A community’s commitment
Wednesday, June 24 — The difference between an artist and an artist who makes a living from their work is almost always the same thing: someone paid attention and invested in the vision. In Atlanta, that someone is increasingly a coalition – our institutions, our developers, our public agencies – moving in the same direction.
To wit: In South Downtown, Karen Anderson Singer unveiled four new Tiny Doors ATL installations this month, the most Singer has ever placed at once, made possible by a coalition of partners who wanted visitors to stay and walk and look. That’s what commitment to a neighborhood’s culture looks like.
At Chastain Arts Center in Buckhead, Hopeton St. Clair Hibbert Jr. recently opened “The Weight and the Witness,” a solo show years in the making, with a major artist’s residency already waiting for him on the other side. The Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs provided the stage, allowing Hibbert to step into the spotlight.
Atlanta’s artists are doing the work. Are you meeting them there?
—Sherri Daye Scott
Four doors, one neighborhood
🚪Karen Anderson Singer has spent more than a decade placing miniature doors across Atlanta – one thoughtful installation at a time. For the FIFA World Cup, she did something she’d never done before: four at once, all in South Downtown.
➡️ Open the door to Singer’s process.
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Weight, witness, what’s next
⚖️ Hopeton St. Clair Hibbert Jr. built his solo debut at Chastain Arts Center from salvaged railroad metal, London plane tree bark, and the kind of slow, deliberate labor he first learned in a professional kitchen. “The Weight and the Witness” is on view through Aug. 22. An October residency at McColl Center in Charlotte is already waiting.
➡️ Bear witness to Hibbert’s work.
Art Happenings
⚽ Dr. Dax at Tim Barrett Designs | 12-6 p.m., today | Tim Barrett Designs.
🖌️ Christina Kwan “Linger” A Solo Exhibition | 5-10 p.m., June 26 | Cat Eye Creative. (pictured)
☀️ [Rescheduled] Summer Solstice Art Walk | 6-10 p.m, June 26 | Downtown Decatur Square.
➡️ Experience Etienne Jackson’s Inward: A Meditation on Memory & Presence, the second annual South Fulton County Invitational exhibition at ArtsXchange’s Jack Sinclair Gallery. This abstract work explores ancestry and transformation through wood, metal, and mixed media. Artist Talk & Closing: 3-5 p.m. July 11. Free. Details here. SPONSOR MESSAGE
Post of the Week
📷 Photographer @dawoudbey
turns the American landscape into a site of memory. On view at @jacksonfineart alongside “Gordon Parks: The South in Color,” Bey’s “Stony the Road” (2023) finds historical trauma in places of quiet beauty – and asks who gets to be witnessed.
🖋️ Today’s Sketchbook was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.
