Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
Friday September 3, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
High Museum of Art
Cost: $16.50 General Admission, Members Free.
Arts Agenda
Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe (Sept. 3, 2021-Jan. 9, 2022) — For the last 15 years of her life, self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe (1900-1982) lived on a busy thoroughfare just outside of Atlanta and welcomed visitors to her “Playhouse,” which she decorated with found-object instal...
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Celebrate Two Holidays This Labor Day Weekend at Firepit Pizza Tavern
Friday September 3, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Firepit Pizza Tavern
Cost: Free
Food and Drink
Celebrate two holidays over the weekend at Firepit Pizza Tavern. Not only will there be Labor Day festivities and specials, but the local haunt is celebrating National Cheese Pizza Day on Sunday, September 5th. Guests can indulge in the best pizza Grant Park has to offer with $5 cheese pizzas serve...
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Zuckerman Museum of Art: The Labor of Remembrance
Friday September 3, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Zuckerman Museum of Art
Cost: Free
Arts Agenda::Visual Arts
The Labor of Remembrance: Print and Textile Works by Louise Bourgeois (Aug. 28-Dec. 11) — Louise Bourgeois calls upon both subtle and obvious metaphors associated with textiles within her work: the spider, the needle, clothing, and flax. The careful presentation of a select grouping of her works in ...
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Zuckerman Museum of Art: This Mortal Coil
Friday September 3, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Zuckerman Museum of Art
Cost: Free
Arts Agenda::Visual Arts
This Mortal Coil (Aug. 28-Dec. 11) — A collection of works by 17 prominent contemporary artists presents a strikingly raw visual dialogue at the surface of our emotional armature, which most individuals work diligently to prevent illuminating.
This Mortal Coil and The Labor of Remembrance are inte...
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Zuckerman Museum of Art: Project Wall West, Jamele Wright, Sr.
Friday September 3, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Zuckerman Museum of Art
Cost: Free
Arts Agenda::Visual Arts
ZMA Project Wall West: Jamele Wright, Sr. (Aug. 28-July 30, 2022) — Combining found materials, Dutch Wax cloth, and Georgia red clay, Atlanta artist Jamele Wright Sr. creates abstract works that explore the Black American vernacular experience. Beginning August 28, a newly commissioned textile work ...
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Zuckerman Museum of Art: ZMA Project Wall East - Kayte Terry
Friday September 3, 2021 10:00 AM EDT
Zuckerman Museum of Art
Cost: Free
Arts Agenda::Visual Arts
ZMA Project Wall East: Kayte Terry (Aug. 28-July 30, 2022) — A newly commissioned work by Philadelphia artist Kayte Terry, known for examining the literal and figurative boundaries of the body through photography, video, collage, installation, and object-making.
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POEM 88: Kimberly Binns - HomeFront
Friday September 3, 2021 11:00 AM EDT
””“”{Poem 88}”“”“
Cost: Free. By appointment only 404-735-1000.
Arts Agenda::Visual Arts
Kimberly Binns: HomeFront (Aug. 21-Sep. 11) — In this exhibition, Kimberly Binns presents a variety of vignettes incorporating personal photographs, abstract drawings, paintings and custom furniture to explore the meaning of sanctity of the home for African-Americans, what the idea meant to her in t...
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Dragon Con 2021 - Friday
Friday September 3, 2021 12:00 PM EDT
Downtown Atlanta
Cost: $115-$3500
Community,
Festivals
It’s only the biggest, nerdiest, and most exciting weekend of the year. No big deal. Right?
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MOCA: Remembering Larry Jens Anderson (1947-2021)
Friday September 3, 2021 12:00 PM EDT
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Cost: $5. Members free.
Arts Agenda::Visual Arts
MOCA: Larry Jens Anderson was an artist, educator, and activist, as well as founding member and curator of the TABOO artist collective, known for its edgy shows and happenings at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Recurring themes in Larry’s work include gender, sexual identity, human rights, politics...
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MOCA: Erin Jane Nelson - One Entanglement, Under Clouds
Friday September 3, 2021 12:00 PM EDT
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Cost: $5. Members free.
Arts Agenda::Visual Arts
Erin Jane Nelson: One Entanglement, Under Clouds (Aug. 7-Oct. 2) — Mixed media artist and 2020-21 WAP recipient Erin Jane Nelson explores the entanglement of systems — social, political, ecological — in this solo exhibition, which features three frogs modeled on the pagan Triple Goddess.
MOCA GA’s...
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MOCA: Katherine Mitchell - Hearing the Trees, Chapter III
Friday September 3, 2021 12:00 PM EDT
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Cost: $5. Members free.
Arts Agenda::Visual Arts
Katherine Mitchell: Hearing the Trees, Chapter III (Aug. 7-Oct. 2) — 2020-21 WAP fellow Katherine Mitchell’s solo exhibition includes a series of paintings/drawings on paper, which seeks in part to reconcile the artist’s concerns in visual art and the environment.
MOCA GA’s Working Artist Project ...
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Ferst Center: Traveling While Black
Friday September 3, 2021 12:00 PM EDT
Ferst Center For The Arts
Cost: $6 - Free to GA Tech students thru Sept 5
Traveling While Black (Aug. 13-Nov. 12, no showings on Mondays or Tuesdays, screenings every hour on...
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Lauri Stallings: The Hudgens Prize retrospective
Friday September 3, 2021 01:00 PM EDT
The Goat Farm Arts Center
Cost: Free
A work as part of the Hudgens Prize Retrospective, The Hudgens Center, Duluth, Georgia (Aug. 21-Oct....
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gloATL’s March on Variations†in Palmetto, Georgia
Friday September 3, 2021 01:00 PM EDT
Palmetto City Hall
Cost: Free
“March on Variations!” in Palmetto, Georgia (Fridays through Dec. 31, 1-4 p.m.) — March on Variation...
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Free [click here for more]
Our Bar ATL Pop-Up & Go at Our Bar ATL
Friday September 3, 2021 02:00 PM EDT
Our Bar ATL
Cost: $20--$25
Food and Drink
Daily Kitchen Pop-Up at Our Bar ATL!
Ft. @ChefElliottFarmer
Doors open at 2PM. Pop-Up closes at 7PM or when it sells out!
Text 678-929-8380 to place your orders for DINE-IN or TAKE-OUT. 339 Edgewood Ave SE
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