Culture Briefs
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Community Gathers at Home of Potter Maria Dondero
“I was talking to someone about these events, and things like Rabbit Box, and he summed it up by saying these experiences are all about COMMUNITY,” Gwen O’Looney said on a recent cool fall afternoon at a house on Pulaski Street. The home belonged to artist Maria Dondero and her husband, Clyde, and, though I had never met them before, I was making myself quite comfortable in their kitchen.
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Photo Gallery: Wild Rumpus Parade and Spectacle
The 2016 Wild Rumpus Parade and Spectacle took over downtown Saturday night. Below, check out a gallery of contributor Randy Schafer's photos from the event:
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Double Feature: Halloween and Blue Velvet Offer Spooky Visions of Suburbia
Halloween
Some holiday traditions are inescapable. Independence Day isn’t Independence Day without fireworks-related mishaps. Christmas will forever be marred by godawful fruit cake. And Halloween will always have Halloween.
In preparation for Beechwood's Sunday, Oct. 30 screening of John Carpenter's Halloween (likely not your first), put the slasher flick into new perspective by pairing it with David Lynch’s noir-ish Blue Velvet.
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Jackie Dorsey’s 'Sound Check' Is an Ode to the Athens Music Scene
“What it Means,” a watercolor portrait of Patterson Hood by artist Jackie Dorsey, captures the intensity of someone who could pen the lyrics, “We want our truths all fair and balanced/ As long as our notions lie within it/ There’s no sunlight in our asses/ And our heads are stuck up in it.”
The work is part of “Sound Check,” a series of portraits of local musicians Dorsey created to express her gratitude for the Athens music scene. The show is currently on display at Hendershot’s, and a meet-and-greet was held for the artist on a recent Sunday night. Friends and family, including the staff of Aurum (where Dorsey is also showing paintings this month along with her mentor Kie Johnson), stopped in to celebrate. Two musicians portrayed in the show, Sam Burchfield and Wrenn, played an acoustic set afterwards.
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R.I.P. Artist and Athens Scene Fixture Jeremy Ayers
Photo Credit: Jason Thrasher
The Athens arts and music scene took another terrible blow today, Monday, Oct. 24, as reports spread through town that Jeremy "Jerry" Ayers had passed away after suffering a seizure and falling into a brief coma.
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Photo Gallery: Live Paintings, Music and More at Transpectacle
The first-ever Transpectacle, organized by artists Nack and ARM of Crispy Printz, was a full day of live painting and live music this past Saturday at the Jittery Joe's Roaster. Spectators watched as a handful of artists painted murals onto large 8-foot-by-8-foot boards, while other vendors offered their handmade items to take home.
Photo Credit: Joshua Jones
Nack of Habersham, GA, has created several murals in Athens, many of which can be found in Normaltown.
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Today's Sales at Avid Benefit the Pinewoods Library
Photo Credit: Henry Taylor/file
To celebrate its fifth anniversary, Avid Bookshop is donating a portion of today's sales—including online and phone orders—to the Pinewoods library, which serves a largely low-income Latino immigrant community off Highway 29 near Madison County.
The library expanding, and customers can also purchase books for the library from a wish list.
Avid owner Janet Geddis writes:
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Poe-tober Artists Receive Literary Inspiration and Awards at ACC Library
A conspiracy of ravens fluttered throughout the Quiet Gallery at the Athens Clarke County Library on a recent Saturday afternoon. There were also plenty of black cats to be found on the walls and a bevy of beating hearts.
Many of the ravens were made by local fifth graders. All of the works were created by local artists of all ages in response to reading works by Edgar Allen Poe. The Poe-tober exhibit is a celebration of the macabre vision of Poe and is part of the community-wide celebration of his work funded by a NEA "Big Read" grant.
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