At the Hammonds House Museum, the past is celebrated, the present is shown and the foundation of its future is clearly laid out, says Kevin Sipp. A longtime curator at the museum, Sipp brought his keen eye back for Foundations and Futures, the definitive exhibit celebrating the museum’s 35th anniversary. It will be on view…
MOCA GA has announced the 2023-24 winners of its Working Artist Project Fellowship program: They are Namwon Choi, Jane E. Foley and José Ibarra Rizo. The fellowship includes a stipend, studio assistants, a publication and an exhibition at the museum. Choi is a painter with a cinematic perspective of the world. Her landscapes are sourced…
The Souls Grown Deep Foundation & Community Partnership has launched a new custom print program, offering over 100 fine-art prints and archival reproductions by more than 30 Black artists from the American South, including Thornton Dial and Nellie Mae Rowe. The collection is being offered exclusively at prints.soulsgrowndeep.org and will benefit the artists directly via an…
The mood was both celebratory and somber when 200 people gathered at Serenbe’s Deer Hollow Park recently to watch the unveiling of Curtis Patterson’s Serenity for Shango. Nestled in a cathedral of trees off a wooded footpath, the stainless-steel monument measures 9 feet tall by 5 feet wide and is complemented by five Ashanti stools…
New Found Land by Angus Galloway, at Gallery 72 through August 5, is composed of five large wall drawings. The artist began these black-and-white and grayscale drawings during the pandemic, when he undertook a two-year investigation into his grandfather John Dymond’s service in the British Royal Navy during World War II on the Newfoundland, a…
The Atlanta art world is divided not just by the prior interests of various audiences but by geography. Any number of differently interesting shows pass unnoticed because location is destiny. Many of us art viewers simply find some galleries easier to get to than others. Not even the BeltLine has displaced the habit of seeking…
It’s all over social media. Surprise, confusion and even outrage from Atlanta artists and arts administrators about the recent, unexpected shake-up at Hammonds House. Some artists were willing to talk on the record, some were not, but everyone ArtsATL spoke with this week agreed: Hammonds House is an arts treasure that deserves to live on….
The “In Our Own Words” series began shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March as a way of giving voice to members of Atlanta’s arts community as we all struggled to adjust, cope and survive. The premise is simple, based on the old 12-step recovery wisdom of gathering resolve and insight through sharing our…
Kevin Sipp is a fine artist, scholar, curator and arts administrator with a background in writing, printmaking, painting, sculpture and multimedia installation. He works as project supervisor at the city of Atlanta’s Gallery 72 and for the Mayor’s Gallery at City Hall. :: Growing up in Daytona Beach, Florida, racial issues were an undercurrent in…
On January 27, 2019, ArtsATL will recognize the best of the best in Atlanta arts during the third-annual Luminary Awards ceremony, which will be held 6–8 p.m. at City Winery. Before the winners are revealed this winter, we want to recognize all the people and organizations who were lifted up during the nomination process. The…
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