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Sue Fox

Orisa! Orisha! Orixa! & Habit Opening Receptions

Thursday, July 3, 2025, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM

Join us as we celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions, in the North Gallery, experience Orisa! Orisha! Orixa! by Victor Mora, guest curated by Christopher Swain. In the Ronnie Lukasiewicz Gallery, explore Habit, by artists Chris Moss and Sue Fox. 



Pants

One Day Sewing Workshop: Sew Your Own Style: Pants, Shorts, or Skirt Workshop with Sydney Tamborello 

Saturday, July 26, 2025, from 10 AM - 2 PM

$20, 18 yrs and older 

Ready to take your sewing skills to the next level, or dive in for the first time? Join us for a hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop where you’ll create a custom pair of pants, shorts, or a skirt from start to finish.
In this 4-hour guided session, you’ll learn the fundamentals of garment construction, including pattern reading, cutting fabric, sewing seams, and adding waistbands or simple closures. You’ll walk away with a handmade, wearable piece tailored to your style and fit, and the confidence to keep sewing on your own!
Please bring a pair of pants to class that you like the fit of. We’ll be using them as a template for a no-pattern hack.

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Lindsey

Summer Series: Thaw Line Artist Talk With Josh Skinner & Lindsey Kennedy

Thursday, July 31, 2025, at 5:30 PM

The photography exhibition Thaw Line centers the natural world — both in its intimate details and expansive landscapes — and humanity’s shifting relationship with it. Join us for an artist talk with featured photographers Josh Skinner and Lindsey Kennedy as they share insights into their work and process. 



Tom

Summer Series: Tom Schram Artist Talk in the South Gallery

Thursday, August 7, 2025, at 5:30 pm 

The work in Schram’s exhibition primarily uses post-consumer materials in place of raw new materials. Schram commits to using only the amount of a certain material that has serendipitously come into his life. This practice has fostered a long interest and investigation into a material’s history and various lives, most recently leading to a focus on how we, as a society, consume and what we waste. Join us for an artist talk with Tom Schram in the South Gallery.  



Orisha

Family Day Book Reading In Association With Orisa! Orisha! Orixa! in the North Gallery

August 9, 2025, from 12 - 2 PM

Journey into the mystical and magical world of ancient West African mythology and meet the Orishas during a Family Day book reading in the North Gallery, followed by a corresponding art activity.  



flower

One Day Metal Enameling Workshop: Metal Enameling 101 with Leslie Litt 

Saturday, August 23, 2025, from 10 AM - 4 PM

$30, 18 yrs and older 

Learn basic techniques for fusing glass to copper plates. Make enameled earrings through sifting, painting, and sgraffito. Enamel and the cut shapes of copper will be supplied, and participants will take home a finished piece of jewelry! 

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LYNDON HOUSE ARTS CENTER NEWS



Hiring

We're Hiring! 

The Lyndon House Arts Center is currently accepting applications for a part-time Art Preparator Program Leader. This position supports the installation of exhibitions and the overall care of gallery spaces. 

Applications are open now through Thursday, July 3, 2025, at 11:59 PM.

Link to job information here: Job Bulletin 


EXHIBITIONS


ON VIEW:

Pretend by Anne McInnis

Pretend: Anne McInnis

May 5, 2025 - July 12, 2025

Lobby Case

In her installation Pretend, Anne McInnis’ layered works on washi papers and silk organza explore the impermanence of identity. The light, gossamer pieces float within space, creating a patchwork of echoing shapes and forms. Utilizing the process of screen printing, McInnis repeats the motifs of clouds and mirrors to visualize our shifting natures, identities that are temporal and illusive. The use of text underscores the blurred line between reality and pretense, encouraging viewers to reflect on how this concept manifests in their own lives.


ON VIEW:

Jean Gray Mohs

Pendulum: Jean Gray Mohs

June 5, 2025 - August 30, 2025

Lower Atrium

Rooted in the American South, Mohs' work explores the tension between resilience and vulnerability, shaped by a life of chronic illness and an organ transplant. As an artist and mother, she moves between the physicality of materials and the fragility of the body, reflecting on survival, care, and kinship. She is drawn to the landscape and traditions of the South, where storytelling and craft carry histories of both struggle and grace.

Mohs' practice investigates the body as both structure and shelter, likened to architecture and foundation, where puzzled pieces are sewn, bound, and mended together. She minimizes and abstracts body parts, distilling them to their bare essentials to reveal the intricate mechanisms and symbiotic connections between skeleton and skin, spirit and flesh, organs and cavities. The interplay of structural forms and narrative inquiry manifests in organically shaped wooden objects that hold memory, honor the body, and invite connection.

Photo Credit: Matt Ramey


ON VIEW:

Victoria Dugger

Peach Fuzz: Victoria Dugger

June 5, 2025 - August 30, 2025

West Gallery

Victoria Dugger's work explores identity, disability, and Southern heritage through a reimagined Southern Gothic lens. As a disabled Black woman, she navigates themes of isolation, desire, and visibility, blending vulnerability, beauty, and the grotesque. Her figures--exaggerated, anthropomorphic stand-ins for her own body--are adorned with pearls, frosting, and glitter, merging opulence with decay.

Drawing from Southern domestic iconography, Dugger's work plays with body horror, humor, and excess, challenging ideas of beauty, deformity, and survival. She reflects on the complexities of girlhood and femininity, reclaiming space for bodies often overlooked or misunderstood.


ON VIEW:

Water Meadows

Water Meadows: Yanira Vissepó

June 5, 2025 - August, 30, 2025

Upper Atrium

Yanira Vissepó’s textile paintings are centered around gradient linocuts of native plants and the natural terrain of both her birthplace in the Caribbean Sea and her adopted home in the American South. She uses methods such as stain painting, linoleum cut-outs, and hand embroidery on canvas to portray the rich biodiversity and resilience of botanicals endemic to both Puerto Rico and Tennessee. Through these techniques, she examined the connectivity of plants across these regions, merging flora native to both lands while researching their holistic properties. In doing so, she weaves her own healing process into the diasporic experience. 


ON VIEW:

Thaw Line

Thaw Line: Josh Skinner & Lindsey Kennedy

June 5, 2025 – August 30, 2025

Upper Atrium

The photography exhibition Thaw Line centers the natural world—both in its intimate details and expansive landscapes—and humanity’s shifting relationship with it. In Josh Skinner’s black-and-white images, the human presence is always felt, even when physically absent: an empty deer stand, an abandoned construction site, ghostly trailers nestled in the woods. These are quiet traces of how we’ve imprinted ourselves onto the land. And yet, while we may play upon the earth and one day be buried beneath it, the images ask whether we are ever truly of it.

Lindsey Kennedy’s photographs, rendered in a subtly muted yet richly textured palette, capture the elemental power of nature—blazing fire, crystalline waterfalls frozen mid-cascade, the relentless spread of invasive plant life. Her work quietly reflects on the delicate balance between destruction and beauty. It’s unclear whether we’ll be overtaken by nature’s grandeur, absorbed into its quiet splendor, or remain the catalyst of its unraveling.


ON VIEW:

Controlled Burn: Tom Schram

Controlled Burn: Tom Schram

June 5, 2025 - August 30, 2025

South Gallery

The work in Schram’s exhibition primarily uses post-consumer materials in place of raw new materials. He sees these used materials as having come to the end of their human-intended functional lifecycle. As they cross his path, and before entombment in a landfill, he collects them. This strategy demands innovation and planning due to scarcity. Schram commits to using only the amount of a certain material that has serendipitously come into his life. This practice has fostered a long interest and investigation into a material’s history and various lives, most recently leading to a focus on how we, as a society, consume and what we waste, investigating the industrial processes that reshape natural resources into modern consumables, as well as the general perception of these consumables as carrying little to no cost.



ON VIEW:

Forging Connections: Barbara Mann

Forging Connections: Metal Art Inspired by the Marine Carbon Cycle – Barbara Mann

June 5, 2025 - August 30, 2025

Atrium Cases

Barbara Mann is captivated by the intricate complexity and beauty of the natural world. Her ongoing body of work delves into the origins of life on Earth, the process of evolution, and the carbon cycle. As a jeweler and metalsmith, she has a deep fascination with materials and the methods used to transform them. Inspired by groundbreaking scientific discoveries and emerging technologies, Mann is driven by the evolving ways we understand and perceive life on Earth. To bring order to the complexity and chaos of nature, she crafts objects that serve as distilled, metaphorical expressions of both observation and thought.


UPCOMING:

Chris Moss

Habit: Chris Moss & Sue Fox

July 3, 2025 - October 11, 2025

Lukasiewicz Gallery  

Chris Moss and Sue Fox had never met before the opening of this exhibition, living in different geographical states and with no obvious personal connections. Yet their works share a striking formal kinship: a distinct palette and careful division of the picture plane, though they arrive at it through different means and with different objectives. Despite their separate paths, both artists build visual languages that are deeply personal, process-driven, and charged with emotional depth.  

Together, Moss and Fox offer parallel explorations of form and color, playing with the viewer’s perception, concealing and revealing forms of common imagery amongst a camouflage of multifaceted hues. Their works provide a journey through abstracted terrains and complex emotional landscapes, charted with devotion and care. 

An opening reception will be held on Thursday, July 3, 2025, from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM.


UPCOMING:

Orisha

ORISA! ORISHA! ORIXA!  

An Exhibition of Illustrations by Afro-Cuban Artist Victor Mora, guest curated by Christopher Swain  

July 3, 2025 - October 11, 2025 

North Gallery 

Journey into the mystical and magical world of ancient West African mythology and meet the Orishas! These colorful and unique characters are all connected with nature and specific aspects of our daily human existence. Through this exhibition, you will be introduced to a few of the most popular and well-known Orishas as they come to life through vivid illustrations and symbolism conceived by Havana, Cuba born artist Victor Mora. These deities are found in several belief systems practiced around the planet including Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

Opening reception Thursday, July 3, 2025 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM 


GET INVOLVED



Open Studios Membership

Open Studio Membership

$65/month

Come tour our art studios and consider signing up for an open studios membership. Our studio monitor, Noah Lagle, will be conducting orientations every Saturday at 11am for renewing and new members. For more info email noah.lagle@accgov.com



Volunteer at the Lyndon House Arts Center

Volunteer at The Arts Center!

We're always looking for volunteers to help with arts education, workshops, exhibitions, and events. If you're interested in volunteering sign up here! If you have questions about volunteering, give us a call at 706-613-3623. We're currently looking for volunteers to help out at our 50th Juried Exhibition Opening Reception on Thursday, March 13th, please sign up here.



Third Thursday

3rd Thurs!

We are proud to be members of Third Thursday — the monthly evening of art in Athens, Georgia.
All exhibitions are free and open to the public from 6pm-8pm. The schedule and each venue’s location and hours of operation are regularly updated on 3thurs.org.



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