kemp, Judy Kuniansky & Teresa Sims has added a reception tonight from 5-7pm.

Photo from Judy Kuniansky

Contrary to the printed Festival Guide, Dorothy O’Connor’s Tableau will be taking place on Oct. 24th, not the 23rd. We’ll remind you again the week of her event, via our This Week With ACP email. Please see Dorothy’s online listing for the correct information. Thanks!

© Dorothy O’Connor

In case you missed last week’s email (sign-up for ACP email), ACP 11 Festival Guides have arrived and are in the process of being distributed (by an amazing network of volunteers) across the Atlanta-metro area.

If you’d like one, or if you’re a participating venue and would like a full box, please call us at 404.634.8664. It’s best to call an hour or so in advance, to make sure we’re here (1135 Sheridan Rd).

Occasionally there’s a small typo in our printed Festival Guide that we wish weren’t there. In this case, we want to direct your attention to an exhibition that’s currently on view at ART Station from Don Hale. The exhibition is up through Oct 31st, and it’s called “To See My World“.

“A native of upstate New York, Don Hale is a seasoned international traveler and photographer with a unique eye for perspective, contrast and content. His subjects vary from the whimsical, to the sublime to the most thought provoking images exploring the human condition. His photography is taken digitally, but never manipulated by computer. This is Don’s first exhibition in the Atlanta area. Image title is “Cat Nap in Hydra”.

To complement the Online Festival Guide, there’s now a PDF version for your viewing pleasure!

While it’s not “ACP Month” yet, there are already quite a few exhibitions up, and openings are in full-swing. Here are a few links to find out what’s happening.

Check out this week’s events in the online Festival Guide. See the Festival Guide Calendars for a subscribable overview. If you want a quick view, see the pic below.

Events:
Tonight: Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities at Spelman College
Thu: Palimpsest Portraits opens at Marcia Wood Gallery
Fri: Lucinda Bunnen opens at Madison-Morgan Cultural Center
Sat: Gwinnett Tech Seniors Portfolio Show
Sat: Don Hale at Art Station
Sat: Harry Shearer, Corin Hewitt, Will Rogan at The Contemporary

We have big news for you today – the 2009 ACP Festival Guide is now available online at festivalguide.acpinfo.org!.

Here’s our email update, if you’re not on the list!

(Big thanks to the web development team at tehcompany.com for their expertise and perseverance in creating the code for the online guide! Thanks, guys!)

There are over 120 participating venues in ACP 11. Here’s a Google map of all the venues! Each “push-pin” on the map is clickable and yields more information about the event and venue.

View ACP 11 Festival Guide Map in a larger map

We’ve created three calendars this year that will help you keep track of ACP 11. To get your feet wet, start with the ACP 11 Programs calendar, which covers the first 18 listings in the Festival Guide.

The ACP 11 Exhibitions calendar covers multi-day exhibitions that span a range of dates, and the ACP 11 Events calendar covers events (like lectures, openings, receptions, workshops) that span a range of time on a particular day.

ACP 11 Programs [html, ics or ical format (iCal, Sunbird, or Outlook 2007)]

ACP 11 Exhibitions [html, ics or ical format (iCal, Sunbird, or Outlook 2007)]

ACP 11 Events [html, ics or ical format (iCal, Sunbird, or Outlook 2007)]

There are a few participating venues that have ACP events before September (and often, these exhibitions continue into Sept. & Oct.) but we wanted to take a second and draw your attention to them.

* Atlanta-based photographer Jane Kerr has an exhibition at the Cottonlandia Museum in Mississippi called “Photography from the Delta and Beyond” that opens August 30th.

* LaToya Ruby Frazier has an exhibition that’s currently on view upstairs at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery called “The Notion of Family“. Her artist’s lecture will be on Sept. 24th, but the exhibition’s up now, so you can get a head start!

* The High Museum has two photography exhibitions currently on view; Alec Soth’s ‘Black Line of Woods’, and Look Again: A Selection of Photographs from the Permanent Collection

* The Arts for All Gallery at VSA Georgia has a group show called “Contemporary Women: Self Reflections“. The opening reception is October 1st, but the exhibition is currently on view.

* And Bill Boley’s show, “Classic Silver” opens at the Buckhead Library on Friday, August 28th. Mr. Boley will give an artist’s lecture about the work on September 26th.

* Quinlan Arts Center has an exhibition that’s already up called Fall Photography Invitational.

* “Eminent Domain, the Pinyon Canyon Project” opens at Composition Gallery this weekend, August 29th!

The rest of the online Festival Guide will be publicly available a week from tmw, on Sept. 1st, but the astute among you are discovering how to navigate the pre-public version, already!

We’re getting closer to this year’s Festival, and we’re amazed by the breadth of events and exhibitions in this year’s Festival Guide. We’ll be publishing this year’s online Festival Guide on September 1st, and you’ll be able to browse all the events by date, by artist name, by venue, and by neighborhood. There’ll be corresponding google calendars that you can view in your favorite calendaring program, and they’ll be accessible on your phone, so you can find out exactly what’s happening on any given day. There’ll be a Google Map of all the locations, too! For quick, nearly daily updates about the Festival, subscribe to ACP 11 on Twitter.

With over three hundred participating artists, over one hundred and thirty participating venues and over two hundred events, it’s going to be a fantastic autumn of photography in Atlanta!