ACP Announces 2008 Public Art with McCallum/Tarry

For Immediate Release

[April 28, 2008]
Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry have been commissioned by Atlanta Celebrates Photography to create an original, temporary work of public art for ACP’s 10th festival in October, 2008. McCallum/Tarry’s career has developed around site-specific work, often utilizing photographic media to highlight political and racial issues in America.

McCallum/Tarry plan to create a work on the site of the water tower at the corner of Auburn and Irwin in the Old Fourth Ward. They plan to install video images and sounds recorded in Atlanta during the Civil Rights movement inside the tower, with an additional wrap-around scrim displaying full-length photographs on the outside.

The objective of this public artwork is to weave a multidimensional visual experience for the viewer that touches on current politics, such as the drought, while integrating the history of the impassioned social protest movement that unfolded from the Old Fourth Ward, across the US, and throughout the world.

By bringing together sound, video, and photographic imagery at this strategic site, bordering both the King district and the Beltline, McCallum/Tarry hope to create a public art project that will resonate beyond the site, leading citizens from all over to interact with, and learn from this work of art.

This McCallum/Tarry ACP Public Art project is curated by Lisa Kurzner.

For more information, or if you would like to get involved with this project, please contact:
Atlanta Celebrates Photography
info@acpinfo.org
404.634.8664

For a video introduction to the project, please see: ACP Now!

Atlanta Celebrates Photography: acpinfo.org

McCallum/Tarry: mccallumtarry.com

ACP is pleased to announce that we’ve purchased a complete set of prints from Matt Haffner’s “Serial City” public art project, and the prints will become part of MOCA GA’s permanent collection. Mr. Haffner’s wheat-paste cutouts were ACP’s Public Art project in 2006, curated by Joey Orr. In purchasing the series, ACP deepens our committment to supporting local artists, and insures that our Public Art projects will continue to live in the archives of a local museum.

ACP thanks Joe Massey and the Joe Massey Foundation for making this purchase possible. We share a commitment to supporting local artists, and we’re pleased that the purchase strengthens ACP’s relationship with a local arts organization.

Creative Loafing Arts staff writer Felica Feaster, an enthusiastic supporter of “Serial City“, has posted about the purchase on Creative Loafing’s PopSmart Blog.