Get Ready for the 2008 Decatur Book Fest!

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Art Decade at Vinson Gallery

Vinson Gallery's 10 year anniversary celebration is still going strong with a stellar group-show of gallery artists called Art Decade.

The exhibition runs through July 5. Gallery hours are updated daily on the website: www.vinsongallery.com.

The Seen Gallery presents

Opening Saturday, June 21, 7-10 p.m.

www.theseengallery.com

Junor Gallery: A Slice of Caribbean Art

Artists' Reception

and launch of the Georgia Caribbean American Coalilition's Youth Mentoring Program

Friday, June 13th 6-9 p.m.

Please join us as we celebrate our new exhibition and the launch of the Georgia Caribbean American Heritage Coalilition's Youth Mentoring Program. In recognition of June as Caribbean American Heritage Month, this exhibition features a diverse collection of pieces from artists of Caribbean descent. Countries represented include Trinidad, Bahamas, Jamaica, Guyana, Cuba, and Haiti.

View works by Karl "Jerry" Craig, Jhosell Castro, Basil Watson, Desmond McFarlane, Lillian Blades, Ivor Thom, Curtis McHardy, Errol Tomlinson, Cleve Webber, Henri Linton, Kai Watson, Cleve Webber, Linc Bennett, and Raymond Watson.

www.junorgallery.com

Upcoming Event at Mingei

Home, away from Home :
Photos of Karen people from the Thailand Burma border

Opening reception
Mingei World Arts
Sunday, June 8
1-4pm

An exhibit of photos taken by Gregory Scarborough
in refugee camps along the Thailand -Burma border in 2005.

The Karen, an ethnic minority group which comprises 1 in 7 of the Burmese population, has been fighting for independence from Burma for more than 50 years. As the fighting has intensified in the last 20 years, many Karen have fled to refugee camps in Thailand and hundreds of thousands more are displaced within Burma. Some Karen refugees are now being resettled in the metro-Atlanta area.

Gregory Scarborough is the founder and director of Cultural Cornerstones, an organization based in Decatur, Georgia which focuses on protecting cultural rights and cultural heritage for refugees and internally displaced peoples in emergency -affected communities. For the past eight years, he has worked extensively with Gypsy populations in Macedonia, with Kurds in Turkish Kurdistan and along the Thailand Burma border documenting life, musical traditions, and the struggle of these people against cultural assimilation and human rights abuses. This work has resulted in two collections of recordings of traditional music, “The Shutka Music Project,” (2001) and “Chave Mini, You Are My Eyes: Songs from Turkish Kurdistan” (Cultural Cornerstones, 2002). Both of these are available for sale at Mingei World Arts.

In 2005, Cultural Cornerstones began working with Karen refugees who have fled from Burma into refugee camps in Thailand to facilitate the protection of their cultural heritage and cultural rights. While in the camps Cultural Cornerstones worked with youth and elders to record a CD of music in Mae La and Umphiem Mai camps which demonstrates the flourishing of their traditions and also tells the story of their struggle through new musical compositions. Gregory Scarborough's report and photo essay from this mission was published in the Fall issue of Cultural Survival.

Cultural Cornerstones is now working to raise money to print a CD of Karen music Greg has recorded along the border. We will be playing this music on June 8, and showing authentic Karen instruments. 10% of all sales that day will go to Cultural Cornerstones.

The Decatur Arts Festival is Here!

Friday, May 23, 5-10 pm Decatur ArtWalk

Saturda, May 24-Sunday May 25 Decatur Arts Festival: Artist Market

www.decaturartsfestival.com

Katrina, Katrina Tonight!

Several Dancers Core and the Decatur Arts Festival present:

Thursday, May 22, 2008

8 pm

Presser Hall, Gaines Chapel

at Agnes Scott College

FREE Admission

"Live documentary" performance that addresses and embodies the unfathomable loss and love felt by so many about New Orleans.

Pearsonwidrig Dance Theater includes creative input from displaced New Orleanians, now relocated to Atlanta through a series of workshops on May 14-16.

For information about the performance, call Several Dancers Core at 404.373.4154.

www.severaldancerscore.org

Sycamore Gallery Presents:

"Teenage Kicks” by Rose M Barron

The Adolescence series by Atlanta artist Rose M Barron, is a photographic study of youth as complex and engaging human beings. Ms Barron says, “This body of work focuses on gend er roles, behavior, and identity. Think back to adolescence and the images in your mind of what you thought you and your friends were like, this series captures the reality of the subtleness of this beautiful experience. Youth can be a time of soul searching for identity while also being consumed with their own image. It is a time of prime physical condition and vitality juxtaposed with feelings of uncertainty about self. My work presents the complexity of young people and encourages the viewer to engage in in their complex and engaging humanity.'


Opening reception featuring Atlanta resident and artist Rose M Barron, Friday May 23 from 7pm until 10pm.Refreshments will be served. Music entertainment will be provided. Everyone is welcome.


For additional information:please contact Sylvia Cross at 404 352 5938 sycsyl@yahoo.com or Rose M Barron 404 274 3227 rosembarron@hotmail.com http://www.rosembarron.com/


Sycamore Place Gallery
120 Sycamore PlaceDecatur, GA 30030
404 377 7747 or 404 352 5938
Sycamore Place Gallery is located at 120 Sycamore Place, at the intersection of Commerce Drive, across from Capre Diem in Decatur.

From the Seen Gallery:

Join us this Friday, May 23, 5-10 PM for the Decatur Artwalk to kick off the 20th Annual Decatur Arts Festival. The Seen Gallery's current show is "Sum of One" by Kathy Wolfe. See below for more information on the show or click here to view the show. We also have some fabulous new work by artist Madli Kirchhoff. Don't forget the other nearby businesses who are participating in Decatur Artwalk. More Seen Gallery art will be displayed at Decatur Eyecare. Also, Seen Gallery artists Madli Kirchhoff and Katherine Linn have been selected by an esteemed panel of jurors to display their work at the annual "Fine Art Exhibit" at Agnes Scott College. Be sure to get by to see this marvelous show from May 20 - June 1 at the Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott.

www.theseengallery.com

Jill Celeste Gallery Presents...

“The Human Monochromes” by Sean Rush
May 17-June 30

Contemporary figurative explorations that reference the classical sensitivity of Michelangelo and Da Vinci's drawings. Mr. Rush begins with a traditionally gessoed wood completely covered with a warm sienna oil pigment, then uses rags and brushes in a subtractive process, drawing from live models. The result is a series of very intimate views of stolen moments.

404-373-4702 321 West Hill Street, Decatur, 30030 in Oakhurst Village

Katy Dement's Art Camp at Sycamore Place

Summer art camp for middle & high schoolers will run for 2 weeks.
Tuesday June 17-20 & June23- 27 from 1-4pm.

This includes a sketching field trip,jewelry,papermaking,print making,& found object sculptures! The camp concludes with a gallery exhibition of Katy's & the campers' artwork with an opening reception on Friday June 27 from 4-7pm.

One week is $140 & both is $260.

Call 404 627-2209 or email sycsyl@yahoo.com.

Vinson Gallery Happenings

Cheers!

Private view for patrons -Thursday, May 22, 6 - 9 PM
please R.S.V.P. by email or phone

Opening reception - Friday, May 23, 5 to 10 PM
during the Decatur ArtWalk - featuring DJ Jamad

www.vinsongallery.com

This Saturday at The Seen Gallery

Check it Out!

The Decatur Arts Festival now how it's own website!

www.decaturartsfestival.com

Function Presents...

Cooper Sanchez presents his second independent art event (one night only) at Function in Decatur, GA. His flag-inspired works range from the literal to the metaphoric, including textiles, narrative paintings, and explorations in illumination.
The show concept began after Cooper nearly lost an eye in the summer of '07. The paintings are a celebration of vision and the visual symbology flags connote � utilizing color, composition and references to battles and independence. The flags were designed as gifts to friends locally and internationally as part of the project.
Local seamsters and seamstresses formed an ad hoc "Betsy Ross Society" to sew remnant fabrics together and contribute in their own personal ways to Cooper's textile designs for "Flagship Mark."
FUNCTION508 Howard AveDecatur, GA 30030404-524-3075

Summer Classes at Sycamore Gallery

Join all the young artists at 120 Sycamore Place Gallery & Studios for Summer Art Camp 2008. Every week we work with clay,paint,collage, sculpture,books and more! We read,sing,climb the magnolia trees, dance,and learn the history about the artists in fun and imaginative ways. Each week has a rheme relating to an artist or country as we relate it to our own llives. Ms. Sylvia is the owner/director of the gallery and has been teaching children and adults for 30 years. A 5 day class is $125- from 9-noon and a 3 day class is $95-. Extended day is offered from 12-1pm daily and is 15-/extra/daywhich includes pizza from Fellini's. Call 404 377 7747 or email: sycsyl@yahoo.com to register.


week I: May 27-29 Jack the dripper/Abstract Expressionism/Jackson Pollack
week 2:June 2-6 Grimm's Fairy Tale Illustration
week3:June 9-13 Go Gauguin & Cezanne/Islands & Fruit
week 3June 16-20 :Picasso & Matisse/Paris Tea Party Hats
week 4:June 23-27 Paper Dolls & Marisol/Gallery Show!
week 5:July 1July 3:Finster's Folk & Flag Art
week 6: July 7-11:Mexican Murals of Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
week 7:July 14-18 Georgia O'Keefe and the Desert Rose
week 8: July 21-25 Michelangelo's Grocery List
week 9:July 28-August 1Architecture And ARTchitecture
week 10: August 4-8 Surrealism & A Midsummernight's Fairy Dream
week a:Aug 12-14 The Tropical Rainforest Butterflies & Trees
week b:Romare Bearden Paints to Jazz!
week c:Eric Carle Collage

Sycamore Gallery presents...

You're Invited

to the Decatur Arts Festival Poster Unveiling

Thurdsay, May 1 from 5-7pm at the Old Courthouse on the Square
The Decatur Arts Alliance invites you to kick off the 20th Annual Decatur Arts Festival at the Decatur Arts Festival Poster Unveiling.
Be among the first to see the 2008 Decatur Arts Festival poster, featuring a painting by Decatur artist Corey Barksdale. Meet the artist and take home a signed copy of the festival poster. Enjoy complimentary wine and food, and show your support for the arts by joining the Decatur Arts Alliance.

Junor Gallery is proud to present

April 17-May 22

Please join us on Thursday, April 17th from 6-9 p.m. for the Meet the Artist reception.

International master sculptor Basil Watson's primary inspiration is the human figure. He works extensively with live models exploring various themes, media and techniques. His work ranges in size from small intimate studies to larger than life outdoor sculptures. This exhibition is a sampling of the full range of this master's expertise.

www.junorgallery.com

Vinson Gallery

Works on Paper

April 4- May 18

www.vinsongallery.com