The Atlanta arts community can relate to the phoenix rising from the ashes as its symbol — just like our namesake city. Over the last couple of years, the arts community has had two key events to drive home that theme. On March 7, 2023, the Atlanta Lyric Theatre abruptly announced it was closing its […]
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Atlanta arts organizations receive $580,000 in grants
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta – through its Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund – announced a total of $580,000 in grants to 11 metro arts organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Why we need our national endowments
By Guest Columnist STANLEY ROMANSTEIN, professor of practice, Creative Media Industries Institute at Georgia State University, and principal with BLJackson Associates
In 1965 the U.S Congress – both Republicans and Democrats – expressed the firm belief that, “Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located, masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants.”
