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HELLO. NEW IN TOWN? In addition to having more than our fair share of great restaurants and music venues, Athens has a welcoming and vibrant art scene. This week's Art Notes will introduce you to some of the great places to seek out artwork by local, national and international artists. At UGA, the arts and music nexus on East Campus is where you will find the greatest concentration of fine art in town. The newly renovated and expanded Georgia Museum of Art (90 Carlton St.) offers high-quality exhibitions, lectures, film series and workshops. Its collection spans centuries and includes paintings, drawings, sculpture and decorative arts from all over the world. Opening on Aug. 27 is "American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print." The GMOA will be hosting this fan tastic traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian, which show cases the work of one of the nation's oldest print shops, still running in downtown Nashville, TN. The instantly recognizable artist and lecture series. This year's Dodd Chair is sculptor Kristen Morgin, who will be presenting a lecture at the art school on Tuesday, Aug. 30. Over a dozen other lectures by artists and art scholars are scheduled at the Dodd over the next year, but the highlights are always the BFA and MFA exit shows—social events that are not to be missed. Keep up with exhibition news and the lecture schedule at http://art.uga.edu. Downtown Athens offers a lot of places to eat and drink, but several bars and restaurants also make a point to show local artists with frequently rotating exhibitions. A few of my go-to venues are Espresso Royale Caffe (297 E. Broad St.), Flicker Theatre & Bar (263 W. Washington St.), Cine BarCafe (234 W. Hancock Ave) and Transmetropolitan (145 East Clayton St.). Through August at Transmet's downtown location are new works by one of my favorite local painters, Jaime Bull. These canvases appear to be Apollo space craft or weird chairs (or both), rendered in psychedelic acrylic paint on large panels—see them for yourself. The Grit (199 Prince Ave.) always has something interesting on view, often by their talented employees. Also downtown, the Lyndon House Arts Center (293 Hoyt St.) is a great spot for art exhibitions in a lovely setting. Like the GMOA, the Lyndon House often has family days and workshops to complement its shows, and the juried show presented there each year is an art calendar highlight. Near the Lyndon House is the Mercury Gallery at Hotel Indigo (500 College Ave.). This small gallery is located on the first floor of the hotel and features elegantly curated collections of artwork, often by local artists. If you want to dabble in paint or pottery yourself, a few local establishments offer classes as well as gal lery space. ARTini's Art Lounge (296 West Broad St.), Sips n Strokes (3061 Atlanta Hwy.), Pints and Paints (675 Pulaski St.) and Good Dirt (510 N. Thomas St.) provide workshops and exhibitions. Check their websites for schedules. Moving beyond campus and downtown, some of the more experimental artwork in town appears at the Chase Street warehouse complex on Tracy Street. This is the home of ATHICA, a nonprofit gallery com mitted to showing art that pushes boundaries (and sometimes pushes buttons) with topical exhibitions that include music, literature, performance and other events that make its thematic shows-even more dynamic. This weekend (Saturday, Aug. 20), it will be holding the "Mystery Triennial," a sale of small works by local artists to support the gallery. See Art Notes from the Aug. 3 Flagpole or www.athica.org for more information. Also in the Chase warehouses is Trace Gallery, another contemporary art space whose huge glass windows showcase artwork by local and regional artists. Paintings by Erin McIntosh and Zuzka Vaclavik will be on display Aug. 20-Sept. 23. WAV * MM«I The GMOA exhibit American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print” opens on Aug 27. Hatch style will have a wide-ranging appeal to everyone from music fans to graphic designers to print-makers and pop- culture junkies in general. The Hatch Show images of country and pop music icons, vaudeville performers, wrestling matches and circuses are complemented by another concurrently run ning exhibition at the GMOA: "Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books,'' which will display art books cre ated by private presses. In addition to these shows, a robust public education and outreach program will keep your arts calendar full of things to do throughout the year; bookmark www.georgiamuseum.org for information on its exhibitions and programs. Other "hidden" art spaces around town include the This-Way-Out gallery (680 W. Broad St.). An experimental art space, the gallery holds opening hours usually from the 10th through the 20th of each month, presenting local talent in a space that looks like a living room. Our public libraries in Athens-Clarke (2025 Baxter St.) and Oconee counties (1080 Experiment Station Rd.) are also reli able venues for spotting art, often with an eye towards pre senting work by community members rather than students. The Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation (34 School St., Watkinsville) has great juried shows throughout the year as well as work shops for burgeoning artists. A little further afield is the Farmington Depot Gallery (1001 Salem Rd. and Highway 441), which offers fine art, crafts and furniture. Located in a historic train depot, it's a great destination for a weekend drive. Next door at the Lamar Dodd School of Art (270 River Rd.) you will find artwork by UGA students and faculty presented in five large, modern galleries and other additional exhibition spaces. The LDSA also brings many nationally and internation ally known artists and scholars to campus as part of its visiting Athens has plenty of opportunities for anyone to get involved in the art scene. Watch this space and keep an eye on the Art Around Town section of the Bulletin Board for art events. Caroline Barralt arts@flagpole com Paint. Drink. Be Merry! ‘Good for any regularly scheduled rvght w September Not valid for private parties or with other special offers Check out our calendar of paintings online & ceil or email with your reservation. Bring this ad along with your Student ID to receive special pricing at the door! Gl g'' s Corner of Broad & Pulaski b\ Cupcakes! 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