Athens Street Show 2010

Athens Street Show, an exhibition in downtown Athens presented by students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, started yesterday and is on display through May 2.

The students are in Didi Dunphy’s Professional Practices Seminar, which received an Athens Arts Unleashed grant for the project. The class teamed up with local retailers to show pieces in shop windows downtown. There will also be a curator-led “Art Walk” from 6 to 7 p.m. this Sunday, April 25 (more information below).

The class been preparing for this project for a month. The students were split up into eight curatorial teams and paired artists with downtown spaces (the artists are not in the professional practices course). The Athens Street Show reflects the Arts Unleashed program and “presents art existing in challenging and surprising locations to create an art exhibition for all.”

The windows downtown are designed to tie in with both the art displayed and the retailer. Various disciplines of art are presented, and the students involved come from many different backgrounds. To view a full list of participating student curators, artists and locations, click here.

Athens Street Show’s website describes the seminar and the exhibition:

Professor Didi Dunphy's Professional Practices seminar is a course at the Lamar Dodd School of Art designed to introduce students to the wide possibilities of creative fields available for artists and creative entrepreneurial minds. Athens Street Show 2010 is a project undertaken with this in mind, to celebrate the relationship between the art by the students of Lamar Dodd, and the greater Athens community. Athens Street Show 2010 bridges the gap between art and community spaces.

The curator-led “Art Walk” (Sunday, 4/25) will begin at 6 p.m. at the Arch on Broad Street. The group will walk to each site and listen to student curators and artists as they describe the works and answer questions. The walk will end with a celebration at Farm 255. The event is free and open to the public.