ATL Art Gals: Embracing the Frivolous Artist Panel

Check out the Exhibition, meet and hear from the artists in a roundtable discussion with the ATL Art Gals, Moderated by AP Faust

The ATL Art Gals return to Callanwolde to discuss their work, creative process, and what embracing the frivolous means to them.


Embracing the Frivolous reexamines the ways women’s choices, emotions, and art have been devalued. Historically, when women spent on beauty, fashion, or gifts, it was criticized as wasteful, while men’s leisure purchases were rarely questioned. The same logic applies to expression: women’s emotions outside caregiving roles are often minimized, and art that centers beauty is dismissed as superficial. This exhibition gathers women artists who reclaim those narratives and reframe the so-called frivolous as worthy of attention.

Here, beauty is not an afterthought, it is the point. The works on view revel in color, pattern, and joy, pushing against the pressure for art to always carry grave meaning in order to matter. Together, these artists insist that what has long been dismissed as trivial is in fact essential: a radical affirmation of self, an embrace of pleasure, and a celebration of humanity.

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