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The Westside Arts District will hold their monthly “3rd Saturday” art walk.

Schedule of Events for the September Westside Art Walk

ATLANTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
Event 11 am – 12pm, open 11am – 5 pm
535 Means Street, NW
Curator Talk: Stuart Horodner, 11am – 12 noon
Artistic Director Stuart Horodner leads a tour through the current
exhibitions. New exhibitions, opened September 12 and on view through
November 22, include Harry Shearer: The Silent Echo Chamber, Corin
Hewitt: Seed Stage, and Will Rogan: Remnant World.

EMILY AMY GALLERY
Open 11 am – 5 pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 208,
Contemporary Collage for Kids! Bring your kids in to create their own
collages while viewing the current exhibition.
Emily Amy Gallery is pleased to present our fall exhibition,
Contemporary Collage: Paper’s Many Forms, featuring gallery artists
Paul Rousso and Cecil Touchon and first hand selections from the
permanent collection of the International Museum of Collage,
Assemblage and Construction. By utilizing recycled printed matter,
both the distant and not-so-distant past are recalled with words,
icons, fonts, and colors that could only be of a certain time. In
their newfound form, these materials come to life and are forever
immortalized by the artists who seek to revive them.

KIANG GALLERY
Event—1pm, open 12pm-5pm
1011-A Marietta Street, NW
ART WANTS NEW HOME, an exhibition and sale of privately owned work
from private collections, curated by Anne Lambert Tracht, Jane Cofer,
Marianne Lambert, Marilyn Kiang at Kiang Gallery. A discussion will be
lead on why a secondary marketplace is important.

GET THIS! GALLERY
Event 2:00pm and again at 3pm, open 11am-5pm, FREE
662 11th St. NW
Bill Daniel will discuss his recent exhibition, Ground Score currently
on view at Get This!
Ground Score traces the course of a self-taught artist who was
initially turned on to photography while participating in the
skate/punk scene of Austin in the early 1980s. Included in this trip
are records from a 20-year obsession with hobo folklore, graffiti,
street culture, and post-oil survivalism.

SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY-event 2pm, open 11am-5pm, FREE
1009-A Marietta Street, NW,
Well-known Atlanta artists, painter, Holle Black and sculptor, Mario
Petrirena will discuss their recent works exploring both flora and
fauna.

Open for viewing:

BOBBE GILLIS GALLERY–open 11 am – 5 pm, FREE
1000 Marietta Street, Suite 108

OCTANE COFFEE– open 8am – 1 am
1009-B Marietta Street NW,
Octane will show work by Gates Luck, a local Atlanta artist working
and living in midtown. Gates’ artwork is narrative in nature, and his
classical approach to the human form is due to the intense influence
of Baroque and Romantic painters.

SALTWORKS- open 11am -5pm, FREE
664 11th St. NW,
EVERYTHING IN-BETWEEN currently on view at SALTWORKS
Featuring new works by Alejandro Aguilera, Kojo Griffin, and Jefferson Pinder.
Everything In-Between deals with the connections that exist between
the individual and the community. The artists in the exhibition
approach this subject with different manifestations of the often
elusive bindings that link our identity to the surrounding world.
Alejandro Aguilera and Kojo Griffin presents new works on paper and
Jefferson Pinder showcases his new video project titled “Lazarus”.

Opening on Saturday, September 19, 2009 is Atlanta’s largest cell phone photographic collaboration of 47 participating artists from across the U.S. and Europe, co-produced by Christian Bradley-West and Susan Todd-Raque.

The artistic process for this project began in June, 2009 and continued for over 8 weeks, with weekly assignments sent to each artist. The assignments ranged from a word to a statement to a visual image. Each photo has been taken using a camera phone, with “extra credit” assignments speaking to the spontaneity of the experience from time to time. Most of the artists are photographers, a few are painters and others are not artists but regularly use the technology. A blog (www.christianbwest.com/cellphoneproject) has been created during the process to include selected photos. Ten of each artist’s favorite images will be exhibited as one collaborative living diary.

As co-producer Christian Bradley-West states how he “noticed how people were changing and responding to the acceleration of how imagery was less something to be saved and more of a message to be dispersed.” More people than ever are documenting their lives with photos making artists out of everybody. Cell phone cameras are a primary tool for approaching life with such immediacy and yet paradoxical in its place in the Information Age – private and yet public. This experience is not restricted to any region or economic class. It is a global, collective experience.

Christian Bradley-West has been a fine artist and designer for the last ten years. His work spans from textile design for carpets to creating fine art tintypes using turn of the century processes. He currently resides in Dalton, Georgia where he is constantly developing new ideas and processes to create beauty.

A co-founder of Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Susan Todd-Raque is an independent curator, collection consultant, scholar, educator and writer on photography. Some people call her “the art muse.”

Featured work by Steve Aishman, Danielle Aseff, John Bohannon, William Boling, Jonathon Bouknight, Christian Bradley-West, Gary Coleman, Dorothy Connor, Ande Cook, Elizabeth D’Angelo, Stephanie Dalton, Melanie Davis, Dave Dennard, Meg Dreyer, Jan Fields, Nancy Floyd, Lance Foster, Crystal Genes, Sari Goodfriend, Jenni Grant, Matt Haffner, Jefferson Hayman, Joyce Hethcox, Kim Hoeckele, Tracey Hogan, Ashley Hope-Waldron, Judy Kuniansky, Beth Lilly, Sean McCormick, Michael David Murphy, Michael Murphy, Laura Noel, Katy Olmstead, Jeffrey Perri, Amira Price, Greg Schmigel, Jerry Siegel, Teresa Sims, Brett Smith, Mical Stansel, Whitney Stansel, Terry Stephens, Karen Tauches, Corinne Vionnet, Ansley West, Whitney Wood, Rick Wright.

For more information, contact Susan Todd-Raque, 404.273.5103 or info@SusanTodd-Raque.com. Visit the blog at www.christianbwest.com/cellphoneproject. This exhibit is part of the month-long citywide Atlanta Celebrates Photography.

Through Oct. 16.

Free Press in Free Fall through November 8
Curated By Allie Goolrick

ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc. invites you to enjoy some timely, thought-provoking artwork this fall.

Featuring ‘All Things Considered,’ a project by Kathryn Refi (Athens, GA)

And artwork by:
Wayne Bellamy (Athens, GA), Gary Duehr (Somerville, MA), Melinda Eckley (Jackson, TN), John English (Athens, GA), M. Ho (University Park, MD), Franklynn Peterson (Madison, WI), Marie Porterfield (Athens, GA), Phil Ralston (Atlanta, GA)), Hannah Lamar Simmons (Carrboro, NC), Ed Tant (Athens, GA), Jordan Tate (Calgary, Canada), Michael Thomas Vassallo (Philadelphia, PA)