Art around Athens

Mark your calendars, people. The next few weeks are busy busy with tons of art events, not least because of the Lamar Dodd School of Art's rotating exit shows.

Click on the above image for more details about the upcoming birdhouse auction to benefit Athens Montessori School to be held May 2 at the Lyndon House Arts Center.

The closing reception for the BFA students in printmaking and photography will be held today, April 24, from 7 to 10 p.m. on the 1st and 3rd floors of the Dodd.

Also tonight, from 6 to 9 p.m., our friend Margie Spalding has an exhibition opening at Hawthorne House, on Milledge Avenue, the reception for which will feature wine and light appetizers from The National.

Seasons, an exhibition by watercolor artist Leigh Ellis in the State Botanical Garden of Georgia Visitor Center, closes this Sunday, April 26.

On April 28 and 29, the Jewelry/Metals students of LDSOA will hold a jewelry sale of items made by graduate and undergraduate students at the Dodd building starting at 9 a.m.

At the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, the photography exhibition My India: Personal Reflections and Captured Moments, in the Hill Atrium, will run through Thursday, April 30, as will the exhibition Orr 2: Interpreting the Legacy, an artistic interpretation of early-20th-century Athens architect Fred J. Orr's architecture through the medium of silk paintings, in the Circle Gallery of Caldwell Hall on the UGA campus, and the exhibition If Walls Could Talk: Then and Now, which consists of posters displaying several historic buildings on the UGA campus as they used to appear and as they appear now, also in Caldwell Hall, in the Owens Library.

Plus, the Athens Indie Craftstravaganzaa, a super-cool market of handmade items and works of art, will be held May 2 and 3 in the parking lot next to Agora at the corner of Pulaski and Clayton Streets in downtown Athens.

Whew!