Dalton Gallery of Agnes Scott College

Due to Spring Break staffing availability the gallery will be open by appointment only March 11-21. If you are interested in seeing Building on Dana | Patterns in Space during that time please contact us via DM or email at [email protected]

Join us on February 27 at 6pm for our Sarah Hamilton Leathers ’53 and Leone Bowers Hamilton ’26 Art Lecture with Susan Richmond.

Innovative, large-scale fiber works once filled the lobbies and atriums of Atlanta’s most iconic buildings. But you won’t see them today. They aren’t merely gone; they have disappeared, many without a trace, taking the stories of their creation with them. With few exceptions, the fate of these artworks remains unknown, as do their original production circumstances. In this talk, Susan Richmond discusses her work with Jess Jones to map the locations and stories of Atlanta’s public textile history, with particular attention to John Portman’s projects. The intersection of large-scale weavings, architectural site-specificity, and corporate interests is an understudied component of the fiber art movement in the United States.

Susan Richmond is an associate professor of art history and an interim associate dean of the College of the Arts at Georgia State University. Her research focuses on the modern and contemporary era, with a specific emphasis on feminist practices and the social and material histories of US art, craft, and visual culture since 1945. With Jess Jones, associate professor of textiles at GSU, she is working on a digital mapping project entitled Lost Weavings of Atlanta.

Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for the opening of Building on Dana | Patterns in Space! Regular gallery hours will resume next week- we’re open Tuesday through Thursday from 12-4pm and Fridays 12-6pm.

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We’re working hard on Building on Dana | Patterns in Space. Join us next Friday, February 7 from 6-9pm for the opening of our spring exhibition.

Agnes Scott Alumnae are invited to attend a special alumnae preview of the Building on Dana | Patterns in Space exhibition on February 6, at 6pm. If you are interested in attending please RSVP here https://alumnae.agnesscott.edu/alumnae-preview-of-building-on-dana

Building on Dana | Patterns in Space opens 2.7.25 at 6pm. Co-curated by Anna Carnes, Nell Ruby and Katherine Smith, Building on Dana | Patterns in Space explores the building’s past, present, and future through the voices of artists, activists, students, and scholars examining its built environment. This exhibition establishes the significance of the Dana Fine Arts Building in John Portman’s early career and in shifts in the college’s curriculum in the 1960s; it highlights the challenge of access and inclusion in historical design and an evolving cultural context.

Coming Soon! Building On Dana | Patterns In Space opens February 7, 2025.

Building on Dana | Patterns in Space presents the building’s past, present, and future through the voices of artists, activists, students, and scholars examining its built environment. This exhibition establishes the significance of the Dana Fine Arts Building in John Portman’s early career and in shifts in the college’s curriculum in the 1960s; it highlights the challenge of access and inclusion in historical design and an evolving cultural context.

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Students in Three-Dimensional Thinking were treated to a guided weaving project with Jess Jones on Wednesday afternoon.

Jess presented John Portman’s use of luminance as a repeating and dominant design element in his architectural forms. She began the workshop by mounting images of Portman’s buildings on the wall, and told us about the importance of Atlanta as a nexus of weaving and textiles in the 1960s. John Portman was very interested in materiality–especially in weaving–and commissioned large scale work to hang in his buildings. Jess and her colleague Susan Richmond are collaborators on a project that archives these works named Lost Weavings: Mapping Works, Remnants and Removals. We look forward to hearing more about this project in the programming that will be part of our spring 2025 exhibition, Building on Dana.

The students cut strips of paper to use as material in the ancient art of “tabby” weaving, a simple over and under weaving structure created by alternating strips for the warp (vertical bands) and the woof (horizontal bands) to explore emerging patterns. With concentration and care, the students produced remarkable designs that Jess hung next to the architecture. The variations and similarities in materials, method and scale are revelatory.

broken ground/falling light features selected work from the Permanent Collection of Agnes Scott College. Through the lens of the Permanent Collection this exhibition explores interior landscapes and the geometry of light. As we begin to think about the ways in which form influences space through the Building on Dana project, this exhibition seeks to reflect on space and time through the temporal nature of organic material.

Featured work includes pieces by Jenny Holzer, Aberlardo Morrell, Joe Peragine, Ruth Laxson, Pam Longobardi, Larry Walker, Steffen Thomas, and Kojo Griffin. The exhibition will be on view from September 17- December 6, 2024. The gallery is open to the public Tuesdays and Wednesdays 12-4pm and Thursdays and Fridays from 12-6pm.