Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Last 2 weeks to see More Mergers & Acquisitions, one of the Top 10 exhibitions to see by the AJC!

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Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
Awards $40,000 Grant

We are thrilled to report that the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation is continuing their support of our educational programming through their Marketplace Empowerment for Artists program. They have generously sponsored our Artist Survival Skills series for several years. This year’s grant will enable us to produce a publication that examines aspects of “Creative Lives and Careers.” Much of the book’s content will be drawn from lectures and panel discussions at the Contemporary featuring artists, curators, and critics including Dan Cameron, Mel Chin, Nancy Popp, Barbara Pollack, and Jerry Saltz, as well as new takes on advice and inspiration by other well-respected leaders in the field.

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Podcasts & Press

For those of you who attended our thought provoking lectures and panel discussions and are just dying to re-live the experience, these talks are now available for downloading. If you couldn’t join us for Isolde Brielmaier, Dan Cameron, Courtney J. Martin, Richard Flood and others, here is your chance to see what you missed. These podcasts are your way of staying in touch with some of the most respected art world players talking about what they know best and care about most!

Read about Richard Flood’s January 16 talk at

Burnaway.org
Examiner.com
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Panel Discussion: Shana Berger and Nathan Purath, Barry Blinderman, Mark Sloan
Saturday, February 13, 10 AM – 12 PM
Where do you think the most significant exhibitions and artist projects are taking place? If your only thoughts were New York, LA, and London, you’d be wrong. Join some of the most experienced and intrepid curators from Alabama, Illinois, and South Carolina for a discussion of the perks and pitfalls of exhibition-making outside of dominant art cities.

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Yi-Hsin Tzeng, Double Chiang Kai-Shek, 2008

News from the Studios
The 14 artists who participate in our Studio Artist Program are active professionals who exhibit their work, give lectures, receive awards, and contribute to the Atlanta scene in numerous ways. We want you to know what they are up to by providing monthly updates about their activities and accomplishments.

We welcome Yi-Hsin Tzeng to the Program this month. Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Tzeng relocated to the United States in 2007 and attended the Savannah College of Art and Design where she was awarded a full tuition Fellowship in the MFA painting program. She was also the recipient of several artist residencies including Elizabeth Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Ox-Bow. Tzeng investigates the shape and color of human desire using various media, including painting, video, installation, and sculpture.

Visual artist David D’Agostino and language poet Angel Maldonado will present a poetry reading at the University of Puerto Rico at Utuado, on February 10. The readings will include 3 visual poetry works from D’Agostino’s current Alphabet Species series.

Concordia University’s Ferguson Art Gallery in River Forest, Illinois presents Antiques and Heirlooms by Paul S. Benjamin, January 11 – February 14, 2010.

Margaret Fletcher, Michele Schuff, and Dayna Thacker are participating artists in Art Papers Eleventh Annual Art Auction at Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, on Saturday, February 6, 7 – 10 PM.

Stuart Keeler will launch PORTABLE, an international mobile exhibition space. This month he will have work in Public Realm at Propeller Centre for Visual Art, Toronto, Canada, and Digital Landscape, Architreasures, Chicago, Illinois. Keeler has a Commissioned Artist Project in Columbia, Missouri with the Percent for Art Program, and is a current finalist for public art commissions in Florida and California.

Dayna Thacker has work in The Birds and Some Bees at the Swan Coach House, Atlanta, January 14 – March 6, 2010.

The Studio Artist Program is generously supported by the Forward Arts Foundation.

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