An essential stop for anyone interested in smartly curated contemporary artwork by a variety of regional, national and international artists. The annual Art Party in early fall is a must-attend.
Open Studios invites you to get to know the artists in our Studio Artist Program. Join us in person to mix & mingle with one another, see their work firsthand and just maybe add some art to your collection.
Open Studios builds community and offers ever-expanding support for the creation and apprec...
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Join us in welcoming artist Makiko Maekawa for another family friendly Contemporary Kids program. Makiko will be teaching kids how they can use a variety of objects, paint, and paper to create contemporary works of art.
This event will be in person. Parents/Guardians are welcome to assist their ch...
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Atlanta Contemporary hosts a screening of Insurrection, followed by a Q+A with the filmmaker, Andres Serrano.
Insurrection is the first feature film by artist Andres Serrano, chronicling the events that led to the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Described as “Excruciating” by the Guard...
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Grab a coffee and explore the historical Atlanta Contemporary building with the BLDGS, the architecture group behind the 2013 renovation of the galleries. This tour is part of the Atlanta Design Festival tour series with MA! Architecture Tours.
Adrienne Elise Tarver: Underfoot (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Jamie Steele curated this exhibition by Adrienne Elise Tarver, an interdisciplinary artist based in Atlanta and Brooklyn with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Underfoot stems from Tarver’s inte...
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Lucinda Bunnen: Inward, Outward, Forward (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Curated by Allison Grant, Inward, Outward, Forward showcases the work of celebrated Atlanta artist-collector Lucinda Bunnen. A powerhouse in the Atlanta photography scene for a half century, Bunnen creates exquisite artworks infused ...
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Adrienne Elise Tarver: Underfoot (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Jamie Steele curated this exhibition by Adrienne Elise Tarver, an interdisciplinary artist based in Atlanta and Brooklyn with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Underfoot stems from Tarver’s inte...
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Lucinda Bunnen: Inward, Outward, Forward (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Curated by Allison Grant, Inward, Outward, Forward showcases the work of celebrated Atlanta artist-collector Lucinda Bunnen. A powerhouse in the Atlanta photography scene for a half century, Bunnen creates exquisite artworks infused ...
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Adrienne Elise Tarver: Underfoot (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Jamie Steele curated this exhibition by Adrienne Elise Tarver, an interdisciplinary artist based in Atlanta and Brooklyn with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Underfoot stems from Tarver’s inte...
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Lucinda Bunnen: Inward, Outward, Forward (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Curated by Allison Grant, Inward, Outward, Forward showcases the work of celebrated Atlanta artist-collector Lucinda Bunnen. A powerhouse in the Atlanta photography scene for a half century, Bunnen creates exquisite artworks infused ...
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Adrienne Elise Tarver: Underfoot (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Jamie Steele curated this exhibition by Adrienne Elise Tarver, an interdisciplinary artist based in Atlanta and Brooklyn with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Underfoot stems from Tarver’s inte...
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Lucinda Bunnen: Inward, Outward, Forward (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Curated by Allison Grant, Inward, Outward, Forward showcases the work of celebrated Atlanta artist-collector Lucinda Bunnen. A powerhouse in the Atlanta photography scene for a half century, Bunnen creates exquisite artworks infused ...
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Adrienne Elise Tarver: Underfoot (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Jamie Steele curated this exhibition by Adrienne Elise Tarver, an interdisciplinary artist based in Atlanta and Brooklyn with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Underfoot stems from Tarver’s inte...
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Lucinda Bunnen: Inward, Outward, Forward (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Curated by Allison Grant, Inward, Outward, Forward showcases the work of celebrated Atlanta artist-collector Lucinda Bunnen. A powerhouse in the Atlanta photography scene for a half century, Bunnen creates exquisite artworks infused ...
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Lucinda Bunnen: Inward, Outward, Forward (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Curated by Allison Grant, Inward, Outward, Forward showcases the work of celebrated Atlanta artist-collector Lucinda Bunnen. A powerhouse in the Atlanta photography scene for a half century, Bunnen creates exquisite artworks infused ...
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Adrienne Elise Tarver: Underfoot (Sept. 18-Jan. 9, 2022) — Jamie Steele curated this exhibition by Adrienne Elise Tarver, an interdisciplinary artist based in Atlanta and Brooklyn with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Underfoot stems from Tarver’s inte...
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Premiere screening of Art Is Our Response , a documentary film chronicling Dance Canvas’ 2021 Summer Choreographic Residency in partnership with Atlanta Contemporary.
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Pre-register to visit Atlanta Contemporary! Pre-registering helps us track attendance data, maintain safe visitor capacity, and keep the Front Desk germ-free.
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Join Members of Atlanta Contemporary for a virtual behind-the-scenes tour of some of the best contemporary art collections. This month we are visiting the home and collection of Tom Butler and Marilyn Laufer.
Tickets to this event are $25. Members may join for free - look for a link to register in...
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Join Atlanta Contemporary and Dance Canvas for the culminating performances of the 2020 Summer Choreographic Residency!
The 2020 Summer Choreographic Residency provided time and space to 8 choreographers, who spent 2 months rehearsing and creating onsite on the Atlanta Contemporary campus. Through t...
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Join Atlanta Contemporary and Dance Canvas for the culminating performances of the 2020 Summer Choreographic Residency!
The 2020 Summer Choreographic Residency provided time and space to 8 choreographers, who spent 2 months rehearsing and creating onsite on the Atlanta Contemporary campus. Through t...
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Atlanta Contemporary is pleased to present She Is Here. With a roster of 20 multigenerational, multicultural and multidisciplinary female artists - She Is Here intentionally defies existing norms for art institutions where recognition and inclusion of women is underwhelming. She Is Here fosters wome...
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Join curator, writer, artist Legacy Russell in a discussion on the construct, culture, and material of the “meme” as mapped to black visual culture from 1900 to present day. Using archival media Russell will explore the impact of blackness, black life, and black social death on contemporary concepti...
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For the next few weeks, arts instructor Elisabeth Herrera is sharing virtual activities in our Virtual Pop-Up to keep you inspired. Follow along with each activity and share your creations with us on Instagram (@atlantacontemporary) with the hashtag #ACMAKES.
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Independent curator and writer Laura Raicovich considers where ideas of the neutral come from and how they are manifested within museums and cultural institutions, both implicitly and explicitly. She will specifically address the ways in which neutrality is a fiction, and how it can be used to veil ...
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Join us for a tour of our new exhibition The Life and Death of Charles Williams with curator Phillip March Jones, and look into Project Spaces featuring MINT.
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Celebrate the openings of the new exhibitions and project spaces. Atlanta Contemporary is pleased to present the artwork of Kentucky artist Charles Williams in the first solo show representing his work, The Life and Death of Charles Williams, curated by Phillip March Jones. Opening concurrently are ...
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Open Studios spotlights the artists in our Studio Artist Program. This event is one of three nights a year where we invite you to join us and meet the artists, see their work firsthand, and perhaps add some art to your collection.
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Join other members of Atlanta Contemporary for a special preview reception at SCAD Open Studio Night.
Open Studio Night showcases the best painting, photography, illustration, printmaking and sculpture by SCAD students, faculty and alumni. Most of the work exhibited will be available for purchase....
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Poetics of Black Fungibility by Yanique Norman, a lecture presentation examining artwork of all mediums including her own, followed by an open forum discussion. In an effort to fully understand the profound complexities of blackness, artist Yanique Norman has developed a fantastical methodology that...
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Join us for the book launch of We Are In Open Circuits: Writings by Nam June Paik.
Edited by John G. Hanhardt, Gregory Zinman, and Edith Decker-Phillips for the MIT Press series Writing Art, We Are in Open Circuits presents the first extensive collection of Paik’s writings, and includes many prev...
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Atlanta Contemporary presents Movement Love, a yoga series presented by Maggie Benoit and a collaborating artist. October’s collaborating artist is Muse/A.
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Contemporary Critique is a critique program where visual artists are invited to bring new and/or in-progress work for critical feedback and group discussion. A dedicated facilitator with experience in a group critique setting guides the discussion for each critique program, which will include up to ...
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Every Third Thursday enjoy people, drinks, art, and “MUSIC YOU NEED” provided by LXXX YOU. at Atlanta Contemporary. TTTHURSDAY with YOUR FRIEND introduces guest DJs and artist partners who host an activity - drawing workshops, art sales, demos, and more. Get ready to move and groove with this month’...
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Join us in welcoming artist Makiko Maekawa for another family friendly Contemporary Kids program. Makiko will be teaching kids how they can use a variety of objects, paint, and paper to create contemporary works of art.
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Learn how artists can apply for the Creative Capital Award valued at $100,000, including $50,000 in project funding, and an additional $50,000 in career development services—all dedicated to supporting artists complete their innovative project ideas. The application, opening February 2020, is free a...
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Atlanta Contemporary presents Movement Love, a yoga series presented by Maggie Benoit and a collaborating artist. Stay tuned for the guest artist for September.
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Join us for our annual fundraiser - a night in which our whole campus is transformed with programming on the pavilion, special presentations throughout the campus, and of course, Open Studios with our artists in the Studio Artist Program
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Southern Fried Queer Pride/SFQP Artist Talks are a new series of talks and workshops featuring local Atlanta artists sharing their work, experiences, and insight!
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Join us in welcoming artist Makiko Maekawa for another family friendly Contemporary Kids program. Makiko will be teaching kids how they can use a variety of objects, paint, and paper to create contemporary works of art.
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Celebrate Friday-eve with Atlanta History Center’s Party with the Past, as we explore Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Join us for history, art, and a live DJ in this historic industrial area that helped rejuvenate Atlanta’s economy after the Civil War.
The evening includes Atlanta Contemporary’s ...
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Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
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Born in Kishinev, Moldova, Bea finsihed her studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Her current research interests are the conomic impacts of climate change, apocolyptic surival tactics, feelings of global dread and false notions of freedom.
For her show Stranger Man, Bea Fremderman has set up...
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Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
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Born in Kishinev, Moldova, Bea finsihed her studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Her current research interests are the conomic impacts of climate change, apocolyptic surival tactics, feelings of global dread and false notions of freedom.
For her show Stranger Man, Bea Fremderman has set up...
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Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
[click here for more]
Born in Kishinev, Moldova, Bea finsihed her studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Her current research interests are the conomic impacts of climate change, apocolyptic surival tactics, feelings of global dread and false notions of freedom.
For her show Stranger Man, Bea Fremderman has set up...
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Join us for Discrit:Talks, a free art education initiative spanning lectures, screenings, workshops, and panels designed to foster lively conversation and speculation about contemporary art and culture.
A cross-section of meme artists working in and around Atlanta and New York reflect upon memes ...
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Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
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Born in Kishinev, Moldova, Bea finsihed her studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Her current research interests are the conomic impacts of climate change, apocolyptic surival tactics, feelings of global dread and false notions of freedom.
For her show Stranger Man, Bea Fremderman has set up...
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Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
[click here for more]
Born in Kishinev, Moldova, Bea finsihed her studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Her current research interests are the conomic impacts of climate change, apocolyptic surival tactics, feelings of global dread and false notions of freedom.
For her show Stranger Man, Bea Fremderman has set up...
[click here for more]
Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
[click here for more]
Born in Kishinev, Moldova, Bea finsihed her studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Her current research interests are the conomic impacts of climate change, apocolyptic surival tactics, feelings of global dread and false notions of freedom.
For her show Stranger Man, Bea Fremderman has set up...
[click here for more]
Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
[click here for more]
Born in Kishinev, Moldova, Bea finsihed her studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Her current research interests are the conomic impacts of climate change, apocolyptic surival tactics, feelings of global dread and false notions of freedom.
For her show Stranger Man, Bea Fremderman has set up...
[click here for more]
Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
[click here for more]
Born in Kishinev, Moldova, Bea finsihed her studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Her current research interests are the conomic impacts of climate change, apocolyptic surival tactics, feelings of global dread and false notions of freedom.
For her show Stranger Man, Bea Fremderman has set up...
[click here for more]
Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
[click here for more]
Born in Kishinev, Moldova, Bea finsihed her studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Her current research interests are the conomic impacts of climate change, apocolyptic surival tactics, feelings of global dread and false notions of freedom.
For her show Stranger Man, Bea Fremderman has set up...
[click here for more]
Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
[click here for more]
Born in Kishinev, Moldova, Bea finsihed her studies at the Art Institute in Chicago. Her current research interests are the conomic impacts of climate change, apocolyptic surival tactics, feelings of global dread and false notions of freedom.
For her show Stranger Man, Bea Fremderman has set up...
[click here for more]
Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
[click here for more]
Enjoy a collection of work by Y. Malik Jalal, an artist based in Atlanta, Ga., at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, curated by Daniel Fuller.
Jalal paints and makes images and objects. His work is equally personal and fictitious, rooted in both the artist’s own identity and his relationship to ...
[click here for more]
Join us in welcoming artist Makiko Maekawa for another family friendly Contemporary Kids program. Makiko will be teaching kids how they can use a variety of objects, paint, and paper to create contemporary works of art.
RSVP with the link above or click https://www.eventbrite.com/e/contemporary-ki...
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Open Studios spotlights the artists in our Studio Artist Program. This event is one of three nights a year where we invite you to join us and meet the artists, see their work firsthand, and perhaps add some art to your collection.
Open Studios spotlights the artists in our Studio Artist Program. This event is one of three nights a year where we invite you to join us and meet the artists, see their work firsthand, and perhaps add some art to your collection.
Atlanta Contemporary presents Movement Love, a yoga series presented by Maggie Benoit and collaborating audio and visual artists. Stay tuned for the collaborating artist for May.
Admission is $10
All money received will go to each collaborating artists. Visitors can purchase tickets on the da...
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Join curator Daniel Fuller for an in-depth discussion of our current exhibitions. Learn more about exhibitions from William J. O'Brien and Erin Jane Nelson; plus explore new exhibitions from Tony Cokes, Kambel Smith, and Y. Malik Jalal.
Parking is free in the lot at Bankhead & Means streets. You c...
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Celebrate the openings of exhibitions, featuring the newest slate of contemporary artists to furnish Atlanta Contemporary. We are pleased to show William J. O'Brien's Shame Spiral and Erin Jane Nelson's Her Deepness. Also opening are exhibitions from Tony Cokes, Kambel Smith in Contemporary On-Site,...
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May 9, 2019 - August 4, 2019
In the recent debate over the “national emergency” to build part of the wall on the U.S. border with Mexico, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said that he feared today’s border security emergency could lead to Democrats using the same tactic for climate change. This was seen a...
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May 9, 2019 - August 4, 2019
There is no dress code inside the tent. No choir, nor a bulletin. But the congregation is energetic and fully participatory. Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist… this is a place to reach the lost, those with tender hearts. Under the big top is a transient group who hav...
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May 9, 2019 - June 16, 2019
The video work of Providence–based artist Tony Cokes examines the weight of visible evidence. In a visual deconstruction of animated text floating on one-color slides, the deadpan presentation Evil.27: Selma borrows text from the Selma, Alabama collective Our Literal Sp...
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A collaboration between Institute 193 (1B) and the Elaine de Kooning House, East Hampton, New York
For the Atlanta Contemporary’s on:Site Space, Philadelphia–based artist Kambel Smith creates a temporary cardboard panorama that conflates ideas of space, bringing Atlanta’s architectural landmarks i...
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Celebrate the openings of the new exhibitions and project spaces. Atlanta Contemporary is pleased to present William J. O’Brien’s Shame Spiral and Erin Jane Nelson’s Her Deepness. Also opening are exhibitions from Tony Cokes, Kambel Smith in Contemporary On-Site, and Y Malik Jalal in Sliver Space.
...
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Dream Warriors Foundation presents Fashion In Bloom, a celebration of creative expression, bringing together local designers/makers who are moving the art of slow fashion forward with the local dreamie community in a unique fashion show experience.
Designers include Meghan Huntz, Jazz Ivanna, Nake...
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Join other Young Professional members of Atlanta Contemporary for a special happy hour at Whitespace Gallery in Inman Park.
Whitespace gallery is located in the backyard of Owner and Curator Susan Bridges’ beautiful Victorian house off Edgewood Avenue in Inman Park. Guests will enter the courtyard...
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Join us in welcoming Actor’s Express for the Threshold New Play Festival, a lineup of Atlanta and Georgia-based writers who are also making a mark on the national scene.
Come check out why Atlanta is fast becoming one of the most exciting cities in America for new p...
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MERCY ME by Daryl Fazio is the second play reading in the Threshold New Play Festival. These plays are written exclusively by Atlanta and Georgia-based writers who are also making a mark on the national scene. Come check out why Atlanta is fast becoming one of the most exciting cities in America for...
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Join us in welcoming Actor’s Express for the Threshold New Play Festival, a lineup of Atlanta and Georgia-based writers who are also making a mark on the national scene.
Come check out why Atlanta is fast becoming one of the most exciting cities in America for new plays! This is a ...
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notes towards becoming a spill is a break sweating in blues spilling truths erecting sites of reconciliation where Black men’s expressions become revised to stretch past the margins of the American consciousness, or where Black men’s truths trickle to elicit the process of becoming.
In late 2018 S...
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Bandit Roll/Chimney Hole
Without fail each holiday season brings a new crop of “bad Santa” stories. Red-suited, holly-jolly misanthropics descend on our malls making promises through their scratchy fake beards of extravagant gifts and acts of wonder. Sure, there are some standout Santas, but many ...
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How often are you able to gaze into eternity? To lie face up in your go-to-meetin’ finery, walls snug around us, eyes up to an endless horizon of cakey burial soil. If funerals are for the living, caskets are a reminder that life continues after death, that passage to the afterlife must be made in s...
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Atlanta Contemporary welcomes a local bartender to become the Mixologist-in-Residence – here we invite the purveyors of Atlanta’s cocktail culture to share their story – over a finely crafted drink – with our audiences.
BIO
Trey Ledbetter
Trey Ledbetter brings the kitchen to the bar by creating co...
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Join other Young Professional members of Atlanta Contemporary for a special meet up at the Goat Farm Arts Center. Go behind-the-scenes and meet their resident makers, artists, craft and trades people, engineers, and more.
A complete list of studios with artists and creatives who have affiliations ...
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Join other Young Professionals Network of Atlanta Contemporary members for a special meet up at The Goat Farm Arts Center. Go behind-the-scenes and meet their resident makers, artists, craft and trades people, engineers, and more.
A complete list of studios with artists and creatives who have affi...
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Join us in welcoming Actor’s Express for the Threshold New Play Festival, a lineup of Atlanta and Georgia-based writers who are also making a mark on the national scene.
Come check out why Atlanta is fast becoming one of the most exciting cities in America for new plays! This is a FREE event. Plea...
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Join us in welcoming artist Makiko Maekawa for another family friendly Contemporary Kids program. Makiko will be teaching kids how they can use a variety of objects, paint, and paper to create contemporary works of art.
On Thursday, March 28 liquid blackness, a research group on blackness and aesthetics from the Moving Image Studies doctoral program at Georgia State University, will host a conversation on “(A) Black Lineage of the Music Art Video” during Contemporary Cocktails at Atlanta Contemporary.
Faculty fou...
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Presented by Young Nonprofit Professionals Network:
Our Mixologist-in-Residence will be providing specialty cocktails for the month of March. Cash/card bar.
Parking is free in the lot at Bankhead & Means streets. You can access the lot via Bankhead Avenue and proceed past the parking attendant b...
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