Elevate Week 2013, the City of Atlanta’s public art commissioning program taking place downtown from Oct. 18 to 26,will revolve around the theme “Transit: Time, People and Places.”
The installations, murals and events orchestrated by the city’s Office of Cultural Affairs will unfold along North and South Broad Street and the Broad Street Plaza/Five Points MARTA station.
Highlights include:
- Opening Night Block Party: With performances by Giwayen Mata, Ursula Kendall Johnson, RemoteKontrol, Dragon House, DJ Speakerfoxxx and DJ Genesis, 7 p.m. Oct. 18 in the Fairlie-Poplar district.
- "Mass Transit Muse": A mobile multimedia theater performance from Mike Molina and 7 Stages aboard MARTA between the Inman Park and Five Points stations, 6 p.m. Oct. 24 and 7 p.m. Oct. 25.
- "Streetmuseum," a tour of 10 blown-up works from the Clark Atlanta University Gallery, posted on building exteriors along International Boulevard between Peachtree and Spring streets, by gallery director Tina Dunkley, noon-6 p.m. Oct. 25.
- "Cooperatzia," the American premiere by the French performance troupe G. Bistaki Company that involves objects such as roofing tiles and purses in its movement, 8 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Five Points MARTA station.
- Installations by Atlanta artists Shelia Pree Bright (civil rights workers in "1960 Who?") and Sarah Emerson ("Lost and Found").
Details: www.ocaatlanta.com/programs/elevate.
VISUAL ART
‘Warhol/JFK’ in Savannah
Marking the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy assassination, Savannah’s Telfair Museums will exhibit “Warhol/JFK: November 22, 1963, A Selection of Andy Warhol Prints from the Herbert Brito Collection.”
The show, which is as much Warhol’s commentary on the media response to the president’s assassination as it is about his death, opens Oct. 18 for a run through March 9 at the Jepson Center.
The centerpiece of “Warhol/JFK” is Warhol’s “Flash — November 22, 1963” 11-image screenprint portfolio, complete with the artist’s packaging, which includes simulated news wire copy.
The Warhol pieces “reflect the artist’s insightful observations about how the news media shaped public perception,” Telfair Museums director and CEO Lisa Grove said. “Warhol’s observations about the media are even more relevant today in our 24/7 news culture.”
207 W. York St. on Telfair Square, Savannah. 1-912-790-8800, www.telfair.org.
Exposing layers of nature
A national visual artist group, the Society of Layerists in Multi-Media (www.slmm.org), will be holding its national conference in Atlanta on Oct. 17-19, and will be featured in an exhibition at the Blue Heron Nature Preserve in Buckhead.
The 5-7 p.m. Oct. 19 artists reception for the exhibit, “Nature in Transition,” is open to the public (gallery opens at 3 p.m.).
Blue Heron is a 25-acre city of Atlanta park along Nancy Creek that includes a passive solar stone and wood building whose lobby features a small gallery (open by appointment) devoted to art that boasts a nature thread.
Through Dec. 7. 4055 Roswell Road Atlanta. 404-345-1008, www.bhnp.org.
ARTS
15 receive Governor’s Awards in arts, humanities
In a recent Capitol ceremony, Gov. Nathan Deal and first lady Sandra Deal honored 15 individuals and organizations in the second Governor’s Awards in the Arts and Humanities, recognizing contributions to the state’s cultural vitality.
The honorees are: Atlantan Kay Beck, director of Georgia State University’s Digital Arts Entertainment Lab; Linda Crowe Chesnut of Athens, a volunteer and philanthropist who has aided institutions including the Georgia Museum of Art in the decorative arts; John Ferling of Carrollton, an author and retired University of West Georgia historian; Atlanta author Melissa Fay Greene; Tim Howard of Chatsworth, a Murray County educator and historian; Marianne Lambert, contemporary art advocate and Swan Coach House Gallery curator; musician and environmentalist Chuck Leavell of Dry Branch; fiddler Frank Maloy of Tifton; Merryll Penson of Athens, a leader in developing digital publishing initiatives to share arts and humanities information; Allan Vigil of Morrow, a volunteer and philanthropist supporting Clayton County arts; Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts; Moultrie’s Colquitt County Arts Center; Atlanta’s Fox Theatre Institute, which has aided preservation of vintage movie houses across the state; Moving in the Spirit, an Atlanta dance troupe; and West Georgia’s United Shape Note Singers.
Coke exec to head Woodruff campaign
The Woodruff Arts Center has announced that Steve Cahillane, President of Coca-Cola Americas, will head the arts non-profit’s 2014-2015 Annual Campaign. Cahillane will assume the role in June 2014.
In a statement, Cahillane noted the “rich history together” of Coke and the arts center. “This partnership began with the visionary leadership of our illustrious former Chairman and CEO Robert W. Woodruff, and I am humbly honored to serve the Woodruff Arts Center” as campaign leader, he said.
The campaign supports artistic programming, educational outreach and operating expenses of the Alliance Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, High Museum of Art and Young Audiences.
Cahillane will succeed William H. Rogers Jr., President and CEO of SunTrust Bank, who is serving as chair of the 2013-14 campaign. Paul Bowers, President and Chief Executive Officer of Georgia Power, led the 2012-13 campaign that raised a record $9.3 million.
BOOKS
Mars novel nabs BookLogix/AJC prize
Jake Huckaby of Dunwoody was selected winner of the 2nd annual 2013 BookLogix/AJC Decatur Book Festival Writers Contest.
The Georgia Tech PhD candidate’s novel, “Mars Live,” is set in 2028, when humans colonize Mars. Huckaby won a $5,000 BooksLogix prize for his work of science fiction. Publication date is to be announced.
“I’ve been dreaming about being an author since I was a kid,” Huckaby, who is studying for his doctorate in robotics engineering, said in a statement. ROSALIND BENTLEY
