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THEAtlanta MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF THE ATLANTA ArtsMEMORIAL ARTS CENTER FEBRUARY 1976 leggitro e staceatv i __ 4 s * 1 —— 1 ? .. -U... s 7 J; , _ar== . g‘ j-j —z =fL —ZT-..--.-. X] ---------- 4 * p **?«« — . I: ---- z 3fe .. /%; .....z pp:-£---------------...... /V1—*♦- -------------......... — Of Special Interest AT THE CENTER ELSA PERETTI m________________ OPENS HER HEART ATLANTA COLLEGE OF ART FOR VALENTINE’S DAY Art College Studio Set Up 18 karat gold heart To Print Posters on a 15-inch Visitors to the Memorial Arts Center may notice the colorful new Atanta chain, College of Art posters displayed outside $148. the Museum, box office, and Galleria entrances. These posters represent the end product of the newest addition to the art college’s facilities, the Sixteenth Street Silkscreen Studio. The Printmaking department presently accomodates equipment for etching, metalplate and stone lithography and silkscreen; this newly added studio, located around the corner from the Arts Center, is equipped to process and print large-sized (42 by 62 inches) silkscreen posters. ATLANTA PHIPPS PLAZA Add $2. for shipping & handling plus sales tax Basically set up as an instructional Design Copyright, Tiffany & Co., 1976 facility, the studio is available to advanced printmaking students to design and print posters commissioned by various members of the Arts Alliance to promote up-coming Regenstein’s salutes the Atlanta Symphony and the outstanding leader events, as well as commissions from ship of its League and Women's Associa outside clients. Members of the faculty act tion presidents—David Goldwasser and as student advisors, helping with design Mrs. William B. Wylly—overseers of the aesthetics, professional presentation, and Symphony’s 1976 Individual Gifts giving technical guidance. Campaign. The goal $110,000. The dates While the client receives an edition of ten —January 27th through February 29th. high-quality original silkscreen posters at a reasonable cost, the student gains valuable experience in large-scale printing Regenstein’s techniques. At the same time, the student Downtown Peachtree, Buckhead, acquires first-hand knowledge of the artist North DeKalb & Perimeter Mall client relationship, preparing him to present artwork on a business level. Printmakers to Visit Art College While experience with the business side of the art world is all-important in the education of a professional artist, not to be overlooked is direct contact with practicing artists. This semester the printmaking department plans to have four such artists visit the college. 4 Life Insurance is don’t let your the most personal product you'll symphony ever buy ... make sure your agent is a professional who cares about you. The Atlanta Symphony Tom Flournoy,III,CLU depends on your 2 Peachtree St. contributions. Ticket receipts only go so for. Sad to say, Atlanta they do not go for enough. Don't turn o deaf ear. Give. Give generously. I >.\VISOJV'S We bid you All the printmakers work within the region, and between them offer a wide range of techniques not often seen and demonstrated. WELCOME! In February, Ben Smith, who presently teaches drawing in both the degree and extension programs of the college, will Wfe're so happy you've demonstrate printing without a press. Mr. come to our collections Smith spoons, rolls and handcolors his unusually large-scale prints in the Japanese of beautiful clothes for the tradition. entire family, home fashions, Dale P. Hill will visit the college in February for a workshop in collograph gifts and antiques too. printing. The designer of one of the city’s Do stay for luncheon or tea Urban Walls in 1973, Ms. Hill constructs at our Bird Cage restaurant, hand-fabricated (rather than etched) plates, using such items as sandpaper, open every shopping day burlap, lace, cardboard, and other found Lord & Taylor, Phipps Plaza objects. In March, Atlanta College of Art Peachtree Road between graduate James Yarborough will Wieuca and Lenox Roads demonstrate color etching, viscosity printing, and other techniques he acquired 266-0600 while studying at Atelier 17 in Paris, where Monday through Saturday he worked with Stanley William Hayter. 1000 am. to 600 p.m. Bernie Solomon, printmaking instructor at Georgia Southern College in Monday and Thursday Statesboro, will give a workshop in wood engraving in April. Each printmaking student will make a wood engraving using the English process of Thomas Bewick. Other Art College Events In addition to these workshops, the college sponsors a series of visiting artists, which includes at least one lecture per artist which is free and open to the public. The college also invites the public to visit Gallery 413, which regularly displays work by students, faculty, and regional artists. The Gallery, located in the College on level “A” of the Arts Center, is open from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Friday. For further information on visiting artist lectures, exhibits and classes available to the community, as well as information on the commissioning of silkscreen posters, please call 892-3600, ext. 233. The Atlanta College of Art poster (shown on the cover during the printing process) was designed and prnted by Dale Ulrich, presently a senior at the college. 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Jordan has PLEASE SEE YOUR TELEPHONE DIRECTORY appeared in productions of the Academy FOR MANY MORE Theatre and recently was dance coach for a motion picture filmed in Georgia by Universal Motown. Bingo Long and the Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings will be released this year and will star James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor. continued following program notes TWO ON THE ISLES Heller has 2 local offices in the Caribbean and 6 in the Southeast to give you on-the-spot business loans. LENDING MORTGAGE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT • Accounts Receivable • Real Estate Loans Financing • Land Acquisition Loans • Equipment Leasing • First and Second • Inventory Loans Mortgages • • Overseas Financing • Construction Loans of Georgia HlUilM Atlanta, Georgia: 100 Northcreek. Suite 640. 404-261-6840 ■ Birmingham, Ala. ■ Miami, Fla. ■ Columbia, S.C. ■ New Orleans, La. ■ Jacksonville, Fla. ■ San Juan, P.R. ■ Kingston, Jamaica THE ALLIANCE THEATRE COMPANY DAVID BISHOP, Producing Director presents To Be Young, Gifted and Black A Portrait of LORRAINE HANSBERRY In Her Own Words Adapted by ROBERT NEMIROFF Directed by TINA SATTIN with MIMI BESINGER CARLOS CARRASCO PHILIP PLEASANTS LIL HENDERSON PEGGY BLOW NANCY LE BRUN BARBARA STOKES Production Designer Lighting by MICHAEL STAUFFER MICHAEL LAYTON Costume Designers Production Stage Manager PATRICIA McMAHON & STEPHEN J. McCORKLE PATRICIA SWEET Production Manager Technical Director DAN B. SEDGWICK ERIK MAGNUSON Sound Design Musical Coordinator GIGI CASCIO WILLIAM EATON The song “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” words by Weldon J. Irvine, Jr. Music by Nina Simone; recorded by Nina Simone The voice of "Charlie” by Denya Cascio IN 1907, JACK DANIEL’S NEPHEW said, “All Goods Worth Price Charged.” We’re still saying it in times like these. Mr. Lem Motlow put this slogan on jugs and crocks of his uncle’s whiskey. You see, he knew that no other whiskey was made with pure, iron-free water. And that other distiller mellowed his product through hard maple CHARCOAL MELLOWED charcoal before aging.