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2008-09 Projects

Student Sculpture Garden 2009

Each year a call goes out to the students of GSU to submit proposals for the Student Sculpture Garden Project. Faculty and staff of the Ernest G Welch School of Art & Design then review the proposals.  An exemplary proposal is then chosen to be brought to fruition by the student and displayed in the Sculpture Garden for two years. The Sculpture Garden is located out of the Arts & Humanities building at Georgia State on the corner of Peachtree Center Avenue & Gilmer Street.

This gives students an opportunity to engage in a competitive project and, if chosen have their work publicly displayed, a privilege not often afforded to students.

This year we were given the oppotunity to award two students for the project. Jane Garver's "Borrowed Ground" was selected and placed in Hurt Park adjacent to the Arts & Humanities building & Emma Adair's "Bird Call" was selected and placed in the Sculpture Garden on Gilmer Street.

Le Flash

Fri, October 24, 2008

7pm - 12am (midnight)

Castleberry Hill District

Peters St./Walker St.

www.castleberryhill.org

Le Flash comes to Castleberry for an evening of fantastical art and creative events to surround and celebrate the temporary public art project by Paris-based artist Kristina Solomoukha in Cleopas T. Johnson Park. Street corners, galleries, shops, roof tops, vacant lots and empty buildings will be sites for light, sound and unexpected installations, performance art, poetry readings, concerts, music, video projections, a marching band, an iron pour and art happenings of all sorts. Organized by Welch School Gallery Director Cathy Byrd and independent curator Stuart Keeler, in collaboration with the Castleberry Hill Neighbourhood Association, Friends of Cleopas Park, Clark Atlanta University and Savannah College of Art and Design. Sponsored in part by the French Cultural Services, the Franco-American Contemporary Art Exchange Foundation and the Fulton County Arts Council.

How can contemporary public art and actions in Atlanta animate our city’s shifting cultural landscape?

As the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs and Fulton County Arts Council Public Art Programs present new opportunities for public art projects, we have the opportunity to consider how local artists can animate our contemporary cultural environment.

The setting for our dialogue will be the John Hope Community Center adjacent to Cleopas Johnson Park where Mind the Gap Fountain, a temporary public art project by Paris-based Ukrainian artist Kristina Solomoukha, is on view through December 12.

Following brief presentations by local public art administrators and artists, Stuart Keeler, curator of A (new) Genre Landscape in city parks this past summer, will moderate a community dialogue centered on questioning the concepts, trends and emerging public art practice in Atlanta.

Opportunities

Dorian McDuffieCity of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs
Public Art Administrator
Ife Williams of Fulton County Arts Council
Public Art Coordinator

Advocacy

Lisa TuttleMetropolitan Public Art Coalition

Art and Actions

Joe Peragine, Sheila Pree-Bright and Angus Galloway

The Horn Section, 2009 permanent installation, Cleopas Johnson Park

Zachary Coffin

The New Public Artists

Jessica Scott Felder and Emma Adair

Atlanta-based artist Steven Jarvis offers solar powered coffee at this evening event.

Emerging Trends and Mind the Gap Fountain are generously supported by the Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Public Art Program, and by significant funding from the French Cultural Services, French Consulate of Atlanta, the French American Contemporary Art Fund, the Fulton County Arts Council, and the Georgia State University College of Arts and Sciences. Information: Cathy Byrd 404.413.5230 cathybyrd@gsu.edu

Mon, October 13 – Thurs, October 24, 2008

Kristina Solomoukha, Artist in Residence

Paris-based artist Kristina Solomoukha comes to Atlanta as an artist-in-residence to create a temporary public art project in Cleopas T. Johnson Park, Northside Drive and Larkin Street. Solomoukha, who investigates how the city is simultaneously a natural form and an artificial construction, will create a site specific installation that reflects the synergy of the park and surrounding community. Sponsored in part by the French Cultural Services, the French American Fund for Contemporary Art and the Fulton County Arts Council.

Didier Fiuza Faustino Constructs a Site Specific Project

Mon, February 2 – Thurs, February 5, 2009

New Wave Atlanta: When Urban Intervention Speaks French

Paris-based artist architect Didier Fiuza Faustino comes to Atlanta to construct an environment in the Welch School Gallery. Faustino works with select interior design and sculpture students from the School to complete the project that will be unveiled on Thursday, February 5. Sponsored in part by the College of Arts and Sciences Visiting Artists and Scholars Program, the French Cultural Services, the Franco-American Contemporary Art Exchange Foundation and the Fulton County Arts Council.

Didier Fiuza Faustino – Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture, Site Project Unveiling

Thurs, February 5, 2009 @ 4pm

Location: TBA

Didier Fiuza Faustino, architect, artist and curator, talks about his recent international projects. Sponsored in part by the College of Arts and Sciences Visiting Artists and Scholars Program, the French Cultural Services, the French American Fund for Contemporary Art and the Fulton County Arts Council.