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THRU THE FIRE: Fundraiser for iamcreativejustice.org

A wonderful evening of inspiring music and provocative art celebrating the life of Milini Antanez Turner: Scholar, Doll-Maker, American, A Life Lost to Police Brutality.

Video presentations and performances and provocative art from 4-7pm.

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STARS AND FEELINGS

Expression. Identity. Heritage. Community.

This Spring, eyedrum curator, WILLIAM DOWNS, celebrates the immense talent of Atlanta’s Black, womxn artists in STARS AND FEELINGS. This group show will be on display Saturday, April 23rd through Sunday, June 19th. There will be an opening show event from 5:30pm to 9:00pm.

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SIMONE BARON & ARCO BELO

MIKE STASNEY & GEORGE LONG, eyedrum’s curatorial purveyors of art shenanigans presents SIMONE BARON & genre-fluid chamber-jazz outfit Arco Belo Friday March 4th, 8:00pm. Prior to the performance, a fre graphic score workshop will be offered at 6pm and will be focused on broadening access to compositional techniques. Fresh from a residency at Hambidge Art Center, Arco Belo brings together a daringly unorthodox instrumentation – accordion, violin, viola, cello, piano, double bass, and percussion/drum set – that “truly synthesizes traditions rather than simply flirting with them.” (JazzTimes) This concert project “The New Surrealists” is in anticipation of SIMONE BARON & ARCO BELO’s new album, “Never Meet Your Heroes.”

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in memory of Robert Richard Cheatham

As executive director of Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery from its inception in 1998 to 2008, Cheatham created an environment where artists were allowed to experiment, take risks and collaborate, practices not usually supported in the mainstream commercial galleries of the day.

Robert Richard (Orb) Cheatham

7/27/1948-1/10/2022

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Edgy, peripatetic Eyedrum gallery reopens October 16 in new downtown space

LOUISE E. SHAW - OCTOBER 14, 2021 - for ARTSATL

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Review: “Ego te Absolvo” group exhibit at new Eyedrum is surprisingly calm, tender

Curated by Kirstin Mitchell, the seven-artist exhibition Ego Te Absolvo is the inaugural exhibition (through December 11) at Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery’s new space on Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard. (Visitors are required to show proof of vaccination and wear masks.) Eyedrum has been experimental from the first, but more often in a spectacular or downright rowdy mode. This quiet video installation in a mostly empty gallery, described by Mitchell as “a show about tenderness, presence, healing, and the parasympathetic nervous system,” comes as a genuine surprise.

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21/22 season of art is announced

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artist / vivian liddell

“The story of my mountain king is a complex interweaving of family dynamics, patriarchy, power, religion, and the South during a time of change. I want the work to be a conversation starter along these lines. The soft sculpture troll shown with the Void painting is meant to be a literal guide. The viewer can carry it around with them as they look at work to help them interpret the pieces and ease any anxieties. It’s very lightweight. And then it can be returned to its “spot” in front of the void painting when the viewer is done—a spot chosen by me, that’s preserved by its fabric shadow, sewn on the Void painting. “

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eyedrum improv

Eyedrum's long-running Open Improv night occurred on the first Thursday of every month -- the monthly gathering for instrumentalists and improvisers of all stripes. Hosted by the indefatigable Robert Cheatham.

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Noah Pine:Live at eyedrum Dec. 9, 2020

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No Eyes: Live at eyedrum Jan. 16, 2021

eyedrum: Name your top 3 candy bars.

No eyes: I don't eat candy bars but …

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artist /sara santamaria

“I think that you can become a stranger by establishing growth. Becoming a stranger can be positive — it can be a crucial, liberating step in self-discovery. It can be a barrier, but also a catalyst for change, personal development and other forms of creativity. I think becoming a stranger means you relocate somewhere and you have to renegotiate with yourself who you are. You have to be able to be so many different things because people won’t know you because you don’t belong to that place. You are a stranger. It also comes from a place of belonging to two different places that never really blend in a hybrid. You have your identity of origin and your identity at a destination point. The stranger exists in that in-between.”