Date & Time
6:30pm EDT - 11:00pm EDT
About the ACP Auction Gala
Photographs aren't created in isolation. An image carries forward what came before it, creating a way of seeing passed from one generation to the next. This year's Auction Gala, Common Threads, traces those throughlines: the cross-generational connections that bind ACP's artists to one another and to the larger community advancing lens-based media in the American South.
Atlanta Center for Photography supports this work by positioning Atlanta at the front of lens-based thought and practice. Common Threads celebrates the relationships that make that possible: the threads linking established and emerging artists, longtime supporters and new collectors, the organization's history and its future.
Join us at the FORTH Hotel for an evening that begins with cocktail hour, followed by a three-course dinner and a presentation honoring this year's honorees, Justine Kurland and Mary Stanley. The night continues with an After Party hosted by some of Atlanta's most influential artists and tastemakers.
Take Home a Piece of the Gala: The ACP Limited-Edition Poster Series
This year, in addition to a live experiences auction, Atlanta Center for Photography will premiere limited-edition prints at an affordable price so that everyone is able to take home a piece of our annual Auction Gala. This is your invitation to begin a collection, expand your taste, and become part of the vibrant community helping photography thrive in the American South.
Embracing our theme, Common Threads, we are looking to the past for this year’s inspiration. In 2010, Jackson Fine Art’s Anna Walker Skillman and artist Angela West organized 'Post-Her' for the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival. The concept was a poster exhibition with an accessible angle that became one of that season's most talked-about shows. This year, we're paying homage to that exhibition's democratic spirit and spearheading an exciting new collaborative project of our own.
To mark the 16th anniversary of 'Post-Her', we've gathered sixteen artists to create an ACP Limited-Edition Poster Series, with Anna and Angela reprising their roles as curators. Each artist in the series has contributed a single image to a limited-run poster collection which will be released exclusively at this year's Auction Gala on October 2 at The FORTH Hotel. Only ten of each image will be produced and offered at $500. The works have been printed by hand in ACP's Digital Media Lab and issued with an embossed certificate of authenticity. Claim yours first at the Gala!
About the Honorees
Mary Stanley is an independent curator, private art consultant, and artist representative with an international reach. Since founding Mary Stanley Studio in 2004, she has offered collectors and designers a bespoke alternative for sourcing contemporary artwork and executing custom collaborative projects.
Driven by a passion for arts education, Mary established the Young Collectors Club in 2006, providing over 300 young professionals with a platform for social networking and contemporary art connoisseurship. Her commitment to the arts community is further reflected in her leadership roles, including positions on the boards of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Lamar Dodd School of Art (UGA), and the Atlanta Center for Photography, as well as her work with the Idea Capital Steering Committee.
Justine Kurland is an artist known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them. Her early work comprises photographs, taken during many cross-country road trips, that counter the masculinist mythology of the American landscape, offering a radical female imaginary in its place. Her recent series of collages, SCUMB Manifesto, continues to make space for women by transforming books by canonized male photographers through destruction and reparation.
Kurland’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum, Pennsylvania; Getty Museum, California; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, among others. She works with Higher Pictures in New York.
About the ACP Auction Gala
Photographs aren't created in isolation. An image carries forward what came before it, creating a way of seeing passed from one generation to the next. This year's Auction Gala, Common Threads, traces those throughlines: the cross-generational connections that bind ACP's artists to one another and to the larger community advancing lens-based media in the American South.
Atlanta Center for Photography supports this work by positioning Atlanta at the front of lens-based thought and practice. Common Threads celebrates the relationships that make that possible: the threads linking established and emerging artists, longtime supporters and new collectors, the organization's history and its future.
Join us at the FORTH Hotel for an evening that begins with cocktail hour, followed by a three-course dinner and a presentation honoring this year's honorees, Justine Kurland and Mary Stanley. The night continues with an After Party hosted by some of Atlanta's most influential artists and tastemakers.
Take Home a Piece of the Gala: The ACP Limited-Edition Poster Series
This year, in addition to a live experiences auction, Atlanta Center for Photography will premiere limited-edition prints at an affordable price so that everyone is able to take home a piece of our annual Auction Gala. This is your invitation to begin a collection, expand your taste, and become part of the vibrant community helping photography thrive in the American South.
Embracing our theme, Common Threads, we are looking to the past for this year’s inspiration. In 2010, Jackson Fine Art’s Anna Walker Skillman and artist Angela West organized 'Post-Her' for the Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival. The concept was a poster exhibition with an accessible angle that became one of that season's most talked-about shows. This year, we're paying homage to that exhibition's democratic spirit and spearheading an exciting new collaborative project of our own.
To mark the 16th anniversary of 'Post-Her', we've gathered sixteen artists to create an ACP Limited-Edition Poster Series, with Anna and Angela reprising their roles as curators. Each artist in the series has contributed a single image to a limited-run poster collection which will be released exclusively at this year's Auction Gala on October 2 at The FORTH Hotel. Only ten of each image will be produced and offered at $500. The works have been printed by hand in ACP's Digital Media Lab and issued with an embossed certificate of authenticity. Claim yours first at the Gala!
About the Honorees
Mary Stanley is an independent curator, private art consultant, and artist representative with an international reach. Since founding Mary Stanley Studio in 2004, she has offered collectors and designers a bespoke alternative for sourcing contemporary artwork and executing custom collaborative projects.
Driven by a passion for arts education, Mary established the Young Collectors Club in 2006, providing over 300 young professionals with a platform for social networking and contemporary art connoisseurship. Her commitment to the arts community is further reflected in her leadership roles, including positions on the boards of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Lamar Dodd School of Art (UGA), and the Atlanta Center for Photography, as well as her work with the Idea Capital Steering Committee.
Justine Kurland is an artist known for her utopian photographs of American landscapes and the fringe communities, both real and imagined, that inhabit them. Her early work comprises photographs, taken during many cross-country road trips, that counter the masculinist mythology of the American landscape, offering a radical female imaginary in its place. Her recent series of collages, SCUMB Manifesto, continues to make space for women by transforming books by canonized male photographers through destruction and reparation.
Kurland’s work has been exhibited at museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. Her work is included in permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum, Pennsylvania; Getty Museum, California; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, among others. She works with Higher Pictures in New York.
Auction Gala Co-Chairs
Ashley Buzzy
Joe Massey
Auction Gala Host Committee
Susan Anderson
Judy Beckett
Ashley Buzzy
Stan Cohen
Alex Delotch Davis
Kris Delany
Jackson Fine Art
Joe Massey
(as of August 6, 2026)
Auction Gala Sponsors
Date & Time
6:30pm EDT - 11:00pm EDT