Posts by Katherine Smith

January 24 While we have arguably been mostly public all along, having turned our gallery into a classroom/workspace and put our progress on display, we are starting to circulate announcements and invitations.

January 17 I spent the morning in the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center looking at drawings by Edward L. Daugherty for the Dana Fine Arts Building. Daugherty, who has designed many landscapes around Atlanta, worked with Edwards…

January 17 As we are in the three-week countdown to the exhibition opening, we want to share and spotlight each contemporary artists in the exhibition, one per week. Roxie Fricton (@roxie_fricton) is making a textile installation, using elements of the…

January 9 We were fortunate to host the archivists from Portman Archives--Paige Adair, Rebecca Brown, and Katie Twomey--for a tour of our exhibition-under-construction. What a dream team! They have been so generous in their guidance and assistance throughout our development…

December 19 Agnes Scott College got a nice acknowledgment of our work, which was featured in the Annual Impact Report from Re:wild Your Campus. Two of us have completed their Advocacy Bootcamp (the next one is in January - highly…

December 16 This evening we presented the current work to our campus and contributors. Lydia Holland previewed her film on Dana, we shared the maquette of the building and the photographic project of North/South McDonough, finishing with the timelines of…

December 6 It is the last week of the semester. We are in the final throes of finishing all sorts of work and mocking up the exhibition on Monday evening with the 3D Thinking and Topics courses. Our students are…

November 17, 2024We were invited to the annual volunteer brunch with BeeCatur at Woodland Gardens. Thank you, Peter! We have been working on collaborative programming, pending funding, that has the potential for great impact on our campus and community.What a…

November 11, 2024   We had a great work/think day today, assessing the work we have already completed and confirming the work we still have to do to develop material for the exhibition. This project continues to be one of…

October 22-25, Atlanta (l-r) August Fisk ’25, Nell Ruby, Tallulah Stroud ’26, Katherine Smith (l-r) Nell Ruby, Katherine Smith, Becky Bivens ’07 Building on Dana was part of the annual meeting of the Southeastern Art Conference in multiple ways. It…

October 18 At 7 am the Building on Dana folks took to the streets for a photographic project inspired by Los-Angeles based artist Ed Ruscha. In 1966, Ruscha photographed a 2-mile stretch of the Sunset Strip and used the photographs,…

October 11 In just two weeks, Building on Dana will be part of the annual conference for the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) in Atlanta (October 23-25). It will be part of our presentation, "Is Visual Practices the Future of…

October 10 Several of us (co-curators and collaborators) attended a webinar with Aaron Anderson of The Xerces Society, which certifies BeeCities and BeeCampuses, introducing their IPM toolkit to support their communities: the process of certification involves drafting and revising integrated…

Building on Dana is pleased to support the theme of our annual conference, inclusive health equity. Using the strategies from John Portman, who designed the Dana Fine Arts Building (1965) and believed his architecture to be dynamic and responsive to…