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Sachi Rome and Tokie Rome-Taylor Artist Talk Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 5:30 PMJoin us on Thursday, November 13, to listen to Sachi Rome and Tokie Rome-Taylor discuss their exhibition Interwoven Narratives: Caul and Response. |
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Happy Paw-lidays at the Lyndon House Arts Center!Saturday, December 6, 2025, from 12 – 3 PMJoin us for our winter Open House — Happy Paw-lidays! Bring your family and friends for a festive afternoon of pet-themed crafts and art-making activities for all ages. It’s the perfect opportunity to create a handmade gift for a loved one this holiday season. Please note: Pets are not allowed inside the Arts Center — all activities are pet-themed, not pet-attended. Come explore the Arts Center, get creative, and meet our new LHAC team members! The event is free and open to the public — no registration required. We’re also looking for volunteers to help make the day a success! Volunteers will assist with setup, help art-makers at various crafting booths throughout the building, and welcome and direct visitors. If you’d like to volunteer or have questions, give us a call at 706-613-3623. |
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October 30, 2025 – January 3, 2026 Lukasiewicz Gallery This exhibition of works made by current Athens Fibercraft Guild (AFG) members spans a variety of materials and processes within the art of fiber. Founded in 1975 by Rhetta Gray, Priscilla Golley, Samira Hazen, Erika Lewis, and Nancy Lukasiewicz, Ester Marshall, and Claudia Wingfield, AFG was the first fiber organization in Athens. Early members included weavers, spinners, dyers, lace makers, and even shepherds. In 1978, the Guild began meeting at the newly established Lyndon House Arts Center, created by the Athens-Clarke County government as a hub for arts and culture. From the beginning, the Guild has welcomed hobbyists, students, and professionals alike. Today, its members represent an even broader array of fiber art methods. AFG continues to thrive through monthly meetings, guest speakers, demonstrations at local festivals, parties, show-and-tells, and gift exchanges. The Guild remains a vibrant thread in both the Lyndon House Arts Center and the wider Athens craft community. |
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October 30, 2025 – January 3, 2026 North Gallery Artist Shawn Ireland’s Paris series draws inspiration from the interiors and “moments of pause” found in the still life vignettes of painters such as Fantin-Latour, Manet, Derain, and Matisse. These artists were key figures in the poetic realism movement that emerged in nineteenth-century Paris, presenting everyday objects with emotive theatricality. Ireland incorporates similarly expressive brushwork into his paintings, paired with a graphic simplicity and rich color palette. His tableaus reveal a tension born of discordant perspectives that play with the picture plane, echoing the approach of self-taught artists like Henri Rousseau and Horace Pippin. The series also prominently features ceramics handmade by Ireland, serving as integral elements within the compositions and uniting his two main artistic pursuits. The result is a compelling synthesis of traditional European still lifes and modernist sensibilities, expressing the joy of discovery inherent in the medium of oil paint itself. Ireland began exploring oil painting as a Resident Artist at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina and continued his studies at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy, as well as through the University of Georgia’s Study Abroad Art Program in Cortona, Italy, with which he worked for over fifteen years. He also works with the University of Georgia’s Classics Maymester Program, Europe: Unearthing the Past, which continues to offer opportunities for discovery and renewal through ancient art influences. Each year, the Arts Center’s exhibitions team selects one artist from the annual Juried Exhibition whose work shows exceptional promise and deserves broader recognition, inviting them to present a solo show. This year’s awardee, Shawn Ireland, already well-known for his ceramics, captured the selection committee’s attention with his oil painting Night Table. |
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October 30, 2025 – January 3, 2026 Lounge Gallery Step behind the scenes of the creative infrastructure that shapes our city. Public Works is a special exhibition showcasing the mockups, engineering drawings, and design proposals behind Athens’ public art installations. From murals to sculptures to interactive works, this collection reveals the careful planning, technical precision, and bold imagination that bring public spaces to life. Celebrate the intersection of art and engineering — and get a closer look at the processes that make public art possible. Guest curated by Tatiana Veneruso, artist, designer, curator, collector, and Athens-Clarke County Public Art Coordinator. Join curator Tatiana Veneruso and select artists as they discuss the exhibition on Thursday, December 11 at 5:30 PM. |
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Guest Curated by Didi Dunphy October 2, 2025 – January 24, 2026
Lower & Upper Atrium The fourth installment in the “Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia” series explores experimental textile techniques through a curatorial lens. This dynamic area of artistic practice is bringing fresh innovations to the art world. With needle and thread, the artists featured in this exhibition highlight the intricate labor and creative craftsmanship that define their work. Exhibiting artists include: Adah Bennion, Annie Green, Cathy Fussell, Eliza Bentz, Honey Pierre, Jaime Bull, Jamele Wright Sr., Jasmine Best, Kate Burke, Kelly Taylor Mitchell, Sonya Yong James, Trish Andersen, and Victoria Dugger. |
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By Sachi Rome and Tokie Rome-Taylor October 2, 2025 – January 24, 2026 West Gallery Interwoven Narratives: Caul and Response is a collaborative exploration by twin sisters Sachi Rome and Tokie Rome-Taylor. Blending photographic realism and abstract expressionism, the exhibition draws on southern folklore of the caul and W.E.B. Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness as entry points into their work. The caul, a folkloric veil said to protect and connect one to the spiritual realm, becomes a metaphor for identity—both shielding and revealing. Intertwined with Du Bois’s notion of double consciousness, it reflects the liminal space Black Americans navigate: seeing themselves through their own eyes while also through the gaze of others. Through this lens, the artists invite viewers to consider the tensions between inner identity and societal expectations. The caul, as folklore suggests, binds narratives across realms, offering insight and protection while symbolizing the unseen forces that shape lives. Interwoven Narratives: Caul and Response calls us to reflect on these shared cultural spaces and the layered, ongoing story of the African American experience. Sachi Rome and Tokie Rome-Taylor will give an artist talk in the West Gallery on Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 5:30 PM. |
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By Sebastian Garcia Huidobro & Rachel Lea Seburn October 2, 2025 – January 24, 2026 Nancy Lukasiewicz Gallery This two-person exhibition features the abstract sculptural paintings of Sebastian Garcia Huidobro alongside the brutalist architecture-inspired sculptures of Rachel Lea Seburn. Both artists explore concepts of balance, co-dependency, growth, and weight. Forms stack and lean, fit snuggly together like puzzle pieces, referencing the building blocks of structures minute and grand. Huidobro’s work, combining soft and hard materials, mimics the forms of microorganisms. He envisions molecules of paint magnified to reveal hidden movements and arrangements. Manipulating foam and fabric, Huidobro creates meticulously upholstered wall-based sculptures. The use of vibrant colors brings a pop sensibility to the organic forms, creating seductive candy pillows that focus the viewer’s attention on shape, line, and surface. In comparison, Seburn’s sculptures are inspired by Northern Alberta’s sturdy brutalist architecture of resilience. Her sculptures embody angular, jagged, and curved forms crafted from concrete, plexiglass, plaster, wood, and silicone. The neutral hues of solid, opaque building materials are contrasted with vivid transparencies. Seburn’s artistic approach mirrors the principles of autoconstruction, a method rooted in self-reliance, in which individuals build their dwellings using available materials. This framework allows spontaneity and resourcefulness during the design and building process. Huidobro and Seburn are creating subtly complex works that share a purity of form and sophisticated awareness of space, both occupied and empty. This interplay of presence and absence is a reflection of the equilibrium needed to build visions and worlds larger than ourselves. |
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October 2, 2025 – January 24, 2026 Atrium Cases Katie Kameen collects secondhand plastics and recontextualizes them as art materials that have the potential to communicate aspects of her personal experiences. By combining highly saturated and muted colors into wearable and interactive sculptures, she invites the viewer into her world. The objects retain an element of their history and become part of a new expressive language. Through dynamic compositions, she considers color and shape both as formal and psychological tools. Physical interaction, through holding, wearing, and touching, encourages the viewer to consider their own relationship with plastics and everyday objects. By using familiar utilitarian objects that bring back recollections of the home, Kameen revisits past emotions, creating a kind of self-portraiture that speaks to the connection between consumer culture and domesticity. |
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October 2, 2025 – December 6, 2025 Lobby Case Susan Perry’s small-scale sculptures, composed of handmade paper and bamboo, possess a lightness of form and visible armature inspired by traditional Chinese kites. These contemporary works, while not intended to fly high above the earth, still hum with the potential for movement. Evoking a bird’s nest, their bamboo frameworks are delicate and hollow, like the bones of their imagined inhabitants. The sculptures suggest they were assembled from materials gathered on a ramble through nature while simultaneously exhibiting a sophisticated calligraphic elegance. Inspired by the Japanese philosophy wabi-sabi, Perry embraces imperfection and transience as a connection to nature, creating airy objects that both lift and ground the viewer. |
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Handwork 2026The Lyndon House Arts Center is thrilled to be part of Handwork 2026, a national initiative organized by Craft in America that celebrates the power of making and the communities built through craft. Handwork 2026 nods to the country's Semiquincentennial by weaving together 250 years of American history through craft and handmade traditions. Visit handwork2026.org for more info! Our corresponding exhibition, featuring artists Erika Diamond and Chelsea Lillo, will be on view from April 2, 2026, to June 27, 2026. The exhibition explores the fragility, protection, and construction of the human body and personal identity through the craft traditions of hand sewing and quilting, alongside the fabrication of medical prosthetics. |
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Welcome Our New Arts Education Program Leader: Kalie Boyne! Kalie Boyne is a painter, portrait artist and graphic novelist born in Boston, MA. The overarching goal of her work is to provide a space to reflect on the social messages we have unconsciously absorbed while consciously restoring an inherent recognition of others and an enduring faith that unearthing and fully embodying our deep selves is possible. Her work has been shown in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence, Rhode Island's City Hall, and Trade Pop-Up Gallery. Her debut graphic novel, "My Word Belongs To Me," was released in January 2025 following a successful Kickstarter campaign with supporters in six countries. She loves teaching art to all ages and is on a mission to make a healing creative practice an accessible reality for as many people as possible. She recently moved to Athens and is excited to be part of such a wonderful creative community. |
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Fall Closure DatesThe Lyndon House will be closed the following dates this fall due to UGA Football Home Games and holidays. Saturday, November 15 Saturday, November 22 Thursday, November 27 Friday, November 28 |
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Deadline to Submit an Exhibition Proposal April 20, 2026, at 11:59 PM Exhibition proposals are accepted year-round and it is free to apply. Proposals are reviewed twice annually, with deadline of April 20th and September 20th at 11:59pm. Following this deadline, artists and curators will be contacted within two months after review. We're currently interested in scheduling exhibitions for 2027 and beyond. Apply Here |
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Deadline for July 2026 Artist In ResidenceApril 20, 2026, at 11:59 PM The Lyndon House Arts Center is seeking gifted studio-based artists to take part in the Artist in Residence program, which provides participants with a unique opportunity to concentrate on their work in a supportive and collaborative environment. During six-month terms, the Lyndon House AIR program will offer artists a semi-private work space (approximately 10 x 10 feet each) and access to our seven open studios (Photography, Printmaking, Wood Shop, Ceramics, Fiber Arts, Painting, and Fine Metals). Artists’ work may involve any or all of these media. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and are reviewed on September 20 for residencies beginning January 1, or April 20 for residencies beginning July 1. Notification date is within one month of submission deadline. The participants in the AIR program will receive a $250.00 stipend. Apply Here |
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Deadline for BIPOC Artist/Curator ProposalsApril 20, 2026, at 11:59 PM The Lyndon House Arts Center seeks individuals who identify as BIPOC to apply for the BIPOC Artist/Curator Project. The selected individual/s will develop and design an art exhibition to be on display for six-to-eight weeks. The goal of this project is to promote the curatorial and artistic professions and to provide our community with diverse perspectives and approaches relevant to our times. A stipend of $1,500 is provided to the Guest Artist/Curator for their creative contribution and their participation in two public-facing events related to the exhibition. These events provide the public with additional insight into the Guest Artist/Curator's unique vision and may take the form of an artist talk, demonstration, and/or a youth education program. Apply Here |
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Deadline for IN CASE ProposalsApril 20, 2026, at 11:59 PM The IN CASE program gives artists a dedicated space in the Arts Center's lobby case where they can experiment, incorporate volume into their work, and materialize ideas that might otherwise not have a location within which to exist. The selected artist will install a single work that responds to the specific dimensions of the lobby case and its location within the Arts Center. Typically, the IN CASE exhibit is on view for six to eight weeks. Proposals are reviewed twice annually, with deadline of September 20th and April 20th at 11:59pm. Apply Here |
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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE (July - December)
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Jonae AndersonBio: Jonae Anderson is an artist from Fayetteville, GA. She currently lives and works in Athens, GA, and received her BFA in Printmaking + Book Arts from the University of Georgia in 2025. Her art is largely inspired by the natural world and focuses on the relationships that exist between living things. She enjoys creating stories through her art, focusing on the exploration of narratives and how they can be created and manipulated through color, form, and shape. Her work follows the story of a fox and their friends and consists of a variety of printmaking and book arts methods, with a focus on CMYK screenprints, pochoir, collage elements, and pop-up book structures. Artist Statement: My work focuses on the idea of home, how the intricacies and tiny details of our lives connect like a puzzle, bringing us to where we’re meant to be. What makes a space feel like home, what makes a person feel like home, and how do our personal experiences influence our perception of home. I am focused on creating a space that feels like home, so I focus on all the tiny details of my work. Creating is an act of love, you are putting time and energy into everything you create, and in doing so you are imbuing that piece with a bit of yourself. I utilize color and interactive story elements to immerse the viewer into the world I am creating. My work consists of a series of CMYK color separation screen prints and digital reproductions of handmade pieces. I use these pieces to create books whose structures elevate the content of the book. Through accordion, drum leaf, carousel, tunnel books, and pop up books I tell a story through highly saturated and colorful elements, allowing the structure of the book to further inform and involve the reader. |
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Jordan BlackwellBio: JORDAN BLACKWELL (b. 2000) is a jeweler, market organizer, and multi-media artist from Athens, GA. She received her degree from the University of Georgia in Jewelry and Metalworking in 2025. Jordan’s "Clownfish 2.0” was accepted into the show “Snakes, scales, & things that slither," at the South River Art Complex in April of 2025. Jordan has been organizing community artist markets and selling her work since 2021. Artist Statement: I am an enamelist focusing on cloisonné. The process is to form thin wires into cells for powdered glass to fill and be fired to a shiny finish. I enjoy experimenting with colors and am drawn to deep blues and golden yellows. Fish were the theme for my senior body of work at the University of Georgia. I explored the relationships of man and fish. Focusing on how we’ve treated them as separate from us, despite our common ancestors. I’m excited to play in the studio and make work that feels reflective of myself and the folks around me. I’m inspired by magick, ancient religions, community, and my fears of technology. Artist Contact: Instagram @impoliite Email iimpoliite@gmail.com |
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Anne McInnisBio: Anne McInnis is a visual artist, designer, and social scientist. Trained as a painter, she attended art school at the University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, GA, from 1978–1981. From 1981–2017 she worked in the NYC fashion and soft furnishings industry as design director for domestic and international textile mills as well as global brands. She taught woven design courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) from 2007–2012. Time, age, and (mis)perceived (ir)relevance eventually drove her to re-enter academia. She completed her BA in fine and studio arts from Empire State University, NYC in 2017. In 2023 McInnis received her Ph.D. in textile sciences at UGA. From 2021–2023 she was a Dodd Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, UGA. The fellowship culminated in a solo exhibition and served as a visual complement to her dissertation. McInnis has exhibited in group shows in NYC, Washington D.C, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and multiple Georgia venues. She lives and works in Georgia.
Artist Statement: My artistic practice explores perception, alterity, and impermanence, using materials as metaphors to examine social myths and identities. Decades of living in Manhattan and working in fashion and textiles have shaped my approach to color, texture, and composition; ageing in its youth-obsessed culture has given me a unique visual perspective of societal assumptions about appearance and abilities. Printmaking, my primary medium, offers a repetitive, meditative process in line with my interest in impermanence; I combine it with painting, drawing, and hand- dyeing/felting/stitching on silk organza, wool felt, various textiles, and washi/fine art papers, as well as found/personal objects and photos.
Artist Contact: www.annemcinnis.com Instagram: @annemcinnisart |
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Athens Creative DirectoryThe Athens Creatives Directory exists to empower and uplift the thriving creative community of Athens. They envision a vibrant and unified digital network where artists and creators are celebrated, supported, and connected. Learn more |
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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 LyndonHouse@accgov.com |
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We're always looking for volunteers to help with arts education, workshops, exhibitions, and events. If you're interested in volunteering sign up here! If you have questions about volunteering, give us a call at 706-613-3623. |
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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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