Art Around Athens (and farther...)

If you happen to be in the Marietta, Ga., area tomorrow (Friday, Oct. 16), our friend Jack Kehoe (designer of the Smitty award for the GMOA Volunteer of the Year) is having an opening reception for the exhibition The Mystery of Marble at dK Gallery on the Square from 6 to 8 p.m. The email says, "Over 30 sculptures and paintings from the world renowned sculptor,
artist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Georgia will be available for the first time in a gallery venue." Plus jazz!

There's also a fabulous pottery sale being put on by the UGA Ceramics department in the hallway outside our offices (and their classrooms) in the Visual Arts Building. Pretty much everyone in our office has bought something, and there's a tremendous range of stuff out there.

Edit: Whoops! We almost forgot about Mike Kemling's lecture as part of the VCC at the Lamar Dodd School of Art this evening (at 5 p.m. in the big auditorium). Kemling will deliver the lecture "Il scultore fiorentino: Giuliano Bugiardini's portrait of Michelangelo," which proposes that, "Much more than an attempt to record Michelangelo’s physical appearance, the portrait serves as key instrument in the fashioning of the sculptor’s identity by including the white turban, an attribute commonly found in the portraits of the 15th-century Florentine artist Donatello. The portrait was completed during the period when Michelangelo accepted the commission for the Medici tombs in the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo; a project that would have solidified Michelangelo as the leader of Florentine sculptors. In the absence of these works, Bugiardini’s portrait sought to crown Michelangelo with the turban of Donatello, emphasizing the notion that Michelangelo was the heir apparent to the traditions of sculpture in Florence."