Up now at the Georgia Museum of Art: American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print From the GMOA website: This exhibition illustrates the fascinating fusion of art with popular culture and music history. Featuring the work of one of the nation’s oldest and continuously printing shops—Nashville, Tennessee’s Hatch Show Print—it highlights the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs and stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley and Herbie Hancock.  The exhibition, created by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, is supported by America’s Jazz Heritage, A Partnership of the Wallace Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution. For more information about this exhibition and others, visit: http://www.georgiamuseum.org/art/exhibitions/on-view/american-letterpress-the-art-of-hatch-show-print
Selected galleries will be showcasing Bob Dylan’s latest print series, “Drawn Blank” From ArtInfo.com:  Dylan created the artworks from 1989 to 1992 while on tour to “relax and refocus a restless mind.” The pieces loosely draw inspiration from the style of the post-Impressionists, even using a bowl of fruit as one of his subjects, just as Paul Cezanne did. Dylan captures the seemingly mundane of aspects of everyday life, like a sidewalk café or big rig truck, injecting his own touch. Read the entire article here: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/38173/i-shall-be-released-new-limited-edition-prints-of-bob-dylans-art-hit-the-market/
This Wednesday, June 8th at the Georgia Museum of Art: “The Art of Disegno” Tour From the website: Meet docents in the museum lobby for a tour of Italian prints and drawings, many of which are on extended loan to the museum from the collection of Giuliano Ceseri. Free and open to the public. 2-3pm. http://www.georgiamuseum.org/calendar/event-all/tour-at-two-the-art-of-disegno-italian-prints-and-drawings-from-the-georgia/2011/06/08 Image: Giambattista Tiepelo (Venetian, 1696-1770), “Death Giving Audience,” from the “Capricci,” 1743-49
From visiting artist Lisa Bulawsky’s collaborative printmaking project with the Lamar Dodd School of Art. “Collaborative Project: Prior to and during Lisa’s visit we will be making prints on magnets, which will be attached to cars and driven around downtown and on campus from 12-1pm on April 9th, while (throughout the car stereos) playing “The Rite of Spring” by Igor Stravinsky at a volume audible to the public outside, to attract attention and lightheartedly disrupt public routines.  At the end of the procession, the artworks (magnets) will be disseminated as gifts by attaching them to other magnetic surfaces.”