Lyndon House Arts Center

This year, the Lyndon House Arts Center’s annual Holiday Open House will include a pick-up Art Pack and 3 originally produced instructional online videos. Mark your calendars for December 12 19! 50 free packs of art materials and tools will be available for pickup. First come, first served while supplies last. Pickup at the Lyndon House Arts Center front entrance at 211 Hoyt Street in Downtown Athens. Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 6pm. December 19 at 12:00 pm, three videos go li...ve featuring talented teaching artists living and working in Athens. Enjoy our Holiday Open House Video Series with art fun for all the family. Project and Video 1 is Take It With You Sketchbook with #DavidHale #lovehawk. Have fun drawing with David Hale, set up your own sketchbook and favorite pencils to travel with you. These are in your pickup pack. Fill your sketchbook with inspiration and always with gratitude! Project and Video 2 is Build a Pocket World Diorama with Eli Saragoussi. Create a dreaming tableau of crazy fun animals and plants in a shoebox. Eli made a coloring sheet of her fantastical creatures for you to color and cut out for your scene. Found in your pickup pack! Project and Video 3 is Fashion Design Puppet with Tabitha Fielteau. Create an outfit for the holidays for a puppet. Buttons and other fun accessories come in your pickup pack. Each video features original music by local musician Max Boyd. For more information, please call 706 613 3623. https://www.accgov.com/9801/Virtual-Holiday-Open-House-2020

FULL HOUSE Online Exhibition of artwork by members of the groups and guilds that call the Arts Center home. Today we're looking at the Classic City Woodturners. Spinning wood is a pleasing distraction during 2020! I am grateful to CCW guild members who share resources to improve members' craft. This piece is carved from black walnut and retained a branch partially surrounded in chatoyance, thus the name: Bran(ch)atoyance." - Jon Calabria #artscenteronline https://www.accgov.com/9695/Full-House

We are thrilled to introduce a new program and are Calling for Guest Artist/Curators identifying as Black, Indigenous and Persons of Color, residing within Athens and ten surrounding counties to develop, design, an art exhibition to be on display for six-to-eight weeks in the Galleries at LHAC. There are three planned cycles for these exhibitions starting in May 2021. A competitive stipend of $1000 is provided to the Guest Artist/Curator for their creative contribution. The goal of this project is to promote the curatorial profession and to provide our community with perspectives and approaches relevant to our times. Professional development is a keystone of LHAC’s programming. Loan agreements, registrar work, curatorial writing and other professional skill building is available. https://www.accgov.com/9799/ArtistCurator

Come see some art! We’re open Tues- Sat, 10-6. @donchambersmusic looking dreamy in the wild weather.

Our friends @flagpolemagazine have a great list of local artist holiday markets. Check it out! Buy local. Buy art. And don’t forget to visit Athens Creatives Directory, search Holiday2020 to find artists selling festive wares. #Repost @flagpolemagazine with @get_repost 2020 may have been a tough year, but that won't stop local artists and studios from spreading some holiday cheer! Read our roundup of all the sales this season and #ShopLocal. (Don't forget to wear your masks if you're out and about, folks!)

The Arts Center is open Tuesday- Sat, 10-6. Come see our fantastic fall exhibitions. Michael Stipe, Jeremy Dance 2017. #jeremyayers

This new Online Collections from our Community features Claire Dunphy's Czechoslovakian wooden bead jewelry. #accartsdivision When I was a child of four or five someone gave me a necklace of large shiny wooden beads. How I loved it and can still visualize it. Many years later as an adult I had a friend in NYC who frequented the flea markets of London and Amsterdam. One time she brought me a handsome broach made of colorful wooden beads. I was enamored and asked her to find m...e some more of this jewelry. The former Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic and Slovakia, is primarily known for its glass beads but during the Depression period, produced colorful and playful wooden bead jewelry. Some say it was made primarily for children. Well, it certainly spoke to the child in me as well as the adult! I hope you see the smiles in it as I do - Claire Dunphy Claire Dunphy is an artist, performer and storyteller, recently published by Bilbo Books, the first title in this biographical series is Becoming Earthwoman. This native New Yorker is a world traveler splitting her time between Watkinsville, Merida Mexico and Bali Indonesia. https://www.accgov.com//OnLine-Collections-from-our-Commun

IMAGINATION SQUARED was featured in a great segment on WUGA FM. Chris Shupe interviews project creator Christina Foard and collaborator Mark Mobley from the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music about the visual and audio installation at the Arts Center. #accartsdivision https://www.wuga.org//athens-news-matters-imagination-squa

TONIGHT! ACC Halloween event Drive Thru Boo Thursday, October 22 from 5:30 7:30 p.m. Attendees will drive through a specially designed Halloween area, pick up a sanitized goody bag (while supplies last) at the end of the drive, and have a frighteningly good time! This event will take place at East Athens Educational Dance Center, Lay Park, and Memorial Park.

Call for Artists: Full House Exhibition open to members of the groups and guilds that call the Arts Center home. DEADLINE: Nov 12, 11:59 pm. The 2020 exhibition will be online. Please submit only recent artwork. Works exhibited previously at LHAC are not eligible. This year, artists may submit a different artwork for each of their organizations. Artworks should be representative of the mission of the organization. Organizations are responsible for verifying current membership. Please see link for additional information about photographing artwork and labeling images. https://www.accgov.com/9649/Full-House-2020

Well, that was fast! THANK YOU all for supporting the Arts Center. A BIG thank you to the wonderful @samuelstabler and the amazing @ourladyofprints

Today's the day! On sale now! Sam Stabler gorgeous edition of 50 signed prints, 20x16", $120. Printed by master printer Ourl Lady of Prints Amanda Burk Pick-up and shipping available. All proceeds benefit the Arts Center Foundation. https://lyndon-house-arts-foundation.square.site/

Hot off the press! Sam Stabler's Online Print Sale goes live tomorrow, Tues, Oct 20, 11 AM! Signed edition of 50, $120. Mark your calendars, set your alarms! Buy online, pick-up and shipping available. https://www.accgov.com/7/Lyndon-House-Artist-Edition-Series

Thrilled to have @athenscreativetheatre on our north lawn! Tonight’s play is Live Drawing. Portrait of the Mona Lisa.

Happy 3THURS everybody! Lots of opportunities for seeing art all over town. https://3thurs.org/

Pretty, pretty, pretty good! Online Print Sale begins Tues, Oct 20, 11 AM. Signed, edition of 50 screenprints by @samuelstabler print in progress by @ourladyofprints. Set your alarms- these babies are going to go fast.

Online Print Sale goes live Tues, Oct 20, 11 AM. Sam Stabler designed our fourth Artist Edition Series and master printer Amanda Burk of Our Lady of Prints is busy running the 10 color works. They are going to be gorgeous! Signed edition of 50, $125. Mark your calendars, set your alarms! Buy online, pick-up and shipping available. https://www.accgov.com/7/Lyndon-House-Artist-Edition-Series