Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project Shines a Light on Atlanta's Emerging Artists

Uniting
Atlanta’s Top Emerging Artists with Local Venues to Create
Functional Pieces of Art

One-Night
Only Gallery Showcase and Event on Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 9
p.m.

Atlanta,
Georgia (September 25, 2013)
– As part
of a seven-city U.S. tour, Red
Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project will stop in Atlanta on
Thursday, October 17, 2013, and pair 20 hand-picked artists with
venue owners from some of the city’s hottest local bars, lounges
and restaurants. Atlanta’s top emerging and street artists will be
given a two-day challenge to transform a blank canvas-wrapped Red
Bull Cooler into an inspired work of art customized for permanent
display at each venue.  The art created will be exhibited in a
one-night only public showcase at the Westside Cultural Arts Center
where attending guests and a panel of curatorial judges will vote on
each piece, sending two artists, and possibly a third, to the SCOPE
Art Show taking place during Art Basel week in Miami in December. Red
Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project Atlanta is open to the
public and free to attend. The event will be held from 9 p.m. to
midnight and is open to ages 21 and up. Visit www.redbull.com/curates
to RSVP and for more information.

The
20 featured Atlanta artists include: InKyoung
Chun, Patrick Davis, treymoseley, Catlanta, ericmack, Sarah Emerson,
Brandon Sadler, Joe Tsambiras, Michi Meko, olive47, Alvaro Alvillar,
Sanithna
Phansavanh, Emer, PLF
(Peter Ferrari), Lela Brunet, Spencer Murrill, Mike Germon, Jesse
Jaeger, Sam Parker,
and Matt
Relkin.
Two
of the participating artists will be selected by the luminary panel
of judges and announced the night of the event to move on to show and
sell their work at SCOPE Miami. Two additional artists will be
entered into a pool of contestants from all seven cities to win the
People’s Choice Award—an opportunity to also exhibit and sell
their artwork at the SCOPE Art Show in Miami. The two artists
entered into the pool will be chosen based upon the number of
mentions on Twitter using their custom hashtag for the event. The
selected artists will be announced on Friday, October 18 and the
winner of the overall pool will be announced in November.

WHAT:
Red
Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project

WHEN: Thursday,
October 17 p.m.

Private
Media Event - 7 to 8 p.m.

Open
to the Public – 9 p.m. to Midnight

WHERE:
Westside Cultural Arts Center

760
10th
Street, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30318

www.westsideartscenter.com

ADMISSION: Free
to attend for ages 21 and up.

RSVP to
www.redbull.com/curates.

DIGITAL: Event
Page: http://win.gs/CCATL

Twitter:
@redbullATL

Facebook:
http://on.fb.me/17oCHSx

Hashtag: #CanvasCooler

About
Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project:

Last
year, Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project was hosted in four
cities, included nearly 100 artists, and was curated by luminaries in
the art world including pop artist Ron English, acclaimed director
and author Jon
Reiss, Carlo McCormick (Paper
Magazine)
and Daria Britt Shapiro (SCOPE) among others.  Ultimately,
10 artists were awarded the opportunity show and sell collections at
SCOPE Miami during Art Basel.
GOONS, Hebru
Brantley
and Don’t
Fret represented
Chicago alongside Los Angeles artists Gregory
Siff,
Lydia
Emily
and Hans
Haveron, and New York artists
Gerardo
Cid,
L’Amour
Supreme,
CLAWMONEY and
Cosbe.

The
2013 seven-city tour launched
in San Francisco on January 31 with more than 1200 art-loving locals
in attendance. The winning artists were Akira
Beard
and Slvstr.
The Los Angeles event was held on March 28 and the judges chose
artists James
Haunt and
White
Buffalo to
move on to show at SCOPE. In addition to Chicago, Los Angeles, San
Francisco,
Dallas
and New
York
have hosted gallery showcases and competitions with Atlanta
(November) and Miami (December) closing out the Red Bull Curates: The
Canvas Cooler Project. For more information, visit
www.redbull.com/canvascooler.

About
the Arts Fund:

Arts
Fund produces and invests in independent music, art, and film
initiatives and their connections to the audience.  To
learn more, please visit http://facebook.com/ArtsFund
and http://facebook.com/TermOfArt.

About
SCOPE Miami:

With
more than 50 art fairs spanning more than a decade, SCOPE
has solidified its position as the premier showcase for international
emerging contemporary art and multi-disciplinary creative
programming.  Renowned for presenting the most innovative
galleries, artists and curators, SCOPE Art Shows in Miami, Basel, New
York, London and the Hamptons have garnered extensive critical
acclaim, with sales over $300 million and attendance of more
than 500,000 visitors. Learn more at www.scope-art.com.