The Holiday Market is one of our favorite annual events showcasing the work of local artists and craftspeople. Held within the Atlanta Contemporary galleries, the vendors are given space to set up a temporary storefront to engage with our audience. This market presents over a dozen artists working across a diverse set of mediums. So, let’s deck the halls, have extra marshmallows in our hot chocolate, and allow Atlanta to shop small this holiday season!
The Holiday Market event will be held on December 16, 2023 with public hours from 12-5pm.
Tickets are sliding scale from $1-$50. Ticket sales will be contributed toward our ongoing Studio Artist Program HVAC fundraising campaign
Sugar Cookie Decoration
Receive a plain sugar cookie and decorate it with all the extravagant toppings your heart desires! Eat it immediately after creating it or save it for later but either way, make it a creation to remember.
$2.50 per cookie decoration
Polaroid Ornaments
Pose for a polaroid photo in front of our Atrium Wall installation Spectrum Gradation by Megan Mosholder. Pose for just the polaroid or opt to decorate the polaroid with framing, tinsel, pompoms, and glitter to make it an ornament to hang for the holidays!
$1 for each polaroid | $5 for each decorated polaroid
Light Bites
Hot chocolate, coffee, hot cider, and a self-serve food table will fill your stomachs while the vendors fill your hearts and your gift bags.
This is more than just a yoga class—it's an exploration of rhythm, breath, and energy. As Sydney guides you through a mindful flow, while DJs shape the soundscape in real-time, creating a fully sensory, meditative environment designed to ground the body and expand the mind.
Whether you're a seasoned yogi or just beginning your practice, Flow State invites you to embrace the process—investigate, explore, and move with intention.
Bring your mat, an open mind, and get ready to vibe.
Join us for a conversation with Jiha Moon, acclaimed artist and 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, as she reflects on her exhibition Ten Moon and her evolving practice.
After relocating from Atlanta to Tallahassee, Moon’s work has shifted to embrace new environments and influences. Ten Moon features her signature blend of paintings, ceramics, and mixed-media works that draw from Korean folk traditions, American pop culture, and digital iconography. At its center is the Shrine series, where paintings and ceramic objects merge into intimate, dreamlike spaces exploring memory, identity, and transformation.
Moon will share insights into her practice, the symbolism of the moon as a marker of resilience and change, and her exploration of in-betweenness—where the familiar meets the surreal.
Her work is held in major collections including the Hirshhorn, the High Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
This event is free and open to the public.
with a Special Performance by Atlanta Korean Cultural Center (AKCC)
Free
Join us for a special curator talk with Youmi Efurd, curator of the Richardson Family Art Museum at Wofford College, as she discusses two exhibitions currently on view: Shaping Identity: Korean Print in Diaspora and Ten Moon by Jiha Moon.
Shaping Identity explores the relationship between cultural heritage, migration, and identity through the lens of printmaking. Featuring works by Tschang Yeul Kim, Kakyoung Lee, U-fan Lee, Jiha Moon, Yoonmi Nam, Nam June Paik, Jean Shin, Joo Yeon Woo, and Jayoung Yoon, the exhibition highlights how Korean and diasporic artists have used printmaking to navigate traditions, hybridity, and belonging across generations.
Ten Moon presents a new body of work by Jiha Moon that reflects her transition from Atlanta to Tallahassee and her ongoing exploration of identity, memory, and transformation. Incorporating paintings, ceramics, and mixed media, Moon blends Korean folk traditions, American pop culture, and digital imagery into a vibrant, dreamlike language of resilience and renewal.
Efurd will share insights into the curatorial vision behind these exhibitions and discuss how they together reflect themes of cultural continuity, migration, and the evolution of identity.
To close the event, the Atlanta Korean Cultural Center (AKCC) will present a Nanta performance, a high-energy percussion show that celebrates Korean culture and traditions through rhythm and movement. Founded in 2008 by HyunSuk Yang, AKCC has performed at national, state, and local festivals with a mission to build community connections through performing arts and education.
This event is free and open to the public.
