Two: Neighborhood Arts Center

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:

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

Where this episode is made