November 16, 2011

Radcliffe Bailey, AWA Founder & Artist, Kerly Suffren & Artist, F. Geoffrey Johnson for CURRENTS Exhibit

By Armed-with-Art (AWA)

 

Atlanta-based and internationally known artist, Radcliffe Bailey will join AWA founder Kerly Suffren and artists, Kevin Sipp, Ed Spriggs, and F. Geoffrey Johnson for CURRENTS panel discussion on, “The Ways and Meaning of Making Art.”  The panel will take place on Friday, November 18, 2011 at 7 p.m. at the American Friends Service Committee in Atlanta, Georgia.

CURRENTS, also dubbed CURRENTS:  Attitudes and Issues, is a visual art exhibit featuring works by Atlanta artists F. Geoffrey Johnson and Kerly Suffren.  The exhibit features works by two men from two very different generations.  Johnson, who is in his 60’s, grew up influenced by “Jim Crow” laws and the Civil Rights Movement; while Suffren, in his 30’s, sites the influence of Hip-Hop culture as a major factor in shaping his sense of identity and politics.

The exhibit offers an opportunity to look at a social, cultural, and political continuum of issues and events that touch the lives of black men in positive and negative ways. Through their art, Johnson and Suffren find ways to pay tribute to the contribution of Africans and Africans in the Diaspora who helped to shape the culture and political landscape of this nation.

Bailey, who recently had a solo exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, will connect with these two talented men along with Kevin Sipp and Ed Spriggs for an open/ group interactive panel discussion on the various ways and meaning of visual art.  This event is FREE to the public.

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) – http://afsc.org/office/atlanta-ga
60 Walton Street, NW, Atlanta, GA 30303

For background and additional information on CURRENTS please see, http://www.afsc.org/event/currents-attitudes-and-issues.

  

About Armed-with-Art (AWA)

Armed-with-Art (AWA) is a growing grassroots organization consistent of various artists who are focused on using their mediums as weapons for social change. Our mission seeks to tackle the negative effects of social issues through the use of different art forms in order to bring forth change in the welfare and happiness of those directly affected, and awareness to those indirectly affected. View all posts by Armed-with-Art (AWA)
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