Atlanta's Subterranean Arts and Music Festival!

New Site

2011-04-06T09:04:00.000-07:00

We've moved to a new site. For information on the 3rd Annual Artlantis Arts and Music Festival - June 4th 2011 click here:

http://artlantisfestival.wordpress.com/

Thanks!

2010-07-05T08:37:00.000-07:00

This year's festival was amazing! Thanks so much to all the volunteers, vendors, bands, artists, and DHBC for making it possible. The music was amazing, the weather was perfect, the art was beautiful, and tons of people enjoyed themselves. We're looking forward to next year's art and music festival!

Performing Band: Mermaids

2010-06-04T09:46:00.000-07:00

Mermaids are perfect summer time music. They sound like a rad beach party with blunts and box wine aplenty.

Check out their tunes here.

Performing Band: Thy Mighty Contract

2010-06-04T09:32:00.000-07:00

"Thy Mighty Contract is made up of members of Blame Game, Fagstatic, I Would Set Myself on Fire For You, The Orphins, Narcolepsy, Gold Standard and SIDS. And we may just be awesome."

They are totally totally awesome. Check out easily the best local music video ever made for their song "Conjugal Freelance":

"Conjugal Freelance" by Thy Mighty Contract from Atlanta Stock Footage on Vimeo.

Check out their tunes here.

Performing Band: Lindsay Appel

2010-06-04T09:27:00.000-07:00

"As far as sound goes, my blend seems to be rather hard for folks to pin down. In my mind, it's a sultry mix of rock/blues/pop, with a healthy dose of shimmer and *spark*, throw in a dash of cinematic flair + a whole lot of sassafras, and on some sort of primitive level of definition, that equals the music that I write. When the charming likes of my aforementioned guys are added in, the songs motivate foot tappers and hip shakers, I get to stomp around on bigger stages, and the whole shebang gravitates closer to the perpetual music video parade march I've got playing in my head. All in all, a splendid good time!"

Check out her tunes here.

Exhibiting Artist: Ashley Anderson

2010-06-04T09:21:00.000-07:00

Rad Threadless submission

Check out more of his work here.

Performing Band: Mule Skinner MacQueen

2010-06-04T09:17:00.001-07:00

The lone returning act from Artlantis 2009.

Not much is known about the infamous Mule Skinner. The only documentation of his reckless life is this lone grainy video:

Performing Band: Buffalo Bangers

2010-06-04T09:11:00.000-07:00

Lindsey Elcessor (1/4 of Buffalo Bangers) is one of favorite new artists and frequent exhibitor at Beep Beep. We're still confused how you can be so good at two things!

Check out more tunes here.

Exhibiting Artist: Gregor Turk

2010-06-04T09:07:00.000-07:00

"The visual work I create primarily incorporates mapping imagery. Utilizing a variety of media, I tend to focus on the fundamental qualities of mapping: the mysteriousness, inherent biases, cultural authoritativeness, and ability to simultaneously represent and distort reality."

Check out more on his website.

Exhibiting Artists: Brett W. Thompson

2010-06-02T19:18:00.000-07:00

Chickenheads from Brett W. Thompson on Vimeo.

Brett currently lives in Atlanta, GA, and is currently the president of ASIFA-Atlanta (the local chapter of the international animation group ASIFA).

His work as been screened in the Atlanta Film Festival, the Atlanta Underground Film Festival, the Montezuma International Film Festival, and others. His film "Chickenheads" was also shown on PBA 30 (Atlanta PBS) on a show called "Atlanta Shorts" - see it here (interview at the end).

He has taught Flash to several people (including SCAD-Atlanta's animation club, 30 members of which showed up for the lesson), loves old cartoons, weird art, and creative people.

For more up to date news and drawings, see fluidtoons.blogspot.com.

Exhibiting Artists: Plastic Aztecs

2010-06-02T09:19:00.000-07:00

The Plastic Aztecs, an Atlanta based collective, marries a huge amount of inspirations into installations that attempt to fill new gaps of understanding and promote creative thinking. All members of the group actively pursue their own artistic and creative interests and uses these experiences and their explorative nature. The line up currently involves Erin Bassett, Becky Furey, Andrea Sanders, and Dorothy Stucki. No two shows are the same and they are all built around an idea that is attacked by all members to become a physical space for you to explore and enjoy.

Check out their website here.

Performing Band: El Fossil

2010-06-02T09:12:00.000-07:00

Two words: Surf Metal

Check out some of their tunes here.

Artlantis prview from Creative Loafing!

2010-06-02T09:06:00.000-07:00

You can read the whole article here.

Participating artist Lucha Rodriguez

June is going to kick my ass in the best way. Between a month’s worth of Art on the BeltLine performances and installations, and, like, everyone having a gallery opening, it’s shaping up to be a deliciously exhausting month. The big kick-off: ARTLANTIS coming back to sing praise to the underground art gods on the stoop of Druid Hills Baptist Church on Saturday, June 5. Come get you some religion, son!

ARTLANTIS is a festival aimed at highlighting local bourgeoning artists and bands, organized by Atlanta emerging art champions Mark Basehore and James McConnell of Beep Beep Gallery. As a follow up to last year’s inaugural event, the boys of Beep Beep are bringing their lowbrow sensibilities and penchant for throwing awesome parties to the corner of Ponce de Leon and North Highland. A full gallery show will offer affordable wares from artists like Plastic Aztecs, Evereman, CL cover artist Joe Tsambiras, and certified art cool kid R. Land – for starters. MINT Gallery, Eyedrum, Kibbee Gallery and WonderRoot will also be manning tents at the event with even more tasty treats for your visual consumption, and information about their organizations. Bottom line: if you’re looking for a crash course in underground art in Atlanta (and a steamy summer block party while you’re at it), this is the place to go.

Plus, there will be food and beer (next door at the Righteous Room.) Who doesn’t like beer and food?

Even if you don’t give a damn about art, come for the music; psychedelic darlings Carnivores will be there, along with other local favorites Abby Go Go, El Fossil, Mermaids, Buffalo Bangers, and more. And when the whole scene gets just too hip to deal with, Mule Skinner MacQueen will be on hand to take the edge off with his mountain dreamy folky greatness.

This summer appears to be all about showing love to the creative southern subterraneans and exalting the unsung art heroes – ARTLANTIS and Art on the BeltLine in June, Gather Atlanta (a conference that brings together movers and shakers from hubs of emerging creative endeavors like MINT Gallery, BurnAway, ThoughtMarker and WonderRoot) in July, and street art / urbanism conference Living Walls in August…to name just a few. The hot days are giving the creative set in this town a hyper-productive fever this year, and events like ARTLANTIS are giving them a much-needed platform for their fervor.
Want more? Scoot yourself to the ARTLANTIS blog.

ARTLANTIS Music & Arts Festival. June 5. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Free. Druid Hills Baptist Church, 1085 Ponce de Leon Ave. www.artlantisfestival.blogspot.com

Performing Band: Abby Go Go

2010-05-31T12:36:00.001-07:00

Who someone described as “Tom Petty meets My Bloody Valentine”, which is a pretty rad combo if you ask us.

Listen to their tunes here.

Artlantis in the AJC

2010-05-31T08:55:00.000-07:00

Find the whole article here.

Atlanta’s outdoor festival season continues in June with events revolving around art and creativity.

Organized by the folks at Beep Beep Gallery, one of Atlanta’s favorite lowbrow and contemporary art spaces, Artlantis returns June 5 to showcase local underground and emerging artists, as well as some of the city's more innovative musical acts. The following weekend, Art-B-Que takes a similar approach in the arts district of Avondale Estates. Here’s a look at each.

Artlantis

After a successful debut last June, Artlantis comes back to the front steps of Druid Hills Baptist Church at the intersection of Ponce de Leon Avenue and North Highland Avenue for a day of whimsical art, eclectic music, festival food and other fun. Famed local underground art hero R. Land created the logo for this year’s event. Affordably priced works by more than 50 Atlanta artists including Lucha Rodriguez, Plastic Aztecs, Evereman and Heather Elder will be featured.

While many of the participating artists have had their work displayed at Beep Beep, like-minded galleries such as Mint Gallery, Eyedrum, Kibbee and WonderRoot will also have tents with artwork and other information.

Artlantis also supports the local music scene with performances throughout the day. The juxtaposition of musical styles is just as varied as the artwork on display as Beep Beep favorite Muleskinner MacQueen plays a solo set of Appalachian folk songs and the Carnivores perform their lo-fi psychedelic pop. Other bands performing include the similarly psychedelic Mermaids, the alternative rock of the Buffalo Bangers and the post-punk of Thy Mighty Contract.

Exhibiting Artist: Lucha Rodriguez

2010-05-26T09:17:00.000-07:00

For more of Lucha's work check out her Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/lucha.art

Exhibiting Artist: Joe Tsambiras

2010-05-26T09:01:00.001-07:00

For more of Joe's work check out his blog: http://www.tsambiras.blogspot.com/

Performing Band: Carnivores

2010-04-27T11:06:00.000-07:00

To get a handle on where Carnivores takes their roots, it requires a psychedelic trek into lo-fi tropicalia, lounge and death-afflicted sound collages that defy easy categorization. Frobos – along with Nathaniel Higgins (guitar), Caitlin Lang (keyboard/vocals) and Tauseef Anam (drums) – splatters songs with a clutter of fuzz and musical inflections that come off busy at first. But every rhythm, melody and yearning voice is placed exactly where it's needed. The spirit of punk is undeniable in its presence, but the experimental bend of the songs is on par with the likes of Animal Collective, Faust and even the harmonic complexities of early Beach Boys records. - Chad Radford, Creative Loafing

Check out more at their myspace, and also peep this rad video by local artist Allen Taylor:

Booths update

2010-04-18T14:43:00.000-07:00

Great news! We're now planning on hosting a Craft Market as well as a Community area in addition to the Artists Market. If you're interested in having a booth email me asap. I'll begin confirming booths this week - we already have a sizable list of interested people.

The Return of ARTLANTIS 2010!

2010-03-25T08:42:00.001-07:00

ARTLANTIS
Arts and Music Festival
June 5, 2010

Lawn of the Druid Hills Baptist Church
(Corner of Ponce De Leon Ave and N.Highland Ave)

It's back!!!! After the success of last year's event, ARTLANTIS returns with a vengeance. This year's event will feature over 40 local artists booths, 11 local bands, games, food and drink, a full gallery of Beep Beep artists, and much much more!

Artists interested in booths contact mark@beepbeepgallery.com

We'll be updating frequently as we near the date, so check back to learn more details.

See you soon!

ARTlantis PHOTO CONTEST with Original Art Prizes!!!

2009-06-29T13:34:00.000-07:00

I'm planning a site for ARTlantis to make next year's festival more organized and easier to promote. In order to get some great pictures for the site we're having a PHOTO CONTEST! Please submit as many photos as you'd like. The best part isthat some of the ARTlantis artists have donated some of their work for prizes. We have 4 great prizes to give away!

PRIZES

- A goodie bag from Jenny Birdsong. A bag filled with 2 bookmarks, 5 buttons, 4 postcards, a 5x5 print and a keychain. ($34 worth of goodies!)

- You're very own Evereman "Crackhead". They're great for office tasks such as taking notes and keeping track of your calendar appointments. (Trucker hat not included).

- Kelly McKernan is offering one of her prints. They're beautiful and you get to pick your favorite!

- And last but not least Heather Elder (First Place - ARTlantis Juried Contest) is offering one of her "That's what friends are for" digital art prints.

DETAILS
Please email me (mark@beepbeepgallery) with your photo submissions. If you have a bunch you can burn them to a cd and drop them off at Beep Beep Gallery or you can use something like YouSendIt.com to send me a large zipped file of them. You can email me whenever you please but we'll be picking winners at the end of July.

Feel free to hit me up with any questions you might have and thanks for supporting local art and music!!!

- Mark Basehore

10 days of recovery

2009-06-16T14:32:00.000-07:00

Sure it took me 10 days to recover but I'm alive again and want to thank everyone for such a super fun day. ARTlantis brought out around 700 people to view some incredible and unconventional art as well as phenominal bands. The bands were a huge hit and all sounded great. The granite steps and column of the church made for an awesome stage and thanks to Judi Chicago the neighbors across the street got a free lap dance!

Super thanks go out to all the artists, artists friends, bands, volunteers, Criminal, Aurora, R.Land, the Jurors, and the staff at Druid Hills Baptist Church for being so helpful, supportive, and generous!

I really feel like ARTlantis made the whole festival thing much more enjoyable. Usually the booths at festivals host commercially boring reproduction artists from other states. Instead we hosted some of the best local and original art from emerging Atlanta-based artists. We also had a prestegious group of Jurors who awarded the first annual ARTlantis awards. More on that and our upcoming photo contest soon . . . (check back in a week or so)

ARTLANTIS Jury!

2009-06-05T13:47:00.000-07:00

We've asked an eclectic group of artists, gallery owners, curators, and journalists to act as jurors at this year's ARTLANTIS. Every artist is eligible for the best in show award.

Here's the jury:

Jerry Cullum - Arts writer / Editor at Large, Art Papers
http://counterforces.blogspot.com/

Felicia Feaster - Arts writer / Senior Editor, Atlantan Magazine
http://culturopolis.blogspot.com/

Ann-Marie Manker - Artist / Professor, SCAD Atlanta
http://mankerart.blogspot.com/

Jonathan Bouknight - Artist
http://www.jonathanbouknight.com/

Mike Germon - Artist / Thought Marker
http://thoughtmarker.blogspot.com/

Ben Grad - Arts writer / Burn Away
http://burnaway.org/

Maggie White - Artist / Co Owner, Young Blood Gallery and Boutique
http://www.youngbloodgallery.com/

Kelly Teasley - Artist / Co-Owner, Young Blood Gallery and Boutique
http://www.youngbloodgallery.com/

ARTLANTIS Band Schedule!

2009-06-05T09:49:00.000-07:00

11am: Adams Jr.

12pm: Mule Skinner Macqueen

1pm: The Dewar Brothers

2pm: Filthy McNasty

3pm: The Back Pockets

4pm: Book of Colors

5pm: Ocha La Rocha

6pm: Judi Chicago

Performing Bands: THE DEWAR BROTHERS

2009-06-05T09:31:00.000-07:00

The Dewar Brothers are the lone out of towners this year coming all the way from Tallahassee, FL. They kinda sound like a country version of Syd Barrett which is awesome.

http://www.myspace.com/thedewarbrothers

Performing Bands: MULE SKINNER MACQUEEN

2009-06-05T09:29:00.000-07:00

Not much is known about the infamous Mule Skinner. The only documentation of his reckless life is this lone grainy video:

Exhibiting Artist: TRAVIS DODD

2009-06-05T09:00:00.000-07:00

Travis "Machete" Dodd creates images that capture the spirit of youth, that destructive yet creative impulse that informs the younger generation. Add a few drinks to the mix and watch things really get wild!

Check out more here:
http://dredgedbrethren.blogspot.com/

Exhibiting Artist: JENNY BIRDSONG

2009-06-05T08:29:00.000-07:00

Many of Jenny's influences can be seen in her work, which include Alphonse Mucha and Gustav Klimt. She is also a lover of comic book illustration and often looks to her comic book artist heroes, such as J. Scott Campbell and Adam Hughes, for inspiration.

Check out more here:
http://studiojbird.com/site/

Exhibiting Artist: EMER

2009-06-05T08:21:00.001-07:00

Known to collaborate with other artists and produce art while being watched by surly concert goers, Emer's art reflects the fact that creation is fun and playful.

Check out more here:
http://www.myspace.com/emerart

Exhibiting Artist: HEATHER ELDER

2009-06-03T09:57:00.000-07:00

Heather has our favorite artist's bio on her website:
"Image maker. Art lover. Ginger eater. Light sleeper."

Check out more here:
http://www.oliverandtheelder.com/

Exhibiting Artist: LUCHA

2009-06-03T09:51:00.000-07:00

Lucha makes beautiful organic looking shapes and big stuffed creations too.

Check out more here:
http://www.myspace.com/428709105

Exhibiting Artist: OLIVER

2009-06-02T17:44:00.000-07:00

Oliver does delicate line work the same way Fonzi starts the jukebox: with ease. And for the record, she uses Pantene Pro V.

Check out more here:
http://www.oliverandtheelder.com/

New ARTLANTIS poster!

2009-06-02T14:31:00.000-07:00

Performing Bands: BOOK OF COLORS

2009-06-02T13:30:00.000-07:00

Book of Colors sounds like that elf you meet way out in the woods strumming a harp made of dreams and rainbows. And his backing band is a tough gang of unicorns high on Gummi juice.

Check out more here:
http://www.myspace.com/bookofcolors

Performing Bands: THE BACK POCKETS

2009-06-02T13:04:00.000-07:00

The Back Pockets are a loose conglomeration of gypsies, hippies, and interdimensional wizards from the planet Awesome. Our super amazing intern Em rocks the pipes.

Check out more here:
http://www.myspace.com/thebackpockets

Exhibiting Artist: META GARY

2009-05-31T15:33:00.000-07:00

Meta Gary makes sweet, playful compositions out of stencils. And she sings real nice too.

Check out more on her website:

http://www.metagary.com/

Exhibiting Artist: KELLY MCKERNAN

2009-05-29T07:44:00.000-07:00

Kelly McKernan's work combines photography, illustration, and painting treatment in sweet gems of delicate beauty. And her images lend themselves well to logos (like the ARTLANTIS one above!)

Check out more on her website:
http://kellymckernan.com

Performing Bands: OCHA LA ROCHA

2009-05-28T18:21:00.000-07:00

Ocha La Rocha is what it sounds like when a bunch of you favorite local bands combine, united by their love of Gram Parson, Neil Young, and the Kinks.

Here's an older video of them rockin' the Star Bar:

Check out more here:

http://www.myspace.com/ochalarocha

R Land Sketches

2009-05-28T16:20:00.001-07:00

These are just rough sketches, but even rough they're super awesome!

Performing Bands: JUDI CHICAGO

2009-05-28T14:14:00.000-07:00

Judi playing at Beep Beep Gallery

Enter Judi Chicago, the hardest working men in show business who's tour d'force sound combines elements of House, Kraut Rock, and Psychedelic craziness.

Check out this performance at Criminal Records:

See more at their website:
http://www.judichicago.com/

Exhibiting Artist: BAXTER CRANE

2009-05-28T14:10:00.001-07:00

Aside from being a huge help at the gallery and one of the funniest people we know, Baxter Crane is also a multi-talented artist.

AND if you like her art, word is Baxter will be doing...FACE PAINTING! Holler!

Check out her website here:

http://web.mac.com/baxtercrane/iWeb/Baxter%20Crane%20Artist/Hey!.html

Exhibiting Artist: BEN GOLDMAN

2009-05-28T11:27:00.000-07:00

Ben Goldman's work is twisted, and hilariously so. His art tackles such topics as greed, marriage, abuse, drug use, and gluttony by juxtaposing the grotesque images he creates with a playful sense of humor and irony.

Check out more on his website:
http://www.bengstudio.com/

Exhibiting Artist: R LAND

2009-05-28T10:49:00.000-07:00

One of the most well know and respected artists representing Atlanta is R Land. Not only is he one of our favorite artists going today, but his alternate version of his famous "Pray for ATL" was the inspiration for this festival's name:

Check out more on his website:
http://www.rlandart.com/

Exhibiting Artist: EVEREMAN

2009-05-28T10:38:00.000-07:00

You may recognize Evereman's logo from stickers and tiles placed discreetly around town, but Everman is also a very talented wood craftsman. Check out more of his work at his website:

http://www.evereman.com/