Dashboard Co-op reflects on their beginnings as they bustle about the downtown space for their exhibition Saturday, February 2.
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10/16/12 ARTSpeak: Elevate Returns for 10 Days of Art in Downtown Atlanta
Radio Version: Click the player above to listen to today’s broadcast on AM1690, or download the MP3.
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11/23/11 Memorial Drive: The NAC and the 1970s Black Arts Movement
Memorial Drive is a collaborative series by BURNAWAY and ArtsCriticATL about the history of the arts in Atlanta. Ralph David Abernathy Memorial Park sits at the intersection of Formwalt Street and Abernathy Boulevard, near Turner Field. Artwork by Emma Amos that is titled We Will Not Forget (1996) graces that corner lot. Unfortunately, I think [...]
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06/23/11 Four Coats Murals: An Alternative to Smiling Faces Holding Hands
Not too long from now, Atlantans will have four new murals to appreciate as they trek through various corners of Atlanta’s urban landscape. Four Coats Neighborhood Mural Project, the brainchild of Beep Beep gallery’s James McConnell, has pulled together four Atlanta galleries to curate a collection of public murals. As quoted on Four Coat’s website, [...]
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06/15/11 Questioning the Mayor’s Gift and the Mythology of Economic Crisis
Following on the heels of a proposed cut to the arts and subsequent responses from Atlanta artists, Mayor Kasim Reed appeared at last month’s Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund luncheon with a seemingly grand and heroic announcement. Gathered that afternoon with the knowledge that 50 percent of the Office of Cultural Affairs’ Contracts for Arts Services [...]
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02/11/10 Art in Crisis: Nonprofit resources tour to visit the ATL
If you’re familiar with any nonprofit arts organization, you’re probably already intimately familiar with the hardships they have been facing in recent years. Even organizations that were once strong and thriving have been pushed into a state of uncertainty, if not all-out panic. However, leaders of arts organizations are now looking earnestly to the future: [...]
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karley: nice!
Jared: Excited for the Bowman collection. She is someone to keep an eye on
ruth: What do you do with difficult lines of memory? Fold them into a san
Beth Lilly: I know! That's exactly the type of work I had in mind with the call f
Jason Francisco: Davis' bulletin boards seem to me actually to be photographs themselve