Local arts and cultural organizations have the opportunity to distribute information about their organizations and activities. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about cultural events and organizations in Atlanta!
If you are interested in having your organization participate in the festival, please email us at .
The Southeast Community Cultural Center (d/b/a the New Arts Exchange) is a nonprofit, multicultural, multidisciplinary, multi-ethnic, intergenerational arts organization. It seeks to utilize the arts as a means by which all cultures can come to a truer understanding of themselves and others through shared innovative arts experiences and educational opportunities. The Center seeks to link arts and artists with the broader community-at-large.
Atlanta BeltLine Partnership (ABLP) is a non-profit organization committed to raising funds from private and philanthropic sources to support the BeltLine; working with neighborhoods, community organizations, faith organizations, businesses and other groups to raise general awareness and broad-based support for the BeltLine; and serving as a catalyst to mobilize resources to address the social concerns raised by new development around the BeltLine.
1. To serve the community by providing quality theatre done by youth for children of all ages.
2. To provide an opportunity for youth to learn to appreciate and produce fine theatre.
3. To provide youth an opportunity to learn and achieve all that their blood, sweat and tears will allow.
Additional Information:
We are not in the business of grooming professional children. We are not a springboard to stardom, nor do we encourage or assist in creating a career for children. CCT is a learning tool, meant to help children through the trauma that is adolescence.
CCT is a production company offering a total theatre experience. Members may join us believing theatre is just a performing art, but they soon learn better. It takes a company to do theatre.
Theatre is a totally disciplined and multi-faceted art form – visual, craft, and performing. Art is not chaos. Members are encouraged to dream, to create, and to look for new things in themselves. Talent alone does not produce fine theatre – hard work and courage do. To stretch, to risk, to be led by imagination, to follow a dream – this is what we’re all about.
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The Creatives Project Official Festival Nonprofit Partner
The Creatives Project (TCP)'s mission is to enrich and strengthen the local community through quality arts-based education and outreach, while celebrating and elevating the city's visual and performing artists.
Through the Creative Community Housing Project (CCHP), our Artist-In-Residency program, we support the day-to-day lives of creative individuals, offering financial and promotional aid while nurturing the arts eco-system through arts education service. Residencies range from studio space to exhibition space and housing. In exchange, each CCHP resident gives back to their local community through our Community Arts Program (CAP). Through CAP, The Creatives Project provides students, teachers, and communities direct hands-on arts experiences and personal interaction with artists.
The Mission Statement of Express Yourself School of the Arts, Inc. is as follows:
To serve as an avenue for youth, adults and families to express themselves through media arts, visual arts and creative writing in a safe and nurturing educational environment, while providing a continuum of experiential educational experiences of learning, to last a lifetime.
The Purpose of Express Yourself School of the Arts, Inc. is as follows:
To provide our students with the tools they need to enhance and improve their creative talent and technical skills to be successful both today and in the future.
Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta, Inc. serves approximately 42,000 girls and over 18,000 adult members in 34 counties in the greater metropolitan Atlanta area, northwest Georgia and Polk County, TN. Counties include Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Fulton, Gilmer, Gordon, Gwinnett, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Lamar, Meriwether, Murray, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Pike, Polk, Rockdale, Spalding, Troup, Upson, Whitfield and a portion of Polk County, TN.
Imagine It! is more than a children's museum. We are a community resource for children, parents, caregivers, families and schools. We are deeply committed to the importance of play and its importance to the development and lives of all children. As a 501(c)(3) educational organization, we are dedicated to helping children learn who they are, how they interact and what is important to them.
Additional Information:
Imagine It!, Atlanta's only children's museum, is the perfect place for children age eight and under and their families to learn and explore together in a safe and fun hands-on environment. Our open and interactive area is filled with unique, entertaining and educational areas to explore.
Our programming offers children the opportunity to use all of their senses in a unique and interactive way, while developing their knowledge and understanding of Reading, Social Studies, Math, Science, Language Arts and the Arts.
The Instituto de Mexico , Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia, is an nonprofit organization dedicated to the Mexican community development and to promote and to disseminate the history and culture of Mexico
The Instituto de Mexico’s goal is to make all the Mexican customs known to all of Atlanta’s residents as well as those from its surroundings. We focus on teenagers to motivate youth of Mexican descent to feel proud of their heritage and culture of their origins. Instituto de Mexico offers a multicultural richness to all of the Atlanta’s residents.
Since its establishment in May of 2002 Instituto de Mexico has implemented programs and event to promote Mexican culture and history in the community. Atlanta, a very diverse city has received the Mexican Culture and all our events with open arms. Atlanta residents, interested in learning more about the Culture, History and Customs of Mexico have supported with their presence in our events. Instituto de Mexico, through all the events wishes to preserve the ties of friendship between the United States of America and Mexico.
With the direction and assistance of the Board, Instituto de Mexico has achieved its purpose in educating and including the community in our events. This includes celebrations like Mexico’s Independence Day, a variety of concerts, conferences, health fairs, expositions and several educational and sports events.
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Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University
Mission: The Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University, is an intimate, cultural centerpiece of downtown Atlanta. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and entertain diverse audiences by presenting innovative and exceptional arts programming and cultivating community partnerships.
Georgia State University 's Rialto Center for the Arts is an 833-seat performing-arts venue located in the heart of the Fairlie-Poplar district in downtown Atlanta. The venue is home to the Rialto Series presenting the best of national and international jazz, world music, and dance; School of Music performances; the Atlanta Film Festival and many others.
Georgia State University is located in the heart of downtown Atlanta and is a leading research institution of higher learning, educating Georgia's most diverse population of students. More than 27,000 students are enrolled annually, arriving from every county in Georgia, all 50 states, and 159 countries.
To inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through our unique model of Divisions and collaborations, in an institutionally sustainable manner. The Woodruff Arts Center is comprised of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Alliance Theatre, High Museum of Art, and Young Audiences.
The Woodruff Arts Center is the heartbeat of Atlanta's arts community. Located in midtown, the Center offers Atlantans a bold variety of performing and visual arts - both traditional and avant-garde.
For 40 years, Woodruff Center has set the arts standard for Atlanta and the Southeast. But there was a time it seemed the arts would die in Georgia's capitol city. In 1962, a chartered plane, full of Atlanta's arts community leaders, crashed near Orly Field outside of Paris, France.
Of the 132 people on board, all but two crew members perished. Never had a city suffered such a terrible loss. Stunned, Atlanta went into mourning.
When the shock finally began to wear off, the tragedy galvanized the city into action. Plans that had existed, or were in the works, prior to the crash were dusted off and re-thought. The concept of a memorial for the Orly victims—something involving the arts—floated through the city. The idea that developed was a bold never-before-tried one. Why not combine the cream of Atlanta's performing and visual arts venues into a center for the arts?
Committees were formed, citizens sent checks, the business community became involved for the first time, and an anonymous donor hinted at an astounding gift of $4 million. The Atlanta Arts Alliance was formed. The then-anonymous donor, the Woodruff Foundation, established by Atlanta-based Coca-Cola magnate Robert W. Woodruff, came through and the grand idea went forward.
Since its inception, the Woodruff Arts Center has grown into the most dynamic center for the visual and performing arts in the South and is among the top such centers in the nation. Today the Woodruff Arts Center includes the Alliance Theatre, High Museum of Art, Young Audiences, 14th Street Playhouse and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Local Entertainment, Organically Grown. 2 Fat Farmers is a unique production company, bringing to life the entertainment dreams of our clients. Based south of Atlanta, GA, 2 Fat Farmer Productions can deliver variety of professionally produced services, including: Theatrical Services, Special Events, Creative Writing Services, Music Services and Theme Parties.
The Addo Foundation ENVISIONS a vibrant and creative community that supports arts education for its youth.
The PURPOSE of The Addo Foundation is to encourage growth in the arts community by fostering arts education. The Arts have been a part of every major civilization’s culture. Today, funds for the arts are being cut from Georgia’s schools at an alarming rate. Local arts programs need champions now more than ever. The Addo Foundation gathers the entire community in support of arts for young artists. Together we can sustain a strong, creative community. We are committed to making a needed change in Georgia and sculpting a future for its youth.
It is our MISSION to contribute to the vitality of Georgia's art community by partnering with charitable organizations to promote local arts enrichment programs.
Sponsoring the next generation of Georgia Artists.
The Addo Foundation was created with a single vision in mind – to grow and maintain arts programs within Georgia’s public school system. Founder Greg Spence is dedicated to give back to the local community through the mentorship and nurturing of budding artistic talent.
Addo draws attention to the arts program deficit by playing host to various events in Atlanta and its surrounding areas. These events not only raise funds and awareness, but also provide a haven for artists to display their latest work and inspire other youth to pursue their dreams of creative greatness.
True to its Latin meaning, Addo’s sole mission is to join kindred spirits together – the local philanthropic, non-profit, and business communities with those seeking help in fulfilling their artistic goals. It is with this logic that Addo intends to infuse new life into art education and, in turn, sponsor Georgia’s emerging artists as well as the next generation of cultural influence.
The Southeast Community Cultural Center (d/b/a the New Arts Exchange) is a non-profit multicultural arts organization. It seeks to utilize the arts as a means by which all cultures can come to a truer understanding of themselves and others through shared innovative arts experiences and educational opportunities.
Mission
The Southeast Community Cultural Center (d/b/a-The New Arts Exchange) is a non-profit multicultural arts organization. It seeks to utilize the arts as a means by which all cultures can come to a truer understanding of themselves and others through shared innovative arts experiences and educational opportunities.
Vision
The Arts Exchange is a vibrant multicultural, multidisciplinary, multiethnic, and intergenerational cultural center that is committed to the arts as an agent of positive social change. The Arts Exchange serves communities in Atlanta, and connects to the broader world by giving form to ideas and imagination through artist-driven decision-making. The Arts Exchange supports the work of artists and arts organizations, and aims to bring diverse members of the global community together through the arts with the goal of bridging social and cultural differences for the long-term betterment of the world in which we live.
History
In 1984 a diverse group of artists, activists and community supporters petitioned the Atlanta Board of Education for possession of the old Grant Park Elementary School. When the Arts Exchange opened that year, the arts community at large in Atlanta and the surrounding community immediately embraced it.The Arts Exchange has changed the landscape of what an in-town community arts center and artist studio spaces can do to serve artists and the greater community. The Summer Arts Enrichment Program for Youth, which began in 1985, became a model program throughout testate of Georgia. The performing arts series featured indigenous performers from living traditions across Africa and India and avant-garde performances from new artists and new music genres. For three years in a row, Creative Loafing named the Arts Exchange "the most important site for new music in the city".The list of accomplishments for the Arts Exchanges goes on, including being the site of the first ROOTS Festival for the National Black Arts Festival and the "Re-Thinking the Sacred Image"conference. It was the studio home of internationally known Guggenheim Fellows such as Beverly Buchanan, Rocio Rodriquez, and Allen Loeble. The African Dance Ensemble called it home along with Terri Axam of Total Dance and Freddie Hendricks' Youth Ensemble of Atlanta.The Arts Exchange has served more than 100,000 people in its 25-year existence. Today, Threats Exchange is home to the Paul Robeson Theatre and the X change Art Gallery. We provide affordable studio space for more than a dozen of Atlanta's noted visual, martial arts, and performing artists, including Pan People Steel Band, the African Heritage Dancers & Drummers,and artists Lisa Tuttle and Lynn Linnemeier, to name a few. Currently, the Arts Exchange offers martial arts, drama and photography classes. The XChange Art Gallery is a prime location for small exhibitions.
The BeltLine Partnership supports and protects the BeltLine vision and brand, and facilitates community support by leveraging private sector resources and relationships, resource development, community education, coalition building and advocacy efforts.
The BeltLine Partnership (BLP) is a non-profit organization committed to raising funds from private and philanthropic sources to support the BeltLine; working with neighborhoods, community organizations, faith organizations, businesses and other groups to raise general awareness and broad-based support for the BeltLine; and serving as a catalyst to mobilize resources to address the social concerns raised by new development around the BeltLine.
Muéo [moo-eh'-o] is a Greek word meaning to initiate into the mysteries, to be taught fully. We live in an increasingly complex world full of nuance and ambiguity, and finding meaning and purpose in this life is a pursuit often overlooked by modern educational systems. While our public schools have virtually eliminated arts programs in recent years, it seems we have forgotten that for centuries prior to ours, an understanding of the arts was revered as essential to growing, interacting, and living as human beings.
Muéo Arts is an arts community dedicated to recovering the important role of the arts in our culture. It is a place where anyone interested in the arts, students and teachers alike, can work side-by-side discovering and celebrating truth, beauty, and meaning. We believe real learning occurs through practice and engagement within a nurturing community. Muéo Arts is unique in that its mission is to foster a holistic environment in which people are free to explore and thrive in the arts. To this end, Muéo Arts comprises three distinct, yet integrated entities:
The Muéo Academy – a private school for the arts
The Muéo Studio – a place for artists to create
The Muéo Gallery – a venue for celebrating fine art.
At Muéo Arts, any one, from an experienced artists to those who believe they are not an artist, can find opportunities and guidance in developing their imagination and creativity. We firmly believe in the positive impact exposure to the arts can have on all people. The arts teach discipline, excellence, and good self-esteem, but most importantly they initiate us into the greater mysteries of life, enriching ourselves, our families, and our communities.
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Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University
Mission:
The Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University, is an intimate, cultural centerpiece of downtown Atlanta. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and entertain diverse audiences by presenting innovative and exceptional arts programming and cultivating community partnerships.
Georgia State University 's Rialto Center for the Arts is an 833-seat performing-arts venue located in the heart of the Fairlie-Poplar district in downtown Atlanta. The venue is home to the Rialto Series presenting the best of national and international jazz, world music, and dance; School of Music performances; the Atlanta Film Festival and many others.
Georgia State University is located in the heart of downtown Atlanta and is a leading research institution of higher learning, educating Georgia's most diverse population of students. More than 27,000 students are enrolled annually, arriving from every county in Georgia, all 50 states, and 159 countries.
To inspire, create, support, and celebrate renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through our unique model of Divisions and collaborations, in an institutionally sustainable manner. The Woodruff Arts Center is comprised of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Alliance Theatre, High Museum of Art, and Young Audiences.
The Woodruff Arts Center is the heartbeat of Atlanta's arts community. Located in midtown, the Center offers Atlantans a bold variety of performing and visual arts - both traditional and avant-garde.
For 40 years, Woodruff Center has set the arts standard for Atlanta and the Southeast. But there was a time it seemed the arts would die in Georgia's capitol city. In 1962, a chartered plane, full of Atlanta's arts community leaders, crashed near Orly Field outside of Paris, France.
Of the 132 people on board, all but two crew members perished. Never had a city suffered such a terrible loss. Stunned, Atlanta went into mourning.
When the shock finally began to wear off, the tragedy galvanized the city into action. Plans that had existed, or were in the works, prior to the crash were dusted off and re-thought. The concept of a memorial for the Orly victims—something involving the arts—floated through the city. The idea that developed was a bold never-before-tried one. Why not combine the cream of Atlanta's performing and visual arts venues into a center for the arts?
Committees were formed, citizens sent checks, the business community became involved for the first time, and an anonymous donor hinted at an astounding gift of $4 million. The Atlanta Arts Alliance was formed. The then-anonymous donor, the Woodruff Foundation, established by Atlanta-based Coca-Cola magnate Robert W. Woodruff, came through and the grand idea went forward.
Since its inception, the Woodruff Arts Center has grown into the most dynamic center for the visual and performing arts in the South and is among the top such centers in the nation. Today the Woodruff Arts Center includes the Alliance Theatre, High Museum of Art, Young Audiences, 14th Street Playhouse and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
It is the mission of the BeltLine Partnership to increase public awareness of the need to preserve responsibly and to redevelop the BeltLine as a transit line, trail and linear park, while gathering concerned parties together to promote this goal. We will work directly with government, non-profit and community partners to identify opportunities and perform activities necessary to advance the BeltLine vision and ensure successful implementation of the BeltLine project.
Broadway Across America is a premiere promoter and producer of live theatrical events in the United States and Canada with twenty-five years experience in the entertainment industry. Together with our many local partners we present first-rate touring Broadway shows, family productions, and other live attractions in acclaimed venues in over 40 North American cities. We are nationally connected through our one-of-a-kind network and locally committed to our audiences, offering our patrons unique benefits and exclusive opportunities to interact with Broadway Across America.
"Muéo (moo-ay-oh) is a Greek word meaning "to initiate into the mysteries, to be taught fully." The arts exercise our conceptualization of mystery and lend to our holistic understanding of truth, beauty, and meaning. Muéo Arts is an arts community of independent artists who are dedicated to nurturing this important role of the arts in our culture. Our mission is to work with other Atlanta area artists to foster an arts culture in our city where people are free to explore and thrive in their creativity. Muéo Arts partners with other area arts programs to offer concepts, symposiums, and other arts events throughout Atlanta. Muéo Arts is also home to the Muéo Studio - a place for artists to create; the Muéo Gallery - a venue for celebrating fine art; and the Muéo Academy - a private school for the arts.
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New Arts Exchange
The Southeast Community Cultural Center d/b/a
the New Arts Exchange (NAE) is a vibrant multicultural, multidisciplinary,
and intergenerational cultural center committed to arts as agents
for positive social change. It presents a unique opportunity
for professional practicing artists to share innovative arts
experiences and educational opportunities with the Atlanta community
and beyond. Now in its third decade as a multi-cultural center,
it offers exhibitions, performances, workshops and classes in
performing and visual arts disciplines.
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Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State
University
The Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia
State University, is an intimate, cultural centerpiece of downtown
Atlanta. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and entertain diverse
audiences by presenting innovative and exceptional arts programming
and cultivating community partnerships.
To inspire, create, support, and celebrate
renowned arts and education for diverse audiences through our
unique model of Divisions and collaborations, in an institutionally
sustainable manner.
The Woodruff Arts Center is comprised of the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra, Alliance Theatre, High Museum of Art, and Young
Audiences.
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) is the regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency for the 10-county metropolitan area. For 60 years, ARC has helped to focus the region's leadership, attention and resources on key issues of regional consequence.
Muéo (moo-ay-oh) is a Greek word meaning to initiate into the mysteries, to be taught fully. We live in an increasingly complex world full of nuance and ambiguity, and finding meaning and purpose in this life is a pursuit often overlooked by modern educational systems.
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Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University
Mission: The Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University, is an intimate, cultural centerpiece of downtown Atlanta. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and entertain diverse audiences by presenting innovative and exceptional arts programming and cultivating community partnerships
The Atlanta Fine Arts League, Inc. was created in 2005 by a group of Atlanta area professional artists, working in representational genres and multiple mediums to create opportunities for exhibitions, art and business education and to offer opportunities for community service, by bringing awareness and attention to various issues that affect our community as a whole. By sponsoring various arts projects, events and exhibitions designed to enrich the community, our artists are able to give back in unique ways with their art.
AFAL is also an organization dedicated to creating an atmosphere for professional artists to share ideas, find support and build professional relationships. Dinner discussions, workshops and an E-News letter are just a few ways the League helps support its members and their careers.
AFAL's other goals are to provide mentoring and offer guidance to aspiring and emerging young artist. We have a Student level membership especially for young artists.
Our professional artist members include painters, sculptors, print makers and medical illustrators.
Atlanta Fine Arts League Mission Statement
Our purpose is to provide professional visual artists, working in representational genres, opportunities for exhibitions, art and art business education through workshops, seminars, critique sessions, discussion groups and lectures, and opportunities for participation in community service, enrichment and awareness programs and projects; to mentor and offer scholarships to aspiring and emerging young artist.
StreetStage, Atlanta, the South's first festival of street performing, is organized to bring extraordinary performing artists from around the world to Atlanta's residents and neighborhoods.
The event features variety performances, not only presented in a streetsetting, but also theatre venues. An educational outreach is anintegral component of the festival as well.
The organization's intent is to:
1. Bring the Atlanta community together through the sharedappreciation of this most fundamental performance style. Demonstrations of skill and wit, of art and entertainment serve as a bridge between individuals and demographic groups.
2. Help to revitalize the downtown business district.
3. Foster an environment that encourages and values street performance/popular entertainment for its contributions to the creative and cultural life of the city; that recognizes the
laboratory for creative expression that is street performing, and that allows innovative, out-of-the-box thinking to find its own audience.
4. To establish a diverse artistic legacy for the enjoyment and cultural enrichment of the families of Atlanta.
