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They projected it onto mountains made from Medium-Density Fiberboard (MDF), in a recent exhibit at Broad Street Gallery. "Snow" (made from biodegradable "Styrofoam") covered the floor. The group filmed themselves acting as modern "explorers" in a Wal-Mart parking lot while visiting Athens. They wore hik ing gear (in the middle of a Georgia heat wave), attached ropes to each other (in case someone fell into a crevice) and pulled their Mobile Projection unit in a Radio Flyer wagon. Footage from this performance was displayed on an old television in a tent in the gallery. The show came down on Aug. 19. If you missed the show, check out Avalanche Collective's website and the Urban Video Project: www.avalanchecollective.net, www. urbanvideoproject.com. Grid Work: Up next at Broad Street Gallery is "Snap to Grid," an exhibition of typog raphy drawings by Brett MacFadden, with a reception on Tuesday, Aug. 28, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. MacFadden, an art director at Chronicle Books in San Francisco with an MFA from Cranbrook Academy, has done ex tensive design work, including the catalogue for the Georgia Museum of Art show "Modern Martijn van Wagtendonk Threads: Fasnion and Art by Mariska Karasz." MacFadden s work, as suggested by the exhibition title, explores "the creative variation available within even a rigid structure." Check out more of his work at www.brcttmacfadden.com. Southern Summer: The concluding event of the Georgia Museum of Art's "Southern Summer" program is Sunday, Aug. 26 at 3 p.m. Collectors Lynn Barstis Williams and Stephen J. Goldfarb. alonq with James C. Cobb and Paul Manoguerra. will participate in a fo rum "examining the social context of art in the South in the 1920s through the 1940s." Works on paper from the collection of Barstis and Goldfarb are currently on view in the exhibit "Imprinting the South." With traditional printmaking techniques such as aquatints, etchings, lithographs and woodcuts, artists have created views of Southern towns and landscapes. New Orleans architecture is promi nently featured in the work of several artists. Hale Woodruff s "Returning Home" is a bold linoleum cut typical of the artist's style. The exhibit is up through Sept. 16. Also on view at GMOA through Sept. 16 is "John Grabach: Century Man." Grabach's work was inspired by the cityscape around him. He combines realism with abstracted brushwork, giving the paintings a vivid, active life. "Sun, light, and Wind" (1940) depicts a row of houses, laundry on a line blowing in the wind, and a field of scumbled color in the lower right-hand corner. Grabach ventured slightly into surrealism with "Battle of the Sexes" and "Greed," both from the 1940s. For more info, www.uga.edu/gamuseum. Mailbox with Hinges: "Mort than Words, Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art" is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art. The exhibit is comprised of letters from thank you to Mimi Gross and Red Grooms for a place to stay while visiting New York in 1969. Frida Kahlo's letter of thanks to Emmy Lou Packard, for care given to Drego Rivera in 1940, includes three lipstick kisses, one for Packard, one for Packard's son, and one for Rivera. Philip Gustons drawing of "a hairy, pipe-smoking local from his Woodstock, New York, neighborhood” serves as a visual description of his experience. Andy Warhol’s biographical infor mation, written in 1949, to Russell Lynes of Harper's Magazine, where Warhol had illustrated a story, shows a sample of the artist's handwriting, poetic language and a simple drawing. Beautifully il lustrated letters to children, parents, wives and sweetnearts show intimate sentiments. In a letter to Heda Sterne in 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupery shared his excitement over finishing The Littl'•» Prince, and did so with a drawing. The exhibit offers a book fo* viewers to create their own letters, with a supply of pencils. And maybe, just maybe the inspiration will venture out of the museum. Perhaps after viewing the exhibit, you will go home, sit down and write y our own letter. Perhaps you will be inspired to take pencil to paper instead of zapping a quick email to long-distance friends and family. "More than Words" will be on display through Oct. 14. Endnotes: The closing reception and artists’ talk for "STRETCH" at 160 Tracy St. Unit 4, Chase St. Warehouses takes place on Sunday, Aug. 26, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Beth Sale Email your art news to outthereUllagpole com And please put "Art Hotes” in the subiect line Y Paper Birds: "Her Flock," the second installment in the triptych "Mechanical and Metaphysical Phenomena," by Martijn van Wagtendonk, is currently on view in the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art Main Gallery on Jackson Street. "Her Flock" is a large- scale installation featuring sculptural, cinematic and kinetic as semblages. Petite paper birds on wooden pedestals activate when the viewer approaches, elevating and flapping loudly for several minutes before descending into rest mode again. A targe silver belt suspended in a blue circle reflects the viewer's image, as well as the video projected onto the vaulted ceiling. The image of the birds flying overhead repeats the flock of paper birds. There is also an image of a reclining figure projected on the ceiling, lying flat as if in corpse pose. The exhibit is poetic in concept and comple tion. "Her Flock" will be up through Sept. 3. The first install ment in the triptych, titled "No longer the Bachelor's way," is a motion-activated sculpture. Van Wagtendonk received a Wilson Center Research Fellowship that will help to complete the last install ment, titled "Descending." Read more at www.visart.uga.edu/galleries. artists who embellished their communications with illustrations that entertain, amuse, delight and inform their recipients in a way that is more than words. These texts and images deserve more than just a quick glance. Each individual letter is rich with personality. Get lost in the Paris Bastille Day Celebration of 1901, read instruc tions from both Thomas Hart Benton and Thomas Eakins on how to use a camera, see a map to Alexander Calder's home, drawn by the artist in the style of his mobiles. A handwritten description by sculptor John Frazee of his trip from New York to Richmond on one of "the nation's first successful passenger railroad lines" is ac companied by a drawing of the train. John Sloan's old Ford (drawn in 1922) climbs a mountain near Santa Fe. Howard Finster's 1981 letter to Barbara Shissler, after a trip to Washington, DC, is deco rated with portraits of presidents and William Shakespeare. Gladys Nilsson created a collage on United Airlines stationery to say 14 FLAGPOLE COM AUGUST 22.2007 NEWS & FEATURES I ARTS & EVENTS I MOVIES I MUSIC I COMICS & AUVICE I CLASSIFIEDS