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Goat Farm reopens in West Midtown as a residential space for arts programming
April 3, 2024May 31, 2024

The much-anticipated return of Goat Farm was a long time coming, and, according to Founder Anthony Harper, more is ahead. :: It’s taken longer than the team hoped for, but this week, West Midtown’s 12-acre Goat Farm is reopening with plans to expand its campus and return the space to what they call one of…

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10 years of ArtsATL: The humble beginnings of the Goat Farm Arts Center
October 11, 2019October 16, 2019

Editor’s note: In 2012, the Goat Farm Arts Center was still a fledging artists community in a hip but hardly glamorous area on the Westside. ArtsATL cofounder and then-Executive Editor Catherine Fox wrote the first major story about the Goat Farm and helped introduce it to the broader public. The Goat Farm is about to undergo…

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Doing well, doing good: Goat Farm merges art and growth in $250 million expansion
May 16, 2019July 8, 2019

When business and the arts come together, the scales usually tip toward business. For those with the cash, the arts are a marketing tool or object of philanthropy. Developer Anthony Harper, owner of the Goat Farm Arts Center, is convinced that it’s possible to do good and do well at the same time. “We’ve been…

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Tanz Farm brings U.S. premiere of Shamel Pitts’ BLACK HOLE to Rhodes Theatre
April 10, 2019April 12, 2019

Earlier this year, the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation put the Historic Rhodes Theatre on its “Places in Peril” list. The theater was originally part of a group of three buildings, designed in 1937 by Ivey and Crook, which made up Atlanta’s first strip mall. With only the theater building remaining from this development, and…

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Artist Miya Bailey unveils his latest vision for Atlanta with Peters Street Station, a new community center for the arts
February 21, 2018

Reclining on a couch in a Castleberry Hill loft near his famed tattoo studio City of Ink, Miya Bailey takes a moment to smoke a cigarette and to talk about his latest venture before jetting off to a barber’s appointment. “This is the project that I finally get to do kind of solo,” he says…

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News: The Beacons project shifts its focus to Castleberry Hill
July 28, 2017

The Goat Farm had a vision with its Beacons program: forge an arts artery in metro Atlanta, in the midst of its rapid gentrification. But after developers brought much progress in South Downtown to a halt, the Goat Farm is shifting its focus to Castleberry Hill with a new approach.

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A conversation with the Goat Farm’s Anthony Harper about the Beacons project, past and future
April 26, 2017

It was 2014 when the Goat Farm announced they’d be taking a year off of programming in order to reassess their approach of invigorating Atlanta’s arts community. What came of those reflections was The Beacons project.

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Review: Tanz Farm’s “Time For Us” seldom delves beneath its edgy and beautiful surface
November 3, 2015January 24, 2019

Last weekend, Atlanta’s Goat Farm Arts Center opened its doors to the inaugural performance of the 2015-16 season of Tanz Farm. Lauri Stallings and Anthony Harper, curators for the annual series, continue to infuse the local contemporary arts scene with work that has as much global impact as it has edgy merit. Leading the way…

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Preview: Goat Farm to fund large-scale projects off campus, starting with “Field Experiment”
May 7, 2015

Come July, the Goat Farm will shift the locus of its programming from its 19th-century campus in West Midtown to the living, breathing streets of Atlanta. Rather than its 150+ annual programs, the beloved, bohemian enclave plans to consolidate its resources to focus on three large-scale public projects over the next 12 months, hoping to…

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