Tuesday, December 28, 2010

5 Things from President/CEO/Director, Annette Cone-Skelton

Dear Friends and Supporters:

I want to share with you five things that make me most proud of MOCA GA:


  1. MOCA GA supports Georgia artists by building a permanent collection of their artworks and archiving their histories for generations to come.
  2. MOCA GA creates programs that establish a forum for active dialogue between the artistic community and the community at large.
  3. MOCA GA produces scholarly exhibitions and catalogues.
  4. MOCA GA encourages Georgia artists to stay in Georgia; which in turn encourages artists from outside of the state to see Georgia as a viable place to live and build a career.
  5. MOCA GA has built a home for Georgia artists by creating a highly respected and well established museum.

We hope you are proud of The Museum as well and will make a donation to MOCA GA Annual Fund.


Happy Holidays!


Annette Cone-Skelton

President/CEO/Director

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Thank You Loridans!

The Charles Loridans Foundation has been one of MOCA GA's biggest supporters from the very beginning. Today's article by Howard Pousner in the Atlanta Journal Constitution highlighted the very important work they are doing for the arts in Atlanta, including us here at MOCA GA. We are so very grateful for their trust and support over the years.

These are just a few of the many exhibitions the Charles Loridans Foundation has made possible at MOCA GA:

Maria Artemis - Events that Rhyme

Marcia R. Cohen - Sight Specific

Matt Haffner - Dreams of a Sleeping Giant

Danielle Roney - Genesis Trial: Johannesburg


Don Cooper - This Moment as It is: A Connection to the Whole


Larry Walker - Surface, Spirit Voices and Other Secrets: The Wall Series in Transition

Off-the-Wall Pin-Up Show 2010

MOCA GA's Annual Off-the-Wall Pin-Up Show + Sale was held on Friday night, November 19th and it was a HUGE success! We had a great turn out and some fabulous art! 100% of the proceeds from the art sales went directly to artists!


Earlier in the day, MOCA GA invited gallery owners and/or directors and art connoisseurs from around Atlanta to pick their favorite ten pieces from the show. All the judging was anonymous.

2010 FAVORITE PICKS:

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Robert Sherer

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Terry Monaghan & Rocío Rodríguez

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Philip Carpenter

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Kemp Mooney, Katherine Taylor, & Ilia Varcev

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John Bohannon, Joe Camoosa, Corrine Colarusso, Bethany Collins, Jaynie Crimmins, Mariana Depetris, Jean C. Glenn, Rebecca Hanna, Esin Saglam, Ann Stewart, Lieze Truter, & Christian Bradley West

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Meg Aubrey, Susan Duncan, Richie Gunn, Jacob Gunter, Jennifer Hightower, Janine Joffe, Karl Gustav Kroeppler, Carl Linstrum, Arthur "Theo" Matthews, Daniel Yuto Melcher, David C. Mendoza, Patty Nelson Merrifield, Lynne Moody, Neil Patel, Samuel Parker, Seana Reilly, Nell Ruby, Philip Short, Michelle Slifeak, Stephen Sweny, Stephanie Urbas, & Devin Wells

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Katherine Allen, Jo Baskerville, Eileen Braun, Barbara Brenner, Jonathan K. Callicutt, Lance Carlson, Claire Chapman, Brandon Crawford, Eilis Crean, Ramona Creel, Katherine Hartwig Dahl, B. Evan Davis, Terri Dilling, Nancy Floyd, Dolores French, Jerushia Graham, Jes Griffin, Anne Hathaway, Jenny Henley, Judie Jacobs, Joe S. Lerner III, Robert Matre, Corrina Sephora Mensoff, Rob Milam, Allison Miller, Mike Nalley, Segun Olowofoyeku, Heath Patterson, Noelle Peterson, Kristina Ramos, Donald Robson, Theo Rudnak, Seyed "Mo" Safavynia, Kevin Sandy, Corrina Sephora Mensoff, Edward Smucygz, Erin K. Spangler, Erwin Spinner, Terry Stephens, John Sumner, Kate Turner, Lisa Tuttle, Gena Spivey VanDerKloot, Michael West, & Matthew White

To see more photos from the event please visit our website Pin-Up page or visit the MOCA GA Facebook page.

Artist Talk: Andy Ditzler of John Q

"Memory, Sound, Performance"

Artist Talk with Andy Ditzler of John Q

Thursday, Dec. 9th, 6:30pm Reception, 7pm Discussion

@ MOCA GA in the Education/Resource Center

Andy Ditzler
Andy Ditzler during John Q's Memory Flash / photo by Bo Shell/GA Voice
ANDY DITZLER of JOHN Q
Memory, Sound, Performance
A multimedia lecture and performance at MOCA GA

Thursday, December 9th, 6:30pm Reception, 7pm Talk/Performance
In the MOCA GA Education Resource Center


In April 2010, Atlanta art collective John Q presented Memory Flash - a four-part series of installations and interventions exploring the archives of queer Atlanta through the use of public space. The time-based components of Memory Flash performance, sound, film, and memory itself encircled each other in unexpected ways during (and after) the event. And each of these time-based components revealed relations to the idea of space.


Andy Ditzler's artist talk examines the connections in Memory Flash. The talk incorporates texts and stories, field recordings, live sound, and 16mm film projection including Andy Warhol's Screen Test films to examine issues of memory, time, performance, and space, as well as the artistic influences on Memory Flash.


Discursive Documents: Performing the Catalogue, will be open through January 8, 2011

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Within State Lines II - Jennifer Onofrio Fornes


Within State Lines II
Exhibition dates: October 9, 2010 - January 8, 2011
Featuring: Jennifer Onofrio Fornes (Augusta), Stefanie Jackson (Athens), Marcus Kenney (Savannah), Kwan Young Lee (Alpharetta) & Philip Morsberger (Augusta)

ABOUT Within State Lines II
To further MOCA GA's mission to support contemporary artists from the entire state of Georgia, Director, Annette Cone-Skelton traveled to four cities: Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, & Savannah, in order to curate an exhibition of artists from those cities, most have never shown at MOCA GA. A number of these artists were recommended by arts leaders in their communities, including Bill Eiland at The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; Kevin Grogan at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; and Steven High, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.


ABOUT Jennifer Onofrio Fornes
Jennifer Onofrio Fornes is a mixed media artist based out of a primary studio in Augusta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of California and her BFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She currently teaches at Augusta State University, where she has also been the recipient of several Faculty Research and Development Grants. A selection of her solo exhibitions to date have been at The Arts Center in St. Petersburg, FL; The Mary Pauline Gallery and The Gertrude Herbert Instiutute of Art in Augusta, GA; and Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO. The work in this exhibition was recently featured as part of a two-person exhibition, “Arabesque” with her mother at the Flaten Art Museum at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN.

Within State Lines II - Kwan Young Lee


Within State Lines II
Exhibition dates: October 9, 2010 - January 8, 2011
Featuring: Jennifer Onofrio Fornes (Augusta), Stefanie Jackson (Athens), Marcus Kenney (Savannah), Kwan Young Lee (Alpharetta) & Philip Morsberger (Augusta)

ABOUT Within State Lines II
To further MOCA GA's mission to support contemporary artists from the entire state of Georgia, Director, Annette Cone-Skelton traveled to four cities: Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, & Savannah, in order to curate an exhibition of artists from those cities, most have never shown at MOCA GA. A number of these artists were recommended by arts leaders in their communities, including Bill Eiland at The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; Kevin Grogan at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; and Steven High, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.


ABOUT Kwan Young Lee
Kwan Young Lee is a painter working in Alpharetta, GA. He received his MFA from California State University in Painting and Drawing, and his BFA from Hong-lk Univeristy in Seoul, Korea. Lee has been included in numerous group exhibitions in throughout California and in Seoul. He paints primarily in black and white, representing individuals through emotionally ambiguous awareness of existence and the uncertainty of life. The scenes depicted are captured as he says, “like aiming my camera at inner perceptions.”

Within State Lines II - Philip Morsberger


Within State Lines II
Exhibition dates: October 9, 2010 - January 8, 2011
Featuring: Jennifer Onofrio Fornes (Augusta), Stefanie Jackson (Athens), Marcus Kenney (Savannah), Kwan Young Lee (Alpharetta) & Philip Morsberger (Augusta)

ABOUT Within State Lines II
To further MOCA GA's mission to support contemporary artists from the entire state of Georgia, Director, Annette Cone-Skelton traveled to four cities: Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, & Savannah, in order to curate an exhibition of artists from those cities, most have never shown at MOCA GA. A number of these artists were recommended by arts leaders in their communities, including Bill Eiland at The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; Kevin Grogan at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; and Steven High, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.


ABOUT Philip Morsberger
Philip Morsberger is a painter working in Augusta, GA. He has previously held the William S. Morris Eminent Scholar Emeritus in Art, a prestigious appointment at August State University. Other appointment have included Harvard, Dartmouth, and Berkeley, as well as the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he was the President' Fellow in Painting and Drawing. Morsberger has also had a long association with Oxford University, where he studied in the mid 1950s and subsequently served as the Ruskin Master of Drawing (1971-1984). Morsberger's work is in major collections on both sides of the Atlantic.

Artist website

Within State Lines II - Stefanie Jackson


Within State Lines II
Exhibition dates: October 9, 2010 - January 8, 2011
Featuring: Jennifer Onofrio Fornes (Augusta), Stefanie Jackson (Athens), Marcus Kenney (Savannah), Kwan Young Lee (Alpharetta) & Philip Morsberger (Augusta)

ABOUT Within State Lines II
To further MOCA GA's mission to support contemporary artists from the entire state of Georgia, Director, Annette Cone-Skelton traveled to four cities: Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, & Savannah, in order to curate an exhibition of artists from those cities, most have never shown at MOCA GA. A number of these artists were recommended by arts leaders in their communities, including Bill Eiland at The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; Kevin Grogan at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; and Steven High, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.


ABOUT Stefanie Jackson
Stefanie Jackson is an artist working in Athens, GA. She received her BFA from Parsons School of design in 1979 and her MFA from Cornell University in 1988. She currently teaches drawing and painting in the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Jackson’s dramatic paintings speak of the hardships of African Americans through her distinctive voice. Her work references European traditions, African American music and literature, surrealism, social issues around race, and her life’s own narrative. Jackson has been the recipient of several individual grants from Georgia Council for the Arts and a Special Projects Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. In 2002 Jackson became a recipient of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Award in recognition of her life’s dedication developing artistic goals, regardless of other personal or financial responsibilities.

Within State Lines II - Marcus Kenney


Within State Lines II
Exhibition dates: October 9, 2010 - January 8, 2011
Featuring: Jennifer Onofrio Fornes (Augusta), Stefanie Jackson (Athens), Marcus Kenney (Savannah), Kwan Young Lee (Alpharetta) & Philip Morsberger (Augusta)


ABOUT Within State Lines II
To further MOCA GA's mission to support contemporary artists from the entire state of Georgia, Director, Annette Cone-Skelton traveled to four cities: Alpharetta, Athens, Augusta, & Savannah, in order to curate an exhibition of artists from those cities, most have never shown at MOCA GA. A number of these artists were recommended by arts leaders in their communities, including Bill Eiland at The Georgia Museum of Art in Athens; Kevin Grogan at the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta; and Steven High, at the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah.


ABOUT Marcus Kenney
Marcus Kenney is originally from rural Louisiana, and has lived and worked in Savannah, GA for the last 15 years. He earned a MFA from the Savannah College of Art And Design. Kenney works in many mediums including collage, sculpture, paint, photography and installation. His work has been exhibited in cities all over the world. He has been included in numerous group shows, art fairs, and solo exhibitions including a major ten year survey featuring nearly 50 works. His work rests in many private and public collections throughout the world. Kenney has been featured in numerous publications.

Artist Website
http://www.marcuskenney.com

Off-the-Wall Pin-Up Show + Sale 2010

Friday, October 1, 2010

Discursive Documents: Performing the Catalogue, by John Q

In the MOCA GA Education/Resource Center

exhibition dates: Oct. 2, 2010 - Jan. 8, 2011

opening reception: Sat., Oct. 2, 6:30 - 8:30pm

(artist talks & topics listed below)

ABOUT Discursive Documents: Performing the Catalogue

This project is a catalogue. Earlier this year, John Q proposed that memorials could be public happenings. Presented on April 3, 2010, Memory Flash consisted of four installations in different public spaces, each addressing a specific event in Atlanta queer history in the space where it originally happened. The events were drawn from oral histories, news stories, and other archival sources. As memorials, the only public upkeep was in the remembering or the forgetting. Similarly, the catalogue for this work exists in a place and for a time.

Discursive Documents includes artifacts and sound recordings from Memory Flash, as well as works and ephemera produced by others in response: murals, photographs, documentations, course syllabi, and other texts. A resource table includes these items as well as references and books used in our research. After expanding the archives into the public space for Memory Flash, we are now attempting to expand the catalogue for the event into the space of the museum (and specifically into this museum’s dedicated archival/research space – so, in a sense, Memory Flashreturns to the archives).

This catalogue process still has written components. Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta’s Public Spaces was published by Emory’s online journal, Southern Spaces. As for printed matter, John Q has guest curated a special issue of the JOSH (the Journal of Sexual Homos) published by Arts and Sciences PROJECTS, NY. This issue includes images from the four movements of Memory Flash along with works by other artists from the U.S., Mexico, and England concerned with queer memory and place. The JOSH, Issue #3 launches November 2010.

Finally, our individual essays for this catalogue take the form of programming. We hope you will be able to join us and participate in them.


Artist Talks - 6:30pm Receptions, 7pm Talks

''The Place of Archives in Theory and Practice"

Artist Talk: Wesley Chenault

Wednesday, October 20


"Art in Research, Research in Art"

Panel Discussion: Moderated by Joey Orr

Panelists: Joey Orr, Teresa Bramlette-Reeves, Anna Grimshaw, and Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier

Thursday, November 4


"Memory, Sound, Performance"

Artist Talk: Andy Ditzler

Thursday, December 9

ABOUT John Q

John Q is an artist collective whose name references “John Q. Public.” The “public” is left understood, though the work is considered a kind of public scholarship, and the “Q” is left hanging to reference the group’s interest in queer history and politics.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Press Release: High Museum to Transfer Art and Books to MOCA GA

ATLANTA, September 16, 2010 – The High Museum of Art recently transferred 21 works by 14 Georgia artists from its collection to The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA). In addition, the High has transferred more than 700 duplicate publications from its archives to a new reference library currently under development by MOCA GA. The publications focus on modern and contemporary art and art from around the world. Scholars, curators, art historians, educators, artists and the public will have access to this new library.

“The High is delighted to now include MOCA GA in our repertoire of international and regional collaborations,” said David Brenneman, the High’s Director of Collections and Exhibitions. “Through the transfer of these works to MOCA GA, whose mission celebrates the contemporary art of Georgia, we are excited that Atlanta and regional communities will have greater access to view and study these artists and their work.”

“This collaboration between MOCA GA and the High is significant and an important step for the arts,” said Annette Cone-Skelton, MOCA GA’s President/CEO/Director. “These new additions will fill in some major gaps for our collection, especially works by Lamar Dodd, Ben Shute, Gladene Tucker, Shirley Bolton and Ferdinand Warren. The donated publications from the High will be housed in the library of our Education/Resource Center and will join others donated by artists and collectors including Ruth Laxson and the Estate of Genevieve Arnold.”

All works were chosen by Annette Cone-Skelton in conjunction with High.

The transferred works are:

  • Shirley Bolton, Silent Strings (Jazz Series), 1974
  • Santo Bruno, Small Function, 1977
  • Larry Connatser, Untitled, 1969
  • Herbert Lee Creecy, Jr., Study, 1967, and Study, 1967
  • Lamar Dodd, Wind on the Coast, 1941
  • Lamar Dodd, Sketch for Wind on the Coast 1944
  • Lamar Dodd, The White Door, 1953
  • Lamar Dodd, At the Foot of the Blackland
  • James McRae, Untitled, 1966
  • Charles Mitchell, Prometheus Bringing Fire Down to the Earth
  • Jarvin Parks, Homage to the Four Arts
  • Robert Stockton Rogers, A View of Taxco, Mexico
  • Joseph Schwarz, Funeral
  • Benjamin Edgar Shute, Compote with Grapes
  • Howard Thomas, Reidsville, 1943
  • Howard Thomas, White House and Chickens, 1946
  • Howard Thomas, Get with Red, 1962
  • Gladene Tucker, Untitled, 1961
  • Ferdinand Warren, Garden Bouquet, 1952
  • Ferdinand Warren, Haystacks and Corn


Highlights include work by Lamar Dodd, who trained in New York and went on to become one of the most well-known twentieth-century Southern artists. Dodd’s artistic style follows the tradition of Thomas Hart Benton, and he was a faculty member at the University of Georgia. Artist Ferdinand Warren began his career creating war bond posters during World War II. After the war he continued his career as a commercial artist and became a faculty member at Agnes Scott College. Herbert Lee Creecy, Jr. was an abstract expressionist painter. Several of his works are owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
MOCA GA was founded in 2000 out of recognition of the relative void in opportunities across Georgia to learn about and view contemporary art, and specifically contemporary art from Georgia artists. The museum opened its doors to the public in February 2002. The mission of MOCA GA is to collect and archive significant contemporary works by artists from the state of Georgia. To place our artists in a global context, the museum’s exhibitions include artists from around the world in addition to Georgia artists. The museum’s programs promote the visual arts by creating a forum for active exchange between artists and the community. MOCA GA fulfills its mission through an active exhibition schedule, a growing permanent collection and the Education/Resource Center, which houses the museum’s historical archive collection. Since its opening MOCA GA has presented 72 solo and group exhibitions focused on excellence of work, explorations of media and issues in contemporary society.

High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States. With more than 12,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American and decorative art; significant holdings of European paintings; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High Museum of Art is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art. The High’s media arts department produces acclaimed annual film series and festivals of foreign, independent and classic cinema. In November 2005 the High opened three new buildings by architect Renzo Piano that more than doubled the Museum’s size, creating a vibrant “village for the arts” at the Woodruff Arts Center in midtown Atlanta. For more information about the High, please visit www.high.org.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Check out what WAP artist Matt Haffner is up to...

i45 ArtBox Presents Convergent Frequencies September 17-19 – Free & Open To The Public

ArtBox
a collaboration between
i45 and Possible Futures

presents
Convergent Frequencies

September 17, 18, 19, 2010
6pm-midnight
Free & open to the public
Intersection of Krog Street and Irwin Street/Lake Avenue

* musical performances each night at 9pm

The galleries of i45 are pleased to announce “Convergent Frequencies”, a site-specific art installation commissioned by ArtBox, a collaboration between i45 and Possible Futures. Follow three local artists, Matt Gilbert, Matt Haffner, and Nat Slaughter as they reinvent the empty lot with three large shipping containers using images, film, and sound, while simultaneously celebrating the surrounding neighborhoods.

IMAGES

Matt Haffner’s contribution to “Convergent Frequencies” will be a series of narrative portraits applied to the exteriors of the three shipping containers. His silhouetted figures play out scenes with a background of urban iconography including bodegas, pawnshops, liquor stores and laundromats. Using found images, local architecture, and his personal understanding of the urban experience, Haffner relates the imagery specifically to the Inman Park, Old 4th Ward, Little 5 Points area that both he and the works inhabit.

i45 is a collective of Atlanta galleries in Inman Park (i), the Old Fourth Ward (4) and Little Five Points (5) working together to promote this neighborhood`s rich, creative identity. Member galleries include Barbara Archer Gallery, Henley Studios, Whitespace Gallery,
and Wm Turner Gallery
. Through shared events and common interests, we seek wider visibility for our artists and our vision of building a vibrant arts community.

Free and open to the public. Food and beverages available for purchase.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

ARTIST PRESENTATIONS!

Thank you to everyone who came out to

ARTIST PRESENTATIONS @ MOCA GA
on Wednesday, August 25!


With more than 50 attendees, the evening proved to be a great success! We will be sure to do this again, so keep up with MOCA GA's calendar and watch for more annoucments

A special thanks also to the artists who discussed their work: Kevin Cole, Andrew T. Crawford, Lev Mills, Mario Petrirena, Larry Walker, & Martha Whittington.



Thursday, August 26, 2010

2007/2008 WAP Winner Don Cooper


Don Cooper's This Moment as It is: A Connection to the Whole was the second of three exhibitions shown as part of the inaugural year of MOCA GA's Working Artist Project in 2008. Cooper has continued to work as a Georgia artist after completing his time as part of the WAP, showing his art in several locations across the state.

The Lamar Dodd School of Art Gallery in Athens, GA opened its 2009-10 gallery season with Physical/Metaphysical, an exhibition which featured Cooper's paintings along with the work of two other artists. In 2009, Cooper also showed at the Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta in an exhibition entitled An Abundance of Color and received the Judith Alexander Artadia Award.


Beginning in 2009 through the start of of 2010, Cooper participated in an exhibition put together in conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy called Everything and the Space Between Everything. The exhibition was shown both in the Atrium of the Hartsfield Jackson International Airport and at Agnes Scott College.

Currently, Cooper's work may be seen at the Morris Museum in Augusta as part of Painters' Reel, which runs through September 26, 2010. The exhibition features work by ten of Georgia's most acclaimed contemporary artists. He will also have a solo exhibition at the Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta in September of this year.

Cooper is presently working on a new projected entitled Memory of South Vietnam: A Scout Dog Journal that will include photographs, film, and text.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

2007/2008 WAP Winner Larry Walker


Larry Walker was one of three artists picked to receive MOCA GA's Working Artist Project Award in its inaugural 2007/2008 year. He was also the first to exhibit. His show, which opened on June 14, 2008 and was entitled Surface, Spirit Voices and Other Secrets: The Wall Series in Transition, received resounding critical acclaim.

Since his WAP Exhibition at MOCA GA, Walker has participated in numerous exhibitions and projects. He had a solo exhibition at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, GA from October 31, 2008 through January 10, 2009 as well as a solo exhibit entitled Enigmatic Spirits at the Sande Webster Gallery in Philadelphia, September 4-30, 2009.

A solo exhibition of twenty Larry Walker paintings entitled Emerging Spirits and Other Secrets was held at Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta from November 6, 2009 through January 8, 2010. One of Walker's paintings was included in Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art, held at the Driskell Center at the University of Maryland from February 18 to May 29, 2009. This exhibition, which will travel, opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida last month.

During 2009, Walker was honored to receive one of the $3,000 awards provided by Artadia (The Fund for Art and Dialogue) to artists in the metro Atlanta area following an extensive selection process.

A video interview featuring aspects of Walker's career as an artist and professor will be shown in a film titled "The Mystic Artist," produced by Andre Henderson and David Sereda. Walker also completed an extensive oral history piece for MOCA GA in late 2008, which according to him "was one of the most important parts of the Working Artist Project sponsored by the Loridans Foundation. The longevity/legacy aspect of the oral history video offers the prospect of research and study for future generations."

In May, a selection of paintings from Walker's Wall Series was featured in an exhibition entitled WORD, curated by Mark Karelson and held at the Peters Street Projects (163 Peters Street), a new venue in the Castleberry Hill area. The exhibition opened May 14 and will run through July 2, 2010. Walker also hosted a studio visit and talk for graduate students from the Ernest Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in June.

Other upcoming events and projects that Larry Walker will participate in include serving as juror for the exhibition sponsored by the South Cobb Arts Alliance in late summer as well as serving as the juror for the South Carolina State Fair Exhibition in October.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

MOCA GA Presents Cafe MOCA


Cafe MOCA is a program for area high school students, designed to introduce young artists to professional artists and the arts career choices available to them. The goal of the program is to build a support network for young artists as they begin to build their careers. Artists featured in the first series: Maria Artemis, Lisa Tuttle, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Eleanor Neal, and Whitney and Micah Stansell. To learn more about Cafe MOCA's upcoming artist talk, email info@mocaga.org.


Summer 2010 Cafe MOCA Workshops will take place June 17, June 24 and July 1. Topics include Looking at Art Schools, Preparing a Portfolio and Portfolio Reviews.


This series of Cafe MOCA will focus on providing students with the tools needed for looking forward to higher education and careers in the arts. Sessions will be as follows:


Thursday, June 17 - 6:30-8:30 pm

Looking at Art Schools

The focus of this meeting will be a "how to" discussion and presentation for students from a working artist/educator. Students planning to attend art college will be introduced to the step-by-step process with topics including: what to look for in a school, what is out there and the college admissions process.


Thursday, June 24 - 6:30-8:30 pm

Preparing a Portfolio

The focus of this meeting will be a "how-to" discussion and presentation for students for a working artist/educator. Both students planning to attend art college and those planning to work as professional artists will benefit from this step-by-step introduction to the process. Topics will include: artist statements, professional presentations and considering your audience.


Thursday, July 1 - 6:30-8:30 pm

Portfolio Reviews

During this final meeting, students will be introduced to the process of portfolio review and encouraged to bring their own work. A panel of current and former art educators and professional artists will be available to review student work and provide feedback.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Lucinda Bunnen Artist Talk - May 12

Lucinda Bunnen gave an artist talk on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 7 pm in MOCA GA Gallery I to discuss the twelve new works featured in the exhibition From Hatcher's Pond. We would like to extend a huge thank you to all those who came out and participated in the discussion! The night was a great success!



MOCA GA President/CEO/Director, Annette Cone-Skelton and Exhibitions and Collections Coordinator, Shana Barefoot introduced Atlanta artist Lucinda Bunnen to the crowd of 100+ people who had gathered to take part in the discussion. Bunnen, who was born in 1930 in Katonah, New York, discussed several artists whose work had influenced her new collection, including Cy Twombly's large calligraphic-style graffiti paintings and the works of Claude Monet. Bunnen describes her work as an attempt to photograph the abstract imagery that she finds so interesting. To her, each piece represents the relationship between earth, sky and water. During the discussion Bunnen revealed that this series of photos is substantially larger than the selection displayed here at MOCA GA. She brought many examples of her work for viewers to admire including some smaller versions of the images in the gallery, joking "I brought some smaller ones because Jerry Cullum wrote in his article, 'They look better big,' but they look just fine this size." Bunnen ended her talk by reading the poem "Birches" by Robert Frost.




To read Jerry Cullum's review of Lucinda's exhibition on BURNAWAY.org click here.

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

MOCA GA Interns

We would like to thank our 2009-2010 interns for all their hard work and dedication!



Megan Nare


Georgia State University
BA, Art History
Spanish minor






Cassondra Hayasaki

New York University
MA, Arts Administration

Savannah College of Art and Design
BFA, Art History

Rent the MOCA GA Expansion Gallery

The MOCA GA Expansion Gallery is available for Rent!


The 2400 square-foot MOCA GA Expansion Gallery is available for rent to artists or curators for solo or group exhibitions. Call Martha Brewer at 404.367.8700 for more information.

Call for Volunteers

MOCA GA Needs Volunteers!

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) needs volunteers to man the registration desk and greet visitors. We need volunteers to sign up for 10 am - 2 pm or 2 pm - 5 pm shifts Tuesday - Saturdays.

Volunteers are needed to greet visitors, direct them to the various exhibitions, answer simple questions about the exhibitions, hand out literature, encourage visitors to become members and participate in upcoming events, etc. In additions, volunteers will answer the phone, handle general inquiries about directions, exhibitions, opening dates and times, etc. and forward calls to staff members. MOCA GA will provide a brief training course and a volunteer handbook with all the information needed to do the job.

From time to time, volunteers will be asked to help with mailings or other general museum tasks. There will, however, be periods of time when things are very quiet so volunteers are encouraged to bring personal reading materials and/or tasks to fill their time at the reception desk.

Volunteers who help with the registration desk will be given the first opportunity to participate as special event volunteers, helping with our signature events such as MOCA GALA Art Auction, our largest fundraiser in the spring; Off-the-Wall Pin Up Show + Sale in the late fall; Art for Everyone, an off site event in the early fall and other workshops, exhibition openings and artist talks. In addition, our volunteers will be eligible for membership at MOCA GA after only 20 volunteer hours.

If you are interested in becoming a MOCA GA volunteer, please email MOCA GA at rsvp@mocaga.org, subject: Volunteers.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Welcome! - May 2010

Welcome to MOCA GA's new blog! We hope you will visit this new site often to read, comment and enjoy!

All the best,

Annette Cone-Skelton
President/CEO/Director

MOCA GA is going Social!

Not only are we now blogging, but MOCA GA is also on Twitter and Facebook! Follow us at www.twitter.com/MOCAGA for the very latest updates. Become a fan of our MOCA GA group page on Facebook to see pictures of exhibitions and events, learn about artists in the permanent collection and more! Check it out and become a fan at http://www.facebook.com/.

Always remember to check out our website at http://www.mocaga.org/.

Working Artist Project 2010/2011

MOCA GA is pleased to announce the 2011/2011 Working Artist Project Winners. Congratulations to:

Katherine Mitchell

Labyrinth VI for Stein with Grey, 2004, Watercolor, chin-colle and graphite on paper

Katherine Mitchell is an Atlanta-based artist. She received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art and a MFA from Georgia State University. A retired professor from the Visual Arts Department at Emory University, she has been extensively exhibited in Atlanta, across the United States and abroad. Most recently, Mitchell was featured in the Georgia Council for the Arts publication, Georgia Masterpieces: Selected Works from Georgia Museums.

Micah Stansell
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Installation view of "Presynaptic Potential" at MOCA GA, 2010, Video work created for Le Flash, 2009
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Micah Stansell is an Atlanta-based artist and filmmaker living in College Park, Georgia. He received an MFA in Digital Filmmaking from Georgia State University. His work has screened in galleries and film festivals across the United States and as far away as Beijing, China. Stansell has also worked as a cinematographer with artists on projects and installations that have been exhibited locally and internationally.
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and Alan Caomin Xie
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Mandala no. 10, 2008, Oil on Canvas

Alan Caomin Xie is an Atlanta-based artist originally from China. He has been teaching and working as a painter in the United States since 1999. He received a BFA from the China Academy of Art in sculpture and a MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in painting. He currently serves as head of the art program at Clayton State University. He has been widely exhibited in both the United States and abroad, primarily in China..
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The 2010/2011 MOCA GA Working Artist Project (WAP) is an awards program to support established visual artists of merit who reside in the Atlanta metropolitan 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. As with past years, jurors selected three visual artists to receive the award, representing our city's best and brightest. These artists will be supported with an exhibition, promotion, a studio assistant, and a major stipend to create work over the course of one year. This program is supported by a major grant from The Charles Loridans Foundation with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Allison Unruh, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) served as this year's guest juror.