Author: Mary Welch

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New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch,an art show featuring five emerging Georgia women artists contemplating a strange and uncertain future, will open January 27, 2023 and run to June 4 at the Atlanta Contemporary.



New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch offers an opportunity to speculate on what our shared destinies might hold. Organized by the Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the exhibition examines how societal conditions have impacted artists’ visions for the future or inspired them to create alternative realities. When women artists envision a different world, how does that look?



New Worlds was co-curated by Melissa Messina and Sierra King. One of the artists will be chosen from the Georgia exhibition for an exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., slated for spring 2024.



The Women to Watch exhibition is a highly competitive exhibition held approximately every three years. A Georgia-based curator is invited to select a group of five Georgia women artists whose work fits within the exhibition’s theme. The program is designed to increase the visibility of, and critical response to, promising women artists. Additionally, the program seeks to incorporate high quality art professionals into the committees’ activities. Women to Watch is an exhibition program that features underrepresented and emerging women artists. The previous Women to Watch exhibition in 2020 was curated by the High Museum of Art’s Wieland family curator of modern and contemporary art, Michael Rooks.



Photo: From left to right: Featured artists Namwon Choi, Shanequa Gay, Marianna Dixon Williams and Victoria Dugger (center). Not pictured: Anila Agha. Image courtesy of Sierra King/@sierrachasity

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New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch,an art show featuring five emerging Georgia women artists contemplating a strange and uncertain future, will open January 27, 2023 and run to June 4 …

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Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, an exhibition showcasing the works of 34 pioneers will debut at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) October 15 through January 29.



Hip-hop was established by the Black and Latino youth of New York’s South Bronx neighborhood in the early 1970s. Over the last five decades, hip-hop’s primary means of expression—deejaying, emceeing, b-boying and graffiti—have become globally recognized creative practices in their own right, and each has significantly impacted the urban environment.



Hip-hop architecture’s designers produce spaces, buildings and environments that translate hip-hop’s energy and spirit into built form. Now three decades in the making, Hip-hop architecture is finally receiving widespread attention within the discipline of architecture thanks to years of dedication to its principles by practitioners such as Sara Zewde, Ujijji Davis, James Garrett Jr., Craig L. Wilkins and this show’s curator, Sekou Cooke. 



The exhibition includes work by 34 participants representing seven countries, with projects ranging across a variety of media and forms of expression, including façade studies, building designs and urban development proposals. In aggregate, these projects reveal a collective vision for alternative forms of expression and pratice and serve to formalize work created over the past 30 years into an emerging canon of Hip-Hop Architecture.



Projects featured in the exhibition include:



Work from There Are No Blank Sheets of Paper by Amanda Williams, in which she questions how violence informs the use, appropriation and design of urban spaces



Shanty Megastructures, a 2015 speculative and Afrofuturist architectural intervention imagined for Lagos, Nigeria by Olalekan Jeyifous



Lauren Halsey’s 2018 Crenshaw District Hieroglyphic Project, a monument to South Central Los Angeles’s communities.

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Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture, an exhibition showcasing the works of 34 pioneers will debut at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) October 15 through January …

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The Children’s Museum of Atlanta’s 10th annual Tournament for PLAY, sponsored by PNC Bank, raised $274,000, with the proceeds benefiting the museum’s educational exhibits and quarterly Family Free Days. So far, more than 200,000 children and families have experienced the museum at no cost. More than 120 golfers participated at the tournament, which took place at the Peachtree Golf Club.



“PNC Bank is celebrating its 10th anniversary in the market, and we have seen every ‘Tournament for Play’ of the Children’s Museum exceed the last,” said Eddie Meyers, regional president for PNC Bank in Georgia and chair of the tournament. “Although it’s a wonderful day of networking and playing golf at a great course, this fundraiser ultimately benefits the next generation of leaders through the exposure to innovative, educational and dynamic hands-on children’s programs offered at the Museum. It’s a win-win, because at PNC, we know through the arts and sciences we will make a lasting difference in the future.”

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The Children’s Museum of Atlanta’s 10th annual Tournament for PLAY, sponsored by PNC Bank, raised $274,000, with the proceeds benefiting the museum’s educational exhibits and quarterly Family Free Days. So …

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The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), the only museum in the Southeast devoted exclusively to the study and celebration of all things design, is partnering with the Welcome Blanket project to collect blankets as a “warm welcome” to new refugees coming to the United States, including those arriving from Afghanistan. 



After collecting over 500 blankets made by crafters across the country and displaying them at the museum in a mini-exhibition, MODA has been distributing blankets to immigrants and refugees living in metro Atlanta at distribution events. 



The next blanket distributions will be held at Refuge Coffee on Friday, Oct. 7 from 11:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. and Jolly Avenue Garden on Monday, Oct. 24 from 1:30 until 3:30 p.m. All immigrant and refugee families are welcome to come out and take home a welcome blanket, each including a welcome note from the person who created the blanket. Plus, MODA will host a virtual conversation with the Welcome Blanket’s founder Jayna Zweiman on Oct. 6 at 6 p.m.



According to Welcome Blanket, the project is a platform for engagement that transforms the abstract concept of immigration into a tangible, crowd-sourced artistic action where crafters are invited to stitch, knit, crochet and weave blankets for new neighbors as a warm welcome. Along with the blankets, makers are invited to include a welcome note and share their own immigration, migration and relocation stories. 















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Tickets are now on sale for the March 18, 2023, performance of Jo Koy World Tour at the Fox Theatre. A standup comedian and actor, Koy is coming off the highly anticipated Universal Picture film, Easter Sunday, and his newly released Netflix special, Jo Koy: Live From The Los Angeles Forum.



Koy started 2022 with a bang, selling-out the Climate Pledge Arena in his hometown of Seattle. Today, he continues breaking sales records at some of the most prestigious venues around the world, and in November will headline for the first time at New York’s Madison Square Garden. 



His uniquely relatable comedy pulls inspiration from his colorful family, and has translated into sold-out arenas around the world.

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Tickets are now on sale for the March 18, 2023, performance of Jo Koy World Tour at the Fox Theatre. A standup comedian and actor, Koy is coming off the …

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The annual ELEVATE: OPEN SPACES arts festival will present dance films and live performances in galleries, public spaces, and parks throughout Atlanta. Events are free and open to the public.



Dance on the Square at Colony Square will take place from 1-3 p.m. Sept. 24. Under the direction of Emory Professor of Dance, Julio Medina, Emory Dance will perform three pieces 1-1:30 p.m.



The solo, coalesce (2021) will be performed by Medina.
The duet, ridge (2021), will be performed by dance artists Jacque Pritz and Julianna Feracota.
A student work will be performed by TNT, a co-ed Hip-Hop crew at Emory University.



DanceMakers of Atlanta will perform four pieces 1:40-2 p.m.



Green
Back to Life
Concerto #23
Clap Back



Dance Canvas, under the direction of Angela Harris, selected two works from their 2022 Dance Canvas/Atlanta Contemporary Resident Choreographers: Anicka Austin and Vanessa Zabari. The works will be presented 2:30-3 p.m.



The Death of Two Birds by Anicka Austin is a solo that will be performance by Indya Childs. Accompanying music composed by Chris Gravely, performed by cellist Alana Bennett-Garcia.
The Heart of the World choreography by Vanessa Zabari, performed by Vanessa Zabari and Mary-Beth Stinson.



Choreographer and archivist Austin said she considers the performance of repetition, endurance and devotion as a way of knowing, learning and being. 



Dance Performance of Words in Action by Room To Move Dance at Grant Park at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Sept. 25. Room To Move Dance (RTMD) continues building on the study of post-modern movement in this work.



 Rounding out the month will be a Dance Performance by Qudus Onikeku at Gallerie 88 Design House in Buckhead Village at 8 p.m. Sept. 30. The internationally renowned choreographer and dancer will perform AFRICAMAN ORIGINAL. The solo performance will take the audience on a journey into the world of Black dances from Africa, Brazil and the United States, set to the music of the king of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti. This event is being presented in partnership with ELEVATE, Villa Albertine, France-Atlanta, and Gallerie 88 Design House.



Above: Julio Medina, Emory Dance. Photo by Matt Spaugh

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