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Open your eyes to the changing role of folk art as it influences Southern culture through a collection of 500 artifacts ranging from pottery to musical instruments.
Highlighted artists include the Meaders and Hewell family pottery makers, chair-maker Walter Shelnut, Cherokee basket-maker Lucille Lossiah, the Reeves family of basket makers, story quilter Harriet Powers and blacksmith Philip Simmons.
Throughout the exhibition, videos present folk art processes and are complemented by touchable examples of highlighted works. Two enclosed rooms create listening environments for visitors to hear folk storytelling, singing and instrumental music.
“The changing role of folk arts, once central to the lives of ordinary southerners, offers fresh insights into the region’s social history.” - Curator John Burrison
Open your eyes to the changing role of folk art as it influences Southern culture through a collection of 500 artifacts ranging from pottery to musical instruments.
Highlighted artists include the Meaders and Hewell family pottery makers, chair-maker Walter Shelnut, Cherokee basket-maker Lucille Lossiah, the Reeves family of basket makers, story quilter Harriet Powers and blacksmith Philip Simmons.
Throughout the exhibition, videos present folk art processes and are complemented by touchable examples of highlighted works. Two enclosed rooms create listening environments for visitors to hear folk storytelling, singing and instrumental music.
“The changing role of folk arts, once central to the lives of ordinary southerners, offers fresh insights into the region’s social history.” - Curator John Burrison
Highlights:
Pottery by David Drake (1801-late 1870s), the best-known enslaved African American potter, known simply as Dave until Emancipation. He learned the craft at Pottersville in Edgefield District, South Carolina, and was given the limited freedom of signing his pots and inscribing them with his own poetry.
A significant collection of Appalachian folk pottery assembled by guest curator Burrison, author of Brothers in Clay and From Mud to Jug: The Folk Potters and Pottery of Northeast Georgia.
Sacred and secular music listening rooms.
Props from the celebrated folk drama Heaven Bound, performed annually since 1930 at Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
A changing display of quilts from the Atlanta History Center’s collection.
Videos featuring the Meaders and Hewell family pottery makers, chair-maker Walter Shelnut, Cherokee basket-maker Lucille Lossiah, the Reeves family of basket makers, story quilter Harriet Powers, and blacksmith Philip Simmons.
Southern-made furniture as found in the catalog Neat Pieces: The Plain-Style Furniture of Nineteenth-Century Georgia
Musical instruments including dulcimers, banjos, mandolins, and guitars.
Displays of Southern foods and foodways including grits, gumbo, and hot pepper sauce.
Display of contemporary folk traditions including duck decoys, Hmong textiles, Seder celebrations, and more.
www.atlantahistorycenter.com/exhibitions/shaping-traditio...
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I made this!
This is an instrument that I invented all by myself. I call it a Slyder. It is loosely based on a Lyre (hence the name) but I play it with a glass slider (as you would use with a guitar).
The instrument is made from hangers, guitar strings, machine heads and a wooden resonating box. Thats all Im telling you, cos I dont want anyone else to make one hehe!
Anyway I thought it might be nice to take a few shots of it to show you all my DIY skills.
I tried to take various angles so you will see the hole in the resonator box for example, which is based on the 'f hole' you might find in a violin - all part of the complex acoustics of the instrument :)
This was part of a project for an acoustics module I studied. We had to design a 'ubiquitous instrument' and analyse the acoustics of it.
The instrument filter element is comprised of an outer screen and six filter cylinder on the inside. The filter cylinder to the left of my thumb has not been cleaned. The element to the right of my thumb has been cleaned.
www.gearwire.com/interactopus-instrument-construction.htm...;
go here to the Video Interview for more information!
The Interactopus is an interactive sculpture that uses eight photocells mounted on its extremities to control sound and live video projection. The light signals from the cells are mediated through the analogue version of the ArtBus board. Using analogue, rather than digital, accommodates the more varied control (through changes in light) that are required to interact with this object.
The ArtBus then communicates through USB with max/msp and Gem to produce changes in sound and video signals. Live performance with this instrument is part of an ongoing research into human/computer interaction. The ArtBus board has proven readily adaptable to many forms of interface, and will surely be incorporated into further studies in this area.