Everyone Meet Amy:

Amy is a photgraphy major turned art history major at Kennesaw State University. Originally born in Chattanooga, TN she moved here at age 15 and says shes been loving every second of it. She’s been working at her dad’s business AmyCo.Relocation for the last 10 years (which is actually named after her, sweet right?) and says she likes the feeling of working at a small business and felt like that feeling translated well when she started interning. Her motives for the future are to work in a gallery setting and be surrounded by things creative like herself. So if you’re ever in the store on Saturday afternoons you’ll see her here working and smiling, so come on in!

Here at Young Blood, we rely on our interns a great deal. Since they’re so important to us, we thought we’d start introducing them to you.

Meet Madison Folks, Clerk Intern:

Madison was born and raised in Midtown, Atlanta and has been a member of the Young Blood family since the she was 10. She frequented our old location at Grant Park with her mom growing up. She now attends Oberlin College and Conservancy in Oberlin, Ohio. She originally went in as a Pre-Med student. However, after taking Cell and Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry simultaneously she realized she wasn’t satisfied without a little bit of art in her life. She is now majoring in Chemistry to fulfill her love of science partnered with Art History to quell her love of art. With these two majors, Madison plans on going into Art Conservation where she’ll have the best of both worlds!

Come check out our friend Anya’s performance!! Flux Projects and Anya Liftig have come together to create a performance piece by Liftig that will be her most physically challenging performance to date. The event will take place Saturday, July 7th at the Edgewood Avenue Overpass. There will also be an Artist Talk the previous Thursday, June 28 at Whitespace Gallery. For all other information check out Flux’s page about the performance here.

We just got a fresh new batch of tanks and shirts by Atlanta based designers, ATLAST!

Support local artists, come in and grab em while they’re here! Also check out their other stuff online here!

$WUDDUP ERRBODY$

The Creatives Project and The Addo Foundation are launching a city-wide art supply drive to help raise supplies that will be used for a series of art projects within struggling schools arts programs, as well as unifying the city’s art strolls behing a common cause! An art bin will be located within our gallery and boutique as well as many other Atlanta galleries. The drive started yesterday and will last through August 31st. So if you have anything you can give please come on by and make a difference, as well as checking out our current exhibit and boutique!

For more info check out The Creatives Project website where they have a list of all the galleries involved and a list of what is needed. Check out the site here!

Thanks for all your help!

Last saturday was the opening for Andrea Fremiotti’s solo exhibit titled

Postured Relationships.

Fremiotti is an Atlanta based commercial photographer and digital artist, for more info on Fremiotti and the show check out our other post here.The artist Andrea Fremiotti to the left hangin out with the sweet spread.oh and there was this guy

You can check out Fremiotti’s pieces on our flickr here or better yet just swing on by the gallery and say wussup. Thanks to those that came out, well be ready to see you guys again next month.

Chad and Meghan Nelson are married ceramic artists who reside in Cullman, Alabama.  From their website, “We are two artists who just so happen to be married. After graduating college and giving the business world a try, we decided to quit our jobs and start an art studio. We teach classes, travel to art shows, and generally do what we can to make ends meet. Life is never boring around here!”

Chad and Meghan visited us in person on Friday and left us with an amazing assortment of their products. Here’s a sample of their style of work:

You can find Nelson Studio on Facebook Here. Come into the shop and check out the lively bunch of mugs we have! Every mug is different and they are each personally named by the artists. Thanks for visiting our shop, Chad and Meghan!

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