“Landmarks” opens at Opal Gallery on June 25th, and there will be a group artist’s lecture, moderated by Andy Ditzler, at Eyedrum on Wednesday, June 24th from 7-9pm.

If you’re looking for up-to-date Le Flash info and their Call for Proposals, see leflash-atlanta.com

A quick link to today’s email. There are to participate in ACP 11 by adding your listing to the ACP 11 Festival Guide!

This year’s Portfolio Review and Portfolio Walk will be on Saturday, October 10th, at Grady High School. We’re currently finalizing our list of reviewers for this year, and will be accepting entries later this month. Like last year, this year’s Portfolio Review will be juried, and we’ll be notifying our email list (as well as ACP Now!) with the details of how to apply for the ACP 11 Portfolio Review early next week.

Here are some candids (w/ people eating!) from last year’s Portfolio Review & Walk:

Rose Gallery and Framing in Decatur will be hosting an event called “Legacy of Art” benefitting Uganda’s orphans on June 12th.

ACP is very pleased to have been included in the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund’s Atlanta Arts Recovery Initiative. See the press release below. A new logo will be added to our sponsors, straightaway! Thank you very much, Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund.

Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund Recovery May 2009 Grants

From The White House’s Flickrstream, the President and the first family enjoying the Calder show at the Pompidou.

More news about this year’s edition of Le Flash in Castleberry Hill. Here’s the call for entries, below. Yesterday’s Le Flash announcement is here. Le Flash will be curated by Cathy Byrd and Stuart Keeler.

Le Flash 2009 - Call for Entries

Fresh Perspectives 2009 - Call for Entries

For more information, visit Snapdragonphoto.com.

We’re excited to see that Brook Reynolds and Bryan Meltz made Review Santa Fe’s “100″. Check out more of Bryan’s work here, and Brook’s work here.

© Bryan Meltz

© Brook Reynolds

On Thursday, June 11th, “Boys Life”, a group show featuring work from Peter Bahouth, Steve Bliss, Shannon Clark, Corey Daniels, Emily Gomez, and Ryan Pfluger; and “Play War”, a new exhibition from Ruth Dusseault, will be opening at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery on Thursday night. Festivities from 6 to 9pm!

© Ruth Dusseault

Steve Aishman talks with Julian Cox, curator of photography at The High Museum about Richard Misrach’s current exhibition “On the Beach“. This video is available in HD on youtube.

EarthShare of Georgia wants to see your nature photos. EarthShare is Georgia’s only dedicated environmental fund, and “partners with Georgia businesses and employees to support 62 leading environmental groups through workplace campaigns, Earth Day and other activities.”

“We are looking for photos of you getting outside with your family and friends in Georgia! Just get outside, take some pictures of nature or nature with people, with whatever digital camera you have, and then come back and share them with our online community on Flickr.”

Visit EarthShare’s call for entries in their Flickr group.

ACP is pleased to announce that Le Flash will be making its return to the streets of Castleberry this year on Friday, October 2nd.
Download: Le Flash Press Release (pdf)

“Coming this October, for the second year in a row, LE FLASH ATLANTA will feature over 40 projects in Castleberry Hill’s streets and galleries, vacant lots and windows, warehouses and rooftops.

Fantastical art and creative events will again fill a night out in the neighborhood. Atlanta expects to be showered with the light and sound of installations, performance art, poetry readings, music, video projections and other lens-based projects, an iron pour and art happenings of all sorts.”

More information will be available on June 15th at leflash-atl.com. If you’re an artist who’d like to contribute to Le Flash, there’s currently a call for entries.

Richard Misrach’s “On the Beach” will be on view through August 23rd. Check out the High’s site for more information about the exhibition.

If you’re planning a visit, the High has loosened their restrictions on photography in their galleries, and will allow cell-phone pictures of the exhibition. And please bear with the audio on this, you may need to turn-up your speakers at the start. Thanks!

Richard Misrach at the High Museum from Atlanta Celebrates Photography on Vimeo.