Dodd, Georgia Review collaborate for Jan. 30 Art Party

Spoken word paired visual art holds great possibiltiy for fun, exploration and reflection. By mixing media and art forms, we can access new creative space in the minds of viewers and artists. And what better place to access new creative space than the Dodd: 

The Lamar Dodd School of Art will hold an Art Party Jan. 30 from 6-8 p.m. to celebrate the opening of four concurrent exhibitions. The event will also celebrate The Georgia Review's winter issue with a series of roving pop-up readings and micro-performances.

Jenny Gropp, managing editor of the Review, and local prose and poetry writer Sabrina Orah Mark will read from their work, and Historic Sunsets, an experimental French dream-pop duo fronted by Thibault Raoult, will play music. Copies of The Georgia Review will be available, and Wildfood Catering will provide light refreshments. The event is free and open to the public.

The evening will feature an exhibition by the art school's visual artist-in-residence Mequitta Ahuja, whose portfolio of richly textural self-portraits "Automythography" appears in the Review's latest issue. Ahuja, who holds a master's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and lives and works in Baltimore, will be present at the opening. Her paintings have appeared in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Arthouse in Austin, Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris and the Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York. Ahuja has also shown work at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others.

Don't miss what sounds like a fun night - and a celebration of this cross-unit collaboration. Congratulations to the faculty and staff who envsioned and arranged this. Our arts community continues to flourish and grow.

Image: painting by Mequitta Ahuja , Yellow II, courtesy of the artist.