The City of Atlanta is one of only eight cities nationwide to receive a grant of up to $1 million from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge, an initiative that supports temporary public art addressing urgent civic concerns. According to Bloomberg Philanthropies, 150 cities applied. Stephanie Dockery, program officer and manager of the Public Art…
Editor’s Note: Click here to see our comprehensive guide to Atlanta Art Fair and other art events in the city. :: Atlanta’s art community has been invigorated by Atlanta Art Week, the second iteration of which is happening this week through Sunday. Giving the city’s visual arts another major boost is the announcement today of…
In the 23 years he has been involved in Atlanta’s visual arts scene, Jamie Badoud, executive director of The Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, says he hasn’t seen anything like Atlanta Art Week before. “Seeing what founder Kendra [Walker] has pulled off is exciting. I was impressed last year with her ability…
Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre has been through a lot of ups and downs since it was founded six years ago, but a consistent thread has been director John Welker’s commitment to creating new narrative ballets that push the art form forward. “Storytelling is a hallmark of what we do,” he says. Welker discusses that vision…
La Sylphide, which Atlanta Ballet presented last weekend at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, is a Romantic ballet blanc (white ballet), with all the key ingredients: a man in love who turns out to be a faithless cad; a broken hearted fiancée; supernatural women in white; and a witch who creates magic, havoc and death….
Clay artist Diane Solomon Kempler is perhaps best known in Atlanta for her large bronze fountain sculpture New Endings, which was commissioned by the Corporation for Olympic Development in conjunction with the 1996 Olympics. It was installed downtown that year and was moved later to Freedom Park in Candler Park, where it still stands. In 2021,…
Say “Buckhead” and most Atlantans think of gleaming office towers, high-rise condos and high-end stores. But an art museum? On June 16, Mark Karelson, owner of Mason Fine Art on Miami Circle, opened the PATH Museum, a noncollecting museum located on the ground floor of 3399 Peachtree, an office building that sits between Lenox Mall…
It’s always a delight to watch two friends laugh and joke with one another, especially when they are creatives who are thrilled by each other’s talents and successes. In a rollicking Zoom interview recently, John Welker, director of Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, and John Heginbotham, artistic director of New York’s Dance Heginbotham, talked about everything…
“Making work and performing is not enough,” says George Staib, artistic director of the contemporary dance company staibdance. “It’s hedonistic.” That’s one of the reasons he decided three years ago to create Atlanta’s first multicultural dance festival. (MC)2 moving culture, moving community premiered in June 2021 and will return this year May 30 through June…
Three Atlanta dance leaders — Douglas Scott, artistic/executive director of Full Radius Dance, and Nena Gilreath and Waverly T. Lucas II, co-founders and co-directors of Ballethnic Dance Company — will be honored on June 13 at the 2023 Dance/USA Conference in Atlanta. Dance/USA is a national service organization that champions an inclusive and equitable dance field…
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