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....
Joe Bankoff has been announced as the new chair of the Fulton County Arts Council. Bankoff served as the CEO of the Woodruff Arts Center for nearly 6 years before retiring from the position in 2012. From there he moved on to join Georgia Institute of Technology as the Chair of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. Prior to that Bankoff spent 32 years as a senior partner at King & Spalding....
Legislation was passed in the Georgia House of Representatives yesterday that would exempt the Woodruff Arts Center from state and local sales tax on up to $750...
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....
In what one official described as a watershed moment for the Woodruff Arts Center, a campaign to solidify the center’s long-term financial standing has raised $110 million in less than two years....
The High Museum of art has announced Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett. October 9 through January 8, 2017. The exhibition will be the first comprehensive collection of work by Lockett (American, 1965 – 1998), who produced nearly 400 artworks before his death at 32. He’s revered for bridging the gap between self-taught and mainstream contemporary American artists....
From the cover of Art Papers' November/December '15 issue
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The conceptual drawing for the new interior of the Alliance.
It wasn’t an unprecedented event, but it was something of a rarity. Although the boards of the Wo...
