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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
A social media exchange among black arts organizations has taken the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta to task.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Metro Atlanta and Georgia lack one large, unified arts organization speaking out in favor of bringing Georgians dance, visual art, music and theater.
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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
