Art!

Can never find a good time to squeeze in a local museum/gallery. I know it's in the middle of the day -hopefully you've gotten some laundry done by this time:) Let's go to Emory for some art: 1. The Visual Arts Gallery: http://www.visualarts.emory.edu/events/index.html Parking/directions: http://www.visualarts.emory.edu/contact/index.html Brent Fogt: Accrual Method Brent Fogt will present a series of large-scale, highly detailed drawings of abstract forms that vary from the topographic to the decorative, referring to, among other things, aerial photography, maps, turbulent water, live oak trees, coral reefs, ant farms, and paisleys. The exhibition will include a number of works suspended from the gallery ceiling, including a 16-foot drawing based on an aerial view of the Mississippi River and 60 crocheted sculptures that reference hives and nests. He will also debut a series of drawings inspired by the natural patterns he observed while teaching in Mexico, and by Chinese scroll painting. 2. The Schatten Gallery in the Woodruff library on level 3. A Keeping of Records: the Art and Life of Alice Walker is an exhibition whose parts are drawn from the archive of Alice Walker: a genius of the South whose corpus is a permanent part of our national and world literature. Emory University has served as the custodian of the Alice Walker archive, a national treasure, since December 2007. A landmark event in the world of arts and letters, the exhibition commemorates the arrival of the Alice Walker archive to the African American Collections of EmoryÂ’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), and the opening of the Walker archive to researchers and to the public. http://web.library.emory.edu/libraries/schatten/ Library info: http://web.library.emory.edu/libraries/schatten/about.html#3 I don't think it'll take more than an hour or two to see everything. 3. Wind down at Waikikie down the road w/ Hawaiian beer. It's on Briarcliff @ LaVista.