I just heard from artists Tom Haney and Paula Joerling, who live in Downtown Atlanta. Luckily, they are fine, but downtown isn’t doing so well.
“Paula and I weathered our first urban tornado last night. We are fine. We lost 2 panes of glass in our front windows and 4 windows in our van but that’s about it. Pretty scary though- “where’s that freight train coming from?”
More photos of their neighborhood
Tom Haney | 1962- | Atlanta, GA
Mechanical Sculptures
(a piece of mechanical sculpture by Tom from 2005)
Downtown Atlanta sculptor Tom Haney, maker of one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted automata, kinetic art, mechanical sculpture and other works of modern folk art.
He began carving through the encouragement of Georgia folk-artist Leroy Almon, Sr. Later, Kentucky carvers Minnie and Garland Adkins and Jim Lewis provided invaluable insight, as well as the more mundane, but necessary, boost of allowing him to steal chunks of wood from their scrap piles.
(Extensive damage also disrupted the basketball tournament, at the above arena.)
(a piece I commissioned from Tom a few years ago)
Hard Time Mini Mall: Tom Haney – The Shooting Gallery – The Shooting Gallery
Apr 5, 2013 -
[…] We’re excited to include such an unusual artist as Tom Haney in our upcoming group show Hard Time Mini Mall, curated by New Orleans’ Red Truck Gallery. Haney produces animatronic figurines that gesticulate on their own; the creation, of which, requires an unique assortment of skills like sculpting, carpentry, and mechanical prowess. The inner-workings of these devices are obscured from view to visually isolate the animated figure for effect. Haney has been written up in the Huffington Post, as well as featured in the Spruill Gallery and Detour Art. […]