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Hambidge Creative Hive exhibition opens at Colony Square
The North Georgia-based Hambidge
Center art colony, North American
Properties, the PNC Foundation
and SKYY Vodka are presenting the
Hambidge Creative Hive at Colony
Square in Midtown through June 3.
The innovative artist enclave project
features 12 selected artists to temporarily
reimagine empty spaces at Colony Square.
“Artist enclaves are often pushed to
the fringes of society, but this innovative
project brings the art community center
stage at the heart of Midtown Atlanta,” said
Jamie Badoud, Executive Director at The
Hambidge Center. “From live figure-drawing
battles promoted by artists trash talking each
other to a deconstructed Islamic Garden, this
group of creatives is sure to deliver unique,
interactive works of art for the public’s
enjoyment and engagement.
The Hambidge Creative Hive Artists
include:
WORLD WIDE ART FEDERATION
Taking a cue from the theatrical performances
of the wrestling world, this group will hold
World Wide Art Federation Art Battles. The
live figure-drawing battles are promoted
by artists trash talking each other as their
costumed alter egos. A crowd member is
chosen to be the subject, and the battle
commences. Afterward, the audience judges
the winner. The WWAF was developed to
bring attention to the multiple dimensions
of the fine artists’ personae and abilities. Its
mission is to inspire all art patrons, giving
them an unforgettable, interactive, multimedia
experience through creative competition and
performance, setting the standard for a new
and exciting art viewing experience. Artists:
Fabian Williams, Kimberly Binns, Horace
Williams, Grace Kisa, Maurice Evans
QUEEN OF THE FIELD
Through the creation a conceptual landscape,
Zipporah Thompson will use giant looms
to weave together objects foraged in
Midtown with objects donated by the public
to produce multiple, ongoing and ever-
changing sculptures and installations, with
the underlying goal of fusing together our
personal histories and collective contemporary
experiences. Artist: Zipporah Thompson
BREATH OFTHE COMPASSIONATE
With a sense of playful, yet reverent {re}
cycle of creation, all artwork in this project
originates in and then departs from the
classic Breath of the Compassionate pattern
of Islamic sacred geometry and art. The
artists will transform
their space repeatedly,
including turning it into
a deconstructed Islamic
Garden that will feature
a musical performance
by prominent Pakistani
musician Ahsan Bari.
The artists will also offer
multiple workshops for
both adults and children,
including embroidery,
miniature painting and
mosaic paper lanterns.
Artists: Erin Sledd, Ahsan
Bari, Shannon Frye, Will
Griffin, Amir S. Hamer, Michael Garvey
MIDTOWN PLAYERS CLUB
The Midtown Player’s Club will transform a
former gym into gathering and incubation
spaces for numerous young and mid-career
artists, activists and entrepreneurs to explore
their craft and share their experiments
and results. The various installations will
include rotating gallery shows, performance
art exhibitions, music, immersive theatre,
workshops and discussions. Each day will
manifest a new experience in which the public
is invited to participate. Artists: Kris Pilcher,
Elizabeth Jarrett, Miranda Kyle, Priscilla
Smith + other invited artists
THE RIVALRY OF YOUR ELEMENTS
In an ongoing performance and installation
that focuses on a life philosophy supported
by raw elements including air, water, fire and
earth, the artists will use potters’ wheels to
create vessels from 1,000 pounds of locally
sourced black and white clay. When a vessel is
complete, it will be smashed by the artist into
a pile in the center of the room. The public
will be invited to create vessels and contribute
to the clay pile by using the same process.
Artists: Katie Troisi, Olivia Rado
BO] AN A GINN & BRIAN GINN
Creating immersive installations of light, fiber
and sound, the Ginns embrace technology
in their work. This project will combine light
drawings on the walls created by the public,
collaborative sound performances, moving
image environments and a sculptural island of
natural fiber. Artists: Bojana Ginn, Brian Ginn
THE UNTAMED PARLOR
Beginning as an orderly Victorian-style sitting
parlor, The Untamed Parlor will slowly be
invaded by wild things, giving way to disarray
and the unexpected as the artists cultivate an
infiltration of nature into an urban world.
Artists: Matt Haffner, Laura Bell
YOU ARE WELCOME, YOU'RE WELCOME
Taking over a former doctor’s office, MINT
Gallery will curate 15 artists to each create
a room installation using light as their
primary medium. This will culminate into
an installation of a slowly shifting spectrum
of light, bathing the space in an otherworldly
glow. This newly transformed ‘artist’s office’
will offer regular office hours to the public
with performances and ‘artist’s visits’. Artists:
Erica Jamison, Sarah Nathaniel, MINT
Gallery Artists + other invited artists
HIVE MIND ARISE
Through workshops, meditations, yoga classes
and creative interactive installations, including
dance, sound and painting, Hive Mind Arise
seeks to activate positive social change through
an emphasis on meditation and self-care.
Artists: Charlie Watts, Emma Alley, Narinder
Kaur, Kelly Blackmon, Flight of the Swallows,
Maty Grace Phillips, Jared Kelly, Erin Palovick
FREEART!
Forest McMullin will take photographs
of overlooked spaces in Colony Square,
portraits of visitors and the transformations
wrought by the Creative Hive artists. He
will then post the photos outside his space
and encourage everyone to take a print with
them. Artist: Forest McMullin
SCENES
A fantastical, life-sized living room scene,
constructed and transformed over a three-
month period, culminating with tableaus
featuring a live model and a flying flock
of paper red-winged blackbirds. Artist:
Dorothy O’Conner
FLYONAWALL
Embracing experiments with technology
and structures within dance, Fly On A Wall
will concentrate on two main projects: Hz,
centered around binaural beats and the states
of mind these frequencies inspire; and Prism
2, featuring a platform suspended by harp
strings, which both supports the movement
of the dancers and is played as a gigantic
instrument. Dance and movement classes will
also be offered to the public. Artists: Nathan
Griswold, Nicole Johnson, Sean Nguyen-
Hilton, Jesse Tyler
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