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Free Life Drawing Session with Live MusiciansThursday, May 15, 2025, from 5:30 PM - 7 PMLower AtriumArt Rosenbaum, who is known for his expressive drawings, paintings, and field recordings, frequently brought live musicians into his life drawing classes at UGA. He believed in capturing the energy of live performance through art—a practice he embraced in both his teaching and personal work. In celebration of Unbroken Circle: The Musical Threads of Art Rosenbaum, local musicians Tommy Jordan and William Tonks will perform in the Lower Atrium, offering a unique opportunity for participants to draw from life, just as Art encouraged. This event is free and open to all—just bring your own drawing materials. |
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March 20th, April 17th, and May 15thThis spring, create your own limited-edition postcard while visiting Athens art venues across three separate Third Thursday events! The postcard image has been divided into 4 rubber stamp layers. Collect each stamp at all 4 participating galleries to reveal your postcard image. Visit all 4 locations during any Third Thursday event this spring to collect all of your stamps! Hours vary. Please check 3thurs.org to confirm the open hours of each location before visiting. |
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Summer Series 2025 Opening Reception Thursday, June 5, 2025, from 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Our Summer Series of exhibitions opens Thursday, June 5. This summer, the Arts Center will feature seven artists through six exhibitions. Victoria Dugger’s “Peach Fuzz” will be on view in the West Gallery. Tom Schramm’s “Controlled Burn” will be in the South Gallery. Barbara Mann’s “Forging Connections” will be in the Atrium Cases. Lindsey Kennedy and Josh Skinner’s “Thaw Line” and Yanira Vissepó’s “Water Meadows” will be in the Upper Atrium. Jean Gray Mohs’ “Pendulum” will be in the Lower Atrium. |
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Saturday, June 7, 2025, from 10 AM - 1 PM Yanira Vissepó’s textile paintings are centered around gradient linocuts of native plants and the natural terrain of both her birthplace in the Caribbean Sea and her adopted home in the American South. She uses methods such as stain painting, linoleum cut-outs, and hand embroidery on canvas to portray the rich biodiversity and resilience of botanicals endemic to both Puerto Rico and Tennessee. Join Vissepó and learn how to make your own indigo-dyed shibori fabrics. Each participant will leave with two hand-dyed bandanas. All supplies are provided. Advance registration for $20 is required. |
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Thursday, June 12, 2025, at 5:30 PM In her installation Pretend, Anne McInnis’ layered works on washi papers and silk organza explore the impermanence of identity. Utilizing the process of screen printing, McInnis repeats the motifs of clouds and mirrors to visualize our shifting natures, identities that are temporal and illusive. Learn more about her process during her artist talk Thursday, June 12. |
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Thursday, June 26, 2025, at 5:30 PM As a jeweler and metalsmith, she has a deep fascination with materials and the methods used to transform them. Inspired by groundbreaking scientific discoveries and emerging technologies, Mann is driven by the evolving ways we understand and perceive life on Earth. Learn more about her process and watch a demonstration on Thursday, June 26. |
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May 5, 2025 - July 12, 2025 Lobby Case In her installation Pretend, Anne McInnis’ layered works on washi papers and silk organza explore the impermanence of identity. The light, gossamer pieces float within space, creating a patchwork of echoing shapes and forms. Utilizing the process of screen printing, McInnis repeats the motifs of clouds and mirrors to visualize our shifting natures, identities that are temporal and illusive. The use of text underscores the blurred line between reality and pretense, encouraging viewers to reflect on how this concept manifests in their own lives. |
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April 3, 2025 - June 14, 2025 Lukasiewicz Gallery The Lyndon House Arts Center is pleased to announce Unbroken Circle: The Musical Threads of Art Rosenbaum, composed of paintings and drawings by Art Rosenbaum. Art Rosenbaum’s paintings and drawings are more than visual expressions—they are vibrant echoes of a life devoted to storytelling, tradition, and human connection. Unbroken Circle: The Musical Threads of Art Rosenbaum takes its name from the iconic folk and gospel song "Will the Circle Be Unbroken", a piece rooted in Appalachian and Southern gospel traditions that speaks to themes of continuity, unity, and the enduring bonds of family and community. These same threads are woven throughout Rosenbaum’s life and work, reflecting his deep commitment to preserving cultural and musical heritage. This exhibition is guest-curated by Joseph Peragine, Professor of Drawing and Painting, Director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA. The artist reception is Thursday, April 3 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. |
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June 5, 2025 - August 30, 2025 Lower Atrium Rooted in the American South, Mohs' work explores the tension between resilience and vulnerability, shaped by a life of chronic illness and an organ transplant. As an artist and mother, she moves between the physicality of materials and the fragility of the body, reflecting on survival, care, and kinship. She is drawn to the landscape and traditions of the South, where storytelling and craft carry histories of both struggle and grace. Mohs' practice investigates the body as both structure and shelter, likened to architecture and foundation, where puzzled pieces are sewn, bound, and mended together. She minimizes and abstracts body parts, distilling them to their bare essentials to reveal the intricate mechanisms and symbiotic connections between skeleton and skin, spirit and flesh, organs and cavities. The interplay of structural forms and narrative inquiry manifests in organically shaped wooden objects that hold memory, honor the body, and invite connection. Opening reception Thursday, June 5, 2025 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Photo Credit: Matt Ramey |
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June 5, 2025 - August 30, 2025 West Gallery Victoria Dugger's work explores identity, disability, and Southern heritage through a reimagined Southern Gothic lens. As a disabled Black woman, she navigates themes of isolation, desire, and visibility, blending vulnerability, beauty, and the grotesque. Her figures--exaggerated, anthropomorphic stand-ins for her own body--are adorned with pearls, frosting, and glitter, merging opulence with decay. Drawing from Southern domestic iconography, Dugger's work plays with body horror, humor, and excess, challenging ideas of beauty, deformity, and survival. She reflects on the complexities of girlhood and femininity, reclaiming space for bodies often overlooked or misunderstood. Opening reception Thursday, June 5, 2025 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. |
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June 5, 2025 - August, 30, 2025 Upper Atrium Yanira Vissepó’s textile paintings are centered around gradient linocuts of native plants and the natural terrain of both her birthplace in the Caribbean Sea and her adopted home in the American South. She uses methods such as stain painting, linoleum cut-outs, and hand embroidery on canvas to portray the rich biodiversity and resilience of botanicals endemic to both Puerto Rico and Tennessee. Through these techniques, she examined the connectivity of plants across these regions, merging flora native to both lands while researching their holistic properties. In doing so, she weaves her own healing process into the diasporic experience. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 5, 2025, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Join Vissepó on June 7 from 10 AM to 1 PM and learn how to make your own indigo-dyed shibori fabrics. Each participant will leave with two hand-dyed bandanas. All supplies are provided. Advance registration for $20 is required. |
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Thaw Line: Josh Skinner & Lindsey KennedyJune 5, 2025 – August 30, 2025 Upper Atrium The photography exhibition Thaw Line centers the natural world—both in its intimate details and expansive landscapes—and humanity’s shifting relationship with it. In Josh Skinner’s black-and-white images, the human presence is always felt, even when physically absent: an empty deer stand, an abandoned construction site, ghostly trailers nestled in the woods. These are quiet traces of how we’ve imprinted ourselves onto the land. And yet, while we may play upon the earth and one day be buried beneath it, the images ask whether we are ever truly of it. Lindsey Kennedy’s photographs, rendered in a subtly muted yet richly textured palette, capture the elemental power of nature—blazing fire, crystalline waterfalls frozen mid-cascade, the relentless spread of invasive plant life. Her work quietly reflects on the delicate balance between destruction and beauty. It’s unclear whether we’ll be overtaken by nature’s grandeur, absorbed into its quiet splendor, or remain the catalyst of its unraveling. A discussion with the artists will be held on Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM. Opening reception Thursday, June 5, 2025 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. |
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Controlled Burn: Tom Schram June 5, 2025 - August 30, 2025 South Gallery The work in Schram’s exhibition primarily uses post-consumer materials in place of raw new materials. He sees these used materials as having come to the end of their human-intended functional lifecycle. As they cross his path, and before entombment in a landfill, he collects them. This strategy demands innovation and planning due to scarcity. Schram commits to using only the amount of a certain material that has serendipitously come into his life. This practice has fostered a long interest and investigation into a material’s history and various lives, most recently leading to a focus on how we, as a society, consume and what we waste, investigating the industrial processes that reshape natural resources into modern consumables, as well as the general perception of these consumables as carrying little to no cost. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 5, 2025, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM.
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Forging Connections: Metal Art Inspired by the Marine Carbon Cycle – Barbara MannJune 5, 2025 - August 30, 2025 Atrium Cases Barbara Mann is captivated by the intricate complexity and beauty of the natural world. Her ongoing body of work delves into the origins of life on Earth, the process of evolution, and the carbon cycle. As a jeweler and metalsmith, she has a deep fascination with materials and the methods used to transform them. Inspired by groundbreaking scientific discoveries and emerging technologies, Mann is driven by the evolving ways we understand and perceive life on Earth. To bring order to the complexity and chaos of nature, she crafts objects that serve as distilled, metaphorical expressions of both observation and thought. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 5, 2025, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. Barbara will be giving a talk and demonstration of her process on Thursday, June 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM. |
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$65/monthCome tour our art studios and consider signing up for an open studios membership. Our studio monitor, Noah Lagle, will be conducting orientations every Saturday at 11am for renewing and new members. For more info email noah.lagle@accgov.com |
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We are proud to be members of Third Thursday — the monthly evening of art in Athens, Georgia.
All exhibitions are free and open to the public from 6pm-8pm. The schedule and each venue’s location and hours of operation are regularly updated on 3thurs.org. |
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