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ACP 11 - PUBLIC ART
VARIOUS LOCATIONS

ACP is pleased to announce that Atlanta-based photographer and artist Beth Lilly has been selected by a panel of jurors to create ACP's Public Art Project for ACP 11. Her project, "Gifted", will engage the public and transform Atlanta through the gift of 1,200 limited-edition, fine art photographs which will be distributed to the public for free during the month of October.

Beth Lilly has curated a collection of twelve photographs from participating local photographers and with oversight from the artists, created limited-edition prints (100 of each photograph, totaling 1200 prints). These artworks will be handed out free, as gifts to the public, throughout the Atlanta metro region during the ACP festival in October, in unexpected places, at unannounced times. The dates and locations for obtaining a free print will not be disclosed in advance (but you may want to keep an eye on twitter to find out when the Gifted team hits the street).

Selected from a competitive open call for proposals, Beth Lilly's project was most suited to ACP's public art mission, to infuse Atlanta with photography in an exciting, unpredictable way that directly impacts Atlantans within the flow of their daily lives. Lilly's project is also an attempt to find and cultivate new appreciators of photography and the photographic print, by providing a professionally-printed "starter print" for a potential collector. The exchange will promote local photographers while encouraging a rich dialogue about the act of gifting valuable art for free, as well as an oblique commentary on the current economy.

Photographers participating in this project include: Corinne Adams, David Walter Banks, William Boling, John Bohannon, Christian Bradley West, Diane Kirkland, Kathryn Kolb, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Pam Moxley, Laura Noel, Dorothy O' Connor , & Michael West.

To follow the progress and results of ACP 11's Public Art Project, please visit gifted.acpinfo.org.

Special Thanks to John Dean.

The ACP panel of public art jurors included Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum, Jeffrey Grove, independent curator Lisa Kurzner; current ACP Board President Louis Corrigan; Art Papers Board President, Peter Bahouth, and Executive Director of ACP, Amy Miller.

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ACP 10 - PUBLIC ART
AUBURN AND IRWIN ST WATER TOWER

The artist team of Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry have developed an important career around site-specific work using photographic media to highlight political and racial issues in America. They have been commissioned to create an original, temporary installation in Atlanta for ACP's tenth festival, October 2008.

The video-based art project will be notable for its radical transformation of a dormant space in the historic Martin Luther King district of Atlanta. The 1906 water tower was originally part of the South East Atlantic Cotton Compress Warehouses (now Studioplex lofts), and has been granted entry to the National Register of Historic Places.

Drawing upon the rich film, television and radio broadcast archives of the civil rights collection of WSB, housed at the University of Georgia, McCallum and Tarry hope to create a public art project that will resonate beyond the site, leading citizens from all over to interact with, and learn from this work of art and to experience, in an unprecedented way, an impassioned social protest movement as it unfolded in the Old Fourth Ward, in Atlanta, the US, and throughout the world.

This event is free and open to the public. Presented with the HDDC. Project organizer: Lisa Kurzner.

Supporters for this event include:
Joe Massey
Lucinda Bunnen
The Charles Loridans Foundation
Louis Corrigan
Perkins + Will
Fulton County Arts Council
Bert Russo
Terry Weiss
Mary Stanley
Jay Richardson
Judy Lampert
Barbara Meyer

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"PAPER PLACEMATS (ATL)"
CURATOR, JASON FULFORD

Where: Weekday lunch at participating venues through Oct. 31st, 2007.

Presented with J&L Books
Atlanta native Jason Fulford has selected images from 40 photographers to be included in Paper Placemats (ATL). These placemats will be used at participating restaurants during lunch in October. This concept engages audiences at random and imposes an unexpected experience with art. Simultaneously, the encounter is very intimate and allows the unforeseen patron to connect on a level that challenges the traditional methods of artistic interaction. Life's incongruities often are featured as focal point. Sadness can be found in humor. Rationality is created in the absurd. Artists: Ethan Andrews, Roy Arden, Roger Ballen, Zander Blom, William Boling, Able Brown, Melissa Catanese, Reuben Cox, Paul Davis, Tim Davis, Jason Evans, Ted Fair, Harrell Fletcher, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Gill, Andrew Z. Glickman, Maury Gortemiller, James Hall, Kyoko Hamada, Cristobal Hara, Nicole Jean Hill, Margarete Jakschik, Dave Jordano, Ron Jude, Hee Jin Kang, Martin Kippenberger, David La Spina, Michael David Murphy, Ed Panar, Gus Powell, Greta Pratt, Shawn Records, Will Rogan, Sasha Rudensky, Michael Schmelling, Shimabuku, David Shrigley, Mike Slack, Camilo Jose Vergara, and Douglas Weathersby. Participating restaurants include Apres Diem, Canton St. Cafe, Crescent Moon, Dynamic Dish, Flying Biscuit Cafe (Midtown & Candler Park), The Globe, Havana Sandwich Shop, Perk Place Coffee Shop, Ria's Bluebird, Thumbs Up Diner, Village Pizza, WASABi, Watershed, and West Egg Cafe. Here's a map, plus contact info and links to menus, when available.

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"SERIAL CITY"
MATT HAFFNER

Curator: Joey Orr

Atlanta-based photographer Matt Haffner re-engaged with his street practice for Atlanta Celebrates Photography's 2006 Public Art Program. Haffner's installation weaved a fabric of setting and aesthetic, through temporarily installed images, in the midst of Atlanta's urban landscape. Using a cinematic format, these images on building exteriors throughout the city, referenced the film noir and comic books that inspire them.

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"URBAN REVERB"
AMY LANDESBERG

Where: 1480 Peachtree St., Atlanta

In its current idle state, the windows of Rhodes Center passively reflect what goes on around them, while they simultaneously advertise for the proposed future development of the site. Urban Reverb lends an active voice to the phenomenon of reflection. Images from across the street -- the ordinary scenes of the Texaco station, the bank, traffic lights and the sidewalk, pedestrians and cars -- are grafted to the storefront along Peachtree. Viewers in their cars will experience a doubletake driving by Rhodes Center when they notice photographic images posing as reflections.

Amy Landesberg is an Atlanta artist and architect. Her mixed media works overlap the boundaries between intimately scaled images and objects, public art, and architecture. Themes explored through architectural experimentation are transported to the art and vice-versa. Her work takes a critical approach to concepts of the feminine, with concerns around the notions of "weak" and "fair" within both fields. Landesberg's work has been widely exhibited over the past twenty years in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Her work has been collected by museums and private collectors throughout the southeast.