Please also check the Facebook pages of Decatur Art classes and Sycamore Place Gallery for special events!
Ms. Sylvia and Sycamore Place Gallery are available for birthday parties, special events, private art openings, family occasions, and more! Contact her to discuss your plans!
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Holiday Joy Art & Music at 120 Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur featuring the Artists and Students of Sycamore Pl And music of Barb Panter Connah and Friends on Saturday Nov 16 from 4-6 pm. Gluten free s’mores n more! :)
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Please also check the Facebook pages of Decatur Art classes and Sycamore Place Gallery for special events!
Ms. Sylvia and Sycamore Place Gallery are available for birthday parties, special events, private art openings, family occasions, and more! Contact her to discuss your plans!
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Holiday Joy Art & Music at 120 Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur featuring the Artists and Students of Sycamore Pl And music of Barb Panter Connah and Friends on Saturday Nov 16 from 4-6 pm. Gluten free s’mores n more! :)
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Update: Caroline Aiken rescheduled from 10/3 to 10/17 due to the chlorine release hazard!
Tickets at $10-$20 suggested donation; 30% goes to RepresentJustice.org
-GA MUSIC HALL OF FAME
NPR's MOUNTAIN STAGE @ UGA Performing Arts Center - AIKEN: Featured performer, along with Randall Bramblett and Patterson Hood of the Drive By Truckers - http://www.npr.org/2012/05/08/152298187/caroline-aiken-on-mountain-stage
*Meade: Front Woman of Atlanta's band "Three5Human". Over the years Trina’s musical career has reached across several musical genres from R&B, Folk, & Country, and from Contemporary Jazz to Rock & Roll recording and performing with majors such as Indigo Girls, Michael Franti of Spearhead, OutKast, TLC, Fishbone, Toni Braxton, Babyface, Pebbles, Stevie Wonder, with a solo project set to be soon released.
*Wegner: Wegner has performed and recorded with scores of musical artists, including Indigo Girls, Juliana Hatfield, Lemonheads, Vic Chesnutt, and River Phoenix. His award winning Beatles tribute band Abbey Road LIVE! has been delighting audiences for 20+ years, and since 2016 he has served as band leader for "Athens In Harmony", an annual duets concert which pairs vocalists from different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Michael’s ability to lend musical support to great songs has seen him perform at venues all over the USA, including Red Rocks in Colorado, Atlanta’s Fox Theatre and the Oregon Country Fair. His multiple bands have shared the stage with acts as diverse as The Pixies, Ani DiFranco, They Might Be Giants, Elliott Smith, Meat Puppets, Pat Benatar and The Ramones,
A prolific songwriter in his own right, Michael's original music saw him recognized as a finalist for the 2022 Vic Chesnutt Songwriter of the Year award.Bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. Decades of representing the best music of Athens, Ga., and touring from coast to coast.
Aiken, Meade and Wegner first met 1995 when nationally performing Jesus Christ Superstar with the Indigo Girls. Sometimes good things take time to bake.
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www.carolineaiken.com
FB
@carolineaikenmusic
@trinameade
@michaelwegnermusic
Info@michaelwegner
Caroline@carolineaiken.com
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Price available upon request at Different Trains Gallery
flora@FloraRosefsky.com
Irish Friendsy is playing Friday, June 7 @7 at Sycamore Place Gallery.
Check out the Art on the walls, enjoy the music!
Enter through the courtyard!
$ donations
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Join us at Sycamore Place Gallery to kick off the Decatur Arts Festival weekend with @decatur_arts_alliance ARTWALK - a single-night, city-wide art experience that is free and open to the public. Local galleries, retailers, businesses and restaurants all around Decatur will be participating on Friday, May 3 from 6-10 pm. Stroll on by for our artist market and view incredible artwork in our gallery. Follow the yellow brick road to Sycamore Place Gallery, grab a drink, meet our artists and have fun with sidewalk chalk while listening to local musicians. See you soon!
Please join the Artists and Students of Sycamore Place Gallery on Saturday, November 18 from 4-6 pm
For practical and lovely Art for sale in the courtyard, music to take your pleasure as you peruse the fine art in the gallery, and FUN in every corner!
Where: 120 Sycamore Place Gallery, Decatur, GA 30030
When: November 18 from 4-6 pm
Mask required inside
Mask optional outside
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Please join us at 120 Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur for a rare Decatur viewing of Works by Steffen Thomas from the Steffen Thomas Museum .
A screening of Jesse's Freemans ' Rock and Chisel' will be shown in the courtyard at dusk.Questions will be taken by his grandson immediately following the viewing.
Stephanie Smith 's( Atlanta Printmakers Association) beautiful contemporary prints accompany his work on the walls.
120 Sycamore PlaceDecatur,Ga.30030404 377 7747
$10- suggested donation
Mask required insideMask optional outside
All are welcome!
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Join us this Sunday beginning at 4:30pm for an Art Show featuring the work of Debbie Levine followed by a Writers in the
Round with Candice Dyer!
An evening of verbal fireworks in the form of poetry! Sycamore Place Gallery will host the poets Gordon Johnston, Gary Ballard, and Denise James on Sunday, September 10 at 5:30.
Donations accepted.
Mask optional outside,
Mask required inside
Sycamore Place Gallery
120 Sycamore Pl.
Decatur,GA 30030
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Yucatan Dreams
Suenos Yucatan
By Kelly Karim
Wander through the Yucatan in a dreamlike show of Kelly Karim's paintings, inspired by experiences and impressions of the Yucatan.
Join us on Saturday, March 4th
From 3pm til 5:30 at
Sycamore Place Gallery
120 Sycamore Pl,
Decatur, GA 30030
404-377-7747
We will be celebrating her new bilingual book called Yucatan Dreams Suenos Yucatan.
Masks required inside the gallery.
Mask optional outside in the courtyard.
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On Flora Rosefsky’s actual birthday - Sunday, March 27, 2022-at 3:30pm - Flora will present a solo show, Retrospective: Flora Rosefsky Artworks 1972-2022 in conjunction with a program at Sycamore Place Gallery and Studios located at 120 Sycamore Place, Decatur. An artist conversation between Flora and Sycamore Place Gallery owner Sylvia Cross will be virtual. Audience participation is encouraged. If interested, email ms.sylvia.cross@gmail.com and a Zoom link will be shared.
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This Friday, November 12, Sycamore Place Gallery presents their Holiday Art show, " The Winter Lights" from 6:30-7:30 pm.
This is a masked vaccinated event.
Two films by Kenneth Anger presented by GSU professor of film studies, Kent Walls, will be shown in the courtyard at 7:30. following the opening.
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This Friday, June 4 at 8:30 in the courtyard at Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur:
Join us as we screen “The Wind” (Victor Sjostrom, 1928).
The First Lady of American Cinema, Lillian Gish, starred as a young woman called Letty and was a major creative force behind the film. The movie begins in the late 1800s as Letty moves west to Texas to join a frontier family after her prospects back east dry up. From there, “The Wind” inverts the traditional American western as the camera stays behind to experience what might be Letty’s descent into madness when the menfolk leave the homestead on classic cowboy adventures.
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Sycamore Place Gallery will.showcase 2 new artists in the courtyard this Friday, 9/18, from 4-9pm.
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Irish Friendsy is playing Friday, June 7 @7 at Sycamore Place Gallery.
Check out the Art on the walls, enjoy the music!
Enter through the courtyard!
$ donations
Check out the Art on the walls, enjoy the music!
Enter through the courtyard!
$ donations
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Join us at Sycamore Place Gallery to kick off the Decatur Arts Festival weekend with @decatur_arts_alliance ARTWALK - a single-night, city-wide art experience that is free and open to the public. Local galleries, retailers, businesses and restaurants all around Decatur will be participating on Friday, May 3 from 6-10 pm. Stroll on by for our artist market and view incredible artwork in our gallery. Follow the yellow brick road to Sycamore Place Gallery, grab a drink, meet our artists and have fun with sidewalk chalk while listening to local musicians. See you soon!
Please join the Artists and Students of Sycamore Place Gallery on Saturday, November 18 from 4-6 pm
For practical and lovely Art for sale in the courtyard, music to take your pleasure as you peruse the fine art in the gallery, and FUN in every corner!
Where: 120 Sycamore Place Gallery, Decatur, GA 30030
When: November 18 from 4-6 pm
Mask required inside
Mask optional outside
For practical and lovely Art for sale in the courtyard, music to take your pleasure as you peruse the fine art in the gallery, and FUN in every corner!
Where: 120 Sycamore Place Gallery, Decatur, GA 30030
When: November 18 from 4-6 pm
Mask required inside
Mask optional outside
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Please join us at 120 Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur for a rare Decatur viewing of Works by Steffen Thomas from the Steffen Thomas Museum .
A screening of Jesse's Freemans ' Rock and Chisel' will be shown in the courtyard at dusk.Questions will be taken by his grandson immediately following the viewing.
Stephanie Smith 's
( Atlanta Printmakers Association) beautiful contemporary prints accompany his work on the walls.
120 Sycamore Place
Decatur,Ga.30030
404 377 7747
$10- suggested donation
Mask required inside
Mask optional outside
All are welcome!
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Join us this Sunday beginning at 4:30pm for an Art Show featuring the work of Debbie Levine followed by a Writers in the
Round with Candice Dyer!
An evening of verbal fireworks in the form of poetry! Sycamore Place Gallery will host the poets Gordon Johnston, Gary Ballard, and Denise James on Sunday, September 10 at 5:30.
Donations accepted.
Mask optional outside,
Mask required inside
Sycamore Place Gallery
120 Sycamore Pl.
Decatur,GA 30030
Round with Candice Dyer!
An evening of verbal fireworks in the form of poetry! Sycamore Place Gallery will host the poets Gordon Johnston, Gary Ballard, and Denise James on Sunday, September 10 at 5:30.
Donations accepted.
Mask optional outside,
Mask required inside
Sycamore Place Gallery
120 Sycamore Pl.
Decatur,GA 30030
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Yucatan Dreams
Suenos Yucatan
By Kelly Karim
Wander through the Yucatan in a dreamlike show of Kelly Karim's paintings, inspired by experiences and impressions of the Yucatan.
Join us on Saturday, March 4th
From 3pm til 5:30 at
Sycamore Place Gallery
120 Sycamore Pl,
Decatur, GA 30030
404-377-7747
We will be celebrating her new bilingual book called Yucatan Dreams Suenos Yucatan.
Masks required inside the gallery.
Mask optional outside in the courtyard.
Suenos Yucatan
By Kelly Karim
Wander through the Yucatan in a dreamlike show of Kelly Karim's paintings, inspired by experiences and impressions of the Yucatan.
Join us on Saturday, March 4th
From 3pm til 5:30 at
Sycamore Place Gallery
120 Sycamore Pl,
Decatur, GA 30030
404-377-7747
We will be celebrating her new bilingual book called Yucatan Dreams Suenos Yucatan.
Masks required inside the gallery.
Mask optional outside in the courtyard.
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On Flora Rosefsky’s actual birthday - Sunday, March 27, 2022-at 3:30pm - Flora will present a solo show, Retrospective: Flora Rosefsky Artworks 1972-2022 in conjunction with a program at Sycamore Place Gallery and Studios located at 120 Sycamore Place, Decatur. An artist conversation between Flora and Sycamore Place Gallery owner Sylvia Cross will be virtual. Audience participation is encouraged. If interested, email ms.sylvia.cross@gmail.com and a Zoom link will be shared.
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This Friday, November 12, Sycamore Place Gallery presents their Holiday Art show, " The Winter Lights" from 6:30-7:30 pm.
This is a masked vaccinated event.
Two films by Kenneth Anger presented by GSU professor of film studies, Kent Walls, will be shown in the courtyard at 7:30. following the opening.
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This Friday, June 4 at 8:30 in the courtyard at Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur:
Join us as we screen “The Wind” (Victor Sjostrom, 1928).
The First Lady of American Cinema, Lillian Gish, starred as a young woman called Letty and was a major creative force behind the film. The movie begins in the late 1800s as Letty moves west to Texas to join a frontier family after her prospects back east dry up. From there, “The Wind” inverts the traditional American western as the camera stays behind to experience what might be Letty’s descent into madness when the menfolk leave the homestead on classic cowboy adventures.
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Sycamore Place Gallery will.showcase 2 new artists in the courtyard this Friday, 9/18, from 4-9pm.
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Picket Fence Gallery created “to give something unexpected to the community”
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Please join us for a Holiday Show 'n Sale Saturday, December 7 from 5-7pm with selected art by the Artists and Students of Sycamore Place, Open Studios, Music with Moira Nelligan and Belly Dancing with Ms. Sunbeams In My Belly!
Come peruse and purchase the art, visit the Artists studios, and sign up for an Art or Dance class! Gift certificates will be available for purchase. Light fare and Lighter conversation will be free and family-friendly!
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"Flora & Fauna "is a celebration of nature depicted in paintings and collage by Cheryl Southern and Flora Rosefsky. The show opens November 17 from 2-4 at Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur. Music and poetry from 2:30-3:30 in the courtyard. Light fare will be served.
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On December 7 from 5-7 please join us for "Fauna - a Holiday Show & Sell" featuring the artists and students work of Sycamore Place .
Music and Bellydance Performance and her students can be enjoyed between 5:30-6:30. Light fare will be served.
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.. come join Sylvia Cross and the Artists of 120 Sycamore Place Gallery this Friday, May 24, to celebrate the Decatur Artwalk and our show entitled “Scrawls on the Walls”. Art by Sycamore resident Artists & Ms.Sylvia’s Students will be featured in the gallery.
Music and storytelling with Bill Taft and W8ing4UFO’s, Moira Nelligan, Mary May Dances & Dazzles, sidewalk chalk activities, Sara Amis Tarot Readings, and more are all part of the evening’s delights.
Beverages &Light Fare Served
May 24
6-9pm
120 Sycamore Place
Decatur 30030
www.decaturartclasses.com
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Lindy Wood’s “Paintings of Memory," works in oils on Masonite and canvas.
Please join us on Saturday,October 27, from 6-10 pm.
Wine and light fare served.
Please join 25 Little Women Artists at Sycamore Place Gallery Friday September 5 from 7-10 pm for viewing their art compiled in an altered book form examining “sisters” relationships. There will be Art, performances,song and lively discussions accompanied by light fare and fun. This is free and open to the public.
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Thursday, June 21 Ms.Sylvia and Ms.Pandra tell the Bee utiful Bee-sines of the Pollinators with a children’s storytelling and puppetmaking from 5:30-6:30 at Sycamore Place Gallery.
Adults,come relax from 7:30-8:30 with Pandra Williams who will tell the story for the over 21 group!:)
This is FREE and open to all.
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The Decatur Art Walk is this Friday, May 25, all around Decatur, including at the Sycamore Gallery!
http://decaturartsfestival.com/festival-events/artwalk-2/
#ArtWalk2018 #DecaturArtsFestival2018
Decatur Gallery Celebrates Legendary Artist/Musician
Join Sycamore Place Gallery from 7-10 p.m. on Friday, May 25 to celebrate the art and music of the late Whit Connah, former front man for Atlanta band Hair of the Dog. The band and special guests will pay homage to Connah’s unique brand of Cajun, blues and roots music in a live tribute performance. Beverages and light fare will be served. The evening kicks off a two week exhibit, Legacy of a Legend, featuring works by Connah and 13 resident artists.
Art birthday party!
Please join Us on December 2 from 5-8 pm at Sycamore Place Gallery for FUNand A potluck featuring the 13 Stupendous Studio Artistes and Marvelous Moira's Music Parlor!!!
Affordable Holiday ART and gift certificates for art & music classes will be available for purchase!!!
Holiday Art Camps will be held at Sycamore Place Gallery for ages 4-11 years .
For info:
call/text 404-377-7747
Miss Sylvia’s Drawing & Dreaming Workshop
Okefenokee Swamp with Naturalist Cathy J. Sakas
30 December 2017 through 2 January 2018
Leaders:
Art Director: Sylvia Cross; Owner, Sycamore Place Gallery and Studios
Professional Interpretive Naturalist: Cathy J. Sakas; B.S. Biology; M.Ed. Science
Location: Stephen Foster State Park near Fargo, Georgia
Accommodations: Comfortable Cabins with all amenities; 4 participants/cabin
Workshop Description: Enjoy physically active days with time for drawing and dreaming during this engaging workshop. Canoes are our magic carpets that let us experience the beauty and serenity of the famous Okefenokee Swamp quietly and respectfully. With the help of expert leaders’, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the complexities and delicate balance of this incredible national wildlife refuge while learning how to capture the Swamp’s natural beauty and interpret it abstractly. Combining the talents of Professional Interpretive Naturalist Cathy Sakas with that of Master Teaching Artist Sylvia Cross will yield a magical memoir for New Year's 2018.
Fee per Person: 4 = $525; 6 = $480; 8 = $395; 10 = $345
Itinerary:
Saturday, December 30
12PM Meet at Stephen Foster State Park Cabins (near Fargo, Georgia)
Check in Cabins; Lunch at Leaders’ Cabin
Orientation and itinerary review and expectations
Load canoes for short canoeing lesson; explore Billy’s Lake near canoe basin entrance
Supper in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up with help from participants
Evening discussion of Okefenokee Swamp natural history and Dream & Draw session
Sunday, December 31, New Year’s Eve
Breakfast prepared in Leaders’ Cabin with help from participants
Morning Dream & Draw incorporating images seen on yesterday’s explorations
Lunch in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up with help from participants
Load canoes to explore south end of Billy’s Lake
Afternoon Dream & Draw session incorporating images seen on today’s explorations
Supper in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up with help from participants
Evening discussion of natural history and ideas to interpret nature through art
Ring in the New Year Champagne Celebration!
Monday, January 1, New Year’s Day
Breakfast in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up with help from participants
Lunch and snacks packed individually for the day
Load canoes to explore north end of Billy’s Lake
Walking tour on Billy’s Island
Side paddling trip up Minnie’s Lake Run
Supper in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up by leaders with help from participants
Evening discussion of natural history and Dream & Draw session
Tuesday, January 2
Breakfast in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up with help from participants
Wrap Up Dream & Draw Session
Pack up and check out of cabins
Head for Home by 11AM
Ms. Sylvia has been drawing and dreaming for over 50+ years since she was born in Savannah, Georgia. Her earliest memories are of seeing pictures in the grain of the wood paneling of her parents’ bedroom and of flying dreams that took her on trips through the sky. Sylvia graduated from Georgia State University with a BFA in Drawing & Painting. She owned the iconic Sylvia's Atomic Cafe in Atlanta and currently owns Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur. Sylvia lived in a tree house in Costa Rica where she rose with the sun and Howler Monkeys screaming. She lived in Verona, Italy and drove a blue bicycle through the village. And she drew her dreams. She uses the lyric of the present to create a visual memoir.
Cathy’s lifelong love of the ocean began on the Chesapeake Bay near her birth town of Portsmouth, Virginia. She earned a B.S. in Biology and a M.Ed. in Science from Armstrong State University in Savannah, Georgia. As a professional interpretive naturalist specializing in ocean and coastal environments Cathy leads wilderness educational expeditions. She wrote and co-produced two Emmy winning nature documentary series called Coastal Naturalist for Georgia Public Television and Secret Seashores, a single program. Cathy hosted and was naturalist for a multiple Telly award winning nature series of 66 programs for Turner South, The Natural South. During Cathy’s 15 years with NOAA she served as an ocean science educator and scientific diver and pilot of a one-person submersible. She was also an aquanaut spending nine days underwater working out of Aquarius Habitat to research coral reefs. Cathy loves teaching others about nature in wilderness places and her favorite place in the world is the Okefenokee Swamp. Decades ago two elderly gentlemen doctors gave Cathy her nickname, Swamp Goddess. Years later she added Goddess of the Glades and Goddess of the Deep to her sparkly tiara. Cathy spends her time now serving on way too many boards associated with organizations about oceans. When time allows she writes short stories about her adventures in wild places in hopes that readers will want to experience the great outdoors too.
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Roots Music Workshop starts at 4:00 (doors open at 3:30) and party starts at 6:00. I haven't set an end time- thinking 9/10ish.
The workshop is $30 and $45 if 2 students sign up together and is free to my current students.
Moira Nelligan <moiranelligan@icloud.com>
404-441-7848
Work on exhibit at Different Trains Gallery, Decatur, GA
Flora Rosefsky. Schach No. 2. Collage on paper with mixed media. 40 x 60 inches.
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Please join us for a Holiday Show 'n Sale Saturday, December 7 from 5-7pm with selected art by the Artists and Students of Sycamore Place, Open Studios, Music with Moira Nelligan and Belly Dancing with Ms. Sunbeams In My Belly!
Come peruse and purchase the art, visit the Artists studios, and sign up for an Art or Dance class! Gift certificates will be available for purchase. Light fare and Lighter conversation will be free and family-friendly!
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+++"Flora & Fauna "is a celebration of nature depicted in paintings and collage by Cheryl Southern and Flora Rosefsky. The show opens November 17 from 2-4 at Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur. Music and poetry from 2:30-3:30 in the courtyard. Light fare will be served.
On December 7 from 5-7 please join us for "Fauna - a Holiday Show & Sell" featuring the artists and students work of Sycamore Place .Music and Bellydance Performance and her students can be enjoyed between 5:30-6:30. Light fare will be served.
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.. come join Sylvia Cross and the Artists of 120 Sycamore Place Gallery this Friday, May 24, to celebrate the Decatur Artwalk and our show entitled “Scrawls on the Walls”. Art by Sycamore resident Artists & Ms.Sylvia’s Students will be featured in the gallery.
Music and storytelling with Bill Taft and W8ing4UFO’s, Moira Nelligan, Mary May Dances & Dazzles, sidewalk chalk activities, Sara Amis Tarot Readings, and more are all part of the evening’s delights.
Beverages &Light Fare Served
May 24
6-9pm
120 Sycamore Place
Decatur 30030
www.decaturartclasses.com
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Lindy Wood’s “Paintings of Memory," works in oils on Masonite and canvas.
Please join us on Saturday,October 27, from 6-10 pm.
Wine and light fare served.
Please join us on Saturday,October 27, from 6-10 pm.
Wine and light fare served.
Please join 25 Little Women Artists at Sycamore Place Gallery Friday September 5 from 7-10 pm for viewing their art compiled in an altered book form examining “sisters” relationships. There will be Art, performances,song and lively discussions accompanied by light fare and fun. This is free and open to the public.
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Thursday, June 21 Ms.Sylvia and Ms.Pandra tell the Bee utiful Bee-sines of the Pollinators with a children’s storytelling and puppetmaking from 5:30-6:30 at Sycamore Place Gallery.
Adults,come relax from 7:30-8:30 with Pandra Williams who will tell the story for the over 21 group!:)
This is FREE and open to all.
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The Decatur Art Walk is this Friday, May 25, all around Decatur, including at the Sycamore Gallery!
http://decaturartsfestival.com/festival-events/artwalk-2/
#ArtWalk2018 #DecaturArtsFestival2018
Decatur Gallery Celebrates Legendary Artist/Musician
Join Sycamore Place Gallery from 7-10 p.m. on Friday, May 25 to celebrate the art and music of the late Whit Connah, former front man for Atlanta band Hair of the Dog. The band and special guests will pay homage to Connah’s unique brand of Cajun, blues and roots music in a live tribute performance. Beverages and light fare will be served. The evening kicks off a two week exhibit, Legacy of a Legend, featuring works by Connah and 13 resident artists.
Art birthday party!
Please join Us on December 2 from 5-8 pm at Sycamore Place Gallery for FUNand A potluck featuring the 13 Stupendous Studio Artistes and Marvelous Moira's Music Parlor!!!Affordable Holiday ART and gift certificates for art & music classes will be available for purchase!!!
Holiday Art Camps will be held at Sycamore Place Gallery for ages 4-11 years .
For info:
call/text 404-377-7747
Miss Sylvia’s Drawing & Dreaming Workshop
Okefenokee Swamp with Naturalist Cathy J. Sakas
30 December 2017 through 2 January 2018
Leaders:
Art Director: Sylvia Cross; Owner, Sycamore Place Gallery and Studios
Professional Interpretive Naturalist: Cathy J. Sakas; B.S. Biology; M.Ed. Science
Location: Stephen Foster State Park near Fargo, Georgia
Accommodations: Comfortable Cabins with all amenities; 4 participants/cabin
Workshop Description: Enjoy physically active days with time for drawing and dreaming during this engaging workshop. Canoes are our magic carpets that let us experience the beauty and serenity of the famous Okefenokee Swamp quietly and respectfully. With the help of expert leaders’, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the complexities and delicate balance of this incredible national wildlife refuge while learning how to capture the Swamp’s natural beauty and interpret it abstractly. Combining the talents of Professional Interpretive Naturalist Cathy Sakas with that of Master Teaching Artist Sylvia Cross will yield a magical memoir for New Year's 2018.
Fee per Person: 4 = $525; 6 = $480; 8 = $395; 10 = $345
Itinerary:
Saturday, December 30
12PM Meet at Stephen Foster State Park Cabins (near Fargo, Georgia)
Check in Cabins; Lunch at Leaders’ Cabin
Orientation and itinerary review and expectations
Load canoes for short canoeing lesson; explore Billy’s Lake near canoe basin entrance
Supper in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up with help from participants
Evening discussion of Okefenokee Swamp natural history and Dream & Draw session
Sunday, December 31, New Year’s Eve
Breakfast prepared in Leaders’ Cabin with help from participants
Morning Dream & Draw incorporating images seen on yesterday’s explorations
Lunch in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up with help from participants
Load canoes to explore south end of Billy’s Lake
Afternoon Dream & Draw session incorporating images seen on today’s explorations
Supper in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up with help from participants
Evening discussion of natural history and ideas to interpret nature through art
Ring in the New Year Champagne Celebration!
Monday, January 1, New Year’s Day
Breakfast in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up with help from participants
Lunch and snacks packed individually for the day
Load canoes to explore north end of Billy’s Lake
Walking tour on Billy’s Island
Side paddling trip up Minnie’s Lake Run
Supper in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up by leaders with help from participants
Evening discussion of natural history and Dream & Draw session
Tuesday, January 2
Breakfast in Leaders’ Cabin and cleaned up with help from participants
Wrap Up Dream & Draw Session
Pack up and check out of cabins
Head for Home by 11AM
Ms. Sylvia has been drawing and dreaming for over 50+ years since she was born in Savannah, Georgia. Her earliest memories are of seeing pictures in the grain of the wood paneling of her parents’ bedroom and of flying dreams that took her on trips through the sky. Sylvia graduated from Georgia State University with a BFA in Drawing & Painting. She owned the iconic Sylvia's Atomic Cafe in Atlanta and currently owns Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur. Sylvia lived in a tree house in Costa Rica where she rose with the sun and Howler Monkeys screaming. She lived in Verona, Italy and drove a blue bicycle through the village. And she drew her dreams. She uses the lyric of the present to create a visual memoir.
Cathy’s lifelong love of the ocean began on the Chesapeake Bay near her birth town of Portsmouth, Virginia. She earned a B.S. in Biology and a M.Ed. in Science from Armstrong State University in Savannah, Georgia. As a professional interpretive naturalist specializing in ocean and coastal environments Cathy leads wilderness educational expeditions. She wrote and co-produced two Emmy winning nature documentary series called Coastal Naturalist for Georgia Public Television and Secret Seashores, a single program. Cathy hosted and was naturalist for a multiple Telly award winning nature series of 66 programs for Turner South, The Natural South. During Cathy’s 15 years with NOAA she served as an ocean science educator and scientific diver and pilot of a one-person submersible. She was also an aquanaut spending nine days underwater working out of Aquarius Habitat to research coral reefs. Cathy loves teaching others about nature in wilderness places and her favorite place in the world is the Okefenokee Swamp. Decades ago two elderly gentlemen doctors gave Cathy her nickname, Swamp Goddess. Years later she added Goddess of the Glades and Goddess of the Deep to her sparkly tiara. Cathy spends her time now serving on way too many boards associated with organizations about oceans. When time allows she writes short stories about her adventures in wild places in hopes that readers will want to experience the great outdoors too.
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Roots Music Workshop starts at 4:00 (doors open at 3:30) and party starts at 6:00. I haven't set an end time- thinking 9/10ish.
The workshop is $30 and $45 if 2 students sign up together and is free to my current students.
Moira Nelligan <moiranelligan@icloud.com>
404-441-7848
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Price available upon request at Different Trains Gallery
My work in the news
www.FloraRosefsky.com
flora@FloraRosefsky.com
Tel: 404.633.7896
Mobile: 404.213.6498
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Tea Dance in May !
Tea Dance
This & Every
Sunday
In May
At 120 Sycamore Place
Gallery&Studios Decatur
30030
4-6PM
$10-pp
Lite fare served
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Maggie and Jimmy with Ms.Sylvia's Lantern "Bee Goode" in the lantern parade.
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SGCI ATL 2017 is here, and you're invited to 3 print exhibition openings in Decatur, this Thursday, March 16th, 5-9pm...
19th Century British Prints • Decatur Arts Alliance Gallery • 5-8pm
Prints by Steve Dininno • Upstairs & to the Left at Brick Store Pub • 5-8pm
Contemporary British Prints • Sycamore Place Gallery • 6-9pm • featuring 10 artists, live jazz by P Jazz & craft beers from 3 Taverns.
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Four years ago Yellow and her Insane Jane Players played The Earl the night Sylvia returned from Mexico. She returns to Atlanta and Decatur for Sylvias Birthday on July 30 at Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur.
Doors open at 7.
Acoustic set 8.
Rock n Roll at 9.
$ 10- donation at the door
Friday May 27th, 6-9pm. The title of the show is "Human Nature: A ceramic portrayal of the fears and anxieties that invade, invoke, and inspire us". It will be a complete series of ceramics, paintings, and mixed media.
"Elise Roche is a visual artist who just recently graduated from the Lamar Dodd school of Art at the University of Georgia. Working in various mediums and techniques she has created an artistic voice she uses to help others find theirs. She will be beginning her Master's Degree in Art Therapy at Florida State University in the fall, and her career path has inspired the majority of her work. the Human Nature show is a theme Elise has been working on throughout her undergraduate career, inspired by therapeutic processes, and the mental ailments that so often lay just below an individuals' surface, that are so begging to be recognized."
Previous Events
Please come to the "Holiday Delights Art Show & Sale" at Sycamore Place Gallery & Studios on Saturday November 21 from 7-10 pm. Featured is fine art work by Flora Rosefsky, Allison Shockley ("Floaters " pictured below) ,Sylvia Cross,Lisa Alembik and Cheryl Southern.;Emerging Artists Student Work and Artists Open Studios . This is a family friendly event .
W8ting4UFOs featuring wordsmith Bill Taft takes place at 9.
Light Refreshments will be served.
Tea Dance in May !
Tea Dance
This & Every
Sunday
In May
At 120 Sycamore Place
Gallery&Studios Decatur
30030
4-6PM
$10-pp
Lite fare served
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Maggie and Jimmy with Ms.Sylvia's Lantern "Bee Goode" in the lantern parade.
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19th Century British Prints • Decatur Arts Alliance Gallery • 5-8pm
Prints by Steve Dininno • Upstairs & to the Left at Brick Store Pub • 5-8pm
Contemporary British Prints • Sycamore Place Gallery • 6-9pm • featuring 10 artists, live jazz by P Jazz & craft beers from 3 Taverns.
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Four years ago Yellow and her Insane Jane Players played The Earl the night Sylvia returned from Mexico. She returns to Atlanta and Decatur for Sylvias Birthday on July 30 at Sycamore Place Gallery in Decatur.
Doors open at 7.
Acoustic set 8.
Rock n Roll at 9.
$ 10- donation at the door
Friday May 27th, 6-9pm. The title of the show is "Human Nature: A ceramic portrayal of the fears and anxieties that invade, invoke, and inspire us". It will be a complete series of ceramics, paintings, and mixed media.
"Elise Roche is a visual artist who just recently graduated from the Lamar Dodd school of Art at the University of Georgia. Working in various mediums and techniques she has created an artistic voice she uses to help others find theirs. She will be beginning her Master's Degree in Art Therapy at Florida State University in the fall, and her career path has inspired the majority of her work. the Human Nature show is a theme Elise has been working on throughout her undergraduate career, inspired by therapeutic processes, and the mental ailments that so often lay just below an individuals' surface, that are so begging to be recognized."
Previous Events
Please come to the "Holiday Delights Art Show & Sale" at Sycamore Place Gallery & Studios on Saturday November 21 from 7-10 pm. Featured is fine art work by Flora Rosefsky, Allison Shockley ("Floaters " pictured below) ,Sylvia Cross,Lisa Alembik and Cheryl Southern.;Emerging Artists Student Work and Artists Open Studios . This is a family friendly event .
W8ting4UFOs featuring wordsmith Bill Taft takes place at 9.
Light Refreshments will be served.
Sycamore Place Gallery and Studios Tour
Join Art Partners on Saturday, November 14, as we tour Sycamore Place Gallery and Studios to meet five artists at their studios and to enjoy an artists talk program and gallery exhibition of their work. Hosted by gallery owner Sylvia Cross and artist Flora Rosefsky, we will have the opportunity to meet artists Lisa Alembik, Allison Shockley, and Cheryl Southern and to hear about the inspirations for their work, which includes drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, and mixed media.
Sylvia Cross has been a fixture in the Atlanta arts scene for 25 years, except for a brief departure to live in a treehouse in Costa Rica and in Verona, Italy. She is a visual artist who teaches toddlers through adults in a comprehensive format where the environment complements the art. She uses a freeform, folk-art type of process.
Flora Rosefsky is a collage and mixed-materials artist. She incorporates photography in her recent cutout abstract collage work and some mixed-media work using fabric with collage and drawing. She participates in juried, invitational, and solo shows, and her art has been collected by both institutions and individuals.
The artists:
Lisa Alembik – drawing and painting
Sylvia Cross – mixed media and painting
Flora Rosefsky – collage and mixed materials
Allison Shockley – mixed-media sculpture and painting
Cheryl Southern – painting
The other Sycamore Place members comprise a diverse group of over-thirteen artists, including one writer. They may be in their studios when we visit.
Sycamore Place Gallery and Studios
120 Sycamore Place
Decatur, Georgia 30030
404-660-9967
Please click below to reserve your space!
RSVP TODAY
To learn more about Art Partners, please e-mail us.
Sylvia Cross has been a fixture in the Atlanta arts scene for 25 years, except for a brief departure to live in a treehouse in Costa Rica and in Verona, Italy. She is a visual artist who teaches toddlers through adults in a comprehensive format where the environment complements the art. She uses a freeform, folk-art type of process.
Flora Rosefsky is a collage and mixed-materials artist. She incorporates photography in her recent cutout abstract collage work and some mixed-media work using fabric with collage and drawing. She participates in juried, invitational, and solo shows, and her art has been collected by both institutions and individuals.
The artists:
Lisa Alembik – drawing and painting
Sylvia Cross – mixed media and painting
Flora Rosefsky – collage and mixed materials
Allison Shockley – mixed-media sculpture and painting
Cheryl Southern – painting
The other Sycamore Place members comprise a diverse group of over-thirteen artists, including one writer. They may be in their studios when we visit.
Sycamore Place Gallery and Studios
120 Sycamore Place
Decatur, Georgia 30030
404-660-9967
Please click below to reserve your space!
RSVP TODAY
To learn more about Art Partners, please e-mail us.
Woody Parks,a longtime student of Sylvia Cross and Sycamore Place Gallery is showing a new collection of work at Candler Park's San Francisco Coffee Roasting Co. for November.
Sunday Sept. 20th, 2-4pm at Sycamore Place Gallery & Studios in Decatur. Flora Rosefsky solo exhibition and open studio this Sunday afternoon. CUTOUTS: Storytelling & Dreamlike Visions. Paper and Photograph collage cutouts. Sycamore Place Gallery & Studios. 120 Sycamore Place – Decatur 30030. Around the corner from Feillini’s Pizza between Commerce Drive and E.Howard. Sept. 4- through October, 2015. Hours by appointment. ms.sylvia.cross@gmail.com
Night Music
An evening of Visualized Music videos by Roxanne Rea
In collaboration with composers Bill Rea, Debra Kaye, Dick Robinson
October 10, 201
Suggested Donation $15
A Concert of Electroacoustic Music
Dick Robinson April 26, 2015 @ 3 PM
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