Art for Lunch: Allatoona and Monticello Dam
4.03.2024, 12:15 PM EDT
Georgia’s Allatoona Dam (1949) and California’s Monticello Dam (1957) are two of the many dams completed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. In the 1960 visual essay Death of a Valley, photographers Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones documented Monticello Dam’s construction and how it marked the end of Berryessa Valley. According to Lange and Jones, this resulted from America’s increasing water needs. Completed years before, Allatoona Dam was a precursor to Monticello in its design and construction. Today, both dams symbolize the ongoing need for fresh water. Christopher Purvis, the US Army Corp of Engineers Lead Ranger at Allatoona Lake, will present the origins and history of Allatoona Dam and how it compares to its western counterpart, Monticello Dam.
Photography Public program with Bartow History Museum and Booth Western Art Museum Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lighting (Booth) & Picture Perfect (Bartow)
Thursday, March 21, 5:30 – 8:00 pm
5:30 pm – Join us at the Bartow History Museum for a viewing of the new camera and photography exhibit, Picture Perfect. Followed by a reception.
7:00 pm – Join us in the Bergman Theatre at the Booth Museum for a discussion on Lange and her work with guests Elizabeth Partridge (Long time Lange family friend and author of the book Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lighting) Dyanna Taylor (Lange’s granddaughter and maker of the 2014 film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning for PBS American Masters) featuring images and clips from Taylor’s film biography.
Art for Lunch: The California School – Two Decades of Photographic Innovation
2.07.2024, 12:15 PM EDT
The California School – Two Decades of Photographic Innovation – Dorothea Lange to Edward Weston and Ansel Adams to Pirkle Jones. Collector and gallery founder Robert Yellowlees will explore the unique personal and professional synergies leading to iconic photographs of a Golden Period from the 1930’s-1950’s. with Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, Alma Levinson, Wyn Bullock and Brett Weston, they pushed limits and created new movements still influencing the art.
Indigenous Concert – Fawn Wood
Sunday, January 28, 1:30 – 4:30 pm
Fawn Wood is a Cree and Salish musician from St. Paul, Alberta, Canada. She is most noted for her album Kakike, for which she won the Juno Award for Traditional Indigenous Artist of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2022. She will be performing at the Booth to talk about her musical career and share her influences. Fawn has developed a style of song that mimics her relationship with her people, herself, her family, and community.
Watch Fawn Wood’s Performances!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ1P1K0sRj4
