Second Saturday Studio Tour at the Cross-Pollination Art Lab

March 13, 2-6pm
2450 Piedmont Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30324

Get outside for a stroll around Uptown Atlanta for the Hambidge Cross-Pollination Art Lab's Second Saturday!

Sign up to experience the work of our Art Lab Studio Residents, featuring everything from dance performances, music, and writing workshops, to printmaking and puppetry. This initiative brings together creative artists to share ideas, experiment, and engage the community. Keep reading below to see what they’ll be up to for this event!

This is a self-guided tour. Masks and social distancing will be required. Not all of the studios will allow visitors inside, but will have something to see through the windows.

Sign up

When You Arrive
Visit the check-in table at the corner of Piedmont and Morosgo to pick up a map and list of events.

Parking
There is metered street parking and a public parking garage available. We are also right next to the Lindbergh MARTA Station.

Saturday’s Events

Jessica Brooke Anderson will be offering visitors (one at a time) an opportunity to select a gift from her collection of family objects. She recently inherited 3 houses worth of heirlooms, and is using this opportunity to redistribute these items to the community. In exchange for "adopting" a piece of her family history, she is asking to photograph each object with its new owner, in hopes of creating a new family tree, made up of strangers, all interconnected through the lives and objects that came before.

Participate in a self-led writing exercise/creativity booster in the space outside of Arvin Temkar’s studio. Arvin is a writer and photographer whose work examines complexity, tension, and hope in a multiracial, multiethnic America. He will also be displaying some of his photography in the windows of his studio.

Visit the Teller Productions Workshop to observe artist Scottie Rowell’s shadow puppet play time and experience Push. Press. Pull., an ever-changing art installation exploring human’s love of buttons. Only one family/group/pod allowed in the space at time.

Jasmine Williams and Sierra King are excited to share with the public in progress works across both of their disciplines of printmaking and archiving. The public at large is welcomed into their space, limited to 2 at time, to view THROUGHLINE - where the lives of Black Women Artists intersect. Additionally there will be limited edition "I AM WOMAN" tote bags that were hand printed in the art lab and older edition prints available to purchase by Jasmine Nicole Williams.

FRANK/ie CONSENT will present Love Shrines, their first installation of shared things, in which their new album (collaborated with The Cradle) will play with casual, non-demanding events happening and video documentation of their recent love baptism. Beginning at 5:30, there will be a live music performance by FRANK/ie CONSENT and the generosities of people they love.

Floyd Hall will be presenting Seeing + Sounds, featuring a series of streaming recorded audio content in addition to visual projections.

From 2-3:30, Matriarc Society will be providing a photo shoot session with a local femme music maker at no cost. Guests may observe the process from the windows on the corner of Magnolia Lane and Morosgo Drive.

Dance Hub ATL residents are approaching this event as an open process with space to have conversations if visitors are interested in learning more. Four artists - Porter Grubbs, Catherine Messina, Frankie Mulinix and Nadya Zeitlin - will share glimpses of their current creations. In addition to performances, we will introduce a new addition to our Hub - installations by Dima Alekseyev. For more details and updates, check their Instagram page @dance_hub_atl. Donations are greatly appreciated and will support artists' further process.

Dance Hub ATL Performance Schedule - IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL

2:00 - Studio is open to live visitors (up to 16 people at the same time, 10 chairs in the seating area. Masks are required).

2:30 - Catherine Messina's process is a peek into the creation of phrasework for a large scale piece, and how to restage that work after a year away due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Two of the original cast of eight will share some of the prompts in creating duets, unison work, formations, and more. Online via Instagram Live and in-person.

3:00 - Nadya Zeitlin will show Alice, study #1 - the beginning stage of a new work that Bautanzt Here is designing inside Dance Hub ATL. Online via Instagram Live and in-person.

3:30 - The butoh piece performed by Frankie Mulinix is exploring memory, changing identity, and brain injury. Online via Instagram Live and in-person.

4:30 - Porter Grubbs will share some improvisation scores that they've been working on for Medium Collective’s summer series. Plus they will set up a layout with some of their Demon Body portraits and narratives that they've drafted. Online via Instagram Live and in-person.

PLUS…

In the Cube Gallery you will find The Space Between, a new project from Dr. Fahamu Pecou that works to dispel the pervasive myth of violence and discord within the Black male community, and seeks to both normalize expressions of care, concern, and compassion while challenging the pervasive image of Black violence and trauma.

Afterward, from 6-8pm, Dr. @FahamuPecou and Ed Garnes (@fromafrostoshelltoes) will engage in an intimate conversation and artist talk for The Space Between. Learn about the impetus behind this important installation as well as gain insights on the psychological impact of radical self-love within Black male masculinity. TICKETS ARE FREE (but limited) so reserve your space now. For details on how you can attend via LiveStream, email fpassist@fahamupecouart.com

PLUS, PLUS…

After Dr. Pecou’s artist talk, don’t forget to take a peek at Lisa Iglesias’ experimental video, &YOU&ME&US&, which will run from sunset to sunrise (7pm-7am), and can be viewed from the sidewalk on Piedmont, near the corner of Morosgo.

The Hambidge Cross-Pollination Art Lab is supported by the LUBO Fund and Fulton County Arts and Culture.