In the 1970s, Atlanta rallied around a campaign to “Save the Fox Theater” from imminent destruction. It rescued the building, preserving an iconic piece of the city’s landscape and a hub for the arts. Now the theater wants to pay it back. On May 6, National Historic Preservation Month, Fox Gives awarded $1 million in […]
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Cherry Blossom Festival to return with free concert, market and more this weekend
It’s an all-hands-on-deck operation at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Brookhaven. This weekend, the city will transform for its annual two-day music festival. From 10 am to 6 pm on March 28 and 29, an estimated 60,000 people will flock to Blackburn Park for a lineup including The Head and the Heart, Natasha Bedingfield and […]
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Emory exhibit reinvents sports photography with a fandom focus
Iconic sports photography shows some of the athletic world’s most decisive moments. A game-winning catch, the tie-breaking score, crossing the finish line – but who ever captures the fans? “Footwork: Where We Gather,” the latest exhibit at Emory’s Michael C. Carlos Museum, answers that question. Open now through the FIFA World Cup, the new exhibit […]
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Atlanta indie ‘Withdrawal’ heads to New York festival scene
It took $40,000, a 700 square-foot house, four months of rehearsals, years of preparation and a do-it-yourself spirit to make Aaron Strand’s standout feature-length debut “Withdrawal.” Now the Georgia independent film is headed to its New York premiere. “Withdrawal” will have its New York premiere at the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival on June 6, […]
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Art, America and People of Color
By Lewinale HavetteForeign children of color often shoulder the burden of success of their parents.As a Liberian female visual artist, I know that this truth permeates my culture.The prevailing fact is that artists of color are unequally represented in the art world, despite the heavy influence , in art, of African, South American and Asian […]
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Claiming the Arts as One of Georgia’s Greatest Assets
Karen Paty, Executive Director of Georgia Council for the ArtsI travel the state frequently, and that my inroads into communities lead through the complex beauty and power of the arts in Georgia, I find to be a humbling privilege. Those travels have taught me that as diverse and varied as the state’s landscape is, so […]
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18 best, worst and most important trends in 2018 (Part 1)
By King Williams The following is a compilation of the 18 best, worst, and most important trends and developments emanating from within and throughout metro Atlanta and the state of Georgia for 2018. This list was compiled by me with input from people within SaportaReport and beyond. The list comes from a combination of hard […]
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What’s the point of being a theatre critic?
By Kelundra SmithRecently, on a theatre trip to New York City, I was listening in on a panel hosted by the American Theatre Critics Association that featured diverse playwrights—some of whose work has been mounted on Atlanta stages. After an hour of stirring conversation, I went up to one of the playwrights (who happens to […]
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Free Arts Education Helps Metro Atlanta Kids Succeed in School and in Life
By Ariel Fristoe, Co-Artistic Director, Out of Hand Theater Every child should have the opportunity to succeed, but if you’re born in Metro Atlanta, your chances of escaping from poverty are not good; in fact, they’re close to the worst in the nation. This fall, at Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Leadership Institute, I learned that […]
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Attracting and Maintaining Loyal Arts & Culture Audiences
Terri Theisen is the principal consultant of a management and strategy consulting firm supporting nonprofits, foundations, and academic institutions. She has facilitated the Audience Building Roundtable since 2015. Arts and culture experiences enrich our lives. Arts and culture experiences provoke critical dialogue, challenge our assumptions, and provide a pathway to understand our diverse and complex […]
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Fabricators, Funders, and Fixers
(Featured photo provided by Midtown Alliance)By Matt TerrellArt is not created in a vacuum. There is perhaps no more malicious myth than that of the lone wolf artistic genius, squirreled away is some studio far away from civilization, sending their wares into the world. It’s true that some of the great artists of the 20th century, […]
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An Added Benefit of Increasing Diversity
Do what’s right; millennials will follow. By Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr. Director of the High Museum of Art, Rand Suffolk Sitting on Peachtree Street in the heart of Midtown, the High is fortunate to belong to an incredibly diverse community. Our role in this city is so much more than storing and displaying […]
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4th ANNUAL EDUCATION LUNCHEON: Advancing Literacy through the Arts (Part 2)
Part 2 of our interview between Event Co-Chair Ann Cramer and Honoree Comer Yates Be sure to read Part 1 here Ann Cramer: How do you prepare professional development for adults to value it and then do it? Comer Yates: I guess it’s around just having a value system in a school. You start with the […]
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Grow up Great
Featured photo by Alphonso Whitfield By Kristen Buckley, Naserian Foundation Early Childhood Program Manager at the Alliance Theatre Imagine you’re a four year old. You’re learning to negotiate the complicated social rules of school, how to move around in your rapidly growing body, and how to fit all of your young-person excitement for learning about the […]
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A Note to the Entrepreneurial Hustle of Artists and Businesses.
By John Welker of Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre I have been on a wild ride lately. Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre (TMBT) has only been fully operating since this past August when four dancers, Tara Lee, Heath Gill, Christian Clark, and Rachel Van Buskirk convinced me to take an entrepreneurial leap of faith with them. Somewhat […]
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What Does World Class Mean?
By Kevin Gillese World Class: If there is one phrase that gets bandied around quite often in Atlanta, particularly in the arts and culture community, it’s this one. Sometimes it feels like Atlantans are so obsessed with becoming “world class” that they don’t see how much of our city is already there. At its most […]
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Artwashing: Capitalism and Art
By Matthew TerrellWe’ve all heard the term “selling out” – sacrificing artistic purity for the sake of profit. There’s a perennial distrust amongst the arts community of business people, and the effect capitalism has on art. The idea is that caring about profit makes an artist and their work less noble, and destroys their creative […]
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How to talk when we don’t know how to talk
By Susan Booth, Jennings Hertz Artistic Director for the Alliance Theatre As I suspect many of you were, I was raised with sharp dictates of what constituted polite conversation. Whether due to faulty memory or puritanical parenting, I largely only remember the thou shalt nots. No religion. No politics. No oversharing of personal information. (That […]
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Data's Artful Impact
By Lara Smith, Managing Director of Dad’s GarageWhat surprises a lot of people about Dad’s Garage—an Atlanta home for improv and scripted comedy theatre—is that we run much like any other business in town. We have budgets, meetings, strategic planning, and all the other boardroom business just like you. Perhaps the difference is that at […]
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Data’s Artful Impact
By Lara Smith, Managing Director of Dad’s GarageWhat surprises a lot of people about Dad’s Garage—an Atlanta home for improv and scripted comedy theatre—is that we run much like any other business in town. We have budgets, meetings, strategic planning, and all the other boardroom business just like you. Perhaps the difference is that at […]
