Athica: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art

Athica: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art Our public hours during exhibitions are Thursday 1–9pm and Friday through Sunday 1–6pm.

Celebrating our 15th anniversary in 2017, ATHICA is an independent, non-profit gallery promoting and supporting innovative contemporary art and artists through exhibitions, education, and events. On view through June 10: DOMESTIC STRUCTURES, a group show featuring Athens and Atlanta based artists, curated by Candice Greathouse. Opening June 17: ATHICA Emerges X, the gallery's 10th annual exhibition of emerging local artists.

Join us Friday, August 21st from 7 to 8 PM! ☁️We have loved connecting with poets around town and are so excited to cont...
08/12/2026

Join us Friday, August 21st from 7 to 8 PM! ☁️

We have loved connecting with poets around town and are so excited to continue our series of poetry nights!

Sign up is first come, first serve. Poets are asked to read one long or 2-3 short works per round. After the first round, you are welcome to read additional poems! Snacks provided. Bring a friend or come alone.

Donations are appreciated and help keep ATHICA running as your favorite non-profit, all volunteer-run DIY space. Your help is vital for us to keep bringing you diverse, exciting programming for years to come!

📝 🔗 Open Call for our 2026 National Juried Exhibition at ATHICA! All artists are invited to submit up to five contempora...
08/03/2026

📝 🔗 Open Call for our 2026 National Juried Exhibition at ATHICA! All artists are invited to submit up to five contemporary works in any media by Sept 14, 2026. $500 in Cash Awards! Apply at the link in bio.

ATHICA National Juried Exhibiton
October 22-November 22, 2026

Juror: Phillip McClure | Curator & Designer
blue boy, Savannah GA and Hopes, Chattanooga TN
Hopes

Phillip McClure is the director of Hopes, a curatorial initiative and gallery located in Chattanooga, TN, committed to foregrounding community-building, experimentation, and care as vital forces in the creation and dissemination of contemporary art. Before starting Hopes, Phillip ran blue boy, an artist-run space in Savannah, GA.

Last opportunities to check out Mutual Grit this weekend! Artist Workshop on Saturday, June 26th at 6pm & Closing Recept...
06/24/2026

Last opportunities to check out Mutual Grit this weekend! Artist Workshop on Saturday, June 26th at 6pm & Closing Reception on Sunday, June 27th at 6pm ✨

‼️ Important note! Benefit Rock Show on Friday, June 19th is canceled. Join us for the Artist Workshop on Saturday, June...
06/18/2026

‼️ Important note! Benefit Rock Show on Friday, June 19th is canceled. Join us for the Artist Workshop on Saturday, June 27th at 6pm and the Closing Reception of Mutual Grit on Sunday, June 28th at 6pm ✨

Important note! Benefit Rock Show is canceled this Friday, June 19th. Join us next weekend to catch the Closing Receptio...
06/18/2026

Important note! Benefit Rock Show is canceled this Friday, June 19th. Join us next weekend to catch the Closing Reception of Mutual Grit on Sunday, June 28 at 6pm ✨

📽️☁️ Next up on the Mutual Grit Event Calendar is the Environmental Video Art Screening! Mutual Grit is an intern-led cu...
06/08/2026

📽️☁️ Next up on the Mutual Grit Event Calendar is the Environmental Video Art Screening! Mutual Grit is an intern-led curatorial project at ATHICA. Come through to check out this thoughtful exhibition that engages with social ecology, and to view video work by LeeAnn Peppers, Ava Busby, and Martin Carter Scholl.

Friday, June 12th
7pm





Mutual Grit organizers include .awesome, , & 🕳️⏳🌱📝

Flyer by Viv Awesome

📽️☁️ Next up on the Mutual Grit Event Calendar our Environmental Video Screening! Mutual Grit is an intern-led curatoria...
06/08/2026

📽️☁️ Next up on the Mutual Grit Event Calendar our Environmental Video Screening! Mutual Grit is an intern-led curatorial project at ATHICA. Come through to check out this thoughtful exhibition that engages with social ecology, and to view video work by LeeAnn Peppers, Ava Busby, and Martin Carter Scholl.

Friday, June 12th
7pm





Mutual Grit curators include .awesome, , & 🕳️⏳🌱📝

Live Music and Visual Improvisation at ATHICA 🍃 📻 Sunday, June 7thDoors @ 7pmMusic @ 8pm$10 Suggested Scott Bazar: Panam...
06/02/2026

Live Music and Visual Improvisation at ATHICA 🍃 📻

Sunday, June 7th
Doors @ 7pm
Music @ 8pm

$10 Suggested

Scott Bazar: Panama City FL, improvisor, composer, animator
Wll be presenting instrumentals and improvisations via guitar/banjo hybrid and LED light creating sound interferences with am radios.

frog like leaf: local artist, musician, educator, and ATHICA board president, Jon Vogt
Making animal sounds and environments with a daxophone (bowed wood) and other instruments.
Solo work and collaborations can be found here: https://heatingandcooling.bandcamp.com/

Walker Yancey: Birmingham, AL, multidisciplinary artist and musician
Best described as “music for people with knives,” their current work drifts through the likes of bedroom jazz, doom folk, and seance saunter. Depending on the night, the show might not even include music at all. Avoiding sound systems, and power grids in their shows they are only recently reincorporating electricity into their work.

inverse golf: local visual synthesis and feedback loop projection project of Kyle McKinnel and collaborators
Using LZX and Doepfer eurorack modules, this iteration will feature collaboration with Emmie Pierce, local sonic improvisor, aka

Sonic Space Presents: immersive experience combining techno, house, electro and dance musics performed on live electroni...
05/26/2026

Sonic Space Presents: immersive experience combining techno, house, electro and dance musics performed on live electronics and hardware alongside live visuals and video work curated by Jay Domingo and Ryan Schey.

Saturday, May 30th
Doors at 7
Music at 8
$10 Suggested

Music from:

✨ .athens - Live solo electronics and modular synth project inspired by house, electro, and musique concrète, based in Athens GA

✨ - Ambient house with arps and heart in the sleepy south

✨ - Atlanta based musician who’s work spans from electronic music to ambient performances. Jones uses both hardware synthesizers and drum machines to create sonic landscapes that reference the lineage of black art across disciplines.

✨ - in a long relationship with improvised noise, hybrid digital/analog beats, and electro-funk. Expect modular synths pumping out post-punk, Detroit-style minimal Techno.

Visuals by .tv & 👁️

This Saturday, May 31st 🎷 Doors at 7Music at 8Suggested $10
05/26/2026

This Saturday, May 31st 🎷

Doors at 7
Music at 8
Suggested $10

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675 Pulaski Street Suite 1200
Athens, GA
30601

Opening Hours

Wednesday 4pm - 5pm
Thursday 4pm - 9pm
Friday 1pm - 6pm
Saturday 1pm - 6pm
Sunday 4pm - 6pm

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