For our first few workdays, we are concentrating on cleaning up accumulated debris and overgrown plants, removing invasives, and considering future functions and designs. We removed shrubs on both sides of the front door, revealing the full length of the windows and the provocative rhythm of solids and voids across the facade; we also uncovered grading […]
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We will reconsider and recultivate the spaces in and around Dana with more sustainable and regenerative landcare: the entrance courtyards, including the lower sculpture area, and the secret garden at the back of the building off the gallery. We are already removing invasives; we will be replacing them with native species and pollinator plants. We […]
Our exhibition Patterns in Space: Building on Dana in the Dalton Gallery (February 7-May 19) will present the work of those in the fall courses, with intersecting ideas from architecture, design, preservation, sustainability, and accessibility, to invite additional opportunities for collaboration and exchange toward more capacious definitions of inclusion. The exhibition will have three parts. […]
Katherine Smith VPS 395 Topics in Visual Practices: Building on Dana This course will consider the past, present, and future of the Dana Fine Arts Building, including its various historical contexts: its position on the Agnes Scott campus, in the development of Decatur, in postwar urban planning in Atlanta, in postmodern architectural discourses (in spatial […]
Building on Dana is a collaborative and interdisciplinary study of John Portman’s Dana Fine Arts Building (1965), documenting and understanding its history, assessing its current functions for the new Department of Creative Arts, and planning its future as a more inclusive and sustainable environment. We are looking backward and forward at once: bringing together archival […]
&yet again & again is the 3rd biennial exhibition of emerging artists from Atlanta. This year’s exhibition features the work of 50 artists. The exhibition is on view until April 8, 2024. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 12-4pm. Artists featured in the exhibition are: Allison Aguilera | Layla Amar | Jabria Anala | […]
We are excited to announce our fall exhibition- Recordar/Anhelar: Aesthetics of Undocumentedness curated by Erika Hirugami. The artworks in this exhibition are a multiplicity of remembrances that together outline the embodiment of undocumentedness as a mediation of hope. In this exhibition the recollections of Jackie Amézquita, Yehimi Cambrón, Nube Cruz, David Cuatlacuatl Federico Cuatlacuatl, Jose […]
Everyone lives a gendered experience. This is a neutral statement. When I wrote the call for entries for this exhibition I was very intentional with the language I used. As I wrote there- our personal relationships to gender and identity are unique to every individual. I was conscious of the fact that my own language […]
Meganity Wattles – they/him The attached works (Digital Assignments) explores the relationships of the body experience and identity through a nonbinary/genderqueer lens. I wish to share that there is an option that isn’t male or female, because that concept was revolutionary for me. External genitalia is from where we are given our birth genders and […]
Julian Uhlman – they/him The mediums I enjoy are collage and painting, which this piece combines. This work, entitled “BINARIES,” is a text-based piece using resolute language and the recognizable pink-blue color combination to condemn the concept of binary. Julian Uhlman is a sophomore creative writing major from southeast Pennsylvania. They are interested in combining […]
Eliza Taylor – they/she My work is a tool to explore human existence and our interactions with nature. I begin the artistic process by sourcing images from the internet and my life. I then compile these images on top of one another to express the past present and future of a moment in nature. Often […]
Royce Soble – they/them I have been working on paper since 2016. I mix mediums of high flow acrylics, watercolor pencils, graphite, and archival gel pens. Instead of brushes, I mix paints by spraying water on the papers. Then, I press papers together or drag paints with the tips of sharpened pencils. Exploration of what […]
Salvi – he/they Salvi’s art serves as a map that he creates to aid in the exploration of his own mind. In his work you’ll find themes of pain and conflict made into something beautiful through his curiosity. Salvador considers himself to be a creator of worlds hoping that, in pursuit of a place where […]
Abigail Ranic – they/he/she Much of my work is addressing “non traditional” beauty standards and what makes bodies unique in their own way. I am a printmaking student at Georgia State, and I use mostly monoprinting and reductive techniques to produce art that is moody and reflective. “In Between Bodies” is a diptych piece I […]
Sara Murphy – she/her In ‘Performance Theory,” ink drawing, acrylic and watercolor painting, monoprints, and resin on panel combine to create a multilayered image that attempts to express some of the vibrant, pulsing frustration that seems to come hand in hand with attempting to embody (or at least not insult) a societally acceptable framework of […]
Pia Muhihu – they/them My Artistic practice begins one of two ways: first being a new canvas or paints to try out and second being an idea that rolls its way into my life sometimes overnight other times months long. These are examples of both. The first piece titled in my room was set and […]
Kate Kosek – she/her My fiber sculptures playfully scrutinize and critique the gendered hierarchies inherent within art, craft, and design. I use abstract and representative forms to disrupt the ways we perceive an idea or an object’s function. Since the concept of craft was invented in relation to industrialization, I fluctuate between hand and machine […]
