Podcast: Stop-motion animation, FRESH JUGO, Lucy Luckovich and more on ATL Arts Collective

FRESH JUGO’s Julián Gonzalez-Diaz is the featured contributor, as we hear about Frame by Frame, Lucy Luckovich’s Dolly, This is Somewhere, our weekly best bets and more.

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This Week On The Show

This week’s featured contributor is Julián Gonzalez-Diaz. He’s a painter and the host of the FRESH JUGO podcast, where he has casual conversations with Atlanta creatives in a variety of disciplines. Julián breaks down his nomadic studio-recording setup and shares his journey from a pandemic-era graduation to navigating the local DIY art scene. We learn how his Mexican heritage and life in the American South converge to shape his portraits, still lifes and his drive to amplify Atlanta artists.

The magic of frame-by-frame animation at the Center for Puppetry Arts

Atlanta documentarian and Viewist Productions founder Wesley Boutilier dives into the painstaking, beautifully tactile world of stop-motion animation at the Center for Puppetry Arts. Its new exhibition, Frame by Frame: The Art of Stop-Motion Animation, explores three decades of master craftsmanship. Learn about the intricate physical armatures, puppets and production sets behind legendary cinematic milestones like Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride and SpongeBob SquarePants. After you hear the story on the podcast, go watch Boutilier’s short documentary. 

Double Exposure: Capturing Soul in Atlanta and New Orleans

ArtsATL reporter Jhazzy Joiner takes us to the historic Haugabrooks Gallery along Auburn Avenue for aKAZ! ATL’s This Is Somewhere. Founders and curators Anja and Jumbe Sebunya celebrate family ties by juxtaposing the drone-manipulated Atlanta cityscape photography of software engineer and YouTube personality Craig Lou with the striking Black American cultural portraiture of Iman Sebunya, whose work honors the Black Masking Native Americans, second lines and the essence of New Orleans.

Lucy Lukovich’s Dolly at Wolfgang Gallery

Julián Gonzalez-Diaz sits down with Atlanta contemporary painter Lucy Luckovich to discuss her upcoming solo exhibition, Dolly. Fresh off completing her master of fine arts at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the Georgia State University alum explores the complex layers of female desire, advertising culture and text-based lineage. She details her surrealist collage-to-canvas paintings and hidden illustrative drawings that will be on view at Wolfgang Gallery from July 17 through August 22.

ArtsATL Best Bets for the Week

ArtsATL Executive Editor Shane Harrison joins the show to share his top cultural recommendations for the week. His curated mix features the Atlanta Micro Short Film Festival, several concerts and a new Off the Wall film screening projected onto the Beltline’s 725 Ponce building. 

Memento Gallery and Alday Hunken Gallery team up for new partnership

Reporter Mitali Singh examines a radical new collaborative gallery model shaking up local art spaces. Gallery owners Madison Dailey of Memento Gallery in Virginia-Highland and Alfonso Alday Vergara of Alday Hunken Gallery discuss their shared curatorial vision. They dive into their debut joint exhibition, Held Traces, showing how the raw stone sculptures of Mexican artist Paula Cortazar and the haunting negative space in paintings by African American artist Gabriel Choto reflect themes of migration, memory and the decentralization of global art markets.

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