I don’t normally get out to high school art shows, but then I got a press release about Pace Academy’s painting exhibition “A Brush with Fame.” This show promised work from 50 students at 12 different Atlanta schools and was judged by Lisa Hooten from the High Museum, so I figured I’d have a look.

Winners received gifts from BINDERS, which sponsored the exhibition and also donates five percent of each dollar spent by school supporters to its partner schools, more than $20,000 since the program’s inception.

I spoke with show organizer Donice Bloodworth, a member of the Pace Visual Arts faculty, and Christine Chang, whose piece was named Best in Show. It’s great to see these schools pushing their students and emphasizing the value of art. I wish that I’d had this much self-awareness and confidence in my own work as a teenager. There is some real talent here, especially in the students’ experiments with materials and process.

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Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery held its annual “Show and Tell” on Jan. 22, where artists present proposals for exhibitions and performance events at the gallery to a panel of jurors. I spoke with Robby and Edi from Eyedrum about the event, and a few of the artists about their experience.

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Here’s a (very) quick glance at the opening reception for Benita Carr’s “Morning Sun” at Whitespace last night. The show runs through Feb. 18. Allison Rentz also did a performance.

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“Scott Ingram: Nail Polish Work” is at Emily Amy Gallery in Atlanta Dec. 9, 2011-Jan. 28, 2012. Scott and I talked about the work, its origins, and what he’d like viewers to take away from seeing it. An opening reception takes place at the gallery on Friday from 7-10 p.m.

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White Columns Director and Chief Curator Matthew Higgs gave a talk on Nov. 9 at SCAD Atlanta as part of the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center’s Contemporary Talks lecture series.

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I’ll be posting archived video on Art Relish’s YouTube channel. Here’s one.

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Here’s a photo of the companions at Boulevard Crossing.

For more about the project, please see the Art Relish Live page.

Eyedrum Executive Director and Art on the Atlanta BeltLine Performance Coordinator Priscilla Smith talks about the public art installations and events that take place on Atlanta’s BeltLine corridor from Sept. 9-Nov. 20, 2011.

On Nov. 12, Priscilla will walk the entire 22-mile loop of historic and mostly unused rail around the city as a method of documenting the system of parks, trails, transit and development that will soon emerge. I’ll be hosting her live video stream of the walk here on Saturday.

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ACP’s annual Photobook Fair took place at the Piedomnt Park Community Center in Atlanta on October 22, 2011. We spoke with photographers Kate Jordahl, Gerald Straw, Bryan Meltz, and Larissa Leclair of the Indie Photobook Library.

The 2011 event was festival guide number 135.

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In her talk for Atlanta Celebrates Photography, photo-based installation artist Zoe Strauss discussed her project “Under I-95″ and preparation for her upcoming exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The lecture took place on Oct. 27, 2011 at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

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Atlanta Celebrates Photography held their annual Portfolio Review and Walk on Oct. 1 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta. We spoke to participants Judy Lampert, Valerie Oliveiro, and Alan Chimacoff, along with reviewer Darren Ching, Creative Director of Photo District News and co-owner of Klompching Gallery in New York, about their experience.

ACP 2011 Festival Event #63.

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