Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery

Please join us for our monthly Committee Meetings! This is a great time to get oriented with the various types of programming that Eyedrum has, including Art, Music, Literature, Garden, Education, and Performance, as well as other valuable Committees such as Tech and Build-Out. We also use these mon...

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In an encore of last month’s mixing of our monthly musical improv and literary salon events, once again we’ll be welcoming presentations of written work and offbeat musical ones. Writers, bring your own work or something you admire (or not …) by someone else. Musicians, bring your instrument/s. No o...

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The surfaces of our homes are littered with items - some decorative, others necessary, but many of them deeply personal. Each of the artists in ChopArt's Home Improvement show has created a work of art out of commonplace household items or furniture to illustrate the concept of home for those who do...

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What divisions are we currently effected by? How can the negative idea of a wall (like one between countries), be re-purposed in a positive light (a tool for performance, a new canvas to be painted on, a membrane used to communicate between different creative mediums)? More importantly, how can we a...

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Come out for a night of live music and film projections on the Eyedrum rooftop, featuring performances by Mima Good and Atlanta local HAINT. Mima Good is an NYC based electro-blues witch who plays with power through rock&roll, magic, and alter-ego. Her songs tread between indulgent revenge...

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On June 12, 2016, 49 people were tragically murdered during "Latin Night" at Pulse Nightclub - of the 49 victims, almost 90 percent were Latinx. A year after the tragedy, Somos Sur has partnered with Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery and La Choloteca: Ley de Latinx to present Somos Atlanta, a fundraisin...

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Downtown Players Club is saying goodbye to Broad St with a good old fashioned throwdown on Eyedrum's rooftop.

Come on out and help us say goodbye the only way we know how, with a dope ass party!

We're fresh off the heels of all the craziness at Midtown Players Club, so we'll be taking a short br...

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What does home look like in displacement, and how does displacement change our understandings of home? Sara Santamaria explores the question of immigration, belonging and finding a new home in her first solo exhibition, Who Comes Today and Stays Tomorrow. The exhibition will focus on how the "diffic...

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Cantos Y Cuentos is an Atlanta-based chamber ensemble that mixes new music with avant- garde art for a unique multi-media experience. The members are Emily Laminack, Martha Oceguera, Erica Ransbottom and Tracy Kathleen Woodard. Their next performance will take place at Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery....

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Queer Threads is a one-day pop-up thrift shop where clothing, house items, literature, knick-knacks, electronic media, and more will be sold at cheaper prices than local thrift stores and all items go back to the community. Proceeds from the event benefit Southern Fried Queer Pride, while items not ...

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Atlanta’s premiere queer and trans pride committee, Southern Fried Queer Pride, presents the first-ever Cinequeer Film Fest — a night of films, shorts, and cinema for and by queer and trans artists. From the rooftop of Eyedrum, Cinequeer Film Fest will showcase works from local artists who chall...

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Battle Trance thrives on musical juxtapositions. Formed by Travis Laplante, the tenor saxophone quartet performs long-form suites that are hypnotic and sublime while retaining a frazzled quality. Laplante, along with fellow members Jeremy Viner, Matthew Nelson, and Patrick Breiner, pits deep movemen...

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Ally White presents her first Atlanta solo show, No Worries, an exhibition of acrylic and wool paintings. These works depict day-dreaming figures, and the lush multicolored world they live in. Investigating contracting themes of emotion, each piece works to balance and cope through White's usage of ...

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Isiah Medina focuses on important issues such as race, philosophy, love, and class through his film, 88:88. Watch as images of Isiah’s loved ones, fragments of intimate, whispered conversations, rap songs, and computerized images appear to convey his message.

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The Boiler Room is an intimate rooftop series of invited performance artists, dancers and choreographers. Artists are asked to create or recreate work for a small 8' by 16' stage. The Boiler Room invites audiences to experience a unique view of the city on top of Eyedrum at sunset.

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The late Atlanta photographer Panorama Ray used a century-old panoramic camera to capture what he called “Living Stills,” a style and he term he invented. The result created ethereal effects in his work, lending a spooky vibe to his folk art efforts which captured subjects from the Eiffel Tower ...

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Kris Pilcher’s art can be found in streets, alleyways, and galleries throughout Atlanta and beyond. Now see the locally-based multidisciplinary artist’s work Downtown at Eyedrum. Pilcher’s newest exhibition, Transient Pulse, will include installation, video, and two-dimensional pieces that exp...

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Bill Daniel, a San Francisco filmmaker, hosted by Film Love, is coming to the east coast for an event that shows off some of his 90s, classic political short films, all on VHS!

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A Black State of Mind, Madeline Friedman, House of June, Kenna Kannell, and other woman-identifying and gender queer filmmakers will present their short films for Ladyfest Atlanta. Supporters from New Mavericks and the Atlanta Film Society will jury the selections.

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Boundaries is an evening of timbral and textural exploration presented by Trio 91, featuring an eclectic mix of music for saxophone, flute, clarinet, and percussion. Includes works by composers from America, France, and Japan and the premiere of Cynomys: on Distraction" for saxophone and percussion...

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Eyedrum hosts a benefit fundraiser event featuring screenings of several Palestinian films Sat., May 7, at 8 p.m.

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Presented by Georgia Tech, students with creative technology-based projects show their works to the Eyedrum community in preparation for future collaborations.

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Eyedrum hosts Reimagined, a night of chamber music featuring Erika Tazawa (piano), Olivia Kieffer (marimba), and Domenic Salerni (violin). All three performers are active in the local music scene: Tazawa collaborates with KSU’s Opera Theater and the GSU Opera Theater as a coach-accompanist; Salern...

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Local artist Jessica Blinkhorn and Chicago artists Mothergirl, Katy Albert and Sophia Hamilton, create body-based work that satirically approaches sexuality, using their bodies and props to bring contemporary context to classical form.

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Curated by Kristin Juarez and Gregory Zinman, MORE LIGHT: Media Art from Atlanta features work by 14 local artists whose work engages the materiality of the moving image. Featured artists include: Dara Birnbaum, Mark Leibert, Jay Bolter and Maria Engberg, Christina Price Washington, Jonathan Bouknig...

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Systems engineer Deigratia Daniels developed an experiential exhibit designed to put viewers' in the shoes of a black man through imagery, audio, and a virtual reality device.

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LadyFest Atlanta & EyeDrum Art Gallery present a night of Maya Deren's films screened on original 16mm prints:Meshes of The AfternoonAt Land A Study In Choreography for CameraRitual In Transfigured Time The Very Eye of Night

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Pianist Erika Tazawa (pictured above) employs a singularly expressive and dynamic approach to her instrument, drawning accolades the world over, but she’s most highly praised for her collaborative skills and intuitions. On Fri., Feb. 5, Tazawa pairs up with saxophonist Thomas Giles to perform a ne...

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Now in its 13th year, the International Noise Conference (INC) is the annual, Miami-based haven for dissonant, experimental musicians from across the globe. For fans not lucky enough to make the pilgrimage to the southernmost reaches of Florida, INC organizers scheduled a handful of satellite pre-ga...

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As a seasoned guitarist and avant-garde explorer, Bill Nace has spent a career summoning unearthly sounds. His style hinges on a meditative fluency, where his guitar tones shift in the moment to complement his collaborators or fill up the room with a metallic roar. Over the years Nace's career has s...

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That time has come again, PUNK BLACK returns December 19th at the Eyedrum! $5 Entry$2 BeerBand Line Up:Sound Detour (https://www.facebook.com/SoundDetour)Guilty Verdict(https://www.facebook.com/guiltyverdictband)Another Gypsy(https://www.facebook.com/AnotherGypsy/)Bloodplums(https://www.facebook.com...

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Michael Jones’ mixed-media, installation, and video work questions the various cultural contexts in which we use firearms, defining targets through physical mark and psychological profile.

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Michael Jones’ solo exhibition features mixed-media, installation, and performance based work that questionthe various cultural contexts in which we use firearms, defining targets through physical mark and psychological profile. The exhibition is on view from October 24th thru December 5th. Galle...

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Chelsea DunnMatt GoetheHiron RoyAl MatthewsMason BrownJeff CromptonOlivia KiefferCaleb HerronBrandon DodgePaul Stevens

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Join us for an artist talk by Michael Jones about his solo exhibition, Moving Targets Full Clip. Michael Jones’ mixed-media, installation, and video work questions the various cultural contexts in which we use firearms, defining targets through physical mark and psychological profile.

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Michael Jones’ solo exhibition features mixed-media, installation, and performance based work that questionthe various cultural contexts in which we use firearms, defining targets through physical mark and psychological profile. The exhibition is on view from October 24th thru December 5th. Galle...

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Japanese free-improv percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani returns for one more round of earth-rattling sound. Backed by the fluctuating Nakatani Gong Orchestra (N.G.O.), a large ensemble will dive headlong into the wildly unpredictable resonance of drums and gongs hammered, bowed, breathed on, and otherwi...

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The conference is presented in collaboration with Eyedrum Art & Music Galleries and Georgia State University Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design. The MSA Sculpture Conference celebrates the vitality, dialogue, networking and educational opportunities.

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Fractal Fest Atlanta is a multifaceted arts experience featuring live bands, DJs, film screenings, and visual art for sale.

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From her long-term study of war gaming in America, Ruth Dusseault composes an experimental documentary illuminating the role of imagination and play in the process of healing from the psychological wounds of war. Using experimental treatment footage from the USC's Center for Creative Technologies, ...

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Circuit des Yeux is the recording alias of Haley Fohr, a Chicago-based musician and vocalist best known for her Scott Walker-like baritone vocals and arcing melodies. Earlier this year, Fohr recruited fellow Chicago experimenters Cooper Crain (Cave, Bitchin Bajas), Whitney Johnson (Verma), Rob Frye ...

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