Making a statement
March 5 — One of this week’s featured Sketchbook artists set out to make a political statement. The other set out to fill a municipal lobby with a tree.
Philadelphia artist Carole Loeffler has been posting handcrafted felt words of wisdom in public since 2018. Her “Granny Graffiti” series was always intended as a direct action. Now it’s part of a broader political art conversation happening at the Museum of Design Atlanta.
Atlanta sculptor Katie Vigilante took a commission to create a signature piece for Chamblee City Hall, discovered a personal connection to a Ukrainian city at war, and built something she calls the honor of her life. “The Tree of Kovel” is permanent, public, and entirely her own.
What are you making that has something to say?
—Sherri Daye Scott
Words of wisdom
✂️ Carole Loeffler cuts words from felt, mounts them on vintage doilies, and puts them on telephone poles. Her project, “Granny Graffiti,” has been showing up when people need it most. Now it’s at MODA.
➡️ Get the stories behind Loeffler’s stitches.
Party like it’s 1985 at our 40th Artistic Affair!
SPONSORED BY SPRUILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS
✨ Dust off your cassettes and tease your hair, we’re having a FUNdraiser – so be there or be square!
Join us on March 28 as Spruill Center for the Arts kicks off the 40th year of Artistic Affair! Get ready for full-on 1980s fun, complete with an open bar, arcade games, costume contests, a live auction, and more.
🎟️ Tickets are on sale now – get yours today.
Rebirth to honor resilience
🇺🇦 A century-old, dead tree trunk was headed for a creek. Atlanta sculptor Katie Vigilante had other plans for it – a place in her “The Tree of Kovel” installation at Chamblee City Hall, which honors a Ukrainian city and the people fighting to save it.
➡️ Learn what inspired Vigilante’s piece.
Art Happenings
👩🏻🤝👩🏽 The Art of Philanthropy Mixer | 12-3 p.m., Mar. 5 | Atlanta City Hall Rotunda.
📸 Photos are Portals Opening | 7-10 p.m., Mar. 6 | Bellows Film Lab Atlanta Gallery.
🔲 Teen Art Afternoon: In Black and White | 2-4 p.m., Mar. 7 | High Museum of Art. (pictured)
🛍️ Makers Market Local Artist Fair at Avalon | 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Mar. 8 | Avalon in Alpharetta.
🖼️ Dunwoody Fine Arts Association Works by Georgia Artists Exhibit | 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Mar. 9 | Dunwoody Library.
Post of the Week
🎨 Community art
The @mariettaartistguild kicks off “Art in Action,” its free monthly artist studio tour, this weekend. Participating artists in the Artisan Resource Center will open their doors 12-4 p.m., Saturday.
🖋️ Today’s Sketchbook was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.