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!

If you’ve placed a listing in the ACP Festival Guide (launching online, soon!) and need the ACP logo to use in your promotional materials, please see “Show Your Participation” for details & usage. Thanks!

Had a quick slip-of-the-mouse this afternoon that prematurely sent emails to quite a few of you who have listings in this year’s ACP Festival Guide! Not to worry, the link to your listing (which was included in the email) will remain the same, but the entire online Festival Guide is still in the works, and will be published in August. The printed Festival Guide will follow, in September.

We’ll notify you then (again) when the entire Festival Guide is live. Thanks for your patience! ; )

We’re preparing the ACP 11 Festival Guide for the printer, but we wanted to quickly give you a thumbnail sketch of some of the images that will be accompanying their listings this year. Thanks to your participation, October’s going to be better than ever!

ACP 11 Festival Guide listings are coming to a close on Tuesday, at 11:59pm. There are a few more hours remaining to insure your participation in this year’s festival. Submit your listing today!