Chastain Arts Center & Gallery is hosting a Book Drive, in conjunction with the Confluence: The Art of F. Geoffrey Johnson exhibit .
The book drive will be ongoing while the exhibition is up through Friday, April 8th. All books traded will be donated to Books for Africa. Donors will receive an Olympic pin from a past Olympic year. The exhibition and book drive are free and open to the public. COVID safety guidelines are required for all indoor activity.
In October, Chastain Arts Center teaching artists Iris Eve Schaer, Jessica Locklar, and Georgia Nagle created a miniature garden for the Tiny Little Parks along Buckhead’s PATH400 experience.
A partnership between Livable Buckhead and Tiny Doors ATL artists, the project re-invented the annual PARK(ing) Day hosted along PATH400 into an outdoor event that adorned the path with miniature green spaces from October 16 to 18.
The event’s goal was to demonstrate the value of increasing green space in our community by showing the impact of community art and the value of parks – no matter how small.
The three Chastain instructors collaborated to make a “Tiny Chastain Sculpture Garden” sponsored by the arts center. The miniature sculpture garden also featured recycled elements and found items to add p
ersonality to the tiny green space.
Last month, the Chastain Arts Center introduced #ChastainStaysCreative on all social media platforms. This video-based initiative is a wonderful opportunity for artists at our center to share their creative routines with a larger audience. The videos provide a source of encouragement and inspiration during these challenging times.
In addition to our instructors’ videos, we would also like to encourage Chastain students to submit creative content to be shared online, via your preferred social media platform.
If you would like to participate, feel free to submit images of your work in a small JPG or PDF file, along with a brief general statement about your creative routine. All submissions should be sent to kmckinney@atlantaga.gov for consideration.
There are no restrictions on the type of work you can submit. We are simply looking for thoughtful and uplifting forms of creativity, to be shared with the public.
If you have any questions about the #ChastainStaysCreative initiative, do not hesitate to reach out via email, at chastainarts@atlantaga.gov.
We hope that you will join us as we continue to move forward by staying motivated and inspired in all creative endeavors.
The Chastain Arts Center’s annual Holiday Show and Sale exhibition is entering its final weeks.
If you have not yet visited the exhibition, you still have two weeks to experience the show and sale for yourself before it closes on Saturday, December 14!
Also, for the duration of the sale, Chastain will offer guests a special weekly promotion. Upcoming holiday promotions include a free Chastain Arts Center T-Shirt with any purchase and a free mug from the Chastain Gift Shop.
Thanks to everyone for the wonderful support you have shared during this year’s Holiday Show and Sale Exhibition! Make sure to visit Chastain’s Facebook Events page or watch our Instagram stories for all promotional updates!
As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please give us a call at 404-252-2927.
Ashlee Haze Accepting the 2019 Emerging Artist Award.
On October 23, the Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs’ Arts and Education program honored Atlanta-based poet and spoken word artist Ashlee Haze with the 2019 Emerging Artist Award.
Held at Chastain Arts Center, each year the Arts and Education program hosts a ceremony awarding select up-and-coming, Atlanta-based artists with the Emerging Artist Award. The award recognizes the artistic vision and achievements of select artists and provides grant funding to support and promote their creative talent and projects.
A graduate of Georgia State University, Haze is one of the most accomplished poets in the poetry slam circuit. She is a three-time “Queen of the South” Poetry Slam Champion, a two-time “Women of the World” Poetry Slam finalist, and a two-time National Poetry Slam semi-finalist.
She started writing at the age of 10, performing her first piece at her church. By age 15, Haze was regularly performing at public competitions and events, and she has been a staple of Atlanta’s poetry circuit for more than a decade.
Haze amassed more acclaim after her heartfelt poem “For Colored Girls Who Don’t Need Katy Perry When Missy Elliott is Enough” went viral, which prompted a surprise visit from the award-winning artist Missy Elliott.
Most recently, Haze appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk series alongside the musical group Blood Orange. Haze currently works as a full-time poet and artist.To learn more about Haze’s works, visit her website at AshleeHaze.com. You can also listen to her new poetry album “Smoke” on Spotify.
If you wish to learn more about the Emerging Artist Award and funding opportunities provided by the Arts and Education’s Contracts for Arts Services program, click here.
The City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs is pleased to presents this year’s Emerging Artists Award Exhibition. The reception for the exhibit will be held on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 from 6:30 pm to 8 pm at the Chastain Arts Center Gallery.
This exhibit is designed to support practicing artists residing in the City of Atlanta. The public is invited to join us in celebrating this year’s Awardees: Kiera A. Nelson, aka “Ashlee Haze”, and Miriam Robinson.
If you can’t make the reception, stop by the Gallery and check out the show before it closes. The exhibition will be on view from Monday, October 21 to Friday, November 8, 2019. Come out and support these local artists!
Artwork by Jessica Locklar
This Fall, Chastain Arts Center and Gallery will introduce two, new one-day only drawing workshops from new Chastain instructor, Jessica Locklar. During these workshops, students will learn to draw with realism in their artwork using the same techniques Locklar uses in creating her own artwork. No matter your skill level with drawing, these workshops are for you.
NEW! Drawing the Face With Colored Pencil
Dates: October, Sat. 19 and October, Sat. 25
Time: 10 AM 2 PM
Cost: $28 (1 Day)
While learning about the history of collage, students will create mixed media works that emphasize the use of color, texture, and imagery. Inspired by such masters as Matisse and Picasso, students will be taken through the collage process, from basic painting and drawing techniques, to composition and assemblage, and then to completion. Students are welcome to bring in items which they would like to incorporate into their collages
Dates: October, Sat. 5 and November, Sat. 23
Time: 10 AM 2 PM
Cost: $28 (1 Day)
NEW! Drawing Eyes, Lips, & Noses
In this class, Locklar will teach you how to render facial features convincingly using graphite, colored pencils, and some ink. In addition, Locklar will be drawing from photo references, but we will not be tracing.
On Saturday, August 3, Chastain Arts Center and Gallery will host a Raku workshop with instructor Bob Petersen. During the workshop, students will learn the general history, philosophy and methods of firing ceramics in a Raku Kiln. In addition, glazing techniques will be taught and put into practice. Whether this is your first time Raku firing or you have experience, all levels are welcome to participate.
What to bring:
Please avoid bringing:
Also, be aware that Raku firing does not produce work suitable for food service and vessels may be too porous to hold liquid.
Note: Do to time constraints for the workshop, we cannot guarantee all pieces will be fired.
For more information or to sign up, call 404-252-2927.
Join Chastain Arts Center and Gallery for a two-day workshop, “Handbuilding Functional & Sculptural Ceramic with Slabs”, featuring Grace Tessein & Dennis Ritter.
Tessein and Ritter will share their approaches to slab building using soft and leather hard slabs to construct functional and representational sculptural forms using mid-range iron rich clays.
Participants will be introduced to various slab building techniques, drop and hump molds, and methods for developing surfaces using slips and underglazes.
Guest will also discuss the use of the clay extruder as a tool for creating components for functional forms and for sculptural embellishments.
This two-day workshop will be hosted Friday, June 14 from 10 AM – 5 PM and Saturday, June 15 from 10 AM – 2 PM.
The registration fee is $85. All Levels Welcome! For more information or to sign up, call 404-252-2927.
Join Chastain Arts Center and Gallery for its second Pop-Up series, Fold-Forming Bangel Workshop featuring Robert McGinnis.
Learn the art of fold-forming sheet copper in this dual session workshop on June 8 and June 15.
This workshop is great for the inquisitive beginner to the intermediate jeweler.
The registration fee for the workshop is $58 with a $10 supply fee. For more information or to sign up, call 404-252-2927.
Chastain Arts Center and Gallery is pleased to announce“Ini-she-ation” by Shanequa Gay. This is a solo show highlights works focuses on young black girls, their freedom or the lack there in… a young girl is initiated into womanhood, the world, understanding, utopia, belief, faith, and the imaginary.
The show will be on view from Friday, June 7 to Saturday, August 3. An opening reception for the show will be held on Friday, June 7, from 6 pm to 8 pm.
The Artist Talk will be July 27 at 1 PM.
All events are Free and Open to the public. We will see you there!
On Friday, May 10 from 10 AM to 4 PM, the Chastain Arts Center presents a Pop-Up Raku Workshop conducted by instructor Bob Peterson. In this one-day Raku workshop, Peterson will discuss the general history, philosophy and methods in firing ceramics in a raku kiln. Whether this is your first time Raku firing or you a seasoned artist, all levels are welcome to participate. For more information about the Pop-Up Workshop or to register, please call us at 404.252.2927. We hope you join us!
What will your children be doing this summer?
Let your children explore their creative talents this summer with one of Chastain Arts Center and Gallery’s upcoming Summer Camps or Teen Workshops!
Registration starts Monday, February 18 for new students.
For returning 2018 campers, pre-registration opens Monday, February 11.
Look for Chastain’s 2019 Art à La Carte Summer Camp and Teen Workshop schedule coming soon!
From December 2 to 8, 2018, help the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) celebrates Americans for the Arts’ inaugural National Shop Local Artists Week during our annual Holiday Show and Sale at Chastain Arts Center and Gallery.
Beginning as a local initiative created by the Northshore Cultural Economy Coalition in 2016, National Shop Local Artists Week encourages cultural supporters to join together to promote the purchase work created by local artists. The week-long celebration promotes art as a holiday gift —including tickets to events and organization memberships!
Outlets like Chastain Arts Center and Gallery’s annual Holiday Show and Sale allows some of Atlanta’s most talented artists to exhibit and sale their work. The Show and Sale also helps support the City’s booming arts and cultural economy, which accounts for more than 60,000 jobs across multiple creative sectors in metro Atlanta.
“Chastain Arts Center is a place for emerging artists to showcase their work in our gallery and for aspiring artists to learn how to create art for themselves, “ said Karen Lowe, Chastain Arts Center and Gallery’s manager and curator. “The annual Holiday Show and Sale allows us to showcase the art of our instructors and students on an annual basis.”
According to a 2015 report from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, arts and cultural economic activities account for more than $700 billion of the United States’ gross domestic product. This demonstrates that the arts are a valuable business asset with significant financial benefits.
The value of the arts and cultural economy is particularly significant to metro Atlanta. As detailed in the Americans for the Arts’ 2017 Creative Industries report, the city of Atlanta has approximately two times the number of arts-related businesses and jobs than the national average.
During this holiday season, the OCA encourages all arts and cultural supporter to invest in the city’s budding arts and cultural economy by purchasing a unique, handmade gift or attending one of the amazing cultural experiences presented by the City’s many arts organizations. Your support will go a long way in growing Atlanta’s arts and cultural economy.
For more information about National Shop Local Artists Week, visit www.ShopLocalArtistsWeek.org.
To learn more about Chastain Arts Center and Gallery’s Holiday Show and Sale, follow them on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for the latest news and updates.
Join us on Saturday, November 3 from 11 AM to 2 PM in the Chastain Gallery for the Chastain Arts Center’s Annual Holiday Show and Sale Opening Reception.
The Holiday Show and Sale will be on view from November 2, 2018, through January 4, 2019.
The Chastain Arts Center and Gallery is pleased to announce its 50th Anniversary Celebration, a creative family event for all ages. The celebration will take place on Saturday, August 11 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Festivities will include Plein Air Paint Out, Raku Firings, Kids Art Zone, food, and live music.
Additionally, the celebration will feature open studio demonstrations to encourage public participation in jewelry making, printmaking, and ceramics throughout the day.
The Chastain Gallery will also unveil duel exhibitions, The Chastain Experiment and Fifty|Fifty. The Chastain Experiment invites participating artists to create large-scale, ephemeral drawings directly onto the gallery’s walls.
Featured artists are current drawing and painting instructors of the arts center. Fifty|Fifty, located in Chastain’s gift shop area, showcases the arts center’s rich tradition of ceramics and jewelry by featuring the work of 18 former teaching-artists from Chastain Arts Center’s 50-year history.
Furthermore, an original short film documenting the history of Chastain as Atlanta’s oldest art center will premiere during the 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Admission is FREE and open to the public. Pre-registration for the Plein Air Paint Out is found here: www.ocaatlanta.com/chastain.
This event will be hosted at the Chastain Arts Center located at 135 West Wieuca Rd. NW, Atlanta, GA. Please call 404-252-2927 for more information or contact us at chastainarts@atlantaga.gov.
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It’s the Simple Things is an exhibition of two dimensional works featuring the common “things” you find around the house.
Sometimes the most ordinary things become extraordinary by presenting them through a new perspective. A splash of color, heavy texture or a floating object, can shift your attention from moderate to the intriguing!
This exhibition examines the overlooked objects of daily life with the focus of ordinary objects. Artists have presented scraps of paper, household tools and food as the subjects for their works of art, shifting the context of the contemporary still-life.
Participating Georgia based artists including –Philip Carpenter, Karen Appleton, Wesley Terpstra and David Wendel. These artists represent access to the still life through divergent artistic approaches; from Karen Appleton’s impasto paintings, to Wesley Terpstra’ s intimate trompe l’oeil paintings; the works challenge, yet engage your idea of art.
Chastain Arts Center is pleased to announce The Drawing Experiment, an exhibition curated by Karen Comer Lowe. This exhibition examines the immediacy of drawing and varied approaches to the use of line within a composition. The works are site specific and temporary.
Artists were invited to create a drawing onsite, directly onto the walls in dry media for two and a half weeks. Participating artists include, Georgia based artists including –Jessica Caldas, Elyse Defoor, William Downs, Jessica Scott Felder, Angus Galloway, Benjamin Jones, Marie Mathews, Julio Mejia, Yanique Norman, Joe Peragine, Kellie Romany, Karl Kroeppler.
These artists represent the full range of diverse perspectives within the contemporary art practice. Visit the Chastain Arts Center Gallery July 17 through September 12 to see The Drawing Experiment. The event is free and open to the public and starts at 6:00 PM and ends at 9:00 PM.
It will be in the Chastain Arts Center Gallery at 135 West Wieuca Road, NW Atlanta, GA 30342.
Please call 404-252-2927 for more information or contact us at chastainarts@atlantaga.gov.
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