The Classic Center Art Galleries added as stop on Third Thursday evening art tour

ATHENS, Ga. – Third Thursday­ – the monthly night for visual art – has added The Classic Center’s public art galleries as a new venue, bringing the total number of participating locations to seven.

This expanded lineup will go into effect on Oct. 16 from 6- 9 p.m. and will also feature the launch of the Third Thursday shuttle, which is being sponsored by The Classic Center Cultural Foundation.

Third Thursday was established in the fall of 2012 by the Georgian Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA), Hotel Indigo and Ciné. The event was created to encourage attendance at Athens’ established art venues through cooperation and co-promotion by the organizing entities.

The Foundation-sponsored shuttle will depart the Lyndon House Arts Center at 6 p.m. and circulate through the other museums and galleries every 30 minutes. Free parking is available at the Lyndon House Arts Center, the Georgia Museum of Art and the Lamar Dodd School of Art and ATHICA.

Both of The Classic Center’s exhibitions are located in its gallery spaces that are under the direction of The Classic Center Cultural Foundation. One of the missions of the Foundation is to broaden the exposure of people in the Athens community to the arts.

The Oct. 16 tour will include the following exhibits/galleries at these stops:

· Lyndon House Arts Center – “Art of the Craft,” “Reverberations: an Athens Celebrates Elephant 6 Exhibit” and “ROY G BIV 8.2”

· Hotel Indigo – “Equations” and “N[]cturne”

· The Classic Center – “Nature Revealed” and “Then and Now: Celebrating 40 Years of the Lyndon House Arts Center”

· Georgia Museum of Art – “Boxers and Backbeats: Tomata du Plenty and the West Coast Punk Scene,” “The … of E6, part of Athens Celebrates Elephant Six,” “Shapes That Talk to Me: The Athens Scene, 1975-85,” Tristan Perich: Mind the Machine,” “XL,” “Tristan Perich: Machine Wall Drawing,” “An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab,” “Terra Verte”

· Ciné – “Baffle Medusa” by Jeff Owens

· ATHICA

The Lamar Dodd school of Art will be in between exhibitions on Oct. 16.

All exhibits are free and open to the public during Third Thursday.

Visit 3thurs.org for more information on Third Thursday. For more information on The Classic Center Cultural Foundation, visit ClassicCenter.com.