calendario eventi  :: 

X

21/4/2012

Upcycle

Athica - Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens

curated by: Lizzie Zucker Saltz and Katie Faulkner

Athica: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc., in collaboration with the A-CC Recycling Division & Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful (KACCB) presents:

Upcycle…dreaming it out of the waste stream

Opening Day:
4-22, Earth Day Sunday
3:00 – 6:00 P.M.
Including:
The Trashion Fashion Competition & Parade
4:30 P.M.
A program produced in collaboration with the Sorority Green Cup through the UGA Office of Sustainability.
Celebrity judges will award prizes to the contestants, who come from the Green Cup Sororities, the wide field of Athenian artists and A-CC student art, from elementary on up.

The judges are:
Candice Courcy of Urban Sanctuary, Kim Deakins of Pain & Wonder Tattoo, Airee Hong Edwards of Agora, Michael Lachowski of Young Foxy and Free magazine & Suki Janssen of A-CC Recycling.

The categories are:
Miss Sorority Green Cup: Winner of the Overall Prize in the UGA Competition; Miss Trashion Queen: Top Award for most Upcycled outfit; Most Stylish; Most Green; Best Accessories; Most Varied Materials; Most Original.
With A cappella entertainment by the Ecotones during the judging

Featured Artist: Reid McCallister (Athens, GA)

Other Contributors: A-CC Recycling Division • Elizabeth Barton (Athens, GA) • cap man (Winterville, GA) • Tiberiu Chelcea (Nashville, TN) • Jamison Edgar (Athens, GA) • Inguna Gremzde (England/Latvia) • David Hamlow (Good Thunder, TN) • F. Geoffrey Johnson (Atlanta, GA) • Jourdan Joly (Athens, GA) • Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful • Diana Lee (Athens, GA) • Doug Makemson (Athens, GA) • Jay Nackashi (Athens, GA) • Charles Pinckney (Athens, GA) • Marianna Popp (Athens, GA) • Paula Reynaldi (Athens, GA/Argentina) • Noah Saunders (Athens, GA) • The Story of Stuff Project (Berkeley, CA) • Jill Townsley (London, England) • Joni Younkins-Herzog (Sarasota, FL)

Affiliated Events:

Saturday, April 28
7:45 pm
MUSIC event: Pico Dorado-Scott Bazar
a conducted improvisation
with co-host Killick!
$6 suggested donation

Sunday, May 20
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Symposium: Dreaming it Out of the Waste Stream:
Presentations & Panel discussion by Area Experts
Participants:
Chris Caswall: Proprietor, Junk South, Liquidator and Non-Profit Supporter
Heidi Davison: former mayor and foe of Styrofoam
Suki Janssen: A-CC Recycling Division Waste Administrator
Rosemary Kimble: NE Georgia Earthship --Project ASAP, on the reuse of trash to create fully sustainable off-grid homes.
Andrew Lane: Tithing with Trash, a passionate parishioner and Terracycle activist with St. Gregory Episcopal Church
and others TBA
Moderated by Assistant Curator, Katie Faulkner
Followed by a reception with participants
Free!

Thursday, June 5 - Walk n’ Talk
7:00 - 8:00 pm
Curators & area artists lead an informal tour of the exhibit.
Free!

Saturday, June 9
1:00 - 6:00 pm
The Fan-trash-tic Transformations Festival
Upcycled junk-to-masterpiece contests, arts & crafts activities for kids & adults and more will inspire and challenge us to see how creative we can get with materials that otherwise will end up in our overflowing landfills.

Complete schedule & details TBA, however, the day will the include activities listed below:
$6 individuals/$9 family suggested donation. Includes instruction and most materials.

I. La Great Junk Off:
Artists will compete for prizes using materials provided by Junk South. They will have 24 hours to produce their trashter-pieces using a box of mystery materials given to them the day before. A People’s Choice Award and prizes by celebrity judges will be awarded.
Judges: Chris Caswall, Proprietor, Junk South, Liquidator and Non-Profit Supporter; Gretchen Elsner, Fabric Artist; Kim Kirby, Young Athenians; Katherine McQueen, ATHICA Board President; and others TBA.

II. Fan-trash-y fun shops:
Turn un-recyclable discards into things of function and fantasy using materials such as
old T-shirts, electronics, Ziploc baggies, cheese wax, scrap wood and more.
Led by Education Coordinator Sage Rogers, with free workshops by area artists, art education graduate students, artists and more.

III. Swap-O-rama-rama led by Gretchen Elsner
http://www.swaporamarama.org/
A Creative Commons event, this successful global recurring clothing swap entails community members bringing in a bag of clothes to swap with others. Onsite advice from local fabric artists who will show you how to sew together and modify the clothes by hand and machine will be provided. Amazing local fabric artist Gretchen Elsner & her handy pals will be on hand with creative re-use ideas, notions & other supplies.

IV. UGA Entomology Club: Bugs Who Recycle
This venerable group will be bringing their bugs back to ATHICA for the touch and see delight of kids-at-heart and kids of all ages. Dung beetles and others will be discussed in terms of their virtuous upcyling behaviors.

V. JUNK SOUTH swap & freemarket
Score free art materials, swap out your own extras, and learn all about Junk South’s plans to provide artists with a warehouse full of reclaimed materials that will be available for free! Opening in Winterville, Junk South’s for-profit operations will provide art materials to the area’s talent as well as benefiting area non-profits, such as ATHICA, while keeping plenty of stuff out of the landfill.

VI. Recylomania
Bring those hard to recycle items to ATHICA for a special ACC pick-up event where city officials and Free-IT folks will be on hand to relieve you of your used Batteries, appliances, electronics, old CPU’s and more (small fee for old lead-based monitors). Help keep toxins out of landfill and do some spring-cleaning at the same time!

Athica: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce our 10th anniversary exhibition-- ]Upcycle...dreaming it out of the waste stream. Our 45th exhibition, and our third environmentally themed exhibition, it opens serendipitously on Earth Day, April 22nd, 2012. One for the whole family, Upcycle celebrates over twenty artists’ creative approaches to materials destined to become landfill fodder, or worse, toxic pollution. Instead, our exhibition artists have dreamt these materials right out of the waste stream and into our stream of consciousness as astounding and powerful aesthetic statements. Curated by Lizzie Zucker Saltz with the assistance of Katie Faulkner, the exhibit will run through Athfest weekend, closing on Sunday, June 24th, 2012.

The atypical-for-Athica Sunday opening reception begins at 3:00 p.m. and runs through 6:00 p.m., during which contestants will compete for prizes in the Trashion Fashion Show, with a procession past the audience and judges that commences at 4:30 p.m. Produced in collaboration with Jennifer Dunlop of the UGA Office of Sustainability & Chiara Gustafson this years’ UGA Sorority Green Cup Intern, contestants are drawn from the 12 participating UGA Sororities, Athenian artists, A-CC school kids, and anyone from the public wishing to participate who registered by an April 15th deadline. The parade will take place along the Chase Park walkway and porch as well as on a runway created from the bed of the cap man’s’ bottle-cap covered pick-up truck. Local celebrity judges Candice Courcy of Urban Sanctuary, Kim Deakins of Pain & Wonder Tattoo, Airee Hong of Agora, Michael Lachowski of Young Foxy and Free magazine and Suki Janssen of A-CC Recycling will award the prizes. The Ecotones will provide entertainment during the suspenseful judging period. Dunlop supports this venture wholeheartedly as it’s “always important to make people think about closing the loop and that means using less stuff and recycling or reusing the stuff you do use.”

The Upcycle exhibition is Athica’s positive response to the zero-waste movement. This movement questions our culture’s addiction to cheap disposable goods and the resultant evil twins of global industry—environmental degradation and municipalities’ struggles to cope with accelerated landfill expansion. These memes gave curator Lizzie Zucker Saltz the impetus to put out an artists’ call, garnering many of the artists included in the exhibit who hail from around the world, employing diverse approaches and materials. They were selected for their innovative upcycling of materials usually regarded as trash, transforming them into objects of conceptual contemplation, wonder and beauty.

Upcyling is distinct from recycling, as no energy is expended transforming raw materials into new objects. Our ATHICA upcylers focus on finding use for production waste which can’t be recycled easily, or at all, such as construction debris, Styrofoam serving containers, Ziploc bags, L.P. vinyl records, bottle caps, milk & juice container caps, plastic cutlery, video & audiotape, hard plastics, mattress polyurethane and electronic components such as circuit boards. By saving these materials from their usual destiny as landfill fodder, these artists help reduce landfill methane gases, the expansion of landfills and in the worst case scenario, pollution of the environment by toxins, which results in wildlife genocide, such as the death of sea turtles and sea birds such as the albatross, who ingest discarded plastics and die as a result by the thousands every year.

Individual exhibiting artists include featured artist Reid McCallister, a long-time Athens resident, whose experience of becoming inspired by the compositional possibilities presented to him by the construction debris he discovered while renovating the kitchen of his old Boulevard neighborhood home, has transformed him from a recently-retired-graphic-designer into a large-scale sculptor of compelling combines. Incorporating difficult-to-recycle construction debris such as paint-coated wood shards, wiring, old shoes, gears, fan blades, teacups and all manner of found odds-n-ends, McCallister’s wall-bound bas-relief’s are reminiscent of 60’s sculptors such as John Chamberlain and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as the compositional dynamic of many an architectonic abstract expressionist work by the likes of Franz Kline or Willem DeKooning, or classic cubists like Georges Braque or Marcel Duchamp. Yet McAllister’s main muse is southerner Thorton Dial. McAllister’s works possess the improvisatory zing of jazz, which many of them pay explicit homage to via their titles. Of the seven pieces that fill the left side of ATHICA’s space, Signal From Earth is by far the largest at 10 feet wide; a storm-like marvel that revamps one of the most problematic landfill-clogging waste sources into a marvelous and sensitively balanced composition.

Jourdan Joly, a graduate sculpture student at the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art, also sculpts using construction debris. However in his case he employs insulation foam rescued from dumpsters around Athens, a material that when it ends up in landfills does not biodegrade and which has seriously detrimental environmental effects. His life-scale, colorfully painted and wonderfully loose Mountain Goat Mountain reminds us of the innocents most affected by our careless ways.
F. Geoffrey Johnson, an Atlanta native with a Political Science background and a Board Member of African Americans for the Arts, also combines discarded debris. His Currents II was created out of ‘e-waste’ such as satellite dishes, circuit boards, and other obsolete electronic parts. Johnson noticed that outdated satellite dishes were not picked-up by the original cable providers, but he discovered that this e-waste was put on barges destined for third world countries, where children rummage through piles of toxic e-waste for items of value. Deciding to use these materials as art materials, along with old letters and biographical photos, Johnson exploits the poignancy of these discards when he combines them into elegant visual poetry rich with history and biography. In so doing he mines a rich vein, akin to regional African American artists such as Radcliffe Bailey.
Also finding innovative uses for e-waste is Nashville, TN resident Tiberiu Chelcea who contributes two canvases from a larger series that employ circuit boards to create mesmerizing and complex abstractions. Chelcea creates his series by letterpress printing on paper in brilliant colors and hues, in the process salvaging over two hundred circuit boards that would have otherwise ended up in landfills, or worse, polluting our waste-water or being shipped off to third-world countries for health-endangering ‘recovery.’

Rescuing another extremely polluting and impossible to recycle material is our youngest artist, current UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art undergraduate, Jamison Edgar, whom Curator Zucker Saltz discovered in a juried student exhibition. Edgar will be installing a large piece made out of sewn-together used Styrofoam cups that will travel up a column and over the rafters of the ATHICA space. He has been collecting the cups out of the garbage cans of Atlanta and Athens over the past few months, in order to create his unique installation. The logos of the stores that use these landfill clogging and environment polluting materials will be prominently displayed. (For more about the evils of Styrofoam food containers, come hear former Athens Mayor at the May 20 symposium.)
Joni Younkins-Herzog, presently a sculpture professor at the Sarasota branch of the State College of Florida, received her B.F.A from The University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art in 1993. Pollen Count will be scattered along a 19-foot long wall; her multi-colored installation arose out of a discussion of what to do with an old mattress it was impossible for her to recycle. Taking responsibility for her waste, she utilized that mattress as well as cushions rescued from abandoned roadside couches. Pollen Count, inspired by the ubiquity of yellow pine pollen drifts, is simultaneously beautiful and menacing. The analogy between pollen’s distribution, effecting all regardless of class or race, and the effect of the toxins from industrial waste is another profound reminder of our usurpation of nature’s scale and the unpredictable results of industries that are seldom compelled to take responsibility for their products from “cradle-to-grave.”
A well-loved and well-known sight at arts festivals is the cap man, who has moved his 1960’s era Lil’ Gem camper --covered with thousands of bottle-caps-- into the ATHICA space for the run of the exhibition. Dizzying and humorous in its homegrown beauty, the work also saves these dangerous, sharp and difficult to recycle items from the landfill. Container caps of all kinds are particularly noxious as they are difficult for recycling systems to cope with on account of their small size and sharp edges, as they can jam recycling machinery or, when discarded as they so often are into nature, injure children and animals. The cap man encourages all to bring in their bottle caps, so that he may fill in the gap on one side of the in-progress work, as well use them for future cap-covered projects. (You can learn more about the bottle-cap conundrum from A-CC Recycling Division’s Waste Reduction Administrator Suki Jannsen at the May 20 symposium.)

Also utilizing bottle caps is London-based painter and Latvian native, Inguna Gremzde, who has loaned us sixty-four plastic water bottle caps from her large Landscape for Emergency series. Inside each cap she has painstakingly created tiny sublime landscapes in oil. These landscape paintings juxtapose our contemporary consumer lifestyle with societies’ historically romantic relationship with nature. The plastic caps are stand-ins for mass production while the scenes inside comment on the commodifiablity of images of the unpolluted landscape. Plastic caps are also difficult for recycling processors to deal with on account of their small size, which tends to get into recycling machinery or pop-off under pressure, injuring workers.
Another London, England resident is Jill Townsley, whose 2008 Spoons project also comments on mass production. The complete piece is documented in a video we will display, that brings home the oddity of our obsession with the ease of disposability despite its now well-known impact on our shared environment. If you have seen any of the photos of dead albatross with plastic in their stomachs this piece will be as alarming as it is stunning. (For an example, see this image from the Marianna Islands: http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/img/mdr/AlbatrossStomach1.jpg) At roughly 8 ‘ by 12’ by 12’, taking the artist five days to construct, Townsley’s precarious tetrahedron of 9,273 plastic spoons and 3091 rubber bands that hold the spoon trios together, resembles skeletal structures. ATHICA audiences are invited to attempt to reconstruct the tetrahedron in an interactive area of the gallery. The artist, a committed Marxist, has been widely shown internationally. Her Spoons project showed in 2009 in Second Lives – Remixing the Ordinary at The Museum of Art & Design, in New York, NY. We are grateful that Townsley was willing to let us recreate the piece, using her simple construction method, alongside a video of the project’s eventual topple into chaos. Audience members are encouraged to bring their used spoons in during the exhibit run to help us with this project, rather than dispose of them! (A big thank-you to the Athens’ Academy art students who got us off to a good start on the Athens’ rendition of Spoons.)
Also tuning into the nature-culture conflict is David Hamlow, an art instructor at Minnesota State University with an impressively extensive exhibition schedule. He has devoted himself to the topic of post-consumer waste and environmentally hazardous waste for over ten years. Despite the demands on his inventory of objects, he has been able to send us Pulse, one of his attractive and thought provoking works. A series of concentric rings made out from Mylar snack bags, it ironically recalls the wonder of rainbows. Hamlow’s work examines the massive amount of energy expended by consumption systems that create individual waste, while upcyling materials that are inconvenient to recycle, and that very few consumers would go to the trouble to clean and mail off to a group such as TerraCycle. (For more about TerraCycle’s efforts, come hear local TerraCycle activist Andrew Lane at the May 20 symposium--a passionate parishioner from the St. Gregory Episcopal Church.)

Well-known local Athens, GA artist Noah Saunders, best known for his wire relief sculptures, has created a decorative mobile especially for this exhibit, á la Alexander Calder, ironically titled, Nice Night on the Town. Comprised of flattened beer bottle caps, used condoms, a bubble-gum machine container and a hand-made ceramic sake cup, Saunders use of non-recyclables conveys three distinct approaches to upcycling, with one item non-harmful and the others harmful to varying degrees, quite literally exposing the post-consumption “wages of our sins” in the form of potential pollutants.
Equally beloved is Athenian Elizabeth Barton, best known for her geometric designs in fabric. She brings us a lampshade created by layering one form of domestic-created trash, the now obsolete 35mm slide. Her re-use of this impossible-to-recycle discard--film plastic merged with cardboard or hard plastics—literally glows with memories from her children’s’ youth. A first for Barton, she was inspired by the artists’ call to experiment with many new approaches and materials before she hit upon this ingenious design.
Renowned locally-based jeweler Charles Pinckney presents My Left Foot, comprised of discarded wearables, was also created especially for this exhibit. Pinckney mutated a well-worn pair of sneakers into earrings and a necklace, with accompanying photographic documentation of his process.
Also using wearables as a material is Argentinean native, Paula Reynaldi who moved to Athens, GA in 2006, when she began taking classes in sculpture at the University of Georgia’s LDSOA. Her Brassierette Series--animal marionettes comprised of bras, buttons, belts and other hard to recycle mass-produced items--address the immense amount of clothing waste in the United States. They also focus us on the absurdity of adornments intended to arouse our primal urges being made out of synthetic materials so alien to nature they won’t biodegrade. She procured the lingerie--which is rarely recycled or upcycled--from trash bins and thrift stores. She has wittily transformed them into innocent wildlife such as ibis and alligators; their potential as entertainers tickles us. Reynaldi also contributes Endless Foam, a nine-foot high rendition of Brancusi’s Endless Column made of disposable soup bowls, alluding simultaneously to the seemingly infinite consumption of these un-recyclable mass produced objects.

Marianna Popp, a sculpture, jewelry, and metals major at the University of Georgia, was born in 1976 on The Farm in Tennessee, relocating to Georgia in 1981. She is creating a site-specific installation for Upcycle made out of vinyl from used LP records. Vinyl, a harmful plastic, is not biodegradable, nor is it recyclable, as recycling programs are unable to accommodate this plastic. Popp’s installation will save the vinyl from a landfill destiny, which considering that plastic makes up 25% of the weight in landfills is a very good thing.
Master local craftsman and carpenter Jay Nackashi will ‘upcycle’ the temporary walls he built us for the Southern exhibit, transforming them into porch furniture and outdoor exhibit signage. Alongside Nackashi outdoors will be another familiar Athens-area artist, scrap-metal sculptor Doug Makemson, whose inventive and elegant horse, Ain't Gonna Work On Maggie's Farm No More, is composed of rusted plows and pickaxes recovered from farm fields. His piece will capture the attention of Tracy Street travelers as it stands at 8' x 3.5' x 10'.
Promoting awareness of waste reduction solutions are collaborators from the A-CC Recycling Division and Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful whose 10' x 10' x 10' foot education area will elucidate and test viewers’ knowledge of waste issues and the environment. The A-CC Recycling Division is also contributing nice large bales of recycling which will form the supports for Nackashi’s outdoor signage. Assistant Curator Katie Faulkner is preparing wall labels that will impart knowledge to visitors concerning the specific environmental impact of the materials these artists have saved from the landfill and the environment by transforming them into objects of contemplation and beauty.
Diana Lee, local independent videographer (and longtime ATHICA volunteer) will present her 45 minute film, Upcyling in Action, also created especially for this exhibit. It features interviews of locals passionate about upcycling such as Airee Hong owner of Agora Art & Antiques and Suki Janssen, A-CC Waste Reduction Administrator. Also included is a short PSA produced by Radar Productions for the A-CC Recycling Division that shows footage of the A-CC landfill and our single-stream recycling operations. Lee’s video will be accompanied by a poster of striking stills she took of her interview subjects.

Finally last, but by no means least, are the short films by The Story of Stuff Project, created and narrated by the Berkeley, California-based artist Annie Leonard along with her friends from Free Range Studios. Using charming stick-figure animations, these succinct videos explain everything from how we can break the fast cycle of cradle-to-grave obsolescence built-into the production of consumer electronics, to the insanity of the disposable water bottle. The Story of Stuff Project helps drive home in a non-didactic manner the paradigm shifts needed on practical and psychological levels to literally save our planet.
Imagine a world in which artists were charged to enhance all public and private spaces with such elegant and riveting compositions made of upcycled materials. Not only would our land and water be infinitely cleaner, but Bauhaus-style, we would all be reminded by the power of aesthetic experiences of the beauty and wonder around us, a mindful state of mind that has the potential to transform our world into one of greater peace, one in which we are more sensitive to our surroundings and consequently each other.
Curator Zucker Saltz credits photographer Robyn Waserman with first planting these seeds of awareness in her during Waserman ‘s lecture, Travel Photo Retrospective, showing her stunning photographs of Antarctica. At the lecture she explained how in an environment where there was no place for waste, people found a system to recycle every post-consumption object in their environment.
Visitors to Upcycle will no doubt revel in the floor to ceiling spectacle on hand, but they may also come out of the experience with a little more hesitation the next time they dangle their hand over an ubiquitous trash can.
A BIG thank you to exhibit sponsors A-CC Recycling Division, Argos Cement, Grow Green, Junk South, The Natural Baby, New Urban Forestry, Related Recycling, Trader Joe’s & Urban Sanctuary.

Biographies:
Curator's Biography
Lizzie Zucker Saltz is a curator and critic who exhibited nationally as a sculpture and installation artist for a decade before founding ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc. in the Fall 2001. After moving to Athens, GA in 1997, she familiarized herself with the local art scene, writing art reviews and features for Flagpole Magazine (www.flagpole.com) from 1998 to 2000. She subsequently wrote for the international, non-profit Art Papers Magazine (www.artpapers.org), publishing numerous reviews and articles most intensively from 1998 to 2003, with two feature articles published in 2005. (Her Nov/Dec 2005 Art Papers feature on photographer Robert Rainey can be accessed full-text at: http://www.artpapers.org/feature_articles/feature2_2005_1112.htm.) In that capacity she helped disseminate word of Athens' artists to a broader audience, as well as covering shows in cities such as New York, Detroit and Chicago.
As a freelance curator she developed exhibits for SUNY-Stonybrook and later the Athens area, such as Rock Art: An Exhibit Of Visual Art by Athens Musicians (2000) and Eclectic Electric: An Exhibit Of Electronic And Digital Art, both held at the Lyndon House Art Center. As of 2012 she curated, co-curated or assistant curated 19 of the 45 exhibits ATHICA has mounted, and served as Senior Curator on the rest. The latter labor of love allows ATHICA to function as a curator incubator, helping to nurture new curatorial talent, spark interest in curation, hone curators' skills and of course maintain quality control.
Her service as administrative and artistic director of ATHICA since 2002 has provided over 900 artists a platform for their innovative and often installational or performative projects, giving over 3000 visitors opportunities to experience these unique documents of contemporary culture.
She received her MFA from San Jose State University in 1993. She was a resident at SculptureSpace in 1997 ((http://sculpturespace.org/) Shortly after she moved to Athens, GA with her spouse, David Z. Saltz in 1997—-he is currently the chair of the UGA Department of Theatre & Film --they collaborated on several large-scale New Media projects, which exhibited at the Georgia Museum of Art (2000), in a solo show at The Sweeney Gallery in Riverside in CA (2002) (http:// sweeney.ucr.edu/exh_archive.lasso, see animate objects 2002), Presbyterian College in SC and the Detroit MONA in 2003. They have two children.

Assistant Curator's Biography
Katie Faulkner is a junior at the University of Georgia. She is currently a duel major in both Art History at the Lamar Dodd School of Art and Women’s Studies at the Institute for Women’s Studies. Much of the work she is performing for the Upcycle exhibit is part of her internship in ethics & the environment though the Women’s Studies Institute at the University of Georgia. She transferred to UGA in the spring of 2011 and began interning at ATHICA in the fall of 2011. She hopes to attend Law School and use the skills gained at ATHICA to curate politically charged exhibitions.

INFO:
For Upcycle information please contact:
Katie Faulkner, Assistant Curator
Email: upcycle@athica.org

For information on ATHICA please contact:
Lizzie Zucker Saltz, ATHICA Director
Email: info@athica.org

ARTIST CONTACT INFO FOR INTERVIEWS:

Elizabeth Barton- ebarton@uga.edu / phone: 706 548 4668

cap man, a.k.a. Jimmy Straehla (Athens, GA)- thecapman.us@gmail.com / 706-338-8822

Tiberiu Chelcea (Nashville, TN)- tibich72@gmail.com / 412-609-2047

Inguna Gremzde (England / Latvia)- inguna5@netscape.net

David Hamlow (Good Thunder, MN)- hamlow.david@gmail.com / 507-278-4510

Jamison Edgar (Athens, GA)- jamisone@uga.edu / 6783816499

F. Geoffrey Johnson (Atlanta, GA)- gj@smellsisee.com / 678-793-2877

Jourdan Joly (Athens, GA)- jjoly@uga.edu

Reid McCallister (Athens, GA)- reidmccallister@charter.net / 706-201-0207

Charles Pinckney (Athens, GA) – rosewood@negia.net / 706-614-6114

Marianna Popp (Athens, GA)- marianna.popp@gmail.com / 706-308-2083

Paula Reynaldi (Athens, GA)- paulareynaldi@hotmail.com / 706.453.6691

Noah Saunders (Athens, GA)- heymanstudio@gmail.com / 706-613-0615

Joni Youkins-Herzog (Sarasota, FL)- jonisculptor@gmail.com / 706-296-8720


FASHION JUDGES, EVENT PARTNERS & PARTICIPANTS:

Chris Caswall, President & CEO
Junk South
1075 Baxter St. 
STE B 302
Athens, GA 30606
c: 706.340.3969 (not for publication)
p: 1.855.747.5865
ccaswall@junksouth.com
www.junksouth.com

Candice Courcy, Owner & Founder
Urban Sanctuary 
706-613-3947
candicecourcy@yahoo.com
www.urbansanctuaryspa.com
cell 520-358-9640 (not for publication)

Heidi Davison,
Former Athens Mayor
heidi@negia.net

Kim Deakins
Pain & Wonder tattoo studios and independent artist
scorpiorising333@yahoo.com

Jennifer Dunlop
UGA Office of Sustainability
1180 E. Broad St.
Athens, GA 30602
706.542.1301
jdunlop@uga.edu
sustainability.uga.edu
 &
Chiara Gustafson
Trashion Fashion Show Coordinator
Office of Sustainability Intern
trashyfash@athica.org
209-918-7666 (not for publication)

Ecotones:
Ashley Na: 678-862-2669 (not for publication)

Grethen Elsner
Fabric Artist And Local Swap-rama-rama organizer
egretion@gmail.com
www.egretion.com
http://www.egretion.blogspot.com/
http://homemadesolartraveltrailer.blogspot.com/
706-362-9373 (not for publication)

Stacee Farrell, Executive Director
ACC KACCB
(706) 613-3501 x312
&
Stacy Smith, Program Assistant
Keep Athens-Clarke County Beautiful
(706) 613-3501 x309
www.keepathensbeautiful.org
www.facebook.com/kaccb
www.accgreenschools.com
Litter Hotline 706 613-3506:
Stacee Farrell stacee.farrell@athensclarkecounty.com,
Stacy Smith stacy.smith@athensclarkecounty.com

Suki Janssen, Waste Reduction Administrator
Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division
(706) 613-3512, extension 317 (office phone)
(706) 247-5386 (cell phone, not for publication))
suki.janssen@athensclarkecounty.com
www.athensclarkecounty.com
&
Kristine Kobylus, education outreach
KristineKobylus@co.clarke.ga.us
(706) 613-3512, extension 317 

Rosemary Kimble
Earthship presenter
rosemarykimble@gmail.com
404-316-9141

Kim Kirby
Principal, YOUNG ATHENIANS DESIGN AGENCY
Hello@YoungAthenians.com
www.YoungAthenians.com
T: 706.247.2973

Michael Lachowski
ATHICA Board Member & Judge & Publisher Young, Foxy & Free Magazine
PO Box 749
Athens, GA 30603
706-363-0933 (not for publication)
mlachowski@gmail.com

Katherine McQueen
ATHICA Board President
706-248-1889 (not for publication)
kdmcqueen@gmail.com

Sage Rogers
ATHICA Education Coordinator
706-961-3424 (cell, (not for publication)
sage.rogers@gmail.com

Opening Sunday, April 22, 3pm

Athica: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art
160 Tracy Street, Athens
thursdays: 1:00 - 9:00 pm
, friday - sunday: 1:00 - 6:00 pm
free admission

stampa

permanent link