You’ve seen the petition and you’ve read the news. Here’s a look at today’s rally held at the State Capitol where a few hundred artists, educators, supporters and administrators raised awareness about arts funding. The speaker in the video is Georgia State Representative Vincent Fort.

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“Photography…and Then Some”
A spring show at “Wing & A Prayer Studio” featuring photographers Corinne Adams, Meg Dreyer and Karey Walter, along with silversmith English Norman.
Thursday, April 29, 4-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, 10-4 (Thursday is opening and wine reception.)

Featuring photography and mixed media and photo-jewelry, purses and more. Also featuring Corinne’s new line of Nicaraguan-sewn T-shirts, pillows, purses, jewelry and more — with all proceeds benefiting missions in Nicaragua.

Wing & A Prayer Studio
3725 Powers Ferry Road
Atlanta, GA 30342
corinneadams@bellsouth.net

(Wing & A Prayer is in the back yard of Sardis United Methodist Church, just off Roswell Road, one block north of the Piedmont-Roswell intersection.)

See MOCA GA for more information.

Great new look at the High Museum of Art’s new curator, Michael Rooks in the AJC.

“The Illinois native wasted no time getting started in Atlanta. He met with art consultant Mary Stanley his first day in the office, and soon thereafter spoke to a youngish cross-section of collectors, artists and arts advocates at a meeting of her Young Collectors Club.

“He stayed until midnight talking to a group of artists,” Stanley reports. “It’s not just that he shows up; he really listens.”

She watched him work a different crowd at the High’s Collectors’ Evening in January. The guests paid $500 a pop to attend and vote to select acquisitions proposed by the curators.

Rooks, who pitched a portrait by Kehinde Wiley, was articulate and professional during his presentation, she says, but punctured the seriousness by having the words “buy this” flash on the screen like a subliminal sales ploy. (The piece was acquired.)

Relaxing after work in his still sparely furnished Midtown apartment, the wiry curator looks younger than his 44 years. Dressed in Keds and casual clothes and sporting fashionable stubble, he looks more like an art handler than a museum curator and, according to Paul Klein, a former gallery owner who knew him when Rooks was curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, he behaves out of character, too.

“A lot of curators get in their ivory towers, ostentatiously separate from [the lay audience],” says Klein, now a curator and art consultant. “He likes to do exhibitions that normal people can relate to.”

Ellen Fleurov, Executive Director of Pittsburgh’s Silver Eye Photography Center & ACP portfolio reviewer, shares the news that Atlanta photographers Marilyn Suriani, Billy Howard, Thomas England, Corinne Adams, Kathryn Kolb and Wynne Ragland, Jr., have all donated work to the Silver Eye Center for Photography 2010 Benefit Photography Auction. To see their work and 95 other lots by artists like Richard Misrach, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Ralph Gibson, and Elijah Gowin, go to silvereye.auctionanything.com.

A quick reminder that our twitter account: ACPtweets, offers fresh photography links about Atlanta and beyond! ACPtweets is more active than this blog, with daily posts. Follow ACP there, too!

There are lots of new resources for photographers, via Facebook. New Orleans Photo Alliance reminded me about Photo Grant Opportunities group on Facebook.

Denise Lira-Ratinoff (a past ACP participating artist & Portfolio Review attendee) has work from her “Glacier” series available in Christie’s Green Auction. Check it out!

Tom Kells’ “Light-Color-Motion” show at Gallery 4463 in Acworth is set for opening on May 6th. The show will be up through May 30th.

Pace Academy photography teacher France Dorman has been running a photography competition for local high schools for the past nineteen years! ACP helped France hang the show last week, and it’s a stunning selection of budding photographers from schools in metro Atlanta. The opening reception is at Pace, this Sunday, April 11, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Gary Gruby was this year’s judge.

Have a look back at last year’s show!

This Friday, at 4pm at Serenbe Photography Center, High Museum of Art Photography Curator Julian Cox, and local photographer and artist William Boling will be presenting a lecture (and dinner!) about their trip to AIPAD in New York.

In Ahorn Magazine, Athens-based photographer Mark Steinmetz talks about his latest book from Nazraeli Press, “Greater Atlanta“.

“Photographs never explain anything; the limits to what photographs actually demonstrate and offer needs to be rigorously understood by photographers. Otherwise you end up with elaborate supporting captions or vague, wishful fantasies about what the pictures might be about.”

We’re planning this year’s Festival and wanted to get the word out that the ACP 12 Portfolio Review & Walk will be on Sat., Oct. 16th, at Grady High School.

If you’re interested in attending the Review, please sign-up for our email list to be notified when we open registration later this Spring.