September 2007 to September 2008
Atlanta, Georgia
Reconstructing Atlanta: A Contemporary Continuum represented a synchronistic network of exhibitions and events that examined the real and imagined nexus of art, architecture and urban design.
Exhibition and Event Schedule
2008
August 12-September 4
City of the Future/Atlanta Exhibition
August 12, 6pm – 8pm
Opening Reception
The national competition offered teams of architects, engineers, and students the opportunity to develop inventive visions of Atlanta 100 years from now. Entrants presented written statements, visual displays, and 3-dimensional constructs, all assembled within three hours at Underground Atlanta on January 29, 2008. Project summaries and images of the temporary public installations were then posted on www.history.com/cityofthefuture where the National City of the Future Champion was determined based on the results of a public online vote.
September 4, 6pm – 8pm
Re/constructing Atlanta Book Release Book Signing + Reception
This exhibition of entries from the History Channel’s City of the Future / Atlanta Design and Engineering Challenge competition provides a significant context for the release of Re/constructing Atlanta, a 120-page book featuring essays by Ellen Dunham-Jones, Cathy Byrd, Ryan Gravel and Mtamanika Youngblood, along with real and imagined views of Atlanta’s contemporary redevelopment.
January 10-March 6
Urban Intervention: The Beltline
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery
Georgia State University
Centering on the evolving Beltline transportation initiative, Urban Intervention engaged local artists and architects in experiential projects. Participants were Danielle Roney and Ryan Gravel (culture), Joan Tysinger (access), the Dirty Truth Campaign, with Brian Hawkins and Lisa Tuttle (activism), Pandra Williams (greenspace), Ed Akins, with David Green (sustainability) and Amy Landesberg (public space), as well as photosofthebeltline.com, an interactive website project directed by Ruth Dusseault.
January 10
Opening Event URBAN INTERVENTION
5pm – 8pm Reception
6pm Artists’ Talk PART I
Welch School Gallery
January 22
Screening: It’s Still the Same
Blake Williams’ video portrait of Atlanta
Screening: Blockheads Promo
Ann Chance’s trailer for an upcoming documentary on the Beltline
4pm
Welch School Gallery
February 7-March 18
Now, Here, This:
Atlanta Youth Re-imagine the City
Youth Art Connection Gallery
In collaboration with the Education Department of the Museum of Design Atlanta and art departments at Grady High School, Tri-Cities High School and South Atlanta School of Engineering and Computer Sciences, Building Our Beautiful City presented images, maquettes and installations that explore Atlanta’s creative potential. This teenage art project grew from MODA’s A City of Neighborhoods high school outreach program.
February 7
Opening Event Now, Here, This
6pm Teen Artists Talk
7pm Urban Intervention Artists Talk PART II
Youth Art Connection Gallery
February 20
Rick Lowe: Sculpting the Built Environment
Lecture
6:30pm
GSU Speaker’s Auditorium, University Center
Artist and founder of Project Row Houses, an innovative arts and cultural community in a historically significant neighborhood in Houston, Texas, spoke about "Sculpting the Built Environment." Sponsored by the GSU College of Arts and Sciences Visiting Artists and Scholars program and the Welch School Gallery.
February 27
Advocacy: NPU-V Speaks the Dirty Truth
A collection of pictures and stories by current and displaced residents of NPU-V
6:00-8:00pm
Welch School Gallery
March 6
Closing Urban Intervention
First Thursdays Downtown ArtWalk
March 20
Spring Solstice in the Native Garden
5pm Hurt Park
6pm Panel: Atlanta's Native Garden
Ernest G. Welch School, Arts and Humanities Building
2007
September 8-29
Unbuilt Atlanta
Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery
Curated by Atlanta artist Karen Tauches, Unbuilt Atlanta explored the imaginative potential of unachieved architectural projects.
September 8
Opening Event
Unbuilt Atlanta
7pm-11pm
Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery
September 12
Tour of the Unbuilt
Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery
Karen Tauches gave a personal tour of the Unbuilt Atlanta exhibition.
September 29
ART/SPACE
8 pm
Outdoor terrace next to Davis Waldron Gallery
425 Peachtree Hills Ave., No. 32A
Atlanta, GA 30305
directions: http://www.daviswaldron.com/
This outdoor screening featured short videos by artist Gordon Matta-Clark that documented his anarchic urban interventions from the 1970s. Also included in the screenings were rare video footage of the Atlanta art collective Public and Private, Manfred Kirchheimer’s “Stations of the Elevated” and a new poetic video portrait of Atlanta by Blake Williams. Presented by Atlanta Celebrates Photography, Frequent Small Meals and the GSU Welch School Gallery.
October 24
Nan Ellin: Integral Urbanism
Lecture
College of Architecture Auditorium
Georgia Institute of Technology
6pm
Director, Urban & Metropolitan Studies Program, School of Public Affairs, and Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Arizona State University, introduced her new book “Integral Urbanism” at the Georgia Tech School of Architecture. On October 25, Ellin took part in a public conversation about her impressions of Atlanta’s new growth at the GSU Welch School of Art and Design. Co-sponsored by the Georgia Tech College of Architecture and the GSU Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, with the GSU College of Arts and Sciences Visiting Artists and Scholars program.