Things are getting ready to get interesting for the second Hudgens Prize, which will honor a Georgia visual artist with a $50,000 award, one the country’s largest cash prizes to an individual artist.
Duluth’s Hudgens Center for the Arts continues to host a Finalists Exhibit (through Sept. 7) featuring four Georgia artists who were chosen from among 370 statewide prize applicants by a three-member jury. The next step is artist talks by the four on July 9 and 25, followed by a panel discussion with the jury panel on Aug. 9, concluding with the award ceremony the next evening.
Here’s the schedule:
- 7:30 p.m. July 9: Talks by Christopher Chambers, primarily an installation artist whose work merges multiple disciplines; and Robbie Land, a live-action and animation filmmaker and installation artist. Both work in Atlanta.
- 7:30 p.m. July 25: Talks by Pam Longobardi, an Atlanta environmental artist; and Derek Larson, a digital/multidisciplinary artist who works in Statesboro.
- 10 a.m. Aug. 9: "A Conversation on Visual Art & Creative Culture," a panel discussion featuring the Hudgens Prize jury panel of Doryun Chong, associate curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art; Toby Kamps, chief curator of Houston's Menil Collection; and Heather Pesanti, senior curator at AMOA-Arthouse in Austin, Texas. High Museum of Art curator of modern and contemporary art Michael Rooks will moderate. Coffee and networking at 9:30 a.m. While the panel is free, seating is limited and RSVP advised: info@thehudgens.org.
- 8 p.m. Aug. 10: Hudgens Prize Award Ceremony. Free, with galleries remaining open post-ceremony until 9:30 p.m. A pre-award reception will be held at 7 p.m. ($25).
For more information about the artists and links to their personal websites, visit the Hudgens Prize Finalists page at www.thehudgens.org. 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Building 300, in Duluth. 770-623-6002.
THEATER
Dramatic collision of students, history
Turning pages from history into a contemporary conversation, 16 metro high school students are creating a theatrical production involving themes from the Gettsburg Address and the Emancipation Proclamation as part of the Alliance Theatre’s 12th annual Collision Project.
The teens are working with Alliance playwright in residence Pearl Cleage on a show that will address freedom and examine instance of slavery today. The resulting performances, involving oral history, improvisation and movement, will be at 7 p.m. July 12 and 2:30 p.m. July 13 on the Hertz Stage. (Free but RSVP suggested: 404-733-4749, project@woodruffcenter.org.)
“We wanted to expand our discussion of emancipation to include not just our experience of slavery in this country, but the experiences of families who have immigrated to the United States from other parts of the world,” said Cleage, participating in her third Collision experience. “We want our participants to connect their own family histories to the worldwide struggle between those who think it is acceptable to buy and sell other human beings and those who know it isn’t.”
The Collison shows are being presented in partnership with the National Civil War Project, an initiative by universities and performing arts organizations commemorating the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States.
The students also will participate in gloATL’s free Liquid Culture movement and performance shows at 8:45 p.m. July 19 and 20 on the Woodruff Arts Center’s grounds. (No RSVP necessary.) 1280 Peachtree St., Atlanta.
Out of Box on the move
Out of Box Theatre, which has shared the Alley Stage just off the Marietta Square with Next Stage Theatre Company over the past season, is moving to the Artisan Resource Center on Cobb Parkway in Marietta.
“We have grown and needed a space to call our own,” Out of Box artistic director Carolyn Choe said in a statement. “Beyond that, we seek to work cooperatively with other groups, organizations and people to expand the possibilities of the types and size of the productions we create. … And at the Artisan Resource Center, we are surrounded by these artists.”
Artisan Resource Center houses 28 studios of artists and craftspeople who work in areas including sculpture, painting, furniture-making, film and special effects.
Out of Box's first show in its new space, Alan Ayckbourn's "Bedroom Farce," runs July 12-28. 585 Cobb Parkway South, Marietta. www.outofboxtheatre.com.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Frequent flyer miles for chorus master
Atlanta Opera chorus master Walter Huff has been appointed to the full-time position of associate professor of choral conducting at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music beginning in August.
Huff will continue with The Atlanta Opera, celebrating his 25th anniversary with the company during 2013-14 season. It will honor him during its March 2014 production of “Faust.”
More on the Atlanta company's season: www.atlantaopera.org.
ARTS
11 new board members for Woodruff
The Woodruff Arts Center recently announced the election of 11 board members: Peter Aman, partner, Atlanta office, Bain & Company; Jim Boswell, partner, King & Spalding; Thomas C. Chubb, president, Oxford Industries; Paul R. Garcia, chairman and CEO, Global Payments; Doug Franklin, president, Cox Media Group; Phil Harrison, president and CEO, Perkins and Will; Larry Mark, chief financial officer, Coca-Cola North America; Edward Meyers, regional president Greater Georgia, PNC Financial Services Group; Allen W. Nelson, executive vice president and general counsel, Crawford & Company; Howard Palefsky, managing director, Montreux Equity Partners; Brant Standridge, regional group/state president, North Atlanta, BB&T Bank.
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