As you begin to dive into your projects for the year, keep in mind the 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition this October! For the past two years, Lamar Dodd School of Art students have been encouraged to submit their own original works to be looked over and possibly selected by a visiting juror. This year, Mark Karelson, director of Mason Murer Fine Arts Gallery in Atlanta, will be selecting work for the November 26th show. A little bit about our juror from the LDSOA website: Mark Mason Karelson is an artist and owner and Director of Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta. He also Chairs the Board of VSA arts of Georgia, a thirty year old non-profit organization which provides access to the arts for people with disabilities. Mark also serves on the Advisory Board of The Atlanta Community Food Bank. He is married to artist Kim Karelson, a University of Georgia graduate with a BA in Art. They have a beautiful daughter, Katie. All types of art are accepted. There ARE prizes for the juror’s favorites. If you have any questions or need more information, check out: http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=5&id=338 or keep your eyes peeled for the latest LDSOA newsletters. This drawing is from last year’s juried show. To look at more pictures, check out the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150289822110720.558831.131123090719
Atlanta’s online art magazine, Burnaway, has a great interview with Gaia this month. Jeremy Abernathy discusses street art as social practice with this Brooklyn/ Baltimore street artist. http://www.burnaway.org/2011/08/artspeak-gaia-on-living-walls-and-street-art-as-social-practice/
Looking for something to do this weekend…or maybe next week…? Burnaway, an Atlanta arts magazine, offers a weekly events list that is excellent for anyone passing through the Atlanta area on any given day who wants a taste of the extremely ubiquitous— and really, really cool— art scene here. Check it out: http://www.burnaway.org/to-do-list-events/
CONGRATS to UGA Graphic Design professor MoonJung Jang! Jang won Best in Print from AIGA’s SEED (Southeastern Excellence in Design) Awards. In addition, UGA alumni Samira Knoshnood, Cass Olson, Melissa Lee, and Jade Walter, won SEED awards in the student division. GREAT JOB GUYS! See Jang’s winning design on the SEED awards website: http://seedawards.consultsherra.com/2011winners/#/professional/print/35
Traveling this summer? Passing through Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta? Make sure to stop by the special exhibition, “All Creatures Great and Small.”  Featured in this exhibition are works from the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection and Carl Mullis. “ Paintings, sculptures and mixed-media creations by such folk masters as Howard Finster and Mose Tolliver and by such outstanding but relatively unheralded contemporary artists as Jim Lewis and Ted Gordon are on display in the Atlanta airport’s T gates. The majority of artists featured have spent their lives in the South, including the following artists from Georgia: Michael Crocker, Finster, Willie Jinks, R.A. Miller and O.L. Samuels.” Check out this article on the GMOA’s website and a link to an upcoming film documentary about the art: http://www.georgiamuseum.org/art/exhibitions/on-view/all-creatures-great-and-small 
athensmusicandarts: Supa cool Athens artist Jennifer Hartley has a show coming up in Atlanta at Studioplex. Love her work.
The Badia of Florence: Art and Observance in a Renaissance Monastery A lecture by SCAD Atlanta Art History professor Dr. Anne Leader. “My talk will present a relatively unknown fresco cycle that adorns the second story of the so-called “Orange Cloister” of the Florentine Badia, an ancient, powerful, and wealthy Benedictine monastery that underwent a thorough institutional reform in the early fifteenth century. Murals depicting the Life of St. Benedict were painted in the cloister between 1435 and 1439 at a time when the Benedictine Order in Italy was experiencing profound change as certain Italian houses undertook a reform of their monastic practice and a refashioning of their corporate identity. The Florentine Badia was one of four Italian monasteries to initiate a Reform Congregation in 1419, and the frescoes that decorate the Badia’s cloister served as a means to define what it meant to be Benedictine.” TONIGHT- September 2, 2010 - at 5pm in room S150 of the Lamar Dodd School of Art Covered in today’s issue of the Red & Black: http://www.redandblack.com/2010/09/01/author-talks-fresco-fascination/
Many of you Georgians and Dali enthusiasts have probably already heard that Dali’s late works will be on exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (http://www.high.org/) on August 7th through January 9th. Today, the AJC ran an article about the museum’s unique marketing scheme for this show. From ajc.com: The High art of selling Dali: “The Late Work” At the moment, a googly-eyed Dalí, his famous curled mustache reaching toward the clouds, stares down from 10 48-foot-wide billboards over interstates and major intersections around town. Oh, but this is only the beginning of the marketing assault. Soon 2,500 posters with the same image will show up in storefront windows and elsewhere, and countless coasters sporting the photo will be supplied to 30 restaurants and bars. On the flip side: a coupon for $3 off admission or $10 off a membership. In an even grander gesture, Dalí’s signature mustache will be emblazoned on the nose of a Delta 757. The famed ‘stache also is a key graphic element in a different series of posters that don’t even mention the High Museum or the exhibit’s title, but directs viewers to the Web site www.fantasticmustache.org. The idea of the 1,000-plus “unbranded” posters is to create a sense of intrigue about the show, especially among the 20- and 30-something demographic. “We are hoping to target new audiences through a creative campaign that’s not in keeping with our traditional marketing efforts,” High spokeswoman Nicole Taylor explained. Read more about the history of the iconic mustache and the exhibition: http://www.accessatlanta.com/atlanta-events/the-high-art-of-579303.html
If you’re in Atlanta tonight, May 27th- Mondohomo is opening at the Eyedrum in Atlanta “Gearing up for the festival’s fourth year and coinciding with Mondohomo 2010 is the Mondo Art Show, opening the first night of the festival Thursday May 27th at Eyedrum Atlanta and continuing through Saturday June 26th. This year’s participants were asked to respond to their city, be it where they were born, grew up, live now or aspire to be. The 2010 Mondohomo Art Show is curated by Donnie Reider.” http://www.mondohomo.com/
Guess who is coming to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta… http://www.accessatlanta.com/atlanta-events/a-surreal-deal-high-234283.html
VCC Lecture -‘Practical Devotion.’ Apotropaism and the Protection of the Soul, Dr. John Decker January 28th, 2010, 5:00 PM, Room S150, LDSOA Dr. John R. Decker is Assistant Professor of Art History at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He recently published The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Ashgate, 2009; www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754664536).
College Night January 23, 2010, 7-11:59 p.m. High Museum of Art$7 for students with valid I.D. and free for members. $5 per person for groups of 10 or more. $18 general admission. Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius is ending soon, so be sure to catch it during this exciting night of gallery viewing, arts-and-crafts, live music and dancing. On ViewLeonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius The Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten John Portman: Art and Architecture Music 8 to 10:30 p.m.: DJ Tabone 10:30 to 11:30 p.m.: Jaspects Activities 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.: Drawing in the Galleries 8 to 11 p.m.: Craft Workshop