By Lucas Hill, contributor
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DeKalb County, GA — Various events are happening this week in and around DeKalb County, including a visit from the Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod, at Eagle Eye Books, the Wylde Center’s Spring Dine Out benefiting Decatur Farm to School and the Decatur International Festival. Several local government meetings are also scheduled for this week.
Here’s what’s happening this week:
Inside Out: Glass Art by Lisa Schnellinger and Charlie Holden at GSU Perimeter College
Georgia State University Perimeter College will host an art installation of kiln-formed glass by Lisa Schnellinger and Charlie Holden at its Clarkston campus through April 2.
“Life and the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Senusret Collection” at the Carlos
“Life and the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Senusret Collection,” on view at the Michael C. Carlos Museum from February 4 to August 6, 2023, is an exhibition about what objects can tell us about daily life, sacred life, and the hereafter in ancient Egypt. The collection, named after King Senusret II’s pyramid village, Hetep-Senusret in the Faiyum, was gifted to the Carlos in 2018 by the Georges Ricard Foundation with the understanding that it would be conserved and used to promote knowledge not only about the rich funerary rituals, customs, and beliefs of the ancient world but also about the life of ancient objects over time. Several items in the exhibition highlight student and faculty research, technical and scholarly collaboration, methods of analysis and conservation, and provenance tracking. Organized by Melinda Hartwig, curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern art, the…
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