GloATL

June with glo. Center residency, Tales of Downtown, This Way Home, Making Kin, and The Blooming City. - https://mailchi.mp/gloatl/june-with-glo-637456

Yesterday we stood outside Corner Studio and beautiful stranger is gesturing and looking out toward 💫 A foreshadow of what is to come.

beautiful stranger thank you for coming is and fifth neon studies, and will be our first permanent outdoor sculpture in the months to come, as restoration processes continue at our creative home. A neon, fiberglass and steel installation for relational systems in the state of Georgia and beyond. Keeping the lights on, all the time.

Rite Works, live sculpture. photography 2024 💫 .zee

Rite Works, live sculpture. photography 2024 💫

Making Kin, research process, Black Mountain College. May 10-15, 2024. Thank you everybody.

Direct Actions, old St. Mark AME Church, Atlanta. curator Dorian McDuffie, Atlanta City Studio, South & Appalachia Creative Placemaking Summit, civic leaders Pastor Taylor and Mother Moore.

May with glo. - https://mailchi.mp/gloatl/may-with-glo-637443

NEW DATE! Join us next Thursday for an impactful discussion with introductions by glo founder lauri stallings, along with Palmetto Georgia Mayor Teresa Thomas-Smith, sculptor Rachel K. Garceau, street art producer and Asst. Professor of Architecture Keif Schleifer, and led by Praxis Associate Mechelle Tunstall on Parlor: Conversations on Social Sculpture. This will be an insightful discussion about glo’s transformative “The Blooming City” city wide project, running through November 16, 2024 and beyond.

PARLOR CONVERSATION
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Palmetto Historic Train Depot
549 Main Street, Palmetto, GA 30268

Tea and biscuits will be served at 7:30 pm, panel conversation begins at 8 pm.

The Blooming City,” a new city-wide project in Fulton County’s Palmetto community that will be transformed through the activation of “in-between'' places and sites dedicated to how art shapes the Palmetto community, environment, and makes each of us better. In addition to providing opportunities for hybrid art making, the restoration of the community of Palmetto reflects glo’s commitment to bridging the gap between art and life; work characterized by connection and deeply researched inter-disciplinary histories. GloATL

Happy 3rd Community Sowing! The Blooming City with the Palmetto community is officially in bloom, and as we continue Sunday Sowings and preparing to open our next round of initiatives, we could not be more inspired about what growing these root systems and connections will unfold!

Come this Sunday April 28 to Community Sowing 2 pm - 5 pm. We'll meet at Palmetto Food Pantry, 548 Main Street, pick up tools, herbal tea and biscuits, and set out to our activation sites.

“The Blooming City " is a new city-wide project in Fulton County’s Palmetto community that will be transformed through the activation of “in-between'' places and sites dedicated to how art shapes the Palmetto community, environment, and makes each of us better. In addition to providing opportunities for hybrid art making, the restoration of the community of Palmetto reflects glo’s commitment to bridging the gap between art and life; work characterized by connection and deeply researched inter-disciplinary histories.

A diverse set of initiatives—land art, parlor conversations, art education, live art, and installatiosn—are organized within and across the existing structures to maximize access for the community. This choreographed field of creative openings will subtly reveal Palmetto as a blooming city all the time. The project is entirely free and public to all.

The Blooming City is made possible through a partnership with the Mayor’s Office, City of Palmetto. The project is made possible with support from South Fulton Arts, the Palmetto Arts Council, and the Palmetto Public Works Department. Lead space support is provided by City of Palmetto, Kong Ventures, and Steve Nygren.

Relaunch: Join us Wednesday April 17 for glo People Movement Shops at the High Museum of Art. Free and public to all. - https://mailchi.mp/gloatl/glo-people-movement-shops-637411

We know that yesterday’s community sowing was a wonderful moment. Our plans to launch “The Blooming City” with the people of Palmetto Georgia were exchanged with presence, peace, and joy. Thank you to our many project partners, and Mayor Teresa and City Manager Henry for planting seeds with us! Prairie sowing is a dreamy eye-popping way of prioritizing the environment, a means of treasuring it, and each other.

The prairie is just one component of a larger revitalization effort; these ideas reflect glos commitment to bridging the gap between art and life; work characterized by connection and deeply researched inter-disciplinary histories.

The Blooming City project also encompasses live art interventions, parlor conversations, in-school art + ecology workshops, and neon sculpture.

GloATL Lauri Stallings Palmetto City Council

SUNDAY: The Blooming City launches in Palmetto Georgia.

We’re delighted for the launch of “The Blooming City,” our new city-wide social sculpture with Palmetto, Georgia. Join us this Sunday, April 7 at 2 pm for Community Sowing: Wildflower prairies are a dreamy, eyepopping way of prioritizing the environment, a means of treasuring it, and each other. Together, we’ll sow a 2- acre wildflower prairie in the in-between spaces of Palmetto, getting us to think about who and what lives amidst it, and how much that landspace might change.

RSVP link is here, walk-ups are welcome! https://www.gloplatform.org/sowing-rsvp/ (https://www.gloplatform.org/sowing-rsvp/)

DETAILS
Community Sowing: The Blooming City
Sundays, April 7,14,21,28 at 2 pm - 5 pm
*Meeting place: Palmetto Historic Train Depot,  549 Roosevelt Hway, Palmetto GA 30268
*updates weekly

A space of experimentation where we aim to feel together by moving together. Join this wonderful experience of delving into small and big acts, available to us so much, to explore textures and sounds in the environment of the space, and most importantly deeper connections between us. glo is truly thrilled to relaunch our People Movement Shops this Spring, after a long pause during our itenerate life in Atlanta. Thank you to Erin Dougherty, Associate Director of Public Programs, Education, for the invitation, your vision. Thank you Erin and High Museum of Art for working with glo to make it possible for free and public access for all to People Movement Shops 2024! We are looking forward to returning to the High campus!

With these ephemeral actions, the participants collectively built a new environment—an ideal city generated from the movement of participants.

3rd Wednesdays of the month beginning April 17
10am-noon
High Museum of Art
free and public to all

Most of the workshops will be held inside the museum that is surrounded by various sculptures and trees, allowing for different qualities of light to filter into the environment as the workshop progresses. Workshops will be informed often by the light, noting the ways in which it interplays with the textures and atmospheres of the space.

These workshops are a sharing of systems which inform glo platforms recent live art/ works as well as research connected to the practice of glo founder social practice choreographer lauri stallings amidst offerings of reimagination. stallings tends to focus on “mapping,” referring to our constantly unfolding world that resists finality.

Come with pleasure and excitement in a space built for free experimentation and joyous movement research!

Shops are for everyone no previous experience required/ the shops are free. GloATL

Rite Works Happening, Lady Rhodes main house
photography documentary
3.17.2014

Earlier this winter, we began gathering to open up “between” places and sites that make up Historic Downtown Palmetto, Georgia with glo, City of Palmetto, and Palmetto Arts Council.

Through these conversations, our founder and social practice choreographer shared origin stories of the participatory works of glo, themes of resonance, and the hope that folk can come together and participate in our works together in the South.

We are extremely grateful to everyone we have had the pleasure of bonding with during this process, and are delighted to launch “The Blooming City” on April 7. The Blooming City relies on people moving around, through, and inside and outside glo’s work, sunshine on the skin, and spiritual warmth, to revisit again and again, our bodies. Upcoming Sunday Sowings, and Parlor conversations launch a city-wide social sculpture that concerns how art shapes our communities, environment, and makes each other better, living treasures.

Thank you for your beautiful collage art work 🦋💐🪷

Thursday’s Ongoing Actions in the walls of old St.Mark were delicious. glo wishes to thank curator for the invitation to reembody this wholly space, and the South & Appalachia Creative Placemaking Summit for your support. We are honored and privileged to accompany Pastor Taylor and Mother Moore on their journey of neighborhood transformation. We look forward to the next time.

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Thursday: Ongoing Actions in the walls of Old St. Mark, Southeast Creative Placemaking Summit; RSVP Rite Works Film: Happening March 17. And, save the date- This Way Home, luminous procession. - https://mailchi.mp/gloatl/glo-ongoing-actions-summit-st-mark-rite-works-filming-goat-farm-procession-637376

On the ideas that things have life inside them, Ongoing Actions merges elements of the natural world with the deeply spiritual, inviting us to participate in the truth of the life that is within spaces.

Ongoing Actions, a series of drafted movements for the Southeast Creative Placemaking Summit that translate the rhythms of researching in the walls of old St. Mark AME Church through formations of live sculpture, movement choirs, and complex patterns which flow, act, move, spiral, and murmur.

Thursday, March 7
5:30pm- 7:30pm
St. Mark AME Church
741 James P. Brawley Dr NW Atlanta 30318

When artists explore the poetics of intimacy through interaction with communities within their social context, we renew our sense of inner outer worlds. glo uses choreography as a self-contained tool box to meditate and reflect wider dynamics at the margins, fostering many first steps towards a fully integrated account of Southern embodiment.

Curator ; social practice choreographer ; associate artists ; moving artists .zee .555 Larae’ Phillips; fashion designer Maggie Phillips. In collaboration with the Department of City Planning, Atlanta City Studio; 💫 Pastor Winston Taylor, Mother Mamie Moore and The Beloved Community inc. 💫

Neon Study no.1: UNITY & no.2: HARMONY
February 14, 2024
City Hall, Palmetto Georgia

Ongoing Actions, a series of drafted movements that translate the rhythms of researching old St. Mark AME Church into formations of live sculpture, movement choirs and complex patterns which flow, act, move, spiral, and murmur. On the ideas that things have life inside them, Ongoing Actions merges elements of the natural world with the deeply spiritual, inviting us to participate in the truth of the life that is within things.

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Thursday March 7, 5:30pm-8pm
Old St. Mark AME Church
491 Hames P. Brawley Dr NW
Atlanta 30318

Curator Dorian McDuffie, social practice choreographer lauri stallings, moving artists Zandia Briana, PhaeMonae Brooks, Ashley Ianna Daye, Olivia Feeney, Mary Jane Pennington, Larae’ Phillips, Mechelle Tunstall, fashion designer Maggie Phillips.

A Southeast Placemaking Summit commission.

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photography

We are thankful to the community of Palmetto and new mayor Mayor Teresa Thomas-Smith for allowing us to create a series of public activations with messages of belonging in Downtown Palmetto over the next ten months. Mayor Smith is Palmetto’s first woman and first African American mayor in Palmetto’s 170- year history. glo is honored and privileged to serve you as a social practice choreographer, artist-led platform, and member of the community’s inaugural Arts Council. Our thanks to City Council’s Jess Willbanks, City of Planning’s Jennifer Moore, and all the beautiful beautiful people of South Fulton. Your perseverance and grace continue to astound glo!

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Neon studies one & two (2015, 2016)
Neon fabricator

Research & Process Residency, week three, National Center for Civil and Human Rights. The finder, new systems.

Today our hearts are overjoyed. We got to spend last week with kin here in Texas, and participated in multiple site-visits. Our long focus on reworlding the South is ongoing- an endless loop of engagement and experience. The sacred work of collaborative practice over the next year is one glo is embracing, deeply grateful for. We were joined by my dear friend, Robert Spano, and new friends Taichi Fukumura, and Matthew Glover. Thank you Texas for your warm, blossoming in the heart.

The good people of Coat Drive!

Thank you to all who joined us over the last two weeks for our end of year Coat Drive- a service space of reuse and warmth for resettled refugees and other immigrants in Clarkston, Georgia. Together with our collaborators and artist we surpassed our goal, gathering 182 winter garments, including 52 winter coats for children and adults.

In the spirit of gathering, togetherness, and social warmth, looks forward to moving with our communities in the days ahead, wishing peace and joy beyond.

The good people of Coat Drive!

Thank you to all who joined us over the last two weeks for our end of year Coat Drive- a service space of reuse and warmth for resettled refugees and other immigrants in Clarkston, Georgia. Together with our collaborators and artist we surpassed our goal, gathering 182 winter garments, including 52 winter coats for children and adults.

In the spirit of gathering, togetherness, and social warmth, looks forward to continuing to moving with our communities in the days ahead, wishing peace and joy beyond.

Whether you connected with us across the rural South, immersed in a gallery activation, within an old forest, in the groove of LAB Studies program, through waves of experimentation, or you simply align with our mission --- thank you from the bottom of our hearts for being a part of the glo world.

Today we breathe, tomorrow we labor in love, through love, with revolutionary love in our bodies.

Please consider making a treasured gift to the movement and social practice you love this New Year’s Eve.
https://www.gloplatform.org/support/

ABOUT GLO
glo uses movement and creative practices to raise consciousness, create change, and bring forth social impact. Choreography is the soul of our work. Our platform believes every body plays a role for engaging deeply with notions of transformation and identity. We are an artist-led, intersectionality centered platform founded by social practice choreographer lauri stallings, extending outwards from the primary projections of the feet and hands to feel what the body is, where it extends, while giving us a space to feel up to the edge of what we can know.