Draw 4 Days

WCAGA and Further Poly Contemporary Gallery Present 

Draw 4 Days

Place: Further Poly Contemporary Gallery at MOCA GA /Tula Art Complex

on Bennett Street

Dates: August 18 to August 23

Closing Reception: August 22, 2014 - 6 to 9pm

Artists Discussion - August 23, 2014 - 2 to 4pm

For the last three years the Women’s Caucus for Art of GA has had an ongoing Drawing Marathon Program meant to be a respite from demands of an individual’s own art process. The artists gather at one another’s studios and spend the day drawing; however they wish, whatever they want and with materials of their own choosing. The purpose: to return to a simpler process and just allow the experience to generate ideas, release oneself from restrictions of ongoing work and enjoy the company of other artists while doing so. 

Beginning August 18, WCAGA members will participate in a four day drawing marathon

at Paul Light Jr.’s Further Poly Contemporary Gallery, located on Bennett Street in the MOCA/Tula Art Complex. Further Poly Contemporary maintains a commitment to a unique and eclectic program. Working with emerging, mid-career and established artists, Further is an ever-evolving context for exhibitions,  lectures, gatherings, and informative presentations that enrich the community's relationship to the arts. 

Over the years there have been dozens of formats for Drawing Marathons. Presently, MOCA GA has a dynamic, ongoing Drawing Program, directed by Angus Galloway, that celebrates the many aspects of the drawing process. www.mocaga.org

While that is an ongoing program, WCAGA’s Draw 4 Days is meant to be a one week program that has multiple purposes. Foremost: to bring a fundamental (not necessarily simple) art process to the viewer as it unfolds. Additionally, we want this to be an education and a celebration of a process that humans have engaged in for thousands of years. Drawing has many uses. It can be a way to journal about ideas of concept, methods of construction and solutions to problems or simply the end goal. 

Our format for this Drawing Marathon: Each day, images of the work in progress will be posted on WCAGA’s Facebook page. Writers, artists and the public will be encouraged to blog and visit. Engaging the artists in dialogue is encouraged.

On August 22, WCAGA will have a closing reception to unveil the results of our Draw 4 Days journey and on Saturday the 23rd, we will have our exhibit open and the artists will be present to discuss the process, concept and reason for participation. We hope you will join us, on line and in the space.  

www.furtherart.com

www.mocaga.org

www.wcaga.org

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 2013/2014 Working Artist Project

2013/2014 Working Artist Project 

DEADLINE for submissions:
Sunday, June 30, 2013
@ 11:30pm

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) is pleased to announce the call for submissions for MOCA GA's 2013/14 Working Artist Project (WAP). As with past years, a guest juror will review all submissions and select three (3) of the best and brightest visual artists from the metropolitan Atlanta area to receive the project award. WAP is a fellowship program to support established visual artists of merit who reside in the metropolitan Atlanta area.  This initiative provides an unparalleled level of support for individual artists, expands the Museum's mission, and promotes Atlanta as a city where artists can live, work, and thrive. MOCA GA supports artists by granting a major stipend to create new work; by presenting a solo exhibition of the new work; by producing an accompanying exhibition catalogue; and by providing a paid studio apprentice over the course of one year.  WAP is supported by a grant from The Charles Loridans Foundation.

2013/14 WORKING ARTIST PROJECT APPLICATION

Click here  to go to the MOCA GA website for details about the application process, and about artist eligibility and requirements. Please read all details carefully as there are new submission requirements.
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This year, Franklin Sirmans, the Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), will be serving as juror for the upcoming round of artists' submissions.

From 2006 to 2010, Sirmans was the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Menil Collection in Houston, TX, where he organized exhibitions including NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, Maurizio Cattelan: Is There Life Before Death, Steve Wolfe: On Paper and Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-66.   The latter two traveled to LACMA, where Sirmans has also organized the museum's presentation of Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals, Color and Form, Robert Therrien and Ends and Exits: Contemporary Art from the Collection of LACMA and the Broad Art Foundation.  He also coorganized the exhibition Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection.  Sirmans was the 2007 recipient of the David C. Driskell Prize awarded by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. He has written extensively for catalogues and articles and reviews in publications such as The New York Times, Time Out New York, Essence, Parkett and Grand Street.  He is the artistic director of Prospect.3 New Orleans