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Third Thursday events and exhibitions for December 15

The next Third Thursday — the monthly evening of art in Athens, Georgia — is scheduled for Thursday, December 15, from 6 to 9 p.m. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. This schedule and each venue’s location and hours of operation are available at 3thurs.org.

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia

Yoga in the Galleries, 6 p.m. — Join us for a free yoga class surrounded by works of art in the galleries. Led by instructors from Five Points Yoga, this program is free and open to both beginner and experienced yogis. Sanitized mats are provided. This program is available both in-person (spots are available on a first-come, first-served basis; tickets are available at the front desk starting at 5:15 p.m.) and via Zoom (register at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsc-GoqD4iHtPnlfFt7h1YXB4wv_-IuKKr).

On view:

“Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund” — This exhibition is the first large-scale survey of the Do Good Fund’s remarkable and sweeping collection of photography made in the South from the 1950s to the present.

“Infinity on the Horizon” — This exhibition highlights modern and contemporary objects in the Georgia Museum of Art’s permanent collection by prominent and lesser-known artists that can be characterized as abstract landscapes. 

“Allison Janae Hamilton: Between Life and Landscape” — Allison Janae Hamilton’s works often include spectral figures to convey the role of nature in Black experience as beautiful and fragile, hopeful and haunted.

“In Dialogue: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mentor and Muse” — This focused exhibition highlights Black artist Henry Ossawa Tanner’s impact on several younger artists: Palmer C. Hayden, William H. Johnson, William Edouard Scott and Hale Woodruff.

“Jane Manus, Undaunted” — Five large-scale sculptures by the Florida-based geometric sculptor.

“Kristin Leachman: Longleaf Lines” — Paintings by artist Kristin Leachman of an old-growth longleaf pine forest in southwest Georgia as part of her “Fifty Forests” project.

“Decade of Tradition: Highlights from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection” — Selections from Larry and Brenda Thompson’s gift of works by African American artists.

“Power and Piety in 17th-Century Spanish Art” — Works by premiere Spanish baroque painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo, Pedro Orrente and others, on loan from Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery.

The museum’s days of operation are Tuesday – Sunday. Reserve a free ticket and see our policies at https://georgiamuseum.org/visit/.

ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art

ATHICA@675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200

Closed until 2023.

ATHICA@CINÉ Gallery

“Familiar” — Photographs by Christy Bush.

Lyndon House Arts Center

“RE-, the Clarke County School District Student Art Exhibition” — Works by students from kindergarten to 12th grade in media such as weaving, sculpture, photography, painting, drawing and collage. Also included are large collaborative works of art by classrooms and grades.

“A Pattern of Moments” — Featuring art by Kate Burke, Rebecca Kreisler and Sylvia Schaefer. The three artists share a feminized aesthetic sensibility and color palette, reflected in their chosen material: thread, folded paper and quilted fabric

“The Same, Yet Separate” — J Taran Diamond is a metalsmith and interdisciplinary craft artist. Diamond creates intricate ornate objects inspired by historic artifacts that investigate anti-Blackness within the material culture of the American South. 

“The Ties that Bind: The Paradox of Cultural Survival amid Climate Events: Works by Tamika Galanis and Anina Major” — This exhibition originated on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, during a residency in which artists examined cultural identity and sustainability through environmental relationships.  

“Collections from Our Community” — Hand-crafted miniature scenes lovingly created by Nancy Songster.

The Athenaeum

Closed on this Third Thursday.

tiny ATH gallery

Art party for Andrea Wellnitz and her exhibition “The Journey.” This body of work includes wet felting, papercuts and eco-dye. Andrea was introduced to the art of wet felting while on sabbatical in Austria in 2008 and has been exploring and growing her craft ever since. She said, “I am continuously inspired by the possibilities of the wool, fibers and its versatility. Wool can be wearable or sculptural, colorful or neutral, hard or soft; its potential is only limited by the creator.”

The Classic Center

The Classic Center galleries will be closed this Third Thursday due to an event in the space.

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Third Thursday was established in 2012 to encourage attendance at Athens’ established art venues through coordination and co-promotion by the organizing entities. 

Contact: Michael Lachowski, Georgia Museum of Art, mlachow@uga.edu.

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Flora Fantastic: Eco-Critical Contemporary Botanical Art

Curated by Corina Apostol and Tashima Thomas

 If in New York,Visit Apex Art Gallery!

This exhibition brings together artists from post-colonial contexts who are looking critically at the colonial past and deconstructing history through the lens of the botanical. 

Kristaps Ancāns looks at the artificiality of domestic interiors decorated with indigenous plants removed from their native contexts, creating a sense of control over nature. 

Scherezade Garcia addresses colonial encounters in the Americas, gesturing towards nature reclamation of her lands. 

Joiri Minaya reveals interconnectedness between the natural environment and commercial enterprises. 

Virginia Wagner unearths how botanical knowledge is historically translated. 

Tamika Galanis investigates how botanicals became agents of health and resistance. A collaborative botanical timeline positions plants as protagonists in colonial history, capable of draining life out of the body or restoring well-being.

During a time when we have found ways to classify and clone plants we have discovered in the world, we have also systematically erased them from native contexts. 

Flora Fantastic begins a conversation about embodiment, inhabitation, belonging and dwelling.

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Galanis, Tamika Market Street, 2017. Photograph. New Providence, Bahamas.

In this image, Tamika Galanis demonstrates the real day-to-day life of Caribbean women in the Bahamas. The woman in this image is seen wearing jeans and a t-shirt and holding a book while walking past a yellow house. The lush landscape of the Caribbean is visible in the background, with bright pink flowers blooming on the tree. Here this woman is not wearing the brightly colored clothing we are used to seeing Caribbean women wearing in postcards and tourism advertisements. This image goes against the image we want to see of the Caribbean, or even other places seen as exotic like Portugal as Enloe discussed in their “On the Beach: Sexism and Tourism”, where the white feminist tourist looks for a postcard that does not feature a woman in a way that fits into the stereotypes where a place is full of exotic people wearing exotic clothing. 

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                                  Bahamian Artists collaboration

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                 From the Facebook page of Ras Akyem....wonderful news.

Soooo, i've been quiet for a brief "moment", but London/Scotland beckons.....  so i'm off to fulfill a uniquely important commission for TWR ("THE WORLD RE-IMAGINED") where I'll be working with such notable International art-world stalwarts as Yinka Shonibare(Nigeria), Chris Ofilli(London) Jasmine Girvin(Jamaica) etc. Eagerly looking forward to this creative cross-fertilization/collaboration of stellar talents and to share my vision with the continental art-world..... I'll certainly be keeping y'all informed on my process and the journey through this project! Guess I'll be seeing wunna in the next 2 months.

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Flora Fantastic Exhibition Tour

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