Weekend Arts Agenda: Mason Murer turns 10 May 09 2014
- Courtesy Mason Murer
- LeeAnna Repass
Mason Murer is turning 10 and Stephen Bach, Dennis Campay, Babak Emanuel, William Entrekin, Barbara Fisher, Carl Holzman, Patrick Johnson, Mia Merlin, Steve Morrison, Virginia Parker, Isaac Payne, William Mize, LeeAnna Repass, and Sally Tharp are coming to celebrate. Owner Mark Karleson said the last decade has seen massive change in the local art industry - markets disrupted, consumers empowered, and pressure increased. “Mason Murer has adapted by staying true to its artistic vision while opening the business model to include a dynamic and growing special events business,” he says.
Ten Years and Counting will open concurrently with the gallery’s annual showcase of emerging student talent, Fresh Blood. (Hey, Babak Emanuel used to be in that one, too!) “The real challenge was to stay alive long enough to see the return of the art business in Atlanta,” owner Mark Karelson says. “We are celebrating that!” With a reception from 6-9 p.m.
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FRIDAY
Wowser Bowser, which has always kind of felt like an Athens band to me though it is not, is playing a benefit concert for the Peacebuilders Camp at Eyedrum. TV Dinner will also perform. The 8 p.m. show is all-ages and tickets are $7; with a more expensive and auction-y VIP reception beforehand. More details on all of that here.
SATURDAY
WonderFarm is a thing that exists! It is exactly what it sounds like: WonderRoot partnered for Community Farmers Markets for an evening of seated dinners and art celebrations., benefiting both organizations. (Miller Union’s Steven Satterfield is curating the food. Gavin Bernard and Jane Garver are designing the “art experience.”) And of course there’s a silent auction, in the previously unseen, all-new Krog Street Market. “The goal of WonderFarm is to build pathways to participation in the local farming and arts communities through an all-new cultural experience,” WonderFarm said about itself on its website. From 7-11 p.m.
Molly Rose Freeman is starting something...very strange, actually: for a week, starting Saturday, she’ll paint a mural inside of Beep Beep. Her process will be open to spectators and will be documented by photographers Dustin Chambers and Wil Hughes. Every part of this undertaking will then open in a public exhibit on May 24. The project is called Hourglass. It is necessarily interdisciplinary, interpersonal, and intermediated: As the gallery explains, “Hourglass explores the relationships between painter, documenter, and audience to find the shared bond that exists within the public art performance.”
SUNDAY