Curtis Ames presents work at the HIGH Museum

College Night at the HIGH Museum
Saturday, November 10th, from 7pm to 12am

Curtis Ames is graduate student in the GSU MFA program. He works with a variety of media including painting, sculpture and video. You, Me, and Everyone we Know is a multi-channel installation featuring streaming video. It explores the possibility of liminality, through a pseudo-space created by interactive thermal projections. Incorporating the audience results in a continuous performative portrait and living document of the experience, that also addresses the reciprocal relationship between the artist and viewer. 

-This Post Courtesy Curtis Ames, 2nd year DPP Grad

Lauren Peterson visits the Mid American Print Conference!

This past weekend I helped out a friend of mine, Michael Smoot, for his demo during the Mid
American Print Conference in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. After the long 13 hour trip from Atlanta, the
printmaking goodness was well worth the trip. Printmakers from the surrounding areas converged for
demonstrations on techniques, intaglio, monoprinting and digital transfer on yupo, and even lithography
on wood. Panels on issues concerning contemporary printmaking and discussions surrounding the
theme of the “Entrepreneurial Printmaker” were scheduled throughout the day. Professional shops,
like Firecracker Press out of St. Louis set up their wares like posters, t-shirts, and printed notebooks
and students showed their work during open portfolio. Major printmaking suppliers like McCains,
Gamblin, and Takach displayed various tools, inks, and papers. On Friday night all the local art galleries
held openings, displaying prints from the conference and some local artists, including some beautiful
woodcuts printed on fabric. As I returned from the openings, Smoot was still diligently working on his
demo. The next day he had a great response from conference attenders interested in how he built
his own press with materials found at a hardware store for under $300. The weekend ended with
another long drive, some barbecue, and a mind full of new possibilities for how to make prints and keep
printmaking relative.

-This post by 1st year DPP Grad Lauren Peterson

Art for Impact 2012

This year Georgia State University's Photography Association, ExLucis, will be hosting our biennial Art for Impact benefit auction. We are working with Positive Impact, a local 501c3 non-profit that is the largest provider of no-cost mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment, and risk-reduction services to people affected by HIV in the Southeast.

The auction will include art submitted by students, faculty, and alumni of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design. There will also be a raffle with prizes donated by local businesses who want to support the cause as well as a photo booth manned by GSU photography students.

Some come out and help raise some money! Buy some art! Win some prizes! Have a blast!

This event is free and open to the public.

Still Living - Grad Student Megan Van Deusen Participates in Brooklyn Group Show

Still Living 

Survival, endurance, immortalizing.  A record of something.  From this moment the essence of these objects will live on.  Freezing time.

Opening on October 8th and running til October 28th in Brooklyn, NY and featuring current Drawing Painting and Printmaking Graduate Student Megan Van Deusen.

Sideluck Atlanta

Following the largely successful events in cities around the world, Slideluck Atlanta kicks off its inaugural year during Atlanta Celebrates Photography, who has partnered with Slideluck Atlanta to share this event with the arts community. Slideluck Atlanta presents a slideshow and a potluck dinner in which members of the Atlanta arts and photography communities bring food and drink before the screening of the multimedia slideshow that incorporates a curated show from the Slideluck Atlanta Call for Entry. The evening begins with a couple of hours of dining on the home-cooked delights, beverages from national sponsors, and mingling with fellow artists and supporters. Following the potluck, the lights are dimmed, the crowd is hushed, and a spectacular slideshow commences.

Slideluck Atlanta will present the multimedia slideshow composed of work submitted during the Slideluck Call for Entry. We are please to welcome David Bram, fine art photographer, curator, and founder of Fraction magazine, to act as our guest curator of the submissions. (More information about David Bram can be found here: http://fractionmagazine.com/). Both the Slideluck Atlanta Call for Entry and the event are free and inclusive of all artists. The Deadline to enter the Call for Entry is Friday, September 7, 2012. Please inquire for more details.

Slideluck, formerly known as Slideluck Potshow, is a non-profit (501c3) forum for exposing artists, curators, and editors to new work, while infusing the arts community with a non-commercial vitality and refreshing exchange. Photojournalists, painters, sculptors, designers, fashion, and fine art photographers all show their work alongside each other in a relaxed and spirited atmosphere. More than anything else, this is a fun, inspiring evening, that is meant to remind us why we create in the first place. Please visit our web site http://www.slideluckpotshow.com or like us on facebook http://www.facebook.com/slpsatlanta. 

WHO: The event is free and open to the Atlanta art community and the slideshow will feature artists on a local, national, and international scale. Slideluck is an opportunity for artists and arts-appreciators to come together and share their work in a congenial, non-competitive atmosphere. Presenters range from the very accomplished to the up-and-coming, but regardless of status, none is allotted more than 5 minutes for their slideshow. Past contributors have included: The Guggenheim Foundation, Elliot Erwitt, Chris Jordan, Elinor Carucci, Martin Schoeller, Alec Soth, Nina Berman, Alex Majoli, Doug Menuez, Bruce Gilden, Robert Doisneau, Vincent Laforet and many others. The submission deadline is Friday September 7, 2012.

Slideluck, originally called Slideluck Potshow, was created in the backyard of advertising and editorial photographer, Casey Kelbaugh, in 2000. Today he leads a small group of producers who assist in organizing 3 events a year in NYC and about 40 cities globally, including Berlin, Mexico City, Bogotá, London, Milan, São Paulo, Chicago, Barcelona, and Copenhagen.

WHEN: Sunday, October 28, 2012 from 6 pm until 10 pm with an after party to be announced. The potluck begins at 6 pm and the slideshow begins around 7:30 pm and ends at 10:00 pm with one intermission.

WHERE: Ambient Plus Studio 585 Wells St. SW Unit A, Atlanta, GA 30312. 
 Ambient Plus Studio is located in the historic Southern Mills warehouse in West Atlanta at 585 Wells Street. As Atlanta’s only full daylight studio, it is described as sunny west coast vibe meets urban industrial. Parking is available adjacent to the building on Metropolitan Avenue.

Sponsored in part by: Ambient Plus Studio Atlanta Celebrates Photography

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-This post if courtesy of Sara Hopkins.  She is a graduate student in the photo department and an organizer for Sideluck Atlanta.

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center - Open Studio Night

Many of our Graduate Students and faculty were out at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center's open studio event last Friday.  It was a great opportunity to view the work of faculty members Stewart Ziff and Craig Drennen, and fellow Grad student Paul S. Benjamin, as they are all currently participants of the ACAC's studio artist program.  The event showcased the ACAC as a fantastic venue and working community for Atlanta Artists and provided the opportunity to talk with the current studio residents.

-Megan Van Deusen, DPP Grad

Aqua 2011

Still wondering what Aqua is?  Check out this two videos!  This first a promo video for last year's event.  The second, from Burnaway, features our very own Craig Drennen describing the event.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2011

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