Inspired Georgia/Traveling Show
FIFTEEN ARTISTS TO TAKE WEEK LONG RESIDENCY IN
GAINESVILLE/HALL AREA
VISIT http://www.travelingshowgainesville.com/
In conjunction with the "Inspired Georgia" Exhibition at the Quinlan,
The Arts Council, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, North Georgia Community Foundation and Georgia Council for the Arts are joining forces to bring to the Gainesville/Hall communities Atlanta’s most acclaimed emerging public art organizations, Living Walls and gloATL, for a week long residency, mid October. This traveling residency is a result of the tour of Georgia's State Collection, starting in Gainesville, and will encompass the goals of employing public art to revitalize communities and public spaces - to make art a part of daily existence and to show Georgia as a visionary place. Living Walls and gloATL are on a six city tour throughout the state of Georgia. They will pool the respective talents of 15 artists and production specialists, to lead and shape this transformative process through interactive community engagement, dynamic conversation and creative vision. Click HERE to see a short film of the Georgia Museum of Art physical installation by gloATL.
Week-long events in the Gainesville/Hall area will center on the production of dance and mural art in public spaces, and will include a permanent public mural, contemporary performances (public and in local schools)lectures/workshops and master classes. With Gainesville having hosted the 1996 Olympic flat water canoe and kayak races, where the entire community came together to showcase, to the world beautiful Lake Lanier and all it offers, it is the fervent desire of Gladys Wyant (Arts Council Executive Director), Amanda McClure (Quinlan Visual Arts Center Executive Director) and Jim Mathis (President/CEO of North Georgia Community Foundation) to re-energize our community resources into reinvesting in the Gainesville Hall ’96 Olympic Venue and the arts.
Gladys Wyant articulates, “Our community is banding together, as it did during the 1996 Olympics, to put Gainesville/Hall County once again on the consciousness of the state. We are blessed by way of location and weather but most importantly by the presence of many organizations and individuals who work tirelessly to improve the quality of life for all residents. This residency aims at collective introspection and self-searching through the arts, though not in a garish way like a hall of mirrors. It encourages a broader collaboration and wider
conversation bringing people of our community together.”
Living Walls will arrive in Gainesville on Sunday, October 20, 2013 and start art work on the tower at the Olympic Rowing Venue on Clarks Bridge Road. The mural will be designed and executed by JAZ (Franco Fasoli) an Argentinean urban artist who has mastered aerosol and new techniques inspired by scenography. His comfort working at enormous scales, his unique style and unconventional use of materials have set him apart from his contemporaries. Living Walls, will also visit local schools for lectures/workshops with emphasis on street art (different from graffiti and illegal debasing of public structures) and urbanization.
gloATL will arrive in Gainesville Thursday, October 24, 2013 to perform at the Quinlan Visual Arts
Center for the Opening Evening of the Inspired Georgia: 28 works from Georgia's State Art Collection, debuting in Gainesville, and the Quinlan’s 66th Annual Members’ Exhibition. The opening is at 5:30PM. Admission is open to all and is FREE. Organic artists are a vital new movement in the visual arts and music. Recognizing the beauty in
natural forms (as have all artists down the ages) these artists seek to plumb the basic generative rules behind forms in nature.
gloATL and Living Walls will also spend time in local schools conducting workshops and performing.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Monday - Wednesday, October 21-23, 12-5PM, Lake Lanier Olympic Venue at Clarks Bridge Road. Artist Franco Fasoli "JAZ" will begin constructing the permanent mural. Come and watch this Living Walls artist in action.
Thursday, October 24, 5:30 - 7:30PM, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, gloATL, "Inspired Georgia; 28 works from Georgia's State Art Collection" and "66th Annual Members' Exhibition" opening reception. Come and view our new exhibitions and engage in gloATL's physical installation (performance) of bodies by. Together, they will teach us that life is energy in motion, freeing us from any fixed notions about people, places, objects or ideas.
Friday, October 25, 2013 from 12:00PM - 2:00PM gloATL will Map Downtown Gainesville (Gainesville Square), through artistic expression and movement and will lead audiences to The Arts Council Smithgall Arts Center for Collaboration as Salvation: ARTISTS TALK. This interactive lecture gloATL and Living Walls will discuss the power of pooling talents and resources together for cross-disciplinary projects aiming to be catalysts in revitalizing communities. Mapping Downtown and the lecture are FREE and open to the public.
Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 7:30PM North Georgia Community Foundation, Gainesville Hall ’96, Lake Lanier Rowing Club, Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club, along with The Arts Council, Quinlan Visual Arts Center and other community partners present THE BIG REVEAL at the Lake Lanier Olympic Venue on Clarks Bridge Road. Here the permanent mural by Living Walls will be revealed to the public along with a physical installation (performance) of bodies by gloATL. Together, they will teach us that life is energy in motion, freeing us from any fixed notions about people, places, objects or ideas. We encourage ALL to attend this family friendly event showcasing Lake Lanier and its people. Johnny’s BBQ will be on-site for those who would like to purchase dinner or bring your picnic baskets, lawn chairs/blankets/relax on the bleachers and enjoy dusk on the lake with multi-disciplinary art engaging all your senses.
The Arts Council, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, North Georgia Community Foundation and Georgia Council for the Arts are honored to team with Lake Lanier Olympic Venue, Lake Lanier Rowing Club, Lanier Canoe and Kayak
Club, Hall County Parks and Leisure, Gainesville Parks and Recreation, Lake Lanier Conventions and Visitors Bureau, Gainesville Convention and Visitors Bureau, Don Carter State Park, Holiday Inn Lanier Centre Hotel, Brenau
University, Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce, Mainstreet Gainesville, Vision 2030 Public Art Committee, Johnny’s BBQ, Luna’s Restaurant, 2 Dog Café and more.
The Traveling Show is also underwritten in part by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Georgia Council for the Arts, Possible Futures and the National Endowment for the Arts. Each visit is intended to connect new and emerging art practices to the region, inviting people to come together in a conversation about making places special.
The Arts Council, Quinlan Visual Arts Center and North Georgia Community Foundation are honored and privileged to foster this symbiotic relationship with other vital community organizations in bringing Living Walls and
gloATL to Gainesville/Hall County, this October.
For more information call The Arts Council at 770-534-2787. Constant updates will be found on The Arts Council’s and Quinlan’s Facebook Pages.
The Traveling Show
(participating cities/dates):
Dalton: September 25-28
Athens: October 4-5
Rabun County: October 16-19
LaGrange: October 23
Gainesville: October 20-26
Atlanta: November 8-10
GAINESVILLE/HALL AREA
VISIT http://www.travelingshowgainesville.com/
In conjunction with the "Inspired Georgia" Exhibition at the Quinlan,
The Arts Council, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, North Georgia Community Foundation and Georgia Council for the Arts are joining forces to bring to the Gainesville/Hall communities Atlanta’s most acclaimed emerging public art organizations, Living Walls and gloATL, for a week long residency, mid October. This traveling residency is a result of the tour of Georgia's State Collection, starting in Gainesville, and will encompass the goals of employing public art to revitalize communities and public spaces - to make art a part of daily existence and to show Georgia as a visionary place. Living Walls and gloATL are on a six city tour throughout the state of Georgia. They will pool the respective talents of 15 artists and production specialists, to lead and shape this transformative process through interactive community engagement, dynamic conversation and creative vision. Click HERE to see a short film of the Georgia Museum of Art physical installation by gloATL.
Week-long events in the Gainesville/Hall area will center on the production of dance and mural art in public spaces, and will include a permanent public mural, contemporary performances (public and in local schools)lectures/workshops and master classes. With Gainesville having hosted the 1996 Olympic flat water canoe and kayak races, where the entire community came together to showcase, to the world beautiful Lake Lanier and all it offers, it is the fervent desire of Gladys Wyant (Arts Council Executive Director), Amanda McClure (Quinlan Visual Arts Center Executive Director) and Jim Mathis (President/CEO of North Georgia Community Foundation) to re-energize our community resources into reinvesting in the Gainesville Hall ’96 Olympic Venue and the arts.
Gladys Wyant articulates, “Our community is banding together, as it did during the 1996 Olympics, to put Gainesville/Hall County once again on the consciousness of the state. We are blessed by way of location and weather but most importantly by the presence of many organizations and individuals who work tirelessly to improve the quality of life for all residents. This residency aims at collective introspection and self-searching through the arts, though not in a garish way like a hall of mirrors. It encourages a broader collaboration and wider
conversation bringing people of our community together.”
Living Walls will arrive in Gainesville on Sunday, October 20, 2013 and start art work on the tower at the Olympic Rowing Venue on Clarks Bridge Road. The mural will be designed and executed by JAZ (Franco Fasoli) an Argentinean urban artist who has mastered aerosol and new techniques inspired by scenography. His comfort working at enormous scales, his unique style and unconventional use of materials have set him apart from his contemporaries. Living Walls, will also visit local schools for lectures/workshops with emphasis on street art (different from graffiti and illegal debasing of public structures) and urbanization.
gloATL will arrive in Gainesville Thursday, October 24, 2013 to perform at the Quinlan Visual Arts
Center for the Opening Evening of the Inspired Georgia: 28 works from Georgia's State Art Collection, debuting in Gainesville, and the Quinlan’s 66th Annual Members’ Exhibition. The opening is at 5:30PM. Admission is open to all and is FREE. Organic artists are a vital new movement in the visual arts and music. Recognizing the beauty in
natural forms (as have all artists down the ages) these artists seek to plumb the basic generative rules behind forms in nature.
gloATL and Living Walls will also spend time in local schools conducting workshops and performing.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Monday - Wednesday, October 21-23, 12-5PM, Lake Lanier Olympic Venue at Clarks Bridge Road. Artist Franco Fasoli "JAZ" will begin constructing the permanent mural. Come and watch this Living Walls artist in action.
Thursday, October 24, 5:30 - 7:30PM, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, gloATL, "Inspired Georgia; 28 works from Georgia's State Art Collection" and "66th Annual Members' Exhibition" opening reception. Come and view our new exhibitions and engage in gloATL's physical installation (performance) of bodies by. Together, they will teach us that life is energy in motion, freeing us from any fixed notions about people, places, objects or ideas.
Friday, October 25, 2013 from 12:00PM - 2:00PM gloATL will Map Downtown Gainesville (Gainesville Square), through artistic expression and movement and will lead audiences to The Arts Council Smithgall Arts Center for Collaboration as Salvation: ARTISTS TALK. This interactive lecture gloATL and Living Walls will discuss the power of pooling talents and resources together for cross-disciplinary projects aiming to be catalysts in revitalizing communities. Mapping Downtown and the lecture are FREE and open to the public.
Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 7:30PM North Georgia Community Foundation, Gainesville Hall ’96, Lake Lanier Rowing Club, Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club, along with The Arts Council, Quinlan Visual Arts Center and other community partners present THE BIG REVEAL at the Lake Lanier Olympic Venue on Clarks Bridge Road. Here the permanent mural by Living Walls will be revealed to the public along with a physical installation (performance) of bodies by gloATL. Together, they will teach us that life is energy in motion, freeing us from any fixed notions about people, places, objects or ideas. We encourage ALL to attend this family friendly event showcasing Lake Lanier and its people. Johnny’s BBQ will be on-site for those who would like to purchase dinner or bring your picnic baskets, lawn chairs/blankets/relax on the bleachers and enjoy dusk on the lake with multi-disciplinary art engaging all your senses.
The Arts Council, Quinlan Visual Arts Center, North Georgia Community Foundation and Georgia Council for the Arts are honored to team with Lake Lanier Olympic Venue, Lake Lanier Rowing Club, Lanier Canoe and Kayak
Club, Hall County Parks and Leisure, Gainesville Parks and Recreation, Lake Lanier Conventions and Visitors Bureau, Gainesville Convention and Visitors Bureau, Don Carter State Park, Holiday Inn Lanier Centre Hotel, Brenau
University, Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce, Mainstreet Gainesville, Vision 2030 Public Art Committee, Johnny’s BBQ, Luna’s Restaurant, 2 Dog Café and more.
The Traveling Show is also underwritten in part by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Georgia Council for the Arts, Possible Futures and the National Endowment for the Arts. Each visit is intended to connect new and emerging art practices to the region, inviting people to come together in a conversation about making places special.
The Arts Council, Quinlan Visual Arts Center and North Georgia Community Foundation are honored and privileged to foster this symbiotic relationship with other vital community organizations in bringing Living Walls and
gloATL to Gainesville/Hall County, this October.
For more information call The Arts Council at 770-534-2787. Constant updates will be found on The Arts Council’s and Quinlan’s Facebook Pages.
The Traveling Show
(participating cities/dates):
Dalton: September 25-28
Athens: October 4-5
Rabun County: October 16-19
LaGrange: October 23
Gainesville: October 20-26
Atlanta: November 8-10
