🔦 Pattern. Protest. Projection.

Inside the Gallery, Outside the Frame July 9 — This edition of Sketchbook is shaped by two conversations with curators who are thinking deeply about what Atlanta sees.  At the High Museum, Lauren Tate Baeza brings new attention to South African artist Ezrom Legae in “Beasts,” a powerful exhibition channeling protest through animal form and line. Her reflections on Legae’s work and the decision to pair it with a participatory drawing space reveal a quiet kind of curation grounded in care and clarity. Across town and eight stories up, Gregory Zinman is preparing to screen Jodie Mack’s “The Grand Bizarre” as part of the Off the Wall @ 725 series. Mack’s hand-animated textile film is vibrant, percussive, and global in scope. Zinman’s choice to show it publicly on the side of a building, for free, asks viewers to consider what kinds of images deserve our attention. Whether indoors or outdoors, drawn or projected, both projects invite us to see familiar forms in entirely new ways. Here’s to careful curation. —Sherri Movies on the Town continues in July! SPONSORED BY TOWN BROOKHAVEN Movies on the Town, an annual summer movie series at Town Brookhaven, continues on Thursdays through July 24! Gather on the green space for this family-friendly activity with movies beginning at dusk. Bring a blanket or chair, order dinner from one of our restaurants, and bring it out to the green space. The series includes movies perfect for family nights, date nights, girls’ nights, or nights out with a few friends! Look for a DIY movie-themed craft activity and face painting before our screening on July 17! Popcorn is provided by LOOK Dine-In Cinema while supplies last. ➞ Don’t forget, you can shop or visit service-oriented merchants before the movies, too. Learn more here! Still via Jodie Mack Global symbols, local walls  At this month’s Off the Wall @ 725 screening, curator Gregory Zinman screens “The Grand Bizarre,” a 60-minute textile animation opus by Jodie Mack. Think global shipping labels, hand-dyed fabrics, and a bouncing pop beat reframed as experimental cinema.   A look behind the Beltline screening. Image courtesy of the High Museum of Art  Drawing protest, drawing peace  “Ezrom Legae: Beasts” is the late artist’s first U.S. museum exhibition. At the High Museum, curator Lauren Tate Baeza invites viewers to sit, sketch, and see how the South African artist used animal symbolism to resist apartheid.   Read our Q&A with Baeza. Image via Deonna Janone  Art Happenings  Home V.1: Gimmie Shelter – opening reception | 6:30 p.m., July 10 | Fourth Floor Gallery, Decatur Library.   Artist Talk: Deonna Janone & Jessica Valderrama | 6:30 p.m., July 10 | Reeves House Visual Arts Center.    Art at the Avenue 2025 – opening reception |  5 p.m., July 12 | The Avenue West Cobb. Post of the Week  Spin the Block returns.@camkirkfoundation invites photographers of all levels to join its next Beltline photo walk, happening Sun., July 13. Expect new views, fresh light, and a few surprises. Sign up here. See the post here.  Today’s Sketchbook was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke. The post 🔦 Pattern. Protest. Projection. appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta.