By Guest Columnist DERIN DICKERSON, outgoing chairperson of Dad’s Garage
Being a leader in the arts is not an easy job, and especially so over the last year dealing with COVID-19.
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Arts grants: Government funding makes arts more available to everyone
By Guest Columnist MATTHEW TERRELL, communications director for Dad’s Garage Theatre and a working artist in several mediums
Government funding for the arts makes our communities better. Arts funding is a relatively small sliver of the budgets that cities, counties, and states administer; however, even a small amount of arts funding can have a tremendous impact on a community.
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COVID-19 funding rules more precise on UFO sightings than for arts venues
The COVID-19 funding relief package now being distributed is more exact in its rules about a required report on UFOs than it is on application guidelines for operators of arts and entertainment venues.
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Woodruff Arts Center credit outlook dropped to negative as revenues deteriorate
The Woodruff Arts Center saw its credit outlook downgraded from stable to negative as analysts expect further weakening in revenues. In addition, revenues had been declining for years before COVID-19, Woodruff has disclosed to investors.
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Vocalist/guitarist struggling through the pandemic on virtual concerts, music sales
Vocalist Sofia Talvik had barely gotten the words out of her mouth – her winter tour begins in a few days – when her adopted homeland locked down again to curb a COVID-19 spread.
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Atlanta’s equitable development: No easy answers, but other cities could light way
As Atlanta struggles with the idea of equitable development in blighted areas, such as along the southern crescent of the Atlanta BeltLine, efforts in Washington, Detroit and Boston present real-time examples.
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Community Foundation awards nearly $1 million to 22 Black arts groups
What an amazing turnaround.
Black-led arts organizations heralded the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta support for diversity in its latest round of funding through its Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund.
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An artist in a pandemic: Yehimi Cambrón’s murals aim to ‘redeem the soul of America’
Yehimi Cambrón is a visual artist making her way through these rocky times, painting murals intended to convey the immigrant narrative and help “redeem the soul of America.”
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Community Foundation tells black arts groups: ‘We hear you’
A social media exchange among black arts organizations has taken the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta to task.
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‘I wish you’d broken all the rules’ – A memorial to those who’ve lost someone to COVID-19
“I wish you’d broken all the rules” is a haunting refrain in a memorial written by a Swedish performing artist whose friend died of a heart attack, and not COVID-19, after the South by Southwest event was cancelled and with it their planned performance.
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WarnerMedia, AT&T create $250,000 COVID-19 fund for Atlanta arts groups
Responding to a critical need of Atlanta-based arts and cultural institutions, WarnerMedia and AT&T are establishing a COVID-19 relief fund of $250,000.
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‘The cancellations keep coming’ – Life as an artist in a time of a fatal ‘nightmare’
The Swedish singer stuck in Texas by the pandemic has returned to Europe, and hopes to return to the United States and pick up a tour that once included a stop in Decatur in August. Her summer tour in Europe has been canceled.
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Column: After 25 years, Metro Atlanta Arts Fund founding director stepping down
As published in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on Nov. 15, 2019
Back in the early 1990s, small- and mid-sized arts organizations in metro Atlanta had no lifeline to help them through the tough times and nurture them into vibrant entities in our region.
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Local arts groups worried about financial fallout from COVID-19
Arts and cultural organizations in metro Atlanta and the state are seeking to shine the spotlight on how the coronavirus is negatively impacting the creative sector.
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COVID-19 threatens health of arts organizations; some face bankruptcy
By Guest Columnist LARA SMITH, managing director of Dad’s Garage Theatre
I work as the managing director of Dad’s Garage Theatre (we specialize in improv and scripted comedy), and even with our very robust financial protections we are still facing financial challenges in this crisis.
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Atlanta arts leaders and artists say there’s a lot to celebrate — but something is missing
Metro Atlanta and Georgia lack one large, unified arts organization speaking out in favor of bringing Georgians dance, visual art, music and theater.
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Arts, culture in ATL: ARC approves long-awaited plan to expand programs
The murals, performances, farmers markets and soccer events becoming more prevalent at MARTA rail stations are the types of arts and culture offerings the Atlanta Regional Commission intends to foster across the region through a new strategic plan.
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The Coca-Cola Stage at Alliance Theatre – a new stage for Atlanta
By Susan V. Booth, Jennings Hertz Artistic Director, Alliance TheatreArthur Schopenhauer, speaking of Leonardo Da Vinci, said that while “talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see.”I love that.I love that because hitting a target that no one else can see – yet – is […]
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Women in the arts, past, present and future: 50 years of Woodruff Arts Center
By Guest Columnist LOLI LUCACIU, marketing and communications manager at The Woodruff Arts Center
You can credit women for getting it all started. Back in 1905, a small group of women founded the Atlanta Arts Association, a forerunner organization that later became the Woodruff Arts Center.
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In Atlanta, Working as an Actress Provides Satisfied and Stable Life
By Whittney Millsap How does an actor in Atlanta make a living? While we may think of “actors” as people who move here from Hollywood to work in our film industry, there are many home-grown talents working smaller gigs that keep Atlantans entertained. My name is Whittney Millsap and I am an actor, an ensemble […]
