Atlanta-based visual artist and musician Lonnie Holley has announced the September 21 release of his third album, MITH, the followup to 2013’s Keeping A Record Of It. The video for the aptly titled first single I Woke Up In A Fucked-Up America, created by Atlanta videographers Matt Arnett and Ethan Payne, was released today. The 10 tracks of MITH…
For the past year, AIR Serenbe and ArtsATL have hosted visits from some of the country’s most dynamic contemporary musicians and composers through a collaborative effort known as the Transient Project Residency. Together, under the supervision and curation of Michael Kaufman, we’ve supported such renowned acts as Hanna Benn, Helado Negro, Oliver Blank and Asha Jiminez and…
The resident discusses his time in residence in AIR Serenbe, his collaborative process and works in progress.
ArtsATL contributor Debbie Michaud takes a deeper look at the driving force behind the innovative dance space.
Photos by Ethan Payne According to MediaFinder.com, the largest online database of U.S. and Canadian publications, 2008 and 2009 were hard years for the magazine industry. 892 publications ceased publication over those two years, among them, Domino, Vibe and Blender. It wasn’t until 2010 that Decatur’s own Paste Magazine went to an online-only format. “Struggles…
One of the works that visitors to Lonnie Holley’s I Snuck Off the Slave Ship (at the Atlanta Contemporary through April 2) are likely to notice first is a large freestanding steel sculpture from 2016 titled The Seer. Holley writes of it in one of the text blocks that offer commentary on most of his artworks, “We are all seers one way or other…. Some of us are even foretellers and are able to see things before they happen.”
Having eaten his fill at “Prison Taco,” the affectionate nickname for El Progresso, a convenience grocery store/taqueria across the street from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, Lonnie Holley carefully closes the lid on a Styrofoam takeaway box holding the remains of his lunch. Your correspondent, fueled by a smoky chicken quesadilla and Jarritos lime soda, eagerly…
“Dream information and the seepage of dreams into reality is where a lot of my work begins,” says Iman Person, an artist, sculptor and curator living within the city. Person’s work is at once heavily ritual-based, derived from nature and incredibly sensorial. Spanning themes of origin, landscape and the human form, Person’s work straddles multiple planes…
It’s a murky Saturday in summer and well over 100 people are milling in and out of Cabbagetown’s “Green House,” a worn two-story home where Ethan Payne, Asher Payne and Jake Adams reside. Guests lean against the porch railing, shoulder-to-shoulder.
“I’ve been an artist my whole life, but I’ve never really needed it like I do at this point in my life,” says artist Tori Tinsley, who’s mother was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia in 2009. Tinsley’s experiences of taking care of her mother under such strained circumstances has profoundly effected her own creative practices and work.
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