The Georgia Museumof Art presents

ln Your Face:Decade of Flagpole

Covers

February 18-March 12, 2OOO

January 19, 2OOO Pete McCommons got out ofhis car one morning in front of Masada Leather andnoticed this perfect little cityscape reflected in tre parkingmeter. When Flagpole needed a cover for Brad Aaron'sstory on downtown Ahens, lr/cCommons hurried back to fremeter wifr rug@'s fusty digital camem.

April 7, 1999 Gindy Jerrell made this cover from aportrait of poet Kevin Young by photographer lanMcFarlane. This cover, like Athens itself, represents theconfluence of some remarkable talents.

December 2, 1998 Kathleen Cole took this pic-ture and the others inside that illustrated a story aboutthe Klan. She hung around with the Klansmen and theirauxiliary until they trusted her enough to let her photo-graph them. Her pictures and story won third place forphotojournalism in an Association of AlternativeNewsweeklies national competition.

June 2, 1999 Most of the Flagpole staff live in theNormaltown area, one of the sections of Athens subject-ed to the annual plague of Lubberly locusts, so LarryTenner's cover using Lizzie Zucker Saltz's bugs held aspecial meaning for the staff.

September 8, 1999 Cindy Jerrell had alreadydone an illustration of R.E.M. for the Oxford Americanmagazine, and in so doing had assembled a collectionof R.E.M. pictures and iconic paraphernalia, so whenFlagpole needed a cover to go with John English'spaean to "the gUys," Cindy whipped out her fixins.

October 20, 1999 Travis Nichols did a long, twoparl interviar witr boubadourlbardAryit Vic Chesn utt. Travisoffered to get his friend Carolyn Berk to take the pic-tures, and although that was her first assignment forFlagpole, she succeeded admirably in getting Vic torelax.

March 9, 1994 The late Patrick Keim lent his armsfor this cover by Chris Bilheimer. During this period,Bilheimer did a lot of covers lor Flagpole, and they wereas much a surprise to the production staff as they wereto the reading public. Bilheimer parlayed his Flagpolework into a cushy job doing R.E.M.'s artwork.

November 23, 1994 Chris Bilheimer again.Medium: acrylic on apizzabox. Anything the guy touchesturns to art.

March 3, 1999 Patrick Lee Dean showed up andasked if he could contribute a weekly cartoon, which ranon page 3 ol Flagpole during '1999 until he finally decid-ed to take a sabbaiical. Meanwhile, Flagpole produc-tion started asking Patrick if he could do covers, using(gasp) color. This is one ol the results, which arealways inventive and unmistakably Patrick's.

December 17, 1997 Steve Lickteig, then at

WUGA-FM, had the bright idea of getting a bunch oflocal writers to collaborate on a Christmas story, whichturned out to be about the murder of a K-mart SantaClaus. The writers read their bits on the radio, and thenFlagpole published the result. Dennis Harper came tothe rescue with this striking cover.

November 5, 1997 To celebrate Ftagpole's lOlhbirthday, the magazine threw a party at the 40 WattClub. Daniel Fell did this cover based on the idea thatimportant events like that frequently end up with mis-spellings or other errors in critical places. Since life fre-quently recapitulates art, the actual cake had the samespelling. Note Jeff and Jeff in the lower iight corner,Flegpool's long-time mascots.

September 21, 1994 This was Chris Bilheimer'syear for dramatic Flagpole cover images. And it was hisyear alone for understanding the symbolic significance,though this one is sort of self evident in a postmodernkind of way. But unforgettable.

March 11, 1998 Jim Stacy kicked off the traditionof putting weird music art on the cover of lhe FlagpoleAthens Music Directory. At the time of this cover, thesame image decorated the cover of lhe Directory andlhe Flagpole that contained it. These days, Flagpoleand Directo4ytend to have separate covers, but stillweird.

March 29, 1995 Jason Thrasher happened byThe Globe and took the picture of then-publisher DennisGreenia (left) and then-editor Pete McOommons (right)

with a space between them for the "space alien" (center),which Rachel Reynolds later PhotoShopped into thepicture. McCommons was later abducted by aliens andchanged into a publisher.

January 6, 1999 David Stubbs made a lot of finephotographs tor Flagpole while he was working on hisdegree at UGA. One of his assignments was to photo-graph THE photographer-Karekin Geokjian, whoshowed David how he does it. This cover is David'shomage to Karekin.

May 26, 1999 Beverly Buchanan is noted for herpainted-house constructions as well as her paintings.This is a self-portrait by the artist, whose personality is

as colorful as her art.

January 9, 1991 Joni Mabe, who herself was later

he subject ol a long profile in Hag@e, did this cover, whichrepresented one of her artistic "obsessions," whichinclude many celebrities in addition to her all-timeunparalleled artistic fixation on "everything Elvis."

September 13, 1989 Larry Tenner's super-heroes represent three of the popular clubs of the time:The Rockfish Palace, in the space now occupied byBoneshaker's, The Uptown, which at that time was a

live music club located where the Burntstone Brewery isnow, and the 40 Watt Club, which at that time was onClayton Street, where the Caledonia Lounge is now.This cover was so popular that Tenner added some fig-ures to it and put it out as a tshirt.

September 4, 1991 ln the early days ofFlagpole, Doug Hollingsworth held almost every possi-ble position. This cover is an example of his artisticside, and his ley wit extended to his writing, his addesign, and even his selling ads. They don't makethem like Doug anymore, because they can't get theingredients.

Pete McCommonsPublisher, Flagpole

Masterwrorks from the San CarlosNational Mueum of Art, Mexico City ...Related Events:

Concert "Spanish Music in the Golden Age"Tiresday, March 14,7:3O p.rn.ln conjunction witr fre ertribition of masterworks from tre San

Carlos National Museum, he Georgia Museum of Art will host aspecialconcert of Spanish music. This performance willfeaturemusic of he arrcimeros (royal songboola) lrom Spain's sx-teenfr+entury courb as well as pieces frorn he Spanish New

World. The concert will be presented by he Athens ChamberSingers accornpanisl by an insfumental ensemble ofre@rders, Renaissance halp, percussim, and vihuela, an earlyform of Spanish guitar. Ensemble director KeMn Kelly willoffercommentary on he muskal selections.

Ray BroussardThursday, March 9, 5:3O p.m.Ray Broussard, a former professor of history at UGA, willdis-cuss he history o{ mlonial Mexico in tris trird of a series of lec-

tures given in conjurrtim with the efribition Mastervwrkfrcnttle San Ad6 Natioral Museum of Art, Mexb City.

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