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Art Exhibits

Lyndon House Art Exhibitions
All exhibitions are free and open to the public during regular gallery hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays from Noon - 9:00 p.m., and Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Lyndon House Arts Center is closed on Saturdays when there is University of Georgia home football game.

Lyndon House Arts Center, located at 293 Hoyt Street, is a facility of the Athens-Clarke County Department of Leisure Services and is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through the appropriation of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Embroiderer's Guild Dogwood Chapter Exhibition (May 23-July 18)
Works by members of the Athens/Atlanta area Dogwood Chpater of embroiderers featuring needlework of many types.

Please come to the Opening Reception on Saturday, May 23, 2009 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m

The National Tapestry, America the Beautiful (May 23-July 18)
The traveling exhibit presented by the Dogwood Chapter of the Embroiders' Guild of America is a five-panel tapestry depiciting flora, fauna, and natural wonders of the United States created over a period of six years by 1000 people

Southeastern Pastel Society 2009 Members Exhibition
(June 11-August 15)
A juried exhibition of works by members of the Southeastern Pastel Society.

Please join us for the Opening Reception on Thursday, June 11 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Lyndon House.

LIGHT AFTER DARK: KAREKIN & GINGER GOEKJIAN
(May 31 � August 15)
On exhibition at Lyndon House Arts Center from May 31 to August 15 is a selection of work by husband-and-wife photographers Karekin & Ginger Goekjian. Their photos depict dream-like landscapes from the coastal regions of Georgia, suffused with moonlight and light from hand-held sources such as flashlights and filled with the decaying grandeur of old mansions, objects being consumed by their environments, and ghostly figures.

Karekin has photographed a series of time exposures situated on an old porch looking out onto a marsh, with traces of the silhouette or shadow of a passing cat. Ginger documented the disarray of an old greenhouse on Sapelo Island gone to seed. Another of her photos depicts an old church with its tightly shuttered windows illuminated from an uncertain source.

The public is invited to meet the artists and attend a multi-projectional slide presentation by Karekin Goekjian at Lyndon House Arts Center on Thursday, July 16 at 7:30 pm. This special program is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call (706) 613-3623

Lord Love You: Works by R.A. Miller from the Mullis Collection (August 8- October 24)
A total of 75 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and whirligigis created by the Georgia self-taught artists, Reuben Aaron "R.A." Miller, curated and presented by the Georiga Museum of Art in partnership with Lyndon House Arts Center while GMOA is closed for renovation and expansion.

The public is invited to attend a reception for this exhibiton at Lyndon House on Saturday, August 15 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.