The Center for Puppetry Arts is one of 11 museums and historic homes that will participate in the sixth annual Smithsonian magazine Museum Day, opening doors to visitors at no charge.
Bill Jones The Center for Puppetry Arts is one of 11 museums and historic homes that will participate in the sixth annual Smithsonian magazine Museum Day, opening doors to visitors at no charge.
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Hammonds House, the West End art gallery, will also participate in the free day..
Kirk Kingsbury, special Hammonds House, the West End art gallery, will also participate in the free day..
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Across metro Atlanta, 11 museums and historic homes will participate in the sixth annual Smithsonian magazine Museum Day, opening their doors to visitors at no charge.
Participating will be the Archibald Smith Plantation Home in Roswell; Art on 5 in Atlanta; Barrington Hall in Roswell; Bulloch Hall in Roswell; the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Global Health Odyssey Museum in Atlanta; the Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; the Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth; the Marietta Museum of History; and the Museum of Design Atlanta.
Among the metro participants, Gwinnett County’s Hudgens Center offers a compelling exhibit by Augusta painter-printmaker Tom Nakashima. Many of Nakashima's works are large-scale, covering entire gallery walls, and are carefully gridded pieces composed of countless small snips from magazines, placed to create a mosaic image with depth and impact. The High Museum of Art, meanwhile, has among other worthy shows "Dalí: The Late Work." Admission at the High is normally $18 for adults.
For those interested in making a day trip, there are some worthy options, including the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville and Reinhardt College's Funk Heritage Center in nearby Waleska.
Last year, more than 300,000 people in the U.S. took advantage of Museum Day. This year, 1,300 museums in all 50 states will participate, the largest number ever.
To print out an admission card (one per household), good for two people, and view a complete list of participants, go to www.smithsonian.com/museumday .
ART@WORK
- ART@WORK Atlanta
- Art At Work (AAW) was developed in 1995 by Fulton County Arts Council (FCAC) as a six-week summer program to provide arts education and job training for youth, ages 14 - 16, who were interested in the visual arts. Since AAW's inception, it has evolved into year-round and summer programming that has served hundreds of Fulton County youth. Teens are integrally involved in all aspects of production and marketing while learning valuable work skills. Over the course of a year, participants receive instruction from professional visual artists; social and employment skill development from professionals; are exposed to the business and entrepreneurial aspects of the arts as they exhibit their work locally; and earn an income for creating art. Program participants become Apprentice Artists; producing artwork is their job.