Furthermore: Art by Lisa Freeman
Athens-Clarke County Library
2025 Baxter Street
Athens, Georgia
706 613 3650
Artist’s Talk: Sunday, November 14, 2021 • 3:00 pm • Appleton Auditorium
Exhibition: November 7, 2021—January 2, 2022 • Quiet Gallery
Please join us at the library for an exhibition of local artist Lisa Freeman during the months of November and December in the Quiet Gallery. She will give a talk about her work on November 14 at 3:00 pm in the auditorium.
Freeman's art has shifted from painting to a focus on assemblage art using found objects. Drawn to discarded objects and photographs, She is a collector, and Freeman’s art brings to light the “mystery of the forgotten.” By collecting objects, both the familiar and the unusual, and assembling them together, Freeman is asking us to look—to truly look—and, hopefully, to see. You can see examples of her work here: http://www.artbylisafreeman.
Freeman was born in Canada, grew up in the Midwest, and landed in Georgia as a teenager. The constant shifting left her feeling a bit like an outsider cloaked in invisibility. Armed with the powerful resource of observation, Freeman watched and witnessed the human spectacle, taking visual notes and collecting—always collecting—along the way. Lisa Freeman works from her home studio in Athens,Georgia.
The exhibition and Artist’s Talk are free and open to the public. Masks are required in the library. For further information, visit www.athenslibrary.org/
Listening in The Dark VIII: Plague of The Lousy Arachnids
Evan Michael Bush
Bob Deck
Joy Ovington
Eddie Whitlock
Candace Wiggins
Athens-Clarke County Library
2025 Baxter Street
Athens, Georgia
706 613 3650
Premiere: Thursday, October 28, 2021
If you haven’t already been creeped out enough by the Jorospiderfestation in your yard, please tune into our eighth annual Halloween Storytelling for Grownups (From a Safe Distance) beginning on Thursday, October 28. You’ll be treated to the scariest tales, some original, by Listening in The Dark veterans Evan Michael Bush, Bob Deck, Joy Ovington, Eddie Whitlock, and Can Wiggins.
Again this year we be online only, with the program accessible from the Reflecting, Sharing, Learning web page (www.athenslibrary.org/
Evan Michael Bush has lived in Athens for over 16 years as a librarian, storyteller, musician, artist and collector of midnight tales. He was the creator of October Country, an evening of supernatural horror and suspense, and was the chair and organizer of the Stitching Stars Storytelling Festival here in Athens.
Bob Deck is a native Georgian but he also was career US Navy, moving 11 times in 20 years, living in Greece, Italy and Diego Garcia. He enjoys reading, exercise, and working at the Bogart Library.
Joy Ovington has enjoyed a lifetime of working in all aspects of performing and holds an MFA from the Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Professional Actor Training. Favorite roles include Witch #3 in MacBeth and Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. While not working in Library Administration, she enjoys choir singing and working with theatre companies around town.
Eddie Whitlock manages the Library Store and coordinates volunteers for the Athens-Clarke County Library. He is the author of two books: Evil is Always Human (2012) and POTUS of the Living Dead (2014). He is currently working on a sequel to his first novel.
Candace Wiggins first published in the online crime zine, “Hardluck Stories”; while writing art and movie columns for various newspapers and working at CNN, TBS and Reuters. She has stories in anthologies from Planet X Publications, including “The Phantasmagorical Promenade”; “Strange Stories From the Sea”; “Test Patterns: Weird Westerns”; and many others. She’s had stories published in The AWA Collective straight outta Athens, Georgia and co-wrote a script, “Eidolon”.
Radiance: Photography by Matt Brewster
Athens-Clarke County Library
2025 Baxter Street • Athens, Georgia • 706 613 3650
Slide Talk: Saturday, September 4 • 3:00 pm • Appleton Auditorium
Exhibition: September 4—October 24, 2021 • Quiet Gallery
Please join us on Saturday, September 4 at 3:00 pm, as local artist Matt Brewster discusses his photography with a slide talk in Appleton Auditorium. Brewster is known for his beautiful landscape and interior photography, and in particular his aerial/drone photos. His exhibition, Radiance: Photography by Matt Brewster, will be on display in the library’s Quiet Gallery during the months of September and October.
Brewster grew up in Winterville and is a graduate of the University of Georgia. He started Marigold 84 as a fun photography site in 2015 that focused on highlighting small towns and scenic areas from around Northeast Georgia. The popularity of this site led him to create a start-up business, Marigold Solutions, in May of 2016. He started doing drone photography in 2017, which was really popular with his commercial clients, but even with his increase in business he still makes time to provide photography and video services for his hometown Marigold Festival. You can see more of Matt’s photography HERE.
The exhibition and slide talk are free and open to the public. Facial masks are required in the library.
Imagination Squared: Pathways to Resilience
A Slide Talk by Christina Foard
Athens-Clarke County Library • 2025 Baxter Street • Athens, Georgia • 706 613 3650
Slide Talk: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 • 7:00 pm • Appleton Auditorium
Art Installation: Second Floor Computer Area Arch
Join us in the Appleton Auditorium on Wednesday, August 18 at 7:00 pm for a slide talk about the library’s recent art installation, Imagination Squared: Pathways to Resilience.
The piece is a social creativity project created and curated by Christina Foard. It offered free wood squares for the Athens community and UGA faculty and students to modify as they considered the meaning of resilience in their life or research. The resulting stories, symbols, and sounds to redefine resilience from 2018-2020 are collected and permanently installed on the Second Floor Computer Area Arch as a gift back to the city of Athens.
Christina Foard received a BFA at the University of Cincinnati and an MFA at the University of Georgia. She spent the first 10 years of her career in non-profit program management and new-media production in Alexandria, VA, and later shifted into arts administration roles at The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens and running the Arts in Medicine Program at UF Health Jacksonville. Foard’s paintings (cfoard.com) have been represented in galleries around the US since 2010 and are held in several private and public collections nationally and internationally. Foard’s long-term interest in art as a connector and stage for community conversations fueled several social ecology projects over the past 10 years. Foard relocated with her partner and their five children to Athens, GA in 2014 and currently teaches painting at UGA in the Dodd School of Art.
The installation and slide talk are free and open to the public. Face masks are required in the library.
Imagination Squared: Pathways to Resilience
A Slide Talk by Christina Foard
Athens-Clarke County Library • 2025 Baxter Street • Athens, Georgia • 706 613 3650
Slide Talk: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 • 7:00 pm • Appleton Auditorium
Art Installation: Second Floor Computer Area Arch
Join us in the Appleton Auditorium on Wednesday, August 18 at 7:00 pm for a slide talk about the library’s recent art installation, Imagination Squared: Pathways to Resilience.
The piece is a social creativity project created and curated by Christina Foard. It offered free wood squares for the Athens community and UGA faculty and students to modify as they considered the meaning of resilience in their life or research. The resulting stories, symbols, and sounds to redefine resilience from 2018-2020 are collected and permanently installed on the Second Floor Computer Area Arch as a gift back to the city of Athens.
Christina Foard received a BFA at the University of Cincinnati and an MFA at the University of Georgia. She spent the first 10 years of her career in non-profit program management and new-media production in Alexandria, VA, and later shifted into arts administration roles at The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens and running the Arts in Medicine Program at UF Health Jacksonville. Foard’s paintings (cfoard.com) have been represented in galleries around the US since 2010 and are held in several private and public collections nationally and internationally. Foard’s long-term interest in art as a connector and stage for community conversations fueled several social ecology projects over the past 10 years. Foard relocated with her partner and their five children to Athens, GA in 2014 and currently teaches painting at UGA in the Dodd School of Art.
The installation and slide talk are free and open to the public. Face masks are required in the library.
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