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COVID-19’s Impact on The Arts: Research Update May 4, 2020

Impact on Nonprofit Arts and Culture Sector plus Impact on Artist/Creative Workers

Americans for the Arts

Published May 4, 2020

The coronavirus has had a devastating impact on America’s arts sector. Since the first U.S. case was reported on January 20, 2020 cancellations and closings are taking place at thousands of arts organizations across the country, and two-thirds of the nation’s artists are now unemployed. Americans for the Arts leads the three premier national studies tracking the human and financial impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on the arts. MORE

May 12, 2020 / by ArtsGeorgia PLACES / in Arts Service, Community

Self-Distanced Tour in Augusta

Self-Distanced Art Tour

Art the Box, Augusta

Ongoing

Take a self-guided tour of Augusta’s citywide public art project with the downloadable map of Art the Box locations. Plus, color your own Art Box using the special coloring page and post it to Greater Augusta Arts Council’s Facebook page. Click here for information.

May 8, 2020 / by ArtsGeorgia PLACES / in Arts Councils, Public Art, Visual

Virtual Studio Tours

Virtual Open Studios and Tours

Atlanta Contemporary

Thursday, May 28, Saturday, May 30 and Sunday, May 31

File under Special Event! This entirely virtual event is one of Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center’s triannual Open Studio events. Visitors can watch via Zoom. Zoom participants can join in via audio, video, and text chat during the open conversation portion of the lecture.

Join the talented Studio Artists and friends via Zoom. For more information visit the Atlanta Contemporary here.

May 8, 2020 / by ArtsGeorgia PLACES / in Art Centers, Community, Visual

AFTA Profile of Local Arts Agencies

Annual Report on Local Arts Agency Budgets and Programs.

Americans for the Arts

Published April 20, 2020

Americans for the Arts has released the 2019 Profile of Local Arts Agencies, an annual survey of a core set of local arts agency (LAA) indicators—budget trends including sources of revenues and categories of expenditure, partnerships, community development, programs and services, diversity and equity policies/initiatives—that is supplemented with rotating modules, enabling a more in-depth exploration MORE

April 21, 2020 / by ArtsGeorgia PLACES / in Arts Service, Community

The Springer Opera House

October 17, 18 & 19, 2019

Registrations are now being accepted.

For inquiries about the Summit or for more information about speakers, sponsors, and tickets, contact Tate LeClair 706.256.0953

https://www.audiencebuildingsummit.com/

July 30, 2019 / by ArtsGeorgia PLACES / in Community

AJC Decatur Book Festival

Downtown Decatur

August 30 – September 1, 2019

The AJC Decatur Book Festival is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, more than 1,000 world-class authors and hundreds of thousands of festival-goers have crowded the historic downtown Decatur square to enjoy book signings, author readings, panel discussions, an interactive children’s area, live music, parades, cooking demonstrations, poetry slams, writing workshops, and more.

May 7, 2019 / by artsgeorgia@gmail.com / in Literary

Wine Housed: The Amy Celebration

Miller Theater

June 14, 2019

A dazzling 10 piece tribute to the style, beauty, and music of Amy Winehouse. Rich Horns, Lush Background Vocals and a Show that has been lauded a “Full-Fledged Amy Party that will leave you breathless”- From Amy’s deep tracks & well-known covers to classic Amy bangers this fully immersive show will have you ready to show up with a popping beehive and winged eyeliner sharp enough to kill!

May 7, 2019 / by artsgeorgia@gmail.com / in Music

“Boxed In/Break Out 2019” in Savannah

Boxed in/Break Out 2019

Telfair Museum Jepson Center

April 12 – October 27, 2019

Folklore is a site-specific installation by Jessica Pope (American, B. 1983) for the 2019 iteration of Telfair Museums’ annual Boxed In/Break Out project, a museum-sponsored opportunity that invites artists to propose an original installation of artwork to invigorate the six large windows along the east side of the Jepson Center on Barnard Street.

May 5, 2019 / by artsgeorgia@gmail.com / in Visual

Saya Woolfalk: Pasaquan as Portal

The Columbus Museum

October 19, 2019 – February 2020

The Museum is pleased to welcome Saya Woolfalk, the New York-based artist who uses science fiction and fantasy to re-imagine the world in multiple dimensions, according to her bio.

The installation draws inspiration from regional visionary artist Eddie Owens Martin, aka St. EOM, and will feature work in porcelain made during Woolfalk’s Arts/Industry residency at the Kohler Company factory in 2018.

May 5, 2019 / by artsgeorgia@gmail.com / in Visual

“As You Like It” in Atlanta

Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse

June 22 – July 14, 2019

“All the world’s a stage . . .” We invite you to join us on another trip into Shakespeare’s enchanted woods. . . where Rosalind disguises herself as a man as Orlando litters the trees with love notes praising her beauty and virtue.

May 5, 2019 / by artsgeorgia@gmail.com / in Theater