If you have a participating venue or event during ACP, please be sure to send an exhibition card to info@acpinfo.org. Here’s an example, from the Callanwolde / authenTEAK exhibition, listing #075 in the ACP 12 Festival Guide.

And here’s the card for listing #23, Amalgam at Quinlan Visual Arts Center.

More info: http://spruillgallery.blogspot.com/

Thursday, at Woodruff Arts Center, Rich Auditorium, 5pm.

Bob Kolbrener has an opening for Picturing the West at Lumiere on Wednesday, July 14th, at 5:30pm. Also on view is Peter Sekaer … In Context

ACP 11 Public Art participating artist Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier has an opening for Mapping the Present Just Went By at Madison-Morgan Cultural Center on Friday, July 16th at 5pm.

“”MAPPING THE PRESENT JUST WENT BY is about being in long ago Madison and Madison today and capturing memories that linger with elders. It is about the African continuum, which is simultaneously located in the present, past, and future, and re-imagining place as it transforms. People live, people die, land is transferred from one generation to the next, or sold to strangers. Frederick Douglass said, ‘We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.’ My work makes new memories from the voices, dreams, and imaginings of the community.”

Sheila Pree Bright has an opening reception for Girls, Grillz and Guns at Sandler Hudson Gallery on Tuesday, July 13th, at 7pm. There will be an artist’s talk on Saturday, July 17th at 2pm. The exhibition opening will also be a book signing for Deborah Willis’ “Posing Beauty”.

Jackson Fine Art is hosting this signing and discussion with Athens-based photographer Mark Steinmetz about his latest book with Nazraeli Press “Greater Atlanta” on Saturday, July 17th.

More info on jenniferschwartzgallery.com

© Terry Check, “Mom, Tell Me Why”

Focusing on Racial Inequality

Terry Check, a local photographer, looks at racism in America. His work, “Looking Backwards/Moving Forward”, together with other artists, is featured at the National Black Arts Festival at the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, Central Library, Art Gallery at One Margaret Mitchell Square, Atlanta, GA 30303. Meet Terry at the Opening Reception on Thursday, July 8, 2010 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Terry writes, “In the 1960’s John Griffin wrote “Black Like Me” not a great book, never made the top 10 list, but it changed my life forever. I am white, not black. As a child, I grew up in a mildly racist family in a mildly racist community. How can people dislike, resent and in some cases, hate black people? It’s wrong. All people of any color, need to look back and realize that racial inequality has no place in our world. We must move forward … working toward equality without seeking restitution for yesterday. Some will move forward. Others will not be able to put yesterday in perspective. “Looking Backwards/Moving Forward” is a retrospective of a black family remembering racial discrimination of yesterday and today. Some are open-mined, engaged in understanding, self-reliant with expectations, and becoming role models to all. Others will never move forward, and continue to live in yesterday again and again.”

Raised in Utica, NY and of Polish decent, Terry has photographed people and places for the past forty years. Beginning at an early age and advancing to PR photographer at MVCC, he exhibited his work “Collegiate Profiles” at a local gallery. While at Case Western Reserve University, he did commercial photography for a local studio. After graduation, he worked as an environmental engineer and continued pursing his photography … people less their facades.

Wherever people gather or their memoirs linger behind, Terry strives to capture the moment transcending time and place. His work searches for the individual’s meaning of life on earth and thereafter. Noticing what others don’t … reaching without consequences to expand his photography.

Contact
Terry Check
terry@terrycheck.com
20 Waterfront Square
Dawsonville, GA 30534
404-915-1910

Currently on view through July 24th at Jackson Fine Art.

“Here’s a show of a different kind. All you have to do is send in a winning image file. The Atlanta Photography Group will have it printed and mounted (LARGE) by Digital Arts Studio, and hang it in a six-week long show in the atrium of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Jurored by Amy Miller, Executive Director of ACP. For all the details, download the entry form (pdf). Deadline for entries is July 17, 2010.“

Just in time for July 4th, a patriotic photography exhibition in Zebulon at A Novel Experience. A percentage of sales from the exhibition will benefit the Wounded Warrior Project.

Visions of Old Glory