WonderRoot Podcasts: A Great Day in Atlanta – Past and Present

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A Great Day in Atlanta. Courtesy of John Crooms.
A Great Day in Atlanta. Courtesy of John Crooms.

In this artist feature, Floyd Hall chats with photographer John Crooms and Curator Kemi Bennings about the 10-year anniversary of the photograph, A Great Day in Atlanta, and its relevance to the local Atlanta music scene.

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Audio: Click the player above to listen to Hall’s conversation with John Crooms and Kemi Bennings.

This conversation is presented in conjunction with the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.

 

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BURNAWAY Radio shares WonderRoot podcasts. The WonderRoot podcast series offers listeners a vast array of conversations and insights into WonderRoot and the Atlanta cultural community, while continuing our mission of uniting artists and community to inspire social change. These conversations also serve as a platform to highlight the wide spectrum of artists and initiatives that impact Atlanta, with an eye to how these discussions may also affect the global communities in which we live. WonderRoot believes that artists have the potential to change the world; we are artists giving back to the community that has done so much to inspire us.

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BURNAWAY Radio is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

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