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OCTOBER 2008 NEWSLETTER
EDITION IV
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Message from the President |
The summer was an active one for MOCA GA. In
June/July, we opened our first exhibition in the
Museum's main galleries at TULA Art Center with
Larry Walker's
solo exhibition. Larry's exhibition kicked off the
series of three exhibitions by this year's
Working Artist Project (WAP) award winners.
In August we opened the second exhibition by WAP artist,
Don Cooper. The opening receptions
were well attended and the reviews were outstanding.
As part of the grant award, we selected a major painting
from the exhibitions of each artist for MOCA GA's
permanent collection. Both works are currently on
view in MOCA GA's Education Resource/Center.
The final in this year's series of WAP award winners, a
major installation by Danielle Roney,
opened Saturday, October 4th and continues through
November 15th.
Many thanks to the Charles Loridans Foundation
for funding these grants and exhibitions.
The Education/Resource Center of MOCA
GA is fast becoming an important historical resource for
Georgia. This summer we received the art library
from the estate of artist Genevieve Arnold
as well as the archives from both the Atlanta
Women's Art Collective and the
Vigilante Girls. All of these materials
are being digitized and catalogued through our active
internship program. On view in the Center is an
exhibition of the archived materials of the curatorial
collective TABOO. Read more about
the archives in this issue.
Major arts supporter and friend of MOCA GA,
Elliott Goldstein commissioned Tom
Ventulett to create a watercolor in homage to
Georgia O'Keefe for MOCA GA's permanent collection.
Elliot has been a strong supporter of MOCA GA, serving
as honoree of the MOCA GALA + Art Auction 2007 among
other activities.
I am pleased to announce that we have begun a
Docent program. Eleanor Neal,
Chairperson of the Art Department at Shiloh High School
in Gwinnett County, leads docent training workshops for
each exhibition. Having volunteer docents allows
us to more actively solicit tours and conduct outreach
programs to schools and other organizations.
We have revived our First Thursday
evening receptions. These monthly receptions are from
5:30 to 7:30 pm. and are free to the public. In our new
location, the TULA galleries and studio artists are
joining us so that the entire complex is open to
visitors.
Finally, we are grateful to our most recent contributors
who have helped make the phenomenal growth of the Musuem
possible. The foundations and government agencies
that gave to MOCA GA in the 3rd quarter of 2008 are:
The Rich Foundation
R. Howard Dobbs Jr. Foundation
The Cousins Foundation
The Massey Charitable Trust
The Price Gilbert Jr. Charitable Fund
City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs
Georgia Council for the Arts
Fulton County Arts Council
Thank you to each and every one of you who have helped
us grow and thrive.
Sincerely,
Annette Cone-Skelton
President, CEO
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Art for Everyone - a MOCA GA Fundraiser
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ART FOR EVERYONE 2008: A Huge Success
The recent event,
Art For Everyone: Uncurated Art Resale
Silent Auction & Party,
was so successful, attendees have already
requested a repeat. Held on September 19th
at The Brownstones at Honour in Buckhead,
the party was an appealing blend of beautiful
surroundings, affordable art, and festive
atmosphere.
With live music in the
background, collectors bid on virtually all of
the 160 artworks that were installed throughout
four of the million dollar-plus townhomes.
Works ran the gamut from photography to
drawings, paintings, prints and ceramics.
Almost $44,000 was raised and many collectors
went home with new treasures. Around 350
people were in attendance.
Helping to make the event
a success were Event chair Patti Siegel,
Host Committee Co-chairs Travis Reed and
Michael Kriethe. The Art Donation
Co-Chairs were Andrew Dietz, Betty
Edge and Karen Spiegel.
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Danielle Roney Exhibition : October
4 - November 15, 2008 |
DANIELLE RONEY:
Genesis Trial: Johannesburg
Working
Artist Project winner Danielle Roney's solo
exhibition Genesis Trial: Johannesburg opened at
MOCA GA on October 4 and will run through November
15, 2008. Her Artist Talk is scheduled for
October 23.
Danielle works in a combination of sculpture and
time-based media, resulting in site specific
installations, live simulcasts, abstract sculpture,
and video. Mostly she explores the question:
How does change and technological communication with
the world affect a society? She has been
working in two areas undergoing great change: China
and South Africa. She seeks to initiate a
scholarly dialogue about the potential for
individual cultures to lose their diversity and
uniqueness. In short, she examines and
reflects how they express the changing world around
them.
MOCA News checked in with Danielle as she completed
preparations for her opening.
1. Your solo exhibition opened October
4 -- can you tell us about it?
DR: I worked hard on the MOCA
exhibition. I was very excited about the opening and
look for it to elevate my work to a new level of
dialog about locational identity and the dynamics of
virtual and physical realities.
Genesis Trial: Johannesburg emphasizes the journey
to global citizenry and the psychogeography of place
in relationship to personal interactions in
Johannesburg. Considering the broader context of
locational identity, the expressions of Italo
Calvino and architect Yona Freidman, frame a balance
of direct and abstract interpretations of personal
mobility and its social implications.
The exhibition includes a multi-channel video
installation, several single channel conceptual and
documentary video works and sculpture.
2. What has your focus been while
working on this show?
DR: As Genesis Trial unfolds in a
series of global experiences, I am focused on the
larger, universal aspects of many "modern" centers
and the how time, space and place reveal themselves
in an infinite complexity of layers; to later
dissolve in the recollection of the traveler, as
Calvino significantly illustrates in his 1972 novel,
Invisible Cities.
3. Any comments about what it's been
like to be part of the Working Artist Project, one
of the first three artists chosen?
DR: The WAP grant has enabled me to
expand my work further into media installation and
has encouraged my global conceptual base to take on
new forms of multi-channel projection and live
performance interactions.
4. How has it been working with your
studio assistants?
DR: Roney: I currently have
two studio assistants splitting the time allocation.
Penny Aviles, from Agnes Scott,
is focusing upon research in video interactive
technology, videography and
exhibition/installation planning. I have
encouraged her participation in the
unitednationsplaza Mexico DF program in Mexico
City during the month of March while she is home
visiting her family over spring break. This
perspective helps her learn more about the
direction of contemporary art discourse on an
international level, and she will report on the
project to me regarding this in relationship to
my conceptual frameworks.
Freya Schlemmer, from Emory,
works on grant and artistic research and assists
in the writing/editing process. Freya also is in
charge of statement development. Freya has also
worked on Global Portals and continues to
contribute to upcoming technology issues.
Both young women have learned how to work from a
conceptual base to a tangible exhibition, with
the use of technology, which will contribute to
their own creative development.
To read more about Danielle Roney,
click here.
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Q
&A: WAP Artist Don Cooper |
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A Conversation with 2007/2008
Working Artist Project Winner
Don Cooper
Don Cooper is one of the first three
winners of MOCA GA's Working Artist Project, funded by
the Charles Loridans Foundation. His exhibition This
Moment As It Is: A Connection To The Whole currently
hangs in MOCA's Galleries I and III through September
20. Mr. Cooper talked with MOCA's Vicky Favorite
recently.
Click here
to read about Vicky's conversation with this exciting
Georgia artist.
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2008/2009
Working Artist Project Winners |
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Maria Artemis
Marcia R. Cohen
Matt Haffner
Through a major grant from the Charles Loridans
Foundation, MOCA GA continues its innovative
and exciting new Working Artist Project (WAP) grants
program. After a very successful first year --
working with artists Don Cooper, Danielle Roney, and
Larry Walker -- Annette Cone-Skelton is proud to
introduce the next three winning artists:
Maria Artemis, Marcia R. Cohen, and
Matt Haffner.
Click here
to read more about the 2008/2009 Working Artist Project
winners.
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MOCA GA Archives Update |
News from the Vault:
The MOCA GA Archives
TABOO Remembered
Some people think of archives as dusty boxes with
contents that never see the light of day. At MOCA
GA, the archives are a dynamic assortment of research
materials that chronicle the contemporary art scene of
Georgia. There are many exciting things happening
with MOCA GA's archives behind-the-scenes. Here
are a few highlights:
· The exhibition, TABOO Remembered,
is the first exhibition curated from MOCA GA's archives.
It is currently installed on the Project Ramp Gallery of
the Education Resource/Center. MOCA GA maintains
the records of the TABOO art collective, active in the
Atlanta art scene from 1988 through 1999.
· MOCA GA has been given the complete library of
art books from the Genevieve Arnold
Estate. This wonderful collection
consists of books, exhibition catalogs, magazines such
as Art in America, ART PAPERS, ARTFORUM dating back to
the early 1970s, providing a valuable research tool for
educators, students and collectors.
· The Atlanta Women's Art Collective,
a feminist art support group active from 1976 to the
mid-1980s, donated their files to MOCA GA. The
collection includes correspondence, invitations,
photographs, etc. A student from Kennesaw State
University has already used the material for a research
paper.
· A four-box collection of Atlanta gallery
exhibitions provides a chronological record of
galleries in Atlanta from the 1960s through today.
These mailers and invitations not only show the
galleries in operation but also the artists, even a
record of graphic design styles prevalent in each
period.
· This summer, four interns
worked with Lisa Thrower, MOCA GA's manager of
collections, to scan more than 400 slides. In
addition, the internsworked to cross-reference artists
in newspaper articles and magazines, making research on
a particular artist in the MOCA GA permanent collection
much easier.
· The estate of Herbert Creecy
has gifted three document boxes full of slides, which
provides a visual record of most every piece the artist
created during the height of his career. MOCA GA
is putting these in chronological order and will begin
scanning the slides this fall.
Anyone interested in accessing the MOCA GA archives may
contact Lisa Thrower at
lisathrower@mocaga.org for an appointment.
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MOCA GA Staff Profile |
Jo-ann Lawrence
MOCA GA Grants Manager
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There might be times when MOCA staffer Jo-ann Lawrence
feels like a matchmaker.
Steeped in the intricacies of arts funding, she
understands that the strongest grant proposals come from
knowing details about her subject: MOCA GA and its
Georgia artists -- what they need, who they are and how
they do their work. She asks questions and learns
-- about artist technique and materials, about
workspace, what artists need, how they can excel.
Click here
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What Are They Up to Now? |
Katherine Mitchell
MOCA GA Artist
Labyrinth for Durnstein II, Katherine
Mitchell
Katherine Mitchell, an abstract artist
featured in numerous group exhibitions at MOCA GA, has
been recently chosen by Agnes Scott College for
installation in the new Julia Thompson Smith Chapel on
campus. Lisa Alembik, director of Agnes Scott's
Dalton Gallery, says that Agnes Scott's collecting
mission focuses predominately on works on paper by women
artists. She described Mitchell's work as "quiet
seduction of color that seeps into the atmosphere while
meditative qualities of her carefully laid out shapes
build and unfold onto each other."
"Agnes Scott is thrilled to include Katherine Mitchell
in the college's permanent collection," says Alembik.
"The installation of Mitchell's artwork completes the
sublime atmosphere of the Julia Thompson Smith Chapel,
the new house of faith and spirituality on campus that
opened this past April. In Mitchell's drawings, the
quiet seduction of color seeps into the atmosphere while
the meditative qualities of her shapes build and unfold
onto each other, both posing timeless questions of
beliefs and systems appropriate for a space that calls
one to consider the journey of life,"
The Agnes Scott Permanent Collection includes works by
Barbara Kruger and Kathe Kollwitz, and recent
acquisitions of works by Ruth Laxon, Annette
Cone-Skelton and Rocio Rodriguez. Agnes Scott's
collecting mission focuses predominately on works on
paper by women.
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MOCA GA's 2008 Schedule
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MOCA GA's
2008 Schedule
Danielle Roney, Genesis Trial: Johannesburg
3D Animation Still
August 8 through October 31, 2008 -- TABOO Remembered,
Project Ramp Gallery in MOCA GA's Education/Resource
Center. A rare opportunity to view provocative
work from this now defunct Atlanta art collective.
October 2 -
November 15 -- Photographs from the Core Collection:
Gifts from CGR Advisors and David S. Golden,
Expansion Gallery, Suite O2.
October 4 - Opening Reception -- Danielle Roney
exhibition, Genesis Trial: Johannesburg, 6:30
p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Galleries I, II and III
October 4 - November 15 -- Danielle Roney solo exhibition,
multimedia installations including sculpture, audio and
computer-generated videos and videos projected onto murals
October 9 - Atlanta Celebrates Photography Artist Talk with
Suellen Parker, 6:30 pm reception, 7 pm Artist Talk.
October 23 - Danielle Roney artist talk, Gallery I, 6:30
reception, 7 p.m. Artist Talk
November 6 - First Thursday, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
November 20 -- Off-the-Wall Pin-Up Show and Sale, 6-9 p.m. -
Click here
for information on how to participate in Pin Up 2008,click here
for the Pin Up 2008 Release Form; and click here
for information on MOCA GA's call for Multiples Proposals
November 29 - January 17 -- Lamar Dodd exhibition, Galleries
I, II, III.
December 4 - First Thursday, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
December 5 -- Public reception, Lamar Dodd exhibition,
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
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MOCA GA
Museum Hours:
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Tuesday - Saturday
TULA Art Center
10am - 5pm
75 Bennett Street
Closed Sunday and Monday
Atlanta, GA 30309
404.367.4542
Funding
and support for this organization is provided in part by
the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs; the
Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance
of the Fulton County Arts Council; and the Georgia
Council for the Arts through the appropriation of the
Georgia General Assembly. The Georgia Council for the
Arts is a partner agency of the National Endowment for
the Arts.
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