Bringing art to the streets. That’s the idea behind the Athens Street Show, created by students in Professional Practice Seminar art class. Student art is being displayed downtown from April 20 through May 2 with a guided art walk of all the exhibitions on Sunday. “We wanted to challenge the viewer,” said Megan Kluttz, one [...]

Sometimes what matters most is not what something says but rather how it’s said. Lindsey Hudlow, a University senior studying graphic design, specializes in typography and hand-drawn letterforms, transforming the written word from mere functionality to artistic expression. “Typography is the art of words” Hudlow said. “It’s almost like the clothes that words wear.” Hudlow [...]

Animal Collective, Modest Mouse and others are more than just Danielle Tobin’s favorite bands — they’re the muses for her art. Each of her screen prints produced this semester for her exit show tonight depicts the portraits of one of her favorite bands or musicians. Her pieces are layered screen prints on large foam boxes, [...]

Among the tables of artwork and crowds of people, there is talent to be seen and money to be made at the Fluke mini-comics festival.  “[The festival] is a local art scene,” said Patrick Dean, who took over co-organizing the event in its second year. “There are a lot of really talented artists here, and [...]

Chelsea’s and Toppers aren’t the only places in Athens where students can make the big bucks by taking it all off. Along with driving University buses and working for Parking Services during football games, nude modeling tops the list of the best-paying student jobs on campus. According to Charles Westfall, the modeling coordinator for the [...]

The only tangible evidence artist Katherine Taylor has of her past is stained by flood water. Like many of the artists contributing to the Athens Institute for Contemporary Arts’s upcoming Deluge exhibit, Katherine Taylor has a personal interest in floods. Taylor, an assistant professor of drawing at Kennesaw State University, is originally from Biloxi, Miss. [...]

Covered nearly bumper to bumper in rusted and colored bottlecaps, “The Bottlecap Truck” is a roaming landmark known all over Athens and the Southeast. This weekend you can see it for yourself.  On Sunday, Jimmy “Cap Man” Straehla will host a celebration from noon until dusk at his home and studio, located in Winterville, to [...]

Local artist Colin Tom’s work has a message, is definitely different and only slightly illegal. As a senior art major with an emphasis in painting, his work violates what many would consider “traditional.” Although he works in a normal artist studio, Tom favors the cartoonish, exaggerated aesthetic of street art and R. Crumb over watercolors. [...]

For the participants of the “Love Makes a Family” panel, the issue at hand is a clear one. “It’s a question of rights,” said Kenyatta Mitchell, a representative from Georgia Equality. Tonight Mitchell will sit alongside members of the LGBT community to tell their stories of living lives and having families while also being gay. [...]