Please join us for coffee and conversation...

Over the past decade, Jane Jackson - founder of Jackson Fine Art and former Director of the Sir Elton John Photography Collection - has been passionately learning about fine, hand-crafted works from the mid-20th century to now. Jane has brought her new obsession to the public with the opening of The Object Space, where works are shown online as well as in a shared space with Sandler Hudson Gallery.

The first exhibition, entitled Form+Surface, will showcase European ceramics and tapestries from the 20th century until today. Jane will discuss the history of art ceramics in post-war Europe and the work of specific contemporary women in the exhibition including Noe Kuremoto, Pia Cornell, Veronique De Soultrait, and Eva Zethreaus.

Exhibition will open to the Public on January 28, 2023.

Join us for a special evening celebrating the latest 5 Women to Watch: Namwon Choi, Victoria Dugger, Shanequa Gay, Marianna Dixon Williams and Anila Quayyum Agha (not pictured)

Join us for a Private Tour of The Coca-Cola Company's Fine Art Collection. From European master Auguste Rodin to modern icon Andy Warhol, The Coca-Cola Company’s fine art collection has more than 2,000 artworks reflecting a diverse range of movements, styles and mediums. Committed to artwork in the workplace and looking to commemorate the company’s centennial anniversary, in 1986 the Board of Directors sanctioned the development of a fine art collection in anticipation of the next 100 years. The fine art collection aims to celebrate human inventiveness and inspire creativity - enhancing the environment for guests and associates alike.

Coca-Cola's Fine Art Specialist Elizabeth Wilson will lead us through the collection, highlighting recent acquisitions under her tenure. Please wear comfortable shoes as we will be viewing artwork installed throughout the campus.

Join us for a Private Tour of Relief with Artist Tabitha Soren. This exhibition of work by acclaimed visual artist Tabitha Soren comes with the announcement of her representation in Atlanta by Jackson Fine Art. The show will present three of the artist's most well-known series: Running (2011-2014), Surface Tension (2013-2021) and Relief (ongoing). The exhibition that we will see marks the world premiere for the Relief series.

Tabitha will speak to the Georgia Committee ahead of her 11:30 Public Tour + Book Signing that you are welcome to stay for as well. Coffee and light bites provided.

Tabitha Soren has been a visual artist in different domains for over 25 years. With degrees from NYU and Stanford, Soren has long explored the intersection of psychology, culture, politics and the body. A former reporter for MTV News, ABC News and NBC News, Soren begins each new series using the methodical investigative tools she used during her time in journalism. Currently living in San Francisco, Soren's work is held by institutions such as LACMA, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The New Orleans Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums and the J Paul Getty Museum, among others.

Join us in September for a tour of Deanna Sirlin's exhibition Wavelength
at Atlanta's Chastain Gallery.

Abstract artist Deanna Sirlin is perhaps most well-known for her large-scale transparent installations characterized by intense color and the use of natural light but she considers herself primarily a painter. Her current exhibition at the Chastain Gallery is composed of recent, smaller-scale paintings as well as video work made in collaboration with Portuguese filmmaker Nuno Viega. The beautiful film transforms her paintings through movement, light and sound.

Deanna will give us context for the recent work and Curator Kevin Sipp will give an overview of the Gallery's programming and initiatives.


Wednesday, September 14, 2022
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Chastain Gallery
Mayors Office of Cultural Affairs
135 Chastain Park Avenue, NW
Atlanta, GA 30324

Deanna Sirlin was born in Brooklyn, NY and received her MFA from Queens College, CUNY. Over the span of her career, she has received numerous honors, including a Rothko Foundation Symposium Residency, a grant from the United States State Department, a Yaddo Foundation Residency and a Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Award. She recently received grants from United States Artist Grants, The Georgia Committee for the The National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Judith Alexander Foundation. Deanna lives and works outside of Atlanta and is the author of the book She’s Got What It Takes: American Women Artists in Dialogue (Charta Art Books 2013).

Kevin Sipp is an artist, independent scholar and curator who has lived and worked in Georgia since the early 90s where he received a BA in Printmaking from the Atlanta College of Art. Sipp was the Curator and Exhibition Designer for the Hammonds House Museum for over two decades before joining the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs in 2015. Through the OCA he served as administrator for Gallery72 and now as Gallery Curator for the Chastain Gallery.

Chastain Arts Center + Gallery is an educational facility that offers classes, workshops, and exhibits in a variety of creative mediums. Established in 1968, Chastain Arts Center is the oldest arts facility in Atlanta. The Gallery was established in 1978 with the mission to exhibit contemporary art by both local and nationally recognized artists.

Parking: Turn onto the Center's driveway to find ample parking is available in an adjacent, paved lot.

Join us for an insightful tour of Lava Thomas: Homecoming led by Spelman’s new Museum Director, Dr. Liz Andrews, and hear about Spelman’s exciting future plans!

Tuesday, August 30th
10:30 AM

SPELMAN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF FINE ART

Lava Thomas: Homecoming is the most comprehensive exhibit to date of Thomas’s drawings and installation works addressing the relevance of African American history to our current moment. Thirteen drawings from Thomas’ revelatory series Mugshot Portraits: Women of the Montgomery Bus Boycott will be in the exhibit along with a new set of drawings and prints.

Thomas was born in Los Angeles and studied at UCLA’s School of Art and received a BFA from California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited and collected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, SFMOMA, Studio Museum in Harlem, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, de Young Museum, and the Berkeley Art Museum.

Join us for an insightful tour of Dorothy O'Connor's photographs led by Susan Todd-Raque and in conversation with Dorothy. We will also have an update from the Hambidge Team on all of their projects.

HAMBiDGE Cross-Pollination Art Lab
in Uptown Atlanta (formerly Lindbergh Center)
575 Morosgo Drive NE
Atlanta 30324

Dorothy O'Connor’s photographs and installations feature thoughtfully composed and hand-crafted scenes which combine elements of still-life, portraiture, landscape and performance. Encompassing psychological states, biographical moments, and the uneasy relationship humans have with the natural world, her work grapples with the grief of seeing our needed connection and appreciation of nature be overshadowed by destruction and the countless instances where conservation is not properly prioritized.

Susan Todd-Raque is the co-founder of Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Idea Capital. Susan has taught at The Atlanta College of Art, Georgia State University, Emory University and Spelman College. As a guest lecturer, she has talked about art at the High Museum of Art, The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Google as well as at national academic conferences on art.

Hambidge Center and the Cross-Pollination Art Lab is known for its Creative Residency Program on its 600-acre campus in the Blue Ridge foothills of Rabun Gap, Georgia. Hambidge Cross-Pollination Art Lab began in 2020 with generously donated space from Uptown Atlanta and support from the LUBO Fund and Fulton County Arts & Culture as an initiative that brings together visual artists, dancers, writers, poets, and musicians to share ideas and experiment.

Parking: Main Street or in the City Center parking Deck behind the LongHorn Steakhouse

Photo credits: Dorthy O’Connor

Join us for a gallery spotlight at whitespace gallery with owner Susan Bridges
and the artists for a walkthrough of the exhibitions:

Paper Trails by Ann Stewart and Joe Camoosa
Silver Sight by Mac Balentine in whitespec
Transmuted Tracings by Martin Rickles Studio in shedspace


Paper Trails features a mix of vibrant and understated abstract drawings and paintings that investigate how movement, pattern, and illusion create unseen, revelatory spaces. Both artists utilize drawing on paper to explore a shared interest in architecture, mapping, and perception. Ann Stewart is a visual artist who uses drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture to investigate the visualization of perception. Joe Camoosa teaches drawing and painting at the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University.

Following the gallery hop, join us for wine and light bites in the garden at whitespace

AND I MUST SCREAM led by curator Dr. Amanda Hellman &
INDIGO PRAYERS: A CREATION STORY led by curator Andi McKenzie

And I Must Scream is an exhibition exploring the expansive expression of our global crises. The exhibition features international, national and local contemporary artists working in photography, sculptures, painting, drawings and site-specific installations. There are five urgent and interconnected themes—corruption and human rights violations, displacement, environmental destruction, pandemic and renewal.

Indigo Prayers: A Creation Story featuring Atlanta artist Charmaine Minniefield. Large scale paintings created during a year-long artist residency in the Gambia.

Photo credit: Anida Yoeu Ali, Oxcart Grazing, The Buddhist Bug series, photo taken by Vinh Dao, 2014. Archival inkjet print.

Join us for a special private tour with Katherine Jentleson, Merrie and Dan Boone curator of Folk and Self-taught Art, High Museum of Art and Judith Alexander Augustine, director of The Judith Alexander Foundation
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

Wednesday, September 15
10:15 gather
10:30 tour to begin promptly

High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, Taylor Lobby
😷 masks required

Based on the High’s leading collection of Rowe’s art, Really Free is the first major exhibition of her work in more than twenty years and the first to consider her practice as a radical act of self-expression and liberation in the post-civil rights-era South.

Join us for an action packed Summer Stroll
celebrating women-owned art galleries, women artists and an important auction house.

Featuring:
The Signature Shop & Gallery with Carr McCuiston, Owner
Hindman Auctions with Kristin Vaughn, Director of Business Development & Timothy Long , Senior Director of Couture & Luxury, Hindman’s Chicago Office
Anne Irwin Fine Art with Emily West, Owner
Maune Contemporary with Heidi Maune, Owner
Marcia Wood Gallery with Marcia Wood, Owner
September Gray Gallery with September Gray, Owner


August 19th, 10AM
690 Miami Circle, Suite 125
*We will gather at The Signature Shop then walk/drive to the other galleries.

Filming of Fresh Talk video with artist Yehimi Cambron’, videographer Katie Hawkins & Cory Locatelli, production director


Zoom in for a Fresh Talk: Yehimi Cambrón Georgia artist
Dr. Roberto Gonzales, Migration Professor Harvard University
Raymond Partolan, Immigration Legal specialist
Felicia Feaster, Moderator, editor & writer

Discussion on Immigration, Arts for Social Change and Artists roll in hard topics.
Fresh Talks provide a special opportunity for you to hear from the panel and ask questions during the Q&A portion of the talk.
Registration required for Fresh Talk, you will receive a zoom link after RSVP..

Women, Arts, and Social Change is a bold public programs platform that highlights the power of women and the arts as catalysts for change. Programs convene women from a range of disciplines whose socially conscious ideas reshape lives and economies, engage communities, and empower women.

FRESH TALK, the signature program of the initiative, features curated conversations that expand the dialogue on what it means to be champions of women through the arts. Every program includes social activities in conversation building that create community and help share ideas for change.

Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection

In observance of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, this installation celebrates women photographers by featuring 120 important photographs in the High Museum’s collection that were taken exclusively by women.

Artists represented include some of the most influential voices of the past fifty years, such as Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, Diane Arbus and Illse Bing.

10:00 AM or 3:00 PM (limited timed tickets offered)

High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street, Taylor Lobby
*Mask required