Loafing in a Decidedly Creative Manner – the Cartooning History of Van Alex Burns

“I felt really lucky and privileged to have a weekly audience. I never took it lightly, but I didn’t let…

Animal Realist: Christina Tornambe

Christina Tornambe is a painter of animals, a pet portraitist, a capturer of the peaceful side of the natural world.…

Creative Rebellion, a new, ongoing series from AU field correspondent, artist Veronica Darby, kicks off with a visit to the…

Tex Crawford’s workon display at the Athens-Clarke County Library’s Quiet Gallery: On Loan From the Universe: The Maverick Art of Tex…

The Work is the first volume of a trilogy – Frankenstein’s Paradox and Screven County Ruby, are forthcoming – published…

“I’m a big believer in treating the audience like another actor, hopping off the edge of the stage, interacting with…

“The actors had to actually eat a meal onstage. Most of the time in a show it can be worked…

“I just love performing. I’d play polka music if that’s what it took to entertain 300 drunk Germans.” – Dan…

I recently started taking piano lessons. I’m 68. At one time in my life I thought a lot about teaching…

AU visited with curator extraordinaire Didi Dunphy at the opening of the Magical Mystery Tour show at the Hotel Indigo’s…

The Classic City of Athens, Georgia has a handful of landmarks, places and people you can’t miss. The Arch. That cannon downtown. Ort. The…

Pip the Pansy (Erin Burchfield) (fka Wrenn, 25) was born in Syracuse, New York, moving to Woodstock, Georgia when she…

The Ancient Whales most recent record, Vestiges of Tails Appear in All of Us, is a mighty wall of introspective,…

No one ever said saving the world would be easy…but local artist and recent Lamar Dodd graduate, Gunnar Tarsa, makes…

Bryan Poole, Ancient Whales rehearsal, 2018

Vanessa Briscoe Hay, 62, lead singer of the seminal Athens’ art/post-punk band, Pylon, has ridden quite the wave from her…

One, exactly one, Malaysian person has visited athensuncharted. To that end, I’d like to thank you, Mister Malaysian. Dear Malaysian…

It wasn’t that you couldn’t get the girl; it was that you couldn’t even get her in your own head.…

AU spoke with artist Cameron Bliss, 47, at the studio she shares with her husband – musician and Winterville, Georgia…

Sometimes you need to stretch out, and this is what AU is doing for our ongoing conversations with long-time Athen’s…