

Two: Neighborhood Arts Center
Art Worker by Abi Miller
S1 · E2
Oct 20, 2025
18:59
Episode notes
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/
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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/.
Keywords
art
economics
marxism
art world
art history
atlanta
labor
Neighborhood Arts Center
CETA
NEA
National Endowment for the Arts
WPA
art funding
What place this episode is about
Census
Where this episode is made
Census