Dawoud Bey: The Emory Project Unveiled Feb. 1st

The long awaited Visual Arts exhibition by Dawoud Bey will be unveiled at the VA building on February 1 at 5pm. Join us for a talk from Dawoud Bey at 6pm. Taking a year to accomplish, The Emory Project is an exploration of the coexistence of the different people, (races, religion, sexual orientation, personalities) that make up Emory's core. 

View this information online: http://visualarts.emory.edu/events/untoldstories.html#bey

Dawoud Bey: The Emory Project

Emory Visual Arts Gallery

Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 1, 5–8 pm
Gallery Talk by Dawoud Bey, 6 pm

Refreshments will be available.
Directions/Parking: http://visualarts.emory.edu/contact/index.html#directions

Exhibition Dates: February 1–March 5, 2011 

WEBSITE FOR DAWOUD BEY: THE EMORY PROJECT
http://transform.emory.edu/dawouldbey/

In partnership with the Transforming Community Project (TCP), the Emory Visual Arts Department commissioned acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey to develop a series of portraits of the Emory community that demonstrates the university's diversity and celebrates the culmination of TCP's five-year exploration of Emory's historic and current experiences of race, gender, sexuality, and other forms of human difference.  While he was an artist in residence on campus for four weeks in Spring 2010, Bey created thirty-six double portraits, each containing two members of the Emory community from different stations throughout the university.  Each person also contributed a personal statement reflecting their passions and interests.   Bey then selected twenty of the portraits to comprise the final exhibition that will be on view at the Visual Arts Gallery.

Dawoud Bey: The Emory Project is presented in conjunction with Founders Week 2011 at Emory University, which begins a year-long commemoration and celebration of Emory's 175th anniversary.  For a complete list of Founders Week programs, visit http://www.emory.edu/founders/.
 

Lee Walton to give talk at Emory

 Recognize this? Haven't a clue what is going on? Find out Novemeber 15th, 7:30 p.m. at the Visual Arts Department as The Emory Arts Club stages a conversation with the artist Lee Walton.

Emory's Own Laura Noel featured on Southern Photography Blog

Laura Noel, for her involvement in Atlanta Celebrates Photography, has been featured on Southern Photography: The Blog about Fine Art Photography in the American South. Check it out to see some of her latest work.

Photography and the Shoah

Flux this Friday!

FLUX is a one-night public art celebration presented by Flux Projects in the streets and empty spaces of the Castleberry Hill Art District. The event includes large and small-scale projections, performance, dance, music, light installations, and other forms of multi-media projects and public interactions.

FLUX is free and open to the public.

For directions and parking, including how to reserve your parking in advance, visit http...://www.fluxprojects.org/flux/where.php

For a list of artists and projects, visit http://www.fluxprojects.org/flux/projects.php

For a schedule of performances, visit http://www.fluxprojects.org/flux/performsched.php

Emory's own Sarah Emerson will also be participating in the event. In her own words her project is as follows:

The Moon Is Down is a title inspired by the role of John Steinbeck's novel of the same name, a book used as one of the most successful pieces of American propaganda during WWII. In my work I have focused on the idea of a civilization in decay and the beauty and revenge within our natural environment. The viewer can stand as witness to an enlarged scale of small things, a swarm of locusts, puffy explosions, and a cowering girl. We are left to accept our own ambiguity as witness to a strange and familiar scene; what may lurk in the trees, bubbles or bullet holes, what is that red glow in the distance? In our current state what Eden is attainable?

First Art Club Meet!

Please stop by and tell your friends!