Two: Neighborhood Arts Center

Episode 2, about Atlanta's Neighborhood Arts Center. Archival research for this episode was conducted at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History. Additional resources listed below. Music by The Grey Room Episode art: Georgia O'Keeffe - Hands and Thimble (1919), Alfred Stieglitz, CC0 license, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Questions, comments, concerns? Email me at [email protected] Highlighting the following sources: Smethurst, James. Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South. Chapel Hill:University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Tate, Rachanice Candy Patrice. “‘Our art itself was our activism’ Atlanta’s neighborhood artscenter, 1975-1990.” Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses andDissertations. Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library. Clark AtlantaUniversity, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2012_tate_rachanice_c_p. Other sources: Brock, Julia, Teresa Bramlette Reeves, Kirstie Tepper. Forget Me Not: Oral History Project.2015. Video. https://archive.org/details/interviews-final-ipad. Jackson, Maynard. Inaugural Address. January 7, 1974. Maynard Jackson MayoralAdministrative Records. Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.075:00224. “Maynard Jackson’s Platform, 1968.” Maynard Jackson Mayoral Administrative Records.Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.075:00063. “The Neighborhood Arts Project, circa 1975.” Maynard Jackson Mayoral AdministrativeRecords. Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.075:00057. Oliver, Angela. “Atlanta’s ArtsXchange revives ‘art for the people’s sake.’” Scalawag. January7, 2019. https://scalawagmagazine.org/2019/01/atlanta-artsxchange/. Peacock, Fletcher. “SCAAW Rekindles Black Renaissance.” The Panther vol. 31, no. 2 (1978).1. Georgia Historic Newspapers.https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn39098424/1978-10-03/ed-1/.

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