Myrna Anderson-Fuller and Virginia Hepner will receive the Joan P. Garner Outstanding Service to the Arts Award, presented in partnership with Fulton County Art...
Performers for ArtsATL’s second annual Luminary Awards ceremony will include comedian Mark Kendall, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, DJ Ree de la Vega and tribut...
Doug Shipman has been named the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the Woodruff Arts Center, effective July 18, 2017. He succeeds Virginia Hepner, who is retiring from the position after five very successful years leading the nation’s third largest arts center, home to the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art....
Editor’s Disclosure: Louis Corrigan serves on the board of Atlanta arts nonprofit Flux Projects, which has received grants from all of the public funding entiti...
Mayor Kasim Reed has announced another major investment in Atlanta’s arts community today. The City of Atlanta has pledged $1 million to the Woodruff Arts Center Transformation Campaign, one of the most ambitious fundraising initiatives in the history of Atlanta’s largest arts organization. The Campaign raised $110 million total, surpassing its original goal of $100 million when it launched in April 2015. The Woodruff Arts Center is home to the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art. The Atlanta City Council voted Monday to finalize the donation to the Woodruff Arts Center....
Virginia Hepner, the president and chief executive officer of The Woodruff Arts Center, has informed the Arts Center’s Board of Trustees that she will step down on May 31, 2017, at the end of the Arts Center’s current fiscal year. The Governing Board of the Arts Center has begun the search for a successor....
Music Director Robert Spano conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at Carnegie Hall in 2012. (Photo by Chris Lee)
The lockout of the Atlanta Symph...
